South Asian faces on TV ‘makes me happy’
NETFLIX Left-right: Simone Ashley (as Kate Sharma), Adjoa Andoh (Lady Danbury), Shelley Conn (Mary Sharma) and Charithra Chandran (Edwina Sharma) Hit period drama Bridgerton returns for a second series on Friday – with two of its lead characters portrayed by actresses of South Asian heritage. Young actors from the same background tell BBC News why […]
‘Boris and Rory show’ in TV debate
Getty Images Mr Johnson is in the lead in the race, after two ballots among Conservative MPs Inevitably perhaps, most attention focuses on the front-runner, Boris Johnson, making his biggest appearance so far during the contest. The i newspaper says the debate was an ill-tempered and chaotic encounter, but concludes that the former foreign secretary […]
Inside North Korea’s Western-funded university
When we mention Michael Jackson, we get a room full of blank faces. We try again. “Raise your hands if you’ve heard of Michael Jackson.” Not a single arm goes up. You might have thought students would have found out about Michael Jackson from the Internet – unlike most of North Korea it is available […]
Facial recognition faces a reckoning
Getty Images Studies have suggested facial recognition technology is more likely to wrongly identify the faces of black people It was the week that big tech slammed the brakes on development of facial recognition systems. On Tech Tent we ask whether it is enough to stop police using these systems – or whether there needs […]
Women’s Six Nations 2023: Can professional Scotland close gap to England?
Much of the talk around the 2023 Women’s Six Nations has centred on ‘the gap’. Professional sides England and France have dominated the tournament for the past seven years. Now that the other four teams have widespread player contracts too, there is hope they can catch up. But hope is unlikely to be enough for […]
Europe’s Mr Ordinary prepares for power
Igor Matovic was greeted after his victory by Slovakia’s president “Who are you?” It was an unusual opening gambit for what was the first foreign TV interview with the man who is likely to be Slovakia’s next prime minister. But it is a reasonable one. We know little about what Igor Matovic thinks of anything […]
Cardiff and Swansea universities get £1.2m coding cash
vgajic/Getty Images The aim is for young people to move from being just users of technology to helping create it Two Welsh universities are to receive £1.2m towards expanding coding in schools, colleges and communities. The funding will help Cardiff and Swansea universities be part of the UK-wide Institute of Coding, which links up with […]
Swimmer’s bid to get more black and Asian children involved
Seren Jones Seren Jones said swimming did not come naturally to her and she initially preferred other sports “I remember being petrified of the water. I just hated it.” This is not the first memory of swimming you expect to hear from someone who spent 13 years pursuing the activity to elite level and winning […]
Brexit Party in the Midlands: Now with added policies
BBC The Brexit Party added literal fireworks, glow sticks and then policies, but where were the prospective candidates? Expect fireworks! It’s just one of those things we say in the run-up to potentially lively political events or “crunch meetings”. We don’t usually mean it literally. But when the Brexit Party came to Birmingham, promising an […]
The video link survival kit for midwives and mums
Sehat Kahani midwife Fatima sitting at a laptop in a health clinic “I am actually nine months pregnant and it is a little tricky for me to travel,” says midwife Fatima as she carefully makes her way down some steep stone steps to the door of her clinic. “But I come here for the sake […]