84 minutes ago Classified review – Aaron Eckhart hitman thriller mines newspaper ads for coded messages

There is shockingly bad dialogue and a lot of extras waiting to fall over dead as Eckhart’s killer for hire finds all is not what it seemsThis decidedly shonky, if at least relatively unpretentious, action film stars Aaron Eckhart, once very much the coming man who’s not had the career you would expect for someone with his looks and talent. Eckhart plays a hitman named Evan Shaw; clearly a bit of a dolt, Shaw thinks he works for a super-specialised unit within the CIA that dispatches him to assassinate bad guys by sending him coded messages in the classified ads in newspapers (very retro). Shaw never sees his boss, Kevin (Tim Roth, clearly not taking this seriously) although a flashback reveals they used to have dinner together once in a while. Still grieving his late wife, Monica (Mary...

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89 minutes ago Archbishop of Canterbury reveals ties to slavery and says ancestors were compensated for abolition

Great-great-grandfather of archbishop’s biological father owned enslaved people in Jamaica

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95 minutes ago How to watch Arsenal vs Shakhtar Donetsk in the Champions League for free tonight

Bukayo Saka could be forced to miss another game for the Gunners after picking up a hamstring injury while on England duty in the Nations League

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1 hour ago A Samoan village prepares to welcome King Charles but fears an uncertain future for its reef

People who live in villages along the Samoan coastline where a New Zealand navy ship ran aground, caught fire and sank this month are worried about their livelihoods and the future of tourism and fishing in the area as they prepare for the arrival of Britain's King Charles III on Wednesday

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1 hour ago King Charles’s poignant comments about Australian Indigenous people before senator accused him of ‘genocide’

The monarch said the ‘timeless wisdom’ of Indigenous people can help fight climate change

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2 hours ago Battered but bizarrely upbeat: why even utter defeat hasn’t shaken the Tory party’s confidence | Andy Beckett

The Conservatives believe that they uniquely represent British values – so what need is there to admit the UK is changing? Why exactly are the Conservatives so upbeat, barely three months after their worst-ever election defeat? At their party conference, in their leadership contest and in the Tory press, the mood has been unexpectedly positive, even unrepentant, with relatively few recriminations and little deep reflection. During the conference, I lost count of how often people told me the party would be back in power within a few years.There are some straightforward explanations: Labour’s troubles trying to run the country; Tory relief that they have been given a break from that difficult task; the displacement activity of the leadership contest; and the fact that the grind of opposit...

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2 hours ago Man shares hidden detail on UK coins – and people are only just realising it

A man shared an interesting fact about UK coins on social media, leaving thousands of Instagram users stunned as many admitted they had no idea about the hidden detail

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2 hours ago Man shares hidden detail on UK coins – and people are only just noticing it

A man shared an interesting fact about UK coins on social media, leaving thousands of Instagram users stunned as many admitted they had no idea about the hidden detail

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3 hours ago ‘We were banging our heads against a wall – the wall won’: the genius pop and tragic demise of Boys Wonder

They swaggered into the late 1980s, a potent brew of punk, glam and classic rock. But they went nowhere, then had to watch as their recipe conquered the charts. Now they’ve returned – so are they looking back in anger?The song begins with a barrage of power chords, brazenly stolen from the Who’s Won’t Get Fooled Again. The opening lyrics are mewled out in an estuary accent: “I get bored so easily – that’s why I only say hello.” And the list of influences from here includes the Sex Pistols and Ziggy Stardust-era Bowie – before it ends with a brazen lift of the coda from the Beatles’ version of Twist and Shout. When it gets to the chorus, everything becomes clear: this is a ferocious, wonderfully camp blast against the stifling cultural dominance of classic Americana: “Goodbye Jimmy Dean,...

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3 hours ago Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy leave golf fans enraged and making LIV Golf comparison

The Golf League (TGL) will host 15 regular season game-weeks before the top four performing teams will advance to the semi-finals followed by a season-ending finale

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