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The Guardian
14-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Shifty review – Adam Curtis's new show is an utter rarity: stylish, intelligent TV with something to say
Hello and welcome to the latest addition to Adam Curtis's growing compendium of documentaries I have unofficially entitled How Did Things Get So Shit? Let Me Explain in a Weirdly Uplifting Manner. Previous volumes include The Century of the Self, The Power of Nightmares, The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace, HyperNormalisation, Can't Get You Out of My Head and Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone. Even if you have not had the challenging pleasure of watching, the titles alone should be enough to evoke most of the concerns found therein – the rise of individualism, the fragmentation of old systems, the political vacuums new people and powers have rushed to fill, the death rattle of formerly dependable entities on which western civilisation has traditionally rested and once allowed us to sleep peacefully at night, the creeping destabilisation of all things, and so very much on. The new entrant is a five-part series called Shifty. It is a rare purely UK-focused dissection of recent history, built around the idea that the growing atomisation of society has ushered in an age in which the concept of a shared reality on which we can all depend has dissolved – and with it any hope of a functioning democracy. Come on in, guys, the water's lovely! Though we can't even agree that it's wet any more. In Curtis's trademark telling – a vast, kaleidoscopic assemblage of archive clips from news reports, TV shows, vox pops, pop videos, home videos, celebrity and political profiles and whatever else he has found that serves his purpose, cleverly curated, wittily juxtapositioned and bouncily soundtracked – the decline began, as so many seem to have done, with Margaret Thatcher. The series begins with her opening her study door to a group of children escorted in by her favourite man-of-the-people Jimmy Savile because – well, how could it not? Once that clip had been found, it was going in. From there, we follow Britain through the 1980s – the Falklands, the Troubles, the miners' strike, Kelvin MacKenzie, Wham!'s first tour, the advent of CCTV, the transformation of houses from homes into assets, art and fashion into diffusion lines, all of them uncoupling the old ways from the new powers, truth from reality or Britain from its moorings in some way. On we go through the next decade as old imperial ways, people and myths struggle to survive under the onslaught of new media, new tech, new economic experiments and a new privileging of individual independence, self-interest and the profit motive that was absolutely never going to end badly for anyone. New Labour arrives in the fifth and final episode, however, and the idea of society arranged around working for the common good is restored. I'm kidding! 'They couldn't escape the world they had inherited and its pessimism about human motives.' Not simply regarding the electorate – the venality and sleaze that had enshrouded the Tory party over the preceding years (and may I say that there really should be a public health warning any time clips of David Mellor are to be shown, whether or not you lived through the Antonia de Sancha scandal) had also eroded all remaining trust in politicians and Blairites 'just accepted the belief that politicians were always self-interested'. If you watch party conference clips closely, you can see the light in Gordon Brown's eyes gradually going out. The last noble mien. We stop before Brexit and Donald Trump, but it is clear how Curtis believes the seeds have been sown for all our current sorrows. Is the viewer persuaded? It depends where you start from, of course – I can't speak for anyone who wasn't already halfway there before kick-off as I was – and it will depend perhaps even more on how you feel about this most Marmite of film-makers. Now that I have learned to let his films wash over me, to pay attention but not drill down as they go, then wait and see how they work on my consciousness afterwards, I manage much better and admire much more. But perhaps that is partly a function of context too. It is an increasing rarity to stand in the presence of anyone with an idea, a thesis, that they have thoroughly worked out to their own satisfaction and then present stylishly, exuberantly and still intelligently. The hell and the handcart feel that bit more bearable now. Shifty is on BBC iPlayer now
CNET
03-06-2025
- Business
- CNET
Here's How I Got My Gmail Account Back to Inbox Zero
