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More than a year after announcing plans to make four separate Beatles biopics – one for each group member – director Sam Mendes has finally revealed the actors who will play the music legends. Paul Mescal has been cast as Paul McCartney, Joseph Quinn as George Harrison, Barry Keoghan as Ringo Starr, and Harris Dickinson […]

Anyone who has ever cast an eye across Instagram or TikTok will know there’s a world of health and wellness influencers out there whose credentials are tenuous, to say the least. They will tell you something is very good for you, from juice cleanses to extreme yoga, when in fact it is the complete opposite. […]

Donald Trump achieved the near impossible by finding someone in the JD Vance charm stakes to appear alongside him in the Oval Office – a bespangled Kid Rock. And for once the President didn’t look like the most ridiculous person in the room. We mention it not to dwell on either of them for longer […]

There’s an account over on Twitter called @LuminaMind which describes itself as a ‘history enthusiast … exploring the past to understand the present’. We mention it because of this particular post, getting all nostalgic about what beaches looked like back in the 1970s. Life in the 1970s 1. This is what beachgoers looked like in […]

You know that saying, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” – well, that only really applies if there’s any fun being had in Vegas. When one woman badgered her way into a hen outing to Sin City, she set about making sure it would be totally fun-free with a bizarre list of rules she […]

American journalists really stick their heads above the parapet if they level even the slightest criticism against Donald Trump, who has fed his supporters a diet of propaganda against the free press. When one Washington Post correspondent, Philip Bump, did just that during the president’s first term, he received an angry and critical email, which […]

We’ve seen amazing feats of parkour, we’ve seen parkour fails, but we’ve never seen anything quite like this before. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Pasha Petkuns (@pashatheboss) on Apr 24, 2019 at 9:35am PDT The extraordinary stunt, which has had people baffled and impressed in equal measure, was performed by Pasha […]

If you ever find yourself in a large hole and wielding a shovel, put the shovel down and take stock of the situation. Keep digging only if you’re sure of a route to buried treasure. Over on Reddit, people have been suggesting answers to the question, posed by user u/fabnorth: What is the worst response […]

We’ve featured no end of anti-vaxxers being called out on these pages, peaking a few years back for reasons which will be obvious. With RFK Jr put in charge of health by Donald Trump, it’s gone right back to the top of the agenda in the US, and it’s with this in mind that we […]