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The Piano is manipulative dross
2025-04-21 00:45:03| Spiritual Career Counseling
The Piano is back for a third series and so is its parade of manipulative sob stories. This time, the hunt for the countrys saddest musician sorry, best amateur pianist begins in Londons Liverpool Street station, and although the shows formula remains unchanged, with one forlorn hopeful at a time playing to milling crowds, there is a new face in the judges eyrie.Joining old hand Mika, and replacing nana-heartthrob Lang Lang, is the wildly overqualified Jon Batiste. The American musician has forged a career by working with the likes of Beyoncé, Lana del Rey and Stevie Wonder. He has won five Grammys and an Oscar. I hate to think what must have happened for him to find himself in such dire straits to have to take a job on The Piano. And while his energetic, irreverent presence proves something of a salve for the shows prurient pomposity, he still doesnt save it.Read Next square TV REVIEWS The Piano is anodyne fluff that treats its viewers like idiotsRead MoreAs ever, The Piano...
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2025-04-20 22:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
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Labour minister savaged and branded 'more right wing than Michael Gove'
2025-04-20 22:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
A Labour minister was accused of being more right wing than Michael Gove in a brutal attack over benefits cuts. Ellie Reeves, the Labour Party chairwoman, was savaged by LBC presenter Andrew Marr over welfare reforms. More than three million families could lose out on up to 1,720 a year as part of the Chancellors plan to slash spending by 4.8 billion.The Governments benefit cuts are set to push 250,000 people into relative poverty by the end of the decade, the Department for Work and Pensions has revealed.This includes 50,000 children, the Governments own impact assessment has said.Under the most controversial reforms - restricting eligibility to Personal Independence Payment benefits - the document says 370,000 people will lose support with the average loss of 4,500-per-year. It will also impact an estimated 430,000 people in the future who will not get the PIP benefits they would have previously been entitled to.LBC Presenter Andrew Marr said: A pretty savage attack on welfa...
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