22 h. ago What’s a guaranteed way to find peace in these troubled times? | Fiona Katauskas

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45 h. ago A timeline of the rise of Sean 'Diddy' Combs and his legal troubles

For more than two decades, Sean “Diddy” Combs was one of hip-hop’s most nimble entrepreneurs

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5 d. ago Lesotho activist arrested after video on unemployment rates angers prime minister

Tšolo Thakeli had long campaigned on youth joblessness, but a post questioning Sam Maketane’s promises on work creation landed him in prisonIt took a single video complaining about Lesotho’s unemployment rate to turn Tšolo Thakeli into the prime minister’s enemy. Within a day of posting there were armed police at his door.It was Father’s Day, and the 31-year-old father of two was in his pyjamas when they arrived. He had no idea his post would land him in trouble; after all, he had campaigned for a long time, under different governments, for action on jobs for young people. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Such Brave Girls: TV so hilariously savage it will make you yowl with pleasure

Move over Julia Davies and Sharon Horgan – this devastating, ruthless sitcom is basically the British psyche on a screen. It’s just the medicineI love watching real-life siblings on-screen. They bring a knotted history to every interaction, the way they look at one another, or don’t. They may love each other; they’re definitely stuck with each other. Daisy May and Charlie Cooper were the last to bottle such contradiction; I’m delighted we now have Such Brave Girls (BBC One, Wednesday 2 July, 11.40pm), returning for a second series, in which creator Kat Sadler stars alongside her sister Lizzie Davidson. Cattier than Longleat, it features some of the most savage writing on TV, and makes me yowl with pleasure.It’s about traumatised women making terrible choices. Bear with. The ever-excellent Louise Brealey plays Deb, whose husband abandoned his family 10 years ago after popping to the shop for teabags. In financial trouble, she spends her time trying to lock down relatio...

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2 w. ago Brookside's Jacqui Dixon star Alex Fletcher opens up on 'jealousy' over EastEnders rival

Alex Fletcher teases troubled times for Diane in Hollyoaks. But the actress also admits that Rita Simons' arrival in the Chester-based soap also rattled her off-screen.

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3 w. ago Are we having a global meltdown? The animals of the Arctic seem to think so | Fiona Katauskas

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3 w. ago Terry Moran launches Substack to continue doing ‘important work’ following ABC News ouster

‘I can’t wait to get at it, to get at the important work that we all have to do in this time of such trouble for our country,” Terry Moran said in a video announcing his news Substack page

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