(Acid Jazz)A collective of genre-straddling talents give new life to songs by Nick Drake, John Martyn and Sandy Denny Jazz and British folk enjoyed a fruitful communion in the late 60s and early 70s, primarily via Pentangle, a group entwining folk guitars with a jazz rhythm section and the agile voice of Jacqui McShee. London…

People wept in the street when the magnificent Mackintosh building was nearly destroyed by two fires. So why, 10 years on and despite overwhelming support for restoration, is there still no plan – or funding – for its repair? Where to start with the Mackintosh building of the Glasgow School of Art? With its fearless…

The comedian and writer on being on Celebrity Mastermind, bingeing The Bear, and the good that came out of her controversial documentary Rosie Jones, 33, is a writer, actor and comedian who began her career writing for panel shows such as Would I Lie to You? and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. She…

Far from making programmers an endangered species, AI will release them from the grunt work that stifles innovation When digital computers were invented, the first task was to instruct them to do what we wanted. The problem was that the machines didn’t understand English – they only knew ones and zeros. You could program them…

It’s no wonder numbers training for the priesthood continue to fall when married men or any woman are still barred Walking down towards the River Nidd in Knaresborough, the pretty North Yorkshire market town where I grew up, it would be easy to pass by St Mary’s Catholic church without noticing it. Built only two…