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Homegrown review: Timothy McVeigh and the rise of the Trumpist threat

Jeffrey Toobin has written a brilliant, chilling book on the Oklahoma City bombing and the rise of Republican extremismJeffrey Toobin has combined two great books in one. The first is an edge-of-your-seat thriller, describing Timothy McVeigh’s every mo...

‘I kept my alcoholism secret on Mission: Impossible set,’ Simon Pegg reveals

The actor, now recovered, tells BBC’s Desert Island Discs he became ‘very sneaky’ about his drinking in the early 2000sSimon Pegg faced his own mission impossible, tackling both his addiction and eventual recovery, while working on the major Hollywood ...

City on Fire review – like An Inspector Calls on steroids

There’s a rock-solid plot to this New York-set thriller about a college student’s shooting. It’s full of great performances that plunge you into the city’s myriad possibilities for good – and evilJosh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, the creators of Appl...