Former Oasis guitarist describes festival, which has long championed political causes, as ‘kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling’

Noel Gallagher has decried Glastonbury festival, long a champion of leftwing political causes such as the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, as “getting a bit woke now”.

Speaking to the Sun, the former Oasis guitarist said: “It’s getting a bit woke now, that place, and a bit kind of preachy and a bit virtue-signalling. I don’t like it in music – little fucking idiots waving flags around and making political statements and bands taking the stage and saying, ‘Hey guys, isn’t war ­terrible, yeah? Let’s all boo war. Fuck the Tories man,’ and all that. It’s like, look – play your fucking tunes and get off.”

As the Police’s 1983 classic Synchronicity is reissued, their drummer will take on your questions

Bands like to end on a high, but few did it with as much panache as the Police. Having amassed increasing success since they formed in 1977, in 1983 the band issued their final album, Synchronicity – which was their biggest and, many would argue, best. It topped the charts in the UK and US, as did the single Every Breath You Take, and as well as being named one of the 500 greatest albums of all time by Rolling Stone, Synchronicity was selected last year by the US Library of Congress to be added to the National Recording Registry for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

On 26 July it will be reissued in multiple formats with varying degrees of lavishness, most notably a six-CD box with 55 previously unreleased tracks including demos, alternate mixes and unheard originals, and a live album recorded in Oakland in 1983.

Rapper denies allegations in eighth such lawsuit in recent months, with lawyer saying Combs has ‘never sexually assaulted or sex trafficked anyone’

The rapper and business mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs is facing another sexual assault lawsuit, the eighth in a series filed against him since November 2023.

Adria English, a former adult film actor, alleges that Combs groomed then coerced her into sexual intercourse with guests at parties he hosted, as well as making her consume alcohol and ecstasy.