Line Of Duty BBC1, Sunday Rating: Love Fraud Amazon Prime Rating: Starstruck BBC3, Monday Rating: The finale of Line Of Duty was marked by an outbreak of national moaning. What? The ‘fourth man’ is Buckells? The Noddy Holder* of corruption? Also, a bumbling fool? But I swear to God, none of that really matters. More … Read more
SKY/NOW, DISNEY+, BRITBOX & ACORN TV I Hate Suzie Watching Billie Piper in this intense and very adult black comedy, it’s amazing to recall that when she began her career as what used to be called a ‘teenybopper’ pop star, it was assumed she’d be a here-today-gone-tomorrow phenomenon. In fact, she has repeatedly shown … Read more
Why isn’t she a superstar? St Vincent is still St Vincent, and she has made her masterpiece: Daddy’s Home delivers one highlight after another By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 8 May 2021 St Vincent … Read more
Monica Jones’s life reads like material for a Philip Larkin poem, squandered in the provinces… either way, love brought her only misery By Julia Llewellyn Smith Published: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 Monica Jones, Philip Larkin And Me John Sutherland … Read more
From Medical Minefield to No Such Thing As A Fish, You Must Remember This and The Fall Of Rome, the best podcasts to listen to this week By Struan Robertson Published: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 8 May 2021 Medical Minefield The Mail on Sunday’s health team, Barney Calman and Eve … Read more
Friday, April 23 After a rather bacchanalian dinner last night at private members’ club 5 Hertford Street, I staggered, deeply hung-over, to my local cafe for a caffeine-fuelled recovery mission. (To convey the full horror of my condition, The Sun later ran sneak paparazzi photos of me slumped, corpse-like, at my table with the not … Read more
The 14 songs are mostly pedestrian ballads: Life By Misadventure by Rag’n’Bone Man is a clear case of the diffident second album By Tim De Lisle for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 1 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 May 2021 Rag’n’Bone Man … Read more
Nomadland is beautiful to look at and Frances McDormand is quietly fab as Fern… but it’s also slow and has a semi-documentary style By Matthew Bond for Event Magazine Published: 22:01 BST, 1 May 2021 | Updated: 22:01 BST, 1 May 2021 Nomadland Cert: 12A, 1hr 47mins … Read more
Lean Fall Stand Jon McGregor Fourth Estate £14.99 Rating: It begins like a thriller. ‘When the storm came … Read more
From an offbeat noir by Jonathan Ames to The Dictionary Of Lost Words by Pip Williams, Paul Theroux’s absorbing tale and Rosa Rankin-Gee’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By John Williams and Anthony Cummins and Hephzibah Anderson and Alex Peake-tomkinson Published: 22:00 BST, 1 May 2021 | Updated: 22:00 BST, 1 May 2021 A … Read more