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‘He paid the ultimate price’: the grisly fate of the missionary who met the last ‘uncontacted’ tribe
American John Chau was convinced it was his destiny to convert the North Sentinelese. A new documentary reveals how misjudged his plan was
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How the English invented the myth of Napoleon
Ridley Scott’s new film is the latest example of British obsession with the ‘Corsican ruffian’ – but what explains our interest?
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‘He paid the ultimate price’: the grisly fate of the missionary who met the last ‘uncontacted’ tribe
American John Chau was convinced it was his destiny to convert the North Sentinelese. A new documentary reveals how misjudged his plan was
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Trigger warnings are bad enough – but this butchery of classic films is unforgivable
Culture warriors are determined to censor anything that doesn't fit modern sensitivities – even if that means falsifying our heritage
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The 50 best Christmas shows, concerts and films to see this December 2023
From a new staging of Roald Dahl's The Witches to Disney's 100th-anniversary animated musical, here are the coldest season’s hottest tickets
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Hugh Grant should not have been cast as an Oompa Loompa in Wonka, says actor with dwarfism
He argues that the role should have been given to an actor with the condition and is offended Grant’s head was enlarged for it
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Cold-hearted colonialist or kindly prankster? The real Willy Wonka, according to Dahl
To the author he was ‘a quick clever old squirrel’ who happened to be a slave-driver. Will Timothée Chalamet's film get Willy Wonka right?
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Red pill, blue pill: how the alt-Right ruined The Matrix
Over the past two decades, a bold philosophical idea has become a totem for online misogynists – then came the ‘purple’ and ‘black’ kinds
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Angela Lansbury: a life in pictures
From being chaperoned on set of Gaslight at just 17 to winning her fifth Tony for Blithe Spirit age 83
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How the English invented the myth of Napoleon
Ridley Scott’s new film is the latest example of British obsession with the ‘Corsican ruffian’ – but what explains our interest?
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Aardman is about to run out of clay – now the Chicken Run creators face a crisis
The British animators weave magic out of sugar, foil and plasticine – but trouble beckons on the eve of the sequel to their 2000 smash-hit
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How Marvel ruined cinema – and sowed the seeds of its own destruction
The mega-studio’s latest blockbuster has bombed at the box office. After 15 years, is its crown finally starting to slip?
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The greatest 10 cultural works which celebrate the working class
From Dickens to The Specials, a new book suggests pupils study working-class culture. These are uplifting classics they should start with
