Keir Starmer’s new executive director of communications has links to the ‘gender-critical’ group Sex Matters. The prime minister picked public relations guru Tim Allan for the role as part of a reshuffle of his Number 10 team earlier this week. A former special advisor to the Tony Blair government between 1992 and 1998, Allan founded […]

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100 Nights of Hero director Julia Jackman has explained how “Von Dutch” singer and global pop icon Charli XCX came to star in the film in her first major acting role. While Charli XCX played a, um, brattier version of herself in Prime Video’s gay college comedy Overcompensating earlier this year, and she’s also lined […]

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The boss of Australian rules football has backed Snoop Dogg ahead of the rapper’s performance at the grand final. Last month, Dogg faced backlash for saying that the inclusion of a queer character in Disney’s 2022 film Lightyear left him “scared” to take his grandchildren to the cinema. He has not reacted to the criticism, […]

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