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Jan 28 6 tweets 2 min read
Looking for something to fill your Friday evening? 📺

Look no further👇

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1⃣ The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window on Netflix 🪟
Kristen Bell's new mystery series is out. Bell is Anna, the woman in the house, grieving and alone, who sets her sights on the handsome new neighbour until she witnesses a gruesome murder...
2⃣ The Afterparty on Apple TV+
You’re a fan of closed-room murder mysteries? And you’re a fan of fast-moving American comedies? Then this is the high-concept show for you 🥳
3⃣ Death in Paradise on BBC1, 9pm
A wealthy farmer is dead, the business associates staying at his farm are under suspicion and the smart DS Florence Cassell is up to her neck in it while staying undercover with the suspects, pretending to be an au pair...
4⃣ All of Us Are Dead on Netflix
This new horror series in which a group of high-school students find themselves trapped on campus as a zombie apocalypse grips the world around them 🧟
Find out what more there is to watch 👇
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Jan 29
British computer scientist Stuart Russell has predicted success in creating superintelligent AI “would be the biggest event in human history… and perhaps the last event in human history” thetimes.co.uk/article/is-the…
AI could lead us into a golden age, where we can enjoy lives that are no longer burdened by drudgery. Or it could destroy us as a species. Even if we learn to live with superintelligent machines, they may take all our jobs or create mayhem on battlefields thetimes.co.uk/article/we-sho…
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It means that on average, every 10 people infected will infect between seven and nine others 🦠
However, rates among schoolchildren are rising again.📈

One child in ten aged between two years old and school year six was infected in the week ending January 22, the ONS said🚸
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Described as the “American Downton Abbey”, Julian Fellowes’s much-anticipated ten-part drama #TheGildedAge has finally arrived on the screen 📺
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Taking place in NYC in the early 1880s, it tells a story about wealthy socialites battling for status.
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Marian Brook, a young woman whose spendthrift father has left her penniless, moves into a Fifth Avenue townhouse with her two patrician aunts
The story features a number of historical characters and takes place against a backdrop of real events. Here, we separate the fact from the fiction 👇

⚠️Warning: spoilers may follow ⚠️
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Jan 28
In only 12 months Denise Coates, her family and the business she started from a cabin pitched in a car park 22 years ago has contributed £481.7 million to the public purse💰thetimes.co.uk/article/who-is…
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Britain's top taxpayers👇
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Gaming can be done discreetly from the palm of a punter’s hand, with apps that are easy to use — but have serious implications for those who become addicted📱
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Denise Coates, the gambling entrepreneur, and her family have again topped The Sunday Times Tax List this year, contributing more than £480m to the public finances in 12 months
thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ta…
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So, who are the top 10 biggest taxpayers? 👇
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Jeremy King was at work as usual yesterday at the Wolseley, his flagship restaurant in the grand old car showroom on London’s Piccadilly.

Though King is threatened with losing his castle🏰thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ba…
Shareholder Minor International say the Wolseley has gone into administration suggesting financial difficulty — which King says isn't’ the case.

🗣️“People are saying, ‘Will I still be able to come in tonight?’ Yes, absolutely!”
So despite the headlines about the group being unable to pay its bill, the restaurants are not about to close? “Absolutely not!” And will he still be at the helm? “Yes,” King says, but adds: “It’s a battle for control” thetimes.co.uk/article/the-wo…
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