A singularly horrendous TV show has crashed the star-rating review economy. But if zero stars is the new benchmark for critical rage, three films deserve the big 0 Kim Kardashian’s world-historically horrendous TV show All’s Fair has detonated a firestorm of critical horror which, as well as everything else, may […]
The first series came to a sensational, phenomenal and genuinely mind-boggling conclusion … by ruining the greatest love story of our age Did he play a blinder? Or did the faithfuls just play really – I mean sensationally, phenomenally, mindbogglingly badly? We will argue over this on social media feeds […]
Justice secretary seemed to be the only person not being released, as he hid from questions about latest prison mishaps It was a message of defiance. A show of strength from the justice department. The system may be in crisis but there was leadership at the very top. There was […]
Some see anti-Noriega operation as model for deposing Maduro but others say war of bluff and intimidation is more likely option Michael Durant watched through night-vision goggles as two 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs slammed on to the Panamanian airbase while he hovered off the country’s south coast in a Black Hawk […]
In this new series, our money and consumer editor considers the often perplexing reasons items cost what they do. As a new report suggests booze-free booze can cost 25% more than the alcoholic equivalent, what could possibly explain this? Why do some 0% alcohol drinks cost as much as booze? […]
As Kim Kardashian’s All’s Fair sets a new low for TV, we revisit every single thing our critics have mercilessly panned. Brace yourself for the Mount Rushmore of rubbish! Lucy Mangan’s Guardian review of Kim Kardashian’s new Disney+ legal drama All’s Fair was something of a rarity. Not necessarily because […]
Viewers have been won over by the quick-witted and quirky former England international. But do they all know about the groin-grabbing and that ‘horse’ of his? It’s difficult to know where to begin with a not-so-quick guide to Celebrity Traitors’ breakout star, Joe Marler. The BBC series has introduced a […]
For too long, the centre has been adopting the language of the right but deploying it with greater civility – to disastrous ends Zohran Mamdani was forged in the era of Donald Trump. He came to socialism through watching Bernie Sanders run for the US presidency in 2016, in the […]
In seven days my young alter ego is cyberbullied and attacked while exploring clubs, casinos and horror games, all with parental controls in place. Is the platform safe for children – or an ‘X-rated paedophile hellscape’? I am an eight-year-old girl, standing near-naked in a room full of strangers. As […]
Plucked from obscurity, James Cartlidge messed up his maths while his opposite number had forgotten his politics 101 He had one job. ONE. JOB. Well, technically there might have been two, but we’ll come to that later. But one main job. And that’s to be able to count to six. […]