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Agnes of Stratford-upon-Avon: 21 November 2025; According to the BBC's Caryn James, Hamnet—the upcoming film that she's pimping, as well as the 2020 novel upon which it's based—fills in many blanks in William Shakespeare's, and more specifically his wife's, backstory. Or does it?
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Island man unalived himself (and other regarded tales of seggs and pew pews): 20 November 2025; Algospeak, the list of nonwords forbidden by social media, is a figment of the imagination. That is according to Thomas Germain anyway, and he should know because the tech industry told him so.
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Battle bots: 21 October 2025; The BBC's picture peeper, Nicholas Barber, explains why Paul Thomas Anderson's latest opus failed to blow up at the box office in the same way its protagonists blew up their targets, despite favourable reviews in the mainstream media—his very own sidekick, Caryn James, having given it a ★★★★★ review. Or does he?
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A man's casa is his castillo: 25 September 2025; Internations—whatever the hell?—has published its survey of the top ten countries for expats. It's quite illuminating for how abstruse it is: I would never have expected Mexico and Colombia to be among them; presumably they're fine as long as you stay away from the cartels' territories. China's an interesting entry too; perfect for anyone who craves more state censorship and authoritarian control than even the UK can provide. But coming in at number nine is…
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Let them eat fake (news): 20 September 2025; As I've noted recently, BBC fluff-piece writers love a little controversy in their subject matter to spice up their scribing. Accordingly, Deborah Nicholls-Lee addresses a question that I suspect few of us have given any thought to: why was the most controversial queen in history so hated?
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Norwegians would: 11 September 2025; The BBC's features writers love a little controversy in their subjects. I guess it makes them feel alive, and that their scribing is elevated above the ordinary.
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Deep pockets, short arms: 10 September 2025; Clare Thorp asks, on behalf of BBC Culture, and for want of anything better to do with her time, why do men's clothes have so many pockets, and women's so few? She must really need the money.
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Snow White: streaming sensation: 8 September 2025; Disney's Snow White ignominiously finished its domestic theatrical run in June, pulling in a barely-worth-the-effort $11,651 in its last week showing at 25 theatres. It seems to have limped on until mid-August in the UK though.
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Noth-ern exposure: 15 August 2025; Did you ever watch Sex and the City? I didn't.
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Grift of the Day: 15 July 2025; It's the end of an era, as the BBC loses not only its highest-paid grifter, but also its second highest-paid too.
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Immunity laws: 4 June 2025; This golden nugget is brought to us by David Cox, courtesy of BBC Future: if proximity to humans is bad for animals' immune health, the opposite is true for the humans. All those millennia of subjugating animals to our will through domestication has paid off in more ways than could've been imagined. Yay us!
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USofA(pprehension): 21 May 2025; If potential visitors to the USA are trepidatious about becoming actual visitors to the USA, they're not alone in giving pause for thought to crossing Trumpistan's borders. Merkans fear travelling abroad for all manner of reasons, and many are considering turning their foreign travel towards the domestic market. Oh well, never mind.
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US dupes: 15 May 2025; In the excitement over US restrictions on visitors entering the country, with tightening of entry rules and transgenders having to face biological reality, Laura Hill offers up five destinations that don't involve an intimate pat-down prior to immediate expulsion by officers of the Department of Homeland Security. Not only that, but she promises: these international alternatives echo the best of the US, with a twist.
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The not good…and possibly the not bad and the not ugly: 4 May 2025; The BBC's premiere film buff, Nicholas Barber, shortlists another twelve cinematic offerings to consider as an alternative to washing our hair this month. And he's actually seen and reviewed at least one of them! Thunderbolts* in case you were wondering.
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Clean 'round the bend: 27 April 2025; Only two years have passed since Zaria Gorvett and two like-minded ~~licence fee spongers~~feature writers extolled the value of vinegar as a cleaning product on behalf of BBC Future, so it must be time for another article on the subject. And Katarina Zimmer is the woman for the task.
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Hair of the dog…or the bear: 3 April 2025; As animals spend more of their lives in manmade environments, their predisposition to allergies increases. This is illustrated by the case of Siku, a polar bear at Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago, that has developed allergies to, among other things, human hair dander.
