A scene from Squid Game in which one character holds up another to prevent him from falling, losing the game and thereby being shot.

Squid Game, Netflix’s latest runaway success, has set new records for views and generated a flurry of comment pieces, memes, and moral panic about screen violence. The programme follows 456 competitors through a series of lethal contests. At stake is a cash prize of billions of won, suspended over theContinue Reading

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Doomscrolling COVID news takes an emotional toll – here's how to make your social media a happier place

insta_photos/Shutterstock Picture this: it’s April 2020, you’re between Zoom meetings, and scrolling through your social media newsfeed. Headlines like “Death toll continues to rise”, “COVID-19 may cause long-term health implications” and “Health-care systems overwhelmed” flash across your screen. Your mood takes a dive, but you can’t stop scrolling. If thisContinue Reading

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Today in the House of Commons, Conservative MPs talked out a bill that would have stopped companies using fire and rehire tactics. The Bill, brought be Labour’s Barry Gardiner MP, sought to address the practice used by companies to fire workers and re-employ them on lower pay with poorer conditions.Continue Reading

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An aerial view of Canterbury cathedral and the city centre

Southend-on-Sea is to be accorded the status of city in honour of David Amess. On October 18, 2021, three days after the Conservative MP was murdered in his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Boris Johnson announced the Queen had agreed to the grant. Seeing Southend acquire this new label had longContinue Reading

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GOOD MORNING FOOTY FANS SunSport can exclusively reveal Romelu Lukaku faces a month out – dealing Chelsea a serious blow in the title race. The club’s record £97.5million signing twisted his ankle during Wednesday’s 4-0 Champions League win over Malmo. And he now faces three to four weeks on the sidelinesContinue Reading

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Picual has an obvious opportunity, by process of elimination! Picual is the sole Sir Michael Stoute-trained declaration in a seven-runner Fillies’ Novice Stakes over seven furlongs of Newcastle tapeta tonight and should ‘build’ sufficiently on an encouraging ‘quiet’ debut to prevail under champion all-weather jockey Richard Kingscote. Originally my selectionContinue Reading

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