Dangerous Minds

Credit: Dangerous MInds / Ducarme / Public Domain Wed 9 September 2026 23:00, UK It’s a sad fact of life that the life of an artist is a harder one than you’d expect. It also has a much higher body count than most industries, especially in the case of Jean Baptiste Lully, who worked in music. We’re not even talking about the sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll of later years either.

Credit: Dangerous Minds / Vivid Pictures / WWE Wed 9 September 2026 19:00, UK Chyna was a phenomenon in the world of professional wrestling. A shade under six feet tall and 200 pounds of pure muscle, she could (and often did) go toe-to-toe with any man on the roster and come out on top. She’s the only woman to ever hold the company’s Intercontinental Championship and compete in the King of the Ring Tournament. She was at one point the number one contender for the WWF Championship.

Credit: Jacob Coxon via X / Anthropic Wed 9 September 2026 10:13, UK Jacob Coxon, a 27-year-old AI researcher, took to X to announce his departure from Anthropic with some harrowing words about the effect artificial intelligence could have on humanity. “I resigned from Anthropic today,” he began. “I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly.

Wed 9 September 2026 10:09, UK Anthony Hall, a 50-year-old man who is legally registered as blind, drove 150 miles after sharing four bottles of wine with his partner. Hall drove from his home in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, to Cumbria in the middle of the night in his Vauxhall Meriva. He kept driving until police officers responded to an anonymous tip-off, picking him up “weaving around” the northbound M6 and veering into the hard shoulder near Kirkland in the early hours of June 29th.

Credit: Dangerous Minds / Wild Bunch Tue 8 September 2026 23:00, UK With a cannibal horror film, you typically know precisely what you’re about to get. Something vile, something unwatchable and something altogether raw. You get yourself some grotesque gore done by practical effects. You get some vicious attacks on unsuspecting protagonists. If you really want to evoke the likes of Cannibal Holocaust, sprinkle some deeply racist depictions of non-white cultures and away you go.

Credit: Dangerous Minds / SHAFTA Awards / Television X Tue 8 September 2026 20:30, UK The UK contains one of the biggest national porn industries in the world. While I’m not sure if that’s something to be proud of, this is the UK we’re talking about, a country that exists to embarrass us at every opportunity. The porn sector is valued at a staggering £25 billion and at its peak, puts around £4 billion directly into the UK’s economy.

Credit: Dangerous Minds / Public Domain Tue 8 September 2026 18:00, UK Have you ever noticed that in Alfred Hitchcock movies, the police are pretty much never the good guys? This was a man born in the 1800s who became one of the most respected names in early Hollywood. Yet part of the reason why those films are so timeless is the fact that they don’t reflect the values that mainstream movies of the time wanted to put forth for good and for ill. Hitchcock was an outsider.

Tue 8 September 2026 13:28, UK A semi-professional sports personality based in England has reportedly been selected as the new king of a small kingdom in Uganda. George Desmond Kamurasi, 36, is the goalkeeper and captain of SE Dons, a football team who play in the ninth tier of English football. Known as ‘Big G’ to fans, Kamurasi was far from the only accomplished member of his family, as he is descended from Ugandan royalty.

Tue 8 September 2026 11:38, UK Two thieves broke into a museum dedicated to the life and works of French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir in southern France on September 8th, attempting to steal four works of art but abandoning two as they fled. “This morning, two individuals broke into the Renoir Museum and stole four works of art,” said Bryan Masson, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer in a statement to the press.

Credit: ego2222 via Instagram Mon 7 September 2026 13:14, UK British-Nigerian social media influencer Igho ‘Tiny’ Ubiribo, known online as ‘Ego’ or ‘Denisi’, died in Thailand this part March. An inquest has revealed that the cause of death was complications stemming from a penis enlargement surgery. The influencer and businessman was known for showing off his supposed globe-trotting, high rolling life style to the 185,000 followers he’d attracted on Instagram alone.