How Shakespeare’s Hamlet found a virtual stage
Tull Stories A virtual avatar selfie featuring Grand Theft Hamlet’s director, Pinny Grylls, alongside co-star writers and directors Sam Crane (left) and Mark Oosterveen (right) How do you keep Shakespeare fresh after 400 years? Two actors found an unexpected answer inside the computer game Grand Theft Auto (GTA). Prevented from working by the Covid pandemic, […]
‘I just totally fell in love with the family farm’
Life as a woman running the family farm After 20 years of living in Scotland, Bronagh O’Kane came home to help out on the family farm. It was never really in the plan for her, she said: “I wasn’t involved in the farm growing up.” But with one brother emigrating and another starting his own […]
Facebook encryption threatens public safety, say ministers
Getty Images The home secretary says that if Facebook has a credible plan to protect its users then it is time to disclose the details UK Home Secretary Priti Patel and counterparts in the US and Australia have sent an open letter to Facebook calling on it to rethink its plans to encrypt all messages […]
New chancellor Nadhim Zahawi pledges to control rising prices
Reuters Inflation will be brought back under control by the government, Nadhim Zahawi said in his first speech as chancellor. The government will deliver “sound public finances” to help achieve that, Mr Zahawi said. Inflation – the rate at which prices rise – is at a 40-year high of 9.1% and expected to rise further […]
‘I escaped abusive jungle cult
EPA-EFE Lev Tahor settled in Central America after coming under investigation in Canada When Mexican police raided a self-styled Jewish sect, former members hoped it would spell the end of the group, which has been accused of crimes against children. Instead, the case collapsed and the sect recovered – but not before details about the […]
Thomas Hardy building lost in Dorchester fire
A building where novelist Thomas Hardy trained as an architect has been left a charred wreck after a fire. The blaze on Dorchester’s South Street swept through The Gorge Cafe and spread to the roofs of neighbouring properties, shortly after 03:30 GMT on Monday. The Thomas Hardy Society said: “We are deeply saddened this was […]
Mali imam challenges President Keïta
AFP Brushing aside any concern about coronavirus, huge crowds are sustaining a campaign of mass protest across Mali, demanding the resignation of the West African state’s increasingly beleaguered President Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta. Corruption and cronyism, weak public services and national leadership, electoral malpractice and the government’s inability to bring an end to inter-communal and jihadist […]
Luis Rubiales: Spanish football federation president says he will continue defending himself
Spanish football federation president Luis Rubiales has said he will continue defending himself “to prove the truth”. Rubiales, 46, has been widely criticised after he kissed player Jenni Hermoso on the lips following Spain’s Women’s World Cup final win in Sydney, Australia on 20 August. Hermoso said the kiss during the medal ceremony was not […]
‘The panic is probably the worst’
James Barber James Barber has suffered with asthma his entire life – having been in and out of hospital as a child. He describes it as “gasping for air that you just can’t get”. James says he wakes up in sweats because he’s struggling to breathe. “It’s best described as a tightness in your chest […]
How to control a consumer panic
PA Media It’s been 14 years since the bank run on Northern Rock There is an art and some science to trying to calm a mass consumer panic. It was the former Bank of England governor, Mervyn King, who in the aftermath of the 2007 bank run on Northern Rock said it was entirely rational […]