1 hour ago A dazzling cast, Spielberg as producer... so how on earth did The Thursday Murder Club become such a dreary travesty? writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS 

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Have you read it yet? That was the question on everyone's lips for a year during lockdown.

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2 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Great British Bake Off: Simple? Bake Off's biscuit challenge now requires a degree in dunking...

STEVENS: As I age, keeping up with the accelerating demands of technology can be nearly impossible - but I never thought I'd end up underqualified to eat a biscuit.

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5 h. ago The Girlfriend review: Amazon Prime's psychological thriller is not based on Victoria Beckham's feud with her daughter

Dozy Daniel is a mummy's boy who can't make up his mind what he wants to do for a living. But that doesn't matter, as long as his rich and influential parents are willing to buy him a home.

Science

12 h. ago Ian McKellen forced to cancel film premiere appearance after doctors' warning

The Lord of the Rings star was set to attend the premiere of Steven Soderbergh’s new film The Christophers

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34 h. ago Estate cars will live on despite EV switch and SUV domination: Skoda previews big

Skoda really is putting the boot in with a new vision for future estate models that proves there's life in the station wagon beyond the combustion engine.

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49 h. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: The batting's a bit off, but Freddie's new cricket kids have all the banter

Freddie Flintoff has tried doggedly to change cricket's image in his Field Of Dreams series, inspiring a bunch of lads from his home town Preston to take up the sport.

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62 h. ago Jodie Whittaker's medical 'horror' drama available on new streaming platform

The psychological thriller set in Edinburgh starring Jodie Whittaker and Alfred Enoch is now available to binge in full on Channel 4.

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5 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Educating Yorkshire on Ch4: Coffee and chocolate for breakfast? No wonder this boy's bouncing off walls

Bad behaviour and larking about in the classroom are no longer punished by a swift slap round the back of the head, thank goodness.

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6 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Stranded On Honeymoon Island on BBC1: This tasteless show is an insult to marriage...and all licence payers

When weddings are treated by our national broadcaster as a game show novelty, is it surprising that more than 40 per cent of UK marriages now end in divorce?

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6 d. ago My shameful hoarding habit has left our house a wreck and my family close to despair, writes ROWAN PELLING. Here's how I beat it... and you can, too

On the outside, mine is much like any other middle-class family home. Inside, it's a very different story.

Society

6 d. ago Olivia Attwood ditched stylist BFF weeks ago after he 'broke her trust many times'

EXCLUSIVE: Olivia Attwood has admitted she's been 'proven wrong' by someone in her life, believed to be former best friend and stylist Ryan Kay

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7 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews Prince Andrew: On Trial... My verdict's in on this fake court case

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: At first, that appears a damning indictment of a man who has been accused of far worse than arrogance and bullying.

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8 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews The Inheritance on Ch4: Clumsy, dull, tasteless

Tragic that Liz Hurley is dead. But there's one consolation for boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus. As an actress, she's so wooden he won't need to have her cremated. He can just use her for firewood.

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9 d. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews I Fought The Law on ITV1: Sheridan Smith excels as a mother taking on the British justice system

When Sheridan Smith is on form, there's no one to touch her for raw emotional power. She can project grief and anger so intense, it cracks the screen. And she's at her heart-wrenching best here.

Society

1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews last night's TV: Frenetic, forgettable fun but this thriller could've been so much more

Atomic is an action-packed chase adventure, starring Alfie Allen and Shazad Latif as two unlikely friends on the run from a drugs cartel, a special forces unit, Islamist extremists and the secret services.

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1 week ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: Don't call aliens 'little green men', they might get offended too

STEVENS: This psychotic telescope was the closest we came to seeing any space invaders in the one-off documentary What Are UFOs ?

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2 w. ago CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: These jurors leap to conclusions before the kettle's even boiled...

The abiding rule of British justice has always been that the accused is innocent till proven guilty - but not anymore.

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2 w. ago With a disaster this devastating, there was no need for hyperbole, writes CHRISTOPHER STEVENS

The first hour of this three-part documentary recounted the details almost in real time, from the first warnings of gas leaks on the North Sea oil rig, to the explosions that destroyed it, in July 1988.

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2 w. ago Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin Sarat

The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feelIn most of America’s largest cities, crime, especially violent crime, is down. But the fear of crime is increasing.Donald Trump has made a career out of ignoring the reality of crime rates and of stoking that fear. Well before he entered politics and throughout his political career, he has talked about city life as life in a proverbial jungle.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Feuding royal rivals William and Harry go to war. Sound familiar? CHRISTOPHER STEVENS reviews BBC's King & Conqueror

CHRISTOPHER STEVENS: James Norton plays Harold II and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau his old friend turned bitterest enemy, William Duke of Normandy, in King And Conqueror.

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