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Spiritualized – Everything Was Beautiful review: A meticulous triumph
Review at a glance T he packaging is the most obvious reference point: a medical design which in its £70 vinyl form comes with eight pieces of card you can pop out and fold into pill boxes. Then there’s the beginning: a female voice saying the album title (in thisContinue Reading
Aleksei Navalny: new film about jailed dissident who dared to defy the power of Putin
One of the last lines jailed Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny speaks in the eponymous new CNN documentary is a quote usually attributed to the 18th-century philosopher Edmund Burke: “The triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.” It is unclear whether Navalny sees Russian politics as aContinue Reading
Ukraine recap: why words are important – and truth must triumph over propaganda
It’s eight weeks since the Russian military rolled across the border into Ukraine, telling the world that this was just a “special military operation” aiming to free an oppressed people from what Vladimir Putin called a “gang of drug addicts and neo-Nazis”. The character of this war on the UkrainianContinue Reading
Fans convinced Gabriel has had hair transplant after amazing transformation
FANS are convinced Arsenal star Gabriel Magalhaes has had a hair transplant after spotting the defender’s amazing new look. The 24-year-old showed off an incredibly sharp hairstyle during Wednesday night’s end-to-end 4-2 win against Chelsea. 2 Gabriel wowed fans with a new-look hairstyle on WednesdayCredit: Rex 2 Many fans areContinue Reading
Effect of lockdowns on birth rates in the UK
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock Many wondered whether the COVID lockdowns would lead to a baby boom or a bust. We finally have some answers – for the UK, at least. Broadly, provisional data from the Office for National Statistics suggests there was a temporary decline in babies conceived during the firstContinue Reading
Russia: programme of ‘patriotic education’ aims to create next generation of Putin faithful
As Russia shifts the focus of its “special military operation” in Ukraine to the Donbas region, there seems no end in sight to the fighting. Casualties on both sides are mounting. While Ukraine is able to call on its citizens to help defend their homeland from Russian aggression, Moscow’s abilityContinue Reading
Know your Mandrakes from your Manticores? Then head to the newest Harry Potter exhibition
Fortunately, Potterheads have something else to enjoy in the upcoming months: the studio has now unveiled a brand-new feature exploring the mythical creatures from the films. Titled Mandrakes and Magical Creatures, the exhibition will explore how the weird and wonderful creatures from the Harry Potter universe are brought to lifeContinue Reading
Disabled people are being left out of COVID recovery. Here are five ways to change that
Marmolejos / Shutterstock After two years of the pandemic, there is an understandable desire to “go back to normal”. Disabled people, having been particularly impacted by the pandemic, have described the removal of all COVID rules as a “kick in the teeth”. In the UK, between January and November 2020,Continue Reading
Prostate cancer linked to bacteria, raising hope of new test and treatment
Shidlovski/Shutterstock Every year, around 12,000 men in the UK die from prostate cancer, but many more die with prostate cancer than from it. So knowing whether the disease is going to advance rapidly or not is important for knowing who to treat. Our latest study, published in European Urology Oncology,Continue Reading
Developing countries are being left behind in the AI race – and that’s a problem for all of us
sdecoret/Shutterstock Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much more than just a buzzword nowadays. It powers facial recognition in smartphones and computers, translation between foreign languages, systems which filter spam emails and identify toxic content on social media, and can even detect cancerous tumours. These examples, along with countless other existing andContinue Reading