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How Labour lost the white working class

30.10.09

Immigration has become a subject so toxic, generating such splenetic aggravation, that it is worth stopping to ask why it is virtually impossible to have a rational debate on the issue... more

Richard Attenborough: The film bosses wanted Gandhi to be sexy - and be played by Richard Burton

03.09.08

In the final part of his captivating memoirs, film legend Richard Attenborough recalls an epic struggle... more

It's not love actually: Just what was it that drove Bill Nighy and Diana Quick apart?

29.08.08

This week in a short, sad statement Nighy announced his separation from Miss Quick, the mother of his daughter Mary.... more

The truth about all those men in my life and those lesbian rumours by Valerie Singleton

21.06.08

For decades the much loved presenter has endured rumours about her private life. Now, with extraordinary candour, she has chosen to set the record straight – about her many men (including Peter Purves and Albert Finney), about Joan Armatrading...and about the lifelong secret which could have destroyed her Blue Peter career.... more

Watch your step with big business, Gordon

19.05.08

Prepare for another Government U-turn. Having tried various ruses to boost revenue, Gordon Brown has been forced to think again... more

God given chance of a new hit

12.03.08

From the writer of Art and starring Ralph Fiennes, Tamsin Greig, Janet McTeer and Ken Stott, God of Carnage should be a polished comedy, says Nick Curtis in his preview.... more

Steal from your own mother, would you?

10.01.08

Director Sidney Lumet has a cast that ratchets up the tension in Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, a thriller about a robbery that turns into a colossal mess.... more

An angry voice from the back of the poll

15.11.07

Stewart Lee's Soho Theatre show will make you laugh and also think, says Bruce Dessau.... more

Bourne makes a run for it - and doesn't stop

16.08.07

The Bourne Ultimatum is a fast, furious and insistently inventive film that delivers more than other Hollywood biggies of the summer season.... more

Film gives Nigeria's side of the slave trade

09.05.07

One movie has an all-star cast of Ioan Gruffudd, Albert Finney, Romola Garai and Rufus Sewell. the other was filmed in Nigeria on a shoestring budget.... more

Guts and gravitas

22.03.07

Amazing Grace may not be an outstanding success, but it is hardly a failure. It gives a good idea of the horrors of the slave trade, and deals with the parliamentary debates without boring.... more

Last of the hellraisers

23.01.07

Peter O'Toole is the great survivor of that generation of hard-living actors. All good preparation for his new role, he tells Nick Curtis.... more

Will the Brits get the gongs?

21.12.06

British actors have put in some prizewinnning performances this year. They'll get Oscar nominations, just don't expect them all to win.... more

An unbelievable year in Provence

26.10.06

Ridley Scott directs Russell Crowe in A Good Year, a film that leaves the viewer feeling that it would be fun to leave the real world behind and bask in wine, food and women in Provence.... more

Jude is back on form

11.09.06

All The King's Men showed up for this year's Toronto Film Festival. As well as the movie of that name, in which Jude Law put in his best performance for years, the festival's guest list outgunned Cannes and Venice.... more