When my Gmail account started to display the dreaded "Account storage is full" notification, I knew I needed to get rid of some old messages. But I kept putting it off, because the thought of cleaning out my inbox felt overwhelming -- I didn't want to sort through thousands of unread emails to decide what to keep and what to delete. Then, just as I was ready to give up and start paying for extra Gmail storage, I had a better idea. I realized there was a way to get back 15GB of free storage while keeping all of my old emails, and it wouldn't cost me a penny. All I had to do was create a second Gmail account to store all of my current messages. There's no restriction on the number of free Google accounts you can own, which meant I could set one up as a dedicated archive account and then transfer all of my old emails to it. Transferring your Gmail messages is also a great strategy if you have a school or business Gmail account that you won't be able to access permanently. Most universities and businesses will deactivate your account once you are no longer a student or employee so if you want to view your old messages and files, you'll have to port them to a personal account before you lose access. Completing the whole process of transferring your Gmail messages to a new account doesn't take too long but it will depend on just how many messages you have. I'll walk you through the simple process of transferring your emails from your old account to a new one (including the important step of backing everything up first). For more about Gmail, learn about its new AI summaries or how to use emoji reactions. Tips and tricks for using Gmail Tips and tricks for using Gmail Click to unmute Video Player is loading. Play Video Play Skip Backward Skip Forward Next playlist item Unmute Current Time 0:00 / Duration 1:07 Loaded : 17.52% 0:00 Stream Type LIVE Seek to live, currently behind live LIVE Remaining Time - 1:07 Share Fullscreen This is a modal window. 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Fifteen gigabytes of free storage may sound like a lot when you make a Gmail account but it gets filled up quickly. For starters, the 15GB isn't just used for email: It also includes the files you've saved in your Google Drive and Google Photos. If you frequently send or receive messages that contain large files such as videos, or if you find yourself uploading a lot of pictures and videos to your Google Photos, then it won't be long before you'll see the "Account storage is full" notification. This means that you will no longer be able to send or receive emails on this account, so you'll want to do something ASAP. Tips and tricks for using Gmail Tips and tricks for using Gmail Click to unmute Google Introduces Gemini AI Upgrades to Gmail and Chat The quickest solution is to upgrade to a Google One account. Even if you choose the least expensive plan -- 100GB for $20 a year -- you'll still end up paying money to store old emails that you might not even need anymore. If you don't want to buy more storage, you can always delete your old emails. You can get back a surprising amount of storage space by putting large files in the trash. Gmail makes it easy for you to identify and delete files by size. Even so, that option might seem tedious; maybe you don't want to spend hours sifting through correspondence from a decade or more ago, deciding which memories to keep and which to get rid of forever. There's always the option to download large files to your desktop before you delete them from your Google account but at some point you'll probably run into the same issue with your local files and have to manage the storage space on your device. This brings us to our "nuclear option:" Transferring all your emails to a new Gmail account. How to transfer your Gmail messages to a new email account Before you start the Gmail transfer process, I recommend that you back up your emails. You can do this by downloading your emails either to your computer or an external hard drive. You can delete the backup after you finish transferring the emails to your new account if you like but it's always a good idea to have an extra copy stored locally. To back up your Gmail messages, go to Google Takeout. Using my test Gmail account that held about 75,000 messages, I got a download from Google Takeout in about 2 hours. Once you've saved a copy of your emails, you're ready to begin transferring them. Here are the steps you need to take: 1. Start by logging into your original Gmail account, clicking the "gear" icon in the top right and clicking See all settings. 2. Select the Forwarding POP/IMAP tab and then select the option Enable POP for all mail (POP stands for Post Office Protocol). 3. You'll have several options under When messages are accessed with POP. To automatically delete the emails from your original account after the transfer, select delete Gmail's copy. 4. Select Save Changes. Now it's time to create your new account and transfer all your messages there: If you haven't already done so, create your brand new, inbox-zero Gmail account -- we'll call this your archive account. 