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Four tips to avoid your office Christmas party turning into a superspreader event
Undrey/Shutterstock With Christmas just a month away, the good news is that COVID cases in the UK have been falling, and are now at the lowest we’ve seen them for some time. Meanwhile, the number of new flu infections remains stable. And people in their 20s and 30s have someContinue Reading
Fans not impressed with Messi’s Call of Duty character as they spot big errors
FOOTBALL fans are outraged after Call of Duty unveiled a new Lionel Messi character. The Argentina star is the latest footballer to be introduced on the video game as part of a World Cup crossover. 3 Fans are upset with Lionel Messi’s Call of Duty characterCredit: Twitter / @CallofDuty 3Continue Reading
Nurses’ strike is about more than pay – it’s about ensuring good care
BradleyStearn/Shutterstock For the first time its 106-year history, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), the UK’s largest nursing union, has voted to take strike action. Nurses in the UK have been on strike before and achieved change, but the scale of this strike is extraordinary. This dispute, like many formsContinue Reading
Attachment theory: what people get wrong about pop psychology’s latest trend for explaining relationships
The way we bond with our primary caregiver as a child influences our interactions as an adult Liderina/Shutterstock Attachment theory is almost everywhere. In magazines and books, in the news, on social media and in our conversations with each other. Originally rooted in developmental psychology, the theory explains how weContinue Reading
Despite ongoing Covid risks, more employees consider cutting back on health-care benefits
Tech startup company Fast Chief Communications Officer Jason Alderman (R) talks with an employee on the first day working in the office on March 24, 2021 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Inflation has stretched household budgets near their limit. As a result, most people have reinedContinue Reading
Drop What You’re Doing and Update iOS, Android, and Windows
Plus: Major patches dropped this month for Chrome, Firefox, VMware, Cisco, Citrix, and SAP.Continue Reading
Child sexual abuse review: how research can help to tackle growing online abuse
Each time abuse material is shared, the victim is revictimised. Chinnapong | Shutterstock In the seven years since the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse launched in 2015, it has held more than 300 days of public hearings, processed over 2 million pages of evidence, heard from over 700 witnesses,Continue Reading
Trust in UK politics has taken a hit after recent chaos – and historical data suggests only a change of government can fix it
A YouGov poll conducted in October this year asked respondents if they trusted the Conservative party. Some 68% said that the party could not be trusted and only 14% said that it could. This followed the ill-advised mini budget from former prime minister Liz Truss and former chancellor Kwasi KwartengContinue Reading
Primavera Sound 2023: lineup, dates, and how to get tickets
The annual music festival takes place across two weekends in Spain, with star acts such as Blur, Kendrick Lamar, Depeche Mode and Calvin Harris among those set to perform. It will feature around 200 performances featuring a “shared lineup shared 620 kilometres apart, with a few small exceptions”. Which artistsContinue Reading
Chinese protests are about more than COVID – student discontent has fuelled the biggest movement since Tiananmen Square
blank Protests have erupted across China, initially in response to the deaths of ten people in a fire in an apartment block in Xinjiang in the country’s northwest. The demonstrations represent the biggest expression of public unrest since the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement was savagely crushed. The deaths haveContinue Reading