The Nottingham killer visited a member of a drug dealing gang before he took the lives of three people in a knife rampage, The Telegraph can reveal, as the victim’s families raised concerns about the lack of toxicology tests.
It was a somewhat surprising report to read in a title with the Independent’s famous “eagle” logo sat above it. In a long-winded, turgid item, the report railed against Jews for running a “hidden empire” and possessing a “plan for a world takeover”. Loyal and right-thinking British readers of the Independent, the newspaper founded in the 1980s as a safe haven for liberal, independent thinking, were thankfully spared the diatribe.
Today, we analyse the replacement of the Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valerii Zaluzhny with Oleksandr Syrsky, look in detail at their records, experience and views on the challenges ahead, and we also dissect Vladimir Putin’s interview with Tucker Carlson.
They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So the fact that Dizzee Rascal’s latest album cover, released today, bears an uncanny resemblance to a multi award-winning cover of this newspaper’s weekend magazine is really rather cheering, if a little bizarre.
In an interview with the Telegraph earlier this week, Mathew Baynton, star of BBC sitcom Ghosts, spoke about how hard it has become to get a “green light” on original family blockbusters. “These days,” he told us, “you can’t do anything in that area that doesn’t have existing IP. You need to give the financiers a pre-existing brand. You can’t say, ‘I’ve written this idea about this kid who is friends with a crazy scientist’, and hope to make it into a big film. And that is very sad.”