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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man review – Tommy Shelby returns for muddy, bloody big-screen showdown | Film

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After six TV series from 2013 to 2022, which caused a worrying surge in flat cap-wearing among well-to-do men in country pubs, Peaky Blinders is now getting a hefty standalone feature film, a muscular picture swamped in mud and blood. This is the movie version of Steven Knight’s global small-screen hit, based on the real-life … Read more

Ali Khamenei grabbed power and held it, at bloody cost

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LATE LAST year protests broke out in Tehran over the collapsing value of Iran’s currency, the rial. By early January they had spread to most of the country’s 31 provinces. Ali Khamenei, the country’s 86-year-old supreme leader, warned that “rioters must be put in their place”. Several days later, after that threat failed, Mr Khamenei … Read more