49 m. ago Suede at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett's a hybrid of Jim Morrison and a cat

Brett Anderson is in fine fettle as Suede continue their electrifying residency at the Southbank Centre

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51 m. ago Solo review – joyful yet heartbreaking story of drag artist consumed by toxic relationships

Théodore Pellerin is outstanding as Simon, a performer navigating a bullying boyfriend and a distant mother in Sophie Dupuis’s sad and celebratory filmThéodore Pellerin is a star, and director Sophie Dupuis knows it. In their third film together, the rising Canadian actor is at once magnetic and utterly heartbreaking as Simon, a young gay artist honing a budding career as a drag queen. At night, he transforms into Glory Gore, a glittery vision dressed in exquisite costumes that have been lovingly designed by his sister Maude (Alice Moreault). Off stage, Simon is much less self-assured, despite his swagger. An unexpected visit from his absent mother Claire (Anne-Marie Cadieux), along with a toxic romance with fellow drag performer Olivier (Félix Maritaud), soon throw this sensitive soul into an emotional whirlpool.Dupuis’s astute writing keenly conveys the paradox of falling for a narcissistic manipulator. At first glance Olivier is a perfect creative and life partner, but soon whitt...

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59 m. ago South Korea to review possible human rights violations in US raid on workers

Lee Jae Myung says ‘bewildering’ incident may scare off future investment after Ice detained about 475 peopleUS politics live – latest updatesSouth Korea’s government has said it will launch an investigation into whether human rights violations were committed when hundreds of its citizens were detained in a US immigration raid.About 475 people, mostly South Korean nationals, were arrested at the construction site of an electric vehicle battery factory in the US state of Georgia on 4 September. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Lady Gaga covers herself from head to toe in nude paint as she promotes her new make

The pop legend, 39, showed off her incredible physique in the dramatic campaign advert, where she is surrounded by tint jars and a plain white background behind her.

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2 h. ago Give London police officers guns to keep them safe from knife attackers, Met report says

The confidential review suggested all officers should be given semi-automating pistols as a matter of routine.

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2 h. ago Queen of the Ring review – diner waitress turned first lady of the all

Genial, entertaining indie movie about Mildred ‘Millie’ Burke, a single mother who became America’s first millionaire sportswoman, is a good yarnIn the coming months, there will be a lot of noise about it girl Sydney Sweeney’s transformation into boxer Christy Martin for David Michôd’s biopic Christy. A spoiler is proffered by this genial, roundly entertaining indie, which arrives with little fanfare yet goes on to demonstrate all any film requires is a good yarn and the right jobbing performers in place. It’s one of those stories you can’t believe hasn’t been filmed before: that of Mildred “Millie” Burke (played here by Emily Bett Rickards), a single mother and diner waitress who in the postwar era became America’s first millionaire sportswoman under the sobriquet of “the Kansas Cyclone”, first lady of the nascent all-girl wrestling scene.At a more confident moment, such material might have yielded a major studio vehicle perhaps for Demi Moore or Angelina Jolie. In this economy, a ...

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3 h. ago Small Acts of Love review – tragedy and tenderness in Lockerbie eulogy

Citizens theatre, GlasgowThe people of a small Scottish town offer hope to bereaved families in the aftermath of the 1988 bombing in a moving music-theatre showWhat a joy to hear applause again in the Citz. The theatre’s seven-year renovation has been hard. In that time, many have been lost, including the victims of the pandemic and, only last month, the mighty Giles Havergal , the company’s artistic director from 1969 to 2003.Fitting, then, that the opening production should be a requiem. Less a drama than a mass, it is a eulogy to those killed in the Lockerbie bombing in 1988, the single biggest terrorist loss of life on UK territory. The powerful act one closing song has just three words: “Let us remember.” Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Fly, Wild Swans by Jung Chang review – a daughter of China speaks again

The bestselling author returns with an account of how her homeland has changed – and the personal costs of fameRemarkable success notoriously brings its own problems. Wild Swans, first published in 1991 and written by Jung Chang with the help of her husband, Irish-born historian and writer Jon Halliday, had a global impact few authors dare to dream of. It told the story of three generations of women in 20th-century China – Chang’s grandmother, her mother and herself – and became one of the most popular nonfiction books in history, selling more than 13m copies in 37 languages and collecting a fistful of awards and commendations. For any author, following that would be a challenge. Now, Fly, Wild Swans returns to the story, picking it up after Chang’s own departure from China in 1978, and revisiting episodes from the earlier work with added detail.Wild Swans was Chang’s second book: her first was a biography of Soong Ching-ling, the wife of the early 20th-century revolutionary Su...

