33 m. ago Alex Garland set to direct huge video game adaptation for A24

Game’s worldbuilding was written by Game of Thrones author George RR Martin

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81 m. ago Netflix’s ‘divisive’ new comedy series has fans ‘in a chokehold’ while others can't stand it

Tyler Perry's new political sitcom She the People dropped its first eight episodes this week

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86 m. ago Up to 43,000 criminals a year set to avoid jail under Labour's soft

A new sentencing review already been accepted 'in principle' by Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood could see tens of thousands of offenders avoid jail each year, official data shows.

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2 h. ago The Barber in London at The Courtauld Gallery: 'a selection box with no duds'

The Barber in Edgbaston is being refurbished, which is lucky for Londoners as some of its best works are holidaying at The Courtauld

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4 h. ago 13 best kids’ scooters that will have toddlers and teens whizzing around

Whether they’re scooting during the school run or flying around the park, there’s hours of fun to be had

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4 h. ago Morrison's announces major overhaul of its UK supermarkets with plans to scrap 2,500 items in favour of 'premium' food

The revamp - which is already underway in some UK stores - is being dubbed 'Morrisons Magic' and will be led by Director Andrew Staniland.

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5 h. ago Falling palm trees and a faltering Palme d’Or director: how Cannes 2025 went – and who will win

In a Cannes film festival where the greatest movies were about dictatorships and political cruelty, our chief critic shares his picks for the prixCannes this year had a lot to live up to after last year’s award-winners, headline-grabbers and social media meltdowners Anora, The Substance and Emilia Pérez. It makes reading the signs now that bit more difficult: the bizarre event on the Croisette boulevard this year was a palm tree falling over. If it happened in a film, the metaphor would be unbearable.Whether 2025’s Cannes movies are going to spark a new burst of overwhelming excitement remains to be seen, though this year’s vintage feels good – often excellent, although even the biggest names can get it wrong: former Palme d’Or winner Julia Ducournau presented an incoherent drama called Alpha. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Voices: I’ve spent decades inside prisons – here’s how I’ll fix them for good

In light of the Gauke sentencing review, prisons minister Lord Timpson explains why, to end the perma-crisis in our justice system, we must now embark on the largest expansion of jail places since the Victorian era

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6 h. ago Live Review: Katie Pruitt + Henry Grace, Hoxton Hall, London – 16th May 2025

Live Review: Katie Pruitt + Henry Grace, Hoxton Hall, London – 16th May 2025  Americana UK

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6 h. ago Eurovision responds to accusations it encourages voting ‘manipulation’ after Israel performance

In a statement, director Martin Green said he did not want questions surrounding Eurovision voting to overshadow JJ’s win for Austria

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6 h. ago Would shorter prison sentences ‘spark a crime wave’? Here’s what the evidence says

The final report of the Independent Sentencing Review proposed the most significant reforms since the 1990s

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7 h. ago London stocks rise, led by mining shares; strong economic data aids sentiment

London stocks rise, led by mining shares; strong economic data aids sentiment  Reuters

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7 h. ago Peter Andre planning sequel to controversial movie Jafaican but with major change

Peter Andre has revealed he and the film's director Fredi Nwaka are already working on a sequel to their controversial movie Jafaican, as they defended the movie against allegations of cultural appropriation

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8 h. ago Supergrass at the Roundhouse review: a playful, energetic trip down memory lane

The band reunited to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their hit record of I Should Coco - which they did in style

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9 h. ago A naked female dwarf Nazi, a lesbian orgy and explicit sex acts: Director whose last show left audience members needing medical attention shocks Germany with new play

Choreographer Florentina Holzinger is famous across the German-speaking world for her radical works, which usually feature dangerous stunts and unsimulated sex.

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10 h. ago Head of legal body's position 'no longer tenable' after Andrew Malkinson case, MPs say

Chief executive of the Criminal Cases Review Commission Karen Kneller has come under fire

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10 h. ago Quinie: Forefowk, Mind Me review – collecting songs on horseback, this Scottish musician is alive with ideas

(Upset the Rhythm)With folk songs gathered from a gallop across Argyll, Josie Vallely’s album is a resonant tribute to her ancestral landTravellers’ songs sung in Scots are the focus of Josie Vallely, a gutsy, Glasgow-based artist performing as Quinie (pronounced “q-why-nee”; “young woman” in the Doric dialect), whose third album acknowledges ancestors watching over her. It includes traditional singers Lizzie Higgins, Jeannie Robertson and Sheila Stewart, whose rawness drones, speaks and soars over these 11 varied tracks, mixing tunes from fiddles, Gaelic sean-nós singing, and canntaireachd (the vocal mimicry of pipe music).Quinie collected these songs from people using a method that fits the album’s strange, rustic mood: she rode her horse, Maisie, across Argyll (“you pay attention to all your senses, have different conversations with people and connect to older ways of doing things,” she writes in the liner notes of this journey; she’s also made a 15-minute film). On Auld Horse, h...

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11 h. ago Plans to axe Paisley police station shelved but future remains 'under review'

The facility on Mill Street will now be subject to the 10-year Estates Masterplan review.

Events

11 h. ago Skunk Anansie: The Painful Truth review – a raw triumph of reinvention and resilience

(FLG)On their first LP in almost a decade, made as two members were treated for cancer, the rockers shrug off their 90s heyday with an experimental mindsetAlmost 30 years after Weak gave the London band a global smash, Skunk Anansie’s “painful truth” is facing up to middle age, parenthood, the loss of a longstanding manager, fears that their best days were behind them and two members being diagnosed with cancer. Recorded with drummer Mark Richardson in recovery and bassist Cass undergoing chemotherapy, their first album in nine years confronts such issues with candour and defiance. Opener An Artist Is an Artist stridently lays down the manifesto: over an infectious collision of electro-pop and post-punk, singer Skin insists that a true creative will not be denied by ageing or menopause. The vocalist subsequently addresses challenges ranging from the hedonistic rock lifestyle to her own family history.Musically, producer David Sitek of TV on the Radio has urged them to throw off the ...

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11 h. ago A life saved and what Erin Patterson allegedly confided to friends: week four of the mushroom lunch trial

Sole surviving lunch guest watches on as Victorian supreme court hears how hospital staff ‘thought he was going to die’ from death cap mushroom poisoningWho are Erin Patterson and the other key figures in Australia’s mushroom murders trial?Ian Wilkinson sat in the Victorian supreme court, only metres from the woman accused of trying to murder him, as one of the men who helped save his life gave evidence.Prof Stephen Warrillow, the director of intensive care at Austin Health, had already spoken about the deaths of three people from death cap mushroom poisoning and the particular characteristics of their illnesses; “rapidly progressive deterioration”, the organ failure and of it being “non-survivable”. Continue reading...

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