1. Login to your new archive account, click the gear icon at the top and select See all settings. 2. Select the Accounts and Import tab at the top, then select Add a mail account next to Check mail from other accounts. 3. In the pop-up window, enter the name of your original Gmail account. Select Next. 4. Select Import emails from my other account (POP3) and select Next again. 5. Enter the password of your original Gmail account. You might also be required to create a Google app password (see note below). 6. Select 995 under Port. 7. Check these 3 boxes: Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail, Label incoming messages, Archive incoming messages (Skip the Inbox) 8. Select Add Account. You'll probably need to create a Google app password to transfer Gmail messages I tested this Gmail message transfer process twice and both times the standard password for the Gmail accounts did not work. After a bit of research, I determined that I'd need to create a temporary "app password" to sync the accounts. Google app passwords are 16-digit passcodes created for "less secure" apps or devices to access your Google account. They work exactly like your Google password. If your regular Google password doesn't work for syncing Gmail accounts, visit to create an app password. Simply create a name for the password -- I used "Transfer Bulk Email" -- and then hit the Create button. You'll get a pop-up window with your new 16-digit passcode. Once you've created the app password, return to step 6 of the instructions above and use that new app password instead of your usual password. Important: Google will only display your app password once. After you've created it, you can't ask to see it again so be sure to write it down or otherwise record it after it's been created. Google's own Help Center mentions that "app passwords aren't recommended and are unnecessary in most cases." So once you've completed transferring your Gmail messages, I recommend deleting your app password. What happens after my Gmail accounts are synced? Once you've successfully linked your new Gmail archive account to your original account, your emails should begin to transfer automatically. The process could take several hours or days, depending on how many emails you have. In my test account with about 75,000 messages, I found that it took Gmail about 2 full days to transfer all of them from the original account to the new archived mail account. Important: After transferring your Gmail messages to your archived mail account, your original Gmail account will place all those messages in the Trash folder, which you'll need to empty manually. Clearing out those 75,000 messages from the Trash took about an hour. Before transferring Gmail messages, my test account was using a little more than 12GB, or 80%, of Google's free 15GB. After transferring, the account was only using 0.66GB, of which 0.06GB was from Gmail. What Gmail messages won't be transferred? I found that Gmail transferred all of my messages except for two categories -- Drafts and Spam. You'll need to decide what to do with your Drafts manually. Spam messages are automatically deleted every 30 days so you can let Gmail handle that or go into the Spam folder yourself after transferring your mail and delete or forward those messages. Once all of your emails have been imported to your new account, enjoy the experience of inbox zero. You've given your original account a new lease on life. At this point, there are two last steps: You'll want to stop the automatic transfer process so that you can continue using your original account and you'll want to delete that app password if you had to make one. 1. Login to your new account, go into your Settings and select See all settings. 2. Select the Accounts and Import tab, and then select delete for your original account (under Check mail from other accounts.) 3. When prompted to Confirm delete mail account, select OK. If you had to create a Google app password and want to delete it now, go back to and click the trashcan icon next to the password you created. Congrats, you're finished. One important final note: Google will delete accounts that have been inactive for more than two years. So make sure you don't completely ignore all your old emails after transferring them. If you don't plan to regularly use your archive account to send email, you can still keep the account active by signing in at least once every two years.
Washington Post
31-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Who is 'Miss Atomic Bomb'? A historian searched for 25 years for the answer
LAS VEGAS — It wasn't going to be easy to track down the woman who came to be known as 'Miss Atomic Bomb.' All Robert Friedrichs had to go on was a stage name he found printed under an archival newspaper photo that showed her posing with other Las Vegas showgirls.
