Lewis Hamilton to learn new team-mate this month as Mercedes hurry to hire replacement for world champion Nico Rosberg December 4, 2016 Mercedes expect to hire a replacement for Nico Rosberg before the end of the month as the team comes to terms with the newly-crowned world champion’s shock decision to quit the sport. Rosberg, 31, announced his retirement on Friday, just five days after winning the Formula One drivers’ title for the first time – an [...]
Football Leaks: Jorge Mendes’ Gestifute denies Cristiano Ronaldo and Jose Mourinho tax avoidance allegations December 3, 2016 Jose Mourinho and Cristiano Ronaldo's agent Jorge Mendes has denied that his clients have taken part in a tax avoidance scheme involving more than £100m. The Real Madrid star and Manchester United manager were accused, along with other renowned players, of potentially improper transactions and moving earnings from image rights to the British Virgin Islands by [...]
Chelsea “apologises profusely” to former player for sexual abuse and admits confidentiality clause was “inappropriate” December 3, 2016 Chelsea have "apologised profusely" to abuse victim Gary Johnson and have admitted that the confidentiality clause inserted in their settlement with the former player was "inappropriate". The Premier League club asked for a confidentiality clause to be included in its £50,000 compensation package with Johnson after being approached by a law firm working on his behalf in the summer [...]
Robert Rauschenberg review: Tate Modern show is a whirlwind art history lesson but the man behind the work remains elusive December 2, 2016 Robert Rauschenberg has catholic tastes. He’s a bubbling cauldron of ideas – one of which is a literal bubbling cauldron – with little threading them together beyond a ceaseless, sometimes maddening desire to make things. All kinds of things: a white-painted canvas, sculptures built from salvaged junk – derided as “funfair” fodder by his contemporaries [...]
Moana review: Disney’s newest animation is a celebration of another culture rather than a mining of it December 2, 2016 Disney films have taken a perverse turn in recent years. Its live action movies – Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, the Jungle Book – are aping its animations, while its animations are becoming increasingly realistic. Nowhere is this more apparent than Moana, the studio’s latest musical blockbuster, whose CGI characters seem more real than half the [...]
Keaton Jennings hits confidence-boosting century as England Test debut awaits December 1, 2016 England newcomer Keaton Jennings has marked his Test call-up by notching an unbeaten century for the Lions as they beat the United Arab Emirates in Dubai. Durham opener Jennings has been added to England’s squad for the remainder of their tour of India after Lancashire’s Haseeb Hameed was sidelined with a badly fractured little finger [...]
Snowden review: Joseph Gordon-Levitt shapeshifts into everybody’s favourite whistleblower December 1, 2016 There’s much to enjoy about Snowden. Chief among them is Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s transformative turn as the NSA contractor turned superstar whistleblower, in which he valiantly – and at first distractingly – drops his voice a full octave and assumes the unique pout of man who’s been exiled to Moscow forever. The performance elevates an otherwise [...]
This House review: Sharply scripted and performed with blistering wit December 1, 2016 At a time when our political parties could only be more adversarial if they started dropping cartoon anvils on one another, This House offers a fascinating and historical insight into a comparatively chummy parliament still ticking along with some sense of post-war unity. Charting the travails of the Labour government of 1974-79 (preceding Thatcher’s reign), [...]
Sully review: Despite Tom Hanks’ best efforts this avoided-disaster movie fails to take off December 1, 2016 If you or I were to take control of a plane and crash it into a river we’d rightly be considered villains, but when Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger plonked his in the Hudson in 2009 he was hailed as an all-American hero. How, I ask you, is that fair? Most likely because it was his plane [...]
Major blow for Arsenal as key midfielder Santi Cazorla ruled out for up to three months December 1, 2016 Arsenal's Premier League title ambitions have been dealt a severe blow after the Gunners confirmed that midfielder Santi Cazorla is to undergo ankle surgery which will see him sidelined for up to three months. Cazorla has not featured for the north London outfit since 19 October, although the prognosis appeared promising on Wednesday when boss [...]