By Niki Kandirikirira, Director of Programmes at Equality Now The Women’s March on London this Saturday saw around 100,000 people come onto the capital’s streets to demand that the rights of women and minorities be protected and promoted. In what turned into an historic day, the London march was just ...
A savvy student has designed a 'smart glove' which translates sign language - into speech. PhD student Hadeel Ayoub designed the BrightSign to help people with speech disabilities communicate without needing an interpreter. Hadeel, who specialises in digital and software design at Goldsmiths University, has been working on the BrightSign ...
By Michael McNulty The representation of immigrants, diasporas, and conflict of cultural identity has, in the latter half of the century, slowly found footing in recent cinema, under the moniker of migration cinema. These films, which often blend or reimagine the generic conventions and production modes and practices typically associated ...
The PM was in Bahrain to “turbo-charge” the UK’s trade in the Gulf, I guess that is code for “sell more heavy weaponry to the Saudi Government to shoot civilians.” To be fair she can drop off a bit of hardware for the Bahrainis while she is there, rude not ...
When the astronomer Percival Lowell claimed he had found canals on Mars, that might have been the first truly scientific attempt to prove alien life exists. Today, Lowell's Martian canals are an embarrassment to the Arizona observatory that bares his name. But if Lowell was wrong about the specifics, he ...
Review by Leslie Byron Pitt/@Afroilmviewer Despite featuring the ever affable Tom Hanks and adapted from a well-known and enjoyed author, A Hologram for the King (novel by Dave Eggers) received a rather muted reception when realised earlier this year. The film was only really rivalled by Sing Street in the ...
By Courtney Greatrex Enterprising young men and women are right to ditch conventional jobs to carve careers online says Natasha Courtenay-Smith, the author of a new book, The Million Dollar Blog. This week new research revealed the top five 'dream' jobs include writing, blogging and vlogging but few are actually successful ...
It was the first day back at school and so much had gone on since last term. I was half expecting the leaders to share their summer break stories through the medium of song. Perhaps a version of Summer Nights from Grease? *Gove saved her life she nearly drowned. Boris ...
There have been claims of an establishment over-up, as government records relating to Mark Thatcher, the late PM’s son, will remain under lock and key until 2053. Under the 30-year-rule the National Archives are releasing notes and records from Government cabinet meetings from 86-88, the height of Mrs Thatcher’s premiership, ...