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The Alan Rickman I remember: a good man, a Labour activist - and a local boy
Andy Slaughter, the MP for Hammersmith, who went to school with Alan Rickman, pays tribute. It is a tribute to his acting skill, his personality and unique voice and style that the sad death of Alan...
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Why publishing the Beckett Report matters more than you think
Few expect Learning the Lessons to trigger a rethink among the party's leadership or grassroots, but the report may prove crucial later down the line So Margaret Beckett's report into the 2015 defeat,...
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Deutschland 83 has us rooting for the bad guys. Again. What is it about East...
On-screen depictions of East Germany are compelling because there is always a direct contrast with West Germany, where the aesthetic and atmosphere are far more familiar.*/ The first series on Channel...
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Lord Janner child sex abuse case dropped
Criminal proceedings over abuse claims made against the late Labour peer Greville Janner have ended. Criminal proceedings against the late Labour peer, Greville Janner, over sex abuse charges have...
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Morning Call: The best from Gibraltar
A selection of the best articles about politics, business and life on the Rock from the last seven days. It’s been quite a week for memorials and Gibraltarian politics has had a taste of it with the...
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From Serial to Making a Murderer: can true crime as entertainment ever be...
Real life crime stories have long been treated as entertainment, but with the rise of global phenomenons like Serial and Making a Murderer, the line between investigation and titillation is more...
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If Channel 4 is sold off, we'll all be poorer for it
The Conservatives must think again about their plans to sell off Channel 4. When it comes to great British assets, you could be forgiven for thinking that if it’s not nailed down, it’s up for sale to...
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White bias, bland acting, self-indulgent films: why are the Oscar nominations...
Perhaps it's time to cancel the Oscars temporarily to allow the industry to gather its strength and recover. Some of the obituaries written about the late Alan Rickman, who has died aged 69, have...
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The grim reality of celebrity death on the internet
Grieve – or don’t – how you want. For the really macabre spectacle, you have to turn to the clickbait factories turning sorrow into cash. Is 69 the new 27, the new “age of rock star death”, when all...
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What is a spacewalk, and what is British astronaut Tim Peake doing on his?
Tim Peake will be carrying out the first spacewalk by a Brit since 1995, but what exactly will he be doing? British astronaut Tim Peake is set to carry out a spacewalk today at 12:55 GMT. It will be...
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If anyone in my generation has a nuanced approach to good and evil, it's...
In a world too easily divided into angels and demons, Professor Snape (as played in the films by Alan Rickman) makes the case for moral ambiguity. To my 15-year-old self, Harry Potter and the Deathly...
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Bosses’ right to snoop on staff emails is an invasion of privacy and ignores...
Bosses can look at whatever we do on work devices, as long as this policy is communicated to employees first. Is this a step too far? Since Edward Snowden revealed the existence of internet...
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Junior doctors aren't just going on strike. They're trying to warn us
There's a bigger story than just pay and conditions, warns Benedict Cooper. On a bitterly cold afternoon in Nottingham’s Old Market Square, a group of junior doctors stood shivering together, banners...
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Inside the Room: how do you shoot a movie inside one 10x10 foot space?
“The scale of the room turned out to be a practical challenge but not an aesthetic one.” The film adaptation of Emma Donoghue’s novel Room posed a number of challenges for the crew. Making a film about...
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It’s both unethical and unhelpful for governments to strip refugees of their...
Denmark is debating a bill to allow authorities to seize cash and personal items from asylum seekers, and the Swiss government has followed suit. The Danish and Swiss governments are planning to seize...
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Stolen!: the Peeple for your Twitter feed has been shut down
The app let you "buy", "sell", and edit facsimiles of other people's Twitter accounts. Unsurprisingly, it's already closed. The first many heard of doomed app Stolen! was through a screenshot. Holly...
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Escapee parakeets are taking over London and although I hate their cry it’s...
It is rather corvid, the ring-neck’s cry – suggestive of an intelligence more knowing than we expect from most birds. One of the more bizarre changes I’ve witnessed over the past twenty years or so has...
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Killer instinct: Hou Hsiao-hsien, the greatest film-maker you’ve never heard of
Megan Walsh meets the Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien as he takes on wuxia in his acclaimed film The Assassin. When you think of Chinese films, you are probably thinking of wuxia– ancient and...
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Watch: Donald Trump rally enlists child band The Freedom Kids for chilling...
"Enemies of freedom, face the music. Come on, boys, take ‘em down!" The Huffington Post called it "warbled creepy jingoism". The NME found it a "haunting Lynchian nightmare". The Mirror described it as...
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Pokémon is celebrating 20 years of continued success and never-ending fandom
A personal trip down memory lane, on the 20th anniversary of the Pokémon franchise.A wild Oddish appeared! Go! Pikachu! Run! Got away safely! That’s from my recent trip down memory lane playing the...
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