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That floating poo was far too symbolic! It’s the TV letdowns of the year
From Carrie Bradshaw cleaning up mess in And Just Like That to Kim Kardashian’s zero-star clanger and Bonnie Blue’s sexcapades, here are the biggest duds of 2025Where to begin with the love/hate Sex and the City spin-off? The show was plagued with woeful writing, cringe-inducing character developmen...
‘Move fast, break stuff’: how tech bros became Hollywood’s go-to baddie in 2025
From Stanley Tucci’s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor’s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindsetBetween the slash-and-burn US government reboot led by a dank meme fan and the relentless pushing of AI by venture capital-backed blowh...
Dad drove young son around Derby while four times the limit for cocaine
Stephen Doherty said he felt OK to drive - and he's been banned from the roads
‘You don’t really see it in fiction’: how one novelist brought ‘Detty December’ party season back from Ghana
Jessica Carmichael’s coming-of-age YA novel is set during the huge annual diasporic return to west Africa, which ‘changed the trajectory’ of her lifeEach December, hundreds of thousands of diaspora Nigerians and Ghanaians travel to their ancestral home countries. For many, the draw is the end-of-yea...
Cape Fever by Nadia Davids review – a power struggle between mistress and maid
Set in a colonial city after the first world war, this story of a battle of wills between an elderly widow and her young servant is deftly toldThe second novel by South African author Nadia Davids, winner of the 2024 Caine prize, is set in a “small unnamed city in a colonial empire”, shortly after t...
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story review – shall we all vow not to watch true-crime this twisted in 2026?
This terrifying documentary about the Utah life coach convicted of extreme child abuse feels supremely grubby. How about a new year’s resolution not to watch – or make – anything this grim ever again?We are always aware, I think, of man’s inhumanity to man. The latest true-crime documentary from Net...
‘By 15, I was hanging out with Skrillex’: the idiosyncratic club music of reformed EDM kid Villager
Disillusioned by his early EDM success, Alex Young bought hardware, embraced UK dance culture – and reinvented himselfFrom Washington, DCRecommended if you like Floating Points, Jon Hopkins, Joy OrbisonUp next A slew of new music from the vaultIt was probably the moment when he was paid $10,000 to D...
Saunas, electronica and air guitar: Oulu, Finland’s tech city, is European Capital of Culture 2026
This Nordic city and digital hub is having its moment in the (midnight) sun, offering cultural, arty events and pleasingly eclectic sillinessA floating community sauna on the frozen Oulu River seemed as good a place as any to ask Finnish locals what they think of the European Capital of Culture band...
Songs about love, poverty and swimming in Bacardi lemon: Dutch ‘levenslied’ captures a new generation
The Netherlands’ guttersnipe answer to French chanson and German schlager is as popular as ever – but has it lost its roots as the defiant voice of the working class? Our writer sways along at the Muziekfeest van het Jaar to find out‘U doet wat, precies, meneer?’ My chic twentysomething hairdresser...
The Zorg by Siddharth Kara review – scarcely imaginable horrors at sea
A vivid and chilling account of the deadly voyage that triggered the abolition of the Atlantic slave tradeOver the nearly four centuries during which the transatlantic slave trade operated, 12.5 million Africans were trafficked by Europeans to the Americas. 1.8 million of them perished on the voyage...
No Time for Goodbye review – well intentioned drama about the loneliness of the asylum-seeker
Journalist Don Ng’s debut feature raises interesting questions about the asylum experience – but his film is too sentimental and superficial to truly answer themThis is a film made with the best of intentions – and it has some good insights into the loneliness and isolation of seeking asylum in the...
TV tonight: unseen footage of comedy great Ken Dodd at his peak
His wife Anne watches the newly discovered tapes for the first time. Plus: Joe Wilkinson’s family sitcom. Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5“It’s funny how the taxman always writes to you in brown paper, isn’t it? I think they must know what you’re going to do with it afterwards.” For t...
New future for Derby's high streets as shops leave it behind
Office space developers have been eyeing the empty premises in the city centre
Charity heroes among Derbyshire people celebrated in King's New Year Honours 2026
13 people living and working in Derbyshire who are in the New Year Honours list