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White Lotus: ‘the show’s depiction of sibling sexual behaviour is incredibly harmful’ – expert opinion

White Lotus: ‘the show’s depiction of sibling sexual behaviour is incredibly harmful’ – expert opinion: This article contains spoilers for season three of The White Lotus The White Lotus is a show where a lot of sex happens and many taboos are explored. For instance, in episode seven the impact on one character of watching …

The White House press pool became a way to control journalists – Trump is taking this to new levels

The White House press pool became a way to control journalists – Trump is taking this to new levels: The recently appointed White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, has begun her tenure combatively, aggressively defending the Trump administration’s policies and, at times, mimicking Donald Trump’s methods of dealing with the mainstream news media. Faced recently …

White Lotus does Thailand dirty

White Lotus does Thailand dirty: Did you hear? There’s been another murder at a White Lotus hotel, this time the one in Thailand. Back for its third season, Mike White’s critically acclaimed and Emmy award-winning tragi-comedy series follows the terrible exploits of the White Lotus’s rich, primarily white holidaymakers, alongside the local employees. There is …

Students on the frontline: South Africa and the US share a history of protest against white supremacy

Students on the frontline: South Africa and the US share a history of protest against white supremacy: Every year on 16 June, South Africa commemorates the revolt of black school children against the inferior “bantu education” system on that day in 1976. The horror of police shooting and killing unarmed children caused a global uproar. …

South Africa’s great white sharks are changing locations – they need to be monitored for beach safety and conservation

South Africa’s great white sharks are changing locations – they need to be monitored for beach safety and conservation: South Africa is renowned for having one of the world’s biggest populations of great white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias). Substantial declines have been observed, however, in places where the sharks normally gather on the coast of the …

Red, White & Royal Blue review – this queer romcom puts a new spin on the US and UK’s ‘special relationship’

Red, White & Royal Blue review – this queer romcom puts a new spin on the US and UK’s ‘special relationship’: Warning: contains spoilers for Red, White & Royal Blue. Global interest in the British royals has increased in recent years, thanks, in part, to the prominent romance between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. So, …

Umlungu: the colourful history of a word used to describe white people in South Africa

Umlungu: the colourful history of a word used to describe white people in South Africa: Wreck of the British ship Charlotte in Algoa Bay, South Africa, 1854. The Print Collector/Heritage Images via Getty Images In South Africa “umlungu” is a word that’s commonly used to refer to white people. It comes from isiXhosa, the language …

Half of Africa’s white rhino population is in private hands – it’s time for a new conservation approach

Half of Africa’s white rhino population is in private hands – it’s time for a new conservation approach: A white rhino in Hluhluwe-iMfolozi Park in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Enrico Di Minin Southern white rhinos are widely known as a conservation success story. Their population grew from fewer than 100 individuals in the 1920s to …

Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture

Costa Titch: the rising white South African rap star who embraced black hip-hop culture: Oupa Bopape/Gallo Images via Getty Images Rising 28-year-old South African dancer and rapper Costa Titch (born Costa Tsobanoglou) died after collapsing on stage on 11 March while performing in Johannesburg. Costa Titch entered the entertainment world as a dancer with Cassper …

White Noise review – director Noah Baumbach skilfully captures Don Delillo’s ‘unadaptable’ novel

White Noise review – director Noah Baumbach skilfully captures Don Delillo’s ‘unadaptable’ novel: WG CR Never one to downplay the power of film, Stanley Kubrick once said that “almost every novel could be successfully adapted”. He carried this confidence into his own filmmaking, working not from original screenplays, but from adaptations of novels as different …

China’s ‘white paper’ protest movement echoes freedom struggles across Asia and the world

China’s ‘white paper’ protest movement echoes freedom struggles across Asia and the world: If there was a single trigger for the “white paper” uprising that has been sweeping China over the past few days, it was events in Ürümchi, the capital of Xinjiang province. Xinjiang’s lockdown has been the most severe in China, with many …

White butterflies are filling Johannesburg’s skies earlier than usual. Climate change is to blame

White butterflies are filling Johannesburg’s skies earlier than usual. Climate change is to blame: Brown-veined white butterflies migrate annually from the Kalahari region to Mozambique. Instinctively RDH/Shutterstock Each year around mid-summer, somewhere between December and mid-January, the skies of South Africa’s Gauteng province, including the city of Johannesburg, fill with small white butterflies. Some land …