Isaac Rabbani Only a strong economic message can restore the party’s credibility with the working class.
From Amy Winehouse to Elvis, musical biopics are ubiquitous – but it’s only the fake ones that are really worth watchingWith each passing year, it becomes harder to deny that Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Jake Kasdan’s 2007 cult comedy about a fictitious rocker’s rise and drug-addled fall, might be the most prescient Hollywood film of the 21st century.Borrowing liberally from the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line the film skewers rock biopic cliches as mercilessly as Airplane! lampooned...
You may have noticed over the last few days that the political world is in an uproar over President Biden's dispensing of student debt relief. It's not so much that Biden implemented the relief program at all; what got politicians and pundits in a tizzy was that he called out the GOP naysayers in the House by pointing out that many of them had received business loans via the pandemic-era Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP, that had never been paid back. The White House tweeted out the forgiven...
Over the past decade or so, a notable trend among American historians, particularly those prioritizing social justice in their research, has been to frame the unsavory facets of United States history as the defining features of the society. One useful way to think of this is as a version of the American exceptionalism the same […]
President Joe Biden hopes the latest jobs report will help convince voters that the economy is thriving under his policies, but a thorough look at the data released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics shows the economy is far weaker than he says it is. The headline numbers of 300,000 jobs created and […]
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...
Suzuki advert from Ghana suggests people trade in their classic Lancia Delta Integrale for a Japanese econo-box
The sinful tendencies of the human heart will slowly sink society unless you, I and the majority of our neighbors actively work to contain them.
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?
Macbeth’s climax rests on a witchy technicality that has always felt like it belongs more to 20th-century screenwriting than 17th-century drama: Its power-mad, prophecy-enabled protagonist, having already slain his king […]
There comes a point when even the lowliest rock hack has to take a stand and say: ‘You can’t legally force me to go back to Coachella.’ Kevin E G Perry has reached that limit
When AT&T Business teed up a brand campaign targeting mom-and-pop shops with a reunion of The Office cast, The Masters provided the perfect grounds for an opening drive. Actor Rainn Wilson (The Office’s Dwight Schrute) joined AT&T and its partners on an integrated Omnicom team led by BBDO, teasing the latest installment of AT&T Business’s "Next Level Network" campaign on his Instagram and newly minted LinkedIn profile. Wilson and AT&T used LinkedIn to announce the actor's new...