Israel’s culture minister has threatened to strip two documentary film-makers of their citizenship for producing a film that scrutinises the Israeli military’s use of artificial intelligence targeting systems in Gaza. The response from the international film industry has been swift,…
It has been six years since Alix Popham, in his own words, “opened the can.” In April 2020, the former Wales international publicly disclosed that he was living with early-onset dementia and probable chronic traumatic encephalopathy — a neurodegenerative disease…
A Factory Floor in Southwark In a district better known for its restaurants and riverside galleries, a 160,000-square-foot manufacturing facility has quietly opened its doors in Southwark, south London. It is, by the account of those who built it, the…
Fifty-three years after Chile’s armed forces overthrew the democratically elected President Salvador Allende on 11 September 1973, the country has still not finished arguing about what happened — or about what that history is permitted to mean in the present.…
The right eye told the story. By the time the ringside doctor leaned through the ropes at Newcastle’s Misfits Boxing event on Saturday night, Jordan McCann’s eye had swollen almost entirely shut — the product of a sustained jab from…
Researchers with apparent ties to military institutions attempted to use Anthropic’s Claude AI to advance biological weapons-relevant research. The company says it stopped them — but the cases expose how thin the line between legitimate science and weaponisation has become.…
Moscow has arrested a Russian national who worked as a security guard at the British Embassy, claiming he was recruited by Ukrainian intelligence to gather sensitive information that would enable a staged attack on British diplomatic staff — an operation,…
A sharp escalation in military hostilities between the United States and Iran has driven UK natural gas prices to their highest level since the 2022 energy crisis, with Brent crude oil simultaneously breaching the $100-per-barrel threshold for the first time…
In June 2023, raw sewage flowed from three pumping stations into the waters off the Fylde coast for more than thirty-five hours across several days, contaminating beaches and marine facilities at Blackpool, Lytham St Annes, Fleetwood and Cleveleys. On Tuesday,…
A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet has produced what researchers describe as the strongest evidence yet that urban clean air zones can reverse measurable damage to children’s lung development — findings that have renewed calls for a national framework…