DocumentaryInterviewPrue Leith: 'I worried about my daughter finding her birth mother'Sirin KaleA new documentary sees the Bake Off judge accompany her adopted daughter Li-Da as she returns to Cambodia to explore her early life. Here, they reflect on family, identity and survival
Prue Leith is telling me what a bad mother she was to her daughter, Li-Da Kruger, growing up. I don’t believe her for a second, though she lists off reams of apparent offences. Read More...
Illustration by Ngadi Smart.Illustration by Ngadi Smart.The ObserverRaceIn an extract from his new book, the Observer columnist describes how substituting ethnic superiority with ‘cultural difference’ has allowed traditional racism to seep back into the mainstream. How can we get out of the box of racial thinking?
‘The Negro is not. Any more than the white man.” So wrote Frantz Fanon, the Martinique-born revolutionary and intellectual, in his 1952 masterpiece, Black Skin, White Masks. Read More...
Movies This article is more than 12 years oldSpecial effects expert cleared over death on set of The Dark KnightThis article is more than 12 years oldOscar winner Christopher Corbould found not guilty of failing to ensure safety of cameraman killed while filming Batman movieAn Oscar-winning special effects expert has been cleared of health and safety breaches over the death of a cameraman who was killed during the filming of Batman film The Dark Knight. Read More...