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Weapons-grade copium: 1 April 2025; Disney's Snow White has not performed well against the Burbank communards' expectations. I think it's now safe to say that it's a bomb; after all, even the normally compliant access media is having a hard time papering over the cracks. As it comes out of its second weekend at the box office with an historic drop in revenue—down by two thirds from its domestic debut—some among the media are weaving a fanciful don't panic, it's all part of the plan, folks! story. But in so doing, do they risk their credibility? Or what little remains, anyway.
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On the whole, I'd rather be in Portugal 🇵🇹: 1 April 2025; Thus begins Lindsey Galloway's ~~deep~~shallow dive into why visitors are shunning travel to the US. But it really comes down to one thing: Trump's Merka is becoming increasingly unfriendly to foreign tourists, at least on an official level, and particularly to Canadians. Consequently, they're choosing to go elsewhere. That's the headline; the bait.
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Culture uncritic: 1 March 2025; I do wonder how culture scribes can declare ten upcoming must-watch whatevers when they haven't seen those whatevers themselves. I guess they simply have to put food on the table, just like those of us with real jobs.
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Not appeeling: 26 January 2025; Martha Henriques is at it again. The it in this case being bragging her green credentials.
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Rooney tunes: 31 December 2024; Back in September, when BBC Culture's book babes shared space with its film fans, Sally Rooney's new opus was described only as much-anticipated. Now we learn that it was released to feverish fan hoards. Not only that, but the authoress herself has her very own universe, or whatever: the so-called Rooneyverse. Fancy!
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Hawks and sheep: 7 December 2024; Haliey [sic] Welch, the so-called Hawk Tuah Girl, went viral on social media a few months ago for her advice on the, erm, art of pleasure. Yet another made-for-clicks man-on-the-street interview with mildly intoxicated party girls, in Nashville this time. So far, so so.
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Rock 'n'…a small bready thing: 28 November 2024; And that little whimsy led me to another under BBC Future from earlier this year, written by the same author, Veronique Greenwood, but this time exploring why there are so many words in Britain for a small, round bread. Hey, a girl's gotta eat y'know!
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Feastables: 28 November 2024; A TLDR from BBC Future ponders the ne'er-asked question of why humans feel the need to feast together.
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New balls please: 23 July 2024; The BBC has once again published the salaries of its TV and radio presenting staff. And once again Gary Lineker tops the list of high-paid grifters, although his salary has stagnated and remains the same as the previous two years. Poor old Zoe Ball, on the other hand, has seen hers drop for the second time in three years. That must be the PaTriArchY aNd MisOGyNy™ of it all, right?
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Babbling books: 5 June 2024; It's taken us to halfway through the year, but the BBC's book babes are back, thoroughly reviewing reviewers' reviews to bring us twelve of the best table top decorations, or leg props, of 2024 thus far. This was as much as they served up in the first quarter two years ago. Whether it's because the ink slingers are slacking off, or the bookworms' have tightened their standards for inclusion this year, is anyone's guess though.
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Who are you calling "poopyhead"? (poop): 5 May 2024; As another long-distance pissing match fizzled out last month, the BBC's Clare Thorp mused over why the era of the diss track could be over, ultimately concluding: it's hard to imagine they'll ever go away. When you think about, this topping and tailing of an article with a provocative proposition and then a throwaway refutation sounds like a bait 'n' switch. Then again, Thorp is a features writer, so all this writing shit for the sake of writing something, anything, is par for the course.
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What makes a tree a tree?: 9 March 2024; Last year, vandals cut down a sycamore tree sited at a gap in Hadrian's Wall, imaginatively known as Sycamore Gap. It is, or at least was, a renowned beauty spot and tourist attraction, famed for its starring role in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves.
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DIE, Google, DEI: 15 February 2024; Melonie Parker is Google's chief diversity officer, in charge of sociopolitical checkbox-based hiring. She joined Omose Ighodaro in the BBC's Executive Lounge, boasting Google's DEI credits in How Google is sticking to – and soaring past – its DEI goals. Although soaring past suggests that their goals may not have been too much of a stretch in the first place.
