Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald all together now | Books
Posted on May 5, 2024
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A book to shareBooksRevolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald – all together nowEvery little thing is a gem in Ian MacDonald’s mini-essay collection about the songs of the Fab Four
Guardian Witness: which books do you love to share? Read more in our ‘A book to share’ series The most pleasurable gifts to give are the ones you would most like to receive, but it doesn’t necessarily follow that your favourite books are the ones you should give to others.
[Read More]Saying information wants to be free does more harm than good | Cory Doctorow
Posted on May 5, 2024
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Digital rights, digital wrongsTechnology This article is more than 13 years oldSaying information wants to be free does more harm than goodThis article is more than 13 years oldCory DoctorowIt's better to stop surveillance control because it is the people who really want to be freeFor 10 years I've been part of what the record and film industry invariably call the "information wants to be free" crowd. In all that time, I've never heard anyone – apart from an entertainment executive – use that timeworn cliche.
[Read More]Thanks be to Heathers a film that helped make me who I am | Hanna Flint
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OpinionMovies This article is more than 5 years oldThanks be to Heathers – a film that helped make me who I amThis article is more than 5 years oldHanna FlintThirty years ago, Winona Ryder’s character Veronica Sawyer taught me the liberating lesson that you don’t have to conform
Heathers celebrates its 30th anniversary this year – and is getting a rerelease to celebrate the fact. No other high school movie has affected me in quite the same way, nor offered a teenage female character like Veronica Sawyer that I could relate to as much.
[Read More]Tony Curtis: a life in pictures | Film
Posted on May 5, 2024
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Tony Curtis: a life in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Tony Curtis, six-times married actor and artist, has died aged 85. We look back over his life in photographs Thu 30 Sep 2010 07.30 EDT First published on Thu 30 Sep 2010 07.30 EDT Tony Curtis in 1950, at the start of his career Photograph: Cine Text/Allstar
[Read More]Top of the rocks: worlds most expensive handbag goes on sale | Luxury goods sector
Posted on May 5, 2024
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Luxury goods sector This article is more than 6 years oldTop of the rocks: world’s most expensive handbag goes on saleThis article is more than 6 years oldBling-encrusted Mouawad 1001 Nights Diamond Purse, which took more than 8,800 hours to create, heads to auction
A diamond-encrusted handbag billed as the most expensive in the world has been put up for sale.
Officially known as the Mouawad 1001 Nights Diamond Purse, the one-off accessory holds the Guinness World Record for being the most valuable handbag ever produced, with an original price of $3.
[Read More]US hard-right policy group condemned for dehumanising anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric | The far right
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The far right This article is more than 4 months oldUS hard-right policy group condemned for ‘dehumanising’ anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoricThis article is more than 4 months oldProject 2025, which seeks to ‘march into office’ with conservative ‘army’, accused of ‘far-right desire to turn America back to the 20s’
An exhaustive manifesto for the next conservative US president produced by Project 2025, an initiative led by the hard-right Heritage Foundation, uses “dehumanising language” about LGBTQ+ Americans too extreme even for candidates currently seeking the Republican presidential nomination, a leading advocate said.
[Read More]With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US | News
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The Guardian documentary Documentary films With Woman: the high stakes for a home-birth midwife in the US Star is a Black midwife who helps Black women give birth in the comfort of their homes, in the state of Illinois. She is part of a long-established African-American tradition of home-birth midwifery, which is currently in a legal gray area across a number of US states, with midwives unable to obtain a license to practice.
[Read More]9/11 stories | Books | The Guardian
Posted on May 4, 2024
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Alka Pradhan, James Connell and Sterling Thomas are lawyers for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of five men facing the death penalty for plotting the 2001 terror attacks in the US. The Trial provides a window into the buildup to the largest criminal trial in American history
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Japan makes squid farming breakthrough as wild catches plummet | Japan
Posted on May 4, 2024
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Animals farmedJapan This article is more than 1 year oldJapan makes squid farming breakthrough as wild catches plummetThis article is more than 1 year oldScientists have long sought to farm the scarce seafood staple, but critics say animals are not suited to intensive methods
Scientists in Japan say they have developed a groundbreaking method of farming squid that could solve shortages of the seafood staple, amid warnings from environmental groups that aquaculture is incompatible with the animal’s welfare.
[Read More]Pompeii's House of Lovers reopens to public after 40 years | Archaeology
Posted on May 4, 2024
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Archaeology This article is more than 3 years oldPompeii's House of Lovers reopens to public after 40 yearsThis article is more than 3 years oldJewel of ancient Roman city was severely damaged by destructive earthquake in 1980
Restoration work inside Pompeii – in pictures One of Pompeii’s most celebrated buildings, the House of Lovers, will reopen to the public on Tuesday, 40 years after it was severely damaged in an earthquake.
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