The first three episodes of Hulu’s incredible adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel are now streaming, and while viewers have been quick to draw comparisons between the fictional dystopia of Gilead — which treats women as objects and denies them agency over their own bodies (hmm!) — and the current political climate in America, the painful truth is that many of the issues central to the series have plagued humanity from the get-go.
In fact, what made Atwood’s novel so potent when it was published in 1985 — and what makes it so relevant today — is that the author didn’t have to invent much of the narrative at all…
Here are the eight most horrifying moments from the first three episodes of The Handmaid’s Tale, titled “Offred,” “Birth,” and “Late,” which will be giving us nightmares for months. Spoilers ahead!
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It is understood the proposed event, which could see Britain’s triple world champion Lewis Hamilton speed past Big Ben, Trafalgar Square and the Houses of Parliament, would take place four days before the Silverstone race on July 12.
The demonstration would be the first of its sort in the capital in more than a decade, and will renew hope that a Formula One race could yet be staged in London.
A new law was passed last month allowing motor sports to take place on public roads across England for the first time.
The proposed London demo fits with new Formula One chairman Chase Carey’s mantra of turning each grand prix into a week-long event, emulating the Super Bowl.
Indeed Valtteri Bottas, winner of the Russian Grand Prix joined Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo for a demonstration run through Budapest’s city centre on Monday ahead of their race later in the year.
Liberty Media – the American giants who took control of the sport in January – are keen to see grands prix staged in a number of major cities across the world.
Carey, the American who now lives in the capital following Liberty’s £6.4billion acquisition of Formula One, said in January: ‘London is a great city, and there is no question [you think of it] when you think where are the cities you want to be in.
‘We are talking to a lot of people. Realistically I have got a page-long list of places that we would like to have races.’
Back in 2004, 500,000 people lined London’s famous roads to watch Jenson Button, David Coulthard and Nigel Mansell participate in a demonstration run on a course between Regent Street and Piccadilly Circus which involved eight teams.
Bernie Ecclestone, F1’s overlord before he was deposed by Liberty, threw his support behind a number of projects in London during his four-decade reign, but failed to turn his dreams into reality.
Source: F1 owners discuss demonstration run in London | Daily Mail Online
A fleet of colourful hot air balloons has set off across the English Channel in a bid to set a new world record.
Around 100 balloons are thought to be taking part in the attempt, which aims to become the largest group crossing of hot air balloons between England and France.
The skies above Dover filled with the majestic, brightly-coloured balloons shortly after 6.10am, when the fleet began its voyage across one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.
The crossing made the vision conjured by that 1980s song 99 Red Balloons by Nena pale into bland banality as more than 100 balloons took to the sky in a riot of colours.
Source: Hot air balloons take to the sky in world record attempt | Daily Mail Online
ISIS’s deputy leader has been killed in air strike in Iraq, it emerged today.
Ayad al-Jumaili, was wiped out by the country’s air force along with other leaders of the terror group, in the region of al-Qaim, near the border with Syria.
Jumaili is believed to be second-in-command to leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
MORE: ISIS’s second-in-command has been killed | Daily Mail Online
