Have you noticed that Nigel Farage doesn’t talk about Donald Trump anymore?: Each is the main political subject in their country, and one is the main political subject in the world. Each rode the populist wave in 2016, campaigning for the other. In 2024 the tandem surfers remounted on to an even greater breaker. Yet, …
Cats: a box office bomb, but has anyone noticed the ethnic stereotyping?: Idris Elba and Francesca Hayward 2019 Universal Pictures The US$ 100 million film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s smash-hit musical Cats, currently in cinemas, has bombed at the box office, been savaged by critics and withdrawn from Oscar consideration. Part of this failure …
They noticed the Turpins’ strange behavior, but no one suspected the kids were being tortured: Nearly two weeks after an emaciated 17-year-old girl called police to tell them her siblings were being held captive by their own parents, the Turpin family still has the world's attention. But closer to home, neighbors, relatives and schoolmates are …