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Women in UK arts feel they do not have equal opportunities for roles, says report

August 30, 2026

A new report from the support group Women in the Arts has found that women working in the UK arts sector believe they lack equal opportunities for roles, particularly as they grow older, with researchers describing an industry fixated on “young and emerging” talent. The findings matter because they point to persistent, widely felt gender…
‘That’s what saved me’: Darren Raymond and Mark Rylance on the prison drama workshop that brought them together

August 30, 2026

Darren Raymond, artistic director of the London theatre charity Intermission Youth, is directing his friend Mark Rylance in the lead role of his adaptation of Molière’s Tartuffe, opening at the Marylebone theatre. The pair first met in 2004 when Raymond, then serving a prison sentence at HMP Brixton, attended a Shakespeare workshop that Rylance, then…
‘Sea of Glass’ Review: A Widow’s Coastal Healing Retreat Turns Into a Stately, Moody Greek Tragedy

August 30, 2026

Greek writer-director Alexis Alexiou returns with “Sea of Glass,” his first feature in 11 years since the neo-noir “Wednesday 04:45,” blending crime-drama atmospherics with classical Greek tragedy and family melodrama. The film, which recently screened out of competition at the Edinburgh Film Festival, follows a widow’s attempt at solitary healing that instead draws her into…
CMA transparency changes may obscure private equity-owned vet chains

August 30, 2026

Pet owners could unwittingly continue paying more at vet practices secretly owned by large private equity firms after the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) softened new transparency rules following industry investigation. The CMA had previously found that a lack of competition and ownership transparency in the £6.3bn vet market had driven up prices, with owners…
Robert Downey Jr’s 98-Minute Cult Classic Psychological Thriller Is Officially Coming to Netflix

August 30, 2026

Robert Downey Jr’s 2003 psychological thriller Gothika is arriving on Netflix on 1 September, giving audiences a chance to revisit the film ahead of the autumn season. Made during Downey’s pre-Marvel years as an idiosyncratic character actor, the film sits alongside other offbeat roles from that period and has developed a cult following despite a…
Is Russia about to attack the UK? From a doomsday tsunami to lone-wolf assassins, all the terrifying ways Putin could target Britain, CHRIS PLEASANCE reveals

August 30, 2026

Chris Pleasance’s article for the Daily Mail examines whether Russia could be preparing to attack the UK, drawing on warnings from a former Kremlin official who reportedly described Britain as “evil number one” and named a drone factory and missile company as potential “legal targets”. The piece situates this within a wider pattern of alarming…
Trump’s ‘economic D-day’ against Iran risks driving the stakes even higher | Sina Toossi

August 30, 2026

The US Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, has launched “Operation Economic Outcast”, a fresh sanctions drive aimed at fully cutting Iran off from the global economy after months of war failed to secure its capitulation. Writing in the Guardian, Sina Toossi argues the plan repeats a familiar US error of treating pressure as a substitute for…
New payment set up? Get in touch! The bank scam where your ‘bank’ is the scammer

August 30, 2026

Impersonation scams, in which fraudsters pose as banks, HMRC, phone providers or the police, are becoming more common and more costly across the UK. Victims typically receive a text claiming a payment has been set up on their account, prompting them to call a number where a scammer then persuades them to move money to…
On long road back from Brexit, north-east’s recovery rides on survival of Nissan’s ‘shining star’ plant

August 30, 2026

Nissan’s Sunderland factory, once hailed as the “shining star” of the carmaker’s global operations, is now running at barely half capacity and is seeking a deal to build cars for China’s Chery as it battles ongoing threats stemming from Brexit. The plant, which opened in 1986 as the centrepiece of Margaret Thatcher’s drive to attract…
South West Water has worst environmental record in England, analysis shows

August 30, 2026

South West Water has been ranked as the worst-performing water company in England for environmental impact, according to new analysis by Friends of the Earth, with the highest volumes of sewage discharged across its Devon, Cornwall, Dorset and Somerset region. The findings add to mounting pressure on the water industry and the government over sewage…