Peaky Blinders’ Cillian Murphy turns into sinister Tommy Shelby to film series six in Liverpool

Peaky Blinders star Cillian Murphy looked every inch the suave gangster as filming resumed for the sixth and final series in Liverpool on Thursday. The actor, 44, donned a black evening suit and a white silk scarf as he joined co-star Paul Anderson to film the formal scenes. It comes after producers confirmed Sam Claflin … Read more

Sinister graffiti threatening Michael Gove appears in Belfast

Sinister graffiti featuring Michael Gove’s name, address and a threatening message has appeared in a staunchly loyalist area of Belfast. The menacing ‘we don’t forget, we don’t forgive’ message was scrawled across a series of hoarding boards in the Sandy Row area of Northern Ireland’s capital. The street is in a well-known loyalist area which was … Read more

Sinister graffiti threatening Michael Gove appears in Belfast

Sinister graffiti featuring Michael Gove’s name, address and a threatening message has appeared in a staunchly loyalist area of Belfast. The menacing ‘we don’t forget, we don’t forgive’ message was scrawled across a series of building site hoarding boards in the Sandy Row area of Northern Ireland’s capital. The street is in a well-known loyalist area … Read more

Police in Northern Ireland probe sinister graffiti threat aimed at Brexit port workers

Police in Northern Ireland are probing a sinister graffiti terror threat made to Brexit port workers. The investigation was launched after the words ‘all border post staff are targets’ appeared spray painted on a wall in Larne, County Antrim, on Thursday. It is not known who was behind the latest threat, but MPs have warned … Read more

Police in Northern Ireland probe sinister graffiti threat aimed at Brexit port workers

Police in Northern Ireland are probing a sinister graffiti terror threat made to Brexit port workers. The investigation was launched after the words ‘all border post staff are targets’ appeared spray painted on a wall in Larne, County Antrim, on Thursday. It is not known who was behind the latest threat, but MPs have warned … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: Attacking awkward truths is a sinister sign of weakness 

Someone as wild as Donald Trump seems to have been installed at the Department of Health and Social Care. On Saturday evening this character tweeted an attack on a piece which appeared in that day’s Daily Mail.  The article had cited numerous statistics which suggested that the effects of Covid-19 are less uniformly destructive than … Read more

STEPHEN GLOVER: Attacking awkward truths is a sinister sign of weakness 

Someone as wild as Donald Trump seems to have been installed at the Department of Health and Social Care. On Saturday evening this character tweeted an attack on a piece which appeared in that day’s Daily Mail.  The article had cited numerous statistics which suggested that the effects of Covid-19 are less uniformly destructive than … Read more

Her stories terrified America – but writer Shirley Jackson’s private life was every bit as sinister

Shirley Jackson liked to recount how she got the idea for the story that shocked America while she was out doing the family grocery shopping one morning. She worked out the plot on her way home, plonked her toddler daughter in her playpen, put away the groceries and sat down to bash it out on … Read more