44 m. ago Tottenham: Xavi Simons reveals how Thomas Frank convinced him of £52m Spurs move

The Dutchman was impressed by his new manager’s view of the game

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56 m. ago A House of Dynamite review – Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear endgame thriller is a terrifying, white

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson and Tracy Letts star in this immaculately constructed nightmare procedural that ticks down the minutes from an atomic bomb’s launch to its detonationKathryn Bigelow has reopened the subject that we all tacitly agree not to discuss or imagine, in the movies or anywhere else: the subject of an actual nuclear strike. It’s the subject which tests narrative forms and thinkability levels. Maybe this is why we prefer to see it as something for absurdism and satire – a way of not staring into the sun – to remember Kubrick’s (brilliant) black comedy Dr Strangelove, with no fighting in the war room etc, rather than Lumet’s deadly serious Fail Safe. Bigelow, with screenwriter Noah Oppenheim, broaches one of the most frightening thoughts of all: that a nuclear war could or rather will start with no one knowing who started it or who ended it. I watched this film with translucently white knuckles but also that strange climbing nausea that only this topic can create.Th...

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62 m. ago A House of Dynamite, Venice review – The most entertaining movie about mass destruction since Dr Strangelove

Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Jared Harris and Tracy Letts are among the many recognisable names adding gravitas to this punchy Netflix thriller

Politics

79 m. ago Great British Bake Off 2025 start time, cast, judges and everything you need to know

The Great British Bake Off is back for season 16 on Tuesday 2 September

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1 hour ago Do you live in the 'London banana'? New map sparks row over city's best areas to live

Chiswick, Notting Hill and Greenwich may strike many as some of the loveliest parts of London - but not Saul Sadka.

Politics

2 h. ago Woman who died after horror fall from block of flats named by police

Tia Langdon was found with serious injuries after the incident last Thursday.

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2 h. ago Portobello review – Marco Bellocchio’s glorious saga of TV stars, mafia prisoners and lace doilies

Venice film festivalIn the first two episodes of a six-part series, the stardom of 80s primetime host Enzo Tortora is cleverly crosscut with the scramble of a mob secretary who implicates him – and his parrot – in drug traffickingMarco Bellocchio, the tireless warhorse of Italian cinema, kicks up a swirling dust cloud of corruption with this fabulous, stranger-than-fiction account of an 80s TV star convicted of conspiring with the Camorra. Shot for the streaming service HBO Max, it is the director’s second historical miniseries after 2022’s Exterior Night, about the kidnapping of Aldo Moro, and features the same lead player in Fabrizio Gifuni, an actor who has surely cornered the market in playing glossy public figures whose lives are about to take a hellish turn. Bellocchio’s dramas typically inhabit this kind of shonky, venal moral universe. The ground is liable to drop away pretty much at any moment.Gifuni stars as Enzo Tortora, a primetime TV presenter in the twinkling Terry Wog...

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2 h. ago Man jailed for murder of former Manchester Grammar School teacher to have conviction reviewed

Benjamin Field was jailed in October 2019 after being convicted of the murder of Peter Farquhar

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2 h. ago Ted Lasso's back in Richmond! Jason Sudeikis and Hannah Waddingham return to London to shoot season four scenes weeks after kicking off filming in America

Ted Lasso is back home in Richmond, with the cast spotted shooting scenes for season four on Monday,

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3 h. ago 'I spent a day with Queen Camilla and her emotional remark left a deep impression on me'

The Queen has long been a champion of survivors of domestic abuse, and has been there to help survivors through her support of Women's Refuge in recent years

Politics

3 h. ago Finally Birmingham bin bags are removed from city streets as council uses agency staff to solve stand

Thousands of frustrated residents have been caught in the crossfire during the months-long row between union barons and council chiefs.

Politics

3 h. ago Nespresso Vertuo Next review: I've tested the Veruto Plus, Pop and Evoluo, here's why this one is my favourite from the brand's pod machine line up

The Nespresso Vertuo Next is a competent pod coffee machine from the brand's Vertuo line. It's compatible with the larger Vertuo pods and is able to make coffee in seven different sizes.

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4 h. ago Jaws child star shares huge amount he still earns from movie 50 years on

Actor starred in the film for a fleeting scene 50 years ago – and has been able to retire from his earnings as an extra

Politics

4 h. ago GP suspended after rubbing woman’s breasts and nipple with stethoscope during thyroid exam

Dr Manish Tripathi cannot practice medicine for 10 months, pending a review

Politics

4 h. ago Does Caraway’s $1,575 cookware live up to the hype? I found out

I swapped my T-Fal pots and pans with Caraway’s to see how they performed

Society

5 h. ago Wednesday season 2: who is in the cast of part 2? Full list of Netflix actors

Wednesday is back with season 2 part 2 - but who is in the cast of Netflix show? 👀💜

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5 h. ago Kim Novak uncensored: Legendary actress, 92, is finally given the freedom to speak her side of the story as critics deem her 'impressively unfiltered'

After stepping away from the limelight, Kim Novak returned to Venice Film Festival on Monday after releasing a documentary about her poverty-stricken upbringing

Culture

5 h. ago Sandie Peggie showed ‘surprising level’ of disgust in trans medic row, tribunal hears

Ms Peggie was suspended by NHS Fife after complaining about having to share a room with Dr Beth Upton at Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy on Christmas Eve 2023.

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5 h. ago 'I spent a day with Queen Camilla and she left a deep impression on me'

A journalist who spent some quality time with Queen Camilla in 2021 has admitted she 'didn't know what to expect' before meeting the Royal initially

Politics

6 h. ago Row review – impressive, largely unknown cast keep seagoing horror afloat

A woman washes up on the Orkney island of Hoy, the only survivor of a transatlantic sortie in Matthew Losasso’s debut feature, a twisty if murky chillerWater, like the human psyche, is unpredictable and full of beasts lurking in the depths, and so it says a lot about our primal fear of the ocean that boat movies often offer threats either under the surface, in the shape of sharks, or psychosis or both. With Row, a smattering of startling jump cuts showing blood splashed around a boat and flashbacks of the protagonist Megan (Bella Dayne, very impressive) screaming, but the viewer needs to wait out a somewhat unreasonably long running time to find out if the antagonists here are biting fish or knife-wielding killers.All we know at first is that Megan is the only survivor of an attempt to break the record for rowing across the Atlantic from Newfoundland to the UK with four crew members, two men and two women. Having washed up on the Orkney island of Hoy, Megan spends most of the film’s...

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