The BBC is under fire over its failure to remove a racial slur shouted by John Davidson, who has Tourette syndrome, from its broadcast of the Bafta awards. Davidson was heard shouting the N-word whil…
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2 days ago
I was at the Baftas – and while hearing the N-word was unsettling, all anger should be aimed at the BBC | Jason Okundaye ○
By failing to remove John Davidson’s tic from the broadcast, editors let down both black and disabled people
I attended the Bafta awards on Sunday. And I arrived early enough to hear the Tourette synd…
4 days ago
Go to university! No, get a trade! How can young people survive when all the paths are landmined? | Jason Okundaye ⊕
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Is it to be a degree and heavy debt when graduate jobs are shrinking? Or foregoing a degree, knowing society still worships them? Confused, angry: who wouldn’t be
Some months ago, I was at my old univ…
15 days ago
Olivia Colman sometimes thinks of herself as a gay man. As a gay man myself, I say – welcome | Jason Okundaye ⊕⊕
Her comments have been put through Britain’s culture war meat-grinder, but sexuality and gender is as fluid and interesting as we want it to be
Pity Olivia Colman. She didn’t want it to become the hea…
25 days ago
Does it matter when celebrities like Bad Bunny castigate Trump and ICE at the Grammys? You bet! | Jason Okundaye ⊖⊖
Famous people who speak out are often derided, but throughout time artists have used the platform they have. And if not now, when?
One of the most discordant and yet banal things about looking to the …
54 days ago
The hill I will die on: Films and TV shows are better if you read the spoilers first | Jason Okundaye ⊖
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Please note, this piece absolutely includes spoilers for Cruel Intentions, a film made 26 years ago. Do read on
I love spoiling the plot for myself. It’s something I do fairly regularly. Before watchi…
66 days ago
Bad blood between the Beckhams at Christmas might seem trite. But here’s why it’s important | Jason Okundaye ⊕
It’s celebrity catnip, but beyond the headlines this is also a tale of family dysfunction. At this time of year, so many people know about that
There is not one saga I have been more invested in this …
3 months ago
Who knew it would take an American pope to remind us of the value of art and good taste? | Jason Okundaye ⊕⊕
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Anti-AI and pro-beauty, Leo XIV has proved an unlikely custodian of culture – and a patron of meaningful work in a world of algorithmic slop
So, who figured that Pope Leo XIV would end up being kind o…
Welcome to the great unwokening of Hollywood! Shame no one can be bothered to turn up | Jason Okundaye ⊕⊕
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a story from The Guardian ⚠️ › International
Sydney Sweeney has become the poster child of a predicted rightwing cultural domination. So why is no one watching her films?
I was on a walk around my local area in London when I was stopped in my tr…
If the right really wants free speech in universities, why is it so obsessed with discrediting students? | Jason Okundaye ⊖
Conservatives see these institutions as finishing schools for the next generation of leaders – and they won’t cede them to progressive ideas
When I was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Cambridge…