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John Oliver recapJohn OliverThe Last Week Tonight host discussed the discrimination faced by black people because of their hair John Oliver has taken aim at the opposition from white people and institutions toward black hair and hairstyles. The Last Week Tonight host devoted his most recent episode to the harmful discrimination many black people still face. He started the episode by admitting that he wasn’t the best person to be taking this subject on. [Read More]

US elections 2024Democratic long-shot candidates to debate in New Hampshire – without BidenMarianne Williamson and Dean Phillips will appear on stage together on 8 January, two weeks before state’s primary The lonely political vigil of long-shot Democratic presidential candidates Marianne Williamson and Minnesota congressman Dean Phillips will be transformed on to the debate stage early next month in New Hampshire – without Joe Biden, who is neither on the state ballot nor agreeable to any debate interaction with competitors. [Read More]

Demonstrators protest near the White House last month over the death of George Floyd. Photograph: Evan Vucci/APDemonstrators protest near the White House last month over the death of George Floyd. Photograph: Evan Vucci/APGeorge Floyd This article is more than 3 years oldGeorge Floyd told officers 'I can't breathe' more than 20 times, transcripts showThis article is more than 3 years oldDerek Chauvin, the officer kneeling on his neck, replied: ‘It takes a heck of a lot of oxygen to talk’ [Read More]

The Baikal seal, known locally as nerpa, is found only in the vast Siberian lakeDmitry Kokh has been on a mission to photograph Baikal seals, found only in the world’s deepest lake, in Siberia. In the spring he set out to capture their beauty in their crystal-clear habitat Russia’s Lake Baikal has garnered many superlatives: the world’s deepest lake, the largest freshwater lake by volume, and the world’s oldest. It is also one of the clearest bodies of water on the planet and home to many species of plants and animals endemic to the region. [Read More]

BooksObituaryJames Lord obituaryAuthor of a Picasso memoir and biography of GiacomettiThe US writer James Lord, who has died aged 86, leaves several books that display his diligent scholarship and talent for gossip, among them the racy Picasso and Dora (1993), which relates Lord's postwar involvement with Pablo Picasso and his lover Dora Maar. Equally elegant is Lord's 600-page biography of the sculptor Alberto Giacometti (Giacometti, 1985), the result of 15 years' work. [Read More]

The march to respectability sure hasn’t slowed the Shelbys down. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd/Tiger AspectThe march to respectability sure hasn’t slowed the Shelbys down. Photograph: Robert Viglasky/BBC/Caryn Mandabach Productions Ltd/Tiger AspectPeaky Blinders: episode by episodeTelevision & radioThe Shelby gang return – and their lives are as garish, glorious and overflowing with swagger as ever Welcome back everyone. I make no apologies for the fact that Peaky Blinders is the garish, glorious show of my heart and this hugely confident opening episode, overflowing with swagger and coming across like the adrenaline-fuelled love child of Downton Abbey and Miller’s Crossing, only reaffirmed my adoration. [Read More]

TV reviewTelevisionReviewThis adaptation of Mo Hayder’s novel is absolutely out there. Conspiracy! Murder! Camp comedy! It’s like two shows smashed together – and the bizarre results are addictive Well. What is it that I have just watched? It’s not rare that I ask myself this question. It’s rare that it’s not rhetorical and even rarer that I ask it, desperately casting about for answers, after watching all six episodes of a series, with mounting incredulity yet growing addiction to the wildness proliferating on my screen. [Read More]

OpinionBody image This article is more than 6 years oldCleopatra had a big, beautiful nose. So let’s see it onscreenThis article is more than 6 years oldRadhika SanghaniThe latest retelling of the Egyptian queen’s life must reject Hollywood convention – and show her in her full aquiline gloryCleopatra is having a remake. The Egyptian queen, so memorably immortalised by Liz Taylor in Joseph Mankiewicz’s 1963 film, is coming back to our screens. [Read More]

Florida This article is more than 3 months oldFlorida: six people, including five family members, killed after train hits carThis article is more than 3 months oldMembers of Hernandez family were heading to birthday party when Cadillac Escalade collided with train at crossing in Plant City Six people heading to a birthday party were killed after a freight train struck their car at an unguarded crossing in central Florida over the weekend, according to authorities. [Read More]