Brit awards 2012

Rewind TV: Homeland; Kidnap and Ransom; Melvyn Bragg on Class and Culture – review

Claire Danes proves that a psychotic heroine is just what the spy drama needs, while Trevor Eve knows it all again, writes Andrew Anthony

Andrew Anthony

26, Feb, 2012 @12:05 AM

Sleeve notes: The Brits, the Boss and other business

Music news, reviews and discussion from the last seven days

Adam Boult

24, Feb, 2012 @5:02 PM

Adele and her ilk have mangled the ancient art of rhetoric | Simon Jenkins

Simon Jenkins: Awards ceremonies highlight the amateurism of modern public speeches – most are an exercise in tedium and torture

Simon Jenkins

23, Feb, 2012 @9:00 PM

Adele Brits fiasco: the post mortem

Don't blame James Corden for what happened. He was only obeying orders

Marina Hyde

23, Feb, 2012 @8:00 PM

The shock index: is giving the finger still offensive?

First MIA, and now Adele – flipping the bird seems to be all the rage for female pop singers. But has the gesture lost its power to shock?

Stuart Jeffries

22, Feb, 2012 @7:00 PM

Monkey goes to the Brit awards | Media Monkey

Media Monkey: What media moguls, TV bosses and musos – and Louie Spence – got up to at the music industry shindig

Monkey

22, Feb, 2012 @6:24 PM

Brit Awards 2012: Quotes of the night

Adele's one-fingered salute was the the talk of the town but she wasn't the only person to entertain the Brit Awards audience with a bon mot or barbed comment

22, Feb, 2012 @3:46 PM

Music Weekly podcast: Brits 2012 verdict

Did Ed Sheeran, Rihanna, Blur and co put on a good show? Or was Adele being cut off the most exciting moment of the Brits?

Presented by Alexis Petridis and produced by Pascal Wyse

22, Feb, 2012 @3:02 PM

One Direction snubbed by Capital FM after Brits gaffe

Former X Factor contestants given cold shoulder by Global Radio after thanking wrong radio station. By John Plunkett

John Plunkett

22, Feb, 2012 @1:13 PM

Brit awards and ITV apologise to Adele

The singer who flipped the bird wins an apology after her best album acceptance speech is cut short at the Brit awards

Michael Hann

22, Feb, 2012 @12:49 PM

Brit awards on TV: did they hit the right note?

Julia Raeside: When the most memorable moment is Adele being cut off mid-speech, it makes you wonder if awards are really good TV

Julia Raeside

22, Feb, 2012 @11:01 AM

Brit awards 2012: How was it for you?

Should Adele have been able to finish her speech? Did Blur's performance meet expectations? Was Bruno Mars' hair even more impressive than Emeli Sandé's?