Representation in politics and media creates opportunities for a generation October 26, 2022 A few weeks ago, many of us were woken up by a curious occurrence: the presenters of BBC Radio 4 Today discussing their fellow presenter – Amol Rajan’s – challenge to the BBC Director General on accent bias among BBC News presenters. Whilst the conversation was all quite meta – with a small “m”- it [...]
Queen Elizabeth II coins and stamps are about to be worth a fortune as NFTs September 22, 2022 Lars Seier Christensen, founder and chairman of Concordium, explains how the value of stamps could find a new playground with NFTs.
London Tech Week, Day Five: Into an Inclusive Metaverse June 17, 2022 As London Tech Week draws to a close, it’s amazing to look back at the progress the sector has made in the nine years since Tech London Advocates joined the very first edition as a founding partner. Across all events, more than 20,000 attendees heard from tech leaders at the cutting edge of the emerging [...]
Lightyear review: Enjoyably nostalgic flight from the past June 17, 2022 Just when you thought Hollywood couldn’t find a new way to rehash old material, here comes a new category of film entirely. Lightyear is a spin-off of Toy Story, but one that imagines Buzz Lightyear as a real person. As the film explains in its opening moments, this is the movie that the toy was [...]
Bird watching: What’s going on with X/Twitter’s Community Notes? November 9, 2023 It’s always embarrassing to be called out on a lie. That’s the cruel genius behind Twitter’s Community Notes feature, which brutally exposes mistruths with a cool, simple fact box. As Labour’s shadow foreign secretary David Lammy recently found out, the hard way. He tweeted “As I said on Radio 4 Today this morning, it is [...]
Anything Goes at Barbican review: All aboard! This is a five-star musical thrillride July 14, 2022 Anything Goes achieves a rare kind of alchemy by succeeding at everything it turns its hand to. It’s a sterling effort in song, dance, staging, acting and storytelling, and it keeps the pace throughout. Tonally, it tightropes between farce and sentimentality deftly. The romance doesn’t veer toward schmaltzy, the comedy never towards cringe. This will [...]
The best London theatre of 2022, from Prima Facie to Jerusalem – but who got the top spot? December 15, 2022 After two years of Covid, London theatre returned this year with a vengeance, kicking off with some of the best new and returning plays of the decade. Here are a few of our favourites. 1. CRUISE (APOLLO) Jack Holden’s incredible one-man show explores the fallout of the AIDS crisis in a spectacularly contemporary way. Having [...]
How sports teams can harness the power of the metaverse March 11, 2022 Protokol CEO Lars Rensing discusses how sports teams can use innovative new technology to help secure their place in the digital world, as well as the physical one.
FTX collapse has no winners, unless you’re a news site or a hardware wallet December 9, 2022 David F Carr, Senior Insights Manager at Similarweb, crunches the numbers and discovers some surprising winners in the FTX debacle.
Facebook algorithm pushes climate sceptics deeper into disinformation March 30, 2022 A new investigation has revealed that Facebook users that show an interest in climate scepticism are being driven towards more extreme forms of climate disinformation by algorithms, despite the social media giant's claims of a crackdown.