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In praise of the poetry of the Notes app (may mine be deleted upon my death)
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On the home screen of my iPhone – on the very left, second row from the top – sits an app I frequent regularly. In fact, according to my diagnostics, an average of six minutes a day. The small rounded-square logo – ye...
Julian Lennon to auction NFT of Paul McCartney’s notes for Hey Jude
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Paul McCartney’s original notes for Hey Jude are being sold, digitally at least, by one of John Lennon’s sons. Julian Lennon has announced details of a Beatles memorabilia sale in which outfits, guitars and the song n...
From flexible working to voice notes: 11 things in our lives that are ‘normal’ for 2022
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There are many things we consider normal today that we wouldn’t have done just three years ago. To a certain degree, that’s life. It moves on. But at the same time, the happenings of the past few years – from extreme ...
Intimate or irritating: are voice notes killing the phone call?
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I lay on my bedroom carpet looking at the blue of the ceiling, feeling like I was in a teen movie. My phone buzzed and I picked it up to respond to my crush’s last text – except this time it wasn’t a text, but a voice...
A woman’s boyfriend was holding her captive. Sticky notes helped her escape
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On Tuesday, a 7-year-old girl arrived at her Las Vegas elementary school with a stash of sticky notes in her hand, which she gave to her teacher. The notes, from her mother, were a cry for help. The woman wrote that s...
Jane Campion leads roll-call of worthy winners as Baftas hit all the right notes
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The Power of the Dog, the story of a troubled family of ranchers in 1920s Montana, is an essay in dysfunction, a film in the business of upending social and generic norms. It is a hugely satisfying, intriguing, stimul...
Take a bow to Baltimore: a fiddle festival in Ireland that hits the high notes
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It’s difficult for things to go quiet in an Irish bar, but right now you can hear a bone button drop. An eight-year-old girl called Aibhlinn is sitting on the floor astride her instrument case playing her squeezebox w...
Notes on a Wordle: Kamala Harris describes love for online word game
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Kamala Harris plays Wordle as a “brain cleanser” between official duties and has never failed to guess the five-letter word of the day, but cannot share successes with friends because her official phone does not let h...
Scandal! Horror! Biden’s press-briefing notes prompt rightwing outrage
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Joe Biden’s first press conference has caused some strong reactions from the conservative side of the aisle after he was caught … reading notes. On Thursday night, Fox News dedicated considerable time covering just ho...
‘Condescending’: Jacob Rees-Mogg leaves notes for WFH civil servants
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Jacob Rees-Mogg has been called “condescending” after leaving notes deemed to be passive-aggressive on civil servants’ desks in an effort to stop them working from home. As part of his campaign to push workers back in...
The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten review – handover notes
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Chris Patten’s appointment as Hong Kong’s last governor in 1992 marked a cultural change for the colony. His predecessors had mostly been diplomats or administrators – Patten was a senior UK politician with reforming ...
Love letters: football commentators on their handwritten notes
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John Murray, the football correspondent for BBC Radio 5 live, sits in his office, surrounded by lined A4 paper. By his side, two one-foot piles of it constitute the notes he has prepared for commentary so far this sea...