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Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup in ‘magnificent’ play revival Edward Albee’s “stone-cold masterpiece” about marital despair, and life’s necessary illusions, was first staged in 1962 – and it is as riveting now as it was then, said Claire Allfree in The Telegraph.That is partly because the “rituali...
Superb boarding school drama filled with plenty of ‘zingers’Molly Manners directed four episodes of Netflix’s “One Day”, the hit adaptation of David Nicholls’ bestselling novel; now, she has made an impressive feature debut, said Tara O’Brady in The Irish Times.“Extra Geography” is set in a boarding...
On their fourth album, the influential and fiercely original Irish band Gilla deliver a “thrilling and relentless 42 minutes of monstrous noise”, fuelled by “cathartic aggression and absurdist confessions” in the style of The Fall, said The Guardian. It’s the work of “a band audibly – and thrillingl...
by Patricia NilssonIt’s tempting to think of the porn industry as a “seedy underground thing, which good people ignore and to which bad people are addicted”, said Lucy Thynne in The Telegraph. But as the journalist Patricia Nilsson argues in her fascinating book, “Guilty Pleasure”, the reality is mo...

TV presenter, campaigner and founder of ChildlineEsther Rantzen was an energetic and incisive broadcaster with a “breezy, cool-edged demeanour”, said The Telegraph. She became a household name in the 1970s on “That’s Life!”, a BBC consumer-rights show that attracted up to 20 million viewers in its h...
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The Explainer Germany and Australia among the nations who could offer inspiration for bolstering England’s ‘threadbare’ care system

The Explainer Adult social care is regarded as the most significant unresolved policy issue in Britain. The PM has promised to ‘rip off the plaster’

The Explainer Nidal Hasan is facing the first public execution in the US since 1936

The Explainer Small group of Swedes chooses recipient of prestigious international honour, but subjective decision ‘reliably angers critics’

Talking Point Heroism of crew and passengers who thwarted attempted terror attack cannot mask underlying security failures

Talking Point Downing Street backtracked on PM’s remarks that drew attention to his close relationship with the UAE

Talking Point Conference vote a ‘threat to British Jews’ says Chief Rabbi, as former party leader calls it ‘divisive’



Under the Radar Women in China increasingly turn to US for surrogate babies, while elite men are paying for large numbers of children

Under the radar This exoplanet is orbiting the dead star it formed from

Under the Radar Killing of Anna Yagi, allegedly by a US Marine, has revived decades-long anger over crimes by American soldiers

Speed Read It comes less than two weeks after the rapper was dropped by Ed Sheeran’s tour

Speed Read Democratic lawmakers have demanded more details about the ad

Speed Read The two leaders have “never gotten along better,” Trump claimed

Speed Read The parts were “inexplicably diverted” to the city, Bloomberg reported
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