Blonde review: Marilyn Monroe biopic is exploitative and dull October 2, 2022 Another year, another lengthy Netflix Oscar hopeful. Blonde has been in development since 2010 with Naomi Watts and Jessica Chastain attached to star at various points. Can one of Hollywood’s hottest newcomers do justice to its eternal icon? Brought to the screen by director Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James), the film is an [...]
Driven to suicide by blindness: How a woman finds a second chance at sight and life October 2, 2022 Losing one’s sight is terrifying and daunting. It leaves the visually impaired person reliant on those around them to assist them in navigating their way through the world. Without the help and generosity of others, it can lead to a loss of hope and tragically sometimes life. 55-year-old Chyo Maya Praja lives high up in [...]
Curing a village of needless blindness September 29, 2022 In a rural fishing and farming village in Morang District of Nepal, a team from the Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation set up a screening camp on 15th August 2022. From the village, over 150 people were screened and 23 of those were found to be living with cataracts. This is an extremely common form [...]
Keeping entrepreneurial spirits high despite the economic challenges September 29, 2022 With the holiday season over and as we start the autumn term, many of us will have friends or family members either starting university, advancing their education and training, or entering the workforce for the first time.Emerging from a global pandemic, addressing an increasingly urgent climate crisis and facing an uncertain global economic and political [...]
If Truss can get young people into work, she can win them September 29, 2022 Truss has a limited amount of time to prove her gamble will pay off and bring people onside.
Tech startup helps businesses to combat £9bn waste in productivity due to poor mental health September 28, 2022 12 billion workdays lost annually to mental ill-health but young entrepreneur thinks he has the solution. Mental health issues in the workplace are costing the global economy over £9bn ($1tn) due to lost productivity say international agencies. The World Health Organization (WHO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) are calling for “concrete actions” as depression [...]
It’s not just taxes holding Britain back, we need to be as investment friendly as the US September 28, 2022 Last week we were told to expect a “mini budget”, which, ironically, introduced the largest tax cuts since 1972. It provided the clearest outline of how Liz Truss plans to deliver her target for 2.5 per cent economic growth. The tax cuts, predictably, stole the headlines, but other, more granular changes for entrepreneurs slipped under [...]
SSE will back UK projects with fresh profits September 27, 2022 SSE has committed to reinvesting any further earnings from ultra-high wholesale power prices into building new domestic energy assets.
If we don’t fix London’s housing, families will get stuck in temporary accommodation September 27, 2022 This coming winter will be hard for millions of Londoners, with energy costs and inflation hitting almost everyone. But it will be harder still for the thousands of families stuck in temporary accommodation who don’t have a permanent home. The numbers affected are staggering – 59 per cent of all English households in temporary accommodation [...]
Young buyers drive private jet boom as owners under 45 surge September 26, 2022 Young buyers are among the main drivers behind the private aviation boom as jet owners under 45 have increased by 20 per cent in the last five years. Data from private jet brokers Jetcraft showed that in Europe 24 per cent of pre-owned jet buyers are younger than 45, with numbers increasing to 38 per [...]