The Daily Wire
•Prince Harry says the media's obsession with him and his wife is 'definitely not a good thing'
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The Duke of Sussex said the media’s obsession with the couple is “definitely not a good thing” Prince Harry and his wife have been married since 2018 and have two children, Archie Harrison , 5 , and Lilibet Diana , 3 .
In 2020 , the royal couple announced they would move to California to live with their children.
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" A Bar Song ( Tipsy ) has held the No. 1 spot for 19 weeks .
It reboots the 2004 rap hit “ Tipsy ” by J-Kwon with keening fiddles and twangy guitars.
Slate 's John Sutter : Shaboozey and Lil Nas X tied at 19 weeks each.
" A Bar Song ( Tipsy )’s song is a roadhouse singalong that traffics in nostalgia for a prior hip-hop golden era.
While it is rooted in rap, it is fundamentally country in presentation, instrumentation, and most especially its copious melodies.
The success of “Old Town Road” was largely a story of how streaming services like Spotify , YouTube , and Apple Music had overtaken the music business.
" A Bar Song " has had America ’s largest radio audience for the past 18 weeks straight.
The song has been tops in all three components that make up the Hot 100 .
It's the composition of that radio audience that makes “ A Bar song” truly exceptional.
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Led By Donkeys accused Israel of carrying out a new Holocaust is factually wrong and morally repulsive.
It is a vile lie that accuses Western opinion of doing the very thing that was once done to the Jews .
It can be frightening’ and dangerous’ to speak up about Israel ’s massacre.
There is no proof that Israel is carrying out anything other than war in Gaza .
Accusing Israel of genocide is factually wrong and morally repulsive.
It was Israel that was targeted by the worst act of racist violence of the 21st century so far and yet it is Israel that is called genocidal'.
The New Statesman
•Richard Bates: “When is a pile of stones not just a pile of stones?”
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A tomb containing 12 skeletons was found in the ancient city of Petra , Jordan , this autumn .
Geophysicist Richard Bates used electromagnetic conductivity and ground-penetrating radar to survey the structure.
He was asked to begin surveying the site as any future work to try to control flooding will have to avoid damage to buried structures.
Richard Bates was born in Aberystwyth , Wales , to a geologist father and a teacher mother.
He studied geology at Edinburgh , then did a PhD in geophysics in Bangor , Wales .
Bates applied geophology to environmental study: “Stuff with ice and glaciers and climate change, and stuff with biologists on sea mammals, habitat mapping and ocean floors”.
The New Statesman
•The gospel according to Dolly Parton
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The Dolly Parton Stampede Xmas Show in Dollywood was a festive rodeo set in a huge stadium.
But the showstopper was the massive live nativity scene.
Leonardo Da Vinci ’s Last Supper is hung at one end of the refectory of a former monastery and monks had to look at it while they were eating in silence.
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The Groucho Club in Soho has had to shut its doors for the time being.
Its licence has been placed under review pending an 'investigation into an alleged sexual attack' It is a grim association for a place that was once synonymous with celebrity and glamour.
I was a member from the early days in the mid 1980s .
The only one I would have any time for would be the Colony Room, also in Soho , but that too has gone the way of all fleshpots.
Francis Bacon may have been a Colony fixture but the York Minster AKA the French House was also good enough for him and anyone could walk in there.
The New Statesman
•The best food gifts for Christmas
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The food gifts that had most economic and symbolic values were meat.
Meat gifts made a subtle statement about the status of the giver and flattered the recipient, who, it is implied, is in their social circle.
Cheese, viewed by Mrs Beeton as embarrassingly low-rent, has leap-frogged meat in gift value.
The New Statesman
•Creatures of the broken contract
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Camouflage fails with a sudden change in background, so soldiers pull on white cagoules.
Scottish mountain hares moult into white coats in autumn , making them far less visible to predators in snow.
High in the Scottish Cairngorms, ptarmigans turn entirely white except for a neat black beak and a red patch of skin above dark eyes.
The changing climate is breaking a contract between figure and ground, between animal and safety.
The floods reminded me that we make the mistake of thinking we are separate from the ground we move upon.
Like the white hares on a muddy hillside, we’re newly defenceless in this world of increasing climate emergency.
The New Statesman
•Here's what Michael Palin has to say about life, love and more
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Michael Palin is an actor, comedian, writer and TV presenter.
He is best known as a member of Monty Python and for his travel documentaries.
His childhood hero was the Australian cricketer called Keith Miller .
His adult hero would possibly be David Attenborough and Johnny Cash .
What would be your Mastermind specialist subject would be the voyages of HMS Erebus .
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We have gone too far as a society in letting movie makers get away with pushing out movie runtimes.
We now have movies coming in between two and two and a half hours that never would have been that long if they were made 15 years ago .
Most of the time it’s not because the genius auteur needs that long to fulfil some vision.
It often actively hurts the film and my bum on uncomfortable cinema seats.
I love seeing movies, I love cinema, and I want the best for all of us. Long movies aren’t necessarily better, aren’t necessarily longer for “us”, and it’s time we gently put our feet down. However, I’ve heard enough judgmental queer men and musical girlies say that Wicked is good, and worth seeing on the big screen, that I’ll probably go and see it. It’s very hot outside and I could use a frozen coke..