There isn’t a show out right now that’s more offensive than Good Times: Black Again — Netflix’s new animated series reboot of the 1970s classic sitcom Good Times — and that’s saying a lot considering Zeus Network is still actively in business and cranking out almost exclusively aggressive and exploitative content, like the reality TV franchise Baddies. After the Good Times reboot trailer dropped, immediate backlash ensued. If the conversation on X (formerly Twitter) was any indication, most...
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They both vote Labour and listen to The Rest Is Politics, but will they agree on the royal family or arming Ukraine?Anna, 50, CanterburyOccupation Teacher of English as a foreign language Continue reading
Swallows, cuckoos, curlews – so many species have dwindled or disappeared
When it was announced that Francesca Amewudah-Rivers would be making her London West-End debut starring as Juliet alongside Hollywood actor Tom Holland as Romeo, it should have been a celebratory moment. Instead, the young actor — who has already starred in productions of Othello, Macbeth as well as a BBC drama — was faced with a heartbreaking, but all too familiar, sequence of events in which she received thousands of racist and misogynistic comments online. The social media harassment got...
The former “GMA 3” host explained that he feels anxious “that something is going to happen” to his girlfriend when they’re not together.
At some point in the last year, I started wondering why TikTokers were telling me about nicotine in the same sentence as meditation. “It’s all about locking in
Question: I just received a statement from my secondary health insurance reimbursing $4,000 for catheters I supposedly received every month from May 2023 to February 2024 from a company. It listed the months and a total of $20,000 in charges billed to Medicare. I called my secondary insurance to open a fraud case. I have never signed up for nor received any of the catheters. They suggested that I also call Medicare and open a fraud case, which I did. If my secondary insurance had not sent the...
Ruby Sunday’s safe for now! Previously, it was reported that a new companion would replace Millie Gibson on Doctor Who. However, those rumors—which originated in The Mirror, so it was always a grain of salt situation—turned out to be slightly inaccurate. News out of Whoville today is that Varada Sethu (Andor) will actually join Gibson as a second companion to Ncuti Gatwa’s Doctor in the second series of the show’s Disney+ era. “I feel like the luckiest person in the world. It is such an honour...
Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked even young minds can remain stuck in old tracksThe most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them.That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions and values. And what better place to test ideas, assumptions and values than at a university? Continue reading
The Superman actor apparently ‘stands up every time a lady walks into a room’ – a kind gesture, but also a bit of a weird one, writes Oliver Keens. Isn’t all of this a tad outdated?