8 d. ago One to One: John and Yoko review – Kevin Macdonald’s immersive collage is a pop culture fever dream

A collection of staggering TV clips and amazing audio of Lennon and Ono’s life in 1970s NYC, this film is a mosaic of countercultural momentsFilm-maker Kevin Macdonald has created a fever dream of pop culture: a TV-clip collage of John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s time in New York in the early 70s, as they led the countercultural protest. It’s a film that mixes small screen zeitgeist fragments and madeleine moments, a memory quilt of a certain time and place, juxtaposing Jerry Rubin and Allen Ginsberg with Richard Nixon and George Wallace, John and Yoko in concert with ads for Tupperware – all inspired by the fact that John and Yoko did an awful lot of TV watching in their small New York apartment of that time, with John in particular thrilled by the American novelty of 24/7 television.It was also on TV that John and Yoko saw a documentary about the scandalous abuse of learning-disabled children at the infamous Willowbrook State School in New York and they organised the One to One concert ...

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9 d. ago Our motoring writer creates his dream garage from BOTB's dream car prizes

Gareth Butterfield selects the vehicles he would most want to own from BOTB's vast collection of dream car prizes, from the brutal AMG SL55 to the iconic Ford Escort Cosworth.

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1 week ago I got badly injured falling off a ladder but that was only the start of the bad news

Experienced house renovators Mandy Boucher and Sam Kingston were happily creating their dream coastal cottage before life changed dramatically and completely

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2 w. ago We test a gadget that can turn a car screen into an Android tablet

Motoring and consumer technology writer Gareth Butterfield tests the Carluex Pro+ - the ultimate gadget for tech-savvy petrolheads

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4 w. ago Alfa Romeo Junior Elettrica review: Italian flair with a sensible side

Motoring writer Gareth Butterfield tests the Speciale version of Alfa's new EV

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4 w. ago Alfa Romeo Junior Elletrica review: Italian flair with a sensible side

Motoring writer Gareth Butterfield tests the Speciale version of Alfa's new EV

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last month Trump administration plans for militarized border in New Mexico – report

Administration reportedly working to fulfill a conservative dream: create buffer zone to be occupied by US troopsThe Trump administration is working on a plan to create what conservatives have long demanded: a militarized buffer zone along the southern border in New Mexico that would be occupied by active-duty US troops, empowered to detain migrants who cross into the United States unlawfully, the Washington Post reports.According to the Post, recent internal discussions have centered on deploying troops to a section of the border in New Mexico that would be turned into a kind of military installation, which would give the soldiers a legal right to detain migrants who “trespass” on the elongated base. Unauthorized migrants would then be held until they can be turned over to immigration officers. Continue reading...

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