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This is a beautiful piece of writing. Incredibly funny and insightful. nplusonemag.com/issue-40/the-i… via n+1

"A cinematic culture dominated by franchises is one that’s visually repetitive, gagged from speaking about vast swaths of the human experience and barred from argument. If it’s not totalitarian, it’s at least boring." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

Let’s talk about racism! Most white people at prestigious magazines don’t ever want to talk about race or diversity at all. Why? It's primarily because they’ve been allowed to exist in a world where their mastheads resemble member registries at Southern country clubs circa 1950..

So much ink has been spilled about The Sopranos and I have gleefully read much of it over the years. This piece is, by far, the most insightful thing I've read about the ongoing cultural relevance of the show. It made me rethink something I thought I practically knew by heart.

‘Yes, He Would’: Fiona Hill on Putin and Nukes politi.co/3400f9r via POLITICO

“We were the oligarchs,” Oliver Bullough said, summarizing the history of the British Empire. “Now, we don’t steal money from other countries any more. We just help the people who did the stealing.” nytimes.com/2022/03/29/bus…

mariupol. a brief respite from reality.

a stat that never fails to horrify, because us political leaders refuse to address it

This is America's exceptional problem. Between 2009-2018 there were 288 school shootings in the US, the next highest number was in Mexico, 8. Sth Africa had 6. India, 5. Pakistan, 4. There is no evidence mental health problems are higher in the US than in any of those countries.

Tories out and Labour in with a new power-sharing deal with the Residents’ Association in Havering 👇🏻

Top Gun made $357 million at the box office. But its biggest impact – a 500% boost to Navy recruitment. Here’s a breakdown:

Met Police is prosecuting Sarah Everard vigil attendees It used Covid laws to block a planned event that day, but lost a High Court challenge to the legality of that decision The Met may, however, have known months ago that its policing of large pandemic events was questionable

This is the most troubling one - a 48yo mother who was arrested with her partner when they say they weren't part of the march at all. Arrested, held in a cell until 4am, and she then tried to plead guilty to a criminal offence because she was too scared to go to court

"It is the fifth time as a married man that Johnson has made another woman, who isn't his wife, pregnant." Christ on a cracker...

So, the President assaulted a Secret Service agent.

He. Physically. Attacked. A. Secret. Service. Agent.

🚨 We need to talk about the Metropolitan Police (warning: contains content some may find upsetting)

Kyiv is full of young people who have been cooped up for two years, first because of Covid and then the war. They yearn for contact. War makes that urge even greater, especially this war, where a Russian cruise missile can take you out, anywhere, anytime. nyti.ms/3PUmXC9

For years, London was a hotspot for Russian court cases. But that juicy corner of the city's legal industry has all but dried up trib.al/BiP50bJ

I’m sure they’ll be given the exact same level of freedom to find stories as the reporters who have to file eight pieces a day and sort the social out 😇