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7. You have an airport walk which is 100 times faster than your normal walk

We’re halfway through the summer season and that can only mean one thing: holidays. Before we can even think about relaxing in the sunshine, Aperol in one hand, newest Colleen Hover thriller in the other, we have to suffer the downright jungle that is the airport. Heaving crowds, one security desk and trying to squish all your liquids into one tiny sandwich bag – it’s fair to say you deserve a holiday after navigating the airport alone.

You may be the mum of your friendship group: always making sure everyone gets home safely, the one who organizes bottomless brunches and group birthday presents – but is your holiday alter ego an airport dad? Airport dads are all over TikTok, and I hate to break it to you, but if you do more than 23 of

Warner Bros. Discovery’s decision to cancel the release of HBO Max’s Batgirl (a movie that had supposedly finished shooting but will now be permanently left on a shelf as part of some kind of tax scheme) is the big headline-grabbing shocker of this week, but it’s not even the only movie WBD decided to abandon this week. At the same time that it killed Batgirl, Warner Bros. Discovery also decided to cancel the release of Scoob!:Holiday Haunta CG-animated sequel to early pandemic release Scoobs! that was reportedly very close to being finished.

It got a little lost in all of the Batgirl hullaballoo, but Holiday Haunt co-writer Paul Dini—yes, that Paul Dini, the writer on Batman: The Animated Series and the co-creator of Harley Quinn—took to Twitter earlier this week (via Collider) to share his thoughts

For British travelers, the summer of 2022 seems destined to be remembered as the season of waiting: queuing for passport control, parking on motorways, sleeping in airports or staring down tracks in fond hope of spotting a non-cancelled train. Getting there and back used to be the most tedious part of the holiday. Increasingly, it is the holidays.

How can you keep yourself and your loved ones occupied and amused during the Great Standstill? Here are 15 tips from the professionals:

Always carry baby wipes

This sound advice comes not from a parenting expert, but from Dougie Rankine, editor of Truck & Driver, the UK’s bestselling trucking magazine. “One of the most versatile and important items a motorist can have,” he says. If you need to know why, try traveling without them. The first time you forget the baby wipes will be the first time everybody in the back