Month: April 2023

It’s the first day of senior year, and Euphemia “Effie” Galanos already wishes that high school were over. Effie has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, and her last year of high school is not off to a good start. The accessible door openers at the building’s entrance don’t work, an obnoxious couple keeps using
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA – APRIL 25: Ryan Gosling poses for photos as he promotes the upcoming film “Barbie” during the Warner Bros. Pictures presentation at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace during CinemaCon, the official convention of the National Association of Theatre Owners, on April 25, 2023, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images)The
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British nationals in Sudan have been warned the UK “cannot guarantee” how many more evacuation flights will leave Khartoum after the 72-hour ceasefire expires. So far, 536 British nationals have been airlifted to safety on six flights, according to the Foreign Office. The US-Saudi mediated ceasefire between Sudan’s two warring factions is due to expire
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Claire Forrest’s first YA novel, the effervescent and emotional Where You See Yourself, follows its protagonist, Effie Galanos, through her final year of high school. As a wheelchair user, Effie has been treated as an “obstacle” by her school, and she hopes that things will be different at a prestigious, big-city college. To get there,
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Black Mirror (finally!) returns to the air this summer. Netflix revealed that Black Mirror Season 6 has landed a June 2023 premiere date. By the time the groundbreaking series returns, it will have been off the air for four years. “Expect the unexpected. The long-awaited return of Charlie Brooker’s dark, satirical anthology series which reinvents
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The behaviour of people arriving in the UK on small boats is “at odds with British values”, the home secretary has claimed. Speaking exclusively to Sky News, Suella Braverman said people making the dangerous Channel crossing – who include asylum seekers – were “behaving unacceptably” by “breaking our rules” and “abusing the generosity of the
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The British competition watchdog has blocked Microsoft’s bid to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) stopped the $68.7bn (£55bn) deal due to concerns that it would stifle competition in the cloud gaming market. In its final report on Wednesday, the CMA said that the move was “the only effective
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