Objects of Desire: Fresh fits
Read More Arnold & Son is marking the Year of the Rabbit with a brand-new Perpetual Moon watch. The world of fashion right now is, to say the least, chaotic.There are people chasing the quiet luxury trend, others are in some sort of “era” and then there are those who seem to have it all […]
Tina Turner: Proud Mary keep on burning
Read More Tina Turner performs, during her ‘Private Dancer’ tour, onstage at the Castle Farms Music Theater, Charlevoix, Michigan, August 31, 1985. (Photo by Douglas Elbinger/Getty Images) When I was still at high school in Pretoria in the late 1970s, our favourite haunt was a mall in Arcadia called Sterland. It was anchored by a […]
One Movie, One Take: ‘The Little Mermaid’
Read More Not entirely dread-ful: Jonah Hauer-King and Halle Bailey as Eric and Ariel in the remake of Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’. Photo: Giles Keyte/Disney Enterprises “Under the sea, under the sea, darling, it’s better down where it’s wetter, take it from me. Up on the shore they work all day out in the sun, […]
‘Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty’ — An excerpt from Harry Oppenheimer’s biography
Read More South African Businessman Harry Oppenheimer at Home (Photo by Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Getty Images) In June 1986, Anton Harber, the editor of the Weekly Mail — an anti-apartheid newspaper started as an “alternative” to the mainstream press after the closure of the Rand Daily Mail – wanted to do something out of […]
Man who opened plane door over South Korea says he wanted out ‘quickly’
Read More A man who opened an emergency exit on a flight in mid-air felt “suffocated” and wanted to get off quickly, South Korean police have said. The Asiana Airlines plane was carrying nearly 200 passengers as it approached the runway on Friday at Daegu international airport, about 150 miles south-east of Seoul, on a […]
Police release man arrested after Downing Street car crash
Read More A man who was arrested after a car crashed into the gates of Downing Street has been released under police investigation, the Metropolitan police said. The 43-year-old man had been taken into custody on Thursday on suspicion of criminal damage and dangerous driving after the incident, which police had said was not being […]
Post Office used racist term for Black people, documents show
Read More Lawyers investigating post office operators in the Horizon computer scandal used a racist term to categorise Black workers, according to documents released to campaigners. Investigators were asked to group suspects based on racial features, the results of a freedom of information request found. The document, which was published between 2008 and 2011, included […]
Queues build at major UK airports as electronic passport gates fail
Read More Passengers arriving at major airports around London at the start of the bank holiday weekend are facing delays after problems with electronic passport gates. The gates at airports including Heathrow, Stansted, Gatwick and Luton started to have problems on Friday night. Delays of up to three hours have been reported. Photographs by travellers […]
Honoring Gold Star families: Bipartisan support for Love Lives On Act of 2023
With the sunset of the “Widow’s Tax” earlier this year, Gold Star families are seeking to end another vestige of military family life: a remarriage penalty. The Love Lives On Act of 2023, introduced in the House of Representatives this week by congressional representatives Dean Phillips, D-Minn., and Richard Hudson, R-N.C., would allow Gold Star […]
Biden Education Department worried AI in the classroom might be used to spy on teachers
The Department of Education is worried that artificial intelligence systems could be used to surveil teachers once the systems are introduced into the classroom and warned in a new report that allowing that to happen would make teachers’ jobs “nearly impossible.” The department released a report this week on “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of […]
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