Locarno film festivalThompson turns up the accent dial to play a good-natured Minnesota widow bringing her charm – and her gun – to tackle some concentrated nastiness From the freezing heart of Fargo country in snowy Minnesota comes a quite outrageously enjoyable suspense thriller starring Emma Thompson; I hadn’t realised […]
The British prime minister and French president get sucked into a shady conspiracy in the streaming giant’s latest twisty, emotional drama. Jones and Julie Delpy tell all Hostage is a political thriller, and observes the conventions in many ways. The pace is absolutely flawless, it’s twisty, it has emotional heft. […]
Fleur Breteau tells of how case was merely a symptom of a wider problem contaminating food and water systems On the day French MPs gave themselves a round of applause for approving legislation to reintroduce a banned pesticide last month, a figure rose from the public gallery to shout: “You […]
The VP of a thousand holidays has done Disneyland and skiing in Vermont. Now it’s time to skive off among the worst people Britain has to offer I don’t have access to the employment contract, but find myself increasingly intrigued by a question: how many days annual leave does a […]
Benjamin Netanyahu has embarked on an operation that guarantees fresh miseries and will solve absolutely nothing Israel’s planned takeover of Gaza would be an act of destructive futility. It would solve absolutely nothing. It will merely pile fresh military, humanitarian and political problems on to the mounds of those already […]
The two-hour debate propelled Jubilee Media into the mainstream and has been viewed 10m times, but some worry about the embrace of rage-fuelled content Mehdi Hasan knew he had gone viral. The broadcaster and author saw the views ticking up on YouTube; his phone was pinging incessantly. But the realisation […]
From sparkling whites to award-winning pinot noir, English and Welsh wine is booming – and so is vineyard tourism. Here’s where to sip, stay and stock up • The best non-alcoholic prosecco, champagne and sparkling wines English wine is flourishing: a combination of a warming climate and favourable tax breaks […]
The comedian’s debut album is released next month. He discusses songwriting, his recent memoirs, the problems with modern politics and why we all need to open up On a muggy summer day, Adam Buxton is talking me through the songs on his debut album, Buckle Up. “There’s one on there […]
The triple Oscar winner has retired from the profession twice – and returned twice. Ahead of Anemone, directed by his son Ronan, we gorge on Day-Lewis’s back catalogue Perhaps keen not to be pigeonholed in high-fibre roles, Daniel Day-Lewis took on a pair of zany culture-clash comedies (the other was […]
The figures simply don’t add up for higher education in England and Wales. Yet delusional politicians from all parties seem intent on avoiding the issue Tuition fees in England go up this year for the first time in eight years and the response from universities has ranged from tepid to […]