4 h. ago Andrew Mountbatten Windsor publicly slammed by TV star following Epstein scandal

The former Duke of York has been slammed by an American TV host live on air amid ongoing scandal and his connection to convicted paedophile Jeffery Epstein

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8 d. ago 'Outlandish and ridiculously addictive' new comedy debuts with perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score as it's hailed 'one of the best shows of the year'

The series is written by the team behind American series Saturday Night Live, Tim Robinson and Zach Kanin, who are also behind Netflix favourite I Think You Should Leave.

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1 week ago American living in the UK shares supermarket items that 'blew his mind'

An American who has lived in the UK for a number of years now shared the food items available in all British supermarkets – and the products which 'blew his mind'

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1 week ago American living in the UK shares British foods that absolutely blow his mind

After having lived in the UK for several years, an American man named Kjordy has shared four food items which he claims 'blew his mind' when he first moved across the pond but that he now loves

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1 week ago The Rest of Our Lives by Benjamin Markovits audiobook review – an American road trip with a twist

A law professor leaves his failing marriage and faltering career and hits the open road in this Booker-shortlisted novel of midlife turmoilAt the start of The Rest of Our Lives, we learn that Tom, a 55-year-old law professor from New York, plans to leave his wife just as soon as he has dropped their youngest child off at college. Tom and Amy have been together for 30 years. He believes theirs to be a “C-minus marriage” which was irreparably ruptured when Amy had an affair 12 years previously. And so, after leaving their daughter Miriam at college in Pittsburgh, he keeps on driving, revisiting old friends and places in search of his departed youth.Benjamin Markovits’s 12th novel – which has been shortlisted for this year’s Booker prize – could be seen as a companion piece to Miranda July’s celebrated All Fours in its exploration of the dissatisfaction of middle age. Tom is not a reliable narrator of his life, though he is nonetheless a compelling protagonist even in his flagrant mome...

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1 week ago American in UK says there are three things that baffle him about life here

An American who has lived in London for the past four years has shared the three things he still doesn't understand about the UK

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2 w. ago Man United fan Luke Littler fires brutal Florian Wirtz jibe after Liverpool sunk at Anfield

Luke Littler has photoshopped Florian Wirtz's face onto the body of American science fiction superhero 'Ben 10' following the Liverpool flop's display against Manchester United

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2 w. ago The Guardian view on the US and Venezuela: Trump’s ‘war on drugs’ ramps up military threats to Maduro | Editorial

Hawks want regime change. Democrats and others are right to warn against illegal and unauthorised use of forceThe drumbeat is growing louder. Covert operations are supposed to remain just that, but on Wednesday Donald Trump confirmed that he had approved secret CIA actions in Venezuela and suggested that he was considering strikes on its territory. These comments follow the administration’s extrajudicial killings at sea: attacks on alleged drug boats in the Caribbean that have left at least 27 dead – a frightening new precedent denounced by UN experts as illegal. The US has already built up forces in the region, with about 6,500 troops now stationed there. “No to war in the Caribbean No to regime change No to coups d’état orchestrated by the CIA,” railed Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s dictator, after Mr Trump’s remarks.The US president’s repeated claim that each boat strike saves 25,000 American lives is even more preposterous than it first sounds. The fentanyl that killed 48,000 peopl...

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2 w. ago Hamburg man charged with murder over US teen’s livestreamed death

German authorities issue 204 charges against 21-year-old suspect, alleged to be part of wider network of abusersA man accused of luring children worldwide into a sadistic online abuse network has been charged by German prosecutors with hundreds of crimes, including murder, for the livestreamed death of a 13-year-old American.Using the pseudonym “White Tiger”, the 21-year-old man from Hamburg is alleged to have victimised more than 30 children with online sexual abuse, manipulation and exploitation as a part of a virtual network of abusers known as “764”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Chair Company review – an office rage comedy packed with massive, stupid laughs

Tim Robinson is hilarious as a man hellbent on taking down a negligent chair manufacturer in this cringe caper full of roaringly good slapstickMeet Ron Trosper, a faithful office grunt in small town Ohio. Ron works for a company that builds shopping malls, and their latest one is the first for which Ron has been made project lead, despite some of his superiors’ misgivings. Today is his big day. He’s giving a speech at the launch!Ron is the creation of Tim Robinson, the former Saturday Night Live writer/performer who reinvented the American sketch show in 2019 with I Think You Should Leave. In a new half-hour, eight-episode series that starts as a workplace comedy before sprawling into mystery/thriller territory, his alter ego is a stock Robinson character, a variation on the textbook comic protagonist who has to bear the burden of being the only sane man in every room. Ron is genuinely beset by absurdity, misfortune and other people’s idiocy and selfishness, but always manages to re...

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