30 minutes with …The DarknessThe I Believe In a Thing Called Love singer on life in Lowestoft, Queen and writing jingles for IkeaHi, Justin, where are you? I am eating vegetarian food in a Japanese restaurant in London. Five days a week, I only eat vegan, and mostly vegetables. I do eat meat or fish if it's been spectacularly prepared, and has died in an accident.  Nice. You're looking good in your new press photos.

UFCInterviewUFC’s Leon Edwards: ‘In Jamaica killing seemed normal. We were used to death all around us’Donald McRaeFighter opens up on his tough upbringing, escaping gang life and his stunning defeat of Kamaru Usman to become world champion Leon Edwards laughs as he remembers how, seven years ago, he and a friend used to practise his interview technique at home in Birmingham. “I was terrible at interviews,” the UFC welterweight champion admits as his traumatic life, blighted by the murder of his father and his immersion in gangland strife as a teenager, had left him sounding broken and stilted.

FashionThe iconic brat-pack movie may be three decades old – but designers still turn to it for inspiration. Here’s why The Guardian’s product and service reviews are independent and are in no way influenced by any advertiser or commercial initiative. We will earn a commission from the retailer if you buy something through an affiliate link. Learn more. Brian … the Acne studios take. Photograph: PRFamously consisting of a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess and a criminal, the five members of the Breakfast Club packed in a whole lot of style references.

Cif beliefBuddhism This article is more than 11 years oldChristmas can be very ZenThis article is more than 11 years oldMia HanssonNot all new rituals sit in shallow soil. I was raised an atheist but have no problem matching Christmas traditions with BuddhismPeople either insist on repeating the traditions they had as children, or they detach and reject tradition altogether. On occasion they create new ones, particularly if they start new families or enter a new culture.

Television – would it corrupt the nation’s youth? Photograph: Allan Cash Picture Library/AlamyTelevision – would it corrupt the nation’s youth? Photograph: Allan Cash Picture Library/AlamyTelevisionFor decades, politicians feared that breakfast TV would turn Brits into zombies – or that broadcasting might decimate the workforce. This is the story of our long journey to 24-hour television Forty years ago, the battle of early morning broadcasting came to a head. ITV lost, debuting its first ever breakfast show, Good Morning Britain, on 1 February 1983 – a full 14 days after the launch of the BBC’s Breakfast Time.

Glastonbury 2003Everybody Hurts but no one feels the painCraig McLean sees REM join the festival legends of Worthy FarmIt is of those special Glastonbury moments. Around midnight on Friday, REM are nearing the end of their set on the main stage. Singer Michael Stipe, looking like a cross between a hospital orderly in blue scrubs and a light bulb - wormy veins throbbing on his temple - is singing ' Everybody Hurts '.

France This article is more than 1 month oldFrench couple lose court case over rare African mask worth millionsThis article is more than 1 month oldCouple sold mask to dealer for €150 in 2021 before it was sold to unidentified buyer for €4.2m A French couple who sold an “extremely rare” African mask for €150 only to discover it was worth millions have had a request to cancel the artefact’s sale thrown out in court.

Jerry SadowitzInterviewJerry Sadowitz on his Edinburgh ban: ‘Cancel culture isn’t a culture. It’s a diktat that’s been imposed on us’Brian LoganWhen his show was pulled this summer over reports of nudity, sexism and racism, it caused a furore. In his first major interview since, the comedian explains why he will never tone down his splenetic act When it comes to cancel culture and comedy, we know the routine. A standup boasts on Netflix about “saying the unsayable”.

How to believeScience and nature books This article is more than 11 years oldLucretius, part 1: a poem to explain the entire world around usThis article is more than 11 years oldEmma WoolertonThe subject of Lucretius's six-book poem De Rerum Natura was not war, love, myth or history – it was atomic physicsLucretius (full name Titus Lucretius Carus) lived in the first half of the century BC, probably from 99 to 55 BC.

MusicEarly drag queens like Jean Malin helped bohemian gay culture thrive – before mob violence, Nazism and Hollywood homophobia drove it back underground The lights over the Ship Cafe were still advertising the “Last Night of Jean Malin” when, on the morning of 10 August, 1933, the main attraction, his boyfriend Jimmy Forlenza and fellow actor Patsy Kelly piled into his car to head off to a party at the Hollywood Barn.