When Slimani went to promote her best selling novel Adele, about a woman addicted to sex, in Morocco, she did not expect to receive a reaction, as he encountered young people keen to discuss the sexual themes her novel raised, women were eager to share personal stories about their struggles with social restrictions. Slimani ensemble…
More is an eloquent and detailed new history of the global economy from Philip Coggan, a senior economist journalist, and former Financial Times columnist – is very concerned that what compound economic growth has achieved is not even generally appreciated. More takes us through the development of the world economy starting with the first obsidian…
Britain is in discussions with China to put its troubled high-speed railway HS2 back on track after Beijing claimed it could build the line in only five years with reduced costs and to accommodate faster trains. This comes back in the hells after Boris Johnson’s government angered US President Donald Trump by giving Chinese telecoms group Huawei…
Pretty Woman the Musical opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in London Valentines day 14th February 2020. Based on the 1990 mega box buster film of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Richard Gere, the stage adaptation of the romantic comedy which received its Broadway premiere last year. Pretty Woman the Musical features original music…
Military Wives starring Kristen Scott Thomas. In British Cinemas on 6 March 2020. Bitter Sweet homespun drama comes to the silver screen, directed by winner Peter Cattaneo. Interestingly but perhaps not in the context that this is a drama about ladies women and girls, the screenplay for this moving docudrama was written by two female…
Sajid Javid the chancellor of Exchequer resigned yesterday rather than be forced to sack his aides and submit to chief strategist Dominic Cummings in a power struggle over Number 11 via a joint team of advisers. Mr. Johnson’s astonishing decision to allow an already complaint finance chief to walk away from the government is chaotic…
The fourth quarter ticket sales for US films in India were up 114 per cent on a year earlier while Bollywood’s box office take rose only 34 per cent. Hollywood superheroes encroach on Bollywood’s local dominance, as in the past American films struggled to make a splash in India, where Mumbai based Bollywood and other…
South Korean film Parasite has been named the best picture at 2020 Oscars becoming the first non-English language film to take the top prize beating 1917 and Joker. Parasite won four awards while Sam Mendes’s 1917 took three. Renee Zellweger won the best actress for playing Judy Garland in Judy, Joaquin Phoenix was named the…
Richard Layard founder and former director of the centre for Economic performance at the London School of Economics, forget the GDP, we need to focus on trust, relationships and our mental health in nutshell it is about happiness, after looking across 3,096 USD counties that participated the 2016 US election, votes for Trump were better…