Your usual mixed bag this week: Cheddar Man, Nutella fights and Lady Doritos.
It’s the 100 year anniversary of the Suffragettes! We deliver to you some facts and a round-up of this week’s celebrations.
We discuss Kylie Jenner’s secret pregnancy (her daughter, Stormi Webster was born this week.) How did the world’s most famous 20 year old - Kylie has over 100 million followers and is the richest of all of the Kardashian/Jenners - hide her pregnancy from the paps for an entire 10 months? Is it yet another PR ploy; or a genuine bid for privacy from a young woman long uncomfortable with her own, inherited fame?
Also today, some discussion of Woody Allen - mainly via some excellent journalism, links below - and the latest Hollywood MeToo, via Uma Thurman. This one’s a little different though… it’s more about Quentin Tarantino than it is Harvey Weinstein. And, a first: Tarantino replies, at length. Both articles, below, are well worth reading.
Plus, a bit on food snobbery, after the wonderful writer and former Bake Off contestant, Ruby Tandoh, spoke out against the “classism and ableism” inherent in slamming ready-made meals. Choice is a luxury; and ‘wellness’ is a concept that the working class can ill afford (there’s also a bit of personal bias from Pandora, on this subject.)
Reading
The Friendship Cure, by Kate Leaver https://www.amazon.co.uk/Friendship-Cure-Manifesto-Reconnecting-Modern/dp/0715652524
Why Woody Allen should be tried in court and not by public opinion, by Hadley Freeman for The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/feb/03/actors-condemn-woody-allen-hadley-Freeman
Feminism is excluding working class women, by Camilla Long for The Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/thats-right-sack-the-poor-grid-girls-only-the-rich-are-entitled-to-flaunt-their-bits-ctw9p6szw
This is why Uma Thurman is angry, by Maureen Dowd for The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html
Quentin Tarantino responds to Uma Thurman http://deadline.com/2018/02/quentin-tarantino-uma-thurman-harvey-weinstein-kill-bill-car-crash-new-york-times-1202278988/
Kylie Jenner has baby and seemingly grows way up, by Harling Ross for Man Repeller https://www.manrepeller.com/2018/02/kylie-jenner-baby-girl.html
Listening & Watching
Jack Whitehall on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09qb1hw
Love Stories, by Dolly Alderton (Pandora’s insertion, not Dolly’s) https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/love-stories/id1343714594?mt=2
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - at cinemas now
An Author Special on The Internet (and The Universe) with Jim Chapman
A Live Episode with Google on #MeToo - and Suing The Entire Kardashian Family
Was James Corden Wrong To Joke About Harvey Weinstein?; And Are YOU Suffering From Culture Overload?
A Deep-Dive Into The Fall Of Hollywood’s Ultimate Sex Predator, Harvey Weinstein
Ding Dong The Hef Is Dead - The Legacy of Playboy; And The Death Of The Celebrity Interview
Is Monogamy Dead? An Author Special with Comedian Rosie Wilby
The Handbag’s Tale and why effective protests needn’t be violent
On speaking out against Woody Allen; and why women are still judged by appearance in the workplace
L'Oreal's Race Row & The Danger With Safe Spaces
That Taylor Swift Song & Macron's €8,000 Make-Up Habit
Zadie Smith On Beauty & Trolling The McCanns
The Response to Charlottesville & The Curious Tale of Chloe Ayling
The Travesty of Princess Diana's Leaked Tapes & The Legacy of Celebrity Big Brother
The BBC Pay Gap, To The Bone & R Kelly's Alleged Sex Crime
A Pop-Culture special feat. Rob Kardashian with author Elizabeth Day
Serena Williams vs. John McEnroe & Celebs vs. Trolls
Corbyn’s Glasto & Why We Should All Strive To Be Average
The Rise of the ‘Silver Splitter’ - and Pandora’s Best Bum Facts
An Author Special with Reni Eddo-Lodge & the return of the Nokia 3310
On Belly Bulges and Privilege (and Not The General Election)
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