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Ruari Cannon agrees out-of-court settlement with London theatre over the allegations, which Spacey denies
An actor who alleged that he was sexually assaulted by Kevin Spacey has reached a settlement with the Old Vic theatre.
Ruari Cannon, who waived his right to anonymity, was an actor at the Old Vic during Spacey’s tenure as artistic director.
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© Photograph: Susannah Ireland/Reuters










‘She saw these tarot cards on my table and asked me to read her future. I predicted absolutely nothing’
Before switching to photography I studied fashion, so my early photographs concentrated on that. But, in 1994, I decided that music and people were the subjects I wanted to get involved in. I went into a newsagent and found a music magazine called Touch, which I really liked the look of. After agreeing to look at my fashion portfolio, the editor said: “Well, you’ve got beautiful models here. Can you make boring DJs look as interesting?”
He commissioned me to photograph drum’n’bass DJ General Levy, and it ended up on the cover of the magazine. As a result, I picked up work from DJ Mag – they asked if I was into drum’n’bass and I just went with it. I photographed clubbers at London’s Ministry of Sound – there was a guy in the crowd who really stood out, and I was later excited to discover he was Goldie.
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© Photograph: Soulla Petrou

© Photograph: Soulla Petrou

© Photograph: Soulla Petrou






















As US-China tensions simmer, people online are joking about wanting to ‘become Chinese’ – starting with their wellness routines
Did you drink ice water today? If you did, that was “not very Chinese of you”, according to Sherry Zhu, a 23-year-old Chinese American creator based in New Jersey. If you were really serious about “becoming Chinese”, you would be sipping hot water every day, she warned in a TikTok video with millions of views. “I really do feel like, digestion-wise, a lot better when I’m drinking hot water,” she later explained to GQ.
Zhu’s guidance is taken from traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), a health system that dates back 5,000 years and offers a holistic approach to treating symptoms – physically, emotionally and spiritually. Other creators of Chinese descent have their own TCM hacks: keep your feet warm and your periods will be more bearable. Drink tea made with goji berries, jujubes and ginger as a cure-all. Move your body every day to promote the flow of qi, or internal energy. “Do my Chinese baddie routine with me,” they caption their videos in half-authoritative, half-joking tones. “Advice from your Chinese big sister.”
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With the wait for the new Winds and Waves games set to stretch into 2027, Pokemon’s 30th anniversary celebrations have plugged the gap with a deluge of nostalgia bait. Is the franchise in danger of losing its heart?
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It has been almost impossible to escape Pokémon for the past few weeks. To mark the 30th anniversary of the original games, the Pokémon Company has been on an unprecedented promotional nostalgia trip for the entire month: there was a campaign where celebrities gushed about their favourite Pokémon, gifting us the memorable sight of Lady Gaga singing with a Jigglypuff, and Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen (great Game Boy Advance remakes of the original 1996 games) were rereleased on the Nintendo Switch. The Natural History Museum in London has opened a special Pokémon pop-up shop, and a limited-edition greyscale Pikachu plush toy sold out in about three seconds (they will be making more, to the disappointment of scalpers everywhere).
And all that is just the start. We’ve seen the opening of a Pokémon theme park in Tokyo, the announcement of a tiny Game Boy-shaped music player that plays the games’ soundtrack, a collaboration with high-fashion brand JimmyPaul that had its own runway show … it’s been endless. Regular readers will know that I am exactly the target audience for this festival of Pokémon nostalgia: the first generation of Pokémon kids and now hurtling towards 40. And yet I have been unmoved by most of this, even slightly annoyed by it.
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© Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA





