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Pope urges action on ‘tragic drama’ of migration
The pontiff also called on Spanish lawmakers to protect life from conception to natural death amid debates over euthanasia and abortion rights.
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최근 7일 기준 84,616건을 분석한 결과, 뉴스 심리지수는 50.2(균형)입니다. 긍정 4,413건(5.2%)·중립 78,052건(92.2%)·부정 2,151건(2.5%)이며, 중립 비중이 뚜렷하게 높습니다. 성향 지수는 종합 15.2(중도 균형)입니다.
The pontiff also called on Spanish lawmakers to protect life from conception to natural death amid debates over euthanasia and abortion rights.
Big state universities are defying the notion of a higher education bubble, even as smaller colleges struggle to stay open.
A psychiatric report found that the woman's intelligence was below average, that she struggled to understand abstract concepts such as money laundering and depended on male figures, genuinely believing that scammers were her friends.
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New Delhi: Jack Daniel’s whiskey maker Brown-Forman’s India managing director Gaurav Sabharwal said the US spirits company is “keenly watching” developments on the India-United States trade deal. “The positive signs have been there. We are very keenly watching that space because most of our business comes from American whiskey.” The first phase of the bilateral trade agreement between the two countries may be finalised by mid-July, according to government officials. While the US and India discussed a possible trade deal earlier this year, discussions slowed down amid talks on sweeping tariffs.Brown-Forman, which operates as a 100% subsidiary in India, imports its full portfolio and doesn’t manufacture locally as of now. “From an overall impact, with inflation going up, petrol prices, transportation - that is going to put some pressure. The other is that as the consumers start looking at fighting inflation, discretionary spend is obviously the first thing that takes a knock. So we are keeping a close watch.”Sabharwal said the West Asia war has “so far, not impacted its business in India, adding though that the spirits maker is keeping a close watch on any ripple effect that inflation and supply disruptions may have.”The Kentucky-based spirits maker recently rejected two potential deals - a nearly $15 billion takeover offer from the US bourbon whisky maker Sazerac and merger talks with French spirits company Pernod Ricard. Last week, the spirits maker reported better-than-expected sales for the March ’26 quarter aided by steady demand for premium spirits, but cautioned about impact on consumer spending behaviour for the year. "We anticipate the operating environment for fiscal 2027 to remain challenging, as macroeconomic pressures and geopolitical instability continue to negatively impact consumer behaviour and beverage alcohol consumption, particularly within developed markets," the company said in its earnings statement.Sabharwal said ready-to-drink concepts like Jack & Coke “are a growing space in India, but small.” India had introduced Jack & Coke about three years back in select markets such as Goa, Haryana and Bengaluru. “It's something which works pretty well with the legal drinking age - 25-30 years old. RTD is a growing space, but a smaller space as far as the Indian spirits and beer consumption goes. So we are still figuring out the rollout plan because one of the critical things is to get the pricing right and obviously one has to make the margins as well. The demand is there, but we just need to manage the system a little better.” Brown‑Forman Corporation reported fourth quarter net sales increase by 2% to $912 million compared to the same year-ago period. Operating income decreased 53% to $96 million.For the India unit, while the mainstay remains Jack Daniel’s, Sabharwal said the company is gradually building its portfolio to include Woodford Reserve and Herradura.“One of the biggest mindset shifts is that the propensity to spend has gone up pretty much over the last 10 years. It's about people getting into the legal drinking age and numbers estimate that over the next five years we are going to be adding 20 million people into the legal drinking age every year. The legal drinking age will move anywhere between 18 to 25. Then there is change in social conditioning. Penetration numbers are also increasing. So you have a huge cohort coming in,” he said.
Marc Chew says understanding concepts, staying consistent and seeking help mattered more than chasing perfect scores.
Bernie Sanders is pushing a bill to confiscate 50% of the nation's largest AI developers - a concept straight out of Vladimir Lenin's or Fidel Castro's playbook. And Gen Z is falling for it....
