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With the considerable amount of leisure time resulting from a universal eight-hour day (an anomaly for the era), a passion for mass activity, excellent facilities available at no cost, public transport and free access to services, in 6 of the 8 Summer Olympics they competed in, the Soviet Union was at the top of the medal count.
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OnlyFans sees 75% surge of new sex workers during the lockdown. Bankers-son and digital pimp *cough cough* ‘entrepreneur’, Timothy Stokely, takes 20% of their income.
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Apple, among the world’s most profitable and valuable companies in the world, is given a free pass to avoid paying tax in Ireland
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The concept of being brutalised by police days after creating one of the most important works in music history was entirely surreal for white people, it was as if the Beatles were attacked days after releasing Abbey Road.
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Irish fascists specify who they’re racist against and who they aren’t on the basis of whiteness and religion. They draw their ideas from the same place Hitler drew his, the US.
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‘A gift to Big Oil’, claims Vox’s Leah C. Stokes. Documentary filmmaker Josh Fox had the film temporarily removed from sites with the help of a twitter mob. The creators “have done a grave disservice to us and the planet” cried Penn State climatologist, Michael E. Mann, who soon after compared Michael Moore to Donald Trump and Putin.
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The Soviets are frequently represented in fiction as comically excessive villains. The gulag is held up as the pinnacle of this malevolence, but is this focus on demonising socialist states a way for developers to avoid more relevant social criticism at home?
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Grand Theft Auto is a series with a justified reputation for excessive violence and hedonistic lifestyles, but is it possible to draw an anti-capitalist narrative from what might otherwise read as glorification?
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The islanders never really pick what they want to wear, Manchester-based Boohoo billionaires select it for them. The Kamani family trap islanders into fashion contracts before even starting the show.
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This review is part of Forward’s ongoing Critical & Cultural Analysis series, which will analyse political themes in popular
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