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'Time is up': Minister warns media industry to take abuse seriously in wake of Brand case
Lisa Nandy tells the BBC "many people" in the media industry have come forward to her.
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From scandalous game to mass entertainment: is GTA going soft?
From 24-hour news channel parodies and extreme stereotypes to a twisted Statue of Liberty, the Grand Theft Auto series has consistently mocked the excesses of US capitalist society.
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Stacey Dooley’s Australia: Off the Beaten Track review – presenting this fluffy show is beyond her
This trip to Kangaroo Island is pleasant enough, but the investigative reporter seems lost when tackling something that doesn’t feature exploitation or outrage For years on BBC Three, Stacey Dooley equalled strife. Child labour, sexual exploitation, poverty, religious extremism, homelessness: all were ably tackled by a presenter who stood out for her lack of lofty TV-star pretension and her knack for asking the direct questions that were in audience’s minds. Since winning Strictly Come Dancing in 2018, she has gone a bit more mainstream, so although the old Dooley is still around – she’s in th
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Maya Jama steps down as host of reality TV show Love Island
The presenter tells fans it is "time to throw myself into something new" after recent Celebrity Traitors success.
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Strictly Come Dancing week seven results – as it happened
On a weekend of erratic scoring, Dani Dyer topped the table. Cach Mercer and John Nellis were tied at the bottom. But who would fall at the contest’s midway mark?
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International
Saturday Night Live: Druski hosts and James Talarico cameos, but where’s the post-election comedy?
SNL booking comedian Druski post-midterms felt misbegotten in low-energy episode failing to capture historic ‘blue-nami’
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Older women are as varied and individual as we have ever been
Letters: Thank you, Jo Brand, for not offering us a formula for growing older, writes Dr Denise Taylor. Plus a letter from Louise Mothersole
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You can say that again, Sam … in Latin
Letters: From Ursus Nomine Paddington to ‘Deskibus collapsibus’ – readers respond to a letter on learning the language
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Orbiting Orbital review – Nitin Sawhney casts a spell inspired by Samantha Harvey’s Booker winner
Nitin Sawhney’s eclectic global fusion brings in new writings from Harvey, drawings by Antony Gormley and collaborations from academics in space and ecosystems
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What are you yearning for? We took to the streets to find out
Longing for someone – or something – can be even more thrilling than getting what you want. That knowledge has inspired endless movies, but what do real people yearn for? We asked the question in Glasgow
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Pickpockets review – small-budget Australian crime flick steals audience’s heart
DC Fairhurst and Lucy Green’s film could have been a by-the-numbers genre piece. Instead it is fun, frothy and refreshingly different
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Bluey’s Daley Pearson on how losing his brother inspired his new film: ‘He was the best thing ever to me’
Allen, the first live-action film from Pearson’s Ludo Studio, follows a man who met an alien as a kid – and becomes obsessed with bringing him back Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email If, for whatever reason, you want to feel a bit sad, think too hard about what Elliott from ET would have been like as an adult. Or Coraline, or Matilda, or Chihiro, or those kids in Mary Poppins. The most amazing thing that ever happened in their lives – magic nanny, alien friend, psychic abilities, otherworldly adventures – was already over when they were kids. If that bad Harry Potter play taught us an
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