Category: 5. Entertainment

I always forget how good Emma Thompson is. That is partly because she tends to work in film rather than television and I last made it to the cinema in the mid-90s. It is also partly because she is always so … how can I put this? … so Emma…

As a teenager, I was very much a “don’t put me down for cardio” girl. At school I would volunteer to be the goalkeeper as it required the least amount of movement. When it came to sports day, if I couldn’t blag a sicknote, I’d…

A new immersive exhibition inspired by the experiences of a Coventry family will explore the impact of South Asian heritage on modern Britain.

Stories That Made Us – Roots, Resilience, Representation, opens on 14 November at Herbert Art Gallery…

The Hunting Party

9pm, U&Alibi
The US crime thriller in which former FBI profiler Rebecca Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) returns to clean up after a secret underground prison explodes. A skin-crawling opening to episode two proves just how terrified…

Owning Up, by George Melly (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 30s)

I could never watch (the verb is chosen advisedly) George Melly singing without feeling embarrassed, and the same goes for reading his book. He is so anxious to tell you which birds he had…

Three years ago, when I was serving at the US National Security Council, we were faced with a nuclear crisis. As Bob Woodward described it in his book War, the Intelligence Community assessed that if Russian forces were facing a collapse in…