41 h. ago The ultimate guide to sinister emoji: Terrifying interactive chart reveals the true meaning of 60 seemingly

While most popular characters are harmless fun, other seemingly-innocent symbols have secret sinister meanings.

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55 h. ago Get Real: serial Champions League winners Madrid face fresh threat | Jonathan Wilson

Paris Saint-Germain, who beat Liverpool with verve and energy, are the upstart newcomers among big-name quarter-finalistsNarratives are never as straightforward as they may appear. One era does not yield easily to another. What constitutes an era changes over time. While history is happening it’s often hard to make sense of it; patterns seem to emerge that, from the perspective of 20 years later are meaningless, or culs-de-sac. That seems particularly true this season. As the Champions League reaches its quarter-final stage this coming week, it feels that one age has ended and another has yet to materialise.The past was a simpler place. First there was the age of dominance by Real Madrid and Benfica, teams from the capitals of Iberian nations under right-wing dictatorships, packed with great individuals. Then came systematisation, catenaccio and the Italian ascendancy, followed, with a brief period of crossover, by the era of domination by the northern European industrial powers, sk...

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55 h. ago Donald Trump's weird 'obsession' with one very common everyday word

US President Donald Trump has given MAGA a new meaning, he no longer seems to want to Make America Great Again as much as he wants to Make America Groceries Again

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1 week ago The hidden meanings behind seemingly random moments in Adolescence... and their chilling warnings about boys today, by child psychologist DR SHEILA REDFERN

What do each of the seemingly random objects and actions in Adolescence mean - and how can they be used to try to unpick Jamie's heinous crime?

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3 w. ago PATRICK MARMION reviews Clueless at the Trafalgar Theatre: Big

From Legally Blonde to Heathers and Mean Girls, musicalisations of teenage romcoms can seem two a penny these days. But this staging (pictured) of the 1995 movie Clueless still has plenty to sing about.

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3 w. ago Expelled! review – turning the tables on the private school class hierarchy

Nintendo Switch, iPhone/iPad, Mac, PC (version played); InkleInkle’s latest game revels in lying, stealing and blackmail as you resort to any means necessary to avoid expulsion from a posh schoolAs with seemingly everything in the UK, it all comes back to the class system. Verity Amersham, a scholarship student at Miss Mulligatawney’s School for Promising Girls, is accused of pushing the hockey captain out of a window, and the school’s fearsome headmistress is determined to expel her despite the flimsiest evidence. When Verity protests her innocence, Miss Mulligatawney remains unpersuaded, spelling out her reasoning in plain terms: as a northerner with working-class parents, Verity simply isn’t the “right sort”.The injustice of it all is a potent driver, ensuring I set about my goal of preventing Verity’s expulsion with determined zeal, much like Matilda defying the hateful Miss Trunchbull. As in developer Inkle’s 2021 game Overboard!, you’re given a time limit to work within and a ...

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