Новости за 08.06.2015

As Alex Sharp stood on the winner’s podium in New York, Tony theatre award in hand, he must have been tempted to blow a raspberry at Britain’s biggest drama schools.

The new Government’s £12bn of planned cuts in benefit spending promise pain for many people who can do little to deal with the financial shortfall they’ll suffer. They are trapped by failing markets for housing and jobs.

The Labour Party’s recent electoral defeat triggered – fleetingly – a bizarre proposal. Some of its senior figures put forward a formal mechanism that would give them the option of removing a leader during a parliament. Even before a new leader is elected, some contemplate ways in which it will become possible to remove him or her.

Here’s a sentence it would have been impossible to write a few years ago: London’s parrots are being targeted by birds of prey.

As details start to emerge of why supermodel and national treasure Kate Moss was removed by police from easyJet Flight EZY2232 – Bodrum to Luton – it is fun to speculate on what might have led our favourite Croydon export to become “disruptive”.

The Almeida launches its six-month season devoted to ancient Greek drama with Robert Icke's daring and deeply disquieting free adaptation of the Oresteia.

Ten years on from Judd Apatow's "The 40-Year-Old Virgin," the issue that confronts, dominates and depresses Steve Carell's main character is all too real for many Japanese men.

Sunday night's Tony Awards saw Brits Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe leave with acting gongs, but while all the honouring of the best of Broadway was going on, a lot else was happening besides.

UK Athletics will sift through the medical records of Mo Farah in detail to ensure no foul play has been committed by Britain’s stellar athlete.

As if tragic Charles Kennedy wasn’t enough, this weekend there is Kenny Sansom, former England and Arsenal first-team regular, all over the tabloids, despairing of life after decades of alcoholism.

The true nature of big oil sponsorships was exposed last week, after it was discovered that Shell had sought to influence the content of the climate change exhibition "Atmosphere", which it sponsors at the Science Museum.

British actors Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe will be bringing home Tony Awards after winning major gongs early on in the New York ceremony last night.

1. I wrote about the remarkable rise of Oliver Letwin in The Independent on Sunday yesterday, because he is the key to last week’s changes to Cabinet committees, which are designed to deliver David Cameron’s pledges.

British actors Helen Mirren and Richard McCabe were early winners at the 69th Tony Awards on Sunday night amid high expectations for UK artists.

This is not the Harriet Harman we know. Her interview reveals a refreshingly frank acting Labour leader, substituting her usual defensiveness with a near-reckless candour about her party’s failures.