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Feuds on set

One would assume that co-stars, while acting together on a movie or television show, get on. But that is not always the case.

30 Mar 2023

Mental health is caused by external factors

Sometimes you can’t stop feeling angry or upset. Sometimes it’s extremely difficult to prevent yourself from saying something you feel needs to be said or doing something to yourself that you know is harmful to you. Anger is an emotion that is hard to control at the best of times and even harder to control when nothing

30 Mar 2023

Trump’s troubles

Donald Trump is railing against multiple legal cases threatening to scupper or, at least, complicate his bid for a second term in the White House.

30 Mar 2023

Climate impact of livestock and wild herbivores

An Indian Institute of Science (IISc) study finds that livestock and wild herbivores differ in impacts on soil carbon and ultimately the climate, as reported by Mongabay-India. As the Mongabay-India report states, the findings from the IISc Bengaluru study, published in Global Change Biology, build on previous

28 Mar 2023

Rahul Gandhi disqualification queers political pitch

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s ardent desire to get Congress leader Rahul Gandhi out of the Lok Sabha was fulfiilled last week in an unexpected manner. But it is too early for it to rejoice. He appears set to emerge as a more formidable opponent outside Parliament than he was inside. The BJP’s strategists were working on a plan

27 Mar 2023

This could be Turkey’s most crucial election

Turkey’s presidential and parliamentary election campaign is gaining momentum ahead of the May 14th vote. Trailing in the polls and facing his first electoral defeat in two decades, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has enlisted two small parties with the aim of boosting support for his People’s Alliance, composed of his Justice

26 Mar 2023

Art is considered art when it’s not being art

Some time ago a man visited an art gallery and accidentally left his glasses there. They’d fallen out of his pocket and, unbeknownst to him, they’d landed on the floor near a wall. What do you think happened next? Well, a lot of things could have happened. Someone could have picked them up and handed them in to ‘lost and found’.

23 Mar 2023

Not rom-com friendly

I honestly thought this day would never come, but it seems like the Hollywood rom-com is on its way out. Well, probably not out but definitely down

23 Mar 2023

Serious questions

Since the 2003 disastrous US war on Iraq, anniversaries have prompted commentators to ask, “Where are the architects of the war?” This query is particularly pertinent

23 Mar 2023