41 m. ago America’s infatuation with boy geniuses and ‘Great Men’ is ruining us

We’re obsessed with narratives about powerful men and how they got that way. But our mania for founder myths obscures an ideology of inequalityOne Saturday in the spring of 2021, a little achy after receiving our first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, my husband and I decided to stay in bed and click on the first thing suggested to us by our TV. It was WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn, a documentary produced by Hulu about the New York startup WeWork’s spectacular fall from grace. The film mostly chronicles the misdeeds of founder Adam Neumann, the surfer-dude dolt who turned a good idea – co-working spaces that lease small offices to tech startups – into a surreally overvalued conglomerate, before he made a mortifying attempt to take the company public that eventually ended in his forced resignation. As a consolation prize, Neumann infamously received a $1.7bn golden parachute.The WeWork cautionary tale is partly about slick marketing, which is what seems to...

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91 m. ago Pulp review – Jarvis Cocker’s captivating comeback turns a rapt crowd rapturous

OVO Hydro, GlasgowOn a kitschy 1970s chatshow set, the Sheffield band play hits from across their career – and fans welcome their just-released album tracks like old friendsA thick velvet curtain cocoons the stage as a cool disembodied voice projects over the audience: “This is an encore. An encore occurs because the audience wants more.” Since their initial breakup in 2002, Pulp have re-formed twice, for sold-out tours and festival sets played to loyal, rapturous audiences. Tonight, the stakes are higher: for the first time in 24 years, Pulp have a new album, More, released just one day before tonight’s opening show. The audience want more – but do they want More?Any anxiety about new material is quashed when set opener and comeback single Spike Island is received like an old friend. Jarvis Cocker rises from the back of the stage flanked by cardboard cutouts of his bandmates – recognisable from the cover of 1995’s Different Class – before joining their real-life counterparts, guita...

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1 hour ago 'Lost boy': Victor Palsson on Hibs spell, nightclub incident, giving up alcohol and varied career

Iceland midfielder landed six-month ban but has gone on to travel world and be successful

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2 h. ago Howzat for a view? Dream flats that give owners one of the most coveted views in cricket with terrace overlooking the Oval go on sale

The plush properties at Oval Mansions offer exceptional views of the Oval in south London and have now gone up for sale for between £400,000 and £600,000.

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2 h. ago Elon Musk believes he has made Donald Trump 'mistake', dad Errol claims

Elon Musk's dad Errol claimed his son was prepared to admit he had 'made a mistake' after lashing out against US President Donald Trump during their public fallout

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2 h. ago Love Island's first winner Jessica Hayes says the fall out from instant fame was so bad she is now celibate and 'doesn't miss men or sex' following shock split from fiancé

The original ITV winner, 32, who was 22 when she bagged the £50,000 prize alongside ex Max Morley, has said she is committed to celibacy following her catapult to fame and rocky relationship history.

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2 h. ago 'Lost boy': Victor Palsson lifts lid on Hibs spell, nightclub incident, giving up alcohol and career

Iceland midfielder landed six-month ban but has gone on to travel world and be successful

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2 h. ago ‘I’m here to open doors’: Bernardine Evaristo on success, controversy and why she plans to donate her £100k award

The Girl, Woman, Other author has this week been awarded a one-off Women’s prize award for her outstanding contribution. She talks about her long road to recognition, and using her profile to support other writersBack in 2013, Bernardine Evaristo gave a reading in a south London bookshop from her novel Mr Loverman. Only six people showed up, a couple of them were dozing and she realised they were homeless people who had come to find somewhere comfortable to sleep. Last month, the hit TV adaptation Mr Loverman, about a 74-year-old gay Caribbean man set in Hackney, east London, won two Baftas, including leading actor for Lennie James, making him the first Black British actor to win the TV award in its 70-year history. “I checked Wikipedia!” Evaristo exclaims of this shocking fact when we meet in London.Evaristo’s long career is one of firsts and creating them for others. In 2019, at the age of 60, she became the first Black woman to win the Booker prize – shared with Margaret Atwood –...

