Whatever happened to Generation X?
Alamy Douglas Coupland defined a new generation in his 1991 novel, Generation X. But how are those cynical, anti-establishment kids going, now they’re in their 40s? Lindsay Baker investigates. It’s a familiar and ongoing feud: baby boomers in one corner and millennials in the other. It seems the two generations are constantly at each other’s […]
Women’s Super League: How Arsenal won the 2018-19 title
Much of Arsenal’s success has been credited to Australian manager Montemurro, who took charge in November 2017 and has since guided them to two League Cup finals and now the title. The former Melbourne City assistant coach is a lifelong Arsenal fan and has described leading the club as “surreal”, but why have the players […]
Bringing mod cons to the slums
iShack (Copyright: iShack) There’s an urgent need for sustainable housing solutions for the urban poor around the world. Meet the people hoping to revolutionise slum living with their hi-tech, low-cost ideas. Migration of people to cities has reached unprecedented levels in recent human history. Over a third of these people – around one billion in […]
Teacher fired for asking Trump to ‘remove illegal students’ from school
CBS Georgia Clark told the school board she thought the tweets were private A Texas school district has fired a high school teacher who tweeted to US President Donald Trump to ask for help reporting illegal immigrant students. Georgia Clark, an English teacher in Fort Worth, complained on 17 May about “illegal students from Mexico”, […]
Liz Truss pledges no public spending cuts as she defends mini-budget
Liz Truss says she “absolutely” rules out making cuts to public spending. Liz Truss has said she is “absolutely” not planning public spending cuts. Since the chancellor’s tax cutting mini-budget last month, markets have been waiting to find out how the government proposes to bring down debt. Ms Truss has now said the government will […]
The truth about technology’s greatest myth
(Thinkstock) Many optimists believe that technology can transform society, whether it’s the internet or the latest phone. But as Tom Chatfield argues in his final column for BBC Future, the truth about our relationship with technology is far more interesting. Lecturing in late 1968, the American sociologist Harvey Sacks addressed one of the central failures […]
Rwanda asylum a risk to UK foreign policy, says ex-minister
Reuters The M23 rebel group remains active in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where civilians have fled fighting The government’s deal to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda risks “downgrading” UK foreign policy, a former cabinet minister has said. A final report by a United Nations Group of Experts, published earlier this month, […]
The A-Z of how artificial intelligence is changing the world
Alamy Facial recognition systems have been shown to misidentify black faces and often fail to see women’s faces at all (Credit: Alamy) Artificial intelligence can no longer be considered a technology of the future – it is already shaping our everyday lives. Here is our guide to understanding the minds of machines. Getty Images For […]
Labour suspends MP over Gaza remarks in Holocaust message
Getty Images Kate Osamor said she apologised for “any offence caused” Labour MP Kate Osamor has been suspended by her party after saying Gaza should be remembered as genocide in a post about Holocaust Memorial Day. The Edmonton MP has since apologised for “any offence caused” over the message distributed to local party members on […]
Killing Eve series 2 review
BBC America Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s tale of a female agent and her assassin nemesis is back – and its leading ladies’ relationship is more complicated than ever, says Caryn James. History is full of women who have killed and spied, so there’s no particular novelty in Killing Eve’s premise of a female intelligence agent tracking an […]