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BBC Drama ‘Ministry Of Time’ Adds Adeel Akhtar, Ciaran Hinds & Eight More To Cast

BAFTA winner Adeel Akhtar (Sherwood) and Academy Award nominee Ciarán Hinds (Belfast) have joined the cast of A24’s BBC drama series Ministry of Time. Also announced this morning are Hong Chau (The Whale), Tamara Lawrance (Get Millie Black), Emily Fairn (The Responder), Josh Finan (Say Nothing), Aisling Loftus (Sherwood), Tawfeek Barhom (Cairo Conspiracy) and Nahuel […]

DeadlineDeadline•Jesse Whittock21 Sept

Ed Davey rejects claims party is ‘sleepwalking into irrelevance’ under his leadership – UK politics live

Lib Dem leader says he is proud of party’s record at Brighton conference Good morning. Ed Davey became Lib Dem leader in 2020, which means he is technically the longest-serving leader of a national party in the UK. (“Technically” because, while Nigel Farage only became leader of Reform UK in his current incumbency in 2024, he had led it before when it was called the Brexit party and, if you include Ukip, he has been leader of the anti-migrant, anti-EU right in British politics for more than 20 years.) After six years in charge, it is inevitable that some Lib Dems are starting to complain and, with the Lib Dem conference taking place in Brighton, Davey has been giving interviews this morning where he has had to respond to complaints from his critics. The most vocal has been Julian Brazil , the leader of Devon county council, who told the BBC yesterday that the Lib Dems were “sleepwalking into irrelevance” with Davey at the helm. We’ve grown really fast in recent years under my leadership. Record number of MPs. We’re running more councils than the Conservatives – councils up and down the country. [I’m] really proud of that record and it means when you have a bigger party, you can’t please everyone all the time. I would say to the Devon councillor, we’ve now got six Liberal Democrat MPs in Devon. That’s not happened since the 1920s. We have a huge number of councillors across Devon and are leading the way in Devon, and I could go around the rest of the country. Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Andrew Sparrow21 Sept

Diana's brother likens media treatment of Harry and Meghan to princess' experience

London: Earl Charles Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, has compared the media treatment of Prince Harry and Meghan to the intense scrutiny his sister faced before her death, warning that important lessons must be learned from that period. In an interview published on Sunday, Spencer said tabloid coverage of Diana and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex could be "really, really unpleasant". “If you look at an article in a tabloid about Diana or the couple that you were mentioning, Harry and Meghan, you know, they can be really, really unpleasant,” he told the BBC. “I think it would be really beholden on people to learn from Diana's example. “I'm not here to speak for Harry and Meghan, but for anyone who's being destroyed in this way daily, it must be such a cancerous influence in their life.” Princess Diana died aged 36 in a car crash in Paris in 1997 as photographers pursued her vehicle on motorcycles. Her death prompted widespread public grief and renewed debate over the role of the media in covering the private lives of public figures. Prince Harry and Meghan have previously spoken about the impact of what they described as a toxic media environment on their lives before stepping back from royal duties and relocating to the United States in 2020. The couple also launched legal actions against several British tabloid newspapers before returning to Britain in August. Spencer has attracted significant attention in recent days following the publication of excerpts from his book, Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, serialised in the Daily Mail. In the book, he accuses Diana's former husband, King Charles, of sounding “giddily elated” in the hours after her death. Buckingham Palace responded by saying that the King “is mindful that the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss”. The publication of the book and the return of Harry and Meghan to Britain present fresh challenges for King Charles, who continues to undergo treatment for cancer. Diana's family has long accused the royal household of failing to provide sufficient support to the princess before her death, allegations that have also been echoed by Prince Harry, whose relationship with much of the Royal Family remains strained.

MBMobile Business•Reuters20 Sept
  • neutral toward Diana, Princess of Wales · 95%

TV tonight: a spin-off from Abi Morgan’s soapy, glossy, entertaining divorce drama

Lawyers juggle private chaos with professional brilliance in this new series. Plus: Michelle Keegan’s DI tackles a murder case and a corrupt police force. Here’s what to watch this evening 9pm, BBC One A spin-off from Abi Morgan’s The Split, this is another glossy divorce drama with the same soapy beats – and more lawyers who have a better handle on their clients’ relationships than their own. Aria is expecting to inherit her family’s Manchester firm from her bereaved father; it’s why she’s been putting off her own wedding for 10 years. But an old flame, a high-profile case with a podcasting couple and the discovery of an affair soon change her course. Hollie Richardson Continue reading...

The GuardianThe Guardian•Hollie Richardson, Phil Harrison, Hannah VerdierAli Catterall and Simon Wardell20 Sept