Joe Stone

Jan 13, 2024 | theguardian.com | Savannah Ayoade-Greaves |Marina Hyde |Joe Stone |Emma Brockes |Briony Rawle |George Georgiou | +1 more

As the Post Office scandal continues to unfold, Marina Hyde urges us to keep watching and stay angry (1m24s); what one man learned after 30 days of rejection therapy (9m40s); and double Oscar-winner Jodie Foster on beauty, bravery and raising feminist sons (26m49s) How to listen to podcasts: everything you need to know

Jan 12, 2024 | ca.style.yahoo.com | Joe Stone

Photograph: Jay Brooks/The GuardianMy heart is hammering, my head is humming with tension and there’s a real possibility I may vomit. No, I haven’t been set up on a blind date with Piers Morgan. Instead, I’m about to approach a stranger in a packed King’s Cross station and ask to borrow £100. I choose a middle-aged man with a kind face and a red scarf, and quietly make my request so as not to be overheard by commuters grabbing their lunch.

Dec 26, 2023 | theguardian.com | Joe Stone |Laura Snapes |Dave Simpson |Sasha Mistlin |Ammar Kalia |Elle Hunt | +5 more

Slapp Happy – Sort ofSlapp Happy’s 1972 debut album is a curious thing. It was recorded at Faust’s Wümme studios, with the krautrock legends acting as backing band, but it sounds absolutely nothing like krautrock. It was intended as a joke – a sarcastic response to experimental musician Anthony Moore’s record label demanding something more commercial – but carries no audible trace of the smug condescension that implies. Instead, it exists in an unplaceable space of its own creation.

Oct 24, 2023 | standard.co.uk | Joe Stone

The story of Britney Spears has always retained a fairytale quality. Two decades ago, many might’ve assumed this to be of the Disney variety — a rags to riches tale in which a girl-next-door is transformed overnight into a princess, albeit of pop. With the release of her memoir, The Woman In Me, Spears confirms that the truth was closer to something dreamt up by the Brothers Grimm. There’s the wicked father who imprisoned her, and an army of shadowy co-conspirators exploiting her.

Aug 31, 2023 | theguardian.com | Joe Stone

You can’t use exercise to target specific areas (so sit-ups won’t give you a flat stomach)TRUE “Sit-ups will strengthen your core, but they won’t get rid of belly fat,” says Daniel Lieberman, a Harvard University paleoanthropologist and the author of Exercised: the Science of Physical Activity, Rest and Health.