Screengrab: Slobs v snobs

Richard Lutz guides you to the best film on the box this week. It’s crass, boorish, strong, hilarious .

Review: Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Themes and Variations

Richard Lutz takes in three pieces by the Birmingham Royal Ballet

Howard: Exclusive Septic Bladder interview shock

Sir Howard Elston, our sports editor, sits down with the beleaguered chief FIFA honcho as he faces a 90 day suspension over lurid totally false allegations that he is a cheating lying self-deluding thief.

Not at all like local democracy

Allowing local authorities to retain business rates only rights one of many wrongs imposed on them by central government writes Steve Beauchampé

Screengrab: Scarlett and the tartan terror

Richard Lutz offers you the lowdown on the best movie on the flatscreen this week. And a warning: it’s creepy.

Review: Henry V at Stratford

Richard Lutz takes a seat for that most patriotic of Shakespeare plays .

It ain’t over… til it’s over

Richard Lutz salutes the passing of a baseball star who died today and who was beloved by all New Yorkers.

Screengrab: When Pete met Audrey

Let’s go back to the swinging sixties with O’Toole and Hepburn, says Richard Lutz.

Cameron: careful, courteous and chomping at the bit

Richard Lutz checks out David Cameron during the new friendly Prime Minister’s Questions in Parliament.

Cameron will have to be careful come Wednesday

Richard Lutz says the Prime Minister will have to have change his upper class bully boy tactics once he faces new Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Screengrab: A hard tough glimpse of America’s underbelly

Richard Lutz checks out the little gems hidden inside your flatscreen.

Sir Howard on the Tom and Jerry Show

Our political editor Lord Howie Elston (DOA) reports on the Labour Party leadership bunfight.

Queen scores 50th international goal

From Sir Howard Elston, at pitchside as the monarch passes Bobby Charlton’s record.

Howard’s big bad question bonanza

Sir Howard Elston, the smartest guy in the newsroom because he can access Wikipaedia from a magic chip implanted in his pancreas, responds to your frantic queries.

Military resistance

Richard Lutz ponders the cash Britain spends on defence and asks whether it’s really worth it.

Howard Exclusive: Immigrants to be given seats in the House of Lords

Sir Howard Elston, our Westminster correspondent, reports on a new initiative to solve two problems at once.

Howard shock exclusive: Cumbo to play Trump

Our man in the front stalls with the bag of caramel popcorn, Sir Howard Elston, with a world-first scoop from Theatreland.

Screengrab: Joan Crawford spins the wheel

Richard Lutz digs deep for the movie of the week on the box and surfaces with a forgotten crazed cowboy movie that you can’t ignore.

Howard: Thousands queue to live in Dismaland UK

Howard Elston, our entertainments editor, reports on today’s biggish story.

Screengrab: American twinset

Richard Lutz returns to the tube and checks out this week’s top movies on the box.

Screengrab: Illya Kuryaken here we come

Richard Lutz peruses the TV listings for the best film on the box this week.

America, bloody America

Richard Lutz ponders the state of the States.

Newsroom Diary: Heading South to the North

Richard Lutz leaves Scottish journalism and heads for the back channels of England newspapers. 

Tales from a freelance

Richard Lutz continues his slow rise forty years ago to journalistic mediocrity

Review: Analogue Tales: Sounds from Arden

Richard Lutz tunes into a new album from a Birmingham songwriter.

Newsroom days: Rising without trace

Richard Lutz continues his early assault on the world of journalism as a cub reporter.

Days of My Youth: 2nd June, 1975

Richard Lutz walked into his first newsroom 40 years ago today – 2 June, 1975. He revisits his entry into journalism that began a slow rise to mediocrity.

Screengrab: Heroism is for suckers

Richard Lutz forces himself from the flatscreen to give you the best pair of films on the box this week

Ask Howard: Did Septic Bladder take kickbacks?

Sir Howard Elston DOA answers the big question of the day.

Universities challenged

University league tables are out today. Warwick shone and neighbouring Coventry is a rising star.