83 minutes ago The Crime Is Mine review – François Ozon’s 1930s crime comedy is a moreish crowdpleaser

Ozon and a stellar cast serve up an entertaining, if shallow caper that shades a little too close to #MeTooFrançois Ozon has directed plenty of complex, demanding and serious dramas: Everything Went Fine, Summer of 85 and By the Grace of God, along with adaptations of Fassbinder. But he also has a sweet tooth for breezy, silly, crowd-pleasing theatrical comedies like this one (which does however appear to contain a Fassbinder reference, if you look hard enough). Watching it is like being force-fed a large box of chocolates; moreish, though. There is certainly an amazing blue-chip cast of French movie-acting royalty, including Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini and André Dussollier.The Crime Is Mine is adapted from a 1934 French stage comedy called Mon Crime by Georges Berr and Louis Vern...

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83 minutes ago Premier League injury check after international break as Arsenal & Man Utd hit hard

The Premier League roars back into action this weekend after the second international break of the season and a number of clubs have been hit by a number of injury issues

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2 hours ago Ministers speed up ‘skills passport’ for workers to move to clean energy jobs

Scottish and UK governments to sign deal on boosting green energy supply chains and infrastructure

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2 hours ago Does Starmer believe in anything, people ask, and now I can answer: his credo is the rule of law | Martin Kettle

Rwanda, the Chagos Islands, arms to Israel – all fit a pattern. Look to the speech his attorney general made this week; all the clues are therePolitical speeches seem to fall like autumn leaves at this time of year. Speeches at party conferences. Speeches at leadership hustings and to the UN general assembly. And the budget speech itself is still to come. Yet even the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, may struggle to say anything more illuminating than a speech this week by a far less high-profile government member than she.In July, Richard Hermer KC was plucked from a successful bar career by his fellow barrister Keir Starmer, given a peerage and made attorney general. It was a hand-picked appointment by Starmer, who snubbed the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, to make it. As Lord H...

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3 hours ago Here’s a rabbit for the chancellor’s hat: scrap stamp duty on shares | Nils Pratley

Getting rid of SDRT would pay for itself over time because other receipts would rise, abolitionists sayRachel Reeves is looking for taxes to raise, rather than ones to abolish. Never mind: here is a tax that ought to be scrapped by a government that calls itself pro-growth, pro-business and pro-investment, which was the pitch at this week’s big summit. What’s more, the enticing claim from abolitionists is that getting rid of the tax could – with a few qualifications – pay for itself over time because other Treasury receipts would rise.The tax is stamp duty on shares – or, in full, stamp duty reserve tax, or SDRT. It is the 0.5% levy on purchases of shares in UK companies that brought £3.8bn into the Treasury in the 2022-23 tax year. Ireland has a higher rate, 1%, but nobody else does. T...

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3 hours ago Scottish Government should have stepped in to pay to send Alex Salmond's body home

Record View says it’s legitimate to ask why Holyrood officials did not offer at the outset to pay for the repatriation of a former first minister.

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3 hours ago Dear Coleen: I'm trying hard to be faithful but I miss my work husband

I miss my relationship with him so much and think I must be a little in love with him.

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3 hours ago Labour Government to speed up energy 'skills passport' as Ed Miliband visits Aberdeen

The digital tool will "allow offshore workers to move flexibly back and forth between both industries in the years and decades to come.”

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3 hours ago Liam Payne's death sees One Direction fans in incredible display of unity outside Argentinia hotel

Crowds in their hundreds have gathered outside the hotel in tribute to the singer. Some hugged each other and cried, while others, in a sign of their adoration for the One Direction star, burst into applause

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