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Revealed: ABC’s private email to Gina Rinehart about its ‘regret’ after it aired graphic assault fantasy about Australia’s richest woman
The article reports that Australia’s public broadcaster, ABC, privately expressed regret to mining billionaire Gina Rinehart after broadcasting a graphic fictional scenario involving an assault on her. The episode has prompted criticism over the treatment of a prominent public figure and ABC’s editorial judgement. ABC’s email reportedly acknowledged Rinehart’s concerns but did not amount to…
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Rachel, a respectable middle class property manager, is serving 30 years for killing a man she once went on a date with – even though she was 100 miles away from the crime scene. Her mother insists her coercive partner was to blame. Who do you believe?
Rachel Fulstow is serving a 30-year sentence for the murder of Liam Smith, despite being about 100 miles from the scene when Michael Hillier shot Smith and poured acid over him in November 2022. Prosecutors said Fulstow conspired with Hillier under joint-enterprise law, alleging the attack was revenge after she said Smith had raped her…
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Songs of Forgotten Trees review – sensitive, ambiguous drama of female intimacy in Mumbai
Anuparna Roy’s debut drama follows two women sharing a cramped, deteriorating flat in Mumbai: Thooya, an actor who also does sex work, and Shweta, a call-centre employee. Their initially awkward cohabitation develops into an emotionally intimate relationship whose romantic nature remains deliberately uncertain, while the confined setting reflects the social limits placed on both women.…
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A History of the Novel in Britain by Philip Hensher review – a masterpiece of criticism
Philip Hensher’s A History of the Novel in Britain is praised as an exceptionally lively and authoritative account of British fiction from Daniel Defoe to Zadie Smith. The reviewer argues that its chief strength is its connected narrative: rather than treating authors and movements as separate academic subjects, Hensher traces how novelists influenced, challenged and…
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‘If we exhibited all the Balkan jokes, we wouldn’t have opened’: a trip to Slovenia’s Bullshit Museum
Ljubljana’s new Bullshit Museum explores the irreverent, often antagonistic humour associated with the former Yugoslavia, using jokes, mannequins and AI-generated images to reflect a shared cultural inheritance. Its founder, Borut Kokelj, argues that the region’s “no filter” humour offers a way of coping with insecurity, unemployment and unresolved tensions, making the museum both comic and…
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Expecting to fly: Avery Norman’s moving images of girlhood – in pictures
Texas-born photographer Avery Norman, a winner of LensCulture’s 2026 critics’ choice award, presents a series examining youth, girlhood and American identity. The images combine staged, intimate and everyday moments to explore memory, desire and selfhood, with an emphasis on the ways personal experience becomes visual mythology. Norman’s photographs include her mother’s preserved hair braided in…
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Eerie silence and ‘still surviving’: what happened next after steel town’s last blast furnace shut down
Port Talbot is adjusting to life after Tata Steel closed its last blast furnaces in 2024, ending more than a century of traditional steelmaking and costing nearly 3,000 jobs. A new exhibition, *Steeling Ourselves*, documents the town’s response, combining photographs and residents’ testimonies to show both the loss felt locally and the determination not to…
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The ‘idiot tourist’ grift: Why playing dumb has become travel’s easiest content fix
Rewarding idiocy. The post The ‘idiot tourist’ grift: Why playing dumb has become travel’s easiest content fix first appeared on Far Out Magazine.
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Hansal Mehta, Siddharth Bodke on ‘Scam 2010’ as First Look Unveiled for SonyLIV Series: ‘A Story About Ambition, Influence and Arrogance’ (EXCLUSIVE)
SonyLIV has unveiled the first look of “Scam 2010”, the next instalment in its Indian financial-scandal drama franchise, starring Siddharth Bodke and directed by Hansal Mehta. The series will dramatise the rise and fall of Sahara India Pariwar founder Subrata Roy, examining ambition, influence and the collapse of public belief in a major business empire.…
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No surge in bookings but eclipse ‘boosts footfall’
The partial eclipse on Wednesday evening is expected to draw large crowds across the South West and Channel Islands, although tourism leaders say it has not produced a noticeable rise in last-minute hotel bookings. The event matters for local businesses because it could increase visitor numbers, particularly where viewing opportunities coincide with other attractions such…