Homeland recap: season three, episode 12 The Star
Posted on May 7, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
Homeland: episode by episodeHomelandEverything changed in this big, shocking season finale - so why did it feel as it was retreading old ground? Plan your festive viewing with our interactive Christmas TV guide
SPOILER ALERT: This blog is for people watching the third series of Homeland at UK broadcast pace. Don't read on if you haven't seen episode 12.
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[Read More]Last time I saw Andriy he was in high heels. Now, like many of my friends, hes taken up arms | Di
Posted on May 7, 2024
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The ObserverUkraine This article is more than 1 year oldLast time I saw Andriy he was in high heels. Now, like many of my friends, he’s taken up armsThis article is more than 1 year oldDiana BergIt was a week when Ukrainians saw their lives upturned. The celebrated artist reveals her fears but also the pride felt in the resilience of her peersWe didn’t want to believe that a real, massive invasion would happen because it’s so illogical.
[Read More]The Falcon's Malteser by Anthony Horowitz review | Children's books
Posted on May 7, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
Children's booksChildren's booksThe Falcon's Malteser by Anthony Horowitz – review‘A very interesting plot, which is reasonably easy to understand, including some very dramatic and adventurous twists and turns’
I have always enjoyed reading Anthony Horowitz books; therefore, I decided to read The Falcon’s Malteser, which is part of the Diamond Brothers series.
This spectacular book is about a Private Detective, Herbert, and his younger brother Nick. A dwarf came to their office and asked them to look after a box of Maltesers, ‘on their life’ and not to open it.
[Read More]The greatest banned songs of all time ranked! | Music
Posted on May 7, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Gym’ll fix it … Olivia Newton-John and friends get Physical. Photograph: Sipa/Rex/ShutterstockThirty years on from 2 Live Crew being banned by the Beeb, we pick 20 foul-mouthed, orgiastic outings deemed too scandalous for public consumption
by Laura Snapes20. Heaven 17(We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang (1981)
A nervy BBC banned the Human League splinter group’s funky debut single for potentially libelling the US’s new president Ronald Reagan as a “fascist god in motion”.
[Read More]Glencore document suggests mine site could revert to NT before rehabilitation complete | Glencore
Posted on May 6, 2024
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Glencore This article is more than 6 years oldGlencore document suggests mine site could revert to NT before rehabilitation completeThis article is more than 6 years oldExclusive: Risk assessment table indicates Glencore may have little or no involvement after McArthur River Mine’s life ends
A mine expansion proposal by Glencore appears to include handing responsibility for the McArthur River Mine site to the Northern Territory government just 50-100 years into an expected 1,000-year rehabilitation and monitoring process.
[Read More]Has America lost its appetite for Curb Your Enthusiasm?
Posted on May 6, 2024
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| Barrett Giampaolo
Curb Your EnthusiasmThe hit comedy has returned for a ninth season, but under Trump the landscape has changed – and so too have audiences’ attitudes to political correctness
America’s enthusiasm for Larry David appears to be wearing pretty, pretty thin. The return of his long-running comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm earlier this month met with a mixed reception. Some critics praised the show’s taboo-breaking approach. Others lamented its decline. Writing in the Guardian, Phil Harrison said Curb was beginning to resemble a “fourth-rate Benny Hill”.
[Read More]L'Wren Scott: the mysterious suicide of Mick Jagger's girlfriend
Posted on May 6, 2024
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The ObserverL'Wren ScottIn the months since fashion designer L'Wren Scott killed herself, her extraordinary life and achievements have been overshadowed by her relationship with Mick Jagger. Elizabeth Day travels to New York to meet the people who knew her and to piece together a tragic puzzleShe didn't leave a note. Three months after the fashion designer L'Wren Scott's suicide, this has been one of the hardest things for her friends to bear.
[Read More]Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang review a healing act in transcendent fire
Posted on May 6, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
First look reviewSky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-QiangReviewKevin Macdonald’s documentary, which has premiered at Sundance, draws an emotional line from the Chinese artist’s traumatic childhood to the inexhaustible glee of his firework sculpture
“Everyone loves to light fireworks,” Cai Guo-Qiang says with a smile as he ignites some red candles. He’s in a factory in Liuyang, a Chinese city known as the fireworks capital of the world. Cai is here on important business, to scout for new ways to continue making abstract art in the most whizz-bang, flamboyant and audience-engaging way.
[Read More]The top 10 Ron Burgundy quotes
Posted on May 6, 2024
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| Delta Gatti
Anchorman 2: The Legend ContinuesAs the much-anticipated Anchorman sequel approaches, here are the lines we love to quote from its hilarious and moronic star, Ron Burgundy, played by Will Ferrell. Share yours below Will Ferrell: 'Playing super-sleazy is the most fun for me'
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Discovered by the Germans in 1904, they named it San Diego, which of course in German means 'a whale's vagina'.
[Read More]Tracey Connelly: the story of a woman defined by abuse | Baby P
Posted on May 6, 2024
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| Christie Applegate
Baby P This article is more than 14 years oldTracey Connelly: the story of a woman defined by abuseThis article is more than 14 years oldBaby P's mother faces years of contempt after making the worst of an abject start in life by allowing her son to die in a home permeated by deception and depravityIn the life and times of Tracey Connelly there are few redeeming facts.
An absent father who was a sex offender, a neglectful mother , and another relative who was lured into a paedophile ring in one of the biggest children's home scandals of the late 20th century.
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