25 h. ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Amandaland star Peter Serafinowicz splits from his TV actress wife of 23 years

Last seen driving his Range Rover out of SoHa (South Harlesden) in a fury in the hit BBC comedy series Amandaland, Peter Serafinowicz is now seeking pastures new in real life as well.

Culture

32 h. ago Authors Hold London Protest Against Meta For 'Stealing' Work To Train AI

Authors Hold London Protest Against Meta For 'Stealing' Work To Train AI  Barron's

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33 h. ago Elijah Wood says fees for Lord of the Rings actors were ‘not massive’

Star says cast took a ‘gamble’ appearing in Peter Jackson’s hit trilogy and did not earn enough to ‘rest easy’ for lifeElijah Wood has said that his salary for The Lord of the Rings movies was “not massive” and that appearing in the films was “a real gamble”.According to a report in Business Insider, which carried quotes from the star at the Texas film awards in March, Wood said the fact that the actors had to sign up for all three films at the start meant that their fees were not related to the film’s financial success. “Because we weren’t making one movie and then renegotiating a contract for the next, it wasn’t the sort of lucrative scenario that you could sort of rest easy for the rest of your life.” Continue reading...

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54 h. ago 'People are spending large amounts of money on BILGE': PETER HITCHENS says astrology is 'creepy' and 'keeps people from thinking seriously about the world'

The broadcaster argued there is an irony in the fact people will 'militantly' call themselves atheists while 'spending large amounts of time and money' on types of spiritual ritual.

Economics

55 h. ago PETER HITCHENS: Britain's police forces are a pathetic failure and a dark menace to our society. This is my plan to finally fix the problem

We pay these people, and we pay them a lot, as your council tax bill will tell you if you look. So why do they treat us as a nuisance and worse?

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3 d. ago Meta AI apologises for 'harm' caused to author after 'stealing' his books in bizarre exchange

Bestselling author AJ West felt violated when he discovered his novels were among millions 'stolen' by tech giant Meta to train its AI system and was shocked when he got one from the system itself.

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5 d. ago PETER HITCHENS: Warmongering Keir Starmer is marching us all to a nuclear exchange. And here's why the Russians could WIN one

Are our leaders, any of them, actually thinking? Do they know what sort of toys they are playing with? What cause is it, exactly, which justifies exposing this country to such a risk?

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5 d. ago PETER HITCHENS: Deranged Keir Starmer is marching us all to nuclear war. And here's why the Russians could WIN one

Are our leaders, any of them, actually thinking? Do they know what sort of toys they are playing with? What cause is it, exactly, which justifies exposing this country to such a risk?

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6 d. ago PETER HITCHENS: Keir Starmer is a deranged lunatic marching us all to nuclear war. And here's why the Russians could WIN one

Are our leaders, any of them, actually thinking? Do they know what sort of toys they are playing with? What cause is it, exactly, which justifies exposing this country to such a risk?

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6 d. ago PETER HITCHENS: Keir Starmer is a deranged lunatic marching us ALL to nuclear war. And here's why the Russians would actually WIN one...

Are our leaders, any of them, actually thinking? Do they know what sort of toys they are playing with? What cause is it, exactly, which justifies exposing this country to such a risk?

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6 d. ago The Five author Hallie Rubenhold: ‘I really hate true crime’

The award-winning writer turned the Jack the Ripper case on its head. Now she is giving Dr Crippen the same treatment – and questioning how we tell stories about murderous menIt was called “the crime of the century” and “the north London cellar murder”, and more than 100 years after it happened, the name of the murderer is still widely known. Dr Crippen has been the subject of multiple books, movies and TV shows and had a waxwork made of him at Madame Tussauds. But the story of his crimes, writes Hallie Rubenhold in Story of a Murder, remains one “predominantly about women but told almost exclusively by men”. As such, Crippen’s victim is long forgotten. Her name was Belle Elmore, and in Rubenhold’s book she is brought back to life.Rubenhold and I are in a cafe in Muswell Hill, north London, a 10 minute walk from where Elmore is buried, and where the 53-year-old author lives with her barrister husband, Frank. Writing Story of a Murder was nerve-racking, says Rubenhold, partly because...

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8 d. ago Cult music vid saved 21 children from streets – but there was a dark side with serial killers

Soul Asylum's power ballad Runaway Train and the accompanying video was a runaway success, bringing dozens of missing and runaway children home, but some kids had tragic endings

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1 week ago Crime author Peter May hits out at Meta for 'stealing' dozens of his works to train its AI systems

The author says social media giant Meta has breached copyright laws by copying his work to train its artificial intelligence systems.

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1 week ago Nicola Sturgeon thanks supporters in comedy debut days after being cleared in SNP finances probe

Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was greeted by rapturous applause as she took to the stage alongside crime author pal Val McDermid.

Politics

1 week ago PETER HITCHENS: The case against Letby has been shredded. So why such dread about reopening it?

There is now a mighty wall of facts and global expert opinion which casts grave doubt on Lucy Letby's guilt. Every aspect of the prosecution has been coolly dismantled.

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1 week ago Nicola Sturgeon to make 'revelatory' comedy debut after being cleared in Branchform probe

The former first minister will host a show titled Books and Banter at the King's Theatre in Glasgow alongside best friend and crime author Val McDermid.

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2 w. ago 'It's been a CATASTROPHE': PETER HITCHENS hammers 'worthless' university degrees and surge in Gen Z joblessness in latest episode of the Alas Vine and Hitchens podcast with SARAH VINE

Peter Hitchens has surprisingly defended Gen Z in their struggle to find stable and fulfilling work, blaming universities for offering 'useless' degrees that have left a generation unfit for the job market.

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2 w. ago PETER HITCHENS: It's 30 years since I saw a Trident missile leap from the sea. But would it fire today

How embarrassing to see one of our Trident submarines steal back home, speckled with barnacles, blotched with rust and with several of its costly acoustic tiles missing.

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2 w. ago PETER HITCHENS: It was so easy to shut the country down and cow us all. It won't be long before it happens again...

I wonder what will be the next excuse for shutting down and ruining the country? They can't use Covid again, as too many people are still cheesed off about the various ways in which they were fooled

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3 w. ago 'We've transformed Syria into a screaming bowl of fire and pain', PETER HITCHENS questions the West's meddling in foreign countries in latest episode of new Mail podcast with SARAH VINE

The West must stop their 'completely baffling' interventions into the affairs of foreign countries, argues Peter Hitchens in the latest episode of the Alas Vine & Hitchens podcast. Listen now.

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