From Avatar to Amadeus: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Jimmy Kimmel on a tumultuous year: ‘Don’t know what the American way even is any more’

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s speech: ‘Surprise primetime episode of The Worst Wing’

Stephen Colbert on Susie Wiles’s candid interviews: ‘She dished, bish’

The 50 best albums of 2025: No 3 – Blood Orange: Essex Honey

Arts funding in England must be protected from politics, Hodge report urges

The Hodge report into Arts Council England: ‘Not exactly a ringing endorsement’

Jimmy Kimmel on Trump’s Rob Reiner comments: ‘So hateful and vile’

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago. But its lessons live on in The Quiet American

‘Fans stole my underwear – and even my car aerial’: how Roxette made It Must Have Been Love

My cultural awakening: The Lehman Trilogy helped me to live with my sight loss

The Guide #221: Endless ticket queues, AI slop and ALL CAPS agony

From Eleanor the Great to Emily in Paris: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

Lurker to Our Girls: the week in rave reviews

Stephen Colbert on Trump’s ‘gold card’: ‘Pay-to-play program for rich foreigners’

‘Like lipstick on a fabulous gorilla’: the Barbican’s many gaudy glow-ups and the one to top them all

‘Astonishing’: how Stanley Baxter’s TV extravaganzas reached 20 million

Barbican to close its doors for a year for multimillion-pound renovation

Seth Meyers to Trump: ‘You can’t convince people the economy is good when they can see the truth’

The world’s most sublime dinner set – for 2,000 guests! Hyakkō: 100+ Makers from Japan review

Dragon’s teeth and elf garden among 2025 additions to English heritage list

Discover Australia’s top 50 children’s picture books as nominated by Guardian readers

Jon Stewart on Fifa’s peace prize: ‘An entirely fictitious golden butt plug’