🏙️Of the four archetypes of urban femininity that were offered in Sex and the City, Cynthia Nixon’s ambitious, independent, morally upright Miranda Hobbes is the character that has aged best
📺 ‘I think women who were fans of the show when they were younger were more into the fashion and the antics, but actually now that they are growing into themselves they find that they have more in common with Miranda’ says Nixon
➡️Cynthia is unusual, as an actor, because her life is actually more interesting than many of the parts she plays.
In her 40s, she segued from a heterosexual partnership to a high-profile same-sex marriage, and she has recently been navigating her eldest child’s trans journey
She is also a liberal activist, and in 2018 ran for New York State governor.
🪧 She lost, but her campaign precipitated much positive change
📺 It is no surprise, therefore, that she had some provisos before agreeing to revisit Sex and the City
'When we were talking about doing this new series, I was sceptical that we were going to be able to transform it enough.’
'we now have this expanded, more diverse cast.’
📺The show also explores what it means to be a woman in your 50s in the modern world.
‘Charlotte is in full bloom, all of the things she wanted in life are in fruition, and the same is true of Carrie. Miranda has had a little more of a sea change’
Another change is the absence of Kim Cattrall’s character Samantha Jones, the indomitable sexual adventurer.
🗣️‘I don’t think there was any attempt made, nor should there have been, to replace that character and the space that she took up’ says Cynthia
‘If I had to define #AndJustLikeThat what I would say is, your life is going along and you have gotten to a certain point and you think you know what your life is, and something comes along completely out of left field'
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
On Ryanair’s website, the company urged passengers to arrive at airports three hours early blaming a “third party IT issue, which is outside Ryanair’s control and affect all airlines operating across the network”.
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
@GazTheJourno 🗣️ @GazTheJourno: Twitter’s blue bird logo has been with the site since its creation in 2006. Its branding has always been twee(t!), featuring the bird doing cutesy things including lifting up the fail whale on its ‘site over capacity’ page back in the 2010s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
Oleg Andreev, 65, who is paralysed, was taken by Russian invaders occupying his village in eastern Ukraine. Mr Andreev said his wheelchair was stolen by a Russian soldier, who used it for an
injured comrade.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region.
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.