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Two more private schools forced to close blame Labour’s VAT raid – leaving ‘heartbroken’ parents struggling to find places elsewhere
Two private schools, Avon House School in Essex and Sompting Abbots Prep School in West Sussex, have announced they will not reopen in September, with both citing Labour’s VAT policy on school fees as a key factor behind their closure. The schools’ leaders also blamed rising National Insurance and pension costs, alongside a broader economic…
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Ridley Scott’s 144-Minute Sci-Fi Masterpiece Is Officially Finding a Massive Streaming Audience
Ridley Scott’s 2015 science-fiction film The Martian is attracting a large streaming audience on Prime Video and Hulu, according to Collider. The film follows astronaut and botanist Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon, who is mistakenly left on Mars and must survive while NASA works to return him to Earth; its renewed popularity highlights continuing…
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Versatile Bruno Guimarães gives Mikel Arteta options to shuffle midfield pack | Ed Aarons
Bruno Guimarães has joined Arsenal from Newcastle United for £75m, giving Mikel Arteta a versatile and combative midfielder capable of playing in several central roles. The move matters because Arsenal want greater depth and flexibility in a midfield already regarded as among Europe’s strongest, particularly while Declan Rice’s fitness is managed after a demanding season…
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Premier League managers have never been less English, title-winning or secure in their jobs
Nine Premier League clubs will begin the 2026-27 season with a different manager from the one who finished the previous campaign, underlining an unprecedented lack of job security. With 11 coaches having been in post for less than a year, the division’s median managerial tenure is at its lowest at the start of a season,…
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Born 105 Years Ago Today in Louisiana, the Honky-Tonk Icon Who Scored More No. 1 Hits in the 50s Than Any Other Country Artist
Webb Pierce, born in Louisiana on 8 August 1921, became one of country music’s defining honky-tonk singers, dominating the charts throughout the 1950s. The article highlights both his commercial success and his influence on the genre, including his role in helping launch the careers of Faron Young and pianist Floyd Cramer, while noting that he…
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Feature: Going Platinum: Dreams on PS4 Might Be My Most Bittersweet Plat
The writer reflects on earning the platinum trophy in Media Molecule’s Dreams on PS4, describing it as meaningful but bittersweet because of the game’s later decline in support. Dreams mattered to them both as a long-awaited release from a favourite studio and as a major professional opportunity after they began covering games for Push Square.…
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The Guest List tear apart “the monotony of the every day” on anthemic new single ‘Mundane’
Manchester indie band The Guest List have released ‘Mundane’, an anthemic new single about the frustrations of repetitive daily life. The song previews their debut album, ‘Something Real’, and reflects the band’s aim of finding meaning amid uncertainty and overwhelm. Frontman Cai Alty said the track’s lyrics draw on ordinary chores such as fitting curtains…
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The classic 1969 Led Zeppelin song that took three decades to chart
This article looks at Led Zeppelin’s unusual relationship with the singles charts, focusing on how “Whole Lotta Love” only became a UK hit in 1997, nearly three decades after its 1969 release. The band, formed by Jimmy Page with Robert Plant, John Paul Jones and John Bonham, deliberately prioritised albums over singles, treating songs as…
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Did Jim Morrison’s father start the Vietnam War?
The article examines the claim that Jim Morrison’s father, US Navy officer George Morrison, helped trigger the escalation of the Vietnam War through his role in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident. It argues that the episode was significant because reports of alleged North Vietnamese attacks were used by President Lyndon B. Johnson to secure…