4 d. ago Tory London Assembly leader told to focus on Londoners not Xmas culture wars after Tesco outrage

Tory London Assembly leader told to focus on Londoners not Xmas culture wars after Tesco outrage  My London

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6 d. ago Tory crisis in London as second councillor defects to Nigel Farage’s Reform UK at flagship town hall

Alan Mendoza on Wednesday joined Laila Cunningham as Reform’s second representative on Westminster Council

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6 d. ago Another Tory on flagship London council defects to Reform as Nigel Farage eyes gains across capital

Alan Mendoza on Wednesday joined Laila Cunningham as Reform’s second representative on Westminster Council

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6 d. ago Sadiq Khan gives business 'speed dating' agency the kiss of life as City Hall tackles financial crisis

London & Partners to be safeguarded - despite Tory concerns it has become a ‘massive drain’ on council taxpayers

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8 d. ago Carols by Candlelight, Pixie Lott, The Big Christmas London Sing and more at London’s Union Chapel this Xmas

Carols by Candlelight, Pixie Lott, The Big Christmas London Sing and more at London’s Union Chapel this Xmas  London Post

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1 week ago Peter Mandelson spotted peeing in public as he's stripped of honour

Mandelson was snapped after the trip to the former Tory Chancellor’s multi-million pound townhouse in London on Wednesday evening.

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1 week ago John Cleese Packs It In review – former Python goes on the road in sickness and in health

Such is his grumpiness, it isn’t clear why the 85-year-old wanted to make the film – though ‘I need the money’ is a running gagThe long and fabled history of Monty Python has now reached its footnotes and afterthoughts era. After years of interpersonal disputes, multiple forays into the culture war and one very expensive divorce, 85-year-old John Cleese goes solo with a thin 80-minute travelogue, undertaking a European mini-tour while enduring a roll call of ailments (partial deafness, bone spurs, vertigo) which appears at least as substantive as his onstage material. Explaining his motivation, Cleese is not untypically blunt: a wheezy “I need the money” is the closest this film locates to a running gag.What are we offered in return? Near-relentless gripes and grievances that mesh with Cleese’s recent media profile, ranging from the endless repacking to being filmed at all hours. (Perhaps understandable, given director Andy Curd’s often unflattering angles.) Also lambasted: audience...

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1 week ago Alcohol duty hike would 'kill distilleries and British culture', firms warn

Distilleries say they are ‘on their knees’ ahead of Rachel Reeves’ looming budget

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2 w. ago Marcus Mumford says Taylor Swift was ‘the most phenomenal house guest’

The 38-year-old singer described Swift’s ‘candle game’ as ‘excellent’ when she came to his home studio to record her 2020 album Evermore.

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2 w. ago Lioness Alex Scott is the eighth contestant to arrive in Australia ahead of I'm A Celebrity after emotional goodbye with girlfriend Jess Glynne

Wearing a £597 brown knitted tracksuit bottoms with a matching £645 top, the Football Focus host, 41, told the Daily Mail on arrival: 'I'm so nervous.'

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2 w. ago Charles Leclerc calls for ‘unity’ after Ferrari chairman criticises F1 drivers

Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton have been told to ‘focus on their driving and talk less’ by John Elkann

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2 w. ago Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc told to ‘talk less and focus on driving’ by fuming Ferrari F1 chief

FERRARI's chairman has told Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc to “talk less and focus on driving” after a woeful Brazilian Grand Prix. The Scuderia duo both failed to finish Sunday’s race in Sao Paulo after two seperate incidents. Ferrari chairman John Elkann said: "If we look at the season in F1, we can say we...

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2 w. ago ‘Focus on driving and talk less’: Ferrari president hits back at Lewis Hamilton

John Elkann has say after Hamilton’s ‘nightmare’ verdictLando Norris plays down title talk after victory in BrazilLewis Hamilton has been told to “focus on driving and talk less” in a rebuke from the Ferrari president John Elkann, which was almost certainly a reaction to Hamilton’s outspoken description of his first season with the team as a “nightmare”.Hamilton has endured a difficult debut year with Ferrari, with the team underperforming and the seven-time champion having a trying time adapting to a new environment and practices. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ferrari pair Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc told to ‘focus on their driving’

Team president John Elkann urged the drivers to ‘talk less’.

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2 w. ago Lewis Hamilton told to 'focus on driving and talk less' in Ferrari chief's brutal attack

Ferrari president John Elkann took aim at his F1 drivers after a disastrous Sao Paulo Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc both failing to finish the race

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2 w. ago ‘I can’t control how others perceive me’: Sydney Sweeney on boxing, weight gain and her flair for controversy

She ignited a culture war with a jeans advert. Now she has delivered a knockout performance as boxer Christy Martin. Sweeney talks about taking punches in the ring – and in the mediaThere was much blood and sweat – but few tears – involved in Sydney Sweeney’s transformation into Christy Martin. David Michôd’s biopic of the trailblazing fighter, who hauled women’s boxing into the US mainstream in the mid-1990s, spends much of its runtime recreating Martin’s real-life fights. And she doesn’t always win. I left the screening wondering if I had genuinely just seen Sweeney – whose acclaimed acting career, canny commercial ventures and unwitting contributions to the online outrage cycle have combined to make her one of the world’s most famous women – being mercilessly and repeatedly punched in the head. Turns out I had.“Oh yeah, they were all real. Every fight that you see, we’re hitting each other,” says the 28-year-old cheerily. “I had concussions, there were some bloody noses.” Were th...

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2 w. ago Watch out Keir! The 'pasta plotters' are back as renegade Labour MP gathers group in Italian restaurant to 'discuss Starmer's leadership woes'

Louise Haigh was eating in Giovanni's, a long-established family Italian restaurant in London, where Rishi Sunak 's political enemies in the Tory party used to meet to plot their rebellions.

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2 w. ago Strictly’s Alexis Warr breaks down typical show week: ‘There’s not a lot of sleep’

Alexis Warr has revealed what a typical week in Strictly Come Dancing looks like, admitting there’s “not a lot of sleep involved”.

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2 w. ago As his debut film Once Were Warriors showed, Lee Tamahori was a director of guts and flair

Tamahori was the outstanding director of Along Came a Spider and Die Another Day – but his first film was his greatest workIn 1994, the New Zealand film-maker Lee Tamahori made one of the biggest debuts of the decade, firing on all six cylinders with his gut-wrenching social-realist melodrama Once Were Warriors. The Mekes are a working-class Maori family in South Auckland: Temuera Morrison is the boozing, brawling, bragging alpha-male welfare claimant Jake, who comes home from drinking in the pub with his pathetic sycophant mates to terrorise and assault his wife Beth, played by Rena Owen, and their five children. He is entirely indifferent to the fate of his two elder sons who have drifted into gangland culture and crime, as well as his sensitive daughter Grace, who has talent as a writer. One son gets gang tattoos; the other is taken to a juvenile reformatory where he is at least tutored in the ways of Maori culture – the haka and the taiaha warrior spear – and learns dignity and ...

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2 w. ago Divided Britain: UK is riven with divisions over immigration and trans rights as national pride plummets, according to new poll

Researchers from King's College London (KCL) said post-Brexit division appeared to have ‘morphed into’ party political and other splits around immigration and so-called culture wars

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