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• ‘Anno Domino’ Review: Long Married, but Open to Adjustment

  08-06-2020 19:50 via nytimes.com
  
  In his new audio comedy, Alan Ayckbourn does more than write: He and his wife, Heather Stoney, portray several couples in disarray.
  
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• John Oliver: US policing is 'a structure built on systemic racism'

  08-06-2020 18:28
  
  The Last Week Tonight host traces the history of America’s police culture, one ‘deeply entwined’ with white supremacy, and what’s obstructing changeOn Sunday, John Oliver devoted the entire episode of Last Week Tonight to the nationwide protests against anti-black racism and police brutality sparked by the police killings of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and the fundamentally broken institution of law enforcement in the United States. &ldqu
  
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• Succession's 10 best moments: from Boar on the Floor to excruciating phone sex

  08-06-2020 13:58
  
  As the first two series of the HBO smash about a warring, super-rich brood returns to UK screens, here’s a rundown of the show’s greatest, most horrendous scenesSuccession manages to combine the two key quarantine trends of 2020: insanely rich people acting in their own horrible self-interest, and really nice houses that you wish were yours. As such, it has been nothing short of a tragedy that we haven’t been able to watch the show in the UK while under lockdown, since it fell
  
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• John Boyega expresses thanks for Black Lives Matter support

  08-06-2020 13:19
  
  Star Wars actor responds on social media following his impassioned speech at an anti-racism rally in London last weekStar Wars actor John Boyega has expressed his thanks for the “love and support” he received after his high-profile intervention in the Black Lives Matter protests.In a post on social media, Boyega wrote: “This is an intense time for our community, and the most important thing is for us to maintain momentum and not lose sight of how critical it is to pursue long-t
  
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• TV tonight: Michaela Coel's powerful consent drama

  08-06-2020 07:20
  
  Coel writes and stars in this incisive series about a writer whose life is thrown into turmoil. Plus: a look at the garlanded lives of Monaco’s super rich. Here’s what to watch this eveningMichaela Coel writes and stars in this nuanced, uncompromising drama set around the aftermath of a night out for London-based writer Arabella (Coel). Having just returned from a trip to Italy to visit her long distance on-and-off-again partner, Arabella is faced with editors chasing her for the fol
  
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• TV tonight: Michaela Coel faces up to the consequences of a drunken night out

  08-06-2020 07:20
  
  Coel writes and stars in this incisive series about a writer whose life is thrown into turmoil. Plus: a look at the garlanded lives of Monaco’s super rich. Here’s what to watch this eveningMichaela Coel writes and stars in this nuanced, uncompromising drama set around the aftermath of a night out for London-based writer Arabella (Coel). Having just returned from a trip to Italy to visit her long distance on-and-off-again partner, Arabella is faced with editors chasing her for the fol
  
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• Michaela Coel on the hookup generation: 'They'll study us when we're dead and gone'

  08-06-2020 07:00
  
  She scored a cult hit with Chewing Gum. Now she’s back with a searing drama about young creatives navigating work, consent and racism, inspired by her own experience of sexual assaultMichaela Coel exploded on to our screens with her surreal, filthy sitcom Chewing Gum, about a sexually frustrated 24-year-old losing her religion. Five years on, the actor and writer is returning with an entirely different creation: I May Destroy You, a searing, 12-part drama about consent, friendship and the
  
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• New York Times comment editor quits after staff backlash

  08-06-2020 02:40 via ft.com
  Opinion article calling for troops to quell unrest caused outrage among readers and journalists
  
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