SIONED HARRIES was grateful if anyone other than friends and family showed up when she started playing for Wales. So now that nearly 5,000 people are turning up at the Cardiff Arms Park, she admits it is quite overwhelming how far women’s rugby has come. 2 Eack-row veteran Sioned HarriesContinue Reading
SIONED HARRIES was grateful if anyone other than friends and family showed up when she started playing for Wales. So now that nearly 5,000 people are turning up at the Cardiff Arms Park, she admits it is quite overwhelming how far women’s rugby has come. 2 Eack-row veteran Sioned HarriesContinue Reading
Angelina Bambina/Shutterstock There are fundamental shortcomings in how “diversity” is conceived and practised in cultural institutions. The problem may be that the term itself undermines the complexities of the different and intersecting inequalities. That was the key finding of my latest research which also found that, in the context ofContinue Reading
Donald Trump’s impending court case marks an historic moment in US politics. He will be the first former president of the United States to face criminal charges and trial by a jury. He and his supporters are already calling the case a political manoeuvre designed to reduce his chances inContinue Reading
A chef has been found guilty of the murder of a father of three who was found dismembered and headless on the grounds of a derelict house in Cork on December 28th, 2019, by a man who was out looking for his missing cat. Ionut Cosmin Nicholescu (30), who isContinue Reading
Augusta, home of The Masters — golf's first major championship of the year. Slusing/Shutterstock The first major tournament of 2023 in men’s professional golf could be a particularly tense affair. The Masters, held every April in the US city of Augusta (Georgia), sees the world’s finest players compete for aContinue Reading
Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was scheduled to visit his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping at the end of March. Beijing would have been Lula’s fourth international destination in less than 100 days in office. Lula had to cancel his trip, which was set to include 200 business people,Continue Reading
Evgeny Atamanenko/Shutterstock Think back to a night when you slept poorly. How productive were you the next day at work? Did you struggle to get started? Did the day drag on and on? Did you procrastinate on Twitter or TikTok rather than doing your work? If your answer to theseContinue Reading
Dmitry Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, warned Russians that they must prepare for a “forever war”. “Things will get much harder,” Peskov told a gathering of the country’s political elite. “This will take a very, very long time.” It’s a far cry from Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation”. This was supposedContinue Reading
Proposed UK surrogacy law changes raise concerns over unequal treatment of birth mothers Phil Jones/Shutterstock Surrogacy, where a woman agrees to carry and give birth to a child for another person or couple to raise, is growing in popularity. There aren’t any comprehensive figures on the number of cases (partlyContinue Reading