T oday marked the release of Miley Cyrus’ much anticipated new album, Endless Summer Vacation. It is likely to be a huge commercial success and our critic was pretty keen on it too. She has often put clues in her songs of the real person behind the mic and whatContinue Reading
Boxes of the medication Mifepristone used to induce a medical abortion are prepared for patients at Planned Parenthood health center in Birmingham, Alabama, March 14, 2022. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters A federal judge on Friday allowed North Carolina lawmakers to defend restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone, after the stateContinue Reading
DOCTORS were shocked to discover Covid left a teenage boy with a killer brain condition. The 14-year-old Iranian ended up in hospital in June 2020 after getting badly hurt in a motorcycle accident. Getty The teenage boy experienced a stroke after catching Covid[/caption] The teen was suffering from a brokenContinue Reading
With winter coming to a close in Ukraine, Russia is making a series of advances in the eastern Donbas region, with a primary aim of capturing the city of Bakhmut. While the city itself has some (limited) strategic significance as a regional transport hub, neither its symbolic nor material valueContinue Reading
Dances and concerts were usually the only opportunity for patients to meet in a large group. K. Drake/Wellcome Collection, CC BY-NC Music has a powerful effect on the listener. It is linked to better mental health, and it has been shown to alleviate loneliness, pain, anxiety and depression. For thisContinue Reading
Listening to certain songs can trigger some pretty intense memories. Pexels/Andrea Piacquadio You’re walking down a busy street on your way to work. You pass a busker playing a song you haven’t heard in years. Now suddenly, instead of noticing all the goings on in the city around you, you’reContinue Reading
THOMAS TUCHEL was allegedly sacked as Chelsea manager for “off-field reasons” and because the players “lost respect” for him, according to an email from his ex-wife. The German coach, 49, was dismissed by Blues owner Todd Boehly in September and replaced by Graham Potter. 2 Thomas Tuchel, left, split fromContinue Reading
The Georgian government has been forced to withdraw its controversial “foreign agent” law after days of mass protests against what many saw as Russian-inspired legislation which would limit press freedom, making its chances of ever joining the European Union near impossible. Over two nights this week, thousands of protesters haveContinue Reading
Women, life, freedom: protests against the oppression of Iranian women in Iran in Ottowa, Canada, September 2022. Taymaz Valley/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 organisations engaged in long-term social and economic struggles – including labourContinue Reading
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock The third series of BBC police drama Happy Valley marked the end of a beloved programme, and the end of Sergeant Catherine Cawood’s career navigating Yorkshire’s criminal underworld. Cawood’s age and gender is not ignored in the show. Throughout, she faces misogyny from criminals she encounters onContinue Reading
