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How to believePhilosophy This article is more than 10 years oldThe Frankfurt school, part 2: Negative dialecticsThis article is more than 10 years oldPeter ThompsonUnlike Hegel, Theodor Adorno rejected the idea the outcome of the dialectic will always be positive, and preordainedAlready in the comments about the first instalment of this series, a problem of traditions has emerged. For a predominantly Anglo-Saxon audience, raised in the empirical and positivist tradition, understanding a group of thinkers schooled in speculative Hegelianism and Marxist dialectics is always going to require a leap of faith. [Read More]

Games This article is more than 3 months oldThis golf sim is the best video game ever – I just need to figure out whyThis article is more than 3 months oldDominik DiamondI hate real life golf – too many things can go wrong. So why do I love playing PGA Tour 2K23? I’m sitting here trying to work out why PGA Tour 2K23 is the greatest video game of all time. [Read More]

ShortcutsBurlesqueThe cabaret show at this notorious London club is known as the wildest in townIt has only been open for a fortnight, but The Box cabaret club in London's Soho has established a reputation for being the most raucous show in town. "Do all the drugs you want. Do all the cocaine you can. Answer every fetish," is how, according to a London paper, master of ceremonies Raven O welcomes revellers shortly before the 1am showtime. [Read More]

MexicoThe army has reclaimed the village school that became a battlefield but few believe gangs’ bloody reign has ended Those who knew El Limoncito remember a welcoming and industrious community of lime farmers who poured their sweat into the soils of Mexico’s sun-baked backlands in search of a better life. Then the drug conflict exploded and everything changed. El Limoncito Mexico mapThe village’s primary school found itself on the frontline of a six-hour Monday morning gunfight that sparked a ferocious two-year struggle for control of the area. [Read More]

Real MadridAfter his £88.5m move, Jude Bellingham will join a select group of British footballers to play at the Bernabéu Jude Bellingham will become the latest British player to represent Real Madrid after his move from Borussia Dortmund to the Spanish capital. We look at those that have gone before him. Laurie Cunningham (1979-84)The winger was a pioneer throughout his career. From being the first Black man to play a competitive game for England to being the first Englishman to represent Real Madrid in the professional era, Cunningham created history. [Read More]

BooksBenjamin O Davis Sr and Jr were high-fliers in every way, the latter commanding the Tuskegee Airmen. The author Doug Melville, a descendant, is determined to give them their due In 2012, the Star Wars creator, George Lucas, released his pet project: Red Tails, the story of the Tuskegee Airmen, a group of African Americans who fought in the second world war. Doug Melville assumed it would mean that his great-uncle, Benjamin O Davis Jr, would finally gain the recognition he deserved. [Read More]

Learn ItalianLanguage coursesLearn Italian phrases: In the bedroomConversationOooh, mi fai il solletico … no, non ti fermare! Mi piace. Oooh, that tickles ... no, don't stop ! It's nice. Allora continuo ancora per un po'. Sei molto sensibile quando ti tocco. Bit longer then. You are very sensitive to my touch. I miei genitori ti vogliono conoscere. Andiamo domenica prossima? My parents want to meet you. Shall we go next Sunday? [Read More]

Paris This article is more than 5 years oldProtesters damage 'sexist' open-air urinals in ParisThis article is more than 5 years old‘Uritrottoirs’ seen as discriminatory in city that still frowns on public breastfeeding Feminist protesters have begun vandalising the new open-air street urinals in Paris, labelling them sexist and discriminatory. Several of the eco-friendly urinals have been placed in public spots in recent months as an experiment to counter Paris’s problem of urine-soaked pavements. [Read More]

World newsTV sidekick accused of killing Mexican comedianThe co-host and longtime friend of a television star shot dead in a Mexico City street has been charged with his murder. He is alleged to have been a key member of a plot organised by a jailed drugs baron. The murder of Francisco "Paco" Stanley, 56, a popular comedian and talk show presenter, in June sent shock waves through Mexico. He was shot dead in his car by gunmen; a bystander was also killed in the hail of bullets. [Read More]

And Just Like ThatReviewIt will never live up to Sex and the City, but it’s intensely quotable, brilliantly watchable and packed with hilarious high jinks. Isn’t that enough? The second season of And Just Like That, HBO’s controversial, heavily criticised Sex and the City revival, manages to do the unthinkable: it is even more lavish and unreservedly ridiculous than its first go-around. Here is just a small sample of some of the more daft things that happen in its first seven episodes: Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker) lust after a student at their children’s school; Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) spends a scene mulling over the word “jizz”; Seema (Sarita Choudhury) dates a guy who uses a penis pump; Who’s The Boss? [Read More]