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Actor, 90, stars in ‘The Great Escaper’ opposite the late Glenda Jackson

The season’s star turns include Ridley Scott’s portrait of the great French warrior, a true-crime western from an American great and Timothée Chalamet in a chocolatier origin story

Brief letters: Origins of a political actor | Scottish tenements | Bee-eaters’ wasted journey | Croquet resistance

Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament

After retiring from politics, Glenda Jackson made three films: one for TV, Elizabeth is Missing, and two for the big screen, Mothering Sunday and the upcoming The Great Escaper. The people behind those projects remember a fierce, funny and formidable titan

It seems likely that MPs will vote on Monday to approve the report of the Commons Privileges Committee condemning Boris Johnson for misleading the Commons (though many Conservatives may abstain or will be deliberately absent).

Colleagues in showbiz and politics have paid tribute to the actress and former Labour MP following her death

There was never anything shrinking about the confidence Glenda Jackson projected on stage and screen in her heyday. Afflicted with an uncommon common sense, her characters were defined by their sharp intelligence, independence and, yes, irritability. They were nobody’s fool, even when they wound up with the short end of…

The ITV lunchtime programme was halted on Thursday