*This review contains spoilers for the Homeland season six premiere*

Chef’s Table is pure escapism. It’s completely detached from reality and doesn’t have a shred of self-awareness. It’s a bearded dude exuberantly sprinkling wild micro mushrooms over a piece of elk salted with crystallised tears next to a lake in stunning HD with hazy colour grading. It takes food so very seriously - to the point of absurdity - and I wouldn’t change a thing about it.

'The truth is it was the Fourth of July and a public holiday and we were playing a game,' says actor

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author’s new collection of short stories about displacement and exile are an antidote to Donald Trump’s plan to ban refugees from entering America

Sadly, the answer has turned out to be ‘certainly not Colin Firth’

‘This work is by an artist from a nation whose citizens are being denied entry to the United States’ 

Also: Chuck Prophet, Ron Gallo and Noveller

Just don't expect to get any work done once you start

Sandi Toksvig’s comedy, set in an old people’s care home, is about the plight of the elderly, but it is also a message against the treatment of senior actresses, who don't get good parts anymore

This re-worked piece on the suppression of women by a disabled-led company offers a different perspective without preaching