Director Jonathan Millet contacted a secret cell that hunts down Assad’s collaborators while researching a new film. He soon realised that it could not be a documentary …‘I never show a single image of torture,” says French director Jonathan Millet. “When you leave things off-screen, often the image...
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US president says fifth-grade student forced to read aloud My Shadow Is Pink, a book about a boy who loves ‘things not for boys’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn Australian children’s author has fired back after Donald...
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Instead of recognising that social media harms mental health and democracy, the former deputy PM and Meta executive repeats company talking pointsNick Clegg chooses difficult jobs. He was the UK’s deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015, a position from which he was surely pulled in multiple directi...
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Angela’s apparently idyllic family life begins to fray when she becomes pregnant and the hearing world’s old prejudices are reawakenedFar from the Tree, Andrew Solomon’s brilliant nonfiction book about parenting children different from oneself, offers the useful distinction between vertical and hori...
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Floating teens at summer camp, sleeping students in Georgia, rollerskaters at Venice Beach … Mark Steinmetz’s stunning black and white shots capture kids across America Continue reading...
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This brilliantly slippery beast of a drama pits an adult son’s girlfriend against his mother in all-out war. Robin Wright is excellent as the parent with an … interesting dynamic with her child. Yikes!‘This one’s different,” a son says to his mother when she teases him about his latest girlfriend. C...
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The German city is celebrating the renowned art school’s centenary with exhibitions, digital tours and bike and bus routes connecting landmark Bauhaus buildingsThe heat hits me as soon as I open the door, the single panes of glass in the wall-width window drawing the late afternoon sunlight into my...
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Joanna arrives in a small town, hears about a child killer and recruits fellow school mums to investigate. Plus, will Ant and Dec win a 24th National Television Award? Here’s what to watch this evening9pm, Channel 5A silly but moreish thriller in which mums-at-the-school-gate gossip spirals out of c...
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This flimsy tell-all about the actor’s decades-long addiction to pills, alcohol and crack-cocaine is far too light on contrition or self-reflection. You pity everyone around himIf it comes as a shock to anyone that at some point in the grip of a decades-long addiction to pills, booze and crack cocai...
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Frauke Requardt and Vivienne Franzmann’s dance-theatre show Anatomy of Survival examines 23 versions of reality in ‘powder keg’ citiesOne morning, playwright Vivienne Franzmann was queueing for a coffee when an argument broke out. “A customer absolutely lost it,” says Franzmann. “She was demanding h...
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