Ell Jokes

Emerald Fennell didn’t come to the Brontë Women’s Writing festival to make friends, but rather to drop a literary bombshell! ? The Saltburn director boldly declared there’s “an enormous amount of sado-masochism” hidden within Emily Brontë’s classic Wuthering Heights. She then casually defended her decision to cast A-listers like Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in her sex-charged retelling, leaving festival attendees likely clutching their pearls (or perhaps quietly Googling the definition of ‘sado-masochism’). ? It seems Heathcliff and Catherine’s toxic…

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Felled Sycamore Gap Tree: From Tragic Stump to ‘Artsy’ Hope, Thanks to National Trust’s Master Plan ?. It’s been two whole years since the beloved Sycamore Gap tree met its untimely end, leaving a nation in mourning (and probably a few bewildered hikers). Now, in a stroke of bureaucratic genius, the National Trust has decided to tackle that ‘sense of loss’ head-on, by… turning the wood into art! ? That’s right, artists are now queuing up for a piece of…

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Malawi voters, it seems, have had enough of the economic rollercoaster! They’ve decided to tell their current woes, ‘You’re fired!’ and instead, bring back an 85-year-old political veteran for another go. ? Peter Mutharika, a former president and now an octogenarian comeback kid, successfully unseated Lazarus Chakwera. Chakwera’s tenure was, let’s just say, a bit of a mixed bag – if that bag contained a multi-year economic crisis, sky-high inflation, essential goods shortages, a sprinkle of climate disasters, and the…

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? Breaking News from the Eternal City! A Rome woman has been officially banned from feeding her feathered friends after neighbours declared their apartment block a literal ‘Hitchcockian pigeon hell.’ Talk about taking ‘going to the birds’ a bit too far! ? Rome’s mayor, no doubt accustomed to dealing with ancient ruins and traffic, has now had to step in to stop the avian apocalypse. Furious residents claimed they were quite literally drowning in feathers and guano (that’s fancy bird…

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