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2 August 2021
Voice Verdicts: Simone Biles and DaBaby
This week we have admirable athlete Simone Biles and juvenile rapper DaBaby.
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29 July 2021
Notting Hill carnival launches fund for artists hit by cancellation
Organisers of the Notting Hill carnival have launched the Carnival Trust to ensure the event can go ahead as planned next year.
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29 July 2021
Government announces 'Beating Crime Plan'
The government’s proposals to tackle crime include the relaxing of stop and search rules and electronic tagging on burglars after their release.
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29 July 2021
Tate releases 2022 programme
Highlights from Tate’s 2022 programme include a Cézanne exhibition, an examination of surrealist art and the Turner Prize.
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26 July 2021
P!nk offers to pay bikini fine for Norway women's handball team
Pop star P!nk has volunteered to pay the 1,500 euro fine issued to Norway’s women’s handball team for wearing shorts instead of bikini bottoms.
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24 July 2021
Women's Aid condemns behaviour of contestant on Love Island
The charity Women’s Aid has called out the behaviour of contestant Danny Bibby on the reality TV show Love Island.
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24 July 2021
World Heritage Committee decides against placing Great Barrier Reef on danger list
The Great Barrier Reef will not be placed on a list of world heritage sites “in danger” after a global lobbying effort from Australia against the proposed listing.
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22 July 2021
Community museums shortlisted for lucrative UK arts prize
Five museums that excelled in staying connected with communities throughout the pandemic have been shortlisted for Art Fund museum of the year.
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22 July 2021
Liverpool stripped of UNESCO World Heritage status
The UN body says years of development have caused ‘irreversible loss’ to the historic value of the city’s Victorian docks.
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20 July 2021
Progress in diversity for annual Academy Awards members list
The latest inductees invited to be Academy members, including Laverne Cox and Issa Rae, are 46% female and 39% from under-represented racial communities.
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21 June 2021
Saturday Night With Hayley Palmer
TV Presenter Hayley Palmer announces new TV show, 'Saturday Night With Hayley'.
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16 June 2021
Navigating social media in an era of filtered information
In a world where people are overloaded with information on social media and the internet, how much of the content we consume is one-sided? Why is it important we try to access a range of different perspectives now more than ever?
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20 April 2021
Olivier Award winner Christopher Green launches ArtBank
Christopher Green launches ArtBank - an emergency delivery system to reconnect audiences with local artists as we emerge from lockdown.
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15 March 2021
Recommenders with a mission: towards a more diverse internet
‘Recommenders with a mission: towards a more diverse internet’ focused on the way in which news is recommended to us as readers, and how news diversity can be a complex topic of discussion.
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15 March 2021
Developing fake news immunity
As misinformation has become more common in recent years, University of Liverpool researchers Elinor Carmi and Elena Musi led a session at MozFest 2021 that focused on being able to identify fake news using their Fake News Immunity Chatbot.
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7 March 2021
Well, that happened...
Your weekly roundup of all the weird, wonderful and worrying news from around the world.
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28 February 2021
Well, that happened…
Your weekly roundup of all the weird, wonderful and worrying news from around the world.
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21 February 2021
Well, that happened...
In a time where the news can feel suffocating, overwhelming and all-out hard to consume, there is no better time than now to reignite our ‘Well, That Happened’ blog. Each week we will pick out a few news highlights that are easy for you to digest, as well as keep you up to date and informed with our weird, wonderful, worrying world.