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A sparrowhawk’s actions in the country diary column leave one reader choking on their breakfast. Photograph: Attila Kovács/EPA
A sparrowhawk’s actions in the country diary column leave one reader choking on their breakfast. Photograph: Attila Kovács/EPA
Tue 2 Feb 2021 13.01 EST
Last modified on Tue 2 Feb 2021 13.04 EST
Each day, at breakfast, I turn first to your wonderful country diary column to provide cheerful sustenance against the unremitting gloom to follow elsewhere. Sadly, Nic Wilson’s dramatic account (1 February) of the kingfisher being taken by a sparrowhawk, following its own hunt, had just the opposite effect. Friends of the three-spined stickleback may feel that justice was done, but I’m still choking on my cornflakes and coffee.
Does Anthony Hopkins agony over 20-year rift with daughter lie behind his most powerful role for years? Actor s raw portrayal of dementia-stricken man in The Father sparks questions
Anthony Hopkins plays opposite Olivia Colman in the £18m drama, which critics have likened to a horror film
The 82-year-old actor has often spoken about drawing on his own family history to infuse his best-known roles
But this performance as an embattled father raging against his offspring is, perhaps, his most poignant
Hopkins has been estranged from his own daughter Abigail, a 52-year-old singer, for more than two decades