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Lily Allen's "West End Girl" is an old story dressed in new clothes
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There's one reason - and one reason only - why David Olusoga would do "Strictly Come Dancing"
A Wes Anderson retrospective invites us to revel in the director’s uncompromising precision
A philosopher and a historian analyse Lily Allen's hit album "West End Girl".
Is it a feminist victory? Or is the story more complex than that?
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Parts of the manosphere are going Christian (or claiming to) - and leveraging it to gain legitimacy for their misogynistic ideas in the outside world
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From hybrid swarms of rice to dogs mixed with wolves, science journalist Richard Pallardy investigates what happens when domesticated plants and animals creep back into nature
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Lily Allen’s "West End Girl" is banging - but it's not feminist, argue two academics
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Wes Anderson super-fan @jessicafurseth.bsky.social heads to the film director's retrospective at @designmuseum.bsky.social to unpick the secrets of his enduring appeal
#movies #art #design
Meet the online influencers using religion to give misogyny a virtuous veneer
"A sector like academia, in which you have to self-fund the necessary qualifications to advance, is closed to a great majority of the population"
A philosopher and a historian analyse @thelilyallen.bsky.social's West End Girl
Being clever isn't a prerequisite for doing well on the Traitors, as @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @stephenfry.bsky.social found out last year.
He spoke to @adamrutherford.bsky.social for @newhumanist.bsky.social about religion, slavery, and Empire.
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As she hits the road on tour, Lily Allen’s latest release has got everyone talking about non-monogamy - but it tells an age old story
Meet the people resisting propaganda and ideology around the world.
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"I do resent living in a country where it is very difficult to educate your children without them being indoctrinated in religion"
Just what was it about "Stranger Things" that managed to reach across the generational divide?
"It’s obvious that misogynistically practised non-monogamy is no better or worse per se than misogynistically practised monogamy"
The two big TV hits of last year couldn’t be more different, but they both began national conversations, says "Traitors" alumnus David Olusoga
