Three of the UK’s most senior military figures have backed a bold new blueprint for a volunteer army reserve involving retired ex-service personnel to bolster the Armed Forces in the event of war. The plans, which are being considered by Chief of Defence Staff Admiral Sir Tony Radakin, would see 20,000 former regular Army and...
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Urgent Action Needed to Stop AI Developers From ‘Destroying’ Artists’ Careers, Says U.K. Parliament Committee
A U.K. parliamentary committee is calling on the British government to introduce tough new laws that would make it illegal for artificial intelligence (AI) developers to use copyright-protected music for training purposes without consent – and protect creators and artists from the unauthorized use of their voice and image in AI-generated works. A report from...
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UK’s Frasers Group announces acquisition of Matches Fashion’s IP
Frasers Group plc (FG) has recently secured an agreement with the Joint Administrators of Matches Fashion Limited, an online fashion retailer, to acquire select intellectual property assets. This move came after a rigorous marketing process conducted by the Joint Administrators. As part of the transaction terms, FG has granted a licence allowing the Joint Administrators...
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UK students begin new wave of protests against Gaza war after US arrests
A fresh wave of student demonstrations and encampments are under way at UK universities in protest over the war in Gaza after violent scenes on campuses in the US, where hundreds have been arrested in a crackdown by police. Protests were due to take place in at least six universities on Wednesday, including Sheffield, Bristol,...
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Why Britain’s towns and cities are going bust
Birmingham’s city center is thronged by empty lots with unfinished and unstarted building projects, like this one in the Deritend area. In 1890, an American journalist named Julian Ralph traveled from New York to Birmingham, an industrial powerhouse lying squarely in the center of England, and found it to be “the best-governed city in the...
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Can Shopping Be Good for Your Health?
In the UK, the focus of this year’s Mental Health Week is on movement. There are many health benefits from added movement, including everyday activities like walking. Most people simply don’t walk enough—and generally, the more you walk, the better. According to the World Health Organization, lack of physical activity is the fourth most frequent...
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How We Can Exercise Away Addiction and Depression
Exorcise addictive and depressive demons the way celebrities do — with exercise. You’ve probably heard how many famous people have chosen exercise to effectively prevent and even treat mental health problems like addictions and depression. This is because exercise helps support and normalize mood-stabilizing neurochemicals like dopamine and glutamate, as well as serotonin. Brain Chemicals...
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UK gambling financial vulnerability checks to begin in August
The UK Gambling Commission has confirmed that light-touch financial vulnerability checks will come into force in two stages from August this year. From August 30 this year, the checks will come into force for online gambling customers with a net deposit of more than £500 per month on gambling, before reducing to £150 per month...
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Improving Diversity via Remote Jobs for Disabled Adults
Source: Marcus Aurelius/Pexels If you give any leader the opportunity to increase their talent pool of potential employees by 15 percent—with all these new hires belonging to an underrepresented minority—they’d jump at the chance, especially given tight labor markets and CEO desires to increase headcount. Yet too few leaders realize that, according to the...
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YEARBOOK Awards 2024 | ArtsHub UK – Arts Industry News, Jobs & Career Advice
The YEARBOOK Awards are back for 2024, with prizes from major industry organisations Alamy, Metro Imaging, Newspaper Club, and Shutter Hub Editions, accompanied by an online exhibition. Find out more about the prizes available here. YEARBOOK is our annual awards for photographers, open to all, whatever stage they are at in their career. The Awards and exhibition...
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Why Do Athletes Keep Falling for Quacks?
Scientific knowledge is accessible to more people today than ever before, yet the relationship competitive sports and the fitness industry share with medical quackery, useless gimmicks, and anti-scientific concepts are as strong as ever. It may be worse than ever, thanks to social media, which now amplifies and delivers lies on an enormous scale. Nick...
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Movement Is Medicine: Exercise for Well-Being
Source: Ray_Shrewsberry/1978 Images/Pixabay I’m giving a talk next week on men and mental health for International Men’s Health Week (10-16 June) and I have been told, in no uncertain terms, to devote a section of my presentation to the physical and psychological benefits of exercise. Not just because the well-being coordinators behind the talk think...