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The curtain fell on a wild week for defendant Donald Trump with Friday’s cross-examination in New York of David Pecker, the former owner of the…

Nixon (Season 1 Episode 5 of 5): The panel considers US President Richard Nixon. Evil Genius with Russell Kane airs on Sky History at 2:05 AM, Saturday 23 December. The panel considers US President Richard Nixon

Nixon (Season 1 Episode 5 of 5): The panel considers US President Richard Nixon. Evil Genius with Russell Kane airs on Sky History at 9:00 PM, Monday 18 December.

The American screenwriter and producer Norman Lear, who is as responsible as anyone for changing the face of television comedy over the past 75 years, has died, at the age of 101. As one colleague remarked, Lear won five Emmys for programmes including All In The Family, Sanford and Son and Good Times: the latter of which will be revived by Netflix, in a Seth MacFarlane-produced animated incarnation.

The late creator of Archie Bunker and Good Times remade the sitcom in his own progressive image. But he was no bleeding heart

Less than a week after becoming Conservative leader in 1975, Mrs Thatcher had breakfast with the US secretary of state, Henry Kissinger. Not long afterwards, Kissinger privately advised the then President Gerald Ford, “Soames may be a big Conservative leader sometime. I don’t think Margaret Thatcher will last.”

He put the interests of the state before the wishes of the people

Virginia Rep’s “Martha Mitchell Calling” revisits a Watergate whistleblower.

I don’t object to calling some of our royalty “His/Her Royal Highness (HRH)” (because royalists otherwise would hang me) but there really should be an allowance for the degree to which each one performs their duty with class.

Written by and starring Ian Shaw, it's about as fun as a being stuck on a boat in the middle of the ocean for weeks on end with three tiresome men.