‘You can’t go incognito on a Pendleton Somerby.’ Photograph: PR/Guardian‘You can’t go incognito on a Pendleton Somerby.’ Photograph: PR/GuardianCyclingReview‘It’s cheap and poorly made: why has Victoria Pendleton put her name to this donkey?’It’s one of the friendlier heckles I’ve received while cycling in central Manchester. “Get back to the Netherlands, you!” yelled a bloke on Deansgate. It was 5pm on a Saturday, shortly after the full-time whistle had blown at one or other of the city’s football grounds. Read More...
Intensely contemporary … Sarah Moss. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianIntensely contemporary … Sarah Moss. Photograph: David Levene/The GuardianBook of the dayFictionReviewWith the NHS a central theme, this story about the effect of a child’s illness on her family is a novel for our times
Sarah Moss is an impressively flexible writer. Her five novels have ranged over both time and space – historical writing in the last two, the Hebrides and Greenland before that, family life in the present-day English Midlands in The Tidal Zone. Read More...
Redeem now MrBeast star Chris Tyson recently announced that they're undergoing hormone replacement therapy. Tyson's announcement was met with criticism and transphobia on platforms like TikTok and Twitter. When reached, a TikTok spokesperson told Insider the company has removed a handful of videos with such rhetoric. TikTok removed a handful of transphobic videos about Chris Tyson, a well-known childhood friend of YouTube titan MrBeast and who is an influencer themself, after they announced they were on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) last week. Read More...
