Struggling to make the playoffs and not even the best team in Los Angeles. What, asks Rupert Cornwell, has gone wrong for Nicholson and Co’s favourite team?

Sony’s planners did a brilliant job of generating hype: the event was invitation-only

The Analyst

Like the ruined husk of Hadley's Hope however any signs of life are missing.

The Environment Agency will re-launch the bidding process for a lucrative flood defence contract after fears that the original tender suffered technical flaws similar to those that caused the West Coast Mainline fiasco.

Bidders asked to reapply for lucrative contract after rail fiasco raised procurement flaws

James Bond's 50th anniversary film was a phenomenal hit in the cinema, even by 007 standards – and fair enough.

Out of America: US sports teams are dropping Native Indian-inspired names that are viewed as racist

Tories accused of making same mistakes as former PM in Mali

A few final thoughts on last week's biggest U-turn since sliced bread over the English Baccalaureate Certificate.

The actor, who made controversial remarks about women's derrières in 2011, reveals he had to fend of advances off older men when he was a young actor

Having sucked the pith out of Great Expectations twice over (Gillian Anderson and Helena Bonham Carter both self-immolated as Miss Havisham), film producers are now delving into Oliver Twist for spin-off ideas.

Our contact at The Hollywood Reporter gives us the insider gossip from Tinseltown