Fuming PrettyLittleThing customer backlash not Pretty

Fashion brand PrettLittleThing ( part of the Boohoo Group, founded by Mahmud Kaman and retail executive Carol Kane in 2006) is facing a customer backlash after becoming the latest retailer to scrap its free returns policy, as UK customers must now pay £1.99 to return clothes, with the cost deducted from their refund.So for many PrettyLittleThing customers the experience is not Pretty at all. Irate shoppers have posted screenshots on social media showing their PrettyLittleThings apps being deleted from their phones, with many saying they would return fewer items if the brand’s sizing was more consistent. High Street giant brands … Continue reading Fuming PrettyLittleThing customer backlash not Pretty

Commodification of Intimacy and sexual trauma

Comedian and podcaster Sofie Hagen had not had sex in 3,000 days ( and counting), and it turns out, she’s not the only one…. Her attempts to find out why we’re not having the sex we want, Sofie asked the questions: can we blame a lacking sex education? Is it all just sexual trauma? Where’s the radical sexual liberation we were promised? What are we going to do about this? How do you overcome being a 35- year-old virgin ( when it come to queer sex, that is)? How do the socially awkward and the neurodiverse have sex? “ I … Continue reading Commodification of Intimacy and sexual trauma

Central Banks could bring about price stability

Shock Value tells the untold story of prices and price stabilisation in the United States, many foundational moments in American economic history – the establishment of paper money, wartime price controls, the rise of the modern Federal Reserve- occurred during financial panics as prices either inflated or deflated sharply. The government’s decisions in these moments, intended to control price fluctuations, have produced both lasting effects and some of the most contentious debates in the American’s history. Shock Values reveals how the American state and been shaped by a massive, ever-evolving effort to insulate its economy from the real and perceived … Continue reading Central Banks could bring about price stability

Can good law topple the powerful

Jolyon Maugham, a King’s Counsel, charismatic and successful obscure tax barrister, whose memoir cum social action manifesto Bringing Down Goliath, a product of the bird site, and large portions of it cannot really be understood unless the  reader has followed our hero’s perambulations  through Twitter. He started a mild successful blog, which led him advising the Labour Party on tax policy and even to fleeting fantasies of becoming attorney general in the House of Lords in an Ed Miliband government. But what really made him famous was hi energetic consistent abuse of anyone who disagreed with him on Twitter  where he has 420, … Continue reading Can good law topple the powerful

Psychedelic drug 5-MeO-DMT, found in the Sonoran desert toads

Scientist have dosed the first participant in a London trial investigating the effects of a psychedelic substance 5-MeO-DMT, found in the Sonoran desert toads on the human brain, The substance causes powerful hallucinations, euphoria  and disassociation. The toads are found in the north-western Mexico and the south-western United States. In 2022, the National Park Service warned people to stop licking the back of the toads to induce a psychedelic  trip, as the amphibians’ skin contains poisonous toxins. Beckley Psych, a biopharmaceutical firm created a synthetic version of 5 MeO-DMT, named BPL -003, as part of the trial  looking into the … Continue reading Psychedelic drug 5-MeO-DMT, found in the Sonoran desert toads

Naran will fly ultra super-rich billionaire’s car to any part of the world

Ameerh Naran is an ambitious entrepreneur and car fanatic, currently serving as CEO of Vimana Private Jets and Naran Automotive.Zimbabwe-born Ameerh Naran (38)  to an Indian  family of shoemakers, was Harare’s first importer of sex toys. He then was going to make millions in private aviation, his planes used by celebrities, politicians and on “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”. He now spends most of his time in Dubai and London.“I’ve a rare Porsche Carrera Gt that cost me £1.5m ($1.9m)  and I keep it at the airport in Dubai” Naran said. His company  Vimana Private Jets also has offices in Los Angeles and New York. … Continue reading Naran will fly ultra super-rich billionaire’s car to any part of the world

Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

Boeing has launched its Starliner capsule towards the International Space Station (ISS) with two NASA astronauts abroad, as the it’s for the first time the vehicle has been entrusted to carry people. Strainer is scheduled to dock with the space station on Thursday. The capsule went up from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, riding a United Launch Alliance Atlas rocket. The 12-minute powered ascent was indeed flawless. Commander Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will be testing the capsule on a mission that is expected to last over a week. Starliner now has to raise itself to the orbit … Continue reading Boeing launches critical venture astronaut capsule

Rubin successor of Blackwell AI chips

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced the next generation of the company’s artificial Intelligence processors, onstage at the Computex conference in Taipei yesterday. Huang revealed “Rubin” the successor to the company’s “ Blackwell” chips for data centres, which was launched less than three months ago, and currently under production. This shows the energy behind the world’s most valuable chipmaker who is racing to entrench their dominance in AI processors  which has propelled it into the ranks of the world’s most valuable companies. Nvidia’s is rushing their innovation  and has taken on an outsized importance to the stock market as traders bet on whether … Continue reading Rubin successor of Blackwell AI chips

Father of gyno-psychiarty

Butcher is the harrowing story based on authentic historical documents, we follow the career of Dr Silas Weir, “Father of Gyno-Psychiatry” as he ascends from professional anonymity to national renown. Humiliated by a procedure gone terribly wrong, Weir is forced to take a position at the New Jersey Asylum for Female Lunatics, where he reigns. There, he is allowed to continue his practice, unchecked for decades, making a name for himself by focusing on women who have been neglected by the state – women he subjects to the most grotesque modes of experimentation. As he begins to establish himself a … Continue reading Father of gyno-psychiarty

Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth time

Happiness is called married for fifth time. Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch (93) has married for a fifth time in a ceremony at his Californian vineyard. Australian-born Murdoch who began his acareer in Australia in the 1950s, tied the knot on Saturday with his new wife Elena Zhukova (67), a retired biologist. Mr Murdoch who has sic children, is chairman emeritus of News Corporation, which owns Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, the Sun, and the Times. He purchased the News of the World  and the Sun Newspapers in the UK in 1969, and later purchased the  New York Post and … Continue reading Rupert Murdoch marries for fifth time