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  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Whites Only: Ade’s Extremist Adventure, review: is apartheid alive and well in South Africa?

    A black man enters a whites-only town in South Africa. What could possibly go wrong? The man in question is Ade Adepitan, the former Paralympian-turned-presenter.

    2-min read
  • EntertainmentThe Telegraph

    Coma, review: Jason Watkins and Channel 5 produce another gripping middle-class nightmare

    Coma (Channel 5) is one of those thrillers in which an ordinary person makes a split-second decision that has terrible consequences. For these dramas to be effective, we need to think: yes, in that situation I might behave just like that. Here, this is helped by the casting of Jason Watkins, an actor who is entirely believable as a mild-mannered everyman pushed to his limits.

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  • EntertainmentThe Telegraph

    Is there more than one Banksy? The five most popular theories

    Like the outcome of Russian elections, or a new series of I’m A Celebrity…, the appearance of another Banksy artwork is entirely predictable. In ages gone, empires rose and fell against the backdrop of the turn of the seasons, or the cycles of the moon.

    10-min read
  • NewsThe Telegraph

    This hit-job on Angela Rayner isn’t quite what the public need

    “Although the Devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon him.” So wrote Jonathan Swift in 1710. These days, Swift’s improved liars – politicians – might express an obsession with stamping out fake news and disinformation, but we all know that when it comes to their own records and background, the truth is rarely so readily found.

    6-min read
  • NewsThe Telegraph

    Ade Adepitan: ‘I went to the whitest place on Earth – and saw a global shift to the far-Right’

    Of all the strange places I’ve visited in two decades of presenting travel documentaries, there’s no doubt that Orania, South Africa, was the most bizarre and unsettling. As a black man with a disability, as far back as I can remember wherever I’ve travelled, I’ve always been in the minority. It’s something I’ve got used to; these days when I arrive at a new destination I barely notice the awkward stares.

    6-min read
  • EntertainmentThe Telegraph

    Mel Giedroyc: ‘I’ll never borrow too much from the bank again’

    Best and worst is a regular interview in which a celebrity reflects on the highs and lows of their life

    10-min read
  • EntertainmentThe Telegraph

    An ugly glimpse behind the scenes of an American megastore

    Adelle Waldman’s follow up to The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P., her debut novel, has been anticipated since 2013, but I couldn’t help approaching it with dread. Whereas Nathaniel P. charted the romantic life of a successful Brooklynite writer, Help Wanted begins with an “org chart”, and unfolds in the back warehouse of a strip-lit Town Hall superstore in rural New York state. Town Hall, loosely modelled on Target, is where the “logistics team” work, a varied bunch of misfits overseen by an awful

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