5 h. ago White House attacks Independent reporter after being challenged over deportation criteria

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt refused to answer a question about the criteria the administration is using to determine whether an immigrant is a member of the Tren de Argua gang and blamed media outlets for being sympathetic to deported migrants.

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24 h. ago Kurt Cobain’s Unplugged guitar to go on show at London’s Royal College of Music Museum

Kurt Cobain’s Unplugged guitar to go on show at London’s Royal College of Music Museum  Kerrang!

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29 h. ago White House Correspondents’ Dinner axes comedy slot after Trump administration pressure

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich called Amber Ruffin a ‘garbage, hate-filled comedian’

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59 h. ago ‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courtsBehind the reinforced doors of courtroom number two, at a remote detention centre in central Louisiana, Lu Xianying sat alone before an immigration judge unable to communicate.Dressed in a blue jumpsuit that drooped from his slight frame, he waited as court staff called three different translation services, unable to find an interpreter proficient in his native Gan Chinese. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago London Museum calls for staff to challenge ‘whiteness’ in diversity drive

Staff at the publicly-funded institution have been issued a pamphlet described as a ‘tool for culture change’

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3 d. ago London Museum urges staff to challenge problem of 'whiteness' in new workplace diversity drive

The publicly-funded museum focused on the history of London has reportedly created a leaflet to help staff to 'challenge embedded whiteness' in the workplace.

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4 d. ago Sky announce plans to cut 2,000 jobs and close three calls centres

The media giants are set to let go of up to 2,000 staff members as part of an overhaul of its call centres.

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5 d. ago Gucci Supports Tate Museum’s London Tate Collective Producers Program

Gucci Supports Tate Museum’s London Tate Collective Producers Program  WWD

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5 d. ago Pammy’s Baywatch showstopper, exploding bikinis and Nasa’s banned recordbreaker – Splash! review

Design Museum, LondonThis illuminating exhibition about all things swimming charts the birth of the bikini, its rapid shrinkage, lovely lidos – and the costumes that went too farFour days after a nuclear bomb was first detonated over the Pacific islands of Bikini Atoll in July 1946, the French designer Louis Réard launched a provocative two-piece swimsuit at a poolside party in Paris. The two events might not seem to be connected. But Réard, who had been looking for a name for his design that would embody the tiniest garment imaginable, combined with the most explosive impact possible, hit on the almighty atomic blast as the ideal symbol. And so the modern bikini was born.The world’s first bikini now hangs on a mannequin in the Design Museum in London, looking decidedly less earth-shattering than it did back then. Formed from baggy triangles of pink fabric, printed with a newspaper pattern and tied together with string, it looks a bit like someone has fashioned a quick cossie out of...

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5 d. ago Queen walks in footsteps of Charles Dickens on visit to his former home

Camilla visited the writer’s only remaining London home.

Politics

5 d. ago Moment King's Guard horse goes to BITE tourist after woman gets a little too close in latest incident involving the royal animals

The female tourist was trying to pose for a photo outside the Household Cavalry Museum in London when she was forced to dodge the horse as it moved in to bite her in the face.

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5 d. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips

London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming | Cultural trips  The Guardian

Culture

5 d. ago London’s Design Museum takes a deep dive into our love affair with swimming

From art deco lidos to 1980s Speedos, the curator of a new exhibition on swimming and style talks about the inspiration behind it‘The first thing to say is that I’m a terrible swimmer,” says Amber Butchart, curator of a new exhibition on swimming that opens at the Design Museum in London this week. Growing up, school swimming lessons were “horrible, traumatic” – the cold water, the humiliation, the scrutiny from teenage boys. But something shifted when she moved to Margate 10 years ago and discovered the joy of swimming in the resort’s huge tidal pool, which was built in the 1930s. “This sounds quite pretentious, but it’s this idea of becoming one with the horizon,” says Butchart. “It’s almost like an existential feeling of the vastness of the world and being physically a part of that when you’re immersed in water. It’s transformational.”Splash! A Century of Swimming and Style explores our enduring love affair with swimming, from Britain’s lido boom of the 1920s and 30s to the Merma...

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6 d. ago Discover the 14,000 Ancient Roman Artifacts Just Donated to the London Museum

Discover the 14,000 Ancient Roman Artifacts Just Donated to the London Museum  Smithsonian Magazine

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6 d. ago ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and now even sells coffee

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. And now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for every person who’s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I’d be able to retire already,” says Axel Rüger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from leading the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Part of the Frick’s appeal is that it is a great museum that hardly feels like a museum at all. Even more than, say, the Wallace Collection in London – one of the inspirations behind the 5th Avenue landmark – the Frick has the feeling of being someone’s home, its contents selected by a singular eye.That’s because it was and they were. Both home and eye belonged to one man, the Pennsylvania-born coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, who was rich beyond imagining. It is not, ...

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6 d. ago ‘No more velvet rope’: how New York’s beloved Frick museum opened up – and will now even sell coffee

It is a Gilded Age gem full of Old Masters, from Vermeer to Holbein. Now, after a ravishing $300m revamp, it is even more welcoming. Our writer revels in its silk-clad walls and the freshly trickling fountain of its light-filled sculpture court‘If I could have a pound for every person who’s told me that the Frick is their favourite museum, I’d be able to retire already,” says Axel Rüger, the new director of the New York institution, who has just moved there from leading the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Part of the Frick’s appeal is that it is a great museum that hardly feels like a museum at all. Even more than, say, the Wallace Collection in London – one of the inspirations behind the 5th Avenue landmark – the Frick has the feeling of being someone’s home, its contents selected by a singular eye.That’s because it was and they were. Both home and eye belonged to one man, the Pennsylvania-born coke and steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, who was rich beyond imagining. It is not, thou...

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6 d. ago The London museum that is the most popular tourist attraction in the UK

The London museum that is the most popular tourist attraction in the UK  Time Out London

Culture

6 d. ago US honeybee deaths hit record high as scientists scramble to find main cause

US Department of Agriculture calls in university to help study decline as Trump administration staff cuts stingHoneybee deaths have hit record highs in the US, with the unprecedented loss of colonies pushing many beekeepers close to ruin as scientists scramble to identify the main cause of the huge declines.Commercial beekeepers have reported losing more than 60% of their colonies, on average, over the winter, according to an ongoing Project Apis m. survey that covers more than two-thirds of America’s managed bees. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Scottish university boss called for senior staff to be 'rewarded' before his £119,000 pay rise was approved

Meeting minutes released under freedom of information laws

Economics

1 week ago Visitor numbers plunge at London art museums as Tate galleries lose 2.7 million in five years

Visitor numbers at Tate galleries have plunged by over 30 per cent since 2019

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