32 m. ago Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes joins backlash against JK Rowling for ‘harsh’ trans criticism

However, ‘Harry Potter’ star said she ‘didn’t like that the trans community has reacted with such fury’

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16 h. ago Miriam Margolyes joins backlash against JK Rowling for ‘harsh’ trans criticism

However, ‘Harry Potter’ star said she ‘didn’t like that the trans community has reacted with such fury’

Politics

18 h. ago SWURF secures follow on investment and boosts board with industry heavyweights to fuel UK and European expansion

Remote work platform transforming hospitality venues into thriving community workspaces gears up for rapid growth.

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36 h. ago Miriam Margolyes says JK Rowling has been ‘too harsh’ towards trans community

However, ‘Harry Potter’ star said she ‘didn’t like that the trans community has reacted with such fury’

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39 h. ago Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes hits out at 'furious' trans backlash against JK Rowling

Harry Potter star Miriam Margolyes has criticised the transgender community for reacting with 'fury' to JK Rowling's views on gender identity.

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42 h. ago Lanarkshire groups invited to apply for £100,000 fund to improve local walking routes

Launched by Walking Scotland in partnership with Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT), the SPT Community Path Fund offers grants of up to £10,000 for projects that enhance path networks.

Economics

5 d. ago Multiple injured in shooting at high school reunion picnic outside Tennessee community center

Four people were injured in a shooting at a class reunion outside the Tyner Community Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee. All the victims have been transported to the hospital.

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5 d. ago Miriam Margolyes hits out at reports she is at ‘death’s door’

Miriam Margolyes has hit out at reports she is at “death’s door” as she shared a career update with her fans.

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7 d. ago From ayahuasca rituals to a birthday in the favelas: Arles photography festival takes us on a trip

This year’s French photo extravaganza showcases stunning images from across Latin America. There’s also selfie addicts, anonymous fetishists and a pharmacist taking pictures of his customers without their consentArtists have always been fascinated with imagining the invisible – but few have taken it quite as far as Musuk Nolte. The 37-year-old Mexican photographer has spent a decade working with the Indigenous peoples of the Peruvian Amazon region – and found inspiration there by taking ayahuasca with a shaman called Julio.Nolte tells me he first took ayahuasca when he was five years old – with his mum, an anthropologist who studied the psychedelic brew. The powerful hallucinogenic visions he experienced while with the Shawi community in their ancestral homeland, the Paranapura basin, have been translated into a series of images titled The Belongings of the Air, presented as small suspended light boxes, glowing like fireflies in a darkened room. They are unconventional documents, no...

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8 d. ago Havoc by Rebecca Wait review – a Saint Trinian’s tragicomedy

A mysterious illness sweeps through an isolated girls’ boarding school, in a work brimming with horror, humour and hysteriaEven if it wasn’t perched on a cliff on the south coast, the position of St Anne’s, Eastbourne – the decaying girls’ school that is the setting for Rebecca Wait’s gleefully macabre new novel, Havoc – might reasonably be described as precarious. Deeply eccentric, staffed by the barely employable, and permanently teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, St Anne’s hangs on, against all the odds. And then, in 1984, Ida Campbell turns up on the doorstep, in possession of a full scholarship and rather a lot of baggage.Sixteen years old and already an outcast, Ida is in flight from her hapless mother, her foul-tempered sister, the small community in the Western Isles to which they have been transplanted, and the nameless scandal that has ruined their lives. St Anne’s is to be Ida’s salvation, but it soon dawns on her that the school migh...

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8 d. ago SMILE charity's bid to transform vacant Stonehouse care home

The good cause aims to turn the former Canderavon building into a tranquil centre for respite breaks and a new community hub

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2 w. ago Community space in Lesmahagow transformed by wind farm funding

McKirdy Park now has improved accessibility, upgraded play equipment, new picnic benches and much more.

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2 w. ago Scotland’s AI transformation is opening up new job opportunities to thousands of workers

The recent announcement that Ravenscraig could soon be home to one of the UK’s largest green AI data centres has raised eyebrows, but it represents a transformative step towards Scotland becoming a major artificial intelligence hub.

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2 w. ago More than 400 media figures urge BBC board to remove Robbie Gibb over Gaza

Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle and Mike Leigh among signatories to letter criticising Jewish Chronicle tiesMore than 400 stars and media figures including Miriam Margolyes, Alexei Sayle, Juliet Stevenson and Mike Leigh have signed a letter to BBC management calling for the removal of a board member, Robbie Gibb, over claims of conflict of interest regarding the Middle East.The signatories also include 111 BBC journalists and Zawe Ashton, Khalid Abdalla, Shola Mos-Shogbamimu and the historian William Dalrymple, who express “concerns over opaque editorial decisions and censorship at the BBC on the reporting of Israel/Palestine”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Miriam Margolyes, Charles Dance, Mike Leigh and Harry and Meghan's 'dear friend' blast the BBC for reporting on Israel in dramatic open letter

The call to arms condemns BBC for being 'crippled by the fear of being perceived as critical of the Israeli government' as they accuse coverage of being 'defined by anti-Palestinian racism'.

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2 w. ago Ncuti Gatwa backs trans community before introducing Jade Thirlwall's Glastonbury debut

The actor’s surprise appearance at Worthy Farm comes just weeks after his exit from Doctor Who

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2 w. ago Ncuti Gatwa pays tribute to the trans  community following 'woke' Doctor Who exit in surprise Glastonbury appearance as he introduces Jade Thirlwall in foul

Ncuti Gatwa paid tribute to the trans community in a surprise Glastonbury appearance on Saturday as he took to the stage to introduce Jade Thirlwall ahead of her solo debut. 

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3 w. ago Trans support is on the rise as rights left at risk after UK Supreme Court ruling

Google Trends analysis shows that support and ally-ship for the trans community has doubled since last June with searches for "transgender" and "trans flags" peaking after UK Supreme Court ruling

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3 w. ago The controversial trans activist tearing her own community apart: Trans women say influencer Lilly Tino's 'rage

The controversy stemmed from a viral post that included mirror selfies of the 31-year-old as she 'rated' the women's bathrooms at Disney World in Florida.

Science

4 w. ago Now Stephen Fry turns on JK Rowling: Star who narrated Harry Potter books says the author has been 'radicalised by TERFs' and is 'a lost cause'

EXCL: The comedian, who previously hosted QI, told how he used to have dinner regularly with the author and described her views towards the trans community as 'strange'.

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