18 h. ago TV festival 'did not contact' Edinburgh council ahead of plans to open relocation bids

The Edinburgh TV Festival said earlier this week it would open bids from other cities to host the event

Culture

31 h. ago Universities blame ‘societal shift’ for axing foreign language degrees

Numbers taking languages at A-level and beyond has been falling for decades, although Duolingo says its app is most popular with young people Universities are blaming a “societal shift” for the axing of dozens of foreign language degrees and even entire departments, citing a lack of demand among students – but can years of study be easily replaced by AI or online translation tools?Not so, according to Michael Lynas, the UK country director for the Duolingo language app, who argues there is no good substitute for the hard graft of learning a language as a way of seeing another country’s culture from the inside. Continue reading...

Politics

34 h. ago Celebrities to add some Christmas sparkle to London’s only dog friendly charity carol service

Celebrities to add some Christmas sparkle to London’s only dog friendly charity carol service  London Post

Politics

35 h. ago ‘We add so much more to London’: My evening with the city’s maligned ‘party pedicab’ drivers

‘We add so much more to London’: My evening with the city’s maligned ‘party pedicab’ drivers  The Telegraph

Politics

2 w. ago A year after devastating Trump loss, have the Democrats begun to find their way back?

Party was shell-shocked after 2024 defeat but Tuesday night’s coast-to-coast romp signals brighter times aheadIt has been a year of soul-searching, hand-wringing, and self-flagellation for Democrats after a ballot-box rejection so thorough that some had come to believe that the party had lost not only the White House and Congress but the culture itself.Shell-shocked, Democrats entered Donald Trump’s second term in a political stupor – unsure of who they were or what they stood for. Their base had lost faith in its aging leadership class, and their brand, in Democrats’ own words, had become “toxic”: a party increasingly confined to coastal states, big cities and college towns. And even there, warning signs were flashing. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Zohran Mamdani’s New York election victory inspires hope in Uganda

Zohran Mamdani was briefly raised in Uganda and kept his citizenship even after he became a naturalized U.S citizen in 2018

Politics

3 w. ago Katie Miller is threatening the citizenship of a critic | Arwa Mahdawi

Threatening to deport your critics, even those with US citizenship, seems to have become Maga policySome couples bond over shared hobbies; others over shared values. The Maga bigwigs Stephen and Katie Miller, on the other hand, appear to have connected over their shared love of terrorizing immigrant children.Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago 10 London Winter Capsule Wardrobe Pieces to Add to Your Rotation

10 London Winter Capsule Wardrobe Pieces to Add to Your Rotation  Who What Wear

Events