Day: August 25, 2024

Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth have accused police of acting as “private security” for the UK’s biggest carbon emitter after dozens of pre-emptive arrests forced the cancellation of a climate protest camp near Drax power station. In a statement signed by almost 150 groups, they called the operation against activists who had spent months … Read more

Along with all Ukrainians celebrating their Independence Day, 19-year-old student Yuliia Vyshnivska had been warned of an increased threat of Russian strikes. But it had not stopped her and hundreds of others making their way up to an exposed rooftop for an open-air musical display of defiance in the heart of Kyiv. “I heard on … Read more

It’s 9am in San Francisco and Confidence Man are having some creative differences. “Sugar wants to do a pantomime horse but there’s no way to do that in a hot way,” says frontwoman Janet Planet, talking through her bandmate’s plans to add more chaos to their already furiously fun live shows. She speaks a-mile-a-minute, hair … Read more

The abrupt, deeply alarming weekend escalation in fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is exactly what the US, France and Britain have been working desperately to prevent ever since Israel’s assassination of the Hamas leader, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran almost a month ago. The renewed violence, which appears to have abated quickly but could … Read more

In theory, it must have sounded like a good idea. At least to Hollywood movie studio executives keen to make big bucks by playing it safe with themes and stories that might be familiar to a mass audience. A modern remake of Snow White: cashing in on the beloved Disney original with fresh stars, A-list … Read more

The coal’s the thing. The first series of Sherwood by James Graham was based on his experiences growing up in a Nottinghamshire pit village. There, the people and culture were shaped first by the shared experience of mining, and then in the 1980s by striking against – or not – the closure of the pits … Read more

Teachers returning to work next month will confront a worrying “behaviour bubble” as younger children who were most severely affected by the pandemic reach the teenage years renowned for peak classroom disruption. The warning from experts and school leaders in England comes as evidence shows that children of primary school age during the pandemic – … Read more

It has been said many times that no career in golf is complete without a tournament win at the Old Course at St Andrews. It is an aphorism that is only slightly hyperbolic. So many of the game’s true greats – Bobby Jones, Sam Snead, Jack Nicklaus, Peter Thomson, Nick Faldo, Seve ­Ballesteros and Lorena Ochoa … Read more

Morpeth in Bethnal Green, east London, is a popular school that has been developing new ways to try to reduce suspensions and deescalate the kind of behaviour issues increasingly affecting schools across England since Covid. Even before the disruption of the pandemic, headteacher Jemima Reilly was concerned about the number of pupils losing learning due … Read more