Stephen Colbert was giddy as a schoolboy when he unwrapped an early Christmas present on Monday: a little present from the Inspector-General of the Justice Department. The Inspector-General’s report be said that the FBI’s 2016 -onward DoJ probe into Russian election interference wasn’t motivated by bias against Trump or a …
Read More »Sundance 2020: Angelina Jolie, Taylor Swift and Pepe the Frog headline festival
Film festival announces jam-pack lineup including documentaries centred around the singer and the notorious meme Hollywood suns from Angelina Jolie to Ben Affleck to Julianne Moore will manager to Park City, Utah, next month for the purposes of the 2020 Sundance film festival. Next year’s lineup is one of the …
Read More »Home of one of first Bibles printed in Welsh saved from flood risk
Hydropower scheme at William Morgan’s 16 th-century house to keep humidity grades in check One of the most important locates in its own history of the Welsh language is being protected from the threat of flooding and heavy rainfall by harnessing the element that is set it at risk. The …
Read More »Griff Rhys Jones: ‘My best kiss? I kissed all the Spice Girls once’
The actor and comedian on being lazy, losing his cool and public shaming Born in Cardiff, Griff Rhys Jones, 64, began his career on the BBC’s Not The Nine O’Clock News, which led from 1979 -8 2. He went on to develop a comedy partnership with Mel Smith that lasted …
Read More »Klaus Enrique’s best photograph: a Donald Trump mask made from a piglet
‘I use bacon, garlic and blueberries for eyes, the teeth are lima beans and the tongue is the piglet’s own’ The first Donald Trump sculpture I stirred was out of a chicken. It was July 2016, when he still seemed relatively harmless and I never conceived his presidency would come …
Read More »London’s abandoned underground – in pictures
London has been shaped by its railways, ever since the Metropolitan opened as the world’s first underground cable in 1863. As the network developed, old stations, passageways, enterings, passageways and rods were left behind Hidden London: Discovering the Forgotten Underground, photos by Toby Madden and Andy Davies, is published by …
Read More »‘I joked about my life – Ma’s murder, child abuse, gangsters’: how Janey Godley became the queen of comedy
The Scottish comedian has drawn on her grisly Glaswegian childhood to create comedy gold. She talks about saying the unsayable, escaping her gangster in-laws and taking on Donald Trump and Boris Johnson Janey Godley proddings her chin lovingly, as she talks about ageing. “I enjoyed putting up word-paintings on Twitter …
Read More »Paul Krassner, Satirist, Yippies Co-Founder and Counter-Culture Figure, Dies at 87
Satirist, publisher, author and American counter-culture figure Paul Krassner died at his home in Desert Hot Springs, California on July 21. He was 87. His daughter Holly Krassner Dawson, corroborated the news to the Associated Press. Born in New York City on April 9, 1932, Krassner eventually moved to Southern …
Read More »Police find viral ice cream licker, but there’s a catfish twist
Law enforcement officials have identified and interviewed the woman who was recorded licking ice cream and then returning the tub to a supermarket freezer. The viral video posted on Twitter on Jun. 29 shows the young woman licking Blue Bell ice cream while the person recording the video spurrings her …
Read More »Don’t Look Now review – Roeg’s scary movie can still make you jump
From its red stalker to its eerie strangers, this suspenseful classic organize a template for fright- but its sex intimacy adds a dramatic counterpoint few movies can match This week reads the restored rerelease of Nicolas Roeg’s spooky masterpiece Don’t Look Now from 1973, accommodated by Allan Scott and Chris …
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