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De Gaulle: Résistance review – a galloping bromance for Churchill and France’s wartime hero
Antonin Baudry’s biopic De Gaulle: Résistance, the first of two planned films, offers a warm and often wryly comic portrait of Charles de Gaulle during his years as the exiled leader of Free France in London. Based on Julian Jackson’s biography A Certain Idea of France, the film centres on De Gaulle’s charged, affectionate rivalry-turned-alliance…
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Ridley Scott’s 10/10 Sci-Fi Series Is Officially One of the Most Popular Shows on Earth
Ridley Scott’s Alien franchise is enjoying a surge in popularity, with the Hulu/Disney+ series Alien: Earth ranking in the top 10 in several countries as fans await its second season. The show, created by Noah Hawley, marked the franchise’s first venture onto television and proved successful enough to secure a renewal, coming at a moment…
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“I watched it and I thought, ‘That’s similar.’ I watched it again and thought, ‘That’s really similar!’ She sent me a big apology… it was pretty cool”: Prog metal prodigy Plini’s laid-back reaction to a pop star stealing his solo
Australian progressive metal guitarist Plini has spoken about the moment a Doja Cat performance appeared to lift a guitar solo from his own music, and why he chose not to pursue any legal action over it. During an MTV EMA appearance, Doja Cat performed a heavier version of her hit “Say So” featuring a newly…
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Friends of boy, 15, who drowned in lake on one of the hottest days of the year saw him ‘gasping for air’ but ‘thought it was a prank’, inquest told
An inquest in Grimsby has heard that friends of 15-year-old Declan Sawyer initially believed he was joking around when he began struggling in the water at Swanholme Lakes nature reserve in Lincoln, only realising too late that he was drowning. Declan got into difficulty on 24 May while swimming towards an island with friends during…
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At least 17 killed as flash flood sweeps part of Nepal-Tibet border
At least 160 people have been killed and hundreds remain missing after a flash flood and mudslide struck the Nepal-Tibet border region, devastating villages, roads and other infrastructure. Rescue teams are searching on both sides of the border, but disrupted communications and the scale of destruction mean the death toll is expected to rise. The…
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Max Olesker: Making the Cut review – up close and personal account of comic’s religious conversion
Max Olesker’s solo show *Making the Cut*, playing at Pleasance Dome in Edinburgh, gives a candid account of his lengthy conversion from liberal to Orthodox Judaism, a process he undertook to marry his partner. The show, adapted from his memoir, matters as a piece of theatre because it balances comedy with a genuinely searching, ambivalent…
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Slash your cholesterol by a third in just a month… hundreds of thousands are on a new diet that’s transforming lives. Here are the exact foods you need to avoid a life on statins: MEIKE LEONARD
High cholesterol, which affects more than half of British adults, causes fatty deposits to build up in the arteries and raises the risk of heart attack, stroke and dementia. While nearly eight million people in the UK take statins to manage it, the drugs can cause side effects and often fail to bring cholesterol down…
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My wife and I are in our 50s and haven’t had sex for TWO YEARS. Today I’m revealing all about the desperate truth so many couples hide… by CHRIS TAUNTON
A middle-aged husband has written an anonymous account describing how he and his wife, both in their fifties, have not had sex for over two years, despite remaining close and amicable as a couple. His reflection highlights a common but rarely discussed experience among long-term couples, where physical intimacy fades even as the relationship otherwise…
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‘I would sell it for £1 if I could. It’s like being in prison’: MARK PALMER lays bare the true scale of the UK’s unsellable homes crisis – from retirees who can’t downsize to the flat owners stuck in their starter properties
The Daily Mail’s Mark Palmer reports on Britain’s “unsellable homes” crisis, illustrated by Kate Williams, a 67-year-old widow trying to sell her five-bedroom detached house near Stamford on the Northamptonshire/Lincolnshire border. After her husband’s death from dementia earlier this year, she wants to downsize to travel and be closer to her five grandchildren, but has…
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Second man arrested after fire rips through Gatwick Airport holiday car park and destroys 140 vehicles
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of arson following a large fire that destroyed around 140 vehicles at a holiday car park near Gatwick Airport. The blaze broke out at Caldyne Business Park in Rowfant, near Crawley, West Sussex, on Saturday evening, prompting a major emergency response and leaving more than 2,000 homes…