The Democrats are badly in need of a messiah

Edward Luce: None of candidates hoping to beat Trump looks like uniting a disparate base

Magical thinking crosses party lines in America

US Politics: Left may prefer white magic to Trump’s black, but everyone is dabbling

Screen icon of Hollywood’s golden age

Lauren Bacall: September 16th, 1924 - August 12th, 2014

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Lauren Bacall, star of Hollywood’s golden age, dies

Actress with throaty voice shot to fame in 1944 opposite future husband Humphrey Bogart

Culling quangos

“It’s a part I’ve waited 77 years for” - Bruce Dern on ‘Nebraska’

After a 50-year career, Bruce Dern is finally getting some Oscar attention. Acting is “an endurance competition,” he says. “It’s like a marathon: you don’t start racing until mile 16. It will take a long time,” he tells Tara Brady

Dallas Now: Trying to Forget

Tourists still gawp at the grassy knoll, but today’s city is an entirely different place to the Dallas of 1963