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2 h. ago Craig Bellamy: ‘I loved living in Brussels it gave me freedom and allowed me to breathe’

Coach learned his trade under Vincent Kompany at Anderlecht, now he leads Wales back to Belgium for a World Cup qualifierThe last of Craig Bellamy’s 78 Wales caps came in Brussels in October 2013 and although that 1-1 draw concluded an underwhelming World Cup qualifying campaign, the Belgian capital is where he considers his coaching career achieved liftoff. He spent a little more than two years working at Anderlecht alongside his former Manchester City teammate Vincent Kompany, first as the under-21 coach and then as Kompany’s assistant, a springboard that has led him to representing his country at the King Baudouin Stadium for another qualifier, this time as a manager.It is a city Bellamy remembers fondly, despite leaving Anderlecht in September 2021, before the end of his contract, to return to Cardiff to deal with depression after struggling being away from his family. “I loved living in Brussels,” he says. “It gave me a good step back. I was completely unrecognisable – no one h...

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3 h. ago Elon Musk has 'PTSD from the White House' and believes he's 'made a mistake' by helping Donald Trump get reelected, his father Errol claims

Errol Musk, 79, was speaking about his son's epic fallout with the US President after arriving in Moscow to speak at a forum organised by Vladimir Putin 's closest aides.

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3 h. ago Simon Reeve picks his best city on the planet having explored 130 countries

BBC presenter Simon Reeve has travelled to more than 130 countries during his career - and there's one city that he loves more than anywhere else

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4 h. ago Man dies in Birmingham after fall from landmark city building

The man was pronounced dead at the scene

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4 h. ago 'I went from shy girl to party lover at uni and now I earn £470k a year by faking it'

EXCLUSIVE: Tam Kaur spent most of her school years virtually mute but now she's on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List raking in big money after learning a skill that would be the foundation of her career

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5 h. ago England make dominant start to Charlotte Edwards era — but India will provide true test of their progress

An overmatched West Indies were duly dispatched in a 6-0 clean sweep, but tougher tasks are to come for Nat Sciver-Brunt’s side

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5 h. ago Donald Trump says relationship with Elon Musk over after feud as JD Vance brands Space X boss 'so nuclear'

US President confirms he has severed ties with Space X boss following their explosive falling-out

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5 h. ago Sian Gibson's 'fears' of ruining Peter Kay's career after 'dreadful' BBC series

Peter Kay's Car Share co-star Sian Gibson reflected on working in a call centre and almost giving up on acting completely, before the comedian sent her the script for the BBC sitcom

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5 h. ago 'Best looking Premier League player' stunned Laura Woods when he said she'd be his dream date

Laura Woods has done many things throughout her career in sports broadcasting, but fans always enjoyed her segments where she discussed the dream dates of several sports stars

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6 h. ago Forgotten Liverpool wonderkid opens up on 'toughest season' of career

Liverpool's Tyler Morton has risen through the ranks but has been largely overlooked in Arne Slot's first season as the teenager has been left to digest his peripheral role

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6 h. ago Looted from Syria, sold on Facebook: antiquities smuggling surges after fall of Assad

Collapse of once-feared security apparatus, coupled with widespread poverty, has triggered a gold rushThey come by night. Armed with pickaxes, shovels and jackhammers, looters disturb the dead. Under the cover of darkness, men exhume graves buried more than 2,000 years ago in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra, searching for treasure.By day, the destruction caused by grave robbers is apparent. Three-metre-deep holes mar the landscape of Palmyra, where ancient burial crypts lure people with the promise of funerary gold and ancient artefacts that fetch thousands of dollars. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago The 'horrific' experience that almost derailed Bake Off legend Prue Leith's entire TV career

The Cordon Bleu-trained cook (pictured), 85, started out in catering, before opening a Michelin-starred restaurant in Notting Hill and a school for budding chefs.

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