Kate Middleton is finished with her chemotherapy treatment. On Monday, the Princess of Wales shared a video of herself with Prince William and their children Prince George, Princess Charlotte, and Prince Louis, revealing the health update. “As the summer comes to an end, I cannot tell you what a relief …
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This article was developed with the support ofJournalismfund Europe. On a cold morning in late February, farmer Gareth Wyn Jones was standing with a few dozen other protesters outside the annual conference for the Conservative Party in Wales. Inside the venue, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was giving a speech …
Read More »The Animal-Rights Activist Accused of Sexually Assaulting a Dolphin
During Becky Milligan’s more than three decades as a journalist, she still remembers her encounter with a bottlenose dolphin, Freddie, that touched people in the British seaside town of Amble in the mid-1980s and 1990s. Freddie was all people talked about. Crowds waved and cheered from the pier as Freddie …
Read More »'The Full Monty' Boys Are Back, With Less Stripping But Lots of Charm
In the 1997 sleeper hit comedy The Full Monty, six unemployed men in a dying English steel town attempt to make some cash by putting on a show where they will dance and strip for the local women. In the new FX sequel series, Gaz (Robert Carlyle), Dave (Mark Addy), …
Read More »'Blue Jean' Is a Powerful Movie Sounding the Alarm on Anti-Gay Hate
“Not everything is political.” The person saying this, with a sightly exasperated air, is named Jean (Rosy McEwen). She’s a high school PE teacher, recently(ish) divorced, and still mostly closeted about her sexuality. This declaration of independence is being addressed to her off-on, and very much out, girlfriend Viv (Kerrie …
Read More »'Ted Lasso' Season 3 Finale: The End of a Frustratingly Bad Season
This post contains spoilers for the Ted Lasso season finale, “So Long, Farewell.” During what certainly seems to be the final episode of Ted Lasso, reporter Trent Crimm reads a note Ted has written him regarding Trent’s book about his season with AFC Richmond, which Trent has titled The Lasso …
Read More »Eurovision 2023 Final: Sweden's Loreen Makes History in Stunning Fashion
It’s two minutes into the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 and I already have chills. I’m watching something a lot of British people thought we’d never see: a Eurovision hosted in the U.K. After years of abysmal performances and frustration, the U.K. finally changed the narrative last year, finishing in second …
Read More »Eurovision 2023 Is Magic and Everything King Charles' Coronation Wasn't
As a British person, I’ve spent a lot of my adult life despairing about the direction of my country. From Brexit, to our disastrous Conservative government ushering in an era of inequality, corruption and division, it’s been a steady drip-feed of bad things happening. Truthfully, I’ve now become accustomed to …
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