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The Week Unwrapped podcast: Erdogan’s last stand, childbirth in prison and Cleopatra
Olly Mann and The Week delve behind the headlines and debate what really matters from the past seven days. With Julia O’Driscoll, Harriet Marsden and Jamie Timson. This episode was recorded before third-party candidate Muharrem İnce withdrew from the Turkish election on Thursday afternoon. His absence is thought likely to increase theContinue Reading
The most eccentric Eurovision performances of all time
Twenty-six acts will perform at Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Liverpool to an expected global audience of 160 million viewers. With an entry from Austria that sees the singers possessed by the spirit of gothic American writer Edgar Allan Poe and an Australian five-piece band fronted by an immigrationContinue Reading
Luxury and power: Persia to Greece exhibition review, British Museum
The ancient civilisations of Greece and Persia were enemies for centuries – and their disagreements didn’t only find expression on the battlefield, said Daisy Dunn in The Daily Telegraph. As this “major new exhibition” demonstrates, they had starkly contrasting attitudes towards luxury goods. From the Persian perspective, “lovely things” suchContinue Reading
Johnson at 10 book review – Anthony Seldon and Raymond Newell
Many people realise that Boris Johnson is a dishonest chancer who lacks any real convictions, said David Gauke in The New Statesman. Less obvious – at least to those outside Whitehall – is “quite how extraordinarily inept he was at performing some of the basic functions of being prime minister”.Continue Reading
Writers’ strike: Hollywood grinds to a halt
Writers claim they are treated as gig workers and set to be replaced by AIContinue Reading
Biden: Irish visit was to ensure ‘Brits didn’t screw around’
US president Joe Biden has claimed he visited Ireland to ensure the “Brits didn’t screw around”. He made the comments at a Democratic Party event in New York on Wednesday. Mr Biden made a four-day trip to Ireland last month, visiting both the North and the Republic. Speaking to reporters,Continue Reading
Stalkers and domestic abusers to be targeted by £39m police funding boost
S talkers and domestic abusers will be targeted by police after forces were handed a £39 million funding boost by the Home Office. The money will pay for 50 projects across England and Wales, including pilots aimed at preventing reoffending and better protecting victims, which will be rolled out overContinue Reading
The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld review – BBC documentary film
When the fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld died in 2019, he “was eulogised as the last of the old guard”, said Rebecca Nicholson in The Guardian. This feature-length BBC documentary aims to “demystify the man behind those famous sunglasses” – and it does so with panache. Directed by Michael Waldman, theContinue Reading