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10 months ago

An Enemy of the People review: Matt Smith’s modish Ibsen revival leaves a political fuse unlit

Presumably, Doctor Who star Matt Smith wasn’t short of options when contemplating his first stage role in five years. German director Thomas Ostermeier’s reimagining of Ibsen’s An Enemy of the People is a probing diagnosis of societal ills, and its subject matter hasn’t got any less relevant since it was first staged at Berlin’s Schaubühne theatre in 2012. But when …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Five reasons why Modi's BJP should not take 2024 election victory as foregone

Firstpost

Every time a buoyant BJP under Prime Minister Narendra Modi goes to elections, a reference to the party’s 2004 ‘India Shining’ debacle comes up. The BJP of 2004 under Atal Bihari Vajpayee lacked the aggression and electoral determination of the Modi establishment, had failed to grow the organisation in uncharted areas, and was heavily dependent on coalition partners like Chandrababu …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Witerati: Prose and Cons of AI slavery

Hindustan Times

Till the previous Independence Day, I, in all smugness, supposed that I existed in a world free from any serious sort of subjugation. Of litmus tests and literature As part of his experimentations with the efficacy of the newest form of annexation that humankind is either leveraging, lusting after or labouring under, the esteemed colleague crafted this cheeky challenge for …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Bad Sisters review: Sharon Horgan’s dark, bonkers comedy will have you rooting for a clan of murderous women

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Mercifully, when we first meet him in the new Dublin whodunnit …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Opinion: Obama’s stunning blind spot on Russia

CNN

Editor’s Note: SE Cupp is a CNN political commentator. CNN — “The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back.” That was former President Barack Obama in 2012, schooling Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney at a debate for saying that Russia was “without question, our No. With Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the destruction of countless towns …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Bell Bottom movie review: Akshay Kumar's 'subversive' film is no improvement on his harebrained patriotic fare

Firstpost

Language: Hindi If a Hindi film telling us about ‘new India’ were a drinking game, we would end up like characters in a Hangover film. In Ranjit M Tewari’s Bell Bottom, the first big-ticket Hindi film to release since the devastating second-wave of COVID-19, we hear just another not-nearly-as-subtle-as-the-makers-think version of ‘new India.’ The titular spy ends his briefing to …

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3 years, 7 months ago

The nourishing joy of simmered whole chicken

Salon

I've found in this time of — ahem — concentrated home cooking that I often wander into ingredient or method obsessions and stay there, either 'til I wring them dry or they work themselves into my permanent cooking arsenal. *** A nod to the lemony Greek chicken soup Avgolemono, the slow-cooked flavors of the chicken and broth get a jolt …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Unashamed mother who's just found a (legal) way to quit Sussex... and gets an A-star for smugness

Daily Mail

Like every other mother during this awful lockdown, I wake each morning and my first thought is one of sinking dread. I am only a little ashamed to admit that I got out of the UK at the very first suggestion there might be tougher restrictions, to ‘home school’ in paradise. They’re 4,000 miles away, well out of earshot, back …

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