Celebrate the return of normal life, but choose your guests with care

What’s gotten into the Advertising Standards Authority?

Small local publishers are putting out the brightest and best new work

What does Amazon’s purchase of MGM mean for cinema?

Michael Collins looks back Bertrand Burgalat’s career as the architect for the modern French pop sound

Michael Henderson says, hats off, everybody, to the troupers of the famous yellow Almanack

Are the Houses of Parliament set for the flames? Brice Stratford discusses with David Scullion

The more you play along, the harder it is to distance yourself from the fallout later

As the winner of the International Booker Prize is due to be announced today, ASH Smyth talks to poet, translator and judge on this year’s panel, George Szirtes

Anne McElvoy on how LBC branch out into podcasting and American podcasters bid for their share of British ears