Maria Sharif Ch.(M.S.C)

  I t is, as Chris Martin points out, 25 years since Coldplay’s Glastonbury debut, a silver anniversary they commemorate tonight by unexpectedly dusting down an acoustic version of Sparks from their debut album Parachutes. Perhaps more pertinently, it’s the fifth time they’ve headlined the festival, and they’ve got the hang of it to such an extent that it increasingly feels like the job the quartet were put on earth to do. Since their last appearance in 2016, they’ve completed a 180 degree turn from earnest stadium balladeers to purveyors of relentless, balls-out, more-is-more visual overload: their gigs are now effectively a 21st-century equivalent of U2’s Zoo TV shows, albeit without any of U2’s accompanying theorising about the media or the relationship between art and commerce.  This gig is played amid the eye-popping, ongoing Music of the Spheres tour, and everything that appeared to be cranked up to 11 when I saw it two years ago is now cranked up to 12. The end resul...

  In a major ruling, the Supreme Court on Friday cut back sharply on the power of federal agencies to interpret the laws they administer and ruled that courts should rely on their own interpretion of ambiguous laws. The decision will likely have far-reaching effects across the country, from environmental regulation to healthcare costs. By a vote of 6-3, the justices overruled their landmark 1984 decision in Chevron v.  Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council , which gave rise to the doctrine known as the  Chevron  doctrine. Under that doctrine, if Congress has not directly addressed the question at the center of a dispute, a court was required to uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute as long as it was reasonable. But in a 35-page ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts, the justices rejected that doctrine, calling it “fundamentally misguided.” Justice Elena Kagan dissented, in an opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Ka...

  Including Deadpool & Wolverine, Despicable Me 4 and a comedy starring Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum – this month's unmissable movies to watch and stream.  1. Crossing Levan Akin, the Swedish-Georgian writer-director of And Then We Danced, returns with another tough but tender queer drama, Crossing. Its 70-something heroine is Lia (Mzia Arabuli), a retired teacher who travels from Batumi in Georgia to Istanbul in Turkey in search of her estranged transgender niece. With the help of a lawyer (Deniz Dumanli) specializing in trans rights, she discovers a community she never knew existed, and which is represented here with the vivid authenticity of a documentary and the complexity of a novel. "Akin immerses the audience in the bustling Turkish capital,"  says Hannah Strong in Little White Lies . "Sweet without being cloying, it's a love letter to the commonalities between Georgian and Turkish culture; one that encourages empathy and reminds us it's...

  Shania Twain is hoping to arrive for her Glastonbury set in style by riding a horse to the Pyramid Stage - but admits she'll "have to find out if it's allowed". The country music icon will be following in the footsteps of Dolly Parton, Diana Ross and Johnny Cash as she takes to the stage for the prestigious legends slot on Sunday - usually a highlight of the festival weekend. Asked if she had any special plans for her show, the Canadian singer told BBC Breakfast: "I love horses. I love animals, I'm going to see if there's a horse around I can borrow." She continued: "I'd love to ride a horse to the stage... I'll have to find out if it's allowed." It wouldn't be the first time the 58-year-old singer has incorporated a horse into her performance. Twain  used to sing her hit "You're Still The One" while sitting on the back of a white horse during her Las Vegas residency at Caesars Palace between 2012 and 2014....

  "Well, you didn't think we were gonna let you down, did you?" So said Jarvis Cocker as he addressed the enormous crowd at Glastonbury's Park stage in 2011; thousands and thousands of people stood in front of him to see perhaps the worst-kept secret in the festival's history, and one of its greatest live music experiences. The speculation that the then newly reformed Pulp   would play the surprise set that day - after  Radiohead  the previous day, no less - had grown so intense that latecomers reportedly had to be turned away, such was demand. Beyonce, Coldplay   and U2 headlined that year, but like many squashed in the Park Stage audience, squelching in the mud, it was the magic of singing along to Do You Remember The First Time?, Something Changed, and Common People I remember above everything. Over the years, artists including The Killers, The Libertines, Lady Gaga, Foals and Franz Ferdinand have also popped up "unannounced" at Glastonb...