Why are Wes Anderson's movies so popular? It's all in the detail
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Parts of the manosphere are going Christian (or claiming to) - and leveraging it to gain legitimacy for their misogynistic ideas in the outside world
"The magic of history is that you can know enough to empathise with people who lived and died before you were born"
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From hybrid swarms of rice to dogs mixed with wolves, science journalist Richard Pallardy investigates what happens when domesticated plants and animals creep back into nature
#scicomm #conservation #agriculture #biology
Lily Allen’s "West End Girl" is banging - but it's not feminist, argue two academics
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Wes Anderson super-fan @jessicafurseth.bsky.social heads to the film director's retrospective at @designmuseum.bsky.social to unpick the secrets of his enduring appeal
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Meet the online influencers using religion to give misogyny a virtuous veneer
"A sector like academia, in which you have to self-fund the necessary qualifications to advance, is closed to a great majority of the population"
A philosopher and a historian analyse @thelilyallen.bsky.social's West End Girl
Being clever isn't a prerequisite for doing well on the Traitors, as @davidolusoga.bsky.social and @stephenfry.bsky.social found out last year.
He spoke to @adamrutherford.bsky.social for @newhumanist.bsky.social about religion, slavery, and Empire.
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As she hits the road on tour, Lily Allen’s latest release has got everyone talking about non-monogamy - but it tells an age old story
Meet the people resisting propaganda and ideology around the world.
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"I do resent living in a country where it is very difficult to educate your children without them being indoctrinated in religion"
Just what was it about "Stranger Things" that managed to reach across the generational divide?
"It’s obvious that misogynistically practised non-monogamy is no better or worse per se than misogynistically practised monogamy"
The two big TV hits of last year couldn’t be more different, but they both began national conversations, says "Traitors" alumnus David Olusoga
We are entering a new era of brazen propaganda.
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"West End Girl" blurs the lines between real people and fictional characters in exceptionally clever ways
"Much of the hostility towards anything to do with the Empire is just a desire to not have to hear difficult things about Britain"
How "Stranger Things" gave a glorious piece of my childhood back to me, just for a moment
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How online influencers are using religion to give misogyny a virtuous veneer
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If all the world’s a stage, maybe all the world’s a concept album too?
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"The expectation is that the history of the British Empire must be dealt with as a piece of historical accountancy – that if you talk about the Indian famines, you must talk about the Indian railways"
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Lily Allen’s "West End Girl" has got everyone talking about non-monogamy, but it tells an old story, write @carriejenkins.net and Carla Nappi
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