‘I’m sick of it!’ The diabolical reality of being one of the few working-class people in TV
Lucy Beaumont is furious. A new report shows that just 8% of TV and radio workers are from working-class backgrounds – the lowest figure in a decade. Beaumont – who grew up in a low-income, single-parent family in Hull, and…
How Shetland data is helping to gauge El Niño’s effect on thunderstorms
Does El Niño influence thunderstorm activity? The most recent El Niño – a climate fluctuation that generates warmer waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean every few years – has finally come to an end, but it is estimated to have…
T20 World Cup 2024: Australia beat Oman by 39 runs – as it happened
That’s it from me. While we wait for a more considered take from Geoff Lemon in Bridgetown, here’s an initial match report. Thanks for your company, goodbye! A word or two from loveable Mitch Marsh: It was a pretty close…
Marcus Stoinis stars with bat and ball as Australia beat Oman in T20 World Cup opener
Allrounder Marcus Stoinis has produced one of the best performances of his international career to power Australia to a 39-run victory over Oman in their Twenty20 World Cup opener. Stoinis did it with bat and ball, helping Australia out of…
‘At heart it’s the same technology’: the heat pump that uses water instead of air
Scientists in Edinburgh have developed a home heating system that draws its energy from the world’s most abundant resource: water. The equipment can use sea water, rivers, ponds and even mine water to heat radiators and water for baths and…
Golden rice: why has it been banned and what happens now? – podcast
A court in the Philippines has banned the commercial growth of golden rice, a genetically modified rice which was created to help tackle vitamin A deficiency in developing countries. It’s just the latest twist in a long and controversial journey…
Secretive court system has awarded over $100bn public money to corporations, finds new analysis
More than $100bn of public money has been awarded to private investors in investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) courts, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet. The controversial arbitration system which allows corporations to sue governments for compensation over decisions they…
Can Labour’s GB Energy plan future-proof UK’s power generation sector?
Labour is to put a government-owned power company at the heart of the UK’s energy system for the first time since the privatisation of the industry in 1990, in one of Keir Starmer’s boldest pledges so far. Great British Energy,…
The things that you’re liable to read in the IPCC bible ain’t necessarily so, Chris Uhlmann says. It’s a bold claim | Temperature Check
You know you’re in for a bit of grandiose lecturing on climate change when conservative commentators start making comparisons to religion and throwing around quotes from the 20th-century science philosopher Karl Popper. Now I’ve got nothing against Popper, but you…
Alaska Daily review – this astonishingly basic drama would be better without Hilary Swank
Whatever happened to Hilary Swank? Her Oscars for Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby were 20 years ago but, although she’s worked fairly steadily since, you can award yourself a quiz point for naming more than two of her…