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grand slam today, while hoping england do them a favour by beating france. and it has been pretty unsettled of late but as we look towards the next couple of days, high pressure is building, something brighter and drier on the horizon, i will be back with all the details. it's saturday 13 march. our top story: a metropolitan police officer will appear in court today, charged with the kidnap and murder of sarah everard, who went missing while walking home in south london ten days ago. wayne couzens, who's a8, was taken to hospital yesterday for a second time in two days, to be treated...

to freezing in some spots, most of us in towns and cities around four or 5 degrees, here is that dry if not sunny weather in the morning. are particularly across eastern and southern areas. the clouds are thickening quite quickly in the morning and into the afternoon towards the west, so all that rain are moving into the north west of england, wales, midlands too and eventually that will spread to other parts of the country as well. eastern scotland, aberdeenshire, it should have a decent afternoon with some sunshine here, but on the whole, the morning certainly, but the afternoon we...

hello and welcome to the film review with me, mark kermode, rounding up the best new home viewing releases as we look forward to cinemas reopening in may. in the oscar—tipped current release the united states vs billie holiday, a federal agent with deeply divided loyalties is sent to infiltrate and undermine a powerful voice of civil rights. that scenario is echoed injudas and the black messiah, a gripping drama inspired by real events from director and co—writer shaka king. it's not a question of violence or nonviolence, it's a question of resistance to fascism or nonexistence w...

One of the first pieces of advice you’ll get when faced with social media harassment is to not engage. Don’t give trolls your time and energy. Don’t try to dunk on vitriolic bots because fighting back seems natural. Better to mute offending accounts, log off until the storm blows over, and move on. But in Ivo van Aart’s revenge thriller “The Columnist,” our hero escalates the tension by showing up to her harassers’ residences and confronting them about their actions. Then, she fights verbal violence with physical violence.  Advertisement Femke Boot (Katja Herbers) is the type o...

Last modified on Thu 11 Mar 2021 10.45 EST To paraphrase Nietzsche: gaze too long into Twitter, and Twitter will gaze into you. Anyone who writes for a living on the internet has surely fantasised about payback time for all the keyboard warriors, callous below-the-liners and unrepentant trolls out there. Ivo van Aart’s movie gives full rein to that desire and is snappily directed – but in the end there is something self-satisfied and sententious about his feminist revenge flick. Katja Herbers plays Femke Boot, a newspaper columnist drowning in internet misogyny, especially after she...