BBC News
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Tape letters: The cassettes that capture Bradford's migration stories
When sound artist Wajid Yaseen discovered a collection of old cassette tapes at his mother's home it wasn't the sound of his father's singing that intrigued him but a collection of recorded messages exchanged between his mum and her sister after they emigrated from quickly learned that so-called "tape letters" were a popular means of keeping in touch with relatives in the 1960s and the tapes - and the stories they contain - are featured in a new exhibition at Bradford's Loading Bay arts space, chronicling the experiences of 12 families who left Pakistan to find a new home in the city. "What we have here is the Bradford testimonies," Mr Yaseen said."We've got Bradford experiences. What is was like when they first arrived here and the whole thing of what it was like to send tapes back."Two of the people have since died since we interviewed them. So it's a nice way of honouring their contribution to the archive." Mr Yaseen said his mother moved from Gujar Khan in Pakistan to join her husband in Bradford in the 1960s, while her sister migrated to of writing to each other, the two women used tapes to send messages across the seas as well as other Yaseen's interest in the recordings led him to create an archive of tape letters from families living in Bradford, Leeds and Halifax, as well as Greater Manchester, Birmingham, Warwick, Glasgow and Edinburgh, which has been nationally his work, the 56-year-old discovered a rich seam of oral histories, painting a picture of what life was like for Pakistani-heritage families living in Britain at the time."I thought it was just our family that did it. It turns out there are thousands of families right across the UK," he said."The language on the tapes isn't Urdu and for the most part isn't Punjabi either."It's a language called Pothwari and something like 70% of the Pakistani-heritage families in the UK speak this language. It's an oral-only language."Tapes were used by people like my mum in the 60s, 70s and 80s, we've got some stories that go up to the 90s." The stories on the tapes range from describing the mundanities of everyday life to one Bradford couple who conducted a four-year courtship before committing to an arranged Yaseen, who was born in Manchester but now lives in London, said many of those who used this type of communication were women. He said: "People like my mum couldn't read or write Urdu. "And the reason they couldn' because they didn't go to school, and the reason they didn't go to school was because she was a girl."[There were] instances where my mum needed to reconcile something, issues with families in Pakistan."It got to the point where she was just 'right, okay, I'm actually going to have my own voice heard in my own way' and she'd use these tapes." Tape Letters: Migration on Tape is part of the Bradford City of Culture programme and runs from 22 May until 15 June at the to highlights from West Yorkshire on BBC Sounds, catch up with the latest episode of Look North.
Graziadaily
21-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Graziadaily
Carrie Bradshaw's Best Shoes Have Been Re-Released – And They're Selling Fast
'i lost my choo!' Four words, one simple line, but an iconic catchphrase that catapulted Jimmy Choo from a glamorous shoe brand into a cult label. Uttered by Carrie Bradshaw, while running for the Staten Island ferry (spoiler: she missed the boat), Jimmy Choo remains synonymous with Sex And The City even now. ' Sex And The City was all about four girls living it up in the city, falling in love, finding love – with a massive dose of fashion,' says creative director Sandra Choi. Bradshaw's now-iconic violet velvet, feather-trimmed strappy sandal – the 72138 – is just one of the eight styles from the luxury shoe label's first five years to be reissued by the brand as part of its new collection, The Archive 1997-2001. 'We looked at three decades of work and dialled back to the first five years. Why? Because those years truly represent the heart and soul of Jimmy Choo – they're our roots, where it all began. And in looking at these styles, I saw ideas that are still essential to Jimmy Choo today – eternal values of glamour, of femininity, combined with make and craft,' says Choi. The new collection – available globally now – heroes the style signifiers that have shaped the Jimmy Choo shoe-verse across the past three decades, from animal print to a humorous design detail (see the corsage thong toe detail, reissued from a 2001 best-seller) to the perfect 'taxi shoe'. 'I wanted the strap to be as thin as possible – not spaghetti, but spaghettini .' When shifting through the vast archive, Choi called on two fashion experts for their takes on what makes Jimmy Choo Jimmy Choo. Enter journalist and historian Alex Fury and fashion designer and frequent JC collaborator Connor Ives. 