A colleague once told me that I shouldn’t take Mike Leigh’s films with contemporary settings as slices of everyday life. He was right: they’re hyperreal. Especially Hard Truths, in which his take on a ...

Cloudy. High chance of showers along the coastal fringe, medium chance elsewhere. The chance of a thunderstorm, possibly severe with possible heavy falls. Winds east to southeasterly 20 to 30 km/h.

A trough extends offshore over northern waters towards the Whitsundays, with an embedded tropical low east of Cairns. A high [1018 hPa] near New Zealand is maintaining a ridge over the remaining ...