“THREADS” – MONOLOGUES BY JEAN COCTEAU – A CHANCE TO GET FAMILIAR WITH A VERY UNUSUAL GROUND FLOOR VENUE IN VAUXHALL PLEASURE GARDENS LONDON. Who would imagine when going to a park area that they would find a formerly abandoned huge now restored Victorian public house, tenderly refurbished with vast character, complete with two resident…
Two cannabis-based medicines have been recommended for use on the NHS for the first time. Epidyolex has been approved for two rare types of epilepsy, Lennox Gastaut and Dravet syndromes while Sativex has been recommended for muscle spasms in multiple scierosis. The drug will not be used to treat chronic pain under new guidance from…
Several women aged between 45 and 56 being treated for HIV has increased five-fold in the UK over the past ten years – due to them not practising safe sex. According to a worldwide study of HIV and ageing in the female population , it is partly because women are living longer with the infection…
The Queen and senior politicians are joining commemorations for those who lost their lives in conflict at 11:00 GMT, a two-minute silence was held across the country. Boris Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Jo Swinson attended the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London. Prince Charles laid a wreath during the service on behalf of…
Indian stocks wobbled on their record hype after the New York based credit rating agency, Moody’s lowered its outlook for the country to negative, citing concern over a deepening economic slowdown and insufficient government action. According to Moody “ the government’s inability to manage the slowdown, which has seen growth in gross domestic product fall…
World’s biggest private wealth managing bank UBS, manages world’s billionaire’s wealth, is defending the rights of billionaires, arguing they are better corporate leaders and receive unfair criticism in the media. Josef Stadler, head of the Ultra-High net worth unit at UBS said” Billionaires should be recognised’. UBs released a report showing that listed companies run…
The Great universal connects agriculture and climate to trade and exchange to traditions and cultures to identity and politics. Ned Palmer’s A Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles, is a canon of food-centric histories begun with Mark Kurlansky’s Cod (1997). How we feed ourselves can tell us as much about who we are and where…
Laura Mulvey, 78-year-old academic coined the phrase “Male Gaze” and almost 45-years-ago ignited a generation of feminists with her concept in 1`975, to describe the dominant assumption “ Sexual imbalance” in Hollywood that the perspective film-maker and view is male, and how it strategically positions men as spectators and women as objects, is now reaching…
India government alleged to be using Israeli Pegasus spyware to Facebook-owned WhatsApp monitoring. Indian academics and lawyers have accused Narendra Modi’s government of hacking into their phones after discovering their WhatsApp accounts had been targeted. WhatsApp and University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab which tracks digital surveillance have attempted to contact 1, 400 telephone numbers around…
Walgreens Boots Alliance has held talks with a private equity group on a $70bn deal to go private. Aggressive deal making by Stefano Pessina the Italian billionaire who owns 16 per cent of the global pharmacy group has assembled a business that spans 25 countries and generates $34bn in revenues. Shares in the company rose…