Emma Brockes

2 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Emma Brockes

The current TV landscape leans heavily towards shows that skewer the rich from the point of view of writers who wildly, if sneakily, admire them. To be less polite: if shows such as the most recent White Lotus, the Apple TV+ show Your Friends & Neighbours and movies such as Mountainhead are all enraptured with themselves and the people they dramatise – targets who have been known to become the shows’ biggest fans – then for those viewers who have had enough, there is an alternative.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Emma Brockes

MondayJust back from New York and – this is what you get for flying out of Newark – I’m stunned by the volume of Trump memorabilia for sale at the terminal. Actual Maga hats and T-shirts; old-timey baseball shirts with “Trump 47” on the front; a fridge magnet depicting Trump’s Iwo Jima moment, fist in the air behind the words “Fight! Fight! Fight!; and a Trump hoodie with the slogan “Take America Back”.

3 weeks ago | msn.com | Emma Brockes

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3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Emma Brockes

The intrusion of politics into personal relationships has been an eagerly documented feature of the Trump-Brexit era, which this week found its perfect expression: a granular account of the end of the marriage between Sarah Vine and Michael Gove. You may think, as I did, you’re not interested in this, but hold up.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Emma Brockes

Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a promotional tour to talk up the potential of AI in human relationships. I know; listening to Zuck on friendship is a bit like taking business advice from Bernie Madoff or lessons in sportsmanship from Tonya Harding.