Mark Forsyth's top 10 lost words | Reference and languages books

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  786 words  |  Delta Gatti

Top 10sReference and languages booksMark Forsyth's top 10 lost wordsFrom snollygoster to wamblecropt, these forgotten words just might come handy, says the author of The HorologiconEverybody has, on occasion, looked up a word in a dictionary and let their eye wander to the next word and thought: "Really? There's a word for that?", whether it's the little plastic aglets on the end of your shoelaces or the nurdle of toothpaste squeezed onto your toothbrush in the morning. [Read More]

MIA says she won't play Afropunk festival after Black Lives Matter comments | MIA

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  429 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

British rapper MIA in 2011. Photograph: Cabalar/EPABritish rapper MIA in 2011. Photograph: Cabalar/EPAMIA This article is more than 7 years oldMIA says she won't play Afropunk festival after Black Lives Matter commentsThis article is more than 7 years oldRapper faced boycott of London event following comments made to the Evening Standard, saying ‘I’ve been told to stay in my lane’ MIA says she will no longer play her headline slot at the inaugural Afropunk festival in London. [Read More]

Oliver Stone's JFK: a basket case for conspiracy | Oliver Stone

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  885 words  |  Christie Applegate

Reel historyOliver Stone This article is more than 12 years oldOliver Stone's JFK: a basket case for conspiracyThis article is more than 12 years oldAlex von TunzelmannOliver Stone's fine fictional account of John F Kennedy's assassination dodges the truth like a magic bulletDirector: Oliver Stone Entertainment grade: B History grade: Fail On 22 November 1963, American president John F Kennedy was shot and killed as he drove through Dallas, Texas. [Read More]

This book kept me alive: Jenni Fagan on writing a memoir of her childhood in care

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2448 words  |  Delta Gatti

Jenni Fagan. Photograph: Mihaela BodlovicJenni Fagan. Photograph: Mihaela BodlovicAutobiography and memoirBy 16, the novelist had lived in more than 27 placements within the Scottish care system. She recalls the stories she created to survive and how books became her lifeline The car windows are tightly closed. A cardboard lemon spins under the mirror. I only want two things in this life. Hair long enough to put it into bunches with bright coloured hairbands and the Incredible Hulk to rip this car roof off and save me. [Read More]

How can I help my wife to achieve orgasm?

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  282 words  |  Brenda Moya

Sexual healingSexAfter five years of marriage, my wife is not sure she has ever climaxed, and it is affecting our sex-life. What can we do?I am 34 and my wife is 31. We have been married for five years. Since marriage, we have never been sure whether she has had a real orgasm. I am noticing her interest in sex declining, and assume it is because she is not getting enough pleasure out of it. [Read More]

I dont think its too much: Waffle House workers push for $25 an hour | US unions

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1019 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

US unions This article is more than 3 months old‘I don’t think it’s too much’: Waffle House workers push for $25 an hourThis article is more than 3 months oldWorkers in US south call for higher minimum wage and end to automatic meal deduction charges from paychecks in petition Workers at several Waffle House locations in the southern US are among the latest group of employees in the US to hold walkouts around a slate of demands for improvements to wages and working conditions. [Read More]

Jason Reynolds: 'Snoop Dogg once told white folks: 'I know you hate me. But your kids don't.' That's

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2196 words  |  Christie Applegate

BooksInterviewJason Reynolds: 'Snoop Dogg once told white folks: 'I know you hate me. But your kids don't.' That's how I feel'Sian CainAmerica’s ambassador for young people’s literature talks about touring Trump country, facing down racism and why there’s no such thing as a bad kid In any other year, Jason Reynolds would be travelling up and down the US visiting schools and juvenile detention centres to speak to children, sometimes at three or four locations a day. [Read More]

Liam Henderson: the Scottish footballer who built his career in Italy

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  12 minutes  |  2397 words  |  Barrett Giampaolo

Guardian Sport NetworkSerie AHenderson, who became the first Scot to play in Serie A for 30 years, is living in Sicily and, occasionally, missing the rain By Simone Pierotti for Nutmeg magazine “People are still going to the beach here.” Liam Henderson has been living in sunny Italy for almost six years now but he still seems amazed by the endless summer. Last August, as the transfer window was about to close, he left Serie A side Empoli on loan for Palermo in the second tier, heading down to Sicily. [Read More]

The ten right-wing rockers

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  602 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

The 10 music monthlyPop and rockSome later said they didn't mean it, or changed their minds, but all of them at one time pointed right, says Luke Bainbridge1. Elvis Presley The meeting of the King and the President at the White House on 21 December 1970 was initiated by Elvis himself. Presley wrote a long, rambling six-page letter to Nixon, expressing his concern for the country and suggesting he could use his position to help as 'the drug culture, the hippie elements, the SDS, Black Panthers etc do not consider me as their enemy'. [Read More]

To be a girl is to always be performing: Hannah Diamond on pink, punk and making the pop album

 Posted on June 6, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1697 words  |  Merlyn Hunt

Pop and rockInterview‘To be a girl is to always be performing’: Hannah Diamond on pink, punk and making the pop album of the yearShaad D'SouzaAs part of the PC Music collective, the singer and visual artist has helped shape today’s pop – even if she’s never had a hit herself. She explains how she learned to love her vision of exaggerated femininity Hannah Amond always loved drawing. When she was young, she would use gigantic rolls of wallpaper to draw intricate schematics of interconnected rabbit warrens, and “each little rabbit had a room with sofas and all these things”. [Read More]