Month: October 2022

Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s debt-cutting plan will be published on 31 October – three weeks earlier than planned – alongside an independent economic forecast, the Treasury has confirmed. Both the publication of the medium-term financial plan and the forecast by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) had been due on 23 November, but the chancellor has
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Kanye West’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were restricted over the weekend, with the social media platforms saying they removed the rapper’s posts after online users condemned them as antisemitic. West, who has legally changed his name to Ye, had his Instagram account suspended after a since-removed post in which he allegedly invoked antisemitic tropes, accusing
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Noah Media Group Boards Irvine Welsh Doc Netflix’s 14 Peaks producer Noah Media Group has boarded a documentary on cult Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh and will shop the show at Mipcom Cannes next week. I Am Irvine Welsh, from LS Films, followed a year in the life of the Scottish auteur as he adapted Trainspotting into a West End musical, published a
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Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s classic tragedy of the American Dream gone sour, is revitalized and given room to encompass the Black experience in director Miranda Cromwell’s intriguing production opening at the Hudson Theatre on Broadway tonight. Boasting flat-out terrific performances – Wendell Pierce as Willie Loman and the amazing Sharon D Clarke as
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Carmen Maria Machado’s book, In The Dream House opens with the following quote:  I never read prologues. I find them tedious. If what the author has to say is so important, why relegate it to the paratext? What are they trying to hide? Reading this quote, I immediately warmed up to Machado: I, too, skip
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Just a couple of years ago, it seemed that space mining was inevitable. Analysts, tech visionaries and even renowned astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson predicted that space mining was going to be big business. Space mining companies like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, backed by the likes of Google‘s Larry Page and Eric Schmidt, cropped
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The professional wrestler and reality TV star known as Sara Lee has died suddenly at the age of 30. Her real name was Sara Weston and in 2015 she won Tough Enough, a competition in which contestants vied for a contract with WWE, the professional wrestling organisation. She had been a competitive powerlifter and was
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News Kanye West Locked Out of Twitter Following Anti-Semitic Tweet Yesterday, the rapper’s Instagram account was restricted for policy violations By Madison Bloom October 9, 2022 Facebook Twitter Kanye West (Photo by Edward Berthelot/GC Images). Facebook Twitter Kanye West  has been locked out of his Twitter account after posting an anti-Semitic tweet, BuzzFeed News reports
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