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Best books about British history to read in 2024

From ancient Londinium to the complex legacy of Imperialism, read of what lies beneath the surface of our modern existence

Evening Standard

From Migration to Curb Your Enthusiasm: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

The latest animation from the people who brought us Minions looks set to get kids all in a flap, and Larry David’s awks-tastic sitcom is back for a final season

The Guardian - UK

Migration review – zany ducks-in-the-city adventure from White Lotus’ Mike White

Co-scripted by White (a vegan), and superbly voiced by the likes of Awkwafina and David Mitchell, this family comedy about migrating ducks is a fun ride with clipped wings

The Guardian - UK

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TV tonight: the chilling story of a TikTok influencer convicted of murder

It is the first in a new series about social media’s role in murder cases. Plus: David Mitchell tests comedians’ outdoors skills. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Bradley Cooper and Carey Mulligan settle down to talk about Maestro

Graham Norton’s guests this week are proper Hollywood hotshots. Plus, it’s time for some hardy perennials in Gardeners’ World. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

The Best Sketch Comedy TV Shows Of All Time

Here are CinemaBlend's picks for the best sketch comedy TV shows of all time, from Monty Python to Key & Peele.

Cinemablend

Unruly by David Mitchell review – a Horrible Histories with added swearing

Tales of familial hatred, infidelity, murder and spectacular incompetence, in a joyfully narrated history of England’s kings and queens

The Guardian - UK

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The big 2023 quiz of the year

Barbie was on the big screen, Taylor Swift on the airwaves… How well do you remember the year that was?

The Guardian - UK

I’m not keen on our aversion to keenness

Princess Kate is criticised for being enthusiastic in a new royal book, but using eagerness as a slur is silly and snobbish

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Celebrity older mothers like Tana Ramsay and Victoria Coren Mitchell are giving women false hope

I no longer do a second take when I read news that a woman in her fifties has given birth. This month alone, Victoria Coren Mitchell, 51, announced the arrival of her second child with her partner, the comedian David Mitchell, who is 49. Tana Ramsay, who turns 50 next…

Evening Standard

TV tonight: Lorraine Kelly’s highly emotional return to Lockerbie

The presenter revisits the residents she spoke to in 1988 after Pan Am flight 103 was bombed. Plus: Alan Davies launches David Mitchell through the air. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK

‘A feeling of total freedom’: Valeria Luiselli welcomes chance to lock her fiction away in the Future Library

The Booker-nominated Mexican author will be the next writer to donate a work to the 100-year art project

The Guardian - UK

Unruly by David Mitchell review – monarchs behaving badly

Sweary realism gives colour to these accounts of England’s most appalling kings and queens

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: ‘We’re celebrities, get us out here to work!’

David Mitchell’s survivalist comedy challenge show Outsiders returns with a smuggling challenge for six campers. Plus, Peter Mullan strikes terror into the heart of Edinburgh. Here’s what to watch tonight

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Five Great Reads: Joan Collins, William the Conqueror and one of the world’s most fascinating cities

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

The Guardian - UK

‘From divinely inspired warrior to compulsively snacking gammon’: David Mitchell on England’s unruly royals – exclusive extract

In this excerpt from his new book on England’s kings and queens, David Mitchell finds unlikely parallels between William the Conqueror and James Bond

The Guardian - UK

Let’s hear it for England’s royals – and centuries of incompetence, criminality and failure

We’re often told the current crop lack the dignity that monarchy deserves. But what about the losers, adulterers and delusional brutes who came before?

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: a dolphin sex scandal, a critic’s top film picks and looking back on Peep Show

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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Evening Standard

Finishing every Booker Prize novel is ‘impossible’ says judge Robert Webb

‘You finish as many as you can and the other ones you put to one side after a respectable but undisclosed fraction has been read’

The Independent UK

‘Peep Show is about consistently stubbing your toe against life’: The sitcom at 20 by its creators and stars

David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Sam Bain and more talk to Ellie Harrison about the cult hit’s ‘circus of anxiety’ and ‘massive rudeness’, plus all of those ‘Succession’ comparisons, and the most excruciating filming moments

The Guardian - UK

‘The scripts were the funniest things I’d ever read’: the stars of Peep Show look back, 20 years later

It launched the careers of Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain, Mitchell and Webb, plus Olivia Colman – but it nearly got cancelled. Two decades since its first episode, its stars reflect on the show that made them

The National (Scotland)

Hearts 4 Partick Thistle 0: Jambos breeze past Jags to reach quarter-finals

The Edinburgh club took charge of the cup tie early on at Tynecastle and kept their Championship opponents at an arm's length throughout.

Ideal Home

Should you cut wet grass? Experts weigh in on the perfect conditions to mow your lawn

The rain doesn’t show any signs of letting up, but is now the right time to be cutting the grass?

WhatToWatch

Ludwig: release date, cast, plot, trailer, interview and everything we know

Ludwig features David Mitchell as a puzzle genius and loner who is forced to impersonate his twin brother.

Daily Record

Council hits back after claim it has taken in zero asylum seekers

Minister for Immigration Robert Jenrick MP made claim about both East and North Ayrshire Councils in response to SNP MP's question on Illegal Immigration Bill in the House of Commons.

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