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Yesterday we wished a very happy Bros trailer day to all who celebrate, and the reactions since its drop have made it clear that fans can’t wait for the film’s September release to come...

​Ronnie O’Sullivan took a cigarette lighter to the tip of his snooker cue as his expected procession to a seventh World Championship turned into an agonising stumble inside the Crucible this afternoon.

Poet McGough revealed he was given them by McCartneys brother Mike when they were part of pop group The Scaffold.

We had asked Allen to come and read his poetic clarion call Howl as one way of putting the new, very small, branch of the provincial university, long denied to the city, on the map. We would bring the world into it again. I have a photograph of Allen standing together with Chanchi Mehta, my old teacher, trouper and Indian playwright, local poet Alden Nowlan, and I. Allen is telling us that the previous night he had picked up the Gideon Bible by his bedside and re-read The Book of Ecclesiastes...

AstraZeneca after Brian Patten  or are on life support in the prison infirmary psychiatric wing we have a new name for the absolute: AstraZeneca. Even those who get  emotional at dinner parties know there’s no talking back to AstraZeneca, the one who now decides who gets to go outside and who must remain in the cupboard. Old women, whose husbands the bedside locker since this time last year, get down on their bony knees and ask AstraZeneca to please keep them in there for good. The Minister...