53 h. ago Quentin Tarantino needs to stop criticising films and start making them again | Peter Bradshaw

Trolling wokesters, disparaging Paul Thomas Anderson, insulting Paul Dano the controversial director plays to type with his list of the top 20 best films of the 21st centuryDid Quentin Tarantino just put Paul Dano into the alpha league of the world’s most loved and admired movie actors?His recent insults aimed at Dano counterprovoked a flood of defensive praise, with Daniel Day-Lewis, Dano’s costar in There Will Be Blood, publicly endorsing it. But was Tarantino’s pronouncement just bluster and flex? Will he end up casting Dano in his next film – a turnaround like Donald Trump making nice with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un after pretty much threatening him with nuclear war? Or are we witnessing a kind of midlife emotional crisis in the heart of one of the most brilliant directors of his generation? I speak as a superfan with reservations. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Kim Jong Un gathers North Korea’s ruling elite for key party meeting

The Workers’ Party gathers once every five years

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3 d. ago Democrats push to ban Trump’s plan to put himself on a new $1 coin

“Trump’s self-celebrating maneuvers are authoritarian actions worthy of dictators like North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, not the United States of America,” one Senate Democrat said

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7 d. ago North Korea’s secret police crack down on officials’ wives consulting fortune tellers and taking part in 'rituals'

Kim Jong Un's secretive state is monitoring the measures wives are taking as they fear their husbands could lose positions of favour in the typical end-of-year reshuffle

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7 d. ago North Korea’s secret police crack down on fortune tellers and taking part in 'rituals'

Kim Jong Un's secretive state is monitoring the measures wives are taking as they fear their husbands could lose positions of favour in the typical end-of-year reshuffle

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8 d. ago Ukrainian kids abducted & sent to North Korea where they were taught to hate the Japanese, expert claims

VLADIMIR Putin is kidnapping Ukrainian children and shipping them off to fellow tyrant Kim Jong-un in North Korea - where they are brainwashed into hating Japan, experts claim. Youngsters are being abducted and forcibly sent over 9,000 kilometres away to remote camps inside the hermit kingdom as part of the Russian despot's bloody war in...

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8 d. ago Kim Jong Un says snipers 'embarrassed themselves' fighting for Russia and must be better

Russia's Vladimir Putin has previously thanked Kim Jong Un for the courage of his troops who have been fighting in Ukraine, but the North Korean leader has called for his snipers to be better trained

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9 d. ago Death of Irish mother in ‘free birth’ reveals how poor maternity care is pushing women towards extreme influencers

Women in Ireland and the UK linked to Free Birth Society among scores around world to have suffered loss or serious harm after birthsFull story: How the FBS is linked to baby deaths around the worldOver a weekend in late June 2024, Emilee Saldaya, the leader of the Free Birth Society, hosted a festival on her 21-hectare (53-acre) property in North Carolina. It was a celebratory gathering for FBS, a multimillion-dollar business that promotes a radical approach to giving birth without medical support.Promotional footage from the Matriarch Rising festival shows Saldaya dancing beside her private lake, wearing a crown. That same weekend, more than 3,000 miles away, in Dundalk, a town on the east coast of Ireland, Naomi James, bled to death after freebirthing her son. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Kim Jong Un becomes 'fashion icon' as leather jackets and military boots fly off the shelves

The diminutive despot isn't a renowned fashionista, but his love of leather jackets has seen a welcome surge in sales for retailers as trendy youngsters in North Korea go crazy for Kim Jong's coat.

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2 w. ago New satellite images show North Korea building secret uranium enrichment plant

Potential expansion appears in line with leader Kim Jong Un’s directive for ‘exponential growth’ of nuclear weapons

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3 w. ago London theatre slaps 'bizarre' trigger warning on new show... for balloon animals

Loop, which is currently on at Theatre 503 and tells the story of a girl who works in a party shop in Peckham and becomes obsessed with a man she meets.

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