Claire Jenns Kickstart Team

Japan’s cherry blossom trees are universally admired and are a centerpiece of Japanese culture, but their early blossom this year is not something to celebrate, say climate scientists. 

Prolific stage, film and TV actor Rory Kinnear gave young aspiring actors his words of wisdom for being successful in the industry at the National Student Drama Festival. 

The charity Project Northmoor aimed to ‘create the first literary centre in the world dedicated to Tolkein’ at the author’s Oxford home, but fell short on donations and support.

Local government inspectors have been investigating financial irregularities in the awarding of building contracts in the city, and Whitehall is taking over Liverpool’s council.

A review of Sian Keen’s New Creatives audio project We Don’t Know What To Tell You, It’s Clearly Just Weight Related, which tackles body shaming of patients perpetuated by medical professionals.

Multi-millionaire Kylie Jenner has shared a fundraising link for her injured make-up artist who needs emergency surgery. 

With the release and subsequent negative reviews of the new Tom and Jerry film, we ask whether beloved animal cartoon characters in live-action movies attract or repulse audiences.

Showcased to Mozilla Festival attendees, The Emoji Story is a delightful documentary charting the history, creation process, and future of the little icons we know and love. 

AI voices are now part of our everyday lives, but how are they designed? Mozilla Festival’s event ‘A Primer on Conversational Voice Design’ gave us the lowdown. 

Over a decade since her first appearance in the Harry Potter film franchise as Cho Chang, Katie Leung recounts the racist online abuse she was advised to suppress.

Mozilla Festival’s event ‘Strangest sights on Google Earth’ took attendees on a global tour through our laptop screens and highlighted a little known story-telling tool. 

Like anything with immense cultural and historical impact, the internet should be archived for posterity. At this Mozilla Festival event, Thomas Preece explained the reasons for and strategies behind web archiving.