Drama filmsReviewThis fictional cycling and doping drama focuses on a support rider – an unsung hero who sacrifices his own dreams of winning the yellow jersey In 1998, a doping scandal rocked the Tour de France when a team masseur was caught with a pharmacy of banned substances in the boot of his car before the first stage in Ireland. The incident is the inspiration for this solid, workmanlike Irish drama with a strong performance by Louis Talpe as Dom Chabol, a fictional Belgian cyclist looking down the barrel of retirement at 38; he just can’t imagine life beyond cycling.

Michael Jackson This article is more than 4 years oldDiana Ross calls for end to criticism of Michael JacksonThis article is more than 4 years oldRoss describes Jackson as ‘a magnificent incredible force’, following extensive allegations of child sexual abuse against him Diana Ross has voiced support for Michael Jackson in the wake of the explosive Leaving Neverland documentary, which features extensive allegations of child sexual abuse by Jackson. Ross, who duetted live with Jackson and knew him for many years, wrote on Twitter: “This is what’s on my heart this morning.

Florida This article is more than 8 months oldFlorida teacher defends showing Disney movie: ‘I’m just being accepting’This article is more than 8 months oldJenna Barbee, who is under investigation, insists film is related to curriculum and warns investigators are traumatizing her students A Florida teacher under investigation because she showed her class the Disney animated movie Strange World which features a gay character has defended herself on social media, insisting the film related to the curriculum and warning that state investigators were traumatizing her 10- and 11-year-old students.

BooksInterviewLaura Lippman: ‘A lot of novelists choose to comfort the comfortable. I don’t do that’Lauren Mechling in New YorkThe acclaimed crime author delivers her most political novel to date about a teen with an unwanted pregnancy Laura Lippman is so free of affectation that it can be hard to remember the crime writer is one of our living greats. (Superfan Stephen King called her “the closest writer America has to Ruth Rendell”.

Marina O'Loughlin on restaurantsRestaurantsReview‘The second outing from the team behind the Clove Club is a departure: this time, they’ve come over all Italian. Well, ish. They call it “Britalian”’ I promised myself I would not use the words “difficult second album”. Fail. But burden of expectation is a terrible thing, the reason so many people go to restaurants cursed with the full gamut of Michelin stars, or those lurking at the top of “world’s best” lists, only to come out thinking, “Is that it?