Mountainhead to Nintendo Switch 2: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The Ballad of Wallis IslandOut now Comedy drama co-starring and co-written by comedians Tim Key and Tom Basden. Key plays a lottery winner with some big ideas about what to do with his winnings: namely, pay his favourite musical act to reunite. Hey, it’s more interesting than buying a fancy car. Basden and Carey Mulligan play the folk duo McGwyer Mortimer.The Salt PathOut now Drama based on the true story of a 630-mile pilgrimage along the coast in Cornwall, Devon and Dorset

Gerlin Bean obituary

My friend Gerlin Bean, who has died aged 85, was a leading light of the British Black feminist movement. A founding member of OWAAD (Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent), she was an effective and persuasive organiser, fiercely committed to empowering her community.Also a founder member in 1973 of the Brixton Black Women’s Group, Gerlin remained a key figure in the south London area for the next decade. She helped set up Sabaar Books, one of the first Black bookshops in Brixton, in the late 1970s, and, as a guidance counsellor at Brixton College, was instrumental in securing creche facilities there that allowed countless women to gain access to further education. Prior to that, she had helped establish the WIPAG (West Indian Parents’ Action Group), which provided nursery facilities and early years’ education for working mothers in Lambeth

The Guide #193: Meet Ernesto, the viral America’s Got Talent contestant … who doesn’t exist

Have you heard Ernesto’s story? It’s a real tearjerker. You may well be familiar with it, in fact, having caught it on YouTube, TikTok or Instagram at some point over the last few weeks.A hard-working carpenter, Ernesto devoted every ounce of himself to his wife and child, skipping meals and working overtime to provide for them and send his son through college. But things changed: said wife and child grew distant and walked out on poor old Ernesto, who lost his house and sense of purpose, eventually ending up on the streets.The one thing Ernesto did have left? His beautiful baritone singing voice, of course

Jimmy Kimmel on Elon Musk’s Doge tenure: ‘He came, he chainsawed, we bled, he left’

With most late-night hosts on vacation, Jimmy Kimmel celebrates the end of Elon Musk’s term in Washington and riffs on the new Taco nickname for Donald Trump.Jimmy Kimmel celebrated a big announcement on Thursday evening: Elon Musk, Donald Trump’s head of the so-called “department of government efficiency” (Doge), posted on X that he would officially step down from his post and leave Washington DC. “We’re just happy that your time as a special government employee has come to an end,” Kimmel said.“Elon had a remarkable 130-day stint in government,” he continued, speaking of Musk’s highly controversial and much-loathed stint of firing civil service workers. “He came, he chainsawed, we bled, he left

London tunnels that inspired James Bond creator will become spy museum

During his time in military intelligence, Ian Fleming, the author of the James Bond novels, regularly worked with Winston Churchill’s spy organisation based 30 metres below ground in a labyrinth of tunnels in central London.The Kingsway Exchange tunnels complex, stretching out across 8,000 sq metres beneath High Holborn, near Chancery Lane underground station, hosted the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and is said to have inspired Q Branch in Fleming’s novels.So it seems appropriate that plans to breathe new life into this long-abandoned second world war subterranean network will include a permanent exhibition about the history of military intelligence and espionage.The Military Intelligence Museum is to collaborate with the London Tunnels company, developing the complex to showcase its original artefacts, equipment, weapons and documents in a modern hi-tech experience at the proposed new £220m London tourist attraction, which is planned to open in 2028.Today the tunnels remain closed, but inside they yield many clues to their fascinating past

Parks are for all, not just paying festivalgoers | Letters

Emma Warren, who is quoted in your article (What are public parks for? Inside the debate sparked by London festival row, 24 May), could not be more wrong when she says the Protect Brockwell Park campaign is about “a small number of people trying to limit a larger number of people’s access to space”. Parks are open to everyone, all year round, except during the weeks leading up to and during such festivals.For centuries, local parks have preserved the sanity of parents with young children, allowed children to meet each other and create play with the simplest of means, and permitted elderly people a break from the loneliness of being stuck at home. Parks need preserving because they are egalitarian and provide a meeting space that helps build communities.Very few object to short festivals that treat a park and the local community with respect