8 h. ago Nepo grandbaby blasted as 'insufferable' and 'talentless' for 'moaning' about her luxe life in new pop song

She's the granddaughter of The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola and daughter of Oscar-winning filmmaker Sofia Coppola. 

Politics

19 h. ago Manchester United promote Jason Wilcox to director of football in latest behind

Former England winger moved to Old Trafford last year as technical director after short spell at Southampton

Sport

50 h. ago Goebbels and the Führer review – private life of propagandist shows grotesque heart of Nazism

Joachim Lang’s bleak film shows a preening Goebbels and a careworn Hitler as they battle to convince the German public, and themselves, they will win the warIn an appropriate spirit of cynicism and bleakness, German director Joachim Lang has made a film about the private life of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, the Hexenmeister or chief sorcerer of lies, and his always strained relationship with Hitler. Robert Stadlober plays the preening and self-pitying Goebbels and Fritz Karl is a careworn Hitler. Franziska Weisz plays Goebbels’s wife Magda, who at first resented his infidelities with showbusiness starlets but for the sake of the Fatherland submitted to the public image of a good Nazi wife and mother of six adorable children – whom Joseph and Magda finally murdered in the bunker before killing themselves.In its subversive, austerely satirical way, the film feels almost like a B-side to Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Downfall from 2004, and Lang has perhaps even inhaled, just a little, t...

Politics

3 d. ago Clint Eastwood calls viral interview a fabrication: ‘Completely phony’

The actor and director claims that an Austrian newspaper invented a recent interview with himClint Eastwood has released a statement to claim a recent interview with him is a fabrication.Quotes from an alleged interview with the Oscar-winning actor and director had gone viral over the weekend and were picked up by a number of sites. Yet Eastwood has now said that he never spoke to anyone from German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Clint Eastwood calls viral interview a fabrication: ‘Entirely phony’

The actor and director claims that an Austrian newspaper invented a recent interview with himClint Eastwood has released a statement to claim a recent interview with him is a fabrication.Quotes from an alleged interview with the Oscar-winning actor and director had gone viral over the weekend and were picked up by a number of sites. Yet Eastwood has now said that he never spoke to anyone from German-language Austrian newspaper Kurier. Continue reading...

Politics

4 d. ago Paul Mitchell’s Newcastle exit leaves Eddie Howe in position of maximum strength | Louise Taylor

There was a lack of trust between Newcastle’s sporting director and manager from the moment Mitchell joined last yearThe table was all wrong. In retrospect it offered the first clue that lack of emotional intelligence would prove central to Paul Mitchell’s undoing at Newcastle.It was early last September when reporters were invited to St James’ Park to meet the club’s then newish sporting director. As Mitchell strode into the windowless Sir Bobby Robson suite and took his seat at the head of a very long rectangular table he neglected to notice that journalists at the opposite end were isolated from the conversation. Continue reading...

Events

5 d. ago Retired policeman wrongly arrested over 'thought crime' X post wins £20,000 payout

Julian Foulkes, from Gillingham, was detained at his home by six officers from Kent Police after he questioned a supporter of pro-Palestine demonstrations on X in November 2023.

Events

7 d. ago Breast cancer survivor wins £15,000 payout after she was sacked by marketing firm while she was off sick during treatment

'Dedicated' Lauren Henry was sacked 'out of the blue' while on sick leave, which she was forced to take due to a post-operation infection, a tribunal heard.

Economics

8 d. ago Work from home is allowed to supervise your gardener, tribunal rules as company director wins £30,000 payout

IT director Ben Wicken had been scheduled to meet company founder Christophe Boudet in person to try to resolve a work disagreement, the employment tribunal heard.

Economics

9 d. ago Watchdog investigates Tory peer over nuclear firm’s meeting with minister

Lord Duncan of Springbank is the fourth peer to face a parliamentary inquiry after Guardian reportingThe House of Lords watchdog has launched an investigation into a Conservative peer who helped to secure a meeting with a government minister for a Canadian nuclear technology company he was advising.The watchdog will examine evidence that Ian Duncan potentially breached parliamentary rules when he facilitated an introduction between the minister and the company’s chief executive while he was on the company’s advisory board. Continue reading...

Politics

9 d. ago Asking to WFH while having gardening done not worth disciplining, tribunal finds

IT director Ben Wicken resigned from his job after his colleagues 'lost confidence' in him over the incident - a tribunal has since said that he was 'unfairly dismissed'

Politics

9 d. ago Newcastle sporting director Paul Mitchell to make shock exit ahead of transfer window

Newcastle have confirmed in a statement that their sporting director Paul Mitchell will be leaving the club in the summer just days after the conclusion of the season

Sport

9 d. ago It’s OK to work from home to supervise gardeners, employment tribunal rules

London judge says IT director unfairly dismissed over request to attend important meeting by video callThe question of when working from home is acceptable – and when you really should be at an office desk – is becoming one of modern life’s conundrums.An employment tribunal has suggested it may be OK to remain at home if you need to supervise workers, even if it means attending an important meeting remotely. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago FBI launches new probes into White House cocaine incident and Dobbs Supreme Court leak

Deputy Director Dan Bongino announces new investigations into popular right-wing talking points

Events

1 week ago Jafar Panahi’s Cannes victory is a wonderful moment for an amazingly courageous film

Panahi has endured years of harassment from the Iranian authorities but has created a tremendous body of work; his Palme d’Or is richly deservedIranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an AccidentIn the end, the Cannes Palme d’Or went to the most courageous film director in the world. It was a very satisfying grownup decision, favouring a remarkable and utterly individual film-maker: the director and democracy campaigner Jafar Panahi, an artist who unlike any other director in the Cannes competition really has suffered, taken real risks for cinema and spoken truth to power – and endured arrest and imprisonment for his pains.He has created a rich canon of work which has told the world about Iranian society and the Iranian mind with a subtlety and depth that we are never going to get from the TV news. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident

Panahi, long censored and previously imprisoned in his home country, took top prize as Sentimental Value and The Secret Agent also honouredThe dissident Iranian film-maker Jafar Panahi has won the top prize at the Cannes film festival for his drama It Was Just an Accident, inspired by his stints of imprisonment at the hands of the Iranian government.The film was the first made by the director after a ban on film-making was lifted – although he has continued to direct despite being expressly forbidden to do so. In 2011, a year after his first arrest, a copy of his drama This Is Not a Film was snuck into Cannes on a USB stick hidden in a cake. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Jeff Margolis dead: Oscar and Emmy award director who worked with Frank Sinatra dies

Award-winning TV producer Jeff Margolis, who was also the director of the Oscars, Emmys and Screen Actors Guild Awards, has died at the age of 78

Events

1 week 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...

Politics

1 week ago Labour child benefits civil war as Angela Rayner 'demands middle class parents who earn £60,000 a year lose payout' while Starmer 'clashes with chief aide' over handouts for big families

Angela Rayner suggested the Chancellor should 'claw back' the handouts from families where one adult earns over £50,000 a year.

Society

2 w. ago DWP mistake sees over 12,000 Brits receive £8,300 state pension payout

HMRC has been writing to thousands of older Brits over the last few years after confirming a major administration error had occurred, which caused thousands to have lower state pension payments than they should've

Economics