A scene from Inception: Leonardo DiCaprio suggests that people see it twice to understand the plot. Photograph: Stephen Vaughan/Warner Bros ‘Dad, what do you think it meant when the totem wobbled like that?” Many parents will be asked a tricky question like this as they leave the... 

Head of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, said activity dropped in the second quarter. Photograph: Ramin Talaie/EPA Alistair Darling’s one-off bank bonus tax cost Goldman Sachs $600m (£395m), the Wall Street bank said today as it revealed that its wage and bonus bill reached $9.2bn in... 

Stewart Lee will be at The Big Comedy Caravan. The Big Comedy Campervan, Scarborough Like swallows, stand-ups migrate once a year. But in their case they go north, for the annual trade fair, meat market and genuine cultural mecca that is the Edinburgh festival fringe. However, a select few... 

Three big musical acts, Alicia keys, Jay-Z and Sade, are booked for a good cause. They are tapped to perform at the annual Black Ball charity concert at New York’s Hammerstein Ball on September 30. This gig is organized by Alicia’s Keep a Child Alive organization. “Sade? Jay-Z?...