Emily Bootle
Commissioning Editor and Writer, Culture at The i Paper
Commissioning Editor and Writer, Culture @theipaper Book of essays, THIS IS NOT WHO I AM: OUR AUTHENTICITY OBSESSION, out now with @OrtacPress
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5 days ago |
inews.co.uk | Emily Bootle
Whether or not it’s a coincidence that Arcade Fire’s first album in three years is called Pink Elephant, let’s get the (pink) elephant in the room out the way first. This is – has to be – a rebirth project, as the first new music the band have released since a bombshell 2022 investigation by Pitchforkrevealed its lead singer, Win Butler, was the subject of several allegations of sexual misconduct involving younger fans (which he denies).
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1 week ago |
inews.co.uk | Emily Bootle
Without the inevitable, tragic backstory colouring the US streaming release of western drama Rust, it might have had half a chance at being taken seriously. It’s a finely photographed, stylish throwback western with a melancholy edge and an ironically anti-violence coda; it features a gruff, likeable performance from Alec Baldwin as a weary gunslinger and former outlaw who returns to town to bust a kid out of prison.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Emily Bootle
Florence Pugh – Oscar-nominated actor, quirky fashionista and proprietor of an endearingly scatty and self-effacing Instagram account that notes her “weirdly low voice”, love of “dog snogs” and an inability to sit down in tight (nipple-revealing) dresses – can add holding a Guinness World Record to the myriad reasons she’s adored by many.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Emily Bootle
It’s a difficult time to be a young man. Masculinity is in crisis. Loneliness is on the rise. Just as centuries of emotional repression finally start to make their way out of the collective male system, misogynistic, hyper-macho influencers and incels push viral ideas that are totally the opposite.
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2 weeks ago |
inews.co.uk | Emily Bootle
Pinned to the top of JK Rowling’s X page, where the author has more than 14 million followers and posts frequently about her gender-critical views, is a tweet that contains a screenshot of the kind of message she is often sent. The screenshot reads: “You are a stupid and horrible woman. My kids and I enjoyed burning your books and roasting marshmallows over your pathetic books.” And in the tweet, in September 2024, Rowling responded: “I get the same royalties whether you burn them or read them.
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