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Testaccio: The foodie neighbourhood where Romans go to eat

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Once an important port that supplied food to ancient Rome, off-the-beaten-path Testaccio remains the city’s favourite culinary destination.

On a warm Saturday evening last autumn in Rome, I took two friends and first-time visitors, Boba and Smiljana, to Testaccio, a centrally located neighbourhood on the left bank of the Tiber River. We went to a party held twice a month at the Mercato di Testaccio (Testaccio Market), when stalls stay open late, offering classic Roman dishes like cacio e pepe, carbonara and supplì (deep-fried risotto balls) – alongside wine, beer and music.
Though visiting the market isn’t part of a typical traveller’s itinerary, Boba and Smiljana loved the detour. “Who needs a tourist-trap meal near the Colosseum when you can eat this?” Boba said, happily sinking her teeth into porchetta (stuffed, slow-roasted pork) sandwiches – a classic Roman street food.
From Grand Tour sightseers to religious pilgrims, Rome has always drawn visitors. But as 35 million tourists now descend on the Italian capital every year, the city has recently considered limiting access to some of its most famous sites in an effort to curb its growing overtourism problem.

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List of nominations in full for Brit Awards 2025

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Across 14 categories, 70 artists are nominated and those include some of the biggest names in UK music and beyond.
The winners will be announced at a star-studded ceremony at London’s O2 Arena on 1 March, hosted by Jack Whitehall.
Here are the nominations in full:
Artist of the year

Beabadoobee
Central Cee
Charli XCX
Dua Lipa
Fred Again
Jamie xx
Michael Kiwanuka
Nia Archives
Rachel Chinouriri
Sam Fender
Group of the year

Bring Me The Horizon
Coldplay
The Cure
Ezra Collective
The Last Dinner Party
Album of the year

Charli XCX – Brat
The Cure – Songs Of A Lost World
Dua Lipa – Radical Optimism
Ezra Collective – Dance, No One’s Watching
The Last Dinner Party – Prelude to Ecstasy
Song of the year

Artemas – i like the way you kiss me
The Beatles – Now And Then
BL3SS x CamrinWatsin (feat. bbyclose) – Kisses
Central Cee (feat. Lil Baby) – BAND4BAND
Charli XCX Ft Billie Eilish – Guess featuring Billie Eilish
Chase & Status / Stormzy – Backbone
Coldplay – feelslikeimfallinginlove
Dua Lipa – Training Season
Ella Henderson (feat. Rudimental) -Alibi
JADE – Angel Of My Dreams
Jordan Adetunji- KEHLANI
KSI (feat Trippie Redd) – Thick Of It
Myles Smith – Stargazing
Sam Ryder – You’re Christmas To Me
Sonny Fodera/Jazzy/D.O.D – Somedays
Best new artist

English Teacher
Ezra Collective
The Last Dinner Party
Myles Smith
Rachel Chinouriri
International artist of the year

Adrianne Lenker
Asake
Benson Boone
Beyoncé
Billie Eilish
Chappell Roan
Kendrick Lamar
Sabrina Carpenter
Taylor Swift
Tyler, The Creator
International group of the year

Amyl and The Sniffers
Confidence Man
Fontaines D.C.
Future & Metro Boomin
Linkin Park
International song of the year

Benson Boone – Beautiful Things
Beyoncé – Texas Hold ‘Em
Billie Eilish – Birds of a Feather
Chappell Roan – Good Luck, Babe!
Djo – End of Beginning
Eminem – Houdini
Hozier – Too Sweet
Jack Harlow – Lovin On Me
Noah Kahan – Stick Season
Post Malone (Feat. Morgan Wallen) – I Had Some Help
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
Shaboozey – A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Taylor Swift (feat. Post Malone) – Fortnight
Teddy Swims – Lose Control
Tommy Richman – Million Dollar Baby
Best alternative/rock act

Beabadoobee
The Cure
Ezra Collective
The Last Dinner Party
Sam Fender
Best hip-hop/grime/rap act

Central Cee
Dave
Ghetts
Little Simz
Stormzy
Best dance act

Becky Hill
Charli xcx
Chase & Status
Fred again..
Nia Archives
Best pop act

Charli xcx
Dua Lipa
JADE
Lola Young
Myles Smith
Best R&B act

Cleo Sol
Flo
Jorja Smith
Michael Kiwanuka
Raye
Rising star

Winners: Myles Smith
Elmiene
Good Neighbours

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Brat to Brit Awards: Charli XCX leads nominations with five

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Charli XCX leads this year’s Brit Awards with five nominations, including a nod for album of the year with Brat.
She is also nominated for artist of the year, best pop and dance act and song of the year with Guess, featuring Billie Eilish, which went to number one in August.
Her sixth studio album was released in June and grew into a cultural movement – Brat was crowned Collins Dictionary 2024 word of the year and it even reached US politics with presidential candidate Kamala Harris giving her social media a brat rebrand.

Seven-time Brit winner Dua Lipa has received four nominations including pop act which she won last year.
List of Brit nominations in full

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From The Apprentice to Wicked, the 2025 Oscar nominations are the most political ever

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The contenders for the film industry’s biggest prizes this year represent a range of genres and styles. But many are united by a common thread: they take on contentious topics with ferocious energy.

A fabulous range of films has been nominated for Academy Awards this year, from a shiny Broadway musical to a fact-based South American drama, from a rollicking farce about a stripper to an impressionistic period piece set in a Florida reform school. From a distance, it might appear as if the Academy’s voters had covered just about every genre and mood that cinema has to offer. But when you look closer, it’s remarkable how many of the nominees have something in common. In their own distinctive ways, these films take on contemporary issues with enough ferocious energy to make this one of the most political selections in the history of the Oscars.
In the case of The Apprentice, the political aspect is inescapable. Ali Abbasi’s film is a controversial biopic of newly inaugurated president Donald Trump, concentrating on his years as an aspiring real-estate mogul in New York. In October, Trump denounced the film as a “cheap, defamatory, and politically disgusting hatchet job”. The Academy seems to have liked the film: The Apprentice received two acting nominations, one for Sebastian Stan, who plays Trump himself, and one for Jeremy Strong, who co-stars as his mentor, Roy Cohn.

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