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Curious Kids: can our brains sense electromagnetic waves?
calzone.photography/Shutterstock Can our brains sense electromagnetic waves? – Taye, aged 10, London Electromagnetic waves are packets of energy travelling all around us. Some of these waves have lots of energy, and some have less. We call the lowest energy electromagnetic waves radio waves. There’s a good chance radio waves areContinue Reading
No ‘blank cheques’ for Labour, Unite general secretary warns
T he UK’s largest trade union could reduce the amount of money it gives to Labour if the party’s leadership does not back more of its policy priorities, its general secretary has said. Sharon Graham warned Sir Keir Starmer there will be “no blank cheques” as she urged the partyContinue Reading
Memorial service to be held for ‘Madame Ecosse’ Winnie Ewing
T ributes will be paid to the late SNP politician Winnie Ewing, the party’s first female parliamentarian, at a memorial service on Saturday. The 93-year-old former MP, MEP, and MSP, affectionately known as Madame Ecosse, died last month, surrounded by her family. Former first minister Alex Salmond and former ScottishContinue Reading
Linda Nolan: Sometimes I wonder if I’ll still be here in a month
L inda Nolan says she has wondered whether she will still “be here” in a month’s time, after revealing cancer had spread to her brain earlier this year. The 64-year-old singer, part of Anglo-Irish family pop group The Nolans, said it was often hard to stay “positive” about her situationContinue Reading
Sunak ‘to cap number of students taking low-value degrees’
R ishi Sunak is reportedly set to announce plans to cap the number of students who can take “low-value” university degrees. Limits would be imposed on courses that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, pursuing further studies or starting a business, the Guardian reported.Continue Reading
Government facing legal challenge over plan to house asylum seekers at airfields
S uella Braverman’s immigration plans are facing another legal battle after councils and campaigners were given the green light to bring a High Court challenge against housing migrants on disused airfields. The ruling comes just two days after the Home Secretary’s department moved asylum seekers on to Wethersfield Airfield forContinue Reading
Studio Ghibli’s How Do You Live opens in Japan today: is it Hayao Miyazaki’s last film?
H ow Do You Live, the latest film from Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, opened today in cinemas across Japan. The release of any film that comes from Miyazaki’s preeminent animation studio, Studio Ghibli, usually causes a huge buzz. But the tone of the arrival of How Do You Live hasContinue Reading
Huw Edwards: from Bridgend to BBC presenter
Huw Edwards is facing the end of his broadcasting career after he was named by his wife as the presenter at the centre of a sexual impropriety scandal that has dominated headlines. The BBC figurehead is in hospital with “serious mental health issues”, said his wife Vicky Flind, after sheContinue Reading
Paul McCartney: Photographs 1963-64 exhibition review
Paul McCartney “was always the most surprising Beatle”, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. Despite his reputation as a “cheerful, garrulous mop top”, he was the closest thing the group had to a “Renaissance man”: while his bandmates “retreated to mansions in the stockbroker belt” at the height of their mid-1960s fame, McCartney immersed himself in London’s counterculture,Continue Reading
Boris Johnson ally says Government has found a ‘version of PIN’ for old phone
A breakthrough may have been made in the bid to unlock Boris Johnson’s old mobile phone after an ally suggested the Government had recovered a past PIN code. The deadline for handing over messages from the former prime minister’s previous device to the UK Covid-19 inquiry was missed this weekContinue Reading