‘I’ve certainly been told to shut up on occasions’ … Jon Boden A few weeks ago Jon Boden, the current BBC Folk Singer of the Year, went to a friend’s home studio in Sheffield and recorded an unaccompanied version of the famous old folk song The Larks They Sang Melodious... 

Will.I.Am … ‘Michael wouldn’t have wanted it that way.’ Photograph: Kevork Djansezian/AP Finally, one man has the moral fortitude to turn down big money and protect Michael Jackson’s legacy – and it’s the auteur behind I Gotta Feeling. Black Eyed Peas’... 

Steven Spielberg, whose new project War Horse begins shooting in the UK next month. Photograph: Jean-Pierre Muller/AFP/Getty Images The invite was posted and the place was set, and yet Steven Spielberg turned out to be conspicuous by his absence at last week’s Clinton wedding in New... 

OBR interim chairman Sir Alan Budd (left, with George Osborne), is expected to face searching questions at the Treasury committee next Tuesday. Photograph: Chris Ratcliffe Pool/EPA Fears rose last night that job losses in the public sector will be higher than forecast by George Osborne’s...