Louis Staples
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 3
- Latest publication
- Sep 25, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for The Guardian
- Top 1K sites
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- Jul 17, 2026
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Game, set ⦠match? Can a dating coach help you win at love? (opens the original)
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Would you pay thousands to meet the love of your life? In an age of app fatigue, many singles are hiring coaches to help them find partners. But are they chancers preying on the lovelorn, or do they hold the key to true romance? Modern dating is a hellscape. Just ask any single person, who will probably regale you with stories of endless swiping, ghosting, cringe Hinge dates and unfulfilling âsituationshipsâ. But what if there was a way to escape all this and put yourself on a fast track to
The opposite of âdamsels in distressâ: how TV fell in love with female gangsters (opens the original)
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The ruthless female characters of The Gentlemen, Beef and Peaky Blinders bring new depth to the evil matriarch stereotype Television loves a gangster story â and apparently so does the Duchess of Sussex. This week, Netflixâs The Gentlemen â Guy Ritchieâs latest addition to the gangster canon, which stars Theo James as a distractingly handsome aristocrat who becomes embroiled in the world of organized crime â returns for its second season. And in August, the show hit the headlines after
âIâm not into leather at all!â: John Wood on privately photographing Glasgowâs gay underground, and the comparisons with Robert Mapplethorpe (opens the original)
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He was a telecoms engineer by day â and documented the Scottish cityâs leather scene by night. Now the 79-year-old has opened his erotic archives and received his first ever solo exhibition What is the story behind John Woodâs photographs? Some might guess that his portraits, which capture male subjects in various states of undress, very often wearing black leather jackets, gloves and boots, were taken in New York in the era of BDSM photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and Studio 54. Or maybe
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