Move comes as 137 Labour MPs sign letter demanding ‘urgent, concrete action’ to stop settler violence The UK Foreign Office and a group of western countries are due to announce a package of sanctions against Israel this week designed to deter companies from becoming involved in a new proposed West Bank settlement that would split the territory in two and render the concept of a two-state solution near impossible. The package follows a warning by nine countries including France, the UK and Australia that settlement violence must stop and no company should be involved in what is known as the E1 development. Tenders were opened this month for the development of more than 3,000 homes between Jerusalem and the Ma’ale Adumim. The development would split the West Bank between north and south, and so effectively make a contiguous Palestinian West Bank impossible. Continue reading...
La formule sera au centre du grand meeting organisé dimanche à Saint-Denis par le leader insoumis. Un concept vivement critiqué par l’extrême droite et dont le contenu, mouvant, se décline différemment en fonction des publics et des moments.
CHRONIQUE - Une semaine sur deux, le spécialiste de rhétorique politique analyse les mots et les concepts qui peuplent le débat public. Aujourd’hui, alors que Jean-Luc Mélenchon tient meeting ce dimanche, il s’attaque à une inversion accusatoire chère à l’extrême gauche, qui consiste à transformer la victime en coupable et l’agressé en agresseur.
For most of his career, Hirokazu Kore-eda has spoken in glances and silences. His hallmark has been the naturalistic study of frayed, unlikely families — whether they be the left-behind kids of "Nobody Knows," the bereaved parents of "Still Walking," or the petty thieves living as kin in the Palme d'Or-winning "Shoplifters" — that silently hold together as much as they fall apart. The Japanese auteur's latest is a more speculative, high-concept proposition. "Sheep in the Box" steps right up to t
American President Donald Trump is often described by many as an ‘irrational’ man. Yet, there are those who claim he is instead an over-the-top practitioner of the ‘Madman Theory.’ This theory encapsulates a political concept suggesting that a leader can gain a significant advantage in international negotiations or crises by convincing opponents that he or she is irrational, unstable, or downright ‘crazy’. Former US President Richard Nixon coined the term during his tenure, even though the underlying strategy had been present in modern politics long before Nixon gave it a formal name. Looking to force the communist forces in North Vietnam to sign a peace treaty that would guarantee an honourable exit of American troops from South Vietnam, Nixon told his Chief of Staff, H.R. Haldeman, that he had shaped a Madman Theory for this precise purpose. He explained that he wanted the North Vietnamese to believe he had reached the point where he might do absolutely anything to stop the war, wanting his ministers to intentionally drop hints that he constantly had his hand on the nuclear button. Indeed, it is quite common for hubris to emerge within a regime or in the person leading it. But, according to the noted political scientists John J. Mearsheimer and Sebastian Rosato, hubris is not really about irrationality. They argue that states are fundamentally rational actors that rigorously hypothesise scenarios through sound theories and information, from which they develop their policies and strategies. Nixon’s strategy was entirely rational. States and leaders rarely act without reason, and it’s usually flawed assumptions, rather than irrationality, that drive policy failures and political crises However, Mearsheimer and Rosato place heavy emphasis on the fact that state rationality does not automatically guarantee successful outcomes. Their analysis suggests that policies are typically forged by leaders who act as “homo