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Strictly Come Dancing week seven results – as it happened
On a weekend of erratic scoring, Dani Dyer topped the table. Cach Mercer and John Nellis were tied at the bottom. But who would fall at the contest’s midway mark?
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Saturday Night Live: Druski hosts and James Talarico cameos, but where’s the post-election comedy?
SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’
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Older women are as varied and individual as we have ever been
Letters: Thank you, Jo Brand, for not offering us a formula for growing older, writes Dr Denise Taylor. Plus a letter from Louise Mothersole
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You can say that again, Sam … in Latin
Letters: From Ursus Nomine Paddington to ‘Deskibus collapsibus’ – readers respond to a letter on learning the language
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Orbiting Orbital review – Nitin Sawhney casts a spell inspired by Samantha Harvey’s Booker winner
Nitin Sawhney’s eclectic global fusion brings in new writings from Harvey, drawings by Antony Gormley and collaborations from academics in space and ecosystems
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What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out
Longing for someone – or something – can be even more thrilling than getting what you want. That knowledge has inspired endless movies, but what do real people yearn for? We asked the question in Glasgow
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Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart
DC Fairhurst and Lucy Green’s film could have been a by-the-numbers genre piece. Instead it is fun, frothy and refreshingly different
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Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’
Allen, the first live-action film from Pearson’s Ludo Studio, follows a man who met an alien as a kid – and becomes obsessed with bringing him back Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If, for whatever reason, you want to feel a bit sad, think too hard about what Elliott from ET would have been like as an adult. Or Coraline, or Matilda, or Chihiro, or those kids in Mary Poppins. The most amazing thing that ever happened in their lives – magic nanny, alien friend, psychic abilities, otherworldly adventures – was already over when they were kids. If that bad Harry Potter play taught us an
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Monica Dolan looks back: ‘I was repulsed by Rose West, yet I had to work out what made her tick’
The Bafta-winning actor on her toughest roles, teenage crushes, and the joy of finding her people at drama school
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The ‘Taylor Swift of romantasy’ has a new book. Why are people mad? – Full Story Podcast
Lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman joins Taylah Strano to unpack the global phenomenon of romantasy and the divisive release of Sarah J Maas’s latest novel
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Iphigénie en Tauride review – stylised staging of opera of bloodthirsty priestesses and divine intervention
Coliseum, London English National Opera’s production of Gluck’s opera has strong leads in Christine Rice, Nick Pritchard and Jacques Imbrailo. But why is it sung in French? Human sacrifice first; ask questions later. The story of Iphigénie among the Taurians, adapted from Euripides by Gluck and his librettist Guillard in 1779, is being told at English National Opera for the first time. It’s sung in French – more on that later – and staged by Lyndsey Turner, whose sparky Noyes Fludde won the company an Olivier award back in 2020. Within the narrow rectangular frame of Soutra Gilmour’s set, Iphi
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How CrossFit helped shape the macho fitness culture of Trump’s America
The movement founded by Greg Glassman grew into an empire, helping popularize the masculinity aesthetic embraced by Pete Hegseth and RFK Jr
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