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Olympia, Leni Riefenstahl’s four-hour 1938 documentary—a purported masterpiece on the Berlin Olympic Games—is impossible to get through in its entirety. You can’t do it, not without…

On this fateful day, when Margaret Thatcher would have been 100 years old, many are taking a moment to replay their favourite memories: that time when…

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If Tom Ripley lived in LA in 2018 and was really into lo-fi bedroom pop, he might look something like the main character of Lurker. The…

Something is rotten in the village of Little Nettlebed. There isn’t enough rain. A sturgeon of ungodly proportions has been beached on the bank of the…

There are two visions of childbirth that dominate the popular conversation. The first perspective is that unmedicated, natural birth is painful, scary, dangerous – even primitive.…

Tiffanie Turnbull and Katy WatsonBBC NewsReporting fromMorwell, AustraliaWatch: Australia’s mushroom murder case… in under two minutesFor years, from behind a computer screen, Erin Patterson built up…

Good morning. In 2023, Nigel Farage went on a podcast to decry what he described as a culture of “welfarism” in the UK, insisting it was…

Unless you exist in a blissfully offline experience, you’ll have noticed Labubu hype is at unprecedented high. Even IRL, you can hardly move on the streets…

xAI blamed an “unauthorized modification” for a bug in its AI-powered Grok chatbot that caused Grok to repeatedly refer to “white genocide in South Africa” when…