E urovision star Sam Ryder will deliver a special sung CBeebies Bedtime Story about showing your “true colours” and being proud of who you are. The British singer, 33, rose to fame after he came second behind Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra in this year’s contest, giving the UK its best resultContinue Reading
The official inquiry into the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing has reminded us of the devastating impact of this terrorist attack which killed 22 people, injured many more and left families bereft. But to add to their difficulties, a study my team and I conducted for the BBC’s Panorama coverage ofContinue Reading
Time for a quick quiz. What links Nadine Dorries, lockdown-rule-flouting London mayoral candidate Shaun Bailey and David Ross, a Tory donor embroiled in a scandal after funding a prime ministerial holiday to Mustique. If you answered, “They are all rumoured to appear on Boris Johnson’s resignation honours list,” give yourselfContinue Reading
Beth Mead says comments attributed to her on the subject of diversity in the Lionesses team are not a “true reflection” of her beliefs. The England forward was responding to criticism after being quoted as saying the lack of diversity in the squad “was a coincidence”. 2 Beth Mead respondedContinue Reading
Some Albanians towns have lost a lot of their younger population. Andrew Mayovskyy/Shutterstock Albania has a population of 2.8 million people, according to data published at the start of 2021. Since the fall of communism in 1991 nearly 40% of Albania’s population has left the country. Most Albanians who leftContinue Reading
Donald Trump was not on the ballot for the 2022 US midterms. But the former president’s shadow still falls heavily across American politics and he has done all he can to keep it that way. His attempt to both set the political agenda for 2022 and to endorse his styleContinue Reading
I f you thought The Mandalorian’s Grogu – or Baby Yoda, as he has been affectionately nicknamed – couldn’t get any cuter, you’d be wrong. Grogu fans may need to get ready to fall in love with an anime version of the Star Wars character, in an interpretation by noneContinue Reading
Mahir KART/Shutterstock In late October, the UK Health Security Agency assigned variant designations to two new omicron “grandchildren”: BQ.1 and XBB. This means they will be monitored by health authorities, but are not at this stage regarded as variants of concern. If we think of the omicron variant as aContinue Reading
Thousands of galaxies seen by the James Webb Space Telescope. Nasa Everything in the universe has gravity – and feels it too. Yet this most common of all fundamental forces is also the one that presents the biggest challenges to physicists. Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity has been remarkablyContinue Reading
The Collins Dictionary’s word of the year for 2022 is “permacrisis”. As accolades go, the managing director of Collins Learning, Alex Beecroft, has said that this one “sums up quite succinctly how truly awful 2022 has been for so many people”. The word, most widely understood as a portmanteau ofContinue Reading
