Johnny Depp says ‘no one safe’ from cancel culture as he accepts lifetime achievement award
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Nobody is safe from the “instant rush to judgment” handed out by today’s cancel culture, Hollywood star Johnny Depp said Wednesday at a Spanish film festival where he accepted a lifetime achievement award. Depp, who l...
Keep left: plan to direct Adelaide pedestrians to stay in their lane sparks unexpected culture war
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All Anne Moran wants is a civilised city where people politely stick to the left on the footpath. The Adelaide councillor is tired of cyclists, scooters, smartphone zombies and meanderers ricocheting off each other, c...
Johnson’s reshuffle rewards Brexiters, culture warriors and key fixers
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Boris Johnson’s cabinet reshuffle has included the promotion of culture warriors, more rightwingers and a string of his Brexiter “mates”, but his supporters claim the shake-up was more about getting key fixers in plac...
Mexico activists celebrate abortion ruling as a sign of culture change
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Activists in Mexico have hailed a supreme court decision to decriminalize abortion, saying it would stop the legal prosecution of women who terminate their pregnancies – and those reported to the authorities after suf...
Snakes, spirits and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry: São Paulo Biennial makes defiant stand in Brazil’s culture wars
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When fire devastated the National Museum in Brazil in 2018, one of the few objects to be found intact among the smouldering ruins was the St Luisa meteorite. While the Rio de Janeiro museum is still being rebuilt, the...
Black Love review – singing siblings’ glorious ode to Black culture
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Black Love, the first musical to be created for Paines Plough’s intimate Roundabout stage, is a lesson in the complexities of family relationships. Aurora and Orion are brother and sister, living in a small London fla...
Masks off: how US school boards became ‘perfect battlegrounds’ for vicious culture wars
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Rina Gallien doesn’t consider herself political, but when the 41-year-old mother of four heard that parents who oppose mask mandates in schools were organizing to attend the 12 August meeting of the St Tammany Parish ...
Scotland’s new makar Kathleen Jamie: ‘Poetry is at the heart of our culture’
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Kathleen Jamie’s tenure as makar – Scotland’s national poet – is already a work in progress. When the 59-year-old was formally welcomed to the role last Wednesday by first minister Nicola Sturgeon, she told reporters ...