Seventy years ago today Hitler’s armies at Stalingrad surrendered after 200 days of the most savage fighting. Geoffrey Roberts on the moment the long, crooked and twisted journey to today’s democratic Europe began

THOR (12A) has all the hallmarks of a movie made not for its own sake but for the purpose of establishing a franchise.

IT would be hard to explain to anyone under, say, 40, the international excitement that surrounded America’s Bobby Fischer’s dethronement of Soviet Grandmaster and chess world champion Boris Spassky in 1972.