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Despite initial warning signs during their engagement, she was coerced into believing he was a good man and proceeded with their wedding. His behaviour spiralled from cruel comments to raping her, before turning violent…
Read moreThe result – a dazzling mix of journalism, data visualisation and memoir – is both a joy to read and a serious provocation. Chalabi takes aim at our silence and furtiveness around individual income and finances. "Our…
Read moreLittle do they realise, the truth is that his body still hasn't been found - four years since going missing in the English Channel - and that Janine Butcher (Charlie Brooks) has orchestrated the whole ordeal. She was…
Read moreWhen she makes a video for her work's website, it goes viral for the wrong reasons: trolls believe they have worked out that she is, in fact, Alice Bell, a former nurse who helped her anaesthetist serial killer…
Read moreBut after a lavish-but-dramatically stilted debut in 2022 and a similarly well-heeled but darker second season in 2024 , it does feel like prequel series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is somehow stuck on the…
Read moreBut there is one place where the Vienna-born thinker's argument ceases to make sense. "Gay saunas are spaces where language dies," says Vratislav Maňák, a Czech writer and literary scholar. With Wittgenstein in a Gay…
Read moreThe M stands for Michael, Mike to his friends. And last night he became the oldest author to win the Booker prize for fiction, for his 13th novel, The End of Everything. Our interview is delayed because of wifi issues…
Read moreKeach died at home in Magdalenka, Poland on Tuesday, "after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure," his wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, said in a statement. Keach had previously…
Read moreThe US president is suing the BBC over an episode of Panorama that edited together two different sections of a speech he gave before the riot at the US Capitol in 2021. Trump called the judge's ruling a "huge victory" in…
Read moreAs far as their physical selves are concerned, they know exactly what they want, and they are handing over thousands of bucks to pay for it: they all crave a thicker penis. Whether this will mend their broken…
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