95 m. ago Gaza ceasefire LIVE: Massive protest will shut down London one day after deal

The large scale pro-Palestine protest, which comes a day after the Gaza ceasefire came into effect, will see hundreds of thousands take to the streets of London today

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1 hour ago ‘My Led Zeppelin road trip was counted as a class credit’: Cameron Crowe on the interview that changed everything

In an extract from his new memoir, the writer and film-maker reflects on how as a teenager he managed to bag the exclusive of a lifetime• ‘Rock stars would be like, Yeah, bring the kid in’: read an interview with Cameron CroweThere was always something slightly forbidden about Led Zeppelin. They were darker than the other bands and they had a command of mystique. You didn’t see a slew of interviews with them; you barely saw any at all. They famously hated Rolling Stone. The rumour was that Jimmy Page and [Rolling Stone co-founder] Jann Wenner had tangled over a girl in London. The magazine trashed their first album. I had, however, interviewed Led Zeppelin for the Los Angeles Times. It was a kind of maiden voyage into the mainstream for the band, and two years later, as they were about to release their album Physical Graffiti, I was invited on the road with them by Danny Goldberg, the band’s publicist and an executive at the label they’d started, Swan Song.The key to getting Ze...

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1 hour ago Do we need Imax? 70mm? VistaVision? All I need to watch movies at the cinema is darkness and quiet | Larry Ryan

Cinema used to be an accessible and affordable mass pursuit. This debate about the ‘purest’ format to view certain films only risks putting off movie-goersOn what sort of screen should you watch One Battle After Another? Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film about revolutionary radicals in a ravaged United States comes in a plethora of slightly different, vaguely confusing formats.It was originally shot in ultra-rare, 70-year-old VistaVision celluloid, but there are only four cinemas in the entire world that can actually accommodate this – one in London, three in the US. There is also an Imax version on 70mm celluloid film, the more common digital Imax format, and a 70mm film projection for some select cinemas. And, finally, there are the majority of current cinemas with more standard digital projection, which also happen to have quite big screens for you to gaze up at moving pictures in the dark.Larry Ryan is a freelance writer and editor Continue reading...

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2 h. ago 'Quick in the flesh': Swedish press react to Alexander Isak handing Liverpool a massive fitness boost

Media deliver assessment of Liverpool striker who is still searching for full match sharpness

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2 h. ago Sam Thompson says diagnosis was a 'massive weight off my shoulders'

Made in Chelsea star Sam Thompson received his ADHD diagnosis at the age of 31 and has spoken out about the impact it has had on his life

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3 h. ago West Ham confirm Nuno Espirito Santo backroom staff as academy coaches are promoted

The new West Ham boss had been expected to bring in his own team

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4 h. ago ‘I’m going to write about all of it’: author Chris Kraus on success, drugs and I Love Dick

A decade after her debut became a cult hit, the US author talks about the true crime that inspired her latest novel, #MeToo overreach and being married to an addictChris Kraus regards the late success of her first book, I Love Dick, with ambivalence. A work of autofiction, first published in 1997, it chronicles Kraus’s infatuation with a cultural theorist named Dick, a doomed, one-sided love affair that nonetheless pulls Kraus, a depressed, 39-year-old failing film-maker languishing in a sexless marriage, out of her personal and artistic rut. After a slow start, the book became a cult classic and in 2016 it was made into an Amazon Prime Video TV series, with Kraus played by Kathryn Hahn. “To me, success would have been like a long review in the New York Review of Books, not being a character on a sitcom,” Kraus says now. Her commercial success was a financial boon, of course. “But who can stand by a book they wrote 20 years ago? It was massively embarrassing to go out and support th...

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4 h. ago London Palestine protest: Route and road closures revealed ahead of massive march

A pro-Palestine protest and a Stop The Hate counter-demo are taking place in central London on Saturday

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5 h. ago Being diagnosed with ADHD was a massive weight off my shoulders, says Sam Thompson as he opens up about his 'superpower'

To mark ADHD Awareness Month, Sam, 32, has spoken to the charity ADHD UK about his diagnosis, saying he hopes to help other children see the condition can be a 'superpower.'

