Behind every £100,000 bar tab, there is a secret economy of pretty women.
Carolyn Wells
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The Daring Nun Who Hid and Saved 83 Jewish Children
“Her own bishop supported Pétain so she wrote to Archbishop Saliège for advice. She records his response in her journal: “Let’s lie, let’s lie, my daughter, as long as we are saving human lives.””
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‘It’s Going to Be Our Way Now’: The Guerrilla Rewilder Shaking Up British Farming
“If we keep on course with this we’ll be left living on a planet full of pigeons and dogs on the beaten-down crust of our own excrement.”
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Selling Fame
With the Cameo app, you can buy a video message from a celebrity — increasing in popularity since COVID-19, will this way of communicating become the new norm?
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Inside Cameo, the Celebrity Shoutout App Hungry For Fame
Cameo lets you buy personalized greetings from sports stars, singers, influencers, and zoo animals. What does it say about the nature of modern celebrity?
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The Making of an Incel
“…the incels’ scripts have been twisted. “Our questions should be, How do they get these scripts? How do they think that’s a valid way of interacting with the world?””
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Tragedy on Lake Joe
How a boating accident caused a storm amongst Ontario’s cottage-country elite.
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The Fault, Dear Reader, Is Not In Our Stars
Mental health care is pricey and inaccessible. Online astrology is rising to take its place.
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I Was a Teenage Conspiracy Theorist
““Our minds work in particular ways that make us all receptive to conspiracy thinking,” says Rob Brotherton, a psychologist and the author of Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories. “
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The Climate Crisis Has Sparked a Siberian Mammoth Tusk Gold Rush
Mammoth ivory has been touted as an “ethical” alternative for the continuing illegal ivory trade that is threatening an entire living species with extinction, but at what cost?