Between last year’s sold-out stadium tour and their current chart resurgence off the back of the World Cup, it seems that Oasis are as hot a property as ever, despite not having released any new material for the better part of 20 years.

And while many fans are hoping that, now the Gallagher brothers have put their differences aside, they might be able to create more music together, this evidently isn’t something people should be holding their breath for.

Responding to one fan on X about the prospect of a new Oasis album, frontman Liam Gallagher responded: “NO, I’m just not prepared for the criticism if it doesn’t sell 100 million copies in the first hour, cure bad breath and constipation for the nation, if it doesn’t turn back time for Cher and some other shit…”

He insisted: “Let’s just [do] some gigs and be happy, thank you.”

Since Oasis parted ways, both Liam and Noel Gallagher have continued to release and record music.

Liam released two albums with his group Beady Eye, before embarking on a solo career, releasing four number one albums between 2017 and 2024.

Noel has also enjoyed success with his group Noel Gallagher’s High-Flying Birds, releasing four albums between 2011 and 2023.

The first three of these all reached number one in the UK, while the group’s latest offering Council Skies peaked at a still-extremely-respectable number two, held off the top spot by fellow rock group Foo Fighters.

Earlier this year, Noel weighed in on rumours claiming that he and Liam would be writing the next James Bond theme, when the franchise is finally revived.

“Of course, it would be an absolute honour,” he told TalkSport, insisting that “those kinds of things should be done by Brits and not Yanks”.

Liam had joked on X weeks earlier: “It’s happening you wait till you hear it it’s the best BOND tune ever.”

Olivia Wilde has opened up about the media frenzy that surrounded the release of her 2022 film Don’t Worry Darling.

Directed by Olivia and starring Florence Pugh and Harry Styles as its leads, Don’t Worry Darling’s cinematic release was blighted by reports of behind-the-scenes chaos.

All the while, Olivia was dealing with a very public split from her ex-husband Jason Sudeikis, and scrutiny over her then-relationship with the As It Was singer.

By the film’s release, it had been panned by critics, but there was still time for one last drama, over a bizarre online rumour that Harry had spit on co-star Chris Pine as they took their seats to watch Don’t Worry Darling at the Venice Film Festival.

As you can imagine, Olivia has now admitted that the plagued release of Don’t Worry Darling gave her cause for concern when it came to promoting her latest movie, The Invite.

Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Olivia voiced her opinion that the furore around Don’t Worry Darling’s release “did hurt the film for sure” because “we didn’t get to have the conversations about what the film was trying to say, which was a shame because so many people worked so hard to make that film in the depths of Covid”.

Praising the work of those who worked on Don’t Worry Darling in “uncertain times”, she continued: “But we never got to talk about that, so I think it hurt the film.

“It hurt me for sure, because I was so naive up until that point about the grinder, the garbage disposal that the internet can be.

“So, at this point, I have enough of a perspective on it, and that allows me to experience it as a fascinating time. It is interesting to witness a tornado from the inside. But now I look back and I think, ‘oh, the people were being given headlines without context, and it’s a natural instinct to start trying to fill those in’.”

Olivia continued: “It’s interesting because this is my first time back into the press cycle since then and I did wonder, ‘would this feel quite traumatising?’.”

Fortunately, she shared that the “conversations” she’s been having while promoting The Invite have been “so wonderfully interesting to me” that it’s “been actually kind of healing because I understand that it’s not always a garbage disposal”.

As well as directing The Invite, Olivia stars in it alongside Seth Rogen, Penelope Cruz and Edward Norton, as two couples during a dinner party whose evening spirals out of control into unexpected places.

Unlike Don’t Worry Darling, the domestic drama has received rave reviews from critics and viewers, and currently holds a critical score of 97% on Rotten Tomatoes and a Letterboxd rating of 4.1 stars.

Last month, Olivia told New York magazine that the producers behind Don’t Worry Darling had encouraged her not to address any of the headlines around it, which she now has mixed feelings on.

“I was told, ‘Don’t say a fucking word. Just go out there and smile’,” she said. “I resent that, but it taught me it’s not the way I want to handle things.”

She also told the podcast Call Her Daddy: “I wanted to be like, ‘Can I just talk to people?’. Can I just go and say like, ‘That’s not true?’. And it was like, ‘No, that won’t help’. And that was really hard.”

“There was all this public madness, but my private life was very far from it,” she claimed, recalling how it felt “like the tornado was right outside the door and if you were inside, you were like, ‘it’s so nice’, and then you’d open the door and a fucking, like, cow and a tractor would fly by”.

“I’ve never felt more disconnected from the person that people were talking about,” she concluded. “It was also very strange to see complete fiction traded as fact.”

Listen to Olivia Wilde’s full interview on The Louis Theroux Podcast here.

Jeremy Clarkson has apparently been doing some reflecting on his recent public beef with Chris Packham.

Earlier this month, Clarkson’s Farm was one of the shows being reviewed by the cast of Celebrity Gogglebox, including the Springwatch host and his stepdaughter and fellow conservationist Megan McCubbin.

