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Digested week: Kemi wages culture war while Trump carves up Ukraine | John Crace
Monday
For a long time I’ve found myself baffled by Kemi Badenoch’s performances at prime minister’s questions. To put it bluntly, she’s just not very good. Borderline hopeless. She seems to have put in little or no preparation and has made what should be an awkward session for Keir Starmer …
MLS Year 30: A league at a philosophical crossroads as World Cups loom
Ever since its foundation in 1996, Major League Soccer has faced questions about its place within the world of American sports and global soccer. What is the relationship between MLS and the top football leagues of Europe? Is it a retirement league for aging superstars, a development league for those …
Friday briefing: Will Labour’s £270m package make a difference to an ailing arts industry?
Good morning. Everyone who has worked in the arts, from the heads of major institutions to the creatives who depend on their funding, has been warning for years about the dire state of the sector. As investment dwindled and contempt for arts and humanities education became mainstream – fuelled by …
US culture war show comes to London – and strikes a chord with European populists
Stephen Colbert on Elon Musk: ‘An unelected donor running an unauthorized employee kill squad’
Indie legend Miki Berenyi: ‘There was a falling out in Lush. And, if I’m honest, it still hurts’
You’ve talked about how
trying to break
America
led to Lush
almost breaking up by the time of
Chris Acland
’s death. Did you actually want that level of success?
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If we
had
, then we wouldn’t have been on 4AD – because Pixies and Cocteau Twins were on 4AD and …Laverne Cox’s Clean Slate offers a nuanced, hilarious view of Black trans life
Black sitcoms have long featured sincere and thoughtful arcs on myriad issues, including adoption, grief and racial profiling. But many shows have failed to deliver meaningful storylines about transgender characters. Shows such as The Jeffersons and The Parkers, for instance, have leaned on tired, transphobic tropes: the process of transitioning …
BBC asked to remove Gaza documentary over narrator’s father’s ties to Hamas
The BBC has been asked to remove a documentary about children living in Gaza from BBC iPlayer after it emerged the film’s 13-year-old narrator is the son of Ayman Alyazouri, a deputy agriculture minister in the territory’s Hamas-run government.
The corporation said that it had discovered the family connections of …
Artists demand National Endowment for the Arts roll back Trump restrictions
Stephen Colbert on New York mayor Eric Adams: ‘Trump has Adams by the old Turkish delights’
The Late Show host delves into the too-cozy relationship with
and the embattled New York City mayor,Eric Adams
.