13 h. ago Rian Johnson reveals how Poker Face created multiple Cynthia Erivos without CGI

‘It’s not like we were using high, crazy camera technology,’ said the ‘Knives Out’ director

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14 h. ago The cold, calculating cop dubbed Spock who thought he'd committed the perfect murder

Darren McKie used all 21 years of experience in GMP to cover his tracks after he strangled to death his cop wife Leanne

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15 h. ago Love Island star Laura Anderson had to 'hold back tears' after receiving message from troll that 'cut her deep'

The former air hostess received a cruel comment from about her parenting

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24 h. ago Made In Chelsea's Sam Vanderpump engaged to model girlfriend after whirlwind romance

EXCLUSIVE: Sam Vanderpump only met his model girlfriend Alice Yaxley six months ago - but after bonding even more during his near-death hospital dash, he knew she was The One

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24 h. ago Made In Chelsea star Sam Vanderpump reveals he nearly died before proposing to model girlfriend

EXCLUSIVE: Made In Chelsea star Sam Vanderpump has opened up about his engagement to model girlfriend Alice Yaxley after a whirlwind romance - and how he nearly died before popping the question

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25 h. ago Who is running Britain’s economy – Rachel Reeves or Donald Trump?

The chancellor’s careful calculations for her spring statement are likely to be blown out of the water by a looming US trade war• From more tax to rewriting budget rules: six alternative ways Reeves could raise moneyAs Rachel Reeves powered through her spring statement on Wednesday, telling the country she was “restoring stability to the public finances” few in the House of Commons chamber seemed to know what to make of it all.Reeves’s message did not seem to resonate with the underlying mood of uncertainty and anxiety at home and abroad. Many Labour MP nodded loyally along with her, trying to impress the whips. Others on the government benches looked grave. Growth forecasts for this year had been halved. Money would have to be raised to meet the chancellor’s own fiscal rules, and the poorest would be the ones bearing the brunt. Continue reading...

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26 h. ago Robert and Jessica moved from the UK and fell in love with each other in Australia... the couple now face deportation because of a cruel reason

A British couple have opened up on the cruel reason they face deportation from Australia.

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26 h. ago Why Tuesday is 'April Cruel Day' as collection of 'devastating' bill hikes hit

April Fool’s Day is no longer just a day for practical jokes, writes Derek Mitchell

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31 h. ago Coronation Street to 'mirror hit Netflix show' as Amy Robbins makes 'cruel' return

After almost a year away from the Cobbles, Amy Robbins is set to reprise her role as Daisy's mum Christina - as the actress teases the 'mischief' to come

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36 h. ago Oti Mabuse defiantly hits back at cruel trolls after she was 'judged' for leaving her baby daughter while she took part in I'm A Celebrity

Oti Mabuse defiantly hit back at trolls after she was 'judged' for leaving her baby daughter while she took part in I'm A Celebrity last year.

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39 h. ago Mathematician Adam Kucharski: ‘Our concepts of what we can prove are shifting’

The epidemiologist who advised on Ebola and Covid discusses the value of evidence in light of AI and social media, and how the notion of fact has long been divisiveAdam Kucharski is a professor at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. As a mathematician and epidemiologist, he has advised multiple governments on outbreaks such as Ebola and Covid. In his new book Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty, he examines how we can appraise evidence in our search for the truth.What inspired you to investigate the concept of proof?Alice Stewart, an influential epidemiologist, used this nice phrase that “truth is the daughter of time”. But in many situations, whether you’re accused of a crime or thinking about a climate crisis, you don’t want to wait; there’s an urgency to accumulate evidence and set a bar for action. We’re entering an era where questions around information – what we trust and how we act – are increasingly important, and our concepts of what we can prove are...

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41 h. ago Pierce Brosnan's cruel twist of face that stole wife and daughter just one year apart

Hollywood icon Pierce Brosnan has opened up about his grief after his wife Cassandra and daughter Charlotte both died after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer, with the star calling it "overwhelming"

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43 h. ago Scourge of Traveller pony and trap racing: 'Cruel' sport terrorises motorists

Thundering along at high speed, a group of young people in chariots laugh and smile - yet this is no ordinary day out at the races, but rather a group of Travellers trap racing on public roads.

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44 h. ago ‘A different philosophy of things’: how Solvej Balle got ahead of Groundhog Day’s time

Solvej Balle had been planning her time-loop novel for a decade when the Bill Murray comedy beat her to it. Thirty years and five volumes later, it is longlisted for the International BookerIf you’ve heard about Solvej Balle’s On the Calculation of Volume I, longlisted for this year’s International Booker prize, you may have experienced a sensation that is central to the Danish writer’s brand of philosophical speculative fiction: deja vu.In Balle’s five-book opus (of a planned septology), the first three of which won the prestigious Nordic Council literature prize in 2022, someone wakes up to find they are reliving the same day over and over. Their partner, family, neighbours: they all experience this day for the first time in their life. Only the protagonist has been there before. That person is a woman called Tara rather than a man called Phil, and the day is 18 November rather than 2 February, but the plot resemblance to Groundhog Day ...

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48 h. ago How old your cat REALLY is: Calculator reveals your kitty's 'true age'

Is your cat still a cheeky youngster or is it wise beyond its years? Take the test to find out your pet's 'true age'.

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51 h. ago Scotland 'could have lowest energy bills in Europe' if new pricing structure introduced

Industry chief Greg Jackson wants household energy bills need to be calculated on a regional basis.

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60 h. ago Tufts student had asthma attack after ICE arrest designed to ‘punish’ speech, attorneys say

Lawyers for Tufts University doctoral student demand her release after ‘shocking, cruel and unconstitutional’ arrest

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63 h. ago Revealed: The cruel prank taking place in UK supermarkets that could have fatal consequences

UK-based Madeleine, who goes by @madeleine_x00 on TikTok , revealed her disappointment after she heated her vegetarian lasagna only to find it was a meat dish.

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67 h. ago How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot

Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capitalThe democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in.So what’s the game? Why adopt policies that could scarcely be better calculated to prevent your re-election? Why stick to outdated fiscal rules when projections suggest they’ll make almost everyone worse off, especially those in poverty? Why impose devastating attacks on wellbeing, such as sustaining the two-child benefit cap, freezing local housing allowance and...

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69 h. ago Cynthia Ozick: ‘Alice in Wonderland seems calculatedly cruel’

The American author on the wonder of Little Women, re-evaluating Lolita and her belated discovery of ThoreauMy earliest reading memory Andrew Lang’s Fairy books – the blue, yellow and violet ones. And the unadulteratedly grim Brothers Grimm, evocative phrases like “avenue of trees”, the now and then alluring English archaisms, the always expected three sisters or sons, the youngest first despised and then victorious.The book that changed me as a teenager A late teenager, at 17, and it was two books nearly simultaneously, both histories. One was Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in dazzling prose. The other was Heinrich Graetz’s 19th-century History of the Jews, translated from the German, far out of date but distinctly not dated. (It was revelatory to learn much later that Kafka was immersed in this multivolume work.) Together they gave me a sense of the long and intertwined corridors of the past, and a conviction that a mind shorn of history is vacuous. Continue...

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