A new online bookshop has launched in the UK , which provides a more socially conscious alternative to large companies like Amazon. Bookshop.org was launched on 2 November following its great success in the US. Andy Hunter developed the site as he wanted to help increase sales for local and independent bookshops. So far, more…
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UEA LIVE: Bernardine Evaristo brings light to Black British womanhood
On Wednesday evening, UEA’s Claire Hynes joined Bernardine Evaristo in conversation about her career, activism, and recent success with ‘Girl, Woman, Other’. Bernardine Evaristo is Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University London and she also is the first black woman to win the Booker Prize in 2019 for her most recent novel, ‘Girl, Woman,…
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Obama attacks Trump in new wave of political activism
On Wednesday night, Obama made his first in-person campaign speech in support of his former Democratic vice president, Joe Biden. The rally was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which is a key voting state for both Republicans and Democrats. Obama performed his speech at the Lincoln Financial Field. He declared if Mr Biden won, “we’re not…
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Banning TikTok highlights US insincerity surrounding gun control
Since the 1970s, school shootings in the USA have progressively become more commonplace. Before the coronavirus pandemic they were almost a weekly occurrence. Multiple reports from parents highlight fear surrounding the word “lockdown” for their children, as it is a term they are trained to recognise and dread in the instance of a school shooting….
Science
DNA suggests that people from America had a role in populating the Pacific islands
How Polynesia was initially populated has been up for debate and speculated by scholars for many years. But a new study has found evidence and suggests that Indigenous people in South America travelled over 7,000 kilometres of open sea to reach eastern Polynesia more than 800 years ago. The study, led by Alexander Ionnidis and…
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Thousands of fires spread through Paraguay
Thousands of wildfires in South America have caused the Congress of Paraguay to declare a national emergency. There have been over 5,000 individual wildfires so far, with further spread predicted in the following days and weeks. The fires have been said to be fuelled by record high temperatures, strong winds and the drought across South…
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Major Philip Guston retrospective cancelled due to KKK imagery
Philip Guston’s first retrospective in 15 years has been postponed yet again. The event, which was supposed to commence on June 7, has now been postponed until 2024 amidst heightened racial tensions, as well as the current global health crisis. Guston’s portfolio contains multiple paintings of Ku Klux Klan figures, including a painting of himself…
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Police shutdown illegal rave in Thetford Forest
An illegal rave was broken up by over 100 police officers in Thetford Forest. Footage of the event, that was released by Norfolk Constabulary on Tuesday, revealed that at least 500 people attended the rave that took place at Lynford over the bank holiday weekend. The police have stated that this was “a well-established and…
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Weighing children in school is counter-productive and dangerous
Following evidence revealing obese people are more likely to become seriously ill if they contract Covid-19, the National Obesity Forum has proposed schools should weigh pupils when they return to school in Autumn. Tam Fry, the chairman of the National Obesity Forum explained the reason for the weighing of students was to “catch every child…
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