'Apparently if you’re a teenager and you send a declaration of love to someone heart emoji, heart emoji, heart emoji and they come back smiley face, that’s the worst.'

Thomas Blaikie tries to get his head round the language of the internet.

http://ow.ly/TU6d50xroRc

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'Together the Marcoses established a new style of deluxe autocracy, one characterised by glitz and kleptomaniac graft.'

Peter Conrad on Lauren Greenfield's new documentary about Imelda Marcos, 'The Kingmaker'.

http://ow.ly/FFSg50xsH7D