BBC Four and CBBC shutting down as beleaguered broadcaster makes fresh cuts May 27, 2022 Around 1,000 jobs will be lost and BBC Four and CBBC will end as linear TV channels as part of the broadcaster’s plans to become “digital-first”. Director-general Tim Davie announced to staff on Thursday that 1,000 jobs will be cut across the public-funded part of the corporation. BBC World News and BBC News Channel will [...]
Exclusive: London Irish’s Ollie Hoskins on ‘easy’ decision to re-sign with club May 27, 2022 Australia prop Ollie Hoskins has signed a new long-term contract with London Irish – and insists it was an easy decision to recommit to the Premiership rugby club. “I’ve got a strong connection to the club. This is where I wanted to play and continue to develop my game,” Hoskins told City A.M. “I can’t [...]
Ollie Phillips: Leinster should sneak tight Champions Cup final May 27, 2022 It’s going to be tight, Champions Cup finals usually are, but I think Leinster will win their fifth title tomorrow in Marseille. They have the physicality, they have the depth, and they’re stacked with match winners. They’re the favourites for sure. That said, it would be foolish to completely write off Ronan O’Gara’s La Rochelle [...]
Seeing is believing: young girls need more female role models in business to look up to May 27, 2022 Ensuring that anyone with potential can get on in life makes good business sense. It means that women should have the same opportunities as men to start their own businesses and be represented at every level. Despite female-founded SMEs contributing around £85bn of the UK’s economic output each year, there is still much more to [...]
Emotional Tedros survives global Covid storm as he is re-elected as WHO head for five more years May 25, 2022 The World Health Organization’s (WHO) members re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as Director General by a strong majority for another five years. After taking his oath, Tedros gave a speech in which he spoke about his brother who died at a young age from what he now thinks was measles. Watch the full report.
England captain Tomkins backs former club Wigan to win Challenge Cup May 25, 2022 The rugby league Challenge Cup has a new showpiece location for its final. Come Saturday, thousands will pack into the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as the competition crowns either Wigan Warriors or Huddersfield Giants as its 121st winner. The winner will a trophy which has always left an extraordinary memory for players lucky enough to lift [...]
Jope mounts defence of Unilever sustainability after run-ins with top investor May 24, 2022 Unilever boss Alan Jope has mounted a defence of the firm’s focus on sustainability today after a series of bruising bust ups with a top shareholder who accused him of putting purpose over profit.
Only a semiconductor revolution can save the flagging British automobile industry May 24, 2022 In 1974, a failing New Mexico calculator maker took a gamble. Laden with debt after a brutal price war and a botched IPO, Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems decided to enter the microcomputer market. Its offering was the Altair 8800, the first commercially successful personal computer that would spark the microcomputer revolution. Inside each device [...]
Two Palestinians Go Dogging, review: Touching portrait of the tragedy of conflict May 23, 2022 Let’s be clear on this from the get-go: finding comedy in the Israel-Palestine crisis is an incredibly brave thing to do. Not only that, it requires incredibly astute writing. Sami Ibrahim has achieved both of these things with two Palestinians go dogging, a personal and political new play littered with thrillingly perverse laughs. If Ibrahim’s [...]
Want to really be Australian-style? Time to move our elections to a Saturday May 23, 2022 Australian elections are always held on a Saturday, meaning more people can get to the ballot booth