The actor on a disastrous speech, his rules for how people should get around cities and an embarrassing encounter with a doorman Born in New York state, Billy Crudup, 57, made his film debut in Sleepers in 1996. His subsequent movies include Almost Famous (2000), Big Fish (2003), Mission: Impossible […]
It’s refreshing, groundbreaking and absolutely piles up the gags. The return of this Glaswegian sitcom is very welcome indeed The second series of Dinosaur opens on the Isle of Wight – a mere seven-hour drive and ferry ride away from our heroine’s beloved Glasgow. Oh dear. Nina (Ashley Storrie) is […]
Almost 1m UK households are hooked up to heat networks. None had protection from poor service or price hikes … until last month ‘If I could move, I would – to a place without a heat network. But I can’t while this debt is hanging over me,” says Anja Georgiou. […]
Experts say dangerous sleep apnoea affects an estimated 8 million in the UK alone, and everything from evolution to obesity or even the climate crisis could be to blame When Matt Hillier was in his 20s, he went camping with a friend who was a nurse. In the morning she […]
Jack Thorne takes on William Golding – and you’ll never have felt so grateful to live under the rule of law, that ultimate dweeb’s charter Castaway stories, from Cast Away to The Martian, often make for feelgood classics. They are tales about an ingenious individual overcoming huge odds, a triumphant […]
Government plans to protect species by increasing woodland and removing greys, but campaigners say it needs to go further When Sam Beaumont sees a flash of red up a tree on his Lake District farm, he feels a swell of pride. He’s one of the few people in England who […]
Among those focusing on what the PM knew about Peter Mandelson are many who themselves knew plenty and chose to ignore it Everything Donald Trump touches dies. He put his name on the Kennedy Center in Washington, prompting artists and performers to flee in such numbers that the venue will […]
From minting coins featuring his own face to covering buildings with gold, the president’s proposals for marking America’s semiquincentennial say a lot about the country’s backwards outlook When the United States celebrated its bicentennial on 4 July 1976, it marked the occasion with the opening of the National Air and […]
After plundering her tearaway teens for the comedy classic, Lisa McGee is back with a Scooby-Doo-style caper. As How to Get to Heaven from Belfast hits our screens, she explains why the craic’s about to get deadly How do you follow up a show about girls in Derry? With one […]
When the likeness of the populist leader as an angel was painted into a cheesy tribute to Italy’s last king, it caused outrage. But far better artists have been similarly profane for centuries It must be the ugliest wall painting in Rome – and that’s even without the bizarre portrait […]