40 m. ago Literary gold or betrayal of trust? Joan Didion journal opens ethical minefield

Soon we can all read the late author’s private notes about her therapy. But should we?In 1998, the late journalist Joan Didion wrote a scathing essay about the posthumous publication of True at First Light, a travel journal and fictional memoir by Ernest Hemingway, 38 years after the author killed himself. “This is a man to whom words mattered. He worked at them, he understood them, he got inside them,” Didion wrote. “His wish to be survived by only the words he determined fit for publication would have seemed clear enough.”Just over a year later, in December 1999, Didion began writing her own journal about her sessions with a psychiatrist. She addressed these notes – detailing her struggles with alcoholism, anxiety, guilt and depression, a sometimes fraught relationship with her adopted daughter Quintana and reflections on her childhood and legacy – to her husband, John Gregory Dunne. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Philippe Clement on Rangers brink LIVE as 49ers takeover nears and Neil McCann has fans begging him for Ibrox return

Fans cannot do it anymore and it appears the man at the helm is acutely aware he is now in borrowed time

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1 hour ago Philippe Clement on Rangers brink LIVE as 49ers takeover nears and OTHER answer to sack question airs

Fans cannot do it anymore and it appears the man at the helm is acutely aware he is now in borrowed time

Society

3 h. ago Rangers nuclear option is GOOD for Celtic and I know the first thing they must do if takeover happens – Hugh Keevins

Shug well remembers the days of David Murray spending tenners for every fiver and welcomes fresh investment from fresh faces

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12 h. ago Rangers takeover can't come soon enough as deserted Ibrox turns toxic after latest historic reversal

St Mirren savour first win at Ibrox in 34 years

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15 h. ago Metallica fans reveal 'sliding doors' moment made them lovers with band on honeymoon

Jack Butcher, 36, and Emma Torres, 35, were at a Metallica show in Prague in 2019 - their eyes locked and the now-married couple travel around rocking out together

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16 h. ago Watching Rangers grates again as St Mirren turn American dream into a nightmare – 3 talking points

Two second half goals from Stephen Robinson's men remind everyone why there's such desperation for an Ibrox takeover

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21 h. ago ASAP Rocky reveals huge new career move days after not guilty verdict in firearm case

ASAP Rocky was found not guilty on two felony counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm on Tuesday and has now announced his latest creative role

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21 h. ago Bong Joon Ho: ‘I wish I had Ken Loach’s energy, but I’m just thinking about nap time’

How do you follow up an Oscar winner like Parasite? If you’re the South Korean auteur, you make a sci-fi satire where Robert Pattinson dies over and over again. The director discusses the inspirational Loach and Mike Leigh and why it’s hard being a ‘middle-aged film-maker’We are in the run-up to the release of Bong Joon Ho’s latest, Mickey 17, and Warner Bros has got the Oscar-winning Korean director stashed away in what appears to be some kind of basement storage room, with grey-painted brickwork and exposed wiring. In fact, this room could pass for one of the “gritty and kind of nasty” cargo-container-packed cabins of his film’s spaceship setting.Not that anyone is complaining. Bong, who speaks good English but prefers to conduct interviews via his longtime interpreter Sharon Choi, appears cheerful throughout our conversation, taking occasional sips from a takeaway coffee cup, while dressed in his usual arthouse auteur uniform of a slate-grey blazer over a black T-shirt. He i...

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23 h. ago Jamie Carragher names surprise Arsenal star he wishes played for Liverpool

Jamie Carragher has insisted Liverpool's lead in the Premier League title race should be much larger, insisting that it would be if Arne Slot had one of Arsenal's star men in his squad

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24 h. ago What Dermot Desmond WON'T do after 49ers mega Rangers takeover as Celtic coffers burst with Champions League kitty

The money is already flowing at Celtic Park but a takeover looks set to spark an influx of money in the blue half of Glasgow

Sport

24 h. ago Culture wars: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agendaIn 1937, leaders of Germany’s Third Reich hosted two simultaneous art exhibitions in Munich. One, titled the Great German Art Exhibition, featured art viewed by the regime as appropriate and aspirational for the ideal Aryan society – orderly and triumphant, with mostly blond people in heroic poses amid pastoral German landscapes. The other showcased what Adolf Hitler and his followers deemed “degenerate art” (“Entartete Kunst”). The works, chaotically displayed and saddled with commentary disparaging “the sick brains of those who wielded the brush or pencil”, were abstract, profane, modernist and produced by the proclaimed enemies of the Reich – Jewish people, communists or those suspected of being either.The Degenerate Art exhibition, which later toured the country, opened a day after Hitler declared “merciless war” on cultural disintegrati...

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24 h. ago Amazon's takeover of the James Bond franchise branded 'absolutely terrible news' amid fears 007 story will be 'diluted or exploited' and turned into a TV series

Amazon's takeover of the James Bond franchise has been branded 'absolutely terrible news' amid fears it will 'diluted or exploited and possibly be turned into a TV series.

Events

25 h. ago Graeme Souness pens Leeds United love letter amid 49ers takeover of Rangers as £50m masterplan becomes reality

The dual ownership model is rapidly taking shape with the US consortium set to have power at Ibrox and Elland Road

Economics

27 h. ago A Rangers takeover future with Clement in dugout gets unanimous Jury verdict as Maeda Munich role throws up Celtic debate

Record Sport's top team debate the big issues of the week

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28 h. ago 'Dangerous sexual predator' caged after travelling 150 miles to rape child he met on Snapchat

Wayne Philip Phillipson, who is already behind bars for a series of child sex offences, was found guilty of attacking the girl following a trial at the High Court in Livingston in August 2024

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34 h. ago Hollywood icon Florence Pugh set to 'star in James Bond spin

A Hollywood actress is reportedly set to sat in a spin-off series of the James Bond franchise following its Amazon takeover

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34 h. ago Los Angeles DA opposes new trial for Menendez brothers over parents’ deaths

Nathan Hochman casts doubt on sexual abuse claims but declines to say whether he would support resentencingLos Angeles’s new tough-on-crime district attorney made clear on Friday he is taking a much less sympathetic view of Erik and Lyle Menendez’s case, though his office has not yet announced what position it will take on the issue of whether the brothers should be resentenced.Erik, 53, and Lyle, 56, Menendez were found guilty of first-degree murder in the killings of José and Kitty Menendez in 1989, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Continue reading...

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35 h. ago Beano boss reveals Dennis the Menace's prank on Donald Trump and Billie Eilish wish

EXCLUSIVE: For generations, children have been falling in love with the Beano and its cast of larger-than-life characters, which still remains just as relevant in a digital age as it celebrates the 45th birthday of one of its stars

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35 h. ago Tottenham 'request name change' in leaked email to Premier League broadcasters

Tottenham Hotspur are often referred to as either 'Tottenham' or 'Spurs' but the Premier League club have written to broadcasters and informed them of what they wish to be called

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