Bumbling Brumbies blown away by Super Hurricanes Hurricanes winger Fehi Fineanganofo dazzled with four of their seven tries against a hapless Brumbies outfit in a bonus-point Super Round win in Christchurch. AAP · Apr 25
'Lost for words' Crusaders' Super start at new home The Crusaders have ridden an emotional high to open their new Christchurch home with a win against the Waratahs that saw them avoid some unwanted history. AAP · Apr 24
Phoenix condemn WSW to unwanted new low, miss finals The Western Sydney Wanderers have claimed an unwanted maiden A-League Men wooden spoon after losing 2-1 to Wellington, who also fell short of finals. AAP · Apr 18
Bafta apologises after review finds failures in handling of John Davidson's N-word outburst The review found no malicious intent but identified clear structural failures. It comes days after the BBC also admitted its broadcast of the slur breached its own editorial standards. Euronews · Apr 10
Bafta issues ‘unreserved’ apology to Black and disability communities for racial slur incident An independent review into the incident found ‘a number of structural weaknesses’ in the organisation's planning for the awards ceremony The Independent UK · Apr 10
Bafta admits ‘structural weaknesses’ over racial slur broadcast at film awards However an independent review ‘did not find evidence of malicious intent’. Evening Standard · Apr 10
Airing of Bafta racial slur breached BBC standards, corporation finds Executive complaints unit finding relates to broadcast of N-word during awards ceremony The Guardian - UK · Apr 8
Is it wrong for me to want to see Kanye West perform at Wireless? Ye will return to the UK for the first time in over a decade to perform on all three days of Wireless Festival 2026. But can I compartmentalise my feelings about him enough to cop a ticket? Evening Standard · Apr 1
What issues will new BBC director-general Matt Brittin have to deal with? He joins the BBC at a tumultuous time as it faces a lawsuit from Donald Trump over the editing of a documentary. Evening Standard · Mar 25
TV tonight: Sharon D Clarke returns as the formidable DCI Ellis Ellis and her trusty sidekick uncover small-town grudges as they investigate a murder. Plus, catch the Bafta award-winning film I Swear. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · Mar 10
Oscars 2026: Who will win, who should win, and who shoulda had a look-in OSCARS 2026: Are we set for a ‘Sinners’ sweep? Or is ‘One Battle After Another’ going to win the war? Has Jessie Buckley’s anti-cat crusade ruined her chances? Or have we all been thinking about the Oscars too long? Adam White predicts who will reign supreme in the show’s major… The Independent UK · Mar 9
‘Did I just hear what I thought I heard?’: Sinners’ Delroy Lindo on Bafta N-word controversy The actor says he had only ‘a nanosecond’ to process the racial slur shouted during the Baftas as the BBC described the errors that led to its broadcast The Guardian - UK · Mar 6
Delroy Lindo shares what he thought for ‘nanosecond’ after hearing Baftas racial slur ‘Sinners’ actor was presenting an award when Tourette’s campaigner John Davidson experienced a tic The Independent UK · Mar 6
The Guardian - UK · Mar 6 I Swear to Materialists: the seven best films to watch on TV this week The brilliant film about Tourette syndrome that got lost in the recent Baftas fallout, and Dakota Johnson gets caught up in a love triangle between Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal
BANG Premier · Mar 5 Delroy Lindo breaks silence on BAFTA n-word controversy After being confronted with the racial slur while presenting an honour at the film award ceremony, actor Delroy Lindo has told how he processed the BAFTA n-word incident in a “nanosecond”.
The Mary Sue · Mar 4 Alan Cumming Takes on the BAFTAs Controversy: “We were all let down by decisions made” The event's host is speaking out.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 3 Baftas host Alan Cumming criticises BBC for ‘broadcasting slurs and censoring free speech’ ‘What should have been an evening celebrating diversity and inclusion turned into a trauma-triggering shitshow,’ says host after racial epithet was left in the broadcast
Evening Standard · Mar 3 Alan Cumming apologises after BAFTA racial slur broadcast by BBC: 'Trauma triggering s***show' ‘I’m so sorry for all the pain Black people have felt at hearing that word echoed around the world’
The Independent UK · Mar 3 Alan Cumming apologises for Bafta’s ‘trauma-triggering’ racial slur debacle IN FULL
BANG Premier · Mar 3 Alan Cumming apologises for 'trauma triggering' BAFTAs BAFTAs host Alan Cumming has issued an apology for the ceremony turning into a "trauma triggering s***show" after Tourette's campaigner John Davidson involuntarily blurted out the N-word while Sinners co-stars Delroy Lindo and Michael B Jordan were onstage presenting a prize.
The Independent UK · Mar 3 ‘We were all let down’: Baftas host Alan Cumming criticises BBC for airing racial slur ‘We were all let down by decisions made,’ actor and ‘Traitors US’ presenter says
Evening Standard · Mar 3 Alan Cumming on ‘trauma triggering’ Bafta film awards – ‘We were all let down’ The BBC and Bafta have apologised for the incident at the film ceremony.
The Guardian - UK · Mar 2 What the Baftas N-word controversy revealed about disability and race Letters: Readers on the Tourette syndrome campaigner John Davidson’s tic during the awards ceremony and the aftermath
The Guardian - US · Mar 2 Saturday Night Live Bafta sketch branded ‘horrific’ by leading Tourette syndrome charity Sketch featured parodies of JK Rowling, Bill Cosby and Mel Gibson saying controversial remarks were due to TS