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To baldly go…: 10 February 2024; For some time now, men claiming to be women have been invading spaces traditionally reserved for genuine, biologically-relevant women; soundly defeating them in their sports and beauty pageants. Their entry into women's competitions, and changing rooms, is justified with bullshit rhetoric to the effect that all women have different lived experiences, and possessing a penis is just one of them.
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The bubble tea bubble: 6 February 2024; Writing for BBC Worklife, Aysha Imtiaz seeks to explain Why the UK bubble tea market is 'special'. Except she doesn't really substantiate her premiss that it's special in the first place.
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Moving wallpaper: 29 January 2024; I travel a lot by train, and needing something to relieve the monotony, which is at the same time pickup/putdownable, I often resort to opening, if not actually reading to completion, BBC online magazine features. Too often they simply don't deliver on what the referring page promises. Such as in this case, written for BBC Style, by Clare Dowdy: Why 'living retro' is perfect for now.
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Late booking: 29 December 2023; With only two days to go before we say so long, and thanks for all the fish to 2023, I didn't think our two book babes were going to make it with a closing update to their possibly-must-read list. But they managed to sneak in, almost at the last moment, with an additional eight tomes, rounding out thirty-three of the best books of the year.
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The final straw: 7 November 2023; In Plastic or paper? The truth about drinking straws, Ally Hirschlag wrestles with the conundrum of substitutes for plastic straws. Everyone knows that for every plastic straw used, a baby turtle dies; so they're being replaced with environmentally-friendly alternatives made from paper or bamboo.
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Orwell that ends well: 7 November 2023; The expiration of UK copyright covering George Orwell's works in 2022 gave lesser authors opportunity to churn them, and ride the publicity train afforded by his stature and legacy within the literary pantheon. Sorry, I meant to say reimagine them through contemporary eyes; silly old me.
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Book it like Becky: 17 October 2023; Another quarter of a year has flown past, and more books are added to our list to help the next do the same.
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Delicate sensibilities of trivial celebrities: 11 October 2023; Through nothing other than abject boredom, I started reading Laura Martin's The difficulties facing Hollywood super-producer Ryan Murphy’s TV empire on BBC Culture. At almost 2000 words, it's quite long for what it is. And it's not as interesting as I first thought, especially since I've seen none of Murphy's work. Consequently, I didn't finish reading it; but I did get far enough in to learn that black transgender actress Angelica Ross had a hissy fit on set over a crew member who was operating the vehicle she had to drive on camera wearing a racist T-shirt every day.
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Totem recall: 9 October 2023; The BBC home page teases: A sacred pole stolen by the British. And the leader to Diane Selkirk's The Canadian museum filled with stolen art doubles down on the accusation.
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Marianna unsprung: 2 October 2023; I've mocked the self-serving grift of the BBC's social media and disinformation correspondent, Marianna Spring, on occasion. But Spiked's Tom Slater takes a deeper dive, and does a more thorough job of calling out her hubris in Marianna Spring: the BBC’s misinformation merchant.
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The "f-word": 28 September 2023; Writing for BBC Culture, Faran Krentcil presents a way-too-long, way-too-dull TLDR about the return of Victoria's Secret something or other, opening with:
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Unimaginative reimagination: 15 August 2023; As Disney's reimagining of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, now just Snow White, comes under criticism for tokenised race-swapping of the titular heroine; re-characterisation of the dwarves; rewriting the story for modern audiences; and Rachel Zegler running her mouth in interviews, the BBC's very own entertainment and arts reporter, Emma Saunders asks: Has the fairy tale already gone sour?
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Around the world in 80 minutes*: 28 July 2023; Nicholas Barber presents us with ten of the best films to watch this August. He has, however, used the same approach as those pseudo bibliophiles Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker when compiling their must-read lists, and turned to snippets he's found elsewhere on t'intertubes. This isn't his first waltz around the ballroom y'know.
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Fewer of not the best: 21 July 2023; Those bookish babes at BBC Culture, Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker, have finally got around to updating this year's must-reads-so-far list. And, breaking from their film-buff counterparts, they've thankfully updated their article's headlining image, presenting a pleasant change from the gormless photo of Eleanor Catton that's been there since April.
