Hilarious, perplexing and on another level

[ad_1] Sam Campbell has had a big few years. Once a cult favourite amongst only the truest comedy heads, the Australian comic’s career sky-rocketed in the UK with his 2022 Edinburgh Comedy Award win, and subsequent 2023 turn on Taskmaster. From his appearance on the Channel 4 programme, as well as podcasts and panel shows,…

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Why millennials love Monty Don (and his dogs)

[ad_1] The Gardeners’ World presenter is a very old-fashioned version of the modern man March 15, 2024 3:15 pm(Updated 3:33 pm) Monty Don’s Spanish Gardens (Photo: Alexandra Henderson) When the 18th-century Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote of the “noble savage” – a type of man in total communion with primordial nature – he may not…

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The Coen brothers should have stuck together

[ad_1] This raucous, sometimes-very-funny new caper from Ethan Coen is a throwback Thelma and Louise with a sapphic twist. Written by Coen’s wife Tricia Cooke, the crime road movie – whose original title Drive Away Dykes was at some point reined in to Drive Away Dolls – features two odd-couple pals: Jamie, a garrulous, sexually…

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An urgent counter to trans panic

[ad_1] Just a few weeks before the publication of this new book from the doyenne of gender theory, Judith Butler, two teenagers – Scarlett Jenkinson and Eddie Ratcliffe – were each sentenced to more than 20 years in prison for the brutal murder of 16-year-old Briana Ghey. Their violent attack was, according to the judge,…

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Our crime obsession is hurting us

[ad_1] In the early hours of 13 November 2022, four students from the University of Idaho – Ethan Chapin, Kaylee Goncalves, Xana Kernodle and Madison Mogen – were stabbed in their off-campus residence. The case shocked the world and went viral almost immediately. In BBC Three’s The Idaho Murders: Trial by TikTok, Love Island star…

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Jedward were denied a voice as puppet popstars

[ad_1] Once a national punchline, the Irish twins are now online warriors committed to taking the establishment to task March 13, 2024 1:04 pm(Updated 2:09 pm) John and Edward Grimes fresh from being ousted from the XFactor in 2009 (Photo: Dave Hogan/Getty) That we are living in interesting times can be no better illustrated right…

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