Lovell

The Bank of London Rainbow Honours 2023 shortlist has been revealed, with some major stars in with a chance of taking home an award later this year. Graham Norton, Nicola Sturgeon, Joe Lycett and Daniel Radcliffe have all been nominated for gongs at the LGBT+ awards, with fashion icon Gok Wan and TV personality Anna Richardson set to host the star-studded affair held at the iconic Natural History Museum in London in May. Athletes Dame Kelly Holmes and Tom Daley are also nominated alongside TV presenters Graham Norton, Rylan and Phillip Schofield for the Celebrity LGBTQIA Champion prize, while Beverly Knight, Andrew Garfield, Sadiq Khan, Mel C and Richard E Grant all up for Celebrity Ally Award. Meanwhile, global music stars Sam Smith and Adam Lambert will battle it out for the Musician of the Year gong alongside the likes of Becky Hill, Callum Scott and Rina Sawayama. Joe Lycett is one of the big names nominated for a prestigious award at the star-studded event Comedian … [Read more...] about Joe Lycett and Sam Smith lead Rainbow Honours nominees as iconic venue for awards revealed

This week, in the same spirit that led me to rewatch all of “Babylon Berlin” last month, I read “ Wigs on the Green ,” Nancy Mitford’s 1935 comic novel spoofing her sisters Diana and Unity, who were deeply involved with the fascist movements in Britain and Germany. (Diana’s wedding to Oswald Mosley, the leader of the British Union of Fascists (B.U.F.), was held in Joseph Goebbels’ living room with Adolf Hitler in attendance. Unity moved to Germany, where she became close friends with Hitler.) The book is a remarkable snapshot of a historical window in which fascism was popular enough to lampoon but was still seen by many in Britain as a silly hobby rather than a consequential political movement. In the novel, the “Union Jackshirts” — a barely veiled reference to Mosley’s B.U.F. supporters, whose uniforms earned them the nickname “Blackshirts” — are a confused gang of naïve rich people who join up because they’re bored and/or trying to sleep with each other. The point of the novel … [Read more...] about What I’m Reading: The Rise of Fascism Edition