How campaigns sully the Academy Awards
(Corbis) Tom Brook tells what it is like to be wined and dined by studio publicists during Oscars season – and why it is bad…
DUP living in fools’ paradise, says Michelle O’Neill
BBC Michelle O’Neill was making her first speech to an ard fheis (conference) since becoming party vice-president. Sinn Féin’s vice-president Michelle O’Neill has launched a…
Australia finds shipwreck 55 years after deadly disaster
Fifty-five years after it sank, killing 21 men, Australia has found the shipwreck of the MV Noongah. The 71m (233ft) freighter was carrying steel off…
County lines abuse inspires young fashion designer
Madelaine Atkinson Madelaine Atkinson wants to use her designs to raise awareness of drug gangs A Devon designer is using her fashion to make a…
South Africa’s illegal mining industry: Gang-controlled ‘towns’ grow underground
Getty Images Along with about 600 other men, Ndumiso lives and works in a small gang-controlled “town” – complete with markets and a red light…
The rise of ‘art house’ gaming
(Picture: Journey – 2012) Recent games concerned with mood and psychology rather than tasks and thrills have been likened to art house cinema. But is…
£90m fine due to low investment says water boss
Lawrence Gosden, chief executive of Southern Water, says the company has failed to invest adequately in its sewage system The chief executive of Southern Water…
How Warhol’s work influenced our wardrobes
Andy Warhol Foundation/ARS, NY/Licensed by Campbell’s Soup Co. All rights reserved Warhol’s 1962 work Campbell’s Soup Cans (Credit: Andy Warhol Foundation/ARS, NY/Licensed by Campbell’s Soup…
Wishy-washy centrism wrong for Labour, warns Lord Hain
Getty Images Jeremy Corbyn at a rally in Colwyn Bay last weekend Labour must not resort to “wishy-washy centrism” after its disastrous general election showing,…
Apple, Lyft and feel-good tech
Getty Images I’ve got a proposition for you. Would you like to invest in my tech firm? It’s never made a profit – oh, and…