Reacting to the opening titles, Packham said at the time: “That’s not what a farm looks like. Most farms are horrible monocultures which have been sprayed with deadly chemicals, time and time again, the ground pumped full of fertiliser, and loads of the animals are indoors – in crates, being crushed and kept in the dark.”

“That’s an idealistic view of a farm, and it puts the wrong idea in people’s minds,” he added. “And that’s only the [opening titles]!”

Clarkson subsequently fired back with a column in The Sun, in which he wrote: “The endlessly angry Chris Packham went on Gogglebox this week and erupted in blind fury about the Winnie the Pooh-ish opening credits to my farming programme.

“Now, of course this kind of stuff plays well in a room full of nose rings and Palestine flags at a vegan activist meeting in Hackney. But he was on a television programme, and it didn’t play well at all. Because it’s b*****ks.”

Since then, Clarkson has penned a second piece addressing the matter, this time in The Times.

The former Top Gear host began by explaining that he was someone who’d “always quite enjoyed being in trouble” since his school days, but since the reaction to him disclosing that his recent bout of ill health, he’d come to enjoy “being seen as a nice person rather than a troublemaker”.

“For the past few weeks, I’ve been wondering if maybe, at the age of 66, I should become an adult. A kind person, a tolerant person,” he suggested.

“That brings me on to Chris Packham,” he continued. “Just recently, he went on Gogglebox and said that the opening credits on my farm show were in no way representative of modern-day agricultural practices.

“Of course, I was very incensed by this and immediately wrote in The Sun that he was talking bollocks. But in the new age of tolerance and respect, I shouldn’t have done that. I should have kept schtum.”

However, he conceded that “offering up your left cheek to be slapped after someone has hit the other one” is “bloody difficult”, particularly for “someone like me, who’s spent his life throwing rocks in ponds to watch the ripples it creates”.

Clarkson’s column was published on Sunday. A day earlier, Packham’s representative had issued a statement to HuffPost UK, accusing the divisive broadcaster of “being disingenuous” and insisting that “industrial farmers are making a smokescreen to hide their horrors”.

Packham said: “I made the comments about the silly idealistic stereotyped cartoon at the top of his programme, he knows that. And he knows it paints an entirely unrealistic image of most of [the UK’s farms].

“The industrial farming fraternity love Clarkson’s Farm because it gives them something pretty to hide behind, a friendly flagship of good ol’ wholesome values. The truth is so very different, and it’s a truth that needs to be told for the sake of animal welfare, wildlife, human health and a secure environmental future.”

He added: “They can shoot at the messenger, but they will not silence the truth, even if Jezza has a big mouth.”

Jeremy Clarkson’s team have been contacted for additional comment.

VAT is to be removed from electricity bills as Andy Burnham attempts to make good on his promise to bring down the cost of living.

The move, which will apply from October 1, is expected to cut the energy price cap by £45.

Announcing the move on Tuesday morning, Burnham said it will “put more money in people’s pockets and bring back hope”.

The policy will be funded by the new prime minister’s decision to scrap Keir Starmer’s plan to bring in digital ID, which was expected to cost £1.8 billion over the next three years.

However, there was some confusion as cutting VAT on electricity bills from 5% to zero would cost around £850m a year.

Burnham said: “Westminster has not been working for people for too long, with families struggling with the cost of living.

“That needs to change. I said I wanted to give people breathing space, and that’s what I’m announcing on my second day as Prime Minister.

“We’re taking immediate action to cut taxes on energy bills, put more money in people’s pockets and bring back hope.”

He is expected to announce that bus fares are to be capped at £2 tomorrow.

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Andy Burnham was very clear when he became Labour leader last Friday.

“Factionalism has bedevilled us,” he said. “Today we moved beyond it.”

It was the correct diagnosis, and a noble ambition.

Keir Starmer’s government had undoubtedly been one of the most factional in living memory, with anyone not viewed as a loyalist banished to the backbenches.

The former PM’s supporters would argue that his ultra-strict approach was effective, rescuing Labour from the chaos left behind by Jeremy Corbyn and delivering a landslide election victory.

But it also bred intense resentment among Labour MPs, meaning that when Starmer’s back was up against the wall, he had few true allies he could rely on to support him.

So Burnham was right to call an end to the self-defeating schisms which have long been a part of Labour tradition.

However, when presented with the opportunity to put his fine words into action, the new prime minister flunked it.

Throughout Monday afternoon, those cabinet ministers seen as loyal to his predecessor were informed that their services were no longer required.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves – once integral to the entire Starmer project – was axed, although sources close to her insisted she was offered “a big job” as consolation and turned it down.

David Lammy, Starmer’s deputy, was also removed from cabinet, as were Darren Jones, Steve Reed, Peter Kyle, Nick Thomas-Symonds and Jenny Chapman.

In their place came key Burnham supporters like new foreign secretary Ed Miliband and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Louise Haigh, two MPs who did more than most to get Starmer out.

Of course, every new PM is entitled to fill their cabinet with as many allies as they wish.

But having made such a virtue of unity and harnessing all the talents of the Parliamentary Labour Party, the message from PM Burnham was clear: ending factionalism can wait until tomorrow.

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