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| International Women's Day: drowning in corporate guff Ah, women. That moment when they all hatch at once, a sudden blossoming of life that lasts just 24 hours before so cruelly fading again. Oh no, sorry, that's mayflies. Not that you would think it from the corporate marketing extravaganza that International Women's Day has become, as businesses ...
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| Westminster deputy leader took gifts in 50% of his planning cases The Westminster City councillor Robert Davis received gifts or hospitality from property firms involved in half of the planning applications his committee ruled on in 2016, an investigation reveals. Davis stood aside from his council roles on Wednesday night after the Guardian reported that he had been ...
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| Madeleine L'Engle's Christianity was vital to A Wrinkle in Time This week, an adaptation of one of the most banned children's books of all time, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time, will hit movie theaters nationwide. The story follows Meg Murry, a moody but brilliant young girl who travels to another planet under the auspices of three mysterious supernatural ...
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| UK fracking backlash: seven of eight plans rejected in 2018 The application by Ineos to explore for shale gas in South Yorkshire has been rejected by local councillors, bringing the number of planning decisions that have gone against fracking companies this year to seven. Rotherham metropolitan borough turned the application by the UK-based petrochemicals ...
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| Owen Farrell to lead England in France with Dylan Hartley injured Eddie Jones has also dropped Mike Brown and recalled Elliot Daly and Ben Te'o, who replaces Jonathan Joseph, in what can be considered a bold selection for the trip to Paris. Hartley's absence means Jamie George earns only his second England start in 24 appearances while Anthony Watson is ...
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| A taste of 'home' – where do immigrants in Britain go for authentic food? We have made curry houses a British institution, and you can find a Chinese takeaway in even the most quintessentially English enclaves. We have taken cuisines from migrant communities and reforged them in our own image, from chicken tikka lasagne to katsu chicken wraps. Some of our culinary ...
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| Record-high wool price leaves Australian growers in shear delight The price of wool has reached an historic high after decades of poor returns and Australian woolgrowers are saying the market is stronger than it has been in 30 years. The price signal, the eastern market indicator, reached a record $18.30 per kilogram this month, double where it was eight years ago.
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| Abortion rights in Ireland, north and south of the border In 1975, when I was a young English woman working as a union officer in Dublin, a desperate male friend asked how his wife's 15-year-old sister could get an abortion (We must never stop fighting for the right to legal abortion, 8 March). Without knowledge of or access to contraception, her first sexual ...
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| Two teenagers die and two children injured in North Yorkshire crash ... Maurice Savage / Alamy/Alamy. Two teenagers have died and two children are among those injured after a three-car crash on the A61 in North Yorkshire. ... Two boys, believed to be 17 years-old, sadly died in the collision at Busby Stoop near #Thirsk last night. The road will remain closed until further ...
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| Coding Icon Sue Black Launches #TechMumsTV In Facebook's Film Studio Sue Black left school with just a handful of qualifications. She found herself a young single parent raising three small kids in social housing in London. Yet today – after studying mathematics at night school, learning to code, and a successful career working for the likes of the European Commision, ...
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| Women in IT It's International Women's Day, and while it's no secret, this is the perfect time to note that women comprise but a small percentage of IT professionals. While those numbers are increasing – based on numerous efforts to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, ...
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| Mozilla experiment aims to reduce bias in code reviews Mozilla is kicking off a new experiment for International Women's Day, looking at ways to make open source software projects friendlier to women and racial minorities. Its first target? The code review process. The experiment has two parts: there's an effort to build an extension for Firefox that gives ...
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| Can Disney's A Wrinkle in Time Possibly Live Up to the Book? Tomorrow is the release date of Disney's A Wrinkle in Time, based on Madeleine L'Engle's classic children's novel, A Wrinkle in Time. I loved the book. I loved Meg. I—mostly—love Disney, in an off-and-on, "it really depends upon the last film and just how much are the theme parks charging for drinks ...
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