Culloden, Falkirk, and Prestonpans, the three pitched battles of 1745, were brief affairs lasting about 90 minutes. Culloden ended all hope of a Stuart Restoration. What followed destroyed the traditional clan society of the Highlands. The last pitched battle in Scotland, between Scotland and England. There were more Scottish than English support for the Jacobites,…
Most amazing stories have pretty average beginnings, invest in your own success, as the pandemic has forced every organisation to change the way it is run, requiring leadership to survive. Both Pharmaceuticals and supply chain management have propelled into the spotlight by the pandemic. In 2013, Stephanie Bazeley, and nine other university friends made Monstrum,…
Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide and a quota permits only two Tutsi students for every twenty pupils. French Rwandan writer Mukasonga reveals the prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the elite school for the girls in the interminable rainy season. Nothing at Our Lady of the…
In the world of geeks, for decades two competing tribes of artificial intelligence experts have been furiously dueling with each other in research labs and conference halls around the world, with mathematical models and computer codes. The connectionist tribe believes that computers can learn behaviour in the same way as humans do, by processing …
Dr Jordan B Peterson, clinical psychologist and professor at Harvard and the University of Toronto, who grew up in Fairview, Alberta, had already helped millions of readers in his sequel to 12 Rules of Life, impose order on the chaos of their lives, by resisting the exhausting toll that our desire to order…
Back to school by scooter at Rosary School in Hampstead Millions of children in England are returning to classroom teaching after more than two months of home-schooling. Primary schools are expected to be open for all pupils, while secondary schools will have a phased opening with regular rapid Covid tests and they all need to…
Linda Colley encapsulate a common purpose to define power, the rights and responsibilities of states and citizens by starting with the Corsican Constitution of 1755 as both monarchs and radicals play a role, from Catherine the Great of Russia with her remarkable Nakaz to Sierra Leone’s James Africanus Horton to Tunisia’s Khayr-al-Din, a creator of…
In The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders who Barter the Earth’s Resources by the Bloomberg News reporter and former FT journalist, Javier Blas and Jack Farchy tow leading journalists lift the lid off one of the least scrutinised corners of the economy including the working of the billionaire commodity traders who buy,…
The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) investigated Pontins about their working practices after disclosure it had blacklisted several Irish surnames and screen out their booking for its holiday park from Gypsies and Travellers, after being contacted by a whistleblower. Pontins said it had now signed a legally binding agreement with the EHRC to stop…
Selina Todd, a professor of modern history at Oxford University, proves how wrong politicians are who claim social mobility is real, a just reward for ambition and hard work. She tracks down successive British generations with a humane focus on how individuals took their opportunities and how obstacles were put in their way – sometimes…