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‘Everything ends up about death and shagging’: Fern Brady on comedy, autism and intrusive thoughts
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In 2018, Fern Brady’s comedy career was taking off. Fresh from supporting Frankie Boyle on tour, she filmed Live at the Apollo in London, then took a last-minute gig in Manchester the following day. On the way back to...
The super-rich live on a different planet. Their thoughts on US salaries prove it
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It costs over $100,000 a year to attend the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. I don’t know what you get for that money exactly but insights into the everyday economy clearly aren’t on the syllabus. Ni...
A moment that changed me: I was crippled by negative thoughts – then I bought a silver bracelet
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A couple of years ago, after a bad academic year, I’d thought things would get better over the summer. They didn’t. I kept walking out of shops without buying what I’d gone in for, because it felt wrong to be taking u...
Tell us: what are your thoughts on the Sex and the City spin off?
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After a 20-year hiatus, Sex and the City will return on 9 December with the sequel And Just Like That. Most of the main cast will return for the reboot, with the exception of Kim Cattrall as Samantha. There will also...
Thoughts of a Colored Man review – Black Brooklyn life explored on Broadway
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What does it mean to be a Colored Man in today’s America? Following the lives of seven nameless Black men as they go through a day in Brooklyn, Keenan Scott II’s Thoughts of a Colored Man, directed by Steve H Broadnax...
Penne for your thoughts: a love letter to my favourite pasta shape
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As a lifelong vegetarian, I’ve been asked what I “actually eat” more times than I’ve had hot dinners (pun intended). The truth is complicated – but if I had to pick one food to live on for the rest of my life, it woul...
Want to read Dominic Cummings’ innermost thoughts? That’s going to cost you
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Once upon a time, Dominic Cummings had a blog and a very interesting one it was too. Now, he has a different kind of blog, which takes the form of a Substack newsletter. This comes in two flavours: one is free; the ot...
To the Lighthouse review – fierce and comic thoughts spoken out loud
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Shadow and light alternate in Marina Carr’s rich new adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s novel, filmed in Cork’s Everyman theatre in a co-production with Hatch Theatre Company. In this group portrayal of an Edwardian marri...
Karen Carney reveals abuse on social media led her to suicidal thoughts
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Karen Carney has revealed she contemplated taking her own life after receiving abuse on Twitter. The former England international described how abuse she received in December affected her mental health. Carney had pra...
Readers reply: what are thoughts? Where do they come from – and where do they go?
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What are thoughts? Where do they come from, and where do they go when they disappear? Are they “filed” somewhere, a bit like memories, where we can find them again, or once a thought has gone is that it? Sue Christian...
What are thoughts? Where do they come from – and where do they go?
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What are thoughts? Where do they come from, and where do they go when they disappear? Are they “filed” somewhere, a bit like memories, where we can find them again, or once a thought has gone is that it? Sue Christian...
Tielemans a glorious throwback while Solskjær’s thoughts wander forward
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With hindsight Ole Gunner Solskjær might concede there have been better weeks to talk, a little disdainfully, about the “ego” of trophy-winning managers. In a show of commendable humility, Solskjær’s Manchester United...