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Rebuffed: 7 July 2023; While film buffs Barber and James score points over the bookworms, Laurence and Baker, for actually having seen at least some of the films that they're recommending, they lose a few for the laziness with which they recycle their article. No new image to lure the reader in. Hell's teeth, they can't even be bothered to update the date from 14^th April! The only betrayal of change is a slight revision to the title, just to reflect the additions.
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Minority report: 4 June 2023; The BBC News droid doesn't just report the news, it also pulls together future-gazing speculative fluff-pieces of the kind normally found within the website's magazine-type sections; an example of AI in action, perhaps. Ironically enough, in this case the droid's created an article on the threats that AI may pose to humanity: AI warning us of AI, no less.
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Pervy Pigs: 25 May 2023; A social media influencer has been found guilty of stalking and harassing three Premier League football players. So far, so drear.
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Chinese takeaway: 18 May 2023; Those of us who avoid the vapidity of TikTok will have been blissfully unaware of a ding-dong among its mouth-breathers over British Chinese food. Of all things. Fortunately, Anna Sulan Masing is here to fix that oversight and enlighten us.
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Blurring the lines: 5 May 2023; I guess one problem that the BBC has, in having so many categories for articles and reporting staff, is pigeonholing and assigning specific stories that might plausibly fit within more than one category. For example, should an article on a journalist being tracked by TikTok be categorised under technology—because technology is used to track her—or social media—because TikTok is teh soshull meejah, innit?
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Inordinate interest in trivia: 23 April 2023; I guess there are only so many things to occupy the waking hours of a disinformation and social media correspondent, which is presumably why the BBC's Marianna Spring is reduced to counting celebrity losses and gains in the Twitter verification stakes. This is of such high import, that she's co-opted another lackey to help.
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Not the best: 22 April 2023; They got there in the end. BBC Culture's resident bookworms, Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker, were not subjected to pest-control agents after all. They just seem to have been waiting to see what Barber and James came up with first. And one thing they've learnt is to dial back the hyperbole. Unlike last year's lists, we're presented with twelve of the best books that 2023 has had to offer thus far.
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Buffed: 16 April 2023; Those redoubtable bookworms Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker seem to have been given a dose of some sort of pest control agent. Instead, BBC Culture treats us to film buffs Nicholas Barber and Caryn James extolling the virtues of twelve films released so far this year. Hedging their bets over their literary rivals, Barber and James only claim their choices to be of the best, not the best.
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Camp Rwanda: 3 April 2023; Perusing the BBC's home page from the sanctity of my bed this morning, I happened across this lead-line: Five countries that are safer for women. And it got me thinking, which is always an uncomfortable experience early in the morning. Or at any time, really; but especially early in the morning.
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0s and 1s: 30 March 2023; I don't know why this qualifies for BBC Worklife per se, other than zoomers have to work like the rest of us, I guess; but Jessica Klein seeks to educate us as to How young people are shaking off gender binaries. The relevance of zoomers to work life, I can understand; their gender binarism is another matter entirely. Unless these attitudes are having an impact on the provision of toilet facilities in the workplace. (confused)
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No shits for Springtime (poop): 21 March 2023; You can't keep a ~~good journalist~~hack urinalist down, and once again Marianna Spring has sprung into mithering over trolls on Twitter. Oh, and pimping her gossamer-thin investigation, instigated by personal butthurt and treated derisively by the space cadet:
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Basse cuisine: 21 March 2023; The BBC's home page teases The 'scandalous' chef the world forgot. Thus, Anna Richards' eulogy to Eugénie Brazier, the first person to be awarded six Michelin stars, was bigged up more than it could deliver. It ended up as interesting, could've been better.
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To infinity and beyond!: 21 March 2023; Writing for BBC Future—because, why not?—Richard Fisher discusses The numbers that are too big to imagine. He starts well enough, with a little childhood reminiscence:
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Springtime for Hateler: 6 March 2023; Marianna Spring is the BBC's disinformation and social media correspondent. Her role is to seek out problems on teh soshull meejah and whinge about them. This time, it's about hurt fee-fees on Twitter, particularly hers. First World problems, huh? (snowflake)
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A splash of body odour: 6 March 2023; It's a fairly lightweight piece of 1200 words on (some of) the wonders of vinegar, which took only three of the BBC's crack(‑smoking) reporters to write. And Zaria Gorvett didn't mention veganism even once!
