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Why are screen villains always drinking milk?

Whether its Alex DeLarge from A Clockwork Orange (1971), Hans Landa from Inglourious Basterds (2009), Homelander from The Boys (2019–), or Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men (2007) – there’s no denying there’s something sinister about onscreen milk drinkers.

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My search for the perfect steak frites in Paris, the staple of French brasserie cuisine

It’s on every prix fixe menu in France, but which restaurant serves up the best incarnation in the capital? I stomped and chomped my way across the city to find out

The Guardian - UK

AI companies want copyright exemption, but the arts minister says there are ‘no plans’ to weaken these laws. What’s going on?

“We have copyright laws,” said arts minister Tony Burke last week. “We have no plans, no intention, no appetite to be weakening those copyright laws based on this draft report that’s floating around.”

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Mont Ventoux: The magic, mystique and legend of the Giant of Provence

As the Tour prepares to climb Mont Ventoux on stage 16, we look into why the climb is so revered.

Cycling Weekly

Roland Barthes declared the ‘death of the author’, but postcolonial critics have begged to differ

Our cultural touchstones series examines works that have had a lasting influence

The Conversation

Universality by Natasha Brown review – clever satire of identity politics

Slyly investigating language and bias in media culture, this follow-up to Assembly confirms Brown as one of the most intelligent voices writing today

The Guardian - UK

Roland Barthes talks about the punctum, that special detail, often small or unexpected, that jumps out and really grabs the viewer’s emotion, a poignant detail that pierces or wounds the viewer

Art of Seeing #84. Benedict Brain explores the wild Australian landscape and the theories of Roland Barthes

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"Ironic" debate settled once and for all

Megan Volpert looks at what irony is through the lens of various philosophers

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2023's rise of AI doesn't just risk making games worse, it turns criticising them into an existential nightmare

Please generate a subheader for a subject that fills me with dread.

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