theoreticus”, relying on structured, evidence-based theories to navigate the immense complexities of international relations. These may work or fail, but their formation is a rational process. In their 2023 book How States Think, Mearsheimer and Rosato focus primarily on the mechanics of foreign policy. But I posit that the heightened interconnectivity characterising the modern digital age necessitates an acknowledgement that internal policies are no longer insulated from global consequences. Illustration by Abro In this context, domestic choices can alter the course of a nation’s foreign affairs as well. During the conflict between Iran and the US, in which Pakistan is an active mediator, Pakistan found itself accused by India and Israel of being a ‘fanatical’ Islamist state that was siding with Iran. The Pakistani government and state recognised the threat these narratives posed to its international standing. To mitigate this, the Pakistani state accelerated the abandonment of its post-1970s ideological narrative, choosing instead to actively promote a new national identity. This new narrative frames Pakistan as a moderate, pragmatic Muslim-majority civilisational state. Here we see how internal policies can impact or be impacted by geopolitics. On the foreign policy front, the Indian and Israeli states hypothesised that, if they could successfully proliferate the perception of a ‘fanatical’ Pakistan, they would create enough doubt in the White House about the wisdom of having Pakistan act as a go-between for the US and a ‘fanatical’ Iran. On the other hand, the Pakistani state hypothesised that, given Israel’s growing reputation as an aggressive state and India’s declining reputation as a secular democracy due to its shift towards a radical Hindutva state, the Pakistani side can now convincingly bolster its new contrasting narrative of being a moderate, dependable nation. The Indian, Israeli and Pakistani policies in this case were all entirely rational. Mearsheimer and Rosato are firmly of the view that scholars who accuse leaders of irrationality often conflate the concept of irrationality with that of failure. Failed policies are routinely blamed on flawed decision-making processes. To Mearsheimer and Rosato, though, this is a mistake, because even failed policies are meticulously shaped through empirical information and theories. A state is considered rational if its actions follow logically from a coherent theory, even if that theory is proven to be incorrect. The theories are constructed through a deliberative process, requiring the careful gathering of information, the assessment of alternatives and the debate of potential outcomes, rather than being a product of mere impulse or emotional reaction. So, does that mean there have never been states/ governments/ leaders that were truly irrational? Mearsheimer and Rosato use the word “non-rational” in this regard, meaning governments, states and leaders who fail to employ a credible strategic theory, relying on wishful thinking instead. Most Western media outlets describe Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” Kim Jong Un as irrational leaders. To Mearsheimer and Rosato, this is a flawed understanding. Putin’s and Kim’s policies are rooted in rational processes, as are those of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. In Mearsheimer’s recent commentaries, he does not see Trump’s decision to plunge into a war with Iran as an irrational move but one based on an ill-informed hypothesis. According to the Lebanese-American academic Fawaz A. Gerges, the decision to attack Iran was built on an illusion heavily fed by Israeli security components, which insisted that Iran’s internal architecture would crumble immediately under direct kinetic pressure. Nothing of the sort happened. Trump’s decision was rational but based on a flawed hypothesis and inaccurate information on the reality