Grim. According to a study by the London School of Economics, watching Keeping Up With the Kardashians for as little as 60 seconds can make you a worse person by reducing your sympathy for the poor. Research from LSE found that exposure to shows that “glamorise fame, luxury, and wealth accumulation” may bring about anti-welfare and materialistic sentiments, […]
You’re looking for something to watch on Netflix, aren’t you? Watch this. I demand you watch this. I personally demand it. It depends on your level of imagination, of course, but films that exist in a confined, solitary location have the capacity to ramp up the nervous tension to levels you simply don’t get in […]
The man who set himself on fire outside the White House has died, according to police reports. The man, named as Arnav Gupta, was taken to hospital on Wednesday in Washington DC where he died from his injuries. Secret Service officials “responded in seconds” to the incident after Gupta lit himself on fire near the […]
Plastic straws, plastic drink stirrers and cotton buds with plastic stems will be banned from sale and use in Britain by April next year, the UK government has confirmed. Following the ban, food and drink outlets will be unable to display plastic straws or provide them to customers. The move has been in the works […]
FORTY-SIX MILLION DOLLARYDOOS!? TOBIAS! The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has had a shocker lads. Honestly. They rolled out a new $50 banknote in October last year that not only contains fancy polymer technology which prevents counterfeiting but also features Australia’s first female member of parliament, Edith Cowan. Unfortunately, the note also contains the word […]
Decent shout for the weekend? Quentin Tarantino’s eighth film, The Hateful Eight, is now a four-episode mini-series on Netflix. It now also contains 25 minutes of additional footage that wasn’t included in the cinematic release. Great. Fans of Tarantino’s western-themed, parlour-room whodunnit, which stars Samuel L.Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tim Roth and Michael […]
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The Grand National will once again come under review by Aintree and the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) after three horses died during this year’s meeting. Up for Review became the first horse to die in the National since 2012, suffering a fatal injury at the very first fence during the 17:15 main race on Saturday. […]
Thank u, next Ariana Grande is headlining August’s Manchester Pride, her first performance in the city since the 2017 Manchester bombings. 22 people died after her concert at the Manchester Arena was targeted by a suicide attack outside the venue. Ever since, the American singer has developed something of an affinity with the city and […]
Y E S. The long-awaited screen adaption of Philip Pullman’s epic trilogy of fantasy novels, His Dark Materials, inches ever closer and we now have the very first trailer for the upcoming series airing on the BBC. You’ll perhaps know the series better by the individual titles of the books: Northern Lights (1995), The Subtle Knife (1997) and The Amber Spyglass […]
Army and police officers surrounded the plane after it was forced to land. A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight from Bangladesh to Dubai made an emergency landing after an ‘attempted hijacking’, according to reports. Shakil Miraj, the airline’s general manager, says army and police officers surrounded the plane after it was forced to land on Sunday at […]
It’s been a good year for cows. And an even better week, as a rogue herd of cows staged an invasion in a local Hong Kong supermarket recently, attacking the fresh produce aisle with all the military precision of the Red Army during the Operation Uranus counteroffensive at Stalingrad. Yeah, sorry, yeah, I have been watching […]