Shane MacGowan – a life in pictures Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email Shane MacGowan, musician and songwriter with the Pogues and the Popes has died aged 65. Here are snapshots from his brilliant and at times broken life, both on and off stage Main image: Shane MacGowan performs at the Greenwich Summer Sessions in London in 2011 Photograph: Matt Kent/Redferns Thu 30 Nov 2023 07.

US midterm elections 2022 This article is more than 1 year oldSurvivor winner Nick Wilson secures seat in Kentucky legislatureThis article is more than 1 year oldRepublican, who ran unopposed, will represent home town in state house of representatives Not every Republican television personality who ran for political office during Tuesday’s US elections lost. The winner of the TV competition Survivor: David v Goliath in 2018, Nick Wilson, secured a seat as a Republican in Kentucky’s state house of representatives.

RankedCoen brothersWith the 20th anniversary re-release of The Big Lebowski, we rank the duo’s films (directing only), from their 1984 debut Blood Simple to this year’s The Ballad of Buster Spruggs 18. The Ladykillers (2004)What on earth was this about? A remake of the Ealing crime-caper classic (with Tom Hanks in Alec Guinness’s crackpot mastermind role) at least proves, if proof were needed, that the Coens have excellent cinephile taste. But this was pointless and baffling.

OpinionCulture This article is more than 5 months oldWant to quickly spot idiots? Here are five foolproof red flagsThis article is more than 5 months oldArwa MahdawiThe governor of Illinois went viral with a speech about seeing idiots in one’s midst. I have a few pointers of my own to offer “If you want to be successful in this world, you have to develop your own idiot detection system,” the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, recently told the Northwestern University Class of 2023.

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