Is the public about to catch on to the Spycops scandal?
The women tricked into relationships with undercover police officers have spent a lot of years investigating and campaigning, largely unnoticed. Might a new ITV documentary about their stories finally...
28 Helmi 202527min
The Bush Telegraph: A boob buffet
Hannah and Mick are ingesting and spitting out the news this week, and you’ll perhaps be unsurprised to hear that Trump needs to do better, the BBC needs to do better, the Church of England needs to d...
27 Helmi 202523min
Rated or Dated: The Stepford Wives (1975)
Bryan Forbes’ 1975 satirical horror, based on the 1972 novel by Ira Levin, is so well known it's entered the lexicon. Is it a dystopian nightmare or does it have something to say about life right now?...
26 Helmi 202529min
Eowyn Ivey and Alaska’s dark fairy tales
Eowyn Ivey, the million copy-selling author of The Snow Child, has been wanting to tell the story of her childhood her whole adult life. In her new novel, Black Woods, Blue Sky, she draws upon her exp...
25 Helmi 202527min
Victoria Smith on Hags and "unkind" women
‘Seasoned feminist hag’ Victoria Smith is sick to the back teeth of women being told to ‘just be kind’. This was catnip to our Mickey, who you’ll already have heard wanging on about Victoria’s 2023 bo...
24 Helmi 202526min
Sophie McCartney has One Foot in the Rave
Comedian, podcaster, novelist and mum-of-three, Sophie McCartney initially found fame with her hilarious online content, which she started posting when the Covid lockdown put her fledgling stand-up ca...
21 Helmi 202525min
Rated or Dated: The Talented Mr Ripley (2000)
Mickey doesn't like jazz, Jen doesn't like long films and Hannah doesn't like Jude Law's face. So how is The Talented Mr Ripley going to go down in this week's Rated or Dated? Only one way to find out...
19 Helmi 202527min
Julia Raeside and comedy’s #MeToo reckoning
Don’t Make Me Laugh is telly writer and broadcaster Julia Raeside’s debut novel. Set in the world of UK standup, Julia’s using pure fiction (honest guv!) and dark humour to look at the men lurking in ...
18 Helmi 202525min
