The platinum blonde in British history

We used to enjoy watching celebrities go off-piste — but now those moments are called “content” and have lost their frisson

Comedy historian Robert Ross pays tribute to some of the finest and funniest, but often overlooked, names in showbiz

It’s a funny old world

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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the