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Zadie Smith tells Dua Lipa inequality has made culture clashes feel ‘existential’
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Zadie Smith tells Dua Lipa inequality has made culture clashes feel ‘existential’

Novelist says demise of Britain’s ‘incredible’ welfare system and housing struggles have led to deeper divisions The novelist Zadie Smith has said that inequality has made culture clashes feel “existential”, adding that it has become “natural to look to your left and think ‘who the fuck are you?’” In an interview with Dua Lipa as part of the Southbank Centre’s London literature festival, Smith argued that the demise of Britain’s “incredible, historic” welfare system has led to greater divisions.

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Outlier, Glasgow G1: ‘This kind of carefully orchestrated can’t-be-arsedness is really quite magical’ – restaurant review
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Outlier, Glasgow G1: ‘This kind of carefully orchestrated can’t-be-arsedness is really quite magical’ – restaurant review

You cannot fake fabulous by simply buying in cool crockery and a freezer full of someone else’s pastry In my misspent youth, I’d head to Glasgow to watch the likes of Fields of the Nephilim and Hawkwind at the Barrowland Boardroom, drink snakebite and buy posters from the touts on Gallowgate to Blu-Tack to my bedroom wall and tear holes in my mother’s woodchip wallpaper. Outlier originally opened back in 2022, after Steven Turner, who had previously run various arts venues, applied to turn the building into a space for artists with a kitchen attached.

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When revenge could be therapeutic!
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When revenge could be therapeutic!

This is Josh, the love of my life. Rele’s experience reminded me of what happened to another friend years ago when her husband dumped her after 14 years of marriage and two kids.

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The moment I knew: I admitted I had a crush on her. She replied, ‘Well, that’s good. Isn’t it?’
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The moment I knew: I admitted I had a crush on her. She replied, ‘Well, that’s good. Isn’t it?’

Actors Peter Houghton and Anne Browning played lovers onstage, but a shared sense of humour and a magazine horoscope flipped the script on their real-life relationship Find more stories from the moment I knew series Anne and I met in Melbourne in 1997 when we were cast in a production of Hamlet. The first time I saw her in the Melbourne Theatre Company cafeteria, she had a sleepy, grumpy face.

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GIDEON OLAJIDE (1930-2026): A tribute to a beloved church father

Gideon Isaac Oladipo Olajide, retired Bishop of the Diocese of Ibadan (Anglican Communion), marks the end of an era for the Church of Nigeria. He originally came from the Ondo-Benin Diocese, once one of the largest dioceses in the Nigerian Church, before it was divided into Ondo and Benin, and later into many more dioceses That single diocese’s growth into many is itself a picture of what his generation accomplished: a Church that multiplied because its clergy took the work of the Gospel seriously.

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“Education Over Hype”: Veteran Designer Ejiro Amos Tafiri Challenges Next Generation Of African Creators
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“Education Over Hype”: Veteran Designer Ejiro Amos Tafiri Challenges Next Generation Of African Creators

Ahead of Nigeria’s premier fashion week season, veteran fashion designer Ejiro Amos Tafiri has issued a reality check to emerging creators, warning that social media hype and online visibility will never substitute formal technical education and garment construction. For us at Ejiro Amos Tafiri, if we put out 110 looks on the runway, best believe we are going to retail all of them.”

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GTA CEO responds to Abeiku Santana’s concerns over access to her office
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GTA CEO responds to Abeiku Santana’s concerns over access to her office

The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Tourism Authority (GTA), Maame Efua Houadjeto, has responded to concerns raised by her one of deputies, Gilbert Abeiku Aggrey Santana, over difficulties accessing her for urgent official consultations. In a letter written to the Board Chairperson of the Authority, Mrs Houadjeto said she operates an open-door policy, particularly for executive and senior management officers, and questioned the suggestion that her availability had been a challenge.

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