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As seen in: British GQ, MSN, The Guardian, Flipboard, Glamour, GQ, Dazed Magazine, Radio Times, GQ India, Condé Nast Traveller, GQ Australia and
Culture Editor @BritishGQ. Dubliner in London. Words for The Guardian, Dazed, Conde Nast Traveller & more. ben.allen@condenast.co.uk

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Arts & Travel Journalist, formerly Condé Nast Traveller & City University London Magazine Journalism MA.

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How horror has always been a grim reflection of our taboos

How horror has always been a grim reflection of our taboos

Every now and then, a truly thoughtful horror movie comes along to challenge the notion that the genre is uni…

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The best places to watch fireworks in London on Bonfire Night

The best places to watch fireworks in London on Bonfire Night

Pack the sparklers and a flask of mulled wine, and head to one of London's best fireworks displays - or catch…

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Moses Sumney Interview

Moses Sumney Interview

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Sense and sensibility star George MacKay aims to please

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Sense and Sensibility Star George MacKay Aims to Please

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The summer scene in London’s Richmond Park was cinematically pastoral. Across miles of sprawling fields, red deer grazed on what’s left of the grass after a heatwave. Parakeets—not native to the area but descendants of London Zoo escapees—provided spontaneous pops of Gatorade green in the sky.
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The Drama Is All Head and No Heart

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For the second time in a week, I’ve watched something where grown-ups use this question as the basis for a drinking game and it goes very, very wrong (the first was Hacks season five, which I’m not allowed to talk about yet). Is this something real people do? Because it is not my idea of a good time. In The Drama, it brings about a revelation that elicits genuine revulsion, and precipitates a bout of projectile vomiting, which isn’t the last in the film, nor, come to think of it, the second last.
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