Michael Douglas: I was sorry for effect of oral sex cancer comments on my wife | Michael Douglas
Posted on May 27, 2024
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Michael Douglas This article is more than 8 years oldMichael Douglas: I was sorry for effect of oral sex cancer comments on my wifeThis article is more than 8 years oldBehind the Candelabra star tells Event magazine he ‘regretted the embarrasment’ to Catherine Zeta-Jones of his comments about oral sex and cancer given in a 2013 Guardian interview
Michael Douglas has said he regretted the embarrassment caused to his wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones, by the revelation two years ago that his cancer may have been caused by performing oral sex.
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Posted on May 27, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
With notes of art deco and Arts and Crafts, Sidcup’s vibrant new library and cinema, designed by classy minimalists DRDH, brings new energy to a suburban high street against considerable odds
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Teller of the Unexpected by Matthew Dennison review the tall tales of a big kid
Posted on May 27, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
Observer book of the weekBiography booksReviewRoald Dahl’s early years are illuminated in a compact biography mostly purged of unsavoury details
“I’m afraid I like strong contrasts,” Roald Dahl said, not long before his death in 1990. “I like villains to be terrible and good people to be very good.” Dahl himself gave a lie to that formulation. He is very easy to cast as a villain: even friends described him as bullying, overbearing, arrogant and impossible; he was a compulsive gambler, a distant and wayward husband, an unforgivable antisemite.
[Read More]Why I ate a roadkill squirrel | George Monbiot
Posted on May 27, 2024
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George Monbiot skins and eats roadkill squirrel on Newsnight GuardianGeorge Monbiot's blogWildlife This article is more than 8 years oldWhy I ate a roadkill squirrelThis article is more than 8 years oldGeorge MonbiotIf grey squirrels killed every year in the UK were sold for meat, it would be no bad thing. Factory farming is more harmful to the environment
The first hour of the day, before the sun is over the horizon: this is the time to see wildlife.
[Read More]Can you use a pasta strainer instead of a hairdryer diffuser?
Posted on May 26, 2024
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Beauty hacksWomen's hairUsing kitchen utensils to replicate beauty kit is often a recipe for disaster. But does this method of drying wavy hair work?
The hack
Using a metal pasta strainer in place of a diffuser to create waves and curls.
The test
Many social media beauty hacks are actually professional techniques transferred to a digital platform or are so ludicrous that they’re obviously designed to go viral in pursuit of fame.
[Read More]Family Tree review study of the mother of modern medicine falls between poetry and play
Posted on May 26, 2024
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| Jenniffer Sheldon
TheatreReviewBelgrade theatre, Coventry
Mojisola Adebayo’s play connects Henrietta Lacks, whose cells were used in decades of vital scientific research, with the Black Lives Matter movement
‘I am a farm,” says Henrietta Lacks in Mojisola Adebayo’s play about one of medical history’s most inconvenient truths. It is a twin statement of astonishment and outrage. Astonishment because the cells removed from Henrietta’s cancerous body in the early 1950s went on to be used in everything from chemotherapy to IVF, from a treatment for polio to the fight against Covid.
[Read More]I secretly hate sex and now fear I will lose my girlfriend
Posted on May 26, 2024
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Ask PhilippaRelationshipsYou don’t have to be sexual to feel love, but you do have to be open
The question I’m a guy in my mid-20s who also happens to be asexual. And no, I am not gay. I just can’t feel much, physically. I don’t see it as a problem, but people jump to conclusions online. No one other than me knows. I am in a relationship with this lovely girl and we have only been physically intimate occasionally (once or twice a month – been with her for four months), but it’s OK because she doesn’t have an insatiable need.
[Read More]Memory Theatre by Simon Critchley review horoscopes, death and The Eurovision Song Contest
Posted on May 26, 2024
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Nicholas Lezard's choiceFictionReviewA philosopher's fiction debut is rich, profound and very funnyThere's a telling moment in this fiction debut when the narrator, a philosopher called Simon Critchley, takes us aside to say, in parenthesis: "I once met a Swede at a party in Stockholm who could sing every Swedish entry to the Eurovision Song Contest since 1958 – you just said the year, 1978 say, and he would begin: 'Dinga, dinga dong/ Binga, binga bong.
[Read More]Men's Hour missed the point: men bond over humour | Radio
Posted on May 26, 2024
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TV and radio blogRadioMen's Hour missed the point: men bond over humourBBC Radio 5 Live's new show was too keen to be emotional and not cause any offenceListen to Men's Hour
Men's Hour is being sold as the radio equivalent of a bunch of friends meeting in the pub, chewing the fat on all the things men talk about. If this is the case, the producers must have been imagining a conversation between the two goatee-wearing new men in Private Eye's It's Grim Up North London.
[Read More]No enemies to the right: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalism | The far right
Posted on May 26, 2024
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The far right This article is more than 3 months old‘No enemies to the right’: DeSantis ally hosts debate hedging white nationalismThis article is more than 3 months oldChristopher Rufo’s Twitter space discussed conservatives cooperating with extremists ‘to destroy the power of the left’
Conservative activist Christopher Rufo, who is a close ally of Florida governor and Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, hosted a social media debate in which one participant argued that conservatives should cooperate with a hypothetical white nationalist dictator “in order to destroy the power of the left”.
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