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Get Shorty: a madcap, loving spoof of the film biz
There’s a scene in Get Shorty when the mob-connected loan shark Chili Palmer, played by John Travolta, watches a screening of Orson Welles’ classic noir Touch of Evil. Coming out of it, he tells the actor Karen Flores (Rene Russo): “You know, Welles didn’t even want to do this movie, …
Tuesday briefing: Europe faces tough choices on Ukraine as US pursues own path
Good morning. Yesterday, European leaders
attended an emergency meeting in Paris
to discuss how best to respond to the shift in Ukraine policy from the US under Donald Trump. Today, US and Russian officials willmeet in Saudi Arabia
for preliminary peace talks. And while Volodymyr …AFL fans expected to fork out as Saturday live coverage goes behind paywall in 2025
The head of Foxtel says AFL fans will “run towards the light” this season and subscribe to its pay TV service or sports streaming platform Kayo when they realise much of the season’s live Saturday coverage has gone behind a paywall.
A new AFL broadcast agreement with Fox Sports and …
‘We must avoid a chilling effect’: the CMA chief on the UK’s pro-growth shift
Signs by the lifts in the Canary Wharf headquarters of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) remind staff not to talk about their work in public, given the billions of pounds resting on its decisions.
But a very public debate is taking place about how the competition watchdog works and …
Chiltern Firehouse luxury hotel blaze caused by falling wood from pizza oven
‘Clubs are going to disappear’: grassroots rugby crying for help in Six Nations’ shadow
You may have noticed that the sports pages are less, well, sporty than they once were. There is rather more chance of reading stern-faced stories about Sir Jim Ratcliffe and the Glazers or Manchester City’s latest legal dispute than, say, the muddy winter joys of grassroots rugby union. It is …
Lessons for Elon Musk from the original Doge | Brief letters
As Elon Musk’s unelected “Doge” troops slash and burn US federal departments (
Elon Musk appears with Trump and tries to claim ‘Doge’ team is transparent, 12 February
), it is ironic to note that theDoges
of ancient Venice were always elected, and by a process that …Xi Jinping meets Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Chinese tech chiefs amid economic slump
China’s president, Xi Jinping, has met some of the country’s top business leaders, including the Alibaba founder, Jack Ma, as he attempts to halt an economic slump in the world’s second-largest economy.
Xi met Ma, who was at the centre of a crackdown on the tech industry in recent years, …
Monday briefing: What you need to know about the underreported bird flu crisis
Good morning.
Picture this: you’re in a supermarket looking for breakfast bits or something easy for lunch. You wander over to the egg aisle, scan the prices, and think: what is going on?
In the UK, egg prices have, in some cases, risen by nearly 20% since the start of …
Peter V’landys issues plea to Donald Trump to attend NRL showcase in Las Vegas
Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese is the world’s most powerful rugby league fan, but in an election year that may be another crown under threat. US president Donald Trump has been invited to attend rugby league’s season-launching showcase in Las Vegas next month during a blitz on American television by …