Chief Scout Bear Grylls said the movement he leads must learn from founder Lord Baden-Powell’s failings Chief Scout Bear Grylls said the movement he leads must learn from founder Lord Baden-Powell’s failings after his statue became a target for Black Lives Matter activists. Mr Grylls, 46, spoke out amid a row over whether or not … Read more
Kristen Bell was ‘shocked’ to learn her face had been used in a pornographic deepfake video: ‘I’m being exploited’ By Carly Johnson For Dailymail.com Published: 02:22 BST, 11 June 2020 | Updated: 02:22 BST, 11 June 2020 Kristen Bell is opening up about falling victim to a pornographic ‘deepfake,’ which is when a person in … Read more
With the coronavirus pandemic putting paid to any plans for an extravagant family party, Prince Philip will celebrate his 99th birthday today with a modest lunch with the Queen at Windsor where the couple have been self-isolating. So with the bunting still stowed away and a shortage of popping champagne corks, here Mark Mason pays … Read more
Modern smartphones and tablets are ‘baffling black boxes’ and make it harder for children to learn about science because they’re difficult to take apart and put back together, leading astrophysicist claims Astronomer Royal, Lord Martin Rees, said it is difficult to take mobiles apart He said the likes of Newton, Darwin and Einstein learnt through … Read more
HOROSCOPES: Learn from disagreements this week, Gemini By Sally Brompton for The Mail on Sunday Published: 00:03 BST, 31 May 2020 | Updated: 00:03 BST, 31 May 2020 Gemini 22 MAY-21 JUNE Partners and colleagues will disagree with whatever you say this week and vice versa. It’s not necessarily a recipe for disaster – disagreements can … Read more
Books are still the best way to learn: Young children understand more when reading something on paper rather than on a screen More than 1,100 10-year-old children in Norway did two comprehension tests One was done on a screen while the other used the traditional medium of paper One in three students (30 per cent) … Read more
When it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic, every day is a school day – and that isn’t just because many parents (myself included) are having to teach our children about fronted adverbials at the same time as working from home. As we scan the news for information, we are all learning a great deal about … Read more
‘To be part of a show such as Killing Eve is not something I would have ever thought possible a few years ago’ From Game of Thrones to Killing Eve, Gemma Whelan is no stranger to drama – but it’s nothing compared to her real-life highs and lows, as Louise Gannon discovers With just two … Read more
When it comes to the Covid-19 pandemic, every day is a school day – and that isn’t just because many parents (myself included) are having to teach our children about fronted adverbials at the same time as working from home. As we scan the news for information, we are all learning a great deal about … Read more
The WHO has warned coronavirus ‘may never go away’ and that mankind will have to learn to live with the disease in the same way it adjusted to HIV. Dr Mike Ryan, director of the WHO’s Health Emergencies programme, was asked yesterday how long it might take before we emerge on the other side of … Read more