The Jolly Boys: (from left) Joseph ‘Powda’ Bennett, 73; Albert Minott, 72; Derrick ‘Johnny’ Henry, 71; Allan Swymmer, 82, and Egbert Watson, 84. Photograph: William Richards A barbarously sticky afternoon in Jamaica and I’m in Kingston inside a windowless room... 

Salute to Sondheim … Simon Russell Beale, Judi Dench and Bryn Terfel at Prom 19. Photograph: Yui Mok/PA Ever since the mid 1990s Stephen Sondheim’s songs have been heard more or less regularly at the Proms but never before has a whole concert been devoted to his work. Sondheim’s... 

Diane Abbott ‘came across terribly’ in Victoria Derbyshire’s live debate with Labour candidates for the leadership. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images On Thursday morning, from Stevenage, Victoria Derbyshire hosted a live – and lively – debate between the five Labour... 

A scene from Avatar, the biggest grossing movie of all time. Photograph: 20th Century Fox One was the year of A Clockwork Orange and decimalisation. The other was that of Avatar and the shattered economy. But while 1971 and 2009 were wildly different in terms of the technological limits of...