Men’s International Test Match Series – 2nd Test – Day  2 of 5 India 1st Innings, 587 ao off 151ov  Jaiswal 87 off 107, 13 fours, Gill 269 off 387, 30 fours, 3 sixes, Jadeja 89 off 137, 10 fours, 1 six, Washington 42 off 103, 3 fours, 1 six, Bashir 3-167, Tongue 2-119, Woakes 2-111, Carse 1-83, Root 1-20. England 1st Innings, 77-3 off 20 ov, Crawley 19 off 30, 3 fours, Root 18 off 37, 1 four, Brook 30 off 53, 4 fours, 1 six, Deep 2-36, Siraj 1-21. Shubman Gill’s 269 for India helped them to amass 587 ao in the second … Continue reading Gill’s flawless mammoth 269

Late September in 2001, and the walls of New York are papered over with photos of the missing. Cora Brady’s father is there, the poster she made taped to columns and bridges. Her mother died a long ago and now, orphaned on the cusp of childhood, Cora is adrift and alone. Soon, a letter arrive with the offer of a new life: far out on the ragged edge of Ireland, in the town where her parents were young, an estranged aunt can provide a home and fulfil a long-forgotten promise. There the story of Cora’s family is hidden, and in … Continue reading Love, tragedy, mystery and redemption

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The Rest of Our Lives is the compelling depiction of life at a crossroads is a male counterpart to Miranda July’ All Fours. What’s left when your kids grow up and leave home? When Tom Layward’s wife had an affair he resolved to leave her as soon as his youngest daughter turned eighteen. Twelve years later while driving her to Pittsburgh to start university, he remembers his pact. He also on the run from his own health issues, and the fact that he’s been put on leave at work after students complaints about the politics of his law class- something … Continue reading Our Lives

Former Portuguese politician turned author, Bruno Maçäes, claims world politics has changed, as geopolitics is no longer simply a contest to control territory. In this age of advanced technology, it has become a contest to create the territory. Great powers seek to build a world for other states to inhabit, while keeping the ability to change the rules or the state of the world when necessary. The book aims to introduce a radically new theory of world politics and technology wars between China and the United States, the pandemic, the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and the energy … Continue reading Moving from the world of atoms to bits

Raindance Festival 2025, The Academy at the Vue, The Academy, written and produced by Camilla Guttner, is a semi-autographical love letter, told through the eyes of young eager and tenacious art student Jojo played by Maja Bons, who “discovers the microcosm of an art academy”.  She navigates her probationary year at the elite Munich Academy of Fine Arts, the film exploring constellations of artists, anxieties and pedagogies that she encounters constantly. Jojo is forced to confront challenging obstacles, she is forced to watch the rapid decline of her grandmother’s health, and she is unabatingly critiqued by her eccentric professor – Guttner … Continue reading Raindance Festival 2025: The Academy

Raindance – Vue Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London – up to andincluding June 27 – 33 rd Film Festival. “The Lost Episode”. Canadian film.82 Mins.“Assembled by XPU$HER and made available through the Black-TorrentRelease Group, The Lost Episode offers traumatic and disturbing films taken atan incident of a police ride-along on Halloween night 2004. Officers PaulMassaro and Terrence Williams drive around the quiet streets of Franklin, andthings are not as they should be!The Lost Episode presents supposedly raw 2004 footage from a police realityshow’s ill-fated Halloween night patrol with two unsuspecting officers. Initialcalls are regular urban disturbances, captured in the era’s distinct, … Continue reading Raindance Festival: The Lost Episode

From the telegraph and telephone in the 1800s to the internet and social media in our own day, the public has welcomed new communication systems. Whenever people gain more power to share information, the assumption goes, society prospers. Superbloom tells a different story. As communication become more mechanised and efficient, it breeds confusion more than understanding, strife more than harmony. Media technologies all too often bring out the worst in us. Nicholas Carr, reorients the conversation around modern communication, challenging some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratisation. He reveals how messaging apps strip nuance … Continue reading How digital crowding erodes empathy, triggers aggression and distort our perceptions