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The minimum wage has just gone up. I once made quite a clown of myself talking about this topic on a podcast the last time it went up. I might be about to do so again, so strap in.
Roberto Cavalli, who has died aged 83, was the maximalist Italian fashion designer known as the “Leopard King”, who unleashed on the world his fever dream of exotic animal prints, skintight sandblasted jeans and gravity-defying dresses.
Thanks to the old internet, you can listen to “local” stations many miles away, such as Radio Kerry and its Kerry Today programme presented by Jerry O’Sullivan. It is exemplary, especially if you prefer your current affairs coverage to have a southern accent.
Beyoncé goes country. That’s the pithiest description of the Texan superstar’s eighth album, Cowboy Carter, but it’s only partially true. “This ain’t a country album,” she wrote to her 320 million followers on Instagram. “It’s a Beyoncé album.”
It has been a long time coming, but Beyoncé has become the first black woman to top Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart. The singer’s banjo-heavy track Texas Hold ’Em is in the No 1 slot, and 16 Carriages ranks at No 9. She dropped the two songs shortly after teasing new music in an ad that aired during the Super Bowl.