18 h. ago Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe review: why is it set in the Wild West?

Lola Shalam is strident, standout Juliet - but the production could do without those massive white hats and all that shouting

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40 h. ago Martin Lewis issues urgent crypto scam warning costing victims dear: ‘It’s the Wild West’

Martin Lewis has issued an urgent crypto scam warning to the public after people continue to fall victim on social media.

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45 h. ago Mark Twain by Ron Chernow review – the story of America’s first literary celebrity, from the author of Hamilton

A definitive new biography takes in adventures on the Mississippi, racist stereotypes and get-rich-quick schemesIn his lifetime, Mark Twain was the greatest literary celebrity the world had ever known. In the US, he hobnobbed with presidents; on his many travels, he would dine privately with the German kaiser, the Austrian emperor, or the Prince of Wales. Visiting England to collect an honorary degree from Oxford University, he was cheered off his ship by the stevedores of the London docks, before making his way to Windsor Castle for tea with the king and queen.He was the bracing, irreverently humorous voice of America. Like Charles Dickens, whom he heard read from his own work in New York, he became a performer as well as an author. In London he was feted when he read passages from his travelogue of the Wild West, Roughing It. Everyone loved the “twang of his drawl”. He went on to take his work in progress, Huckleberry Finn, round more than 100 American towns and cities, earning ha...

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53 h. ago Investigation after topless championship ace 'involved street brawl after pub row’

Footage appears to show Hull City captain, Lewie Coyle being led away from a traffic-stopping street brawl by his ex-boxer and teammate brother Rocco, with one witness likening the row to the 'Wild West'

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53 h. ago Topless Championship captain 'involved street brawl after pub row’ as club launch probe

Footage appears to show Hull City captain Lewie Coyle being led away from a traffic-stopping street brawl by his ex-boxer and teammate brother Rocco, with one witness likening the row to the 'Wild West'

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5 d. ago Kanye West appears to come out as GAY in wild rant about Kim Kardashian and their kids

The 47-year-old, adorned in an all-black outfit and face mask, had been talking about not seeing his four kids that he shares with Kardashian, 44.

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5 d. ago Kanye West comes out as GAY in wild rant about Kim Kardashian and their kids

The 47-year-old, adorned in an all-black outfit and face mask, had been talking about not seeing his four kids that he shares with Kardashian, 44.

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6 d. ago Faye Tozer to play historical Wild West figure in Dita Von Teese show

The singer said the role feels ’empowering’.

Culture

7 d. ago Kanye West goes on wild rant over custody battle with Kim Kardashian during manic livestream

The Chicago native, 47, who has publicly clashed with ex-wife Kim Kardashian 44, about the co-parenting of their 11-year-old daughter, North.

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8 d. ago The best holidays to book for June 2025, from coastal Corsica to train rides through Canada

Whether walking the wild west coast of Wales or holing up in the Lazio countryside, there’s jet-setting and staycations to boot at the start of the summer season

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1 week ago You can boat through France's 'Wild West' where wild horses, black bulls and flamingos roam free

Chloe Govangoes on a French river cruise and finds Camargue a wild and wonderful ride, setting off from St Gilles, a gorgeous old town on the Rhone-Sete Canal and gliding off on an adventure

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1 week ago Three arrested after 'brawl' outside bar with chairs thrown and 'blood everywhere'

Police were called to a 'disturbance' outside the wine bar that onlookers compared to 'something out of the Wild West'

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2 w. ago Sheep rustlers turn beautiful UK national park into ‘Wild West’

As more than 1,000 reported sheep thefts are investigated, Devon and Cornwall Police suspect farming industry insiders are involved

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3 w. ago The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop themThe movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (“seasteading”) or pro-business “freedom cities” such as Próspera, a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.Yet despite backing from the heavy-hitter venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, their extreme libertarian dreams kept bogging down: it turns out most self-respecting rich people don’t actually want to live on floating oil rigs, even if it means lower taxes, and while Próspera might be nice for a holiday and some body “upgrades”, its extra-national status is currently being challenged in court. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Wild West Yorkshire town where locals are terrified of knife

Huddersfield has been shaken by the murder of a teenage boy who'd fled war-torn Syria for a better life in the UK - it comes amid a background of growing fear in a town plagued by violent knife crime

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3 w. ago The real story behind Ncuti Gatwa’s ‘dark, sexy’ Shakespeare play: Were The Bard and Marlowe lovers or rivals?

As Born With Teeth brings a ‘ferociously sexy’ take on literature’s greatest mystery to the West End, we separate the tantalising facts from wild fiction

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4 w. ago UK has 'huge opportunity' to be world's first 'space sheriff' for the new 'wild west'

George Freeman the former Tory science minister under Boris Johnson reckons the UK could one day become the police force of the stars and prevent it becoming a wild west

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