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The cultural legacy of the 1984 rock-mock-doc βThis Is Spinal Tapβ is of sufficient amplitude that, to give the bandβs guitarist Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) his knob-twiddling due, itβs gone way past 11. Perennially quotable, ad-libbed to Brit-accented perfection by co-creators Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer and finessed into an iconic spoof by director…
π Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app π He may have described himself as a “fighter not a quitter”, but even Peter Mandelson couldn’t survive new and lurid revelations about his relationship with convicted paedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The ultimate political animal, Lord Mandelson was no stranger to scandal – having twice been…
What seemed like an impossible matchup a few years ago is now a reality: SaΓΊl βCaneloβ Γlvarez and Terence βBudβ Crawford will face off in a fight that promises to break audience records. The highly anticipated duel will take place on Saturday at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, where the Mexican will put his WBC,…
Britain’s biggest online diamond jewellery retailer is exploring the sale of a stake in the business to outside investors for the first time in its 69-year history. Sky News has learnt that The Diamond Store, which is owned by its founding family, is working with advisers on a process to bring in new backers amid…
Professor Kevin Waite had just finished a seminar on the run-up to the American Civil War on Friday morning when a student cautiously raised her hand. βCan I ask about the Charlie Kirk situation?β she said in Waiteβs classroom at the University of Texas at Dallas. The student, he said, wondered whether recent events carried…
In βAm I Roxie?,β a world premiere one-woman-show at the Geffen Playhouse, Roxana Ortega, a working actress and alum of the Groundlings Theatreβs Sunday Company, revisits the period in her life when she was the caregiver for her mother, whose memory was unraveling. When Ortegaβs father died of a sudden heart attack outside the post…
Kemi Badenoch has accused Sir Keir Starmer of “lying to the whole country” about what he knew regarding Peter Mandelson’s correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Lord Mandelson was this week stripped of his position as ambassador to the US amid fresh scrutiny over his years-long friendship with the convicted paedophile. The prime minister initially defended the…
Theyβre bad. Theyβre really bad. Theyβre, like, 0-12 bad. The Bad News Bruins are a quarter of their way to completing a winless season, and whoβs to say they wonβt do what no UCLA team has done in more than a century and lose every game they play? New Mexico tight end Simon Mapa (85)…
The owner of Uswitch, one of Britain’s biggest price comparison platforms, and Zoopla, the online property portal, is plotting a break-up that could lead to the sale of some of Britain’s best-known consumer websites in the next 12 months. Sky News has learnt that Silver Lake Partners, the American private equity firm, has hired two…
The crew had just poured a concrete foundation on a vacant lot in Altadena when I pulled up the other day. Two workers were loading equipment onto trucks and a third was hosing the fresh cement that will sit under a new house. I asked how things were going, and if there were any problems…
