To Save the Sea review – Brent Spar oil rig resounds with song in a Greenpeace musical | Stage
TLast year, “Just Stop Oil” protesters disrupted a performance of “Les Misérables.” They thought a musical about rebellion would be a fitting platform to protest against impending climate change. To Save the Sea is also a musical about resistance, but there is no cause for skirmishes. In and of itself, it is a great solution […]
Interference review – team behind the Mueller Report describe the 2016 political maelstrom | US elections 2016
“hand“The Russian government thoroughly and systematically interfered in the 2016 presidential election.” Investigative report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, Also known as the Mueller Report. “A Russian group conducted a social media campaign supporting presidential candidate Donald J. Trump and disparaging presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.” Special Counsel Robert Mueller, in contrast to […]
Virginia Tech’s walk-off Hail Mary touchdown reversed after review; No. 7 Miami avoids upset
Virginia Tech thought they had upset No. 7 Miami on the road, but the victory was almost literally ripped out of their hands. With three seconds left and a four-point lead, Hokies quarterback Kyron Drones fired a shot into the back of the end zone into a swarm of both Hokies and Hurricanes. To the […]
Never Let Me Go review – fresh life found in Kazuo Ishiguro’s school dystopia | Theatre
Dramatic adaptations of famous stories always have the problem of tension. How can a script keep people who already know the ending? On the opening night of this stage version of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's “Never Let Me Go,'' one could feel the uneasy charm of Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro's first-time audience watching […]
Ludwig review – like watching Peep Show’s Mark join the police force | Television
IImagine Mark Corrigan from Peep Show growing up, abandoning Jez and Croydon to become a puzzle setter living a quiet life. Not too hard, right? But that wouldn't make for a very interesting show, so let's give him a twin brother who's a police detective who goes missing while undercover investigating a case that he […]
Money by David McWilliams review – the story of cold hard cash | Economics
MaSecrets, or the lack thereof, were at the heart of Victorian fiction. Think of Mr Micawber in David Copperfield, in debtors' prison, waiting to be discovered. Or Augustus Melmotte, the financier in Trollope's How We Live. The stories always involved wills, heir dowries and the collapse of get-rich-quick Ponzi schemes. Novelists of the time knew […]
Major University Must ‘Significantly’ Revamp Campus Policies To Handle ‘Alarming’ Antisemitism Reports, Review Finds
The City University of New York (CUNY) needs to make significant policy changes to ensure it can address future reports of anti-Semitism and discrimination, according to a study released Tuesday by Judge Jonathan Lippman. New York's Democratic governor, Kathy Hockle, asked Lippman to conduct an investigation in October 2023 following an increase in complaints following […]
The Great British Bake Off review – Paul Hollywood doles out handshakes like cheap mini-muffins | The Great British Bake Off
IDuring the final round of the first week of the new “Great British Bake Off,” Georgie, a paediatric nurse from rural Wales, steps forward with the cake she's spent four hours making. It's the moment presenter Alison Hammond has been waiting for. As the show's judges, Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith, solemnly take bites of […]
Silk Roads review – mesmerising show turns world history upside down | British Museum
noThere aren't many exhibits that turn world history upside down. The British Museum's Fascinating Silk Road does just that, showing how Asia, Europe and North Africa shared cultures over 1000 years ago. Far from developing in isolation, far from a “clash of civilizations”, East and West were once interconnected by a magnificent trade route known […]
Michael Craig-Martin review – one style fits all | Michael Craig-Martin
MaIkael Craig Martin's paintings can be as bright or as boring as he wants them to be. That's his strange gamble. Everyday objects are reduced to graphic outlines, and as mundane as the ladder, corkscrew, bucket and telephone depicted in them, they come in dazzling cobalt, emerald and yellow And cherry red. Even when the […]