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Shazam?: 23 February 2023; I tried to watch Shazam! some time ago. It was pretty gay: an origins story trying too hard to be too comedic for a B-list DC superhero whom I'd never heard of, and I gave up. Now, the sequel, Shazam! Fury Of The Gods is pending release. I am not pumped. And it appears that I may not be alone.
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Vertically challenged: 15 January 2023; On behalf of BBC Future Planet, William Park poses a question that I suspect few have pondered: How far can vertical farming go?
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Fully booked: 15 December 2022; As 2022 draws to a close, thoughts turn to the 39 best books of the year so far. Except they don't, because our fearless culture vultures, Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker, actually present us with The 50 best books of the year 2022. Oh goody gumdrops!
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A promise of things to come: 14 December 2022; While pimping Babylon—an upcoming story of Hollywood's licentious past—on behalf of BBC Culture, Christina Newland teases the truth about the scandals of the silent film era. Except I'm not sure whether she actually reveals the true truth, or just that as portrayed in the film, because she may not have written it yet. And, even if she has, we'll have to wait until the end of next week for it to go live. Again.
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Latin(x): 24 November 2022; Diane Bernard is a freelance journalist based in Washington, D.C. She writes for the Washington Post and NPR, among other mainstream media outlets. So, I guess she could be considered to be progressive and right on.
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Low-energy bubbles: 9 November 2022; I've mentioned YouTube channel TheQuartering before. It's one of the lowest-energy commentary channels on the platform, if not within the entire universe; including as yet undiscovered civilisations out there [points at stars].
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Old hag: 4 November 2022; For those of you unaware of the existence of the hagsploitation film genre, it's apparently a thing. Inspired by 1962's What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?—itself inspired by Sunset Boulevard, twelve years earlier—a plethora of films was released during the '60s and '70s starring ageing actresses at a point in their careers where work was harder to come by.
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Tempelhof remembered: 1 November 2022; The link on the BBC's home page teases The airport that changed Europe. Unfortunately, Krystin Arneson's Tempelhof: The single site that embodies Berlin is somewhat less compelling than the announcement portends.
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The piggy principle: 11 October 2022; Writing for BBC Family Tree, Alessia Franco and David Robson extol the virtues of children playing in muddy puddles. It seems that playing with dirt and water is to the benefit of both physical and mental development.
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Bookish: 11 October 2022; My, doesn't time fly when you're having fun? Another quarter of a year, another best-books-of-the-year-so-far list, courtesy of those BBC Culture vultures Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker.
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Representative audience: 18 September 2022; A treatise on why Hollyweird has failed Generation Z should reveal some interesting insights. After all, why would an industry of make-believe not try to cultivate a new generation while it's still malleable? The suits at Disney, Warner Bros, and the like have a deep and long-held fondness for money; surely they'd want to maximise the size of the paying audience, rather than ignoring an emerging key demographic?
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Must read?: 10 July 2022; Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker have been hard at it, reading books on behalf of BBC Culture. Either that, or genuine bookworms have been hard at it, reading books on their behalf. For they have compiled a list of the 26 best books of the year so far. Mostly novels and poetry, with a smattering of memoirs; clearly no non-fiction books of any note have been released in the last six months.
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Dietary habits of the twig children: 3 May 2022; BBC Future does science. Except, it doesn't really.
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Bookworm: 10 April 2022; We're only a quarter of the way through 2022, but already Rebecca Laurence and Lindsay Baker have compiled a list of the fourteen best books of the year, thus far, on behalf of BBC Culture. Not ten. Not fifteen. And, fortunately, not twenty. Fourteen.
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The most obvious Star Trek story ever: 17 March 2022; Any best of list or best ever selection is bound to be wreathed in subjectivity. Especially when considering such a long-running TV show as Star Trek and its spawn.
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Half-arsed job: 15 February 2022; As Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile is released to cinemas, David Jesudason addresses racism in her work. I cannot pretend that I read the whole article; I only got as far as the incongruity in Branagh's casting compared to setting.
