Nvidia, OpenAI and Microsoft announce investments as part of multibillion-dollar package alongside Trump visit Donald Trump’s arrival in the UK on Tuesday night was accompanied by a multibillion-dollar transatlantic tech agreement. The announcement features some of the biggest names from Silicon Valley: the chipmaker Nvidia; the ChatGPT developer, OpenAI; and […]
Donald Trump is back on UK soil for his ‘unprecedented’ second state visit. Will the US president’s trip help to distract from Keir Starmer’s challenges at home? Or could it leave the prime minister even more exposed? Kiran Stacey asks the columnist and Politics Weekly America host, Jonathan Freedland Send […]
Anderson updates Thomas Pynchon for the era of Ice roundups, pitting shaggy revolutionary Leonardo DiCaprio against cartoonish forces of reaction One of the great creative bromances has flowered again: Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon. Having adapted Pynchon’s Inherent Vice for the screen in 2015, Anderson has now taken a […]
The choice for governments around the world is clear: engage, or fall beneath the US president’s wheel. For now, Britain must do the former Has any visiting leader ever seen so little of Britain or the British as Donald Trump is doing this week? The absurdly unrepresentative version of the […]
She had a zest for life that propelled her to the heights of stage and screen – but behind all this lay a shocking story of violence, grooming and abuse. From her bed, flanked by pills and cigarettes, Ireland’s grande dame looks back Brenda Fricker is sitting up in a […]
Hapless Stephen Doughty was given the hospital pass of defending the PM over the ex-US ambassador’s appointment Just what has Stephen Doughty done to upset Keir Starmer? Are there no limits to the prime minister’s contempt and hatred? Not that Steve is a total nobody. He’s not a run-of-the-mill backbencher. […]
Lowles has spent his entire adult life organising against fascism, facing countless threats as a result. He discusses the street confrontations of the 80s, foiling a murder plot, Nazi satanists – and the urgent need for optimism and action In 1979, a 10-year-old Nick Lowles saw a hard-right party political […]
Minerva theatre, Chichester Justin Audibert’s lucid production is classically considered, with a fine cast making full unsettling use of the intimate space By the time Laurence Olivier became Chichester Festival theatre’s first artistic director in 1962, he was already a revered Hamlet on stage and screen. But Chichester has never […]
Robert Redford, who has died at the age of 89, began as a blond bombshell at a time when American cinema favoured grit, then turned into a supremely assured director and unlikely keeper of the indie flame Robert Redford, giant of American cinema, dies aged 89 – news Robert Redford […]
After a tough week for Labour, Donald Trump is touching down for a state visit. Let’s hope the PM can stomach it Quick update on Keir Starmer’s government of “national renewal”: having just lost his deputy and housing secretary over her failure to pay the required stamp duty, the prime […]