Things to do in London this weekend

The Last Dinner Party’s prima continues to emergence arsenic the glam stone queens instrumentality implicit the Eventim Apollo this week. The vibe (both connected signifier and successful the crowd) could beryllium described arsenic David Bowie meets Marie Antoinette, and the band’s renditions of instrumentality favourites similar Nothing Matters and My Lady of Mercy are ever performed astatine 110 per cent. Tuck in.

The BM is going done a play of psyche searching, and with What Have We Here? the British-Guyanese creator Hew Locke explores the postulation and what it says astir British imperial powerfulness implicit the centuries. This is definite to beryllium a fascinating look astatine history, ownership and individuality done 150 objects from the collection, arsenic good arsenic immoderate caller sculptures from the creator whose enactment has appeared astatine Tate Britain and the Met successful New York.

New astatine The Globe Tavern successful Borough Market, Khao Bird is simply a Thai conception inspired by the nighttime markets of Chiang Mai. Regional specialities are thrust into the spotlight here, with myriad flavours created by Thai ingredients and sustainable British produce. The residency opened past period and marks a London debut from restaurateur Mike Palmer, who has earned plaudits astatine his Brighton venue Lucky Khao. Expect warming curries, blistery noodles, and canny usage of offal and seafood.

Donald Trump whitethorn perchance beryllium the astir celebrated antheral connected the planet, but this film, above, looks to capable successful a spot of the backstory earlier helium was a world star-turned-president-turned-presidential nominee. Sebastian Stan plays Trump during his aboriginal years successful New York erstwhile helium was an ambitious spot heir guided by brash powerbroker Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong), and the film, above, asks: did this narration crook Trump into the fig who present dominates the airwaves?

Out October 18, In cinemas

This gloriously campy adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s deed caller astir scheming, backstabbing, bonking toffs successful the Eighties starts arsenic it means to spell connected with a mates having highly large rumpy-pumpy successful an airplane toilet. Featuring a who’s who of British stars (including David Tennant, Katherine Parkinson, Danny Dyer and more) the code is irreverent, the nudity plentiful and the behaviour knowingly arch. A blameworthy treat.

James Rebanks, a Lake District farmer, made his sanction with 2 best-selling books astir beingness connected the onshore (just don’t telephone them elegiac). His third, The Place of Tides, is astir thing alternatively different: Norwegian ducks. Rebanks journeys to adjacent the Arctic Circle and spends clip with the singular Anna Måsøy, a Norwegian woman successful her seventies who keeps up the contented of gathering eider duck feathers to marque eiderdown. The resulting publication is simply a profound reflection connected the earthy world.

The ever-quirky Confidence Man are masters of maximalist electro pop, and their latest medium dials it each up to 11. Come for the lairy tunes — which gully from the rave anthems of London’s queer nine country — and enactment for the infuriatingly catchy earworms that volition enactment successful your encephalon for weeks.

The leads successful 2 Netflix blockbusters swap the surface for the signifier arsenic Emily successful Paris’s Lily Collins and Money Heist’s Álvaro Morte marque their West End debuts other each different aboriginal this month. In Bess Wohl’s Barcelona, above, an American tourer goes location with a handsome Spaniard, but what starts arsenic a amusive nighttime takes a hard and unsafe turn.

Unexpected renaissance antheral Keanu Reeves (film star! Soon to beryllium Broadway actor! Documentarian! Writer!) is successful municipality to speech astir his and China Miéville’s caller The Book of Elsewhere, based connected Reeves’ graphic caller BRZRKR. Don’t fancy books astir immortal warriors? Who cares, it’s Keanu frickin’ Reeves, and he’s successful London!