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What hope does the poor Beeb have against a streaming service with more viewers than Netflix, Disney, Amazon, Warner, Paramount, Apple combined?

The former Liverpool hero and England manager, who has died, is remembered by The New World’s editor-in-chief

The tournament has the same qualities as Romeo and Juliet, La Bohème and Brokeback Mountain

The artist was hired to design a series of wine labels - and delivered dark visions of alcoholism

The courage and freedom of Tahmineh Monzavi

The sitcom about a robot carer is a strange and melancholy affair

He’s consistently brilliant and consistently under-rated - and The Odyssey is another reminder to enjoy greatness while it lasts.

Christopher Nolan’s grand vision confirms him as the David Lean of his generation, the IMAX magus

It’s not outright hatred, but there’s definitely something there. And the football brings it all out

We really don’t have to do it – but the law is so badly drafted that sometimes there’s only one outcome, and everyone is left devastated

Great art should be able to exist without modern moral judgment

Biographer Sathnam Sanghera on our unresolved problems with the late singer

Can books still change the world? At the Venice Biennale, the Irish artist contrasts Renaissance dreams with our current crisis

A new documentary captures the conundrum of the ultimate individual in a team sport

Gene Roddenberry’s franchise understands ageing, loss and friendship in ways George Lucas’s never has

For two weeks, I told everyone about the book I was reading – including an older lady on a train. And then I read one of its stories…

The problem is that it’s impossible to separate what a brain does from what it actually is

The martial arts star wrote down his philosophies and hopes as a means of enacting them

The pet name Andy appeared in the 1920s – and became widespread from the 1980s

Germans used to be against air conditioning. Not any more

Not even the president’s ego and Fifa’s greed have managed to stop the joy of this World Cup

Typing on a keyboard is fast and convenient, but it puts your brain in neutral. Scientists have found that writing by hand can have very different effects

He appeared in some of the biggest TV and movies of our time, but being a Kiwi, he became a quiet kind of megastar

Our greatest film writer’s new book says that Hollywood has made us all complicit in populism’s rise and intellectualism’s fall

I thought supporting both teams would be a win-win. It stopped feeling like one shortly after kick-off

Over 2,500 of Italy’s cinemas have closed since the pandemic. But a group of film enthusiasts has a plan to turn things around

Leona Carrington painted Villa Pilar after receiving shock therapy – then gave it to her doctor

There are many ways in which women are ‘kept’, sometimes by men, sometimes by members of their own family. But that has never worked for me.

The photographer documented a city’s outsiders with wit and tenderness

Tari Lang’s memoir discusses growing up under Indonesia's military dictatorship while much of society carried on as normal