64 h. ago Scots universities’ first duty is to the wellbeing of our kids

Record View says everyone reading Ethan Brown’s story today will be moved by his family’s plight, and we can only hope it serves as a wake-up call.

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4 d. ago House of Guinness fact vs fiction: How accurate is the new Netflix drama about stout dynasty?

Telling the story of the Irish family behind the world's favourite stout, it is set in 19th century Dublin just after the death of patriarch Sir Benjamin Lee Guinness.

Events

5 d. ago The COP KILLER in the Hemsworth family: Inside story of Chris, Liam and Luke's uncle Rod Ansell's descent from a larrikin Aussie bushman

They're Australia's golden family - with Chris Hemsworth and his famous brothers Liam and Luke embodying the hard-working Aussie values that have made them household names.

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7 d. ago House of Guinness show faces backlash in Ireland over British actors' Irish accents, characters who sound like 'feral leprechauns' and an 'invented' gay storyline

The gritty period drama tells the story of the legendary family behind the world-famous brewery, set against the backdrop of 19th-century Dublin and New York.

Culture

8 d. ago House of Guinness tells my family story — and thankfully avoids the 'straight

Jack Guinness on the strange experience of watching the lives of his ancestors played out on screen

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8 d. ago My family story is getting the Succession treatment in House of Guinness— and I couldn’t be more excited

Jack Guinness on the strange experience of watching the lives of his ancestors played out on screen

Society

8 d. ago MAFS UK fans left in tears as bride shares 'complicated' family heartache

Married at First Sight UK viewers were left in tears after one of the brides shared her "complicated" family story, which included the tragic loss of her father

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8 d. ago MAFS UK fans left in tears over contestant's emotional family story

Fans of Married at First Sight UK were left in tears after bride Julia-Ruth shared an insight into her 'complicated' family life

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1 week ago Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite review – a family doomed in love

This intense follow-up to My Sister, the Serial Killer is a haunting story of heartbreak, grief and intergenerational traumaRepeat a family story often enough, and it becomes a kind of legend – or a curse. The Faloduns at the centre of Cursed Daughters share tales of heartbroken women across the generations who just can’t seem to hold on to a man. There’s Fikayo, whose husband left after he tired of tending to her chronic illness; Afoke, who seduced her younger sister’s boyfriend; Feranmi, the matriarch of the family, who got pregnant by a married man and received the curse from the man’s first wife. Again and again, the narrative is interrupted by these tales about grandmothers and great-great-grandmothers; eventually, it feels almost as if the novel is haunted by the stories themselves.Nigerian-British novelist Oyinkan Braithwaite splashed on to the literary scene in 2018 with My Sister, the Serial Killer, a taut debut about sisterhood, jealousy and murder. Cursed Daughters, her s...

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2 w. ago Bake Off contestant fights tears after paying tribute to late friends

The Great British Bake Off was an emotional rollercoaster on Tuesday night as one contestant was moved to tears.

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3 w. ago A Splintering by Dur e Aziz Amna review – a woman’s ambitions in Pakistan

This novel fizzes with energy as it follows the parallel lives of two siblings and exposes the crushing divides of gender and classI admired Dur e Aziz Amna’s precise and lyrical first novel, American Fever; the protagonist – an exchange student from Pakistan to rural Oregon – staying with me long after I encountered her. She has now delivered a superb second novel that features another fascinating central character, though in a much darker, more disturbing context.A Splintering is the story of Tara, one of five siblings from a poor farming family in the hinterlands of Pakistani Punjab. This is the kind of landscape where age-old codes of manhood, with brother or son as provider and adjudicator of women’s lives, still rule. Tara, gazing at the stars from their courtyard at night, wants to get away from the squalor of Mazinagar (literally, past city), where most people live and die unnoticed, and build a life full of money and possessions in the city. She has no romantic notions...

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3 w. ago The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai review – a dazzling epic

Longlisted for the Booker, this capacious story of love, work and family set between India and the US is both dizzyingly vast and insistently miniatureOn a trip to see his grandparents in the Indian city of Allahabad, journalist Sunny Bhatia flicks through the morning papers, and is immediately at sea: what can the convoluted sentences before him – “TTIM files complaint against MSL at JM Rastra. MP(LTTK) holds GL Mukti strike to blame for Vasudev debacle. BORS reverberates in KLM(U) case” – possibly mean? His bewilderment at an India he cannot decode is, equally problematically, mirrored by the incomprehension he experiences in New York, where he occupies a junior role at the Associated Press.Fortunately, there are other more readily accessible stories: a woman sold at a cattle fair in Rajasthan, and a retired railway clerk in Mysore who has grown his fingernails so long that they reach across the room and oblige his family to attend to his every physical need. They do not mind, the...

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last month My shameful hoarding habit has left our house a wreck and my family close to despair, writes ROWAN PELLING. Here's how I beat it... and you can, too

On the outside, mine is much like any other middle-class family home. Inside, it's a very different story.

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