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The lost art of authenticity

The lost art of authenticity

Graeme Shanks
Graeme Shanks

If you had to choose between an 18 hour drive and a 3 hour flight to reach the same destination what would you choose? That’s the decision that the newly-announced boss of Starbucks, Brian Niccol, has come under fire for.

He commuted almost 1,000 miles (1,600km) from his family home in Newport Beach, California to the firm's headquarters in Seattle on a corporate jet.

Are you tired of pretending?
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Are you tired of pretending?

Milla Ling-Davies
Milla Ling-Davies

Have you ever been shadowed at work? Or observed during an interview? We often find it uncomfortable to be watched.

This is the predicament that the three protagonists in the latest season of the hit TV comedy drama series Only Murders in the Building find themselves in. In Season Three, amateur detectives Mabel, Charles and Oliver learn that their true-crime podcast is being made into a Hollywood movie. As they begin solving yet another murder, they also end up being shadowed by the three actors hired to play them in the film.