New statistics show a significant drop in youth knife crime rates in Coventry, a meeting of the City Council has heard. It follows the introduction of a new multi-million pound violence reduction project in the city. Data suggests that serious incidents involving blades in the last six months have dropped...
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In the last series of political satire, The Thick of It, showrunner Armando Iannucci makes the big set-piece plot story a public inquiry into the ethics of leaking. A clear mimicry of the contemporaneous Leveson inquiry, it forces all the show’s deplorable characters to air their dirty laundry and wilt...
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Reports about the death of linear TV have been grossly overstated. Or have they? It is often said that the days of appointment-to-view television are behind us, as streaming rules the roost and habits change. Is this the case, or was it ever so? It’s time to turn back the...
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He has seen off Roger Federer and nearly Rafael Nadal. He has seen off Grigor Dimitrov, Alexander Zverev and the first act of great pretenders. Now is he poised to do it all over again? Novak Djokovic, regenerated, shows no signs of ceasing. There was a cool callousness to the...
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It was a rare uncomfortable glimmer in Rishi Sunak’s armour, but boy did it show. The Prime Minister was being grilled by Today’s Nick Robinson on Suella Braverman’s suggestions multiculturalism “had failed”. And in one fell swoop, the challenge facing him was set clear. The PM’s first year in the...
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It’s been nearly two years since the Boris Johnson premiership began to disintegrate against allegations of pandemic parties in Downing Street. The impact of the scandal both on Johnson’s reputation and public trust in the present government reverberates. But with the facts now outlined publicly in the Sue Gray report,...
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It was one of the most tragic and astonishing scandals of our time. The revelations just over a decade ago that Jimmy Savile, one of Britain’s best-known entertainers, was a paedophile and prolific sexual abuser stunned the nation. Since then, Savile’s presence in the pantheon of UK television has been...
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I’m sure Jake Humphrey is a nice guy. There, I said it. Conscience cleansed and caveats launched, I can now move forward to the brunt of my critique of the High Performance podcast, which must be one of the worst things ever created. There are many things to dislike about...
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Olympic champion, world champion, national sporting icon. They are all titles which indicate sporting legend, but for Jakob Ingebrigtsen mask a far nastier and unhappier truth. In a staggering set of allegations against their father Gjert, Jakob and brothers Henrik and Filip have denounced his behaviour as violent and abusive....
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From enemies to lovers: enter George Osborne and Ed Balls. These politicians of a long passed bygone age known as 2015 have gone on an interesting journey. Back then, they were on opposite sides of the House of Commons despatch boxes, trading blows on the economy as chancellor and shadow...
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For months if not years, GB News had been existing in an uncomfortable grey area. A moment was coming which would expose the fragility of its current regulation; the laxity by which it has been operating since its foundation two years ago. And it now looks as if that moment...
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The comedian and writer Alex Horne will be awarded with an honorary doctorate from the University of Warwick. Creator of Channel 4’s Taskmaster, Horne’s accolade comes following his work on the ‘School Tasking’ initiative: a programme aimed at encouraging young people to engage with the world of law. The initiative...
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In 2073 our ancestors will be celebrating the 100-year anniversary of The Boar, the Earth will be about 2 degrees warmer, and North West will be 60. Needless to say, times are uncertain. A comforting thought would be, what will not change at Warwick until then? The unwittingly cringy (at...
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