Fargo recap: season one, episode two The Rooster Prince

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1127 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Fargo: episode recapsFargoTwo wakes, a burial and a couple of new characters this week. As the series progresses we have plenty of curveballs and oddballs to keep us occupied. And watch out for that ice drillThis blog is for Fargo viewers watching the Sunday night UK transmission on Channel 4 – if you've seen further ahead than episode two, please don't post advance spoilers. Read Richard Vine's recap of season one, episode one here. [Read More]

Sherrilyn Ifill on a Trump win: We will cease to be a democracy | US constitution and civil li

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  9 minutes  |  1899 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Sherrilyn Ifill in Washington DC in 2018. Ifill aims to train a generation of lawyers on the 14th amendment. Photograph: Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesSherrilyn Ifill in Washington DC in 2018. Ifill aims to train a generation of lawyers on the 14th amendment. Photograph: Andre Chung for The Washington Post via Getty ImagesThe fight for democracyUS constitution and civil libertiesInterviewSherrilyn Ifill on a Trump win: ‘We will cease to be a democracy’Rachel LeingangThe longtime civil rights lawyer on the 14th amendment, a new center for Howard University – and resisting [Read More]

Texas governor signs bill allowing police to arrest migrants entering US illegally | Texas

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  803 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Texas This article is more than 1 month oldTexas governor signs bill allowing police to arrest migrants entering US illegallyThis article is more than 1 month oldLaw gives police sweeping new powers as well as empowering local judges to order migrants’ expulsion The Texas governor, Greg Abbott, on Monday signed a bill giving all police in the state sweeping new powers to arrest migrants deemed to have entered the US illegally as well as empowering local judges to order their expulsion back across the US-Mexico border. [Read More]

The Crunch: everything is expensive and why you shouldnt use a pie chart |

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  711 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

The Crunch NewsletterThe Crunch: everything is expensive and why you shouldn’t use a pie chartWant to get this in your inbox every fortnight? Sign up for The Crunch here. Welcome to The Crunch, hope you are all having a great start to the new year. This week we’ve got data on water entitlements in Australia, a shift away from a “culture of progress” in Europe, booming rooftop solar in the Australian energy market, rain in the south-east, a dashboard on what is expensive and why you probably shouldn’t use a pie chart for your datavis. [Read More]

Work less, live more: is it time to end the five-day week?

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  14 minutes  |  2930 words  |  Delta Gatti

Thank God it’s Friday: a four-day week will suit many, but working five shorter days would be ideal for parents with school-age children. Photograph: Kellie French/The ObserverThank God it’s Friday: a four-day week will suit many, but working five shorter days would be ideal for parents with school-age children. Photograph: Kellie French/The ObserverThe ObserverSocietyResearch shows that working fewer hours can be far more productive. Richard Godwin clocks on to find out if it’s true [Read More]

Controversial monk and Dalai Lama aide replaced amid corruption accusations | Buddhism

 Posted on April 2, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1272 words  |  Delta Gatti

Buddhism This article is more than 6 years oldControversial monk and Dalai Lama aide replaced amid corruption accusationsThis article is more than 6 years oldProminent Buddhists are welcoming the apparent downfall of Tenzin Dhonden, accused of abusing his position as gatekeeper to the Buddhist leader Prominent Buddhists in North America are welcoming the apparent downfall of the Dalai Lama’s self-styled “personal emissary of peace”, a Tibetan monk who befriended celebrities and billionaires but has been accused of bullying, celebrity worship and corruption. [Read More]

Have they got nudes for you: the unstoppable rise of naked reality TV

 Posted on April 2, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  862 words  |  Christie Applegate

TelevisionFrom E4’s new clothes-free hiking show to programmes featuring life-size holograms of contestants’ wobbly bits, television has become insatiably obsessed by nudity. But why? Reader, it is important that you remember where you are, today. Because it is a certainty that, in decades to come, your adorable grandchildren will gingerly approach you, tug on your cardigan and, in voices pure enough to break your heart into a million pieces, ask if you can remember the first full season of E4’s reality show Naked, Alone and Racing to Get Home. [Read More]

Homewrecker review suburban hostage caper is a cheerier Misery

 Posted on April 2, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  306 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

MoviesReviewAn unhinged singleton takes her interior designer captive in a film whose smart acting is marred by its jarringly chirpy tone It’s a pity this Canadian comedy-horror is too crudely put together to comfortably straddle its two genres, because it contains some zesty bursts of invention and bright performances from its leads. Nightmare in suburbia: how cinema found the darkness behind the picket fenceRead morePrecious Chong, who co-writes with director Zach Gayne and co-star Alex Essoe, takes one for the team with her unlikable role: belligerently perky fortysomething singleton Linda, who imposes herself on interior designer Michelle (Essoe) while in a coffee shop. [Read More]

Leon Kossoff obituary | Painting

 Posted on April 2, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1390 words  |  Brenda Moya

Children’s Swimming Pool, 11 O’Clock Saturday Morning, August 1969, oil on board, by Leon Kossoff. Photograph: courtesy of Annely Juda Fine ArtChildren’s Swimming Pool, 11 O’Clock Saturday Morning, August 1969, oil on board, by Leon Kossoff. Photograph: courtesy of Annely Juda Fine ArtPaintingObituaryLeon Kossoff obituaryArtist whose work was rooted in the city, people and daily life of London Leon Kossoff, who has died aged 92, once said: “London, like the paint I use, seems to be in my bloodstream. [Read More]

My husband never wants sex and doesnt even cuddle me. Iyearn for love or affection

 Posted on April 2, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1007 words  |  Christie Applegate

Ask Annalisa BarbieriFamilyWe are in our mid-50s and our children will soon have left home. For financial reasons, I don’t see how I can leave, but I’m so lonely. Annalisa Barbieri advises a readerMy husband and I are in our mid-50s and have been together for 30 years. I cannot remember the last time we had sex – it was at least four years ago. The last few times, he found it difficult and lost his erection. [Read More]