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Making a statement, Hannah Spencer’s ‘gross green’ is a political and TikTok winner

Green party’s victorious Gorton and Denton byelection candidate taps into the colour meme of the moment with her chartreuse waistcoat

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Of course the Green candidate wore green, though the correct term – the 2026 TikTok one – is “gross green”.

Coined by New York magazine, and seen all over the high street as well as on the cover of Caro Claire Burke’s forthcoming social media satire, Yesteryear, it’s actually chartreuse. But where’s the fun in calling it that? And it’s not so much a colour as a mood.

2026-02-27 15:57:33

Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating

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Harking back to Oye Como Va, Move On Up and other 20th-century classics, Mars’s homages are beautifully performed but bereft of new ideas

It is 10 years since Bruno Mars last released a solo album. An eternity in pop music, and yet you’d struggle to describe the follow-up to the umpteen-platinum 24K Magic as eagerly awaited: not for reasons of snark, but simply because the world has hardly been starved of Bruno Mars in the intervening decade.

With Anderson .Paak, he co-piloted Silk Sonic’s hit album An Evening with Silk Sonic. He variously collaborated with Cardi B, Gucci Mane, Sexy Redd and Ed Sheeran. Die With a Smile, 2024’s soft rock duet with Lady Gaga went on to become the most streamed song of last year. Meanwhile, he also recorded the most globally successful song released in 2025, the infernally catchy APT., with Blackpink’s Rosé. There have been two world tours, two Las Vegas residencies, the opening of his own Vegas bar, an appearance on online game Fortnite and the 2026 ambassadorship for Record Store Day.

2026-02-27 15:52:46

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Glanzende uitvaartlelies

Als ik in de supermarkt een pak geitenyoghurt zie staan, hou ik altijd even mijn adem in uit angst dat ik binnen een week mijn longen uit mijn lijf lig te rochelen.

2026-02-27 15:57:01

‘We kunnen bij KLM geen wonderen verrichten zonder duidelijkheid’

De rust verdwijnt meteen als Benjamin Smith, ceo van Air France-KLM, over Schiphol en de Nederlandse overheid begint. „We investeren miljarden in een bedrijf dat zich bevindt in een vijandige omgeving.”