Royal Court theatre, London Starting in Germany in the 1930s, there is a stinging topicality to Manfred Karge’s play addressing the renaissance of Nazi ideology Early autumn London theatre has already featured two Oscar winners: Cate Blanchett in Electra / Persona and Mark Rylance in Tartuffe (Remixed). Now Tilda Swinton […]
Matthew Klimow recalls the day a hijacked airliner crashed into the headquarters of the US defence department in Arlington, Virginia “All day I had been a good soldier: stolid, resolute, unemotional, rational, and dispassionate,” writes Matthew Klimow, recalling the wave of emotion that overwhelmed him as he arrived home from […]
Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham collected the testimony of 24 insiders who helped remotely target Gazans’ homes. They explain how they got these self-professed ‘small cogs’ to talk about the killing On a darkened rooftop in Tel Aviv, Israeli intelligence officers outline the details of their work. These men tell […]
Toronto film festival: Erin Doherty plays a happily single mother in a downbeat town courted by an enigmatic James McAvoy in this expertly taut drama Erin Doherty and James McAvoy both bring their A-game in this startling, involving movie from British writer-director Paul Andrew Williams, whose productivity and creativity continue […]
The US president is ever more wayward – and has little interest in defending Europe. The constitution may hold him to account, but we can’t wait If Americans vote for a Republican majority in both houses of Congress in November, “I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in […]
This spin-off from the US Office is so brilliant that it might even eclipse its mother show. And as for the hilarious Sabrina Impacciatore – just hand her all the awards! Pity the poor TV writer foolish enough to make a show about journalism. The world is full of inaccurate […]
Visitors got a first glimpse of the medieval artefact after it went on display at the British Museum in London On the day Bayeux tapestry tickets were released, Megan Stockwell was at the beach. She was so determined to lock down her spot, that she sat with her toes in […]
Oops, Nige’s round-robin email skipped over the most embarrassing and dark details – let’s set the record straight Which one of us has not dreamed of getting a personal email from Nigel Farage? So imagine the excitement that Reform supporters must have felt when a message from their leader dropped […]
After a year of frenzied conjecture, the new hosts putting the razzle back into Strictly are Johannes Radebe, Emma Willis and Josh Widdicombe. They talk night sweats, sparkly pants – and the hilarious fake show cooked up to fool the press Johannes Radebe, one of the three new presenters of […]
Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I try to travel back to 2012 – before everything on the internet was an ad Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast I have a confession. I love my […]