Edinburgh festival 2025: kicks and tricks in this summer’s dance and circus shows Get ready for gravity-defying acrobats, electrically stimulated dancers and a punk ballet take on Mary, Queen of Scots The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2025
‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today The Guardian - US · Feb 21, 2025
England moves into top five in global rankings for science Countries in East Asia have continued to come top in the league tables for science and maths. Evening Standard · Dec 4, 2024
Trump Critic Rips Ex-President for Naming RFK Jr. to 'Women's Health' Job: 'His Ex-Wife Killed Herself After Finding His Diary' Ron Filipkowski said Kennedy's ex-wife committed suicide after discovering a diary "where he wrote in very graphic detail about 37 different affairs." Latin Times · Nov 1, 2024
RFK Jr’s animal antics are bizarre – but his treatment of women, along with a litany of Kennedy men, is far more disturbing America’s first family has been in the news again recently. This time, the focus has been Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. After nominating as an independent candidate for the US presidential election, he subsequently withdrew and endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump. The Conversation · Sep 3, 2024
RFK Jr’s many controversies: From dumping a bear in Central Park to a worm eating his brain Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s legacy is ridden with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, brain worms and bizarre bear-cub deaths, Gustaf Kilander and Katie Hawkinson report The Independent UK · Jul 6, 2024
RFK Jr.: I have "skeletons in my closet" Kennedy denied an allegation in a new Vanity Fair report but sidestepped sexual assault claims from ex-babysitter Salon · Jul 3, 2024
‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women Maureen Callahan’s eye-opening exposé looks back at the Kennedy men and the women they ‘destroyed’, digging into a long and grisly history The Guardian - US · Jul 2, 2024
Threatening to dissolve masterpieces in acid is a pathetically banal stunt for our shallow times Russian artist Andrei Molodkin will destroy works by Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol if Julian Assange dies in prison. It’s an unoriginal idea born of art-historical ignorance The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2024
After 38 attacks on art, climate protesters have fallen into big oil’s trap – it’s time to change tack Repetition has blunted the art museum protests so much that the pumpkin soup assault on the Mona Lisa felt pathetic. More effective tactics are needed The Guardian - UK · Feb 6, 2024
In adopting suffragettes as role models, Just Stop Oil is painting itself into a corner Attacking Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus failed to achieve votes for women in 1914, so why do it again? The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023
Just Stop Oil attack the Rokeby Venus: how the group is using the suffragettes' disruptive tactics to shape public opinion Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London. This, you might be surprised to hear, is not the first time this painting has been the target of activists. The Conversation · Nov 6, 2023
Climate activists smash glass protecting Velazquez's Venus painting in London's National Gallery The group Just Stop Oil says two climate change protesters have smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2023
Just Stop Oil protesters smash National Gallery painting Two people attacked the The Toilet of Venus, a painting by 17th century artist Diego Velázquez previously targeted by the Suffragettes The Independent UK · Nov 6, 2023
Evening Standard · Nov 6, 2023 Just stop Oil protesters arrested after glass protecting National Gallery masterpiece is smashed Pair arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after attack on Rokeby Venus painting
The Independent UK · Aug 17, 2023 A-level results: Biggest drop in top grades on record as Tories accused of ‘exacerbating’ class divide ‘Growing disparity’ between most and least advantaged students, say experts – as education secretary defends ‘rude’ comments about record grade-drop
The Conversation · Nov 10, 2022 Soup on Van Gogh and graffiti on Warhol: climate activists follow the long history of museums as a site of protest Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans at the National Gallery of Australia are just the latest artistic target of climate protesters, who have been throwing soup, mashed potatoes and cake at art worth millions of dollars.
WEKU · Oct 26, 2022 Protests at art museums are nothing new. Here are 3 famous examples from history Climate groups like Just Stop Oil are making headlines for targeting famous works of art in their fossil fuel protests. It's a tactic that other individuals and groups have used over the last century.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022 First Thing: Rishi Sunak becomes UK’s PM after meeting the king Ex-chancellor is third Tory prime minister in less than two months and fifth in six years. Plus, the history of radical art protest by women
The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2022 Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women ‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus
Evening Standard · Oct 14, 2022 Eco-warriors attack Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with Heinz soup – here are the other famous acts of art vandalism What is it about art that activists (love to) hate so much?
The Guardian - US · Apr 17, 2022 How the homelessness crisis hit one of California’s most affordable cities Fresno considered itself a success story in the fight against homelessness. By 2019, things had changed drastically