The Latest Breaking News from Idris Elba

Southport killer’s terror threat referral ‘should have been escalated’

The Home Secretary has said the Prevent learning review concluded Axel Rudakubana should have been referred to the next stage of the scheme.

Evening Standard · Feb 5, 2025

Reinstate youth programmes to combat knife crime

Letters: Social education is fundamental to steering young people towards better lives, writes Dr Annette Rimmer. And Linda Theobald backs community schemes to tackle violence

The Guardian - UK · Feb 3, 2025

The week in TV: Brian and Maggie; Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis; Paradise; Mo – review

Harriet Walter and Steve Coogan star as Margaret Thatcher and her friend turned foe; Idris Elba fronts a harrowing study of street crime; there are riddles aplenty in a new US thriller; and art echoes life in the bittersweet Mo

The Guardian - UK · Feb 2, 2025

Idris Elba: Our Knife Crime Crisis on BBC One review: a fearless look at a harrowing subject

4/5 There are no easy answers here: but Elba tackles the issue with thoughtfulness and grace

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025

Idris Elba suggests removing kitchen knife points to combat violent crime

The actor has suggested that more can be done to help combat the UK’s knife crime crisis

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025

TV tonight: Steve Coogan and Harriet Walter go head to head as Walden and Thatcher

James Graham’s new drama recreates their famous last interview. Plus: Idris Elba’s urgent campaign to stop knife crime. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Jan 29, 2025

Idris Elba says young people in British gangs are ‘not big and scary’

Idris Elba: A Year Of Knife Crime is due to be released on BBC One and iPlayer in early 2025.

Evening Standard · Jan 29, 2025

Idris Elba details how he spent a night in a South African prison to ready for Nelson Mandela role

The actor was the lead in the 2013 biopic about Nelson Mandela’s 27 years in prison

The Independent UK · Jan 26, 2025

Hijack season 2 has started filming, here’s what we know so far about Idris Elba’s plane thriller

The high-octane Apple TV+ series was renewed for a second season in January

The Independent UK · Jan 22, 2025

From a colonial hill town to Idris Elba’s island masterplan: what do these Sierra Leone developments tell us about urban elites?

Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, is celebrated as a city founded to resettle freed slaves in the 1790s. Over the following century, it became a truly cosmopolitan port city as people from across western Africa and the Americas made it their home.

The Conversation · Jan 3, 2025