A type of legal action is increasingly being used by powerful people to shut down criticism from activists, academics, whistleblowers, and journalists. This is known as a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or Slapp. At the time of her assassination in 2017, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was facingContinue Reading
Exmouth RNLI volunteers were on exercise this afternoon when they were called to rescue a 16 year old kitesurfer in difficulty. At 2.09pm today Sunday 24 October 2021, the volunteer crew of Exmouth RNLI Inshore Lifeboat D-805 George Bearman II were engaged in a training exercise off Exmouth Seafront whenContinue Reading
I Wei Huang/Shutterstock COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths have been rising in the UK, pressurising a health service that’s already working hard to treat the backlog of non-COVID patients that have accumulated since March 2020. While some modellers suggest that cases have peaked and are now set to fall, theContinue Reading
Percy Jones, a forecast 10/1 chance, will not be a surprise if causing one in the seventeen-runner Maiden Stakes over a mile of ‘good to soft’ Nottingham today; trainer Hughie Morrison is a shrewd cookie and must have had specific purpose sending this Sir Percy colt a long distance toContinue Reading
The Nineties: cassette tapes, Cool Britannia and… European conflict. Yes, there’s a rupture running through our kitschy, nostalgic idea of this decade: the Yugoslav Wars, which have since largely faded from memory, cost the lives of over 140,000 people, according to the International Center for Transitional Justice. But a newContinue Reading
The two minute rule has been recommended since the 70s. WAYHOME studio/ Shutterstock A lot of us are familiar with the advice that we should brush our teeth twice a day, and for at least two minutes each time. Many of us over-estimate how long we brush our teeth forContinue Reading
Flick through a news feed on your phone and you are likely to scroll across an article discussing the heated rivalries of the new space race. Forget the geopolitical struggles of a cold war. This time, it’s Tesla CEO Elon Musk versus Amazon founder Jeff Bezos: the two richest menContinue Reading
Zuma Press Inc/ Alamy Ever since Margaret Thatcher was in Downing Street, an important part of Conservative party narrative has been the need for low taxes. This goes alongside the fear of excessive deficits that explained why David Cameron and George Osborne opted for spending cuts and austerity when theyContinue Reading
Hindus globally are highly concerned regarding reports of overnight closure of Swindon Hindu Temple & Cultural Centre in South West England by Swindon Borough Council without consulting the community. Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that it was clearly a case of ill-treatment of minoritiesContinue Reading
After the 1989 fall of communism in the Soviet bloc, five self-declared communist states remain today: China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Belarus and Venezuela can also be added to the mix as they fulfil the criteria of a communist state – even though they do not officially invokeContinue Reading
