Media

Women, working class, Black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) talent are still chronically under-represented in Britain’s ad industry, an industry worth over £22 billion a year. To redress the balance adland has launched a campaign to attract young talent from under-represented backgrounds to apply for a innovative scheme to serve as a launchpad for talented youth into the capital's media industries Brixton Finishing School is a free bootcamp to get young talent into the media and digital industries, paid for...

One of Australia’s most popular tabloids has called for action on climate change after printing two pages from a rival newspaper by mistake. The Sydney-based Daily Telegraph, a right-leaning tabloid owned by Rupert Murdoch, accidentally printed two pages of the liberal Sydney Morning Herald in its Thursday edition. The pages include a letter calling for action to tackle climate change, the BBC has reported. In an announcement on Twitter this morning, The Telegraph said: “Good morning readers, today @DailyTelegraph printed...

A series of billboard advertisements have been rolled out on London’s Oxford Street featuring the famous Victoria’s Secret catwalk campaign as you’ve never seen it before. ‘Real' women wearing incontinence pants star in the ads which emulate the underwear brand’s highly recognisable 'winged angels’ campaign. Supermodels including Lily Aldridge and Candice Swanepoel, strutted their stuff in the glamorous underwear in the original pictures. But this time, rather than high-profile models and statement underwear, these shots show ‘angels’ wearing black underwear...

Sir David Attenborough has issued his harshest warning yet on the threat posed to life on Earth by climate change. As Extinction Rebellion protests hit 80 cities in 33 countries around the planet to highlight a “climate emergency” the veteran nature broadcaster warned we "irreversible damage to the natural world and the collapse of our societies". Extinction Rebellion Blackfriars (c) Lucy Cartwright Highlighting the catastrophic extinctions facing the planet unless drastic action is taken, Attenborough says: “in the 20 years...

A racist who told David Lammy to “go back to the jungle” and threatened to kill other MPs over their opposition to Brexit was jailed today. Jarod Kirkman, 51, used a fake email address to target a cross-party selection of prominet "Remain" MPs - including Tory ex-cabinet minister Nicky Morgan and Labour's Yvette Cooper. Kirkman sent 19 emails telling his victims to “f**k off and die” and that their “days were numbered” between December 4 and January 21. But when...

Facebook has announced that it is banning some of the most prolific British far-right figures from its Facebook and Instagram platforms. The move comes after the world’s biggest social media firm said it would tackle the spread of white nationalism and supremacist content on its networks following the Christchurch mosque shooting in New Zealand. Earlier this month Facebook banned far-right pages in Canada. From midday today, 12 British accounts are banned under Facebook’s “dangerous individuals and organisations” policy. Donald Trump...

While the Internet undoubtedly offers innumerable benefits to our society, it also has the potential to cause huge issues. Key amongst these is the possibility of minors stumbling across material – such as pornography – which studies show can be damaging to young people’s mental health. The NSPCC, for example, recently cited widespread confusion over what constitutes “normal” intimate activity as a cause for increasing peer sexual abuse. Safeguarding children online, and helping to prevent them from viewing such material, is therefore of utmost...

Peter Oborne has said Brexiteers must swallow their pride and think again about a process which has "paralysed the system" and "turned Britain into a laughing stock". The prominent Leave advocate has penned an honest Open Democracy feature which calls for Brexiteers to acknowledge that the process has gone sour, saying "we will never be forgiven if and when Brexit goes wrong. Future generations will look back at what we did and damn us." His position, he says, is driven...

WIth her own party plotting to oust her if there is a lengthy delay to Brexit, though it has proved impossible to deliver a Brexit that delivers anything like its promises with another deadline looming, Theresa May issued a reassuring video. "Let me explain what is happening with Brexit," the Prime Minister said in an informal, chatty, video, shot shaky camera style, with her leaning on the arm of her as casually, propped up with a cushion as if any...