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Golden Globes 2026: the winners, the losers, the outfits – live!

This year will see films such as Sinners, One Battle After Another and Marty Supreme and shows including Adolescence and The Pitt compete

It’s not an awards ceremony without a pregnancy reveal is it? Wunmi Mosaku, the British Nigerian star of Sinners is wearing a canary yellow bespoke gown and sheer veil by Matthew Reisman, and the colour is steeped in meaning. “In Yoruba, we say Iya ni Wúrà which means ‘mother is golden’”, she wrote in Vogue. Top tier stuff. More colour please.

Wanda Sykes is the first celeb I’ve seen on the red carpet tonight with a “Be Good” pin, which some are wearing in honor of Renee Good, the unarmed woman shot and killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week, sparking national outrage. Others are wearing “ICE OUT” pins as part of an ACLU-endorsed protest of the Trump administration’s persecution of undocumented immigrants and larger $100m recruitment campaign aimed at expanding ICE presence in communities across the country.

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© Photograph: Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images

© Photograph: Rich Polk/2026GG/Penske Media/Getty Images

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Andrew Clements, Guardian’s classical music critic, dies aged 75

An outstanding critical voice, his deep knowledge and love of music was evident in everything he wrote

The Guardian’s long-serving and much admired classical music critic Andrew Clements died on Sunday aged 75 after a period of illness.

Clements joined the Guardian arts team in August 1993, succeeding Edward Greenfield as the paper’s chief music critic. His appointment was clinched by a personal recommendation to the editor from the late Alfred Brendel, who argued for Clements to get the job on account of his deep understanding of contemporary music. For the next 32 years, Clements ranged across all fields of classical music in his writing for the Guardian, and often beyond.

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© Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

© Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer

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If we silence voices we don’t agree with, we’re doing the work of extremists for them | Peter Greste

I do not need to share Randa Abdel-Fattah’s views to believe that removing her is wrong. This is why I’ve withdrawn from Adelaide writers’ week

If there has been a bright red thread running through my career, it’s the importance of freedom of speech. It underpinned my life as a journalist and correspondent, became central to the campaign to get me out of prison in Egypt and, perhaps paradoxically, it is why I have reluctantly withdrawn from this year’s Adelaide writers’ week.

On Thursday the Adelaide festival board announced it had removed the writer and academic Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the program, not because of anything she was proposing to say at the festival but because of things she said previously, reassessed in the aftermath of the Bondi attack.

Peter Greste is a professor of journalism at Macquarie University and the executive director for the Alliance for Journalists’ Freedom

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© Photograph: /Andrew Beveridge

© Photograph: /Andrew Beveridge

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‘The last actual hippie’: musicians pay tribute to Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir

Stars from Bob Dylan to Brandi Carlile remember rock band co-founder as ‘beautiful human’ after his death at 78

The death of Bob Weir, the Grateful Dead co-founder, rhythm guitarist, vocalist and writer of much of the legendary psychedelic rock band’s songs, drew a chorus of tributes from fellow musicians and fans who described him as a “musical guru” and “the last actual hippie”.

Weir recently survived cancer but died from “underlying lung issues”, according to a statement posted on Saturday on Instagram.

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© Photograph: Amy Sussman/Getty Images

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms sur HBO Max : faut-il avoir vu Game of Thrones avant de découvrir la série ?

HBO étend encore l'univers de George R.R. Martin avec l'adaptation du Chevalier errant, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, qui sera dévoilée à partir du 19 janvier 2026 sur HBO Max. Mais avec le lourd passif de Game of Thrones et de House of the Dragon, le visionnage est-il impossible pour les néophytes ? Pas du tout.

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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms sur HBO Max : faut-il avoir vu Game of Thrones avant de découvrir la série ?

HBO étend encore l'univers de George R.R. Martin avec l'adaptation du Chevalier errant, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, qui sera dévoilée à partir du 19 janvier 2026 sur HBO Max. Mais avec le lourd passif de Game of Thrones et de House of the Dragon, le visionnage est-il impossible pour les néophytes ? Pas du tout.

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Netflix and Paramount deals are both wrong for Warner Bros Discovery – and democracy

A congressional hearing this week underscored the danger a WBD deal would pose to journalism and the American public

Donald Trump wants CNN sold. He has said so repeatedly and publicly, demanding it “should be sold” in any deal involving Warner Bros Discovery. Now one of America’s largest media companies is racing to oblige him, while another looks to consolidate its power. Wednesday’s House judiciary hearing on streaming competition – where lawmakers voiced concern over the Trump administration’s influence and a potential merger’s toll on consumers – made clear just how dangerous both options are for free speech, audiences and democracy itself.

Netflix has bid $82.7bn for Warner Bros Discovery, only to be countered by a hostile $108bn takeover bid from Paramount Skydance, led by David Ellison, son of Trump’s ally Larry. Neither deal serves the public interest, and both are dangerous for the future of free expression. Both would produce an unprecedented concentration of power over what Americans watch and which stories get told.

Courtney C Radsch is director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at the Open Markets Institute

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