of Iran and of contemporary geopolitics. Therefore, one can suggest that Trump isn’t ‘mad’ as such, but simply not very well-informed. What about Imran Khan? Khan was not irrational, nor was he a crank. His decisions, especially to antagonise the military establishment after he was ousted in 2022, were based on a theory that he believed in. The theory suggests that a large-scale political movement scares the military establishment who then immediately submits to its demands. This theory was formed after Khan saw how troops had refused to confront violent protests by the Barelvi Islamist outfit, the Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) in 2016. This theory mutated in 2023, largely under the influence of the then pro-Khan former head of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt Gen Faiz Hameed. Allegedly, Hameed believed that since there were pro-Khan officers in the armed forces, targeted riots would trigger a mutiny to force out the then military chief, Gen Asim Munir. This was not a delusion. It was a theory based on information Khan and Hameed found sound, meaning the rational thing to do was to trigger the riot. However, despite the riots, the military’s chain of command remained intact. The mutiny theory failed because it completely ignored the fact that, historically, mutinies have been almost non-existent within the armed forces of Pakistan. The attempt was what Mearsheimer would call a “rational failure.” From then onwards, though, Khan’s strategies became increasingly non-rational, based on an ever-weakening understanding of Pakistani and international politics. The state’s strategy was rational as well: to keep him behind bars and gradually isolate him, leaving his subsequent moves increasingly detached from reality and thus triggering non-rational and even irrational thinking processes in him. Published in Dawn, EOS, June 7th, 2026
Een voorleesvoorstelling over dalmatiër Muk die meer stippen wil, een musical over Doornroosje of een uitvoering van het Nationale Ballet; voor jonge en oudere kinderen valt er in het theater van alles te beleven en op steeds meer plekken kan dat gratis. Zeker dertig locaties bieden komend seizoen voorstellingen aan waarbij kinderen kosteloos toegang hebben, blijkt uit de nieuwe jaarprogramma's. Volwassen begeleiders moeten wel betalen. Dit jaar is dat ook zo in het Wilminktheater in Enschede. Bezoekers tot 18 jaar kunnen na de zomer gratis allerlei voorstellingen bezoeken. Ook theater Het Speelhuis in Helmond voegt zich komend seizoen bij de locaties met kosteloos aanbod voor jongeren. Theater Hanzehof in Zutphen begon er begin dit jaar mee en geeft dat in het nieuwe theaterjaar een vervolg, met zeven voorstellingen die voor kinderen vrij toegankelijk zijn. In toelichtingen wijzen de schouwburgen op het belang van theater voor kinderen. "Door kinderen gratis toegang te bieden, krijgen jonge bezoekers, ongeacht achtergrond of inkomen, de kans om theater van dichtbij te beleven", schrijft het theater in Zutphen. In Enschede willen ze dat "kinderen en jongeren in de regio kunnen kennismaken met theater, zonder dat kosten een belemmering vormen". Bedrijven als sponsor Kartrekker van het gratis jeugdtheater is Maaspoort in Venlo. Daar zagen ze het jonge publiek tijdens de coronapandemie uit de theaterzalen verdwijnen. In 2022 zag nog maar 15 procent van de kinderen een voorstelling, tegen 59 procent vóór covid, vertelt theaterdirecteur Leon Thommassen. "Terwijl het zo belangrijk is om kinderen die ervaring mee te geven. We vonden dat we iets moesten doen aan die cijfers." De oplossing: een jeugdfonds, gesteund door stichtingen, fondsen, bedrijven en betrokken theaterbezoekers. "De partijen die we benaderden, waren meteen heel enthousiast, ook vanwege de aansprekende doelgroep", vertelt de directeur. "In een paar weken hadden we het fonds opgetuigd en dekking om alle voorstellingen een jaar