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Ricky Gervais as David Brent in The Office Is TV comedy in its death throes? Glance through this week’s schedules and the prognosis isn’t promising. There’s the sum total of one homegrown sitcom in Channel 4’s Back - a brilliant show but one that barely registers a blip on the public’s radar. This is joined by a trio of repeats (Dad’s Army, Mrs Brown’s Boys, Plebs) and a pair of US imports (Ramy, The Simpsons). Hardly a healthy level of hilarity. Sketch comedy is an even rarer bea...

With Lockdown Libraries, Clemmie Jackson-Stops Asks Readers to Think Beyond Genre and Taste February 8, 2021 My sister always goes to the same bookshop in Oxfordshire, where she lives. There she seeks out a young bookseller with a shock of black hair from within the stacks. He once recommended her a list of books, and she loved every single one; she’s been returning to him ever since. During lockdown, visiting bookstores was off the table. As was talking to strangers. That’s when my sister ...

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ON DEMAND Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (Netflix, from Wed) Netflixs latest foray into the true crime documentary genre comes from director Joe Berlinger, whose previous works include Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes and Paradise Lost. The premise behind it is to explode the mystery and mythology behind infamous locations, which each series focusing on a different place. It begins with LAs Cecil Hotel, a place already associated with violence, suicide and murde...

BACK Fans of the eternally brilliant Peep Show rejoice. British comedians David Mitchell and Robert Webb are back together again in this new series. Mitchell stars as Stephen, whose dad died, leaving him in charge of the family pub. But when his foster brother Andrew (Webb) shows up – well, things don’t go to plan. It’s a family reunion that is painfully awkward – which is exactly what these two funnymen are known for. Supplied In Confessions of a Serial Killer, film-maker Ben Zand ...

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In this Feb 18, 2011 file photo, Egyptians pray and celebrate the fall of the regime of former President Hosni Mubarak, and to maintain pressure on the current military rulers, in Tahrir Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. – AP HISTORY, when it happens, tends to take you by surprise. This is especially true of the often violent upheavals that revolutions bring with them, and as far as those are concerned no one put it better than author David Mitchell: “All revolutions are the sheerest fantasy...

INTRODUCTION  As I’ve learned from my own experiences in the classroom both as a student and as an instructor, poetry is so often taught badly to us in grade school (if at all). I am, to this day, learning how to undo the myth of poetry being the work of certainty—a perfect command of a subject, experience, event proclaimed through verse. This is obviously a byproduct of the ways in which the Western canon is taught: the work of “great masters” whose genius we are trained to admire and...

Silver futures on the Comex exchange rose by as much as 12.7% to $30.3 an ounce. The metal has gained 19% in price since last Thursday after posts on Reddit led small investors to buy silver mining stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETF) backed by physical silver bars, in a GameStop-style squeeze. Retail sites for silver have been overwhelmed with demand for bars and coins as well. Dealers including Money Metals, SD Bullion, JM Bullion and Apmex said over the weekend they w...

* UK Royal Mint sees demand jump * India, China buying muted (Updates with comments from UK Royal Mint, SD Bullion; updates price reference) Feb 2 (Reuters) - A retail investment frenzy in silver over the past couple of days driven by social media has left dealers in some regions scrambling for bars and coins to meet demand. Silver prices fell on Tuesday as a buying spree by smaller investors seen mainly in silver mining shares and exchange-traded funds fizzled out following a margin hike on fu...