Donald Trump: Fresh charges brought against the ex president for bid to overturn the election August 2, 2023 Former US president Donald Trump has been charged by the US Justice Department for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The indictment focuses on schemes by Trump and his allies to subvert the transfer of power and keep him in office despite his loss to Joe Biden. It is the [...]
Fighting Russian and Chinese disinformation requires a cohesive strategy from Western governments April 8, 2021 Given the world of the internet and multiple platforms, there is undoubtedly more content out there than at any other time in the history of man. Unfortunately, and predictably, along with this news explosion, the very unhealthy scourge of state-sponsored disinformation–with the West’s authoritarian foes trying to take advantage of this editorially unregulated Wild West [...]
Nibbling away at making us snack more healthily May 6, 2022 The most successful businesses, sports teams and organisations always try to improve from a position of strength. That’s the case with unique small business Healthy Nibbles, the UK’s first healthy snacks vending company founded by Sara Roberts in Edinburgh in 2013 which began trading two years later. Healthy Nibbles has had a meteoric rise, BCorp [...]
Addressing wavering public trust in novel new biotechnologies May 18, 2021 Biotechnology is now progressing so quickly that it is becoming too complex and fast-changing for the general public to keep abreast with. One of the major problems with the growing deficit in biological literacy is that misinformation fills the vacuum where understanding ought to be, further compounding the problem. The COVID vaccine has been a [...]
Political chaos in Kenya deepens fast: Raila Odinga refuses to accept William Ruto’s presidential win August 16, 2022 Prolonged political chaos looms in Kenya as opposition leader Raila Odinga, the establishment’s favourite, declared this afternoon that he will not accept the official outcome of the 2022 presidential election. Yesterday, Kenya’s electoral committee said William Ruto won the election, which took place a week ago. However, Ruto’s opponent, Odinga, stated today that “a violation [...]
Armac Martin – Beautiful, brilliant, British manufacturers May 4, 2022 The Victorian-era designer and tastemaker, William Morris said in 1880: “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” Birmingham-based Armac Martin has met this ‘brief’ perfectly ever since it was established in 1929 by Harold McGrail to make luxury brass fixtures and fittings for high-end [...]
WHO boss: Halt Covid vaccine booster programmes now to prevent new coronavirus variants August 23, 2021 In order to prevent the emergence of new coronavirus variants, the boss of the World Health Organisation has called for a two-month moratorium on administering Covid-19 booster jabs. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told media in Hungary’s capital Budapest today that he was “really disappointed” with the scope of vaccine donations worldwide as many countries [...]
Ethereum products grow ahead of major network upgrade as spot Bitcoin ETF suffers delay September 5, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin started last week around the $19,800 mark and was rather volatile over the following days.
Failure to cut energy demand risks ‘reckless’ waste of taxpayer money September 22, 2022 Capping energy prices without boosting insulation would risk a “reckless” use of taxpayers’ money, warned the Social Market Foundation.
Are NFTs crypto assets, and why does it matter? March 2, 2022 Crypto AM's Jonny Fry examines whether or not NFTs can be regarded as crypto assets, and why it should matter.