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October 21, 2026

13
Jun

The Brides Weren’t Told. The Show Knew. The Format Depends on It.

Julian Hart / 4 months
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8 min read

The mock wedding is the ritual. The stranger at the altar is the premise. The honeymoon, the shared apartment, the cameras filming almost every day—these are the mechanisms. Married at First Sight, the Australian version that airs on Channel 9 and reaches British audiences through Channel 4, has built an empire on the idea that […]

12
Jun

The Dance Floor Died. The Pop Girls Noticed Before We Did.

Olivia Bennett / 4 months
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8 min read

The beat is still there. Slower. Simpler. Charli XCX, who spent last summer demanding we dance all night in sweaty euphoria, now sings that the dance floor is dead. Not dying. Dead. “We’re walking on a runway that goes straight to hell,” she announces on “SS26,” her latest single. The cover of her new album […]

12
Jun

Taylor Swift Leaned Against the Counter. She Talked About Sally Rooney.

Olivia Bennett / 4 months
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7 min read

The room was not what you would imagine. No entourage. No velvet rope. No handlers signalling when time was up. Taylor Swift leaned against a kitchen counter, drinking white wine from the bottle, talking about Sally Rooney. The journalist she was talking to—the Guardian’s deputy music editor Laura Snapes, who has met Swift multiple times—describes […]

12
Jun

Ariana Grande Said Stop. The White House Muted the Song.

Julian Hart / 4 months
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8 min read

The TikTok video appeared on Monday. Border agents are placing people in handcuffs. People were ushered into cars, then into detention centres. The soundtrack: Ariana Grande’s 2024 hit Bye. The caption: “Bye-bye… President Trump has delivered the most secure border in history.” The song, a sleek pop departure, played under footage of enforcement operations. The […]

12
Jun

World Cup Ads Stopped Selling Boots. They Started Selling You.

Julian Hart / 4 months
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8 min read

The Nike film runs almost six minutes. Erling Haaland waits. Channing Tatum plays his stunt double. Kylian Mbappé appears. Cristiano Ronaldo appears alongside LeBron James, both of them lit like X-Men. Kim Kardashian watches from the stands. Ted Lasso coaches. Travis Scott, Central Cee, and Blackpink’s Lisa—all of them pass through the frame. The football […]

12
Jun

Taylor Swift Joined the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She Thanked the Move, Not the Music.

Julian Hart / 4 months
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8 min read

The speech ran 21 minutes. At a ceremony in New York, Taylor Swift stood before the Songwriters Hall of Fame—an institution founded in 1969 that has inducted fewer than 500 people in over half a century—and became the youngest woman ever admitted. Stevie Wonder, inducted at 33, remains the only person younger. Swift is 36. […]

12
Jun

SpaceX IPO Raises $75B. Elon Musk Is Now a Trillionaire.

Adrian Keller / 4 months
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7 min read

SpaceX debuted on the Nasdaq stock exchange on Thursday, completing the largest initial public offering in history by raising $75 billion and making founder Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. The company’s shares, offered at $135, surged toward $175 in early trading—a 35% increase that pushed the market value past $2.2 trillion. Musk, who controls […]

12
Jun

A Medieval Mansion Crumbled. A Town Council Bought It.

Julian Hart / 4 months
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6 min read

The building has stood in Oswestry since the 1460s. It was a grand merchant’s home then, possibly built around an even older medieval hall. For centuries, it held its ground. Then came the structural changes, the poor repairs, the long neglect. Historic England placed Llwyd Mansion on its Heritage at Risk register. The listing is […]

12
Jun

He Sang “Wild Thing.” His Memorial Is a UFO on a Pub Wall.

Julian Hart / 4 months
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6 min read

The mural sits inside The Barge Inn near Pewsey in Wiltshire, a pub that served for years as an unofficial headquarters for crop circle researchers and UFO enthusiasts. On the wall, Reg Presley—frontman of The Troggs, voice of “Wild Thing” and “Love Is All Around”—stands against the North Wiltshire Downs. The Alton Barnes White Horse […]

12
Jun

Her Family Had No Photos. She Built an Archive Anyway.

Julian Hart / 4 months
0
8 min read

The photograph was small and grainy. A mother holding her baby daughter. Widline Cadet had never seen it before she began hunting for images of her family. She found it. She printed it wall-sized and flanked it with colourful sculptures of aloe plants. She titled it “I put all my hopes on you.” The image […]

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The Brides Weren’t Told. The Show Knew. The Format Depends on It.

The Dance Floor Died. The Pop Girls Noticed Before We Did.

Taylor Swift Leaned Against the Counter. She Talked About Sally Rooney.

Ariana Grande Said Stop. The White House Muted the Song.

World Cup Ads Stopped Selling Boots. They Started Selling You.

Taylor Swift Joined the Songwriters Hall of Fame. She Thanked the Move, Not the Music.

SpaceX IPO Raises $75B. Elon Musk Is Now a Trillionaire.

A Medieval Mansion Crumbled. A Town Council Bought It.

He Sang “Wild Thing.” His Memorial Is a UFO on a Pub Wall.

Her Family Had No Photos. She Built an Archive Anyway.

France School Protests Close.

Iran’s Offensive Doctrine Reshapes.

Qusra Evacuations: Settler Siege.