The skaters of the West Bank Jayyous Skatepark have been practicing tricks for a truly international production of A Skate Play – skatepark-based theatre first produced in Brooklyn, New York, five years ago. This week the Jayyous Skatepark – built last year by international volunteers, skatepark experts from the UK's Skate ...
By Chloé Farand Chloé Farand is a reporter at Desmog UK investigating climate change denial - where this report first appeared. In a packed lecture hall a few hundred metres away from the Conservative Party Conference, climate science denier and hard-Brexiter MP Owen Paterson told the cheering crowd: “We are the mainstream ...
1000's of petrol canisters can be seen waiting in a queue
Yesterday Home Secretary Sajid Javid praised veteran Labour MP Dianne Abbott for being the sort of "role model" that Conservatives should be appealling to, insiting "it takes guts and determination to become the first black woman to be elected to the House of Commons," in a rousing Conservative Party Conference ...
“There are probably women who have not yet found out that they had relationships with undercover officers, and as a result of names released by the undercover policing enquiry there’s now over twenty women who have brought claims.”
"the changes you have made since becoming leader have changed the party beyond all recognition. You have allowed your personal obsessions free reign."
A stall advertising an infamous tax haven is on display at this year’s Conservative Party Conference. Several attendees have posted pictures of the Cayman Islands stall which looks to have garnered considerable interest among the conference’s suited delegates. Hosted by the island’s tourism board Visit Cayman Islands it appears to ...
Chris Dade decided to travel the world after his job of 14 years came to an end and arrived in Kenya almost two years ago - and now wants to save as many orphans and vulnerable young children as possible.
A Japanese researcher affiliated with Sony has presented a “Human Uber” product at an MIT conference in Asia this week. The device, which provides a way to attend events remotely using another person’s body, uses a real human as a surrogate for another remote user. The surrogate wears a mask-shaped ...