Review – Julie, National Theatre

Julie is playwright Polly Stenham’s modern day reworking of Strindberg’s naturalistic 1888 play Miss Julie. The original was daring for its emphasis on class and sex wars in an intimate realistic setting, which explains why it is has been such a mainstay in British Theatre’s diet. It is possible to see ...

Why Ramadan is the best time to visit Dubai

Of the many reasons one might choose to visit Dubai it would seem culture and heritage seldom appear at the top of the list any more. In a region that is steeped in history the Emirate has almost become a victim of its own success in shifting the gaze of ...

GMB Union members overwhelmingly reject Jeremy Hunt’s pay offer

87% of GMB’s NHS members in England, have voted to reject the three-year pay deal for NHS and ambulance workers GMB, the union for NHS and ambulance workers, has announced members have overwhelmingly rejected the NHS pay offer. In total, 87% of GMB’s NHS members turned down the deal - ...

Black death was around in the Bronze Age

A pair of 3,800-year-old skeletons buried together in Russia test positive for a strain of the plague-causing bacterium Yersinia pestis that is ancestral to the strain that caused the Black Death

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