5 h. ago Funding London’s art schools: is this £6mn donation a blueprint for future philanthropy?

Funding London’s art schools: is this £6mn donation a blueprint for future philanthropy?  Financial Times

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5 h. ago ‘I don’t date at all now’: one woman’s journey into the darkest corners of the manosphere

When Jess Davies was 15, a boy leaked pictures she’d shared with him. At 18, she was a glamour model. A few years later, another man violated her trust. Then she fought backJess Davies was a 15-year-old schoolgirl, sitting in an art lesson, absorbed in her fairytale project about a princess and a postman, when her Nokia phone began to vibrate with messages. “Nice pictures,” read one. “I didn’t think you were that type of girl,” said another.To this day, she remembers the racing thoughts, the instant nausea, the hairs prickling up on her legs, the sweaty palms. She had shared a photograph of herself in her underwear with a boy she trusted and, very soon, it had been sent around the school and across her small home town, Aberystwyth, Wales. She became a local celebrity for all the wrong reasons. Younger kids would approach her laughing and ask for a hug. Members of the men’s football team saw it – and one showed someone who knew Davies’s nan, so that’s how her family found out. Contin...

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25 h. ago Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025: 'Inspiring' nominees all outside London

Art Fund Museum of the Year 2025: 'Inspiring' nominees all outside London  BBC

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4 d. ago Speed limits to be cut in 'many' more London streets as TfL funds new cycle and bus lanes and e

£87m for borough projects - but 14 councils don’t get a penny for ‘safer streets’

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5 d. ago Sadiq Khan boosts funding to combat hate crimes and radicalisation

Mayor admits hate crimes in the capital remain ‘far too high’, while stressing the need to help Londoners ‘think critically’ in face of online extremism

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6 d. ago Dads of Southport victim recalls daughter's emotional wish ahead of London Marathon

David Stancombe and Sergio Aguiar are running the 2025 London Marathon to raise funds for causes honouring their late daughters

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6 d. ago London's TwentyFour Asset Management Expands Offering With ABF Fund

London's TwentyFour Asset Management Expands Offering With ABF Fund  Crowdfund Insider

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6 d. ago China schools Trump on the art of a tariff deal: Don’t threaten us

Donald Trump has announced he’s willing to back way off Chinese tariffs after his levy package hit the stock market, the strength of the dollar, small businesses and American jobs.

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6 d. ago ‘Nepo babies should be doing stuff like this’: are rich people ruining or reviving club culture?

London’s underground dance scene is increasingly funded by inherited wealth. From Mike Ashley’s son to a Tetra Pak heir, monied promoters explain their motivationsNestled between Millwall FC stadium and an intersection of south London railway lines, the 350-capacity Venue MOT – once an actual MOT garage – is a cornerstone of the city’s underground music scene. But every Tuesday, owner Jan Mohammed gathers his staff at the bar and tells them how much money it has lost since the weekend.Mohammed, a sculptor, started renting a nearby space to use as a studio more than a decade ago. With no residential neighbours and relatively low costs, he opened Venue MOT in 2018 based on simple intuition: “I thought music could thrive here,” he says. Despite the losses and Mohammed calling his operation a “comedy of errors”, it does. Time Out recently labelled Venue MOT the best nightclub in London and Jamie xx called it “one of the last places in London that feels genuinely free and DIY” after his ...

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6 d. ago ‘Nepo babies should be doing stuff like this’: are rich people ruining or reviving UK club culture?

London’s underground dance scene is increasingly funded by inherited wealth. From Mike Ashley’s son to a Tetra Pak heir, moneyed promoters explain their motivationsNestled between Millwall FC stadium and an intersection of south London railway lines, the 350-capacity Venue MOT – once an actual MOT garage – is a cornerstone of the city’s underground music scene. But every Tuesday, owner Jan Mohammed gathers his staff at the bar and tells them how much money it has lost since the weekend.Mohammed, a sculptor, started renting a nearby space to use as a studio more than a decade ago. With no residential neighbours and relatively low costs, he opened Venue MOT in 2018 based on simple intuition: “I thought music could thrive here,” he says. Despite the losses and Mohammed calling his operation a “comedy of errors”, it does. Time Out recently labelled Venue MOT the best nightclub in London and Jamie xx called it “one of the last places in London that feels genuinely free and DIY” after his...

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8 d. ago Kuwait’s sovereign wealth fund sues over City of London skyscraper

Willis Building owner says tower at 50 Fenchurch Street will obstruct light

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1 week ago Trump Media urges regulators to investigate hedge fund’s vast bet against stock

Company behind Truth Social accuses London-based hedge fund Qube of alleged ‘suspicious trading activity’Donald Trump’s fledgling media firm has urged market regulators to investigate “suspicious activity” after a London-based hedge fund disclosed a vast bet against its stock.Trump Media & Technology Group, owner of the US president’s Truth Social platform, raised questions over trading by Qube Research & Technologies. Continue reading...

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1 week ago This Goldman Sachs team in London looks perfect for hedge fund jobs

This Goldman Sachs team in London looks perfect for hedge fund jobs  eFinancialCareers

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1 week ago Kilmarnock man taking on London Marathon to raise funds to help feed hungry children

Graeme Quinn will run the 26.2 mile route across the capital this month to fundraise for Mary’s Meals.

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2 w. ago ‘I sent AI to art school!’ The postmodern master who taught a machine to beef up his old work

Warhol for colour, Hopper for volume American art world star David Salle is using AI on old paintings of his that had a mixed reception – with wild, sprawling results. Why isn’t he afraid of being replaced?By the time you read this article, there’s a good chance it will have already been scanned by an artificially intelligent machine. If asked about the artist David Salle, large language models such as ChatGPT or Gemini may repurpose some of the words below to come up with their answer. The bigger the data set, the more convincing the response – and Salle has been written about exhaustively since he first rose to art world stardom in the 1980s. The question is whether AI can ever say anything new about the artist and his work, or if it’s for ever condemned to generate more of the same.A similar question lingers beneath the surface of the paintings that Salle has been making since 2023, a new series of which he has just unveiled at Thaddaeus Ropac in London. His New Pastorals were ma...

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2 w. ago Leaders meet in London to raise funds for Sudan on second anniversary of civil war

Leaders meet in London to raise funds for Sudan on second anniversary of civil war  Yahoo News Canada

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2 w. ago Crystal Palace Park regeneration plan secures funding through long

Crystal Palace Park regeneration plan secures funding through long-anticipated land sale completion  London Borough of Bromley

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2 w. ago Government will start funding cancer medicine, PM says during London visit

Government will start funding cancer medicine, PM says during London visit  Times of Malta

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2 w. ago Dobell prize 2025: Australia’s leading prize for drawing – in pictures

The $30,000 biennial Dobell drawing prize is known for pushing the boundaries among Australian artists. Rosemary Lee’s 24-1 – an ‘exploration of the urban landscape and gentrification of the Sydney suburbs of Ashfield and Summer Hill’ – was selected winner from 56 finalists and 965 entries• The finalists of the 2025 Dobell drawing prize will be showing at the National Art School Gallery, Sydney, until 21 May Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Top portfolio manager wisely disappeared from London hedge fund in February

Top portfolio manager wisely disappeared from London hedge fund in February  eFinancialCareers

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