‘Silicon Valley’ showrunner on how the HBO comedy predicted today’s tech drama‘Silicon Valley’ showrunner on how the HBO comedy predicted today’s tech drama

The Scene A year before the iconic show debuted on HBO in April of 2014, the writer Alec Berg met the show’s creator, Mike Judge, in an anonymous Santa Monica office. Judge was wrestling with the pilot for a show about Silicon Valley’s power and its eccentricity, but it wasn’t ...

Iran launches drone attacks against US military base in BahrainIran launches drone attacks against US military base in Bahrain

Strikes cast further doubt on peace talks between Tehran and Washington with increasing risk of escalation Iran has launched drone attacks against a US military base in Bahrain, casting further doubt on peace talks between Tehran and Washington and raising the spectre of escalation. Blasts sounded over the Gulf nation ...

‘You unpack once’: despite reports of ‘poop cruises’ and murder, cruise ships are more popular than ever‘You unpack once’: despite reports of ‘poop cruises’ and murder, cruise ships are more popular than ever

High-profile crimes and disease outbreaks obscure the fact that the big ships are largely safe – and seeing record numbers of bookings This month, there has been a swell of stories about things going wrong on cruises. A man was arrested in Texas after he allegedly killed a woman during ...

Reclaiming Mary Cassatt: putting overlooked American artist back at heart of impressionismReclaiming Mary Cassatt: putting overlooked American artist back at heart of impressionism

New exhibition restores painter’s place as leading figure in French movement that revolutionised art As a painter, friend, and collaborator of Edgar Degas, who exhibited with impressionist artists including Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt was at the heart of the 19th-century movement that emerged in France and revolutionised ...