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Taylor Swift’s Charli xcx hit job misses the point – and underscores her tedious obsession with conflict | Laura Snapes Sixteen months after Charli used Brat to air her anxieties about Swift, the US star’s graceless response is a missed opportunity for growth – and betrays her vengeful side

This is v astute on the Swift and The Life of a Showgirl: www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

Sex Matters are trying to force the ponds to operate on a trans-exclusive basis, despite users of the ponds having voted against such an approach.

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200 The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

Microsoft revokes cloud services from Israel’s Unit 8200, following +972 exposé

The tech giant blocked access after we revealed the Israeli army had been using its servers to store millions of Palestinians' intercepted phone calls.

Yuval Abraham reports.

www.972mag.com/microsoft-cl...

Well done to all the workers who protested this. This is huge.

Doing this reignited my obsession with Stacie Orrico's Stuck, a god-tier song that so often gets overlooked.

From Blurred Lines to Genie in a Bottle: the late director Diane Martel’s best music videos Last week, the celebrated US music video director died of breast cancer aged 63. We chart her best – and most controversial – music videos

Wrote about 10 of the late Diane Martel's best – and most controversial – music videos for the Guardian www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

very much hope Confessions pt 2 is a continuous mix again...

January 2026 would be great, Madonna, if you're taking suggestions.

MADONNA RETURNS TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN (September 18, 2025 - Los Angeles, CA) Today, it was announced Madonna, the best-selling female artist of all time, has signed with Warner Records for her highly anticipated, upcoming new dance album....

something to live for? www.madonna.com/blogs/news/m...

But arresting pensioners for protesting against a genocide is still fine

I read The Two Roberts while away on holiday and it was marvellous. A novel that felt alive!

‘They had everything, then nothing’: the prodigies the art world forgot Robert Colquhoun and Bobby MacBryde were once the golden boys of London’s art scene – photographed in Vogue, filmed by Ken Russell and lauded by Francis Bacon. So why did they vanish into obscurity?

"The world is burning. Fascism is rising. Countries are falling. And we’re on the brink of incredible technological change, which will either be the end of everything or a new beginning. So, who needs artists?"

I've written about what it takes to make art & live bravely.

tinyurl.com/bdfjszbu

I just deleted anything in my inbox prior to 2019 and it was healing lol

Bringing Sexy Back Internet surveillance has killed eroticism. We need privacy to reclaim it.

V interesting piece on eroticism and surveillance lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Allowing ‘no Blacks’ and ‘no trans’ while banning ‘no zionists’ is insane

Me

When does a flop era go on for so long that it starts becoming a flop life?

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

The entire trans moral panic in the UK is based on absurd hypotheticals, which provably don’t play out in reality

Poorly led, strategically inept and shorn of democracy. Now I truly fear for this Labour government | John McDonnell The welfare bill passed, but it was chaos. A party this dysfunctional and divided cannot escape the wrath of voters at the next election, says John McDonnell, former Labour shadow chancellor

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Smaug dies though

This is the gayest love story ever told In his new book, Deep House, Jeremy Atherton Lin chronicles the beauty and difficulty of his own long-term relationship against a backdrop of extensive,…

Interviewed Jeremy Atherton Lin about his new, brilliant book DEEP HOUSE (out in the US and UK tomorrow) for The Face. theface.com/culture/this...

“I've been thinking more and more about how much time I am almost certainly spending grading and writing feedback for papers that were not even written by the student,” one teacher said. “That sure feels like bullshit.”

I am incredibly jealous!

This album is so so so special!

to quote ‪@cmatbaby.bsky.social‬: "I've been having a horrible time."

In the week that The Podcast Academy gave Steven Bartlett the International Governor’s Award for Diary of a CEO (citing how he “elevated podcasting as a medium for insight, vulnerability, and meaningful dialogue”) he released this episode about “reversing” stage 4 cancer through dietary change.

Determination: Longlisted for the 2025 Jhalak Prize a book by Tawseef Khan. 'A compassionate, beautifully told portrait' Guy Gunaratne 'Absorbing, witty, eloquent fiction, as well as a trenchant political critique' Tom Benn'A hymn to empathy, alive with care and love' Rebecca...

Friends! There’s just ONE MONTH to go until my novel Determination comes out in paperback. I’d be ever so grateful if you supported it by pre-ordering and also spreading the word. It’s a Jhalak Prize-nominated novel, don’t you know!

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Opinion | How I Got Duped by Designer Dupes

Earlier this year I became obsessed with fake designer bags and very soon it took over my life and my social media feeds. I’ve written about that for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/o...

yes!!!