The Diddy documentary is required viewing
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Give him no second chances
Alexander Larman
Alexander Larman is an author and the US books editor of The Spectator.
Friday
Wednesday
The Golden Globes loves Paul Thomas Anderson
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Hollywood might be in trouble, but the director isn’t
Tuesday
Welcome to the Wetherspoons of hotels
With the average cost of a hotel room in London costing around £250 a night – and not showing any signs of getting lower, either – most might think that a stay in the capital is a rarefied activity. However, the news that the Zedwell group of budget-conscious hotels have opened a mega-budget establishment in
Monday
The fight for the future of Warner Bros.
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The sale would create a monopoly the likes of which has never been seen before in the film industry
Harry could be about to spend a lot more time in Britain
For lovers of self-destructive hubris – a quality that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex surely possess in spades – the saga of Prince Harry’s security is surely the gift that keeps on giving. Not since Jeremy Thorpe ensured that his former lover Norman Scott was deprived of his National Insurance card has anyone publicly
Is Prince Harry about to spend a lot more time in Britain?
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His solo trip to the UK in September demonstrated that he’s capable of conducting a quasi-royal visit by himself
Sunday
The Andrew debacle has blown open the royal coffers for all to see
If you’ve ever dramatically broken up with an ex, only to find, to your miserable disbelief, that they keep popping up in the most inconvenient circumstances, you may feel a degree of sympathy with the royals as regards Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. A few weeks after he was stripped of his titles and ordered to leave Royal
Friday
Will the new Avatar be the last?
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We should hope so
Thursday
Who knew that King Charles could be funny?
Describing the royal family as ‘funny’ is not, perhaps, the first thing that comes to mind when talking about the Windsors. After all, anyone with a long memory remembers the horrors of It’s A Royal Knockout in 1987. Meanwhile, the performers who tend to get the biggest laughs from them at the Royal Variety Show are
Wednesday
Meghan's Netflix Christmas special is unendurable
On the Live Aid charity single, ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’, Bono sings the (somewhat incongruous) line ‘Well tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you’. Although he is referring to starving children dying in poverty rather than well-heeled Americans appearing on television, much the same sentiment applies to the unfortunate ‘special guests’ who have
Save the cigar lounge
If you’re fortunate enough to have been well-lunched at an establishment like the Ritz or 5 Hertford Street, your host may ask if you fancy a cigar. You would be forgiven for declining the opportunity to step out into the December chill. Say as much and a proud gleam may then enter your host’s eyes
Monday
Why is it taking so long to strip away Andrew's last title?
As Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor contemplates the wreckage of his public life and career, it would be easy to say that his disgrace is complete. In fact, there is a qualifier: his disgrace is almost complete. Despite no longer being a royal prince, the Duke of York or holder of the Order of the Garter, Andrew still
Friday
The new Stranger Things is loopy and sweet
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The fifth season is full of self-referential excess, but it’s also an example of great homage
Wednesday
When will the Beatles bandwagon end?
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Anthology 4 makes the extraordinary band seem ordinary
Monday
Philip Pullman is right: Oxford is a ‘frustrating and irritating’ place
The vast acclaim that Sir Philip Pullman’s latest novel, The Rose Field, has received has cemented his status as one of Britain’s most successful writers. Such authors are listened to, whatever their concerns, and so it has been both unsurprising and depressing that Sir Philip has been bothered not about literary matters, but about his
Saturday
What if the Emerald Fennell Wuthering Heights is good?
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Jacob Elordi might well be about to capture Heathcliff’s mixture of brutality and magnetism
Friday
Nuremberg and the overpowering greatness of Russell Crowe
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He skillfully suggests what a fascinatingly complex character Herman Göring was
Thursday
Brace yourself for the next chapter of 'Project Meghan'
A publisher acquaintance of mine has a long-standing bet that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will announce their separation before the end of 2025. While he has no concrete evidence for this speculation, he believes – as many others do – that the marriage of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry is one largely based
Wednesday
The death of the bloke film
If you saw the Edgar Wright–Stephen King adaptation The Running Man in the cinema last weekend, with Glen Powell as the eponymous fugitive in a dystopian future, then you were one of the relatively few. The film has flopped at the box office, with audiences resistant to Powell’s charms and Wright’s visual pizzazz, and in
Tuesday
Is Martin Scorsese America’s greatest living director?
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Apple’s new paean to the man certainly suggests as much
