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We’re only just over seven weeks into 2024 and already the news is full of stories of powerful men facing allegations of sexual misdemeanours.
The latest industry to be targeted as a hotbed of misogyny is the music business, which was castigated by the Women and Equalities Committee. Its report said sexual harassment and abuse is ‘common’, with former Radio 1 DJ Annie Macmanus, who gave evidence at the inquiry, saying there was a ‘tidal wave’ of revelations about sexual
If you’ve followed my show regularly over the past few months, you know that I’ve done a couple of monologues on the aviation industry.
The frequency of near-disasters in the sky has increased dramatically in recent years, and as I’ve noted, the increase began around the time that the Obama administration began a concerted effort to “diversify” the FAA, including air traffic control. According to a NASA database, which tracks self-reported data from pilots, we now average roughly five near-misses
They’ve got five consecutive festive number one singles under their belt and have even surpassed a record set by The Beatles.
But husband-wife duo LadBaby – who earlier this month admitted that they won’t be releasing a track for 2023 – never expected to hit their level of fame when they first made a food-inspired charity tune in 2018.
That year, We Built This City… On Sausage Rolls, a parody of the 1985 Starship hit, scooped the coveted number one,
Shane MacGowans Witwe Victoria Mary Clarke hat dem Sänger am Weihnachtstag, der auch sein 66. Geburtstag war – nach dem Tod des Sängers am 30. November – eine herzliche Hommage erwiesen.
Die 58-jährige Journalistin postete auf Instagram ein süßes Foto des Paares und sagte, die Festtage seien viel schwieriger gewesen, als sie erwartet hatte.
Der Frontmann der Pogues, Shane, kämpfte gegen eine Virusenzephalitis und wurde kurz vor seinem Tod im Kreise seiner Familie aus dem Krankenhaus in Dublin entlassen.
Victoria,
The tropics are teeming with life, tending to hold far more species than milder environments closer to the poles. But one group of insects, the Darwin wasps, were thought to buck that trend.
Researchers who compared wasp diversity in the United Kingdom and the United States with tropical areas in the 1970s and ’80s concluded that these wasps were most diverse at mid-latitudes — say, Kentucky or England. But others thought that people just weren’t looking hard enough in the
Keeping count of nostril hairs and investigating the promiscuity of anchovies may seem completely unrelated.
But these studies are among 10 others to win this year’s spoof ‘Ig Nobels’, thanks to their ability to make scientists chuckle.
Traditionally hosted at Harvard University, this ceremony is the 33rd of its kind, and sees genuine Nobel laureates handing out awards to lucky academics.
The prize is ten trillion Zimbabwean dollars, which might sound like a huge amount, but is actually only the
On the morning of September 5, a loosely swirling system of thunderstorms formed off the western coast of Africa. By September 6, the system had become a Category 1 storm, with maximum winds at least 130 kilometers per hour (80 miles per hour).
Just 24 hours later, fueled by the record-warm waters of the North Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Lee whipped itself into a Category 5 monster. In that short time span, its wind speeds doubled, to 260 kilometers per hour
September 1 marks the arrival of a new number plate ‘age identifier’, with 73 plates being fitted to new models registered from today.
Its advent also opens up a selection of new combinations for drivers to purchase to personalise their car.
But are motorists in the north or south more likely to have a private plate? A new study claims to have the answer as This is Money explains what the arrival of the 73 plate means to motorists.
The
The director of the British Museum has resigned ‘with immediate effect’ and its deputy has stepped back following a disastrous week in which it emerged a curator had been sacked after almost 2,000 artefacts were reported to have been stolen.
Director Hartwig Fischer and deputy director Jonathan Williams both announced their decisions on Friday.
Both were criticised when whistleblower Dr Ittai Gradel revealed he had contacted them about alleged thefts in February 2021, after spotting items he had seen in