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5 h. ago Winter is coming: England’s cricketers fly out for long tour that will decide Ashes and World Cup

Four decades ago Mike Gatting lamented 30-game schedule and while improvements were made, players will be weary of gruelling season aheadA meteorologist would say that England’s winter will start this year at midnight on 1 December; an astronomer would point a few weeks later to the 21st, perhaps even the moment at precisely 3.03pm when the northern hemisphere is tilted furthest away from the sun, the least sun-kissed moment of its least sunny day. But a cricket fan might go a little earlier, perhaps as soon as next Saturday at about 7.15am. Leaves might still be clinging to trees as yet unbothered by frost, but that is when the national side is scheduled to play its first fixture of a hectic touring schedule, and by the time it all ends the Ashes will have been decided, a World Cup will have been won, and it will be spring.For the players involved in all formats, these moments will bring a combination of excitement and perhaps also a bit of dread. The T20 squad departed for New Zea...

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5 h. ago Fifa seeks advice over banning league games staged overseas amid regulations redraft

Rules could be updated for the first time since 2014La Liga and Serie A set to play in Miami and PerthFifa has begun redrafting its regulations on staging domestic league games in foreign countries and is seeking legal advice over whether it can ban them. World football’s governing body would like to outlaw the practice but will be guided by legal opinion in its first review of the relevant regulations for 11 years.A source involved in the process said Fifa was working towards making its rulebook more robust with a view to new regulations being ready early next year. This week Uefa blamed the “relevant Fifa regulatory framework” for its decision to allow Villarreal v Barcelona to take place in Miami in December and Milan v Como to go ahead in Perth in February. That is understood to have caused considerable irritation at Fifa because under existing regulations it is not their decision to make. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Arsenal news: Mikel Arteta handed Bukayo Saka injury update as club make massive announcement

Arsenal have a number of players on international duty and Bukayo Saka has issued a telling injury update after starring for England, while fans have called for action

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6 h. ago Triple Trouble: Fairey, Hirst, Invader review – the most revolting visual soup imaginable

Newport Street Gallery, London Shepard Fairey, Damien Hirst and Invader join forces to make an exhibition that’s so bad, it’s like walking in on a crime sceneYou’ve heard of the best of both worlds, well get ready for the worst of three. Down in Vauxhall in London, three artists have mashed themselves together to create the most revolting visual soup imaginable, an exhibition that isn’t so much the sum of its parts as a total negation of anything good any of them has ever done.Whatever qualities YBA kingpin Damien Hirst and street artists Shepard Fairey and Invader might have, none of them are on display in this staggeringly vast exhibition – it just goes on and on, huge room after huge room filled with aesthetic crap. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Victoria Beckham's 'true feelings' after Brooklyn feud as 'her mask slips'

Victoria Beckham's new Netflix documentary signals a massive departure for the Spice Girl-turned-designer - now, she's not fighting anymore and simply telling her truth, claims an expert

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6 h. ago Review: Massager that's the perfect tonic for 26,000 steps at Alton Towers and old man's football

We take a look at the Homedics Foot Flow Mobility Massager unit that aims to put an end to aching limbs and circulation issues

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6 h. ago Review: Ugreen NASync DH4300 Plus looking to bring NAS to the masses

This entry-level solution is the perfect gateway to world of home network storage

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6 h. ago Review: Skullcandy Method 360 ANC earbuds excel with one superior feature

Skullcandy is a leading player in the audio market, and its latest 'rip and clip' on-the-go earbuds are designed for quality and comfort - we put them to the test

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6 h. ago Victoria Beckham's 'mask slips' and 'true feelings' shown amid Brooklyn feud

EXCLUSIVE: Victoria Beckham's new Netflix documentary signals a massive departure for the Spice Girl-turned-designer - now, she's not fighting anymore and simply telling her truth, claims an expert

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7 h. ago Dunelm's 'massive' snuggle throw 'keeps the whole family warm'

Dunelm says the throw, made from 100% recycled polyester, is soft, cosy and comfortable

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9 h. ago Kim Jong Un oversees massive North Korean military parade displaying new intercontinental ballistic missile

Parade, which began on Friday night, marks the 80th anniversary of the founding of the ruling Workers’ Party

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