Nikola, an American electric-car start up company and pioneer in zero-emission trucks, offering pure electric and also hydrogen electric power across multiple who has delivered its first two vehicles to a customer operating at the ports of Loa Angeles and Long Beach, has dropped its US $2 billion suit against Tesla. The lawsuit filed in…
Hyeonseo Lee, a child growing up in North Korea. was one of the millions trapped by the world’s most secretive and brutal communist regime. From the indoctrination she received in Kindergarden to her forced service in the Socialist Youth League at age of fourteen, the state controlled ever aspect of her life. As the great famine…
Array Collective, a Belfast-based activist group have won the prestigious Turner Prize 2021, after they beat four other collectives to take the £25, 000 prize money. Their works, a mock Irish pub adorned in banners supporting reproductive rights and protesting against conversion therapy. The Judges praised the group for highlighting social and political issues in…
The UK advertising watchdog says the rules for adverts for cosmetic surgery including breast enhancements and nose jobs designed to change person’s physical appearance are to be banned targeting under 18s across TV programmes and social media. It is illegal to perform cosmetic procedures on under-18s but there have previously been no restrictions on…
Entrepreneur, acclaimed model, actress and global social media phenomenon, Emily Ratajkowski, who has shared her image with the world, at the age of twenty-one, created a furor with her provocative display of her body as an unapologetic statement of feminist empowerment. My Body, a collection of 12 essays, offers lucid examination of mirrors in…
Tom Standage take us through the beginning around 3000 BC with the wheel and moving through the era of horsepower, trains, bicycles, and the rise of the car – and the future of urban transport – into a broader historical context. Our society has been shaped by the car in innumerable ways , many of…
Sportswear brand Sweaty Betty founded in 1998, from London’s Notting Hill Gate which expanded rapidly on the back of the popularity of so-called athleisure fashion, favourites of Jennifer Anniston and Halle Berry, had been bought by US-based Wolverine Worldwide best known for selling footwear for £294.4m. Brendan Hoffman, President of Wolverine Worldwide, said “Sweaty Betty…
A Tokyo court sentenced US Special Forces veteran Michael Taylor for two years in prison and is son Peter for one year and eight months for their role in ex-Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn’s escape from Japan in 2019, after the pair were extradited from the US over claims they smuggled Mr Ghosn out of Japan…
StHumans rely on plants to change consciousness to stimulate calm, or completely after the qualities of our mental experience. Michael Pollen explores three very different drugs – Opium, caffeine and mescaline and throws the fundamental strangeness of our thinking about them into sharp relief, exploring and participating in the cultures that have grown up around…