Interview

When her debut album, Fake It Flowers, was released just before the UK went into lockdown, Beabadoobee became a bedroom indie star who would have to remain in the bedroom. Now, with a fanatical following and an expansive second album dropping in July, the musician is at the top of her game – and out in the world.

Tems has already conquered the global charts with Wizkid and Drake, found fans in the highest possible places (hello, President Obama) and carved out a new space in Afrobeats. Next up: a debut album that will see Nigerian music’s biggest new star go supermassive.

As Manchester City win a fourth Premier League title in five years, we meet the talismanic midfielder with the world at his feet, a Gucci ambassadorship and the kind of megawatt charm that’ll burn through English football for the next decade.

The filmmaker’s new film is bloody historical epic The Northman. His next was meant to be bloody historical horror Nosferatu, starring Harry Styles. He talks Valhalla, vampires and the hell of scheduling.

Generation Covid: to end our week of stories, the Labour MP for Nottingham East and the “baby of the House” talks archaic institutions, the power of movements and why the UK needs an irreversible shift in wealth and power.

Two Ribbons, the new album from Jenny Hollingworth and Rosa Walton, is a sparkling, life-affirming set of songs bringing light to darkness and celebrating a lifelong friendship.