The Oscars ceremony next month will be an intimate, in-person gathering, limited to nominees, presenters and their guests at Union Station in Los Angeles. In an email sent to nominees on Thursday, attendees were informed there ‘will not be an option to Zoom in for the show’ amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Guests also must adhere to … Read more
As with most members of the legal profession, Sir Keir Starmer would crawl through an open sewer to hear the sound of his own voice. No topic is too obscure, too arcane, on which he would happily hold court. Weighty matters of Human Rights jurisprudence, for example, or the finer points of the Equality Act. … Read more
In my early years I suffered prejudice first hand. Once, when I was a teenager walking down a street, a woman realising I was blind declared to her child — within my hearing — that they were going to cross over to avoid me My entire political career has been a fight against prejudice of … Read more
Stephen King warns that a book publisher’s decision on Friday to cancel a planned memoir by Woody Allen is censorship. ‘The Hachette decision to drop the Woody Allen book makes me very uneasy,’ the bestselling author tweeted on Friday. ‘It’s not him; I don’t give a damn about Mr. Allen. ‘It’s who gets muzzled next … Read more