Successful women could be in danger of falling from a “glass cliff”, according to Professor Michelle Ryan of the University of Exeter. In a keynote talk at the Royal Society’s annual Diversity Conference today the professor will present a report on 15 years of research which reveals how women are ...
Conservative councillors were left dumbfounded after a word cloud created for the Edinburgh 2050 campaign returned “Tory Free” as one of the people’s hopes for the future. The 2050 vision campaign was launched two years ago as an initiative to help shape the future of the Scottish capital by inviting ...
George Osborne has admitted government mistakes led to Brexit, saying they were wrong to “play into the debate that everything that Brussels did was a challenge and a battle and was wrong”. Talking to the BBC’s Newsnight the former Chancellor said he has a series of "regrets" about his time ...
It’s Halloween soon, so a lot of movie lovers are planning horror marathons for the season. I’ve clearly gone mad, so I figured I would try to suggest the longest endurance test of them all: a 24 hour horrorthon. I’m five minutes short, but hopefully you’ll forgive that. Obviously I’d ...
US President Donald Trump has given his backing to Jair Bolsonaro after the far-right politician won a sweeping victory in Brazil's presidential election. The former army captain won 55.2 per cent of the vote against 44.8 per cent for Fernando Haddad of the left-wing Workers' Party. His pledge to fight crime and ...
Over the last month I've been covering the London Film Festival for TLE, trying largely to bring you a taste of the slightly more esoteric side of the festival. The time, sadly, has come to wrap up our coverage for this year, but there's one last thing to do: our ...
After PM announced the end of austerity, poll shows even Conservative voters think it’s time to give public sector workers a pay rise The British public overwhelmingly support measures to end austerity in next week’s Budget, exclusive polling by Survation for GMB reveals. The results also show a large majority ...
Efforts to save the tiger from extinction have been boosted after ecologists concluded that there are SIX different types of the big cat still surviving in the wild
By Roger Cottrell, PhD Much like the car bomb assassination of Daphne Carvana Galazia in Malta on October 16, 2017, the squalid butchery and dismemberment of Washington Post correspondent Jamal Karshoggi, in a Saudi Consulate in Istanbul on October 2, 2018 tells us what we already know: namely that there ...