Chas Newkey-Burden
Writer at Freelance
Krishna bhakta, animal liberation, writer - roughly that order. Starting to learn Kriya Yoga. Keep the hail!
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1 week ago |
theweek.com | Chas Newkey-Burden
There's the sound of banjos, fiddles and tin whistles everywhere, as Irish trad music enjoys a roaring resurgence. It's resonating "fiercely" with young people, who "roar out the lyrics" in pubs under the "looming threat that we might run of out of Guinness", said The Independent. One venue owner compared the phenomenon to Beatlemania, as "clamouring" fans of Irish folk flock to see their favourite trad acts.
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | Chas Newkey-Burden
I was 11 years old when I saw the mushroom cloud go up but this wasn’t Hiroshima or Nagasaki in the 1940s – it was Sheffield in the 1980s. I was one of nearly seven million people who sat down on the evening of 23 September 1984 to watch a BBC drama called Threads, written by Barry Hines.
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1 week ago |
spectator.com.au | Chas Newkey-Burden
Animal rights campaigners are up in arms because Disney+ is able to use a legal loophole to broadcast a scene of a rat being forcibly immersed in liquid. The RSPCA has slammed Disney for showing a controversial scene from the 1989 thriller The Abyss where a live rat is deliberately submerged in fluorocarbon liquid.
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1 week ago |
spectator.co.uk | Chas Newkey-Burden
Animal rights campaigners are up in arms because Disney+ is able to use a legal loophole to broadcast a scene of a rat being forcibly immersed in liquid. The RSPCA has slammed Disney for showing a controversial scene from the 1989 thriller The Abyss where a live rat is deliberately submerged in fluorocarbon liquid. The rat is seen struggling during the scene and the charity said the experience was clearly one of ‘terror’ for the poor little rodent, although the filmmakers insist it survived.
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1 week ago |
theweek.com | Chas Newkey-Burden
Some colourful words have been used to describe Nigel Farage over the years but "socialist" has rarely been one of them. But, as the Reform leader pledged to reverse cuts to winter fuel payments and lift the two-child benefit cap, he and his party appear to be trying to court voters who lean left economically – and that could cause a headache for Keir Starmer and Labour.
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