39 h. ago Sopranos creator David Chase to write HBO limited series on CIA drug program

Return marks his first TV series since groundbreaking mob drama, and will examine covert mind-control programDavid Chase is returning to television. The Sopranos creator will write MKUltra, a limited series on the CIA’s secret cold war-era mind control program, for HBO.The project, first reported by Deadline, will be Chase’s first series since the era-defining HBO mob drama. The dramatic thriller, based on John Lisle’s book Project Mind Control: Sidney Gottlieb, the CIA, and the Tragedy of MKUltra, focuses on Gottlieb, a notorious scientist known as the “black sorcerer” who led Project MKUltra, the CIA’s covert psychedelic program that tested hallucinogenic drugs, hypnosis, and torture on willing and unwilling subjects from 1953 until it was halted in 1973. Continue reading...

Events

2 w. ago Educating Yorkshire headteacher breaks down in tears after student threatens to 'burn down his home'

Viewers were left horrified when the teenage student began hitting out at Mr Burton, as cameras followed him storming off school grounds in an angry rant.

Society

3 w. ago ‘It proves this can be done’: Berlin the blueprint to bring goshawks to UK cities

Conservationist plans release of 15 each of the apex predators sourced as chicks into Chester and LondonFiring off rapid keck-keck-keck cries that rang out through a park in central Berlin, the goshawks soared high above the trees and circled before swooping down to chase off a ragtag bunch of crows that had begun to mob them from below.“It’s basically a flying Batman bringing law and order to the city,” said the conservationist Dr Paul O’Donoghue, peering through binoculars at two breeding pairs of the large pale-bellied birds as they dipped and dived through the sky. “They’re like stealth bombers.” Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago 'I was first Black student at school and people can't believe what I went through'

October marks Black History Month in the UK. To mark the occasion, a campaigner has shared the story of Ruby Bridges, who broke barriers as the first Black student to attend her school

Politics

3 w. ago 'I was first Black student at school and angry mob chased me on first day'

October marks Black History Month in the UK, and Ruby Bridges has shared what life was like as the first Black student to integrate into a Louisiana school in 1960

Politics

3 w. ago UK Government to debate cutting school week to just four days – but there's a catch

There are a few countries where shorter school weeks exist, but angry teachers and parents have now flocked to proclaim their anger that the UK could shorten the school week

Politics