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A Hezbollah veteran is hunting Jews in US courts — we just named him to the DOJ
In an opinion piece for Fox News, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat HaDin Law Center writes that her NGO has filed a complaint with the US Attorney General urging an investigation into the Belgium-based Hind Rajab Foundation (HRF), which she characterises as a “hunting operation” targeting Jews rather than a human-rights body. The author argues…
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Despite rumor that Patrick Stewart will retire after Avengers: Doomsday, the X-Men star says he’ll “always and forever be an actor”
Patrick Stewart has pushed back against speculation that he intends to retire from acting following his anticipated return as Professor X in Marvel’s Avengers: Doomsday. The veteran actor, who first played the X-Men character in 2000 and reprised the role in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, insisted that acting remains central to his…
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Watch The Vaccines air new song ‘Ten Years Too Far’ at Mad Cool 2026
The Vaccines debuted a new song, ‘Ten Years Too Far’, during their set on the opening night of Mad Cool Festival 2026 in Madrid on 8 July, with footage of the performance circulating online. The airing of the anthemic, previously unheard track marks fresh material from the indie band, who are also marking the 15th…
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Venezuela earthquake relief fundraising compilation released, ‘PULSO I’
A new charity compilation, ‘PULSO I (An Electronic Music Benefit Compilation for Venezuela Earthquake Relief)’, has been released to raise funds following two earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela in late June. The 36-track album gathers contributions from electronic artists including DJ Babatr, Rainmaker, Bclip, Pablo Mayorga and AMANTRA, with 100% of net proceeds going to…
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The Queen Song That Proved Freddie Mercury Trusted Brian May More Than Anyone Else
This Collider article, written by music editor Corinne Johnson, spotlights “You Take My Breath Away”, an often-overlooked track from Queen’s 1976 album A Day at the Races. The piece argues that the song is significant because it demonstrates the unusual degree of trust Freddie Mercury placed in guitarist Brian May, and it is presented as…
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“In our first interview with NME we uttered the word ‘Genesis’ and I thought, ‘What did we say that for?!’” They tried to hide it at times, but Simple Minds had a heart of pure prog underneath the 80s arena rock
This is an archival feature from Prog magazine (originally published in 2012), republished by Louder, arguing that Simple Minds — a band widely remembered for glossy 80s arena rock and their hit from The Breakfast Club — in fact harboured strong progressive-rock leanings beneath the surface. Emerging alongside synthpop and the New Romantics, the Scottish…
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Swiss-Korean Director Hae-Sup Sin Awarded the Allwyn Residency Fellowship in Los Angeles
Swiss-Korean director Hae-Sup Sin has been named the recipient of the Allwyn Residency Fellowship at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, a prize awarded through Future Frames, a programme supporting young European filmmakers. The fellowship gives one participant a tailor-made professional programme in Los Angeles designed to advance the next stage of their career, marking a…
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Google turns old phones into cloud servers
Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego have unveiled a project called “phone cluster computing”, which repurposes retired smartphones as low-carbon cloud servers rather than discarding them as electronic waste. The scheme matters because the AI boom is driving soaring demand for computing power, chips, electricity and cooling, while billions of phones…
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Fallout: New Vegas studio Obsidian reportedly moved onto a new Fallout game by Xbox, but at the cost of a sequel to Avowed
Days after Microsoft announced 3,200 job cuts at Xbox, a new Bloomberg report indicates that the fallout for developer Obsidian Entertainment extends beyond the roughly quarter of its staff reportedly lost. Xbox has apparently redirected the studio onto the Fallout franchise, in line with its stated aim of concentrating on its biggest brands. Notably, the…
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Keir’s cronies: Starmer to create another 19 Labour peers in one of final acts as PM… as he prepares resignation honours list despite vowing not to have one
Sir Keir Starmer is reported to be planning a resignation honours list that would create 19 new Labour peers as he prepares to leave Downing Street later this month, despite having previously stated he would not draw up such a list. The move matters because it appears to contradict his earlier stance on political appointments…