It was the latest non-government approved tirade from the right-wing firebrand, who was brought ... year she claimed multi-culturalism in the UK had failed, despite her own background as the ...

Alica Vikander and Jude Law star in Firebrand (Brouhaha Entertainment/MBK Productions) In the film, his ally Bishop Gardiner takes the complaint as greenlighting Catherine’s removal from court.

The biggest surprise of Firebrand is that it’s taken this long for Katherine Parr, sixth and final wife to Henry VIII, to receive her own revisionist portrait. She comes with her own tagline, ...

No-one has ever described Diane Abbott as a riddle or a mystery, let alone an enigma. If ever an MP were frustratingly – or, if you prefer, reassuringly – predictable, it’s her. Abbott’s views on ...

"Firebrand" is "sumptuously photographed" and "magnificently costumed", and Law's performance is "so gloriously disgusting you can't take your eyes off him", said Deborah Ross in The Spectator.

Firebrand, in its climax, veers wildly off the historical record. Yet, Parr’s accomplishments speak for themselves. Not only did she navigate court with the deftness needed to keep her head ...

Firebrand’s Henry is a grasping monster, both literally and metaphorically putrid – a 16th Century “Harvey Weinstein,” as the Telegraph’s reviewer noted. When the film premiered at ...

Such is the case for Catherine Parr (Alicia Vikander), Henry’s last wife, in Karim Aïnouz’s first English-language film Firebrand. It opens with a statement that we know history via men and ...

At the beginning of historical drama Firebrand, a title explains how history often tells only of “men and war”, leaving the rest to our imagination. Adapted from Elizabeth Freemantle’s novel The Queen ...

The biggest surprise of Firebrand is that it’s taken this long for Katherine Parr, sixth and final wife to Henry VIII, to receive her own revisionist portrait. She comes with her own tagline, after ...

I’ve been thinking for years that story deserves to be told on screen. Now it has been – sort of. Firebrand is based on a 2013 novel by Elizabeth Fremantle (the first of her “Tudor trilogy”) and ...