CW McCall obituary
The use of pop songs to sell everything from airlines to chewing gum has become commonplace, but converting a character from a TV commercial into...
Pushing Buttons: Is the PlayStation Plus revamp actually good for gamers?
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Coming to England review – Floella Benjamin story overlooks her ascent to Play School
It is fitting that an adaptation of Floella Benjamin’s memoir of her girlhood should encapsulate the spirit of children’s television. After all, it was Play...
‘We are elite complainers’: Pup, the punk band satirising a shameless music industry
The Covid-19 pandemic has thrown workers of all kinds into long-term illness, poverty, homelessness and death, and musicians are among them. Unionisation efforts have hit...
Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore review – good-natured magical entertainment
The magizoologist Newt Scamander returns in the latest of the Fantastic Beasts movies, the prequel-saga of the wizarding world in Britain, America and beyond before...
Babies in bunkers: the surrogate mothers and infants trapped in Ukraine – podcast
Although commercial surrogacy is illegal in most of the world, Ukraine is one of the few countries where it is still possible for a foreign...
Sacramento: second suspect arrested over mass shooting that killed six
Police in Sacramento said a second suspect had been arrested in connection with a weekend mass shooting that killed six people and wounded 12. A...
Two senior executives resign from Trump’s Truth Social start-up
Two senior executives at Donald Trump’s tech start-up Truth Social have resigned, adding to considerable problems faced by the former president’s attempted takeover of conservative...
Obama returns to White House for first time to promote Affordable Care Act with Biden – live
Howdy, live blog readers. Happy Tuesday. Former president Barack Obama will today return to the White House for the first time since leaving it in...
Sudan militia leader denies war crimes at landmark ICC Darfur trial
A former militia leader in Sudan has denied committing war crimes and crimes against humanity as his landmark hearing opened at the international criminal court....