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6 h. ago Limitation review – bloodshed and chaos of Georgia’s coup d’etat comes alive from the archive

Seaming together many different records of the civil war in the early 1990s we see a country’s fracture unfold through a crowd of partisan viewsFor those unfamiliar with the dark days of the Tbilisi war in the early 1990s, watching this documentary could feel like diving into the deep end of history. Composed from a wealth of archive audiovisual material available on the internet, Elene Asatiani and Soso Dumbadze’s film is at once passionate and clear-eyed. Apart from reconstructing the chain of events through editing, the directors keep the found footage as it is, with no voiceover added, interviews, or digital manipulation. Their only visible intervention is to categorise the source of each video with small white text that reads “Pro-Government Camera”, “KGB Camera”, “Pro-Opposition Camera” and so on. These labels emphasise how records of history are rarely without bias. Presented with this plurality of viewpoints, we as viewers are granted the power to create our own interpretati...

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6 h. ago Google Pixel 10 Pro review: one of the very best smaller phones

Top-spec cameras, cutting edge AI, great software and stunning screen squeezed into a more manageable frameThe Pixel 10 Pro is Google’s best phone that is still a pocketable, easy-to-handle size, taking the excellent Pixel 10 and beefing it up in the camera department.That makes it a contender for the top smaller phone with Apple’s iPhone 17 Pro, offering the best of Google’s hardware without an enormous screen. It is also the cheapest of three Pixel 10 Pro phones starting at £999 (€1,099/$999/A$1,699) sitting below the bigger 10 Pro XL and the tablet-phone hybrid the 10 Pro Fold. Continue reading...

Technology

6 h. ago Why did the Queen's offer to 'pop out and pick up' Barack Obama spark a 'serious row' between Buckingham Palace and the Secret Service?

Obama later wrote about the incident in his memoirs, recalling how the Queen casually told him 'I'm sure there's some rule about who sits where, but sit wherever you like.'

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8 h. ago I tried to get a 10K PB in just four weeks with Runna – and it didn’t go to plan

The running app coached me through my training for a ‘first to fast’ 10K run

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11 h. ago Richard Attenborough’s copy of Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap up for sale

Lord Attenborough was the first person to play the role of Detective Sergeant Trotter in the murder mystery play.

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13 h. ago Armed response vehicles, baton guns and ballistic helmets: Inside the police operation for Trump’s UK visit

King is to host US president and his wife, first lady Melania Trump, at Windsor Castle from Wednesday to Friday

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13 h. ago Revealed: The 14 NHS trusts facing national investigation into their maternity care

Leeds Teaching Hospitals and Oxford University Hospitals among the trusts to be scrutinised in Baroness Amos review

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14 h. ago Fashion code Melania Trump must follow on her Royal visit... and the rule she absolutely CANNOT break to make trip the jewel in her First Lady crown

An expert has revealed the clothing protocol that Melania Trump must follow during her UK state visit this week.

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15 h. ago Coldwater review – Andrew Lincoln’s wild Scottish thriller is top quality nonsense

The Walking Dead star plays a total berk who stumbles into a terrifying confrontation in the woods. It’s like Deliverance in the HighlandsAndrew Lincoln has been Rick Grimes – the leader of a group of survivors of a zombie plague in Frank Darabont’s at first mesmeric and then mesmerically dull post-apocalyptic series The Walking Dead – for 15 years. Off and on (and in a spin-off) but mostly on. Now, at last, he is free. He’s had a shower, a haircut and – thank God – cleared his throat after a decade and a half of rattling phlegmily through increasingly ropey scripts and pretending to care about his son Carl, and is appearing on stage in The Lady from the Sea at the Bridge theatre, London and on our screens in the fairly bananas thriller Coldwater.You can see what attracted Lincoln to the part. John is the anti-Grimes. We meet him (once the obligatory opening scene of the character covered in blood and running through some woods is over and we’ve flashed back to “Two months earlier”)...

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15 h. ago Coldwater review – Rushed, schlocky and like so much other underwhelming TV

Andrew Lincoln returns to British TV with a manic performance as a man whose life falls apart after a violent incident

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16 h. ago 'Ricky Hatton was our hero. He showed good things come from Hyde too'

Friends in Ricky Hatton's local The Queen Adelaide in Hyde have told of their shock at his death

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16 h. ago Coldwater on ITV review: stylish thriller that properly confronts PTSD

A gripping and beautifully realised examination of trauma starring Andrew Lincoln and Ewen Bremner

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