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The US rapper has released an emotive statement on the matter.

There’s a lot of anticipation for Michael Hirst’s new Viking-themed offering on Amazon Prime Video. The creator is responsible for the hugely popular Vikings series on History, which helped bring the Norse raiders into the mainstream. Amazon appears to be so confident that Bloodaxe will be a success that it has already commissioned a second season of the show. The first hasn’t even aired yet, but it’s expected to drop in 2027. Confidence in Project Driven by Popularity of Vikings...

A Touch of Frost and The Darling Buds of May executive producer Pip Burley recalls the making of two classic British television dramas – and the moment he knew Catherine Zeta-Jones was destined for stardom.

Anastasia Nikolaeva's sharp satire Portent asks what happens when the system matters more than the people inside it.

"They have got no idea what the freedoms of this country are supposed to be about.”

Zhang Pu, brother of Wild Swans author Jung Chang, says his novel about a doomed Han-Tibetan romance was banned in China because it “refuses to look away” from Tibetan suffering – and says he would be detained if he returned. Writing exclusively for The London Economic, he explains why the story of Han Ge and Ata remains dangerous in a country where politics can reach into love, family and memory.

The health secretary is the latest politician to condemn the booking.

Families hold silences that shape us more than we realise. For Richard K. Lowy, discovering the truth about his father’s life as a teenage twin subjected to Josef Mengele’s medical experiments at Auschwitz became an encounter with history at point-blank range — and a warning about how propaganda, denial and dehumanisation still take hold in societies everywhere.

“They’re being shamed all the time and made to feel like they’re a problem."