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Shadow work: why you should be cautious of the TikTok self-help trend
Melinda Nagy/Shutterstock I doubt the psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), in all his prescience, would have predicted that his work would one day fuel a TikTok trend called “shadow work”. Life coaches and self-help gurus on the platform promote the exploration of shadow as a path to self-development. The exercisesContinue Reading
AI: we may not need a new human right to protect us from decisions by algorithms – the laws already exist
Hiring algorithms could filter candidates before interviews even take place. fizkes / Shutterstock There are risks and harms that come with relying on algorithms to make decisions. People are already feeling the impact of doing so. Whether reinforcing racial biases or spreading misinformation, many technologies that are labelled as artificialContinue Reading
Mayor waits to see if she has won first round of migrant barge fight
A local councillor is waiting to see whether she has won the first stage of a High Court fight with Home Secretary Suella Braverman over the housing of asylum seekers on a barge. Carralyn Parkes wants Mr Justice Holgate to give her the go-ahead to challenge the lawfulness of theContinue Reading
Carey Mulligan welcomes third child with husband Marcus Mumford
The Promising Young Woman star, 38, revealed she had given birth in an interview with Vogue magazine for its November cover story. Mulligan already shares a daughter Evelyn and son Wilfred with her 36-year-old musician husband Mumford, who she married in 2012. In the article, the interviewer noted that MulliganContinue Reading
Security questions after Starmer’s speech interrupted by glitter protest
A security breach saw Sir Keir Starmer covered in glitter and manhandled by a protester on the stage of the Labour Party conference on Tuesday afternoon. – What happened? Protester Yaz Ashmawi was able to get on the stage at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool’s exhibition centre and throwContinue Reading
Asylum seekers being told they will be able to return to Bibby Stockholm barge
A sylum seekers are being told about their return to the Bibby Stockholm barge after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bacteria in the water supply. The Home Office said all necessary tests have been completed on the floating vessel, which has been out of use since August.Continue Reading
Starmer eyes decade in power to ‘get Britain building’
S ir Keir Starmer will say the tide is turning towards Labour as he sets his sights on at least two terms in power to rescue a country “ruined” by 13 years of Conservative rule. The Labour leader will promise a “decade of national renewal”, suggesting his party will beContinue Reading
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine at the Hayward Gallery: this supremely elegant show is serenity itself
Review at a glance W hen Hiroshi Sugimoto was finding his photographic voice in 1976, he had what he described as a “waking dream”: he envisaged images of a movie theatre with a pure white screen. He made it reality from the back of a New York cinema, setting theContinue Reading
The Government’s Rwanda asylum plan: a timeline
A s it examines the Government’s Rwanda deportation policy, the Supreme Court will hear from asylum seekers about the “trauma” and “torture” they have experienced. The Home Office is contesting a June Court of Appeal decision that the multimillion-pound agreement, which would see asylum seekers sent to the country inContinue Reading
Physician associates: a solution for healthcare staff shortages or a colonial throwback?
SeventyFour/Shutterstock Before the COVID pandemic, the global health workforce needed as many as 6.4 million more medical doctors, and the gap between demand for health workers and supply is growing. As you might expect, the shortage is most acutely felt in low- and middle-income countries. The latest World Health OrganizationContinue Reading