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David Walliams' career and controversies including Britain's Got Talent and Little Britain
The entertainer shot to fame on Little Britain and also has best-selling series of children's books.
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Yabba dabba doo! Could these bulging, Flintstones-style towers be the future of eco-building?
Ruggedly good-looking and greener than bricks and concrete, Petra Heights are made of three-metre slabs of rough rock. Could they herald a new stone age? Our writer fires up his Flintmobile There’s been a geological eruption on London’s Finchley Road. Great chunks of pink basalt and igneous larvikite appear to have exploded from the railway cutting, shooting skywards to form teetering towers. Anyone trying to find Finchley Road & Frognal station need wonder no more: just look for the multistorey Stonehenge. Countless apartment towers have sprouted above London’s stations in recent years, a res
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Met Police investigating more 'potential criminal allegations' about Brand
Det Supt Andy Furphy says the force had received "several reports during the trial and since the trial".
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International
Australians are streaming more music than ever – but homegrown songs are being skipped
Annual review of the streaming market shows discord between Australian listeners and local music
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International
13 Assassins: Takashi Miike’s viscerally violent remake is full-throttle samurai mayhem
The Japanese film-maker doesn’t hold back in his rendition of the 1963 film, with an epic battle that remains one of the most impressive action scenes in history
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Whispers in the Woods review – paddling in the moonlight in tender study of human-animal interaction
Director Vincent Munier takes his father and son into the Vosges forest in France and finds lynx, serene foxes and deer
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What would you like to ask our writers about 2026?
Share your questions for our live panel as the Guardian looks back on the biggest stories of the year
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Old Vic 2027 season to feature Damian Lewis in a ‘provocative’ Henry V and Milly Alcock as Miss Julie
Rupert Goold begins his tenure as artistic director with a version of Shakespeare’s history play, followed by shows starring Supergirl’s Alcock and Arinzé Kene Damian Lewis is to play Henry V at the Old Vic in London in the first production under the theatre’s new artistic director, Rupert Goold. Goold will direct what is billed as a “provocative” version of Shakespeare’s history play that challenges “what makes a leader a legend”. It will be Lewis’s first major theatre role since he starred in The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? almost 10 years ago. He has previously played Romeo and Hamlet on stage,
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‘It wasn’t long until he asked me if I’d ever had sex before’: David Walliams accused of preying on young women for sex
Comedian and former Britain’s Got Talent judge alleged to have groomed fans he met when they were as young as 15 and harassed women in the workplace over a number of years. He denies the allegations Continue reading...
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International
Revealed: David Walliams accused of using celebrity status to prey on young women for sex
Guardian reports accusations after court rejects legal attempt to prevent publication. Walliams denies any wrongdoing
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Traces of Justice review – ‘Chinese Sherlock Holmes’ at centre of arresting forensic cop thriller
Based on real scientist Cui Daozhi, this sharp feature has thumping set pieces and knotty puzzles set across 30 years of gripping cases
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Judging this year’s Booker prize taught me our humanity cannot be captured by algorithms and data
As the demand for information and transparency about our lives increases, these brilliant books dealt with shadows, mystery, privacy and intimacy, says Guardian commissioning editor Rebecca Liu
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