Time Poverty And The World's Childcare Crisis

My colleague Thalia Kidder is a feminist economist who’s been working for years to try and get the ‘care economy’
onto the development agenda. It&rs...

Film Festivals Set For Next Week

Seen & Heard’ column by Dave MabellTV shows may come and go, but some films live on forever. Others, that really should be seen, may never reach their intended au...

Loving Vincent Is The First Feature Film To Be Animated With Paintings

With the advent of computer-generated imagery (CGI), there’s no longer much place in film for handcrafted beauty. Animated films made with paper, pencils, and paintbr...

Retroscope - Salaam Women

Many of you are familiar with the question of being born female in India. But it will be nice to go through the exercise together –imagine you are a daughter in India...

Kaleidoscope - Liars All

Liars come in all shapes and sizes, what happens to the people they deceive?

Two books about liars, one in which a young woman is cheated by her husband, the other ...

When The Robots Steal Your Job, You Can Be An 'Online Chaperone'

The robots might pinch our jobs, but when they do, futurists want to let us know that there could be a whole host of positions still left for Homo sapiens to fill.
Acc...

Kaleidoscope - Theatre Of Tolerance

As the sensitive Aligarh about the persecution of a gay professor releases, the positive response to it shows that ordinary people are getting over their prejudice...

Here's Why It's A Very Bad Idea To Wipe Mosquitoes Off The Face Of The Earth

It would be hard to find an insect more despised these days than the mosquito. The blood-sucking pest is considered more lethal to humans than any other animal in the world...

Jude Law Takes To The Stage At Refugee Camp In France

On Sunday 21st February 2016, Jude Law, Juliet Stevenson, Tom Odell, Sir Tom Stoppard, Matt Berry, ShappiKhorsandi and Toby Jones alongside a number of displaced refugees, ...