91 m. ago JK Rowling claims Sturgeon created a 'dystopian nightmare' in foul

JK Rowling has published a review of Nicola Sturgeon’s Frankly - and the Harry Potter author has not held back

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1 hour ago JK Rowling blasts Sturgeon memoirs as a 'shameless denial of reality and hard facts' in scathing review

Author JK Rowling has penned a scathing review of Nicola Sturgeon 's hotly anticipated memoirs on the day it was officially launched.

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2 h. ago Thousands of users’ personal data — including their IDs — were leaked from a popular male revenge dating app

A widely downloaded new app invites men to review the women they’ve dated, and asks for photo ID to verify their identity. What could possibly go wrong?

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2 h. ago JK Rowling rips into Nicola Sturgeon's memoir in brutal foul mouthed review

JK Rowling has published a scathing review of Nicola Sturgeon's memoir, Frankly, on her website.

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3 h. ago Thousands of users’ personal data — like their IDs — were leaked from a popular male revenge dating app

A widely downloaded new app invites men to review the women they’ve dated, and asks for photo ID to verify their identity. What could possibly go wrong?

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5 h. ago That does impress her much: Shania Twain partners with McDonald’s for new menu items

Shania Twain is teaming up with McDonald’s for elevated “Shania’s Sides”

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5 h. ago Truck Festival 2025 review: A raging indie rock party you don't want to miss

REVIEW: Truck Festival 2025 saw Bloc Party, Nothing But Thieves, Kasabian and Courteeners rule the roost at Hill Farm in Oxfordshire and Daily Star's Sam Huntley was in rock heaven

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5 h. ago Love Is Blind UK fans get 'bad feeling' about Wigan star as 'something is off'

Love Is Blind UK fans have been left divided over one season 2 couple after a 'telling comment'.

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6 h. ago Netflix Love Is Blind UK fans convinced star destined for 'heartbreak' after telling remark

Love Is Blind UK fans have been left divided over one couple, with some hoping they will go the distance and others predicting heartbreak.

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6 h. ago Jaecoo 7 review: A premium bargain (despite the warning beeps)

Handsome plug-in hybrid SUV offers impressive value and quality, and a decent electric range, but poor ride quality and infuriating beeps and bongs

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6 h. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox on Disney+ review: twists itself in knots

Amanda Knox and Monica Lewinsky have collaborated on this convoluted eight-part miniseries that takes creative swings and misses

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6 h. ago The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox review – Unusually bubbly drama offers no closure

Eight-part series about one of the 21st century’s most overtold stories serves only to deepen the voyeuristic mythology around its subject

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6 h. ago Love Is Blind UK fans have 'bad feeling' about season 2 couple after 'telling comment'

Love Is Blind UK season 2 is underway, with the cracks already starting to show for some couples on the Netflix series.

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7 h. ago Trump’s space order risks environmental disaster while rewarding Musk and Bezos, experts say

US president is pushing an ‘end run around’ on safeguards, risking harm to wildlife, air and water, attorney saysA draft executive order from Donald Trump that aims to largely exempt space launches from environmental review is viewed as a gift to commercial space industry players such as Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others who have long targeted the regulations.But its central components may be illegal and the US president “is trying to do an end run around” on the law, said Jared Margolis, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, which has litigated environmental issues around launches. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Together review – Alison Brie and Dave Franco make this an icky body

The real-life couple play a fictional couple teetering on the brink of destruction, who then find themselves experiencing a very disgusting conundrum

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7 h. ago Materialists review – Dakota Johnson and Pedro Pascal in a movie that can’t decide if it’s a romcom, a farce, or a dark drama

Celine Song’s follow-up to ‘Past Lives’ has divided audiences in the US, but its wavering tone might also be the point

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8 h. ago Petrassi: Concertos for Orchestra Nos 7 & 8 album review – dramatic power from rarely heard Italian master

Tonda/Rome SO/La Vecchia(Naxos)Francesco La Vecchia draws out the fierce contrasts of Goffredo Petrassi’s later music in this new recording of his final two concertos.Though his music is rarely heard in the UK these days, Goffredo Petrassi was one of the most significant and influential Italian composers of the mid 20th century. Born in 1904, just a few months after Luigi Dallapiccola, Petrassi’s early works were firmly neoclassical, but after 1945 he began to incorporate elements from his younger contemporaries in the European avant garde. He was also a distinguished teacher; among the many who studied with him were Ennio Morricone, Peter Maxwell Davies and Cornelius Cardew.Petrassi’s eight concertos for orchestra are at the core of his orchestral output, and Naxos has now released recordings of all of them. The pairing of the last two, composed in 1964 and 1972, are typical of his later music, trenchantly argued, with fierce contrasts between strings and wind. It’s music of great ...

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8 h. ago Holly Willoughby can't stop smiling during wholesome shopping trip in Portugal 

The TV presenter carried a watermelon under her arm as well as cans of Coke before heading back to her car

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8 h. ago Porsche Taycan review: Porsche’s first EV remains one of the best

Porsche’s first EV charges quicker than any other. Available in many flavours and with three different body styles, the Taycan is a deeply impressive EV for those with equally deep pockets

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8 h. ago Yorùbá Boy Running by Biyi Bándélé audiobook review – from enslaved teenager to celebrated preacher

The novelist’s final work tells a remarkable tale of resilience, based on the life of Samuel Àjàyí Crowther, who was kidnapped by slavers but won his freedomSet in 19th-century Òsogùn in what is now Nigeria, Yorùbá Boy Running opens with 13-year-old Àjàyí reporting a premonition to his mother about dark days ahead. A week later, the town is surrounded by Malian slave raiders and Àjàyí is kidnapped along with his mother, sister, best friend and neighbours. He is taken to Lagos and sold to Portuguese slavers preparing to ship their human cargo to the Americas. But they are intercepted by the British navy, which releases Àjàyí in Sierra Leone, where he is recruited by missionaries. From there, he is put on a path that leads to him to study at Oxford and become a celebrated preacher, linguist and abolitionist who meets Queen Victoria.A remarkable tale of barbarism and resilience, Yorùbá Boy Running is the final work by the Nigerian novelist and film-maker Biyi Bándélé, who died in 2022 ...

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