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Poem of the Week: The Secret Day by Stella Benson | hair

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Poetry,Books,Culture,First world war 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Secret dayMy evening has passed, gone and left me tired,And now tomorrow comes and knocks on the door;So I built the day, the day I wanted,Lest joy come again, lest peace return again,Lest comfort come no more.So I built today, a proud and full day,The rock towers were built on sand.The foxgloves and the gorse I planted in my path;Thyme, velvety thyme, grew under my hand,It grew pink under my hand.So built today is more expensive than a dream.Peace…

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Co-writer of the Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident was arrested in Iran | Iran

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🔥 Discover this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Iran,Film,Oscars 2026,World news,Jafar Panahi,Culture,Cannes film festival,Festivals 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: One of the writers of the Oscar-nominated film It Was Just an Accident was arrested in Tehran a few weeks before the Academy Awards, after signing a statement condemning Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, for the recent bloodshed in the country.Human rights activist Mehdi Mahmoudian was arrested on Saturday after his name was added to a statement declaring that “primary responsibility for these atrocities lies with Ali Khamenei, the leader of the Islamic Republic, and the repressive…

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HOLD ON REVIEW – Horrific death of 2-year-old puts immigration crackdown in the spotlight | film

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🚀 Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Documentary films,Belgium,Migration,Kurds,Culture,Europe,Middle East and north Africa,World news 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: HAn insightful, but perhaps oblique, Belgian documentary sets itself an ambitious goal: to expose the hidden infrastructure of state coercion that underpins European migration policy, even to the point of using reductive language like “migrant.” The book arrives at these abstractions through the horrific story of the murder of Mawada Shourie, a two-year-old German-born Iraqi Kurdish girl who was shot during a botched border control raid on the truck she was traveling in with her…

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Iron Lung Review – YouTuber Markiplier crashes with sci-fi horror on the big screen | film

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Horror films,Science fiction and fantasy films,Games,YouTube,Culture,Technology 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: WWilliam Goldman's old entertainment industry adage still applies: No one knows anything. The independently financed horror film, Iron Lung, was smuggled into theaters without the usual promotional fanfare, where it was eagerly awaited by a large following of Hawaiian writer-director-star Mark Fischbach, better known as YouTube gaming legend Markiplier. Many of us have long felt that culture is making a decisive break with the analog in favor of the Internet (perhaps irrevocably) and Fischbach's film makes…

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Melania debuts at number 29 at the UK box office | Melania

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🔥 Read this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Melania,Film industry,Film,Culture 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: "Melania," director Brett Ratner's documentary about the current First Lady of the United States, opened at No. 29 at the UK box office on its first weekend of release. The film, which cost Amazon $40 million to buy and $35 million to promote, opened in 155 cinemas across the UK and Ireland, where it took a gross of £32,974, with a site average of £212.80.This result will make distributors breathe a sigh of relief, as - despite the modest takeovers -…

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Swing this way! The sign design genius that kept Britain’s drivers (and ducks) safe | design

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💥 Check out this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Design,Art and design,Culture 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: SMargaret Calvert's studio, filled with a barrage of road signs, trendy chairs and all the tools of her trade, occupies the ground floor of her ornate home in Islington, London. She still draws by hand with colored pencils, felt-tip pens and gouache, echoes of a simpler time when there were neither computers nor large numbers of Pantone color options. “There was also no such thing as graphic design at that time,” she says. “It was just called commercial art.”There…

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‘Not Made’: How British school stars took over the Grammy Awards | music

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✨ Read this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Music,Grammy awards 2026,Culture,Grammys,FKA twigs,Olivia Dean,Raye,Arts in schools,London,Education,Music,Schools,UK news ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: When the Grammy winners took the stage in Los Angeles on Sunday night, a common thread emerged: Many of them had once walked the halls of a comprehensive school in Croydon, south of London.British artist Olivia Dean, who won the prestigious award for Best New Artist; Lola Young, who took best pop solo performance for Messy; and FKA twigs, who won best dance/electronic album for Eusexua, all attended the British School in Selhurst. As did…

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Roman Polanski’s rape scandal follows the point of view of a 13-year-old victim | Roman Polanski

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✨ Check out this trending post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Roman Polanski,Rape and sexual assault,US news,Film,Culture ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: A new film explores the notorious Roman Polanski rape scandal from the perspective of 13-year-old Samantha Geimer.The Girl, based on Geimer's 2013 memoir The Girl: A Life in the Shadow of Roman Polanski, will trace her time in the famed director's orbit in the 1970s, her experience of being sexually assaulted and the media turmoil that followed after Polanski, then 43, was arrested in 1977 on charges of statutory rape, lewdness and lewdness with a child.Polanski,…

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The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford review – Peter Mullan gives weight to the twisty Scottish drama | film

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🚀 Discover this must-read post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Film,Peter Mullan,Culture,Scotland ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: pEater Mulan brings his formidable presence to this strange drama from first-time director Sean Robert Dunne: he's angry and exhausted, disillusioned but good-hearted, someone whose feelings have been hurt a long time ago...but who wouldn't dream of making a fuss about it.It's Mulan who gives weight and flavor to a film that can be a bit watery and not quite sure how sharp a bite it wants to deliver.Kenneth (played by Mullan) is a sinister local historian and widower in the…

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‘We put a stink bomb in Stephen Fry’s shoe’: Vic and Bob talk about the inspiring foolishness of Shooting Stars | culture

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🚀 Read this insightful post from Culture | The Guardian 📖 📂 **Category**: Culture,Vic Reeves,Bob Mortimer,Television & radio,Comedy 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Bob Mortimer, Writer, hostThe first time I saw what would become Shooting Stars was Vic Reeves - aka Jim Moir - doing The Big Quiz during a live broadcast of Vic Reeves Big Night Out. I've never seen anything like it. It was full of meaningless questions and had an attitude. I remember thinking: “There has to be something we can do about this.”We got lucky. We were doing a Vic and Bob Christmas TV special and thought…

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