lang gratis aan te bieden aan kinderen." Daarbij kregen de makers voor alle bezette stoelen betaald, óók de kinderstoelen. "We merkten al heel snel dat het ging vliegen", zegt Thommassen. "In 2018/2019, het meest vergelijkbare seizoen van voor corona, hadden we 5000 bezoekers bij jeugdvoorstellingen. In seizoen 2024/2025 ging het om ruim 23.000 bezoekers voor gratis jeugdvoorstellingen, waarvan bijna 14.000 kinderen. De bezetting steeg van 46 procent naar 84 procent." Meer donateurs Overtuigd door het succes in Venlo namen de afgelopen jaren steeds meer theaters de Limburgse formule over, zoals Schouwburg Hengelo. Daar zijn sinds seizoen 2024/2025 praktisch alle jeugd- en dansvoorstellingen gratis voor bezoekers tot en met 16 jaar. Het theater koos bewust niet voor een beperkt aantal gratis voorstellingen. "Als we dit dan doen, willen we ook dat bezoekers zelf kunnen kiezen waar ze naartoe gaan", zegt marketingmanager Mirella Jellema. De schouwburg zag het aantal bezoekers bij familievoorstellingen in het eerste seizoen verdubbelen. Cijfers over het bijna afgelopen theaterjaar zijn er nog niet, maar de schouwburg gaat hoe dan ook door met de gratis toegang. De extra belangstelling heeft een positief bijeffect: meer mensen melden zich als 'vriend van de schouwburg' en doneren jaarlijks een bedrag. Marktverstoring Voor families zijn de betaalbare uitjes een uitkomst, maar bij commerciële theaterproducenten wringt het concept. Zij zien volle zalen in theaters die kinderen gratis toegang geven, maar lege plekken in de schouwburg met betaalde tickets een stad verderop. "Er ontstaat oneerlijke concurrentie tussen theaters", zegt directeur Dian Hoelscher van de Vereniging Vrije Theaterproducenten (VVTP). Die verschuivende bezoekersstromen leiden er volgens haar toe dat de theaters die kinderen wel laten betalen minder of geen jeugdvoorstellingen meer programmeren en dat het totale aanbod voor kinderen afneemt. Daardoor komen rondtrekkende voorstellingen die het zonder subsidie doen in de knel, vervolgt Hoelscher. Deze makers komen zo aan te weinig optredens om uit de kosten te komen. "De effecten zijn op de langere termijn niet houdbaar." De VVTP gooide deze week in Utrecht de knuppel in het hoenderhok door op de ledenvergadering van schouwburg- en concertgebouwdirecties te dreigen met een boycot van theaters die kinderen vrije toegang verschaffen. Die woorden hebben gewicht; bij de VVTP aangesloten producenten, zoals Albert Verlinde Theater, MediaLane en Van Hoorne Studios, verzorgen zo'n 85 procent van alle professionele podiumkunsten in Nederland, becijferde de vereniging. Voor theaterdirecteuren komt de dreigende boycot rauw op hun dak. Zij zien de vrije toegang voor kinderen als het nieuwe normaal en als een goede manier om jonger publiek aan hun theaters te binden. Voor verbeteringen staan ze open, benadrukt Thommassen, maar in de teruglopende inkomsten voor theatermakers herkent hij zich niet. "Wij zijn in Venlo juist veel meer gaan programmeren. De betalingen aan impresariaten voor familie- en jeugdvoorstellingen zijn explosief gestegen." Kansengelijkheid Thommassen hoopt dat de producenten en podia samen tot een landelijke formule kunnen komen waarin iedereen zich kan vinden, ook op de lange termijn. "Ik zou het doodzonde vinden als dit initiatief de nek wordt omgedraaid en kinderen weer buiten de zaal blijven. Kansenongelijkheid is in iedere gemeente een heet hangijzer. Allemaal naar dezelfde voorstelling gaan, iets ultiemers op dat vlak kan ik niet verzinnen."
The election of Bally Bagayoko and Aly Diouara as mayors in the Paris-region department of Seine-Saint-Denis in March were symbolically significant for Jean-Luc Mélenchon. Since 2018, the radical-left leader has made the area a testing ground for his 'new France' concept, as he is counting on the vote of its working-class citizens from immigrant communities for next year's presidential election.
