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- Canada Breaks With U.S. to Slash Tariffs on Some Chinese Electric Vehicles
China will in turn cut its own tariffs on Canadian canola products. The countries’ leaders met in Beijing on Friday and hailed a new strategic partnership. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.9 mins ago - A Tale of Two Meetings: Trump Chooses Oil Over DemocracyTwo conversations this week confirmed that President Trump backs the remnants of Nicolás Maduro’s regime over the Venezuelan opposition seeking to hold elections. ...[TheTopNews] Read More.43 mins ago
- Sleaford Mods: The Demise of Planet X review – vulnerability and versatility widen potty-mouthed a...
(Rough Trade)The duo’s 13th album finds Jason Williamson as baffled and infuriated as ever at the state of the world, with help from some unexpected collaboratorsOver the course of a dozen albums, Jason Williamson (words) and Andrew Fearn (music) have journeyed from DIY to the album chart Top 5 by providing a gut-punchingly bleak and amusingly absurdist commentary on the financial crash, austerity, Brexit and the rise of the far right. On their 13th LP, Williamson again convinces in the role of a potty-mouthed bystander, baffled and infuriated by what goes on around him, whether empty lives in the digital age (“Weights and wanking / Hard bodies and phone lights / That’s all we got”), Trump’s US (“Maga’s off their tits”) or minor daily irritants: “Lazy dog walkers on short walks, mate, wanker!”However, developments here should gently broaden their appeal. Williamson displays a welcome new vulnerability on the harrowing Gina… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.46 mins ago - The crying game: what Hamnet’s grief-porn debate says about women, cinema – and enormous hawksHamnet and H Is for Hawk fuse themes of loss, birds and elemental female emotion. But whose fault is it if you remain dry-eyed?‘Is it porn or is it art?” A familiar, even dated question where nudity is involved, and (forgive thumbnail) pretty well-resolved– which is to say: we let the tastemakers decide, and it tips the scale towards “art” if one or both protagonists are not that good-looking.“Is it grief-porn or is it grief-art?” is a more vexed question. Grief-porn, in relation to cinema, would suggest that the film in question is emotionally manipulative, formulaic; grief-art would suggest the film unleashes feelings both universal and true. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.46 mins ago
- Week in wildlife: monkey spa day, a frisky kākāpō and a camouflaged owlThis week’s best wildlife photographs from around the world Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.46 mins ago
- Julio Iglesias denies sexual abuse claims of two former female employeesWomen allege Spanish singer subjected them ‘to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation … in atmosphere of control’The Spanish singer Julio Iglesias has broken his silence over allegations that he sexually abused two women who worked in his Caribbean mansions, saying he has never “abused, coerced or disrespected any woman”.The 82-year-old entertainer, whose career spans six decades, had been accused by two female former employees who allege they had been sexually assaulted and subjected “to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation … in an atmosphere of control and constant harassment”. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.47 mins ago
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