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There are two big film releases to enjoy this weekend – Wes Anderson’s The Phoenician Scheme (which i thoroughly enjoyed) and The Salt Path, starring Gillian Anderson and Jason Isaacs (which I saw the trailer for when I went to see the former, and thought I’d probably thoroughly enjoy in the near future).
The first is a deeply eccentric (it’s Wes Anderson, what do you expect?) romp featuring a nun, a dodgy businessman and Tom Hanks playing basketball. As our reviewer notes, you know the formula by now, but this is a great example of what makes Anderson’s films so enjoyable.
The Salt Path is a true story about a couple who lose everything and decide to head out on an epic hike along England’s southern coast, in part because they have nowhere else to go. As this historian relates, the coastal path between Somerset and Cornwall has a long history as a kind of pilgrimage route for lost souls. I suspect this summer, more than a few people will be tempted to undertake a similar journey.
Inter Milan face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League final tonight. It’s a match that seems to have become about so much more than football. These two teams represent the geopolitical and commercial dynamics of modern sport more overtly than most other teams, as this look at their ownership records attests.
For a weekend health check, you can test your cognitive health by seeing how many animals you can name in 30 seconds. To test your physical mettle, you could try sitting in the floor and getting up without using your hands. These both sound simple, but they’re two of many small check-ins you can do to ensure you age well and stay sharp.
As debate ramps up around whether Israel’s assaults on Gaza can be formally recognised as a genocide, we’ve leant on past precedent to try to understand the complexity of the argument. Very few atrocities have ever been classified as genocides. But why?
In the UK, the government is considering a programme of mandatory chemical castration for sex offenders in prisons – and is in fact already piloting the scheme on a voluntary basis. Chemical castration for incarcerated people is what’s known as a “dual-purpose intervention” because it is supposed to benefit the person being castrated and protect the wider public from their reoffending. But therein lies a fascinating ethical (and legal) quandary. Are you in favour? This article might get you thinking.
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