Lisa O'Kelly

Jan 18, 2025 | theguardian.com | Lisa O'Kelly

Keon West is professor of social psychology at the University of London. He was born in Trinidad, grew up in Jamaica, and studied in the US and France before coming to the UK as a Rhodes scholar in 2006 to do a doctorate at Oxford University. Why do you think we need a book about the science of racism?

Nov 8, 2024 | msn.com | Lisa O'Kelly

Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.

Nov 8, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lisa O'Kelly

Is Nicole Kidman the hardest working person in Hollywood? It’s more than four decades since the Australian-American started acting, aged 16, yet she shows no sign of slowing down. As well as developing and producing projects through her own company, Blossom Films, Kidman has barely been off TV screens in recent months, starring in dramas such as Expats, The Perfect Couple, Lioness and A Family Affair. Next she takes the lead role in Halina Reijn’s much-anticipated erotic thriller Babygirl.

Jun 22, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lisa O'Kelly |Ammar Kalia |Orla Foster

Dafydd JonesLeave campaigner, Westminster Bridge, London, 15 June 2016Dafydd Jones made his name as a society and party photographer in the 1980s, mainly for Vanity Fair and Tatler. This image was taken one week before the EU referendum, for his How We Live Now feature in the Oldie. I’d heard about a flotilla of fishermen demonstrating outside parliament in support of Brexit. I went along and it was quite an eccentric, English-seeming scene with fishing boats with flags. Bob Geldof was there.

Jun 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Lisa O'Kelly

Lingchi, or “death by a thousand cuts”, was a particularly brutal form of execution practised in Asia in ancient times: the condemned person was tied to a post and body parts were slowly sliced off one by one. The Indian-born photographer Sujata Setia uses this barbaric practice in her series A Thousand Cuts as a potent metaphor for a different kind of brutality – domestic abuse.