Can the search for a hotel room lead to a business idea? It did, for Alok Mishra.In 2014, during a trip with his wife, Mishra needed a hotel room for six hours as he did not want to drive late at night. But he was asked to pay for a full day and subjected to a series of intrusive questions despite being married—and was finally refused a room. “That got me thinking that there might be travellers like me who need rooms only for a few hours but have to pay for an entire day. Later, while working in the US, I came across pay-for-use concepts and felt that India needed a more flexible, customer-friendly model,” he says.That experience led to the launch of Bag2Bag in 2019, an online platform for booking hotels, service apartments, homestays and other accommodations, with a focus on hourly stays.The business started gaining momentum around 2021. Bag2Bag’s hourly-stay revenue has risen from roughly Rs 50 lakh in 2021 to Rs 5-6 crore today. The company has served more than 1 lakh customers, lists over 10,000 properties across India and offers hourly stays at 6,000-7,000 of them. The service is available in more than 50 cities, though Bengaluru and Mumbai remain its strongest markets.Also read | The safe keepers: Inside India's booming locker economy“People now understand that this is a practical solution rather than a niche service. One of our biggest achievements has been to help normalise the category. Earlier, hourly stays were often associated with couples seeking privacy,” he says. “We deliberately broadened the use case by allowing family bookings, including travellers with children. We wanted people to see hourly stays for what they really are— a convenient accommodation option.”HOUR OF NEED That convenience is growing as online hotel booking platforms that allow short stays are on the rise. Alongside Bag2Bag, there is Noida-based Brevistay, Bengaluruheadquartered MiStay, Mumbai’s Hourly Rooms and Qwiksta, all specialising in micro stays. Larger travel platforms like MakeMyTrip, Agoda and Goibibo have also introduced hourly booking options.Like Bag2Bag, Brevistay was born out of a travel inconvenience. In 2016, cofounders Prateek Singh, Aditya Naithani, Shubham Agarwal, Avnish Kumar and Nikhil Pathak arrived in Manali at 5 am only to find that hotels would not allow early check-ins without charging for an extra night. The friends went on to cofound the travel tech startup Brevistay, which raised Rs 3 crore in 2023 and today reports revenue of about Rs 18 crore. It has 15 lakh registered users, 4 lakh monthly active users and around 11,000 listed hotels, including brands such as Ginger, Ramada and Blue Motel.LONG JOURNEY Getting there, however, was not easy.Pathak, cofounder and chief technology officer of Brevistay, says, “The challenge in this segment is not customers but hotels. In 2016, many hoteliers would simply bang the phone on us. Some agreed in principle but didn’t want their properties listed publicly and preferred bookings to come through offline calls. It took us nearly two years before we started seeing meaningful traction and recurring bookings,” says Pathak.The same resistance greeted MiStay when it launched in 2016. Starting with a pilot in Delhi, MiStay has since expanded to more than 100 cities. Shwetha Sameernath, general manager, business and growth, MiStay, says, “When we launched, scepticism was high. Most hotels were uncomfortable with the model, concerned about guest quality and operational challenges. Over time, that changed as hotels began seeing it as a revenue opportunity.”MiStay tackled resistance through education and curation. The company worked to show hoteliers that short stays served a broad and legitimate market of business travellers, transit passengers and day-use guests. It also selectively onboarded premium hotel brands, helping build credibility for the category. “When hotels see actual customer segments across varied, legitimate use cases, it builds their confidence that the model won’t compromise their brand,” says Sameernath, adding that the concept is now largely normalised.Also read | Major change in buyer behaviour as e-scooters race deeper into BharatPathak says the customer has evolved as well. Brevistay continues to market actively to couples, but he argues that the category should no longer be viewed through that lens. “There’s nothing illegal happening. In fact, there’s no law that prevents consenting adults from booking a hotel room. The issue was perception, not legality. What eventually changed minds was revenue,” he says. “Once hotels realised they could sell the same room multiple times in a day and generate seven or eight bookings instead of one, the business case became impossible to ignore.”The use cases have expanded too. Back in 2017, couples accounted for nearly 90% of Brevistay’s bookings. Today, that figure is down to 50-60%. Business travellers, transit passengers, tourists looking to freshen up between journeys, students travelling for exams and people attending interviews or meetings have all emerged as important customer segments.Hotels, meanwhile, have had to adapt operationally. Mishra says the biggest challenge is