'I think a surprising element [of the collaboration] was the sheer breadth of the collections – they were super-expansive, right from the very start, and full of so many ideas, which Jimmy Choo has never really revisited before,' says Fury. 'I think people often think the brand was just about high heels, just about a very specific type of glamour – which is a reason we wanted to include the Slide style from 1999, which just feels so modern and right. There's a timelessness to all these pieces – they felt right then, they feel right now, they'll feel right tomorrow. That was really exciting.' Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw wearing Jimmy Choo's Leo shoes The pistachio square-toe backless loafer certainly doesn't feel 26 years old – in fact, it could easily be designed now and worn by any number of today's minimalist-living, quiet luxury influencers. 'Think Christy Turlington at the airport,' says Choi. For Ives, who grew up raiding his mum's wardrobe, Jimmy Choo remains the go-to for a perennial party shoe. 'It's sexy, flirty, and fun,' he says, when asked to describe the brand. 'From Princess Diana being an early client and supporter, all the way up to Carrie in Sex And The City , I couldn't think of a more immaculate trajectory. Which brings us to today and the Chloë Sevigny of it all, it's always been donned by the coolest girls.' Fury agrees. 'There are such good vibes around Jimmy Choo – they're shoes that lift your spirits. And that's an incredible legacy and identity to have – it's also that idea of glamour as being not so much about how you look, but how you feel; about confidence and positivity.' For Choi, leaning into its organic megawatt appeal has been crucial to the brand's success. 'We had SATC , then the Spice Girls, then Ab Fab and Friends . It's pure girl power.' Coupling great design while recognising the importance of pop culture, Jimmy Choo was the first brand to dress celebrities on the red carpet. 'Deep down there's always an entrepreneurial spirit,' she says. 'Some of those original stylists are still friends. That red carpet circuit helped make Jimmy Choo.' SJP as Carrie in Jimmy Choo boots As for your own shoedrobe? Those heading to Ibiza this summer might be persuaded to add the Thong to their carry-on: a high-heeled thong sandal with silvered chain mail ('the inspiration came from those famous handkerchief tops. The heel height is 85cm – which is reasonable,' says Choi). The mid-calf boot, remade in python-print leather, feels perfect for summer nights transitioning from office to bar, while the dotty Bow, a style from 2000, ties up the foot in a ladylike court-style shoe. Reimagined in mustard and black, it's prim – with plenty of sass. 'It's been great to step back and acknowledge just how rich the brand's heritage is. Thirty years is a long time and, for me, it's not a new chapter; it's one volume of the book. The material science is different, the way that we live and wear is different. At the very least, what we continue to do is make someone happy,' says Choi. Jimmy Choo 72318 Lilac Suede Sandal with Feather Embellishment The shoes worn by Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City series 3 episode 1, this is your new ultimate party sandal. Wear with your favourite dress and always feel fabulous. Jimmy Choo Slide Mint Nubuck Leather Mule Super chic and in the most delicious shade of mint green, wear these with slouchy trousers and crisp white shirts. Jimmy Choo Thong Metallic Nappa Leather Sandal with Metal Mesh Made for Ibiza nights, wear these for drinks, dancing and watching the sun rise. Jimmy Choo Python-Printed Leather Knee-High Boot Imagine these boots with midi dresses and sumptuous coats come autumn/winter. Perfection. Jimmy Choo Bow Spotted Elaphe-Printed Leather Sandal with Knot Detail Swap your classic courts for these chic heels, which will look just as good with jeans as they do tailoring and smart dresses. Jimmy Choo Leo Leopard-Print Grosgrain Sandal For the animal print lovers, this high-octane heel will add glamour to just about any outfit. Jimmy Choo Strappy Black Satin Sandal Timeless, super-chic and with plenty of sex appeal, these strappy black shoes will go with everything you own. Jane McFarland is Grazia's associate editor, overseeing fashion, beauty and luxury content. A fashion journalist for over ten years and previously The Sunday Times Style's Wardrobe Mistress, Jane loves dissecting trends, discovering new brands and writing about personal style. Follow Jane on Instagram here @Jane_McFarland. Hannah Banks-Walker is Grazia's head of fashion commerce. She has previously written for the likes of Harper's Bazaar, The Financial Times, Glamour, Stylist, The Telegraph, Red, i-D and The Pool on everything from fashion to curly hair (hi!) to the patriarchy. Not necessarily in that order. Find her on Instagram and Twitter . But please don't look for her MySpace profile, which until now was the last time she wrote about herself in the third person.
