Capitalism eats itself: King Erysichthon was cursed with an insatiable hunger by goddess Demeter, until he consumed everything he had and ate himself. Sound familiar? As well as cutting climate change incentives to save the planet, Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is now cannibalising his own MAGA supporters in red states in order to give the super-rich even more tax cuts.
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Rather belatedly, I’m posting a review of Tim Burton’s 3D movie adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. Being a sucker for the technology (especially now that you get proper stylish Rayban-style spectacles and not the horrid — if nostalgic — cardboard face-wear of old), I had gone to see Alice the first week it opened at
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Waiter, there’s a tramp in my soap. Oh, what price will we pay for beauty? I read gruesome news from Peru where a team of serial killers, who probably smoked too much crack while watching Fight Club, have nicked (or influenced) Tyler Durden’s macabre business plan, harvested the fat from scores of victims over the past
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Maclaren buggies in the wars A finger of fudge may be just enough to give your kid the digit they’re missing after helping Mummy fold away their pushchair. Is it me or are the middle classes getting madder? The Telegraph asks if parents are overreacting because Maclaren buggies are amputating their children’s fingers. One of
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Parolles and Helena This is one of the rarely-staged Shakespeare plays that has eluded me thus far but I’m glad I got to see this three-hour production at the National Theatre Olivier auditorium at long last thanks to their £10 Travelex scheme. All’s Well That End’s Well is a light romcom with an ironic punch
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WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration said Friday that it will allow trace amounts of melamine in infant formula. Earlier this week, the agency said it found the industrial chemical in at least one brand of formula sold in the U.S. More here … When melamine was found in Chinese milk we all recognised
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