that traditional hotel system was never designed for flexible check-ins and check-outs. Bag2Bag addressed this by developing its own software platform for partner hotels. “Once they realised they could monetise idle inventory and generate additional revenue from rooms that would otherwise remain empty, adoption became much easier,” he says.REVENUE CHECKS IN For Sameernath, the turning point was the entry of premium hotel brands. “Today, acceptance has grown across the ecosystem. Channel managers and property management systems are evolving to support slot-based bookings, and customers increasingly treat hourly booking as the natural way to reserve a room for less than a day,” she says.Also read | Indian tourists go viral for all wrong reasons. Here's how not to become the next horror storyMishra has observed another interesting shift. Reliability and brand trust are becoming increasingly important. “Whether it’s a three-star or a five-star property, even if a branded hotel costs 20-25% more, customers prefer it because they know what they’re getting,” he says. The economics are compelling for hotels too. Sameernath points out that average hotel occupancy in India is under 65%, while daytime occupancy can fall to as low as 30% as guests check out in the morning and new arrivals come in much later. Platforms like MiStay help hotels monetise those idle hours by attracting guests who would never have booked a full-day room. “For hotels near airports or railway stations, the upside is even greater. A room priced at Rs 8,000 for a full night could earn Rs 3,500-4,000 for a daytime slot and another Rs 6,000 for the night—generating `10,000-plus from the same room in a single day,” she says.CHANGING PERCEPTION MiStay today works with brands like IHG, Pride, Ramada, The Park, Radisson and Novotel IHG, while Brevistay is in discussions with Hyatt. Sameernath says that on the demand side, once customers experience flexible booking, they don’t go back. Their repeat rate reflects this, as 48% of MiStay’s monthly business comes from repeat guests “The pay-per-use model in hospitality is the same transformation that happened in transport. You no longer book a cab for a full day; you pay for the distance. Hotels are heading the same way,” she says.Pathak believes the next wave of growth will be driven by younger travellers. “They’re vocal about spending time with their partners and don’t carry the hesitation earlier generations did. In metros, the industry has largely moved beyond the old perceptions, and hourly stays are increasingly viewed as a convenience product rather than something unusual.”The customer, it seems, has reached the destination. The hospitality industry needs to arrive.ChallengesPersistent social stigmaTrust and safety concernsBranded hotels worried about perceptionComplexities in managing multiple check-ins and check-outsLack of awareness among travellersOpportunitiesRise in domestic travel and frequent short tripsGrowth of bleisure (business + leisure) travelYounger consumers demanding flexibilityTech platforms making discovery and booking seamlessHotels looking to monetise vacant rooms
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Bernie Sanders is pushing a bill to confiscate 50% of the nation's largest AI developers — a concept straight out of Vladimir Lenin’s or Fidel Castro’s playbook. And Gen Z is falling for it.
For a horror movie derived from a concept as singularly contemporary as an internet myth, A24’s Backrooms is grounded in a mourning for lost things that could only be called conservative. Like its foundational web-based myth — which, as far as I can tell from my position as one relatively estranged from internet subcultures, refers […]
The cartoon favourite and Mattel toy He-Man battles Skeletor on the big screen, and Garsington continues its run of excellent early operas Masters of the Universe Out now Swords and sorcery seem to be having a little bit of a moment, with the excellent Deathstalker remake a couple of months ago. Now Nicholas Galitzine flexes his muscles as the 1980s Mattel hero He-Man, with Jared Leto vamping as the evil Skeletor. Erupcja Out now Pete Ohs directed, produced, shot, edited and co-wrote this lo-fi hipster movie about Bethany (Charli xcx) and Rob (Will Madden), a young couple on holiday in Warsaw who reconnect with an old friend when a volcanic eruption prompts Bethany to re-evaluate what she wants from her life. Scary Movie Out now Before the concept pole-vaulted over the shark with the laugh-free binfires that were Date Movie, Epic Movie and Disaster Movie, the first Scary Movie films had a certain something: lewd, crude, but with some undeniable knockout gags. Now the original talents are back for a “rebooquel” parodying the likes of Terrifier 3, Ma and M3gan. Enzo Out now Robin Campillo (120 Beats Per Minute) returns to co-write and direct the final film from his friend Laurent Cantet, who died aged 63 after starting to make this tale of a teenager (Eloy Pohu) from a rich family who pursues an unexpected future, training as a mason and falling for a Ukrainian builder (Maksym Slivinskyi). Catherine Bray Continue reading...