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The great egg race: 21 January 2022; Zaria Gorvett explores The race to make a multipurpose vegan egg, for the benefit of those of us who weren't even aware that such a thing existed. The race, that is.
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Reporter reporting: 18 January 2022; Mary-Ann Russon asks What can we do to get more women into coding? I can't honestly say that I give a shit, and her gossamer-thin article didn't help me understand why I should, other than that there's a shortage of digitally-skilled workers.
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I'm sarcastic, therefore I'm brainy: 12 January 2022; According to David Robson, writing for BBC Family Tree, a teenager's sarcasm reflects their intellect. Fortunately for me, my sarcastic teen, Emily, doesn't read the BBC online.
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Tronto: 7 December 2021; Shilling hard for Destination Toronto/TCVA, Lindsey Galloway tells us why Toronto is The Canadian city to visit this winter.
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All of you: 24 November 2021; Writing for BBC Worklife, Bryan Lufkin informs us as to Why more people are saying 'y'all'. For those of you who didn't know that they were, apparently they are. So there's something new that you've learned, and we've barely started!
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Ichi, scratchi: 27 October 2021; Regarding Auntie Beeb's bait 'n' switch approach to article linking, comes this case in point: the rise of ultra-violent Japanese films is discussed in How Ichi the Killer brought ultra-violence to the mainstream. The link from the BBC home page teases: The most shocking film ever made?
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Just the fax, ma'am: 6 September 2021; And more non-news on outdated business practices from Ashifa Kassam, for BBC Future.
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Carded: 6 September 2021; For want of anything better to do with her time, and the BBC licence payers' money, Adrienne Murray asks the burning question of the day: Has Covid killed off business cards for good?
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Yours competently: 4 August 2021; In The coded language that holds women back at work, Christine Ro explores words keeping women down, or something like that. It's a fairly typical fluff piece for BBC Equality Matters. One that I don't doubt was previously published elsewhere, and which I didn't find sufficiently interesting to finish reading. But I did skip-read this far:
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Moving on: 25 June 2021; Writing for BBC Worklife, Bryan Lufkin explains why it's okay to not reignite relationships that have stagnated during lockdown. You can let acquaintanceships and friendships go, should you wish.
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Is there a dietician in the house?: 16 June 2021; A couple of idiots on YouTube, claiming to be dietician nutritionists, and spreading misinformation. Who knew? I couldn't watch the whole video, because their voices grated on my nerves.
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E or H₂?: 11 June 2021; The BBC's chief environment correspondent, Justin Rowlatt, tells us Why it's the end of the road for petrol stations.
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Is there a doctor in the house?: 10 June 2021; Ooooh, I've found another crackpot on YouTube. Aren't I lucky?
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Lo-rez journalism: 17 May 2021; Writing for BBC Reality Check, intrepid investigative journalists Christopher Giles and Jack Goodman ask the key question, Israel-Gaza: Why is the region blurry on Google Maps? What do you mean, dear reader, you weren't aware that it was? It is, and we're here to find out why!
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Ghostbusted: 8 April 2021; That irrepressible bonehead, Jeremy Hambly at TheQuartering, unfavourably compares the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife with the original Ghostbusters (1984). He notes that the ghosts aren't scary, unlike those in the original, which he describes as a horror film:
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Breaking the rules: 2 March 2021; As I mentioned long ago, it's thanks to my perfectly-fitted tinfoil hat that I'm not part of the social network. I don't do F*c*book; Twitter; Instagram, or any of that other stuff. At one point, I did have a hardly-used, one careful owner YouTube account, but I bailed out when Google did a Monica Lewinsky, and came a'gobblin'.
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Office coffee: 20 January 2021; Writing for BBC Worklife, Bryan Lufkin holds forth on Why you’re more creative in coffee shops.
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Yanking chains: 17 June 2020; I seem to have fallen into a pit of irrelevance on YouTube.
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Missing the bigger picture: 8 February 2017; In a thin and trite article on behalf of BBC Autos, Erin Biba asks whether, despite the current oil boom and increase in car ownership in the UK and US, we're witnessing the end of petrol stations.
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