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Tracking apps and helicopter parents are creating a generation of snowflakes (opens the original)
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In September 1988, I walked out of the front door of my parents’ house and didn’t come back until Christmas Eve. I was off to university. In the intervening months, I lived like a delinquent, hung out with some terrible people who were an awfully bad influence, drank like a fish – correction, a shoal of fish, took far too many recreational drugs, fell in love with young women much too good for me, missed lectures, spent what little money I had on ridiculous clothes and brilliant gigs, ate disgus
Are you ready for movies to go MAGA? Well, you better be because itâs about to happen (opens the original)
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Hollywood, and the rest of the American film and TV industry, has never been just about entertainment. Itâs a values machine. Domestically, it reflects the nationâs dominant political mood, and internationally itâs an arm of soft power exporting American standards overseas. I grew up in the heyday of American post-war liberalism. The abiding message of most of the American movies I watched as a kid was this: ainât suburban consumerism just dandy? Think of Elliott, the child hero of E.T.,
Shame on them: Drumcree Orangemen desecrate the memory of the dead (opens the original)
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It seems the dead are easily forgotten. Men like Michael McGoldrick, Robert Hamill and Frank O’Reilly. Women like Rosemary Nelson. Children like Jason, Mark and Richard Quinn. They all died because Orangemen wanted to walk – in an act of triumphalist, sectarian supremacy – from Drumcree Church down the Catholic Garvaghy Road in Portadown. If the dead were truly remembered and honoured – if anybody in power cared about Michael McGoldrick, Robert Hamill, Frank O’Reilly, Rosemary Nelson and the Qui
Inside the world's first fascist superpower - slavery, supremacy and Sparta (opens the original)
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I’VE been fascinated and horrified by the Spartans since I was a schoolboy studying ancient Greece. Even at 13, I could see they were a proto-fascist state, high on militarism and supremacy. This excellent and accessible history of the Spartans - Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower, by Andrew Bayliss professor of Greek history at Birmingham University - hasn’t abated my loathing, but it has added a twist of disdain. The Spartans, it turns out, weren’t a race of supermen as their 2
There is only one option for Sir Ken McCallum after this appalling MI5 scandal (opens the original)
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There is a long history of Scots right at the top of Britain’s intelligence services. Meta Ramsay, from Glasgow, who I got to know well before her death this May, almost became the first woman to head MI6. The ranks of MI5 have bristled with Scots over the decades. Indeed, its current director-general is Sir Ken McCallum from Glasgow. Unfortunately for McCallum, if justice is to be served his tenure must come to a speedy end. MI5 is embroiled in an appalling scandal which strikes at the very hea
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