43 m. ago Clueless review – Alicia Silverstone and Brittany Murphy are class acts in 90s Jane Austen parallel

Amy Heckerling’s high school romcoming-of-age classic, composed entirely of quotable funny lines, remains a sophisticated pleasure 30 years onThirty years ago, the world was swooning over Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle in the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation but all the time, the actual Jane Austen screen sensation that year was happening elsewhere in plain sight. Amy Heckerling’s high school romcoming-of-age masterpiece, inspired by Austen’s Emma, is now on re-release for its 30th anniversary and more than ever it feels like a complete joy, a deliciously movie-literate (and literate-literate) classic, with references to Stanley Kubrick, Oscar Wilde and William Burroughs to go with the Austen parallel.Clueless is something to compare with Bringing Up Baby and The Philadelphia Story – and Alicia Silverstone’s final, tearful scene matches, and even outclasses, Julia Roberts’ speech in Notting Hill about being just a girl standing in front of a boy. Like Withnail and I, it’s a film ...

Politics

9 h. ago Only 2% of people can find all 4 animals hiding in plain sight

A beautiful painting of a serene shoreline has been baffling the internet, as it disguise four animals in plain sight. Seriously, you'll need laser-sharp vision to crack this brainteaser in time

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3 d. ago Ancient 'hidden in plain sight' Roman road connecting South London park to the seaside

Ancient 'hidden in plain sight' Roman road connecting South London park to the seaside  Yahoo

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3 d. ago Only people with sharp eyes can spot the beach ball 'hidden in plain sight'

Test your mental strength with this a vibrant beach scene packed with summer holiday chaos...and one sneaky beachball hidden in plain sight - are you able to find it?

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5 d. ago Nursery worker launched sickening campaign of abuse against babies in plain sight

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A court watched in horror as footage showed the disgraced nursery worker terrorising the young children at Montessori Riverside Nursery

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7 d. ago Twisted nursery worker Roksana Lecka's campaign of terror against babies in plain sight

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Disgraced Roksana Lecka terrorised young children at Montessori Riverside Nursery, with harrowing footage showing how she attempted to conceal her sickening crimes

Economics

9 d. ago Sales of illegal and dangerous ebikes must be stopped, say MPs and peers

All-party group concerned about hazards caused by bikes, with focus on use by delivery drivers and risk of fire Ministers must urgently act to stop the sale of illegal and potentially lethal electric bikes, with a particular focus on their use by gig economy delivery riders, a committee of MPs and peers has said.The rapid spread of highly powered bikes or conversion kits causes hazards on the roads and can lead to fires because of cheaply made batteries, the report by the all-party parliamentary group for cycling and walking said, calling it “a crisis hiding in plain sight”. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago There’s an invader turning huge swathes of Britain into deserts – and these dead zones are spreading | George Monbiot

Vast areas of land are now dominated by one species – purple moor-grass – and good luck with seeing a bird or insect there. How do we revive these habitats?Deserts are spreading across great tracts of Britain, yet few people seem to have noticed, and fewer still appear to care. It is one of those astonishing situations I keep encountering: in which vast, systemic problems – in this case, I believe, covering thousands of square kilometres – hide in plain sight.I realise that many people, on reading that first sentence, will suspect I’ve finally flipped. Where, pray, are those rolling sand dunes or sere stony wastes? But there are many kinds of desert, and not all of them are dry. In fact, those spreading across Britain are clustered in the wettest places. Yet they harbour fewer species than some dry deserts do, and are just as hostile to humans. Another useful term is terrestrial dead zones. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago The subtle red flags that 'disturbed' Hugh Jackman's ex... now she knows the truth was hiding in plain sight

An insider has revealed the shady behavior that has left Hugh Jackman's ex Deborra-Lee Furness 'extremely disturbed'.

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2 w. ago The red flags that 'disturbed' Hugh Jackman's ex... the truth was hiding in plain sight

An insider has revealed the shady behavior that has left Hugh Jackman's ex Deborra-Lee Furness 'extremely disturbed'.

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3 w. ago Rihanna strips for saucy lingerie snaps with big secret hiding in plain sight

Rihanna recently released her new Savage X Fenty campaign pictures, but during the photoshoot she was hiding something that you definitely won't be able to spot

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3 w. ago Brighton's Bin Mafia: How secret war by 'insurgent' waste collectors have seen death threats, tyres slashed and cache of weapons uncovered

A secret war being waged in plain sight in Brighton by bin collectors has resulted in employees receiving death threats, having their tyres slashed and a cache of weapons being uncovered.

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3 w. ago Emmerdale clues you missed that Ryan Hawley was returning as Robert Sugden

Emmerdale's Robert Sugden made a shocking return this evening just as Aaron Dingle was set to marry John Sugden - but the hint of a potential return has been in plain sight for a while

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4 w. ago Bogancloch review – the further adventures of a Scottish hermit in Ben River’s beguiling essay

Rivers returns to document a past subject, Jake Williams, whose reclusive Scottish forest existence is fascinating but defies explanationFilm-maker Ben Rivers, one of the doyens of Britain’s small but stubborn-as-bindweed experimental film scene, catches up with Scottish recluse Jake Williams, the subject of his 2011 film Two Years at Sea and, before that, his 2006 short This Is My Land. All three films never deign to tell viewers much at all about Williams, who spends great chunks of the film doing almost nothing, like sleeping by a tree, taking a bath, or just pottering about at his home, Bogancloch in Aberdeenshire.However, there are oblique hints in plain sight if you look closely. In the bric-a-brac of Williams’ digs and the closeup shots Rivers inserts of some of Williams’ scratched and smudged photographs of places around the world he’s once visited, one of which shows the subject as a young man with a resplendent head of red hair. These days, his scalpline has much receded a...

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4 w. ago Husband dismembered wife and kept body in 'crude coffin' at family home for five years

Evil John Smith hid his first wife's remains in plain sight at the family home before his second wife went missing, and his third was narrowly saved from danger by police

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