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Edinburgh festival 2025: kicks and tricks in this summer’s dance and circus shows

Get ready for gravity-defying acrobats, electrically stimulated dancers and a punk ballet take on Mary, Queen of Scots

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s a scary time’: Sophie Lewis on the ‘enemy feminisms’ that enable the far right

In a new book the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists today

The Guardian - US

England moves into top five in global rankings for science

Countries in East Asia have continued to come top in the league tables for science and maths.

Evening Standard

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Trump Critic Rips Ex-President for Naming RFK Jr. to 'Women's Health' Job: 'His Ex-Wife Killed Herself After Finding His Diary'

Ron Filipkowski said Kennedy's ex-wife committed suicide after discovering a diary "where he wrote in very graphic detail about 37 different affairs."

Latin Times

RFK Jr’s animal antics are bizarre – but his treatment of women, along with a litany of Kennedy men, is far more disturbing

America’s first family has been in the news again recently. This time, the focus has been Robert F. Kennedy (RFK) Jr. After nominating as an independent candidate for the US presidential election, he subsequently withdrew and endorsed Republican candidate Donald Trump.

The Conversation

RFK Jr’s many controversies: From dumping a bear in Central Park to a worm eating his brain

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s legacy is ridden with anti-vaccine conspiracy theories, brain worms and bizarre bear-cub deaths, Gustaf Kilander and Katie Hawkinson report

The Independent UK

RFK Jr.: I have "skeletons in my closet"

Kennedy denied an allegation in a new Vanity Fair report but sidestepped sexual assault claims from ex-babysitter

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‘They always got away with it’: new book reveals Kennedys’ shocking treatment of women

Maureen Callahan’s eye-opening exposé looks back at the Kennedy men and the women they ‘destroyed’, digging into a long and grisly history

The Guardian - US

Threatening to dissolve masterpieces in acid is a pathetically banal stunt for our shallow times

Russian artist Andrei Molodkin will destroy works by Picasso, Rembrandt and Warhol if Julian Assange dies in prison. It’s an unoriginal idea born of art-historical ignorance

The Guardian - UK

After 38 attacks on art, climate protesters have fallen into big oil’s trap – it’s time to change tack

Repetition has blunted the art museum protests so much that the pumpkin soup assault on the Mona Lisa felt pathetic. More effective tactics are needed

The Guardian - UK

Christchurch councillors' secret show of hands on selling city assets

Straw poll of councillors is taken at closed-door workshops, despite Ombudsman's concerns about councils excluding public from key meetings. David Williams reports.

Newsroom.co.nz

In adopting suffragettes as role models, Just Stop Oil is painting itself into a corner

Attacking Diego Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus failed to achieve votes for women in 1914, so why do it again?

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil attack the Rokeby Venus: how the group is using the suffragettes' disruptive tactics to shape public opinion

Two Just Stop Oil protesters have smashed the glass on the Rokeby Venus by Diego Velázquez at the National Gallery in London. This, you might be surprised to hear, is not the first time this painting has been the target of activists.

The Conversation

Climate activists smash glass protecting Velazquez's Venus painting in London's National Gallery

The group Just Stop Oil says two climate change protesters have smashed a protective glass panel covering a famous Diego Velázquez oil painting at London’s National Gallery

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Just Stop Oil protesters smash National Gallery painting

Two people attacked the The Toilet of Venus, a painting by 17th century artist Diego Velázquez previously targeted by the Suffragettes

Evening Standard

Just stop Oil protesters arrested after glass protecting National Gallery masterpiece is smashed

Pair arrested on suspicion of criminal damage after attack on Rokeby Venus painting

The Independent UK

A-level results: Biggest drop in top grades on record as Tories accused of ‘exacerbating’ class divide

‘Growing disparity’ between most and least advantaged students, say experts – as education secretary defends ‘rude’ comments about record grade-drop

Newsroom.co.nz

Christchurch’s cycleway blow-up falls flat

A memo to outspoken Christchurch councillors – read your memos

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The Conversation

Soup on Van Gogh and graffiti on Warhol: climate activists follow the long history of museums as a site of protest

Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans at the National Gallery of Australia are just the latest artistic target of climate protesters, who have been throwing soup, mashed potatoes and cake at art worth millions of dollars.

WEKU

Protests at art museums are nothing new. Here are 3 famous examples from history

Climate groups like Just Stop Oil are making headlines for targeting famous works of art in their fossil fuel protests. It's a tactic that other individuals and groups have used over the last century.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Rishi Sunak becomes UK’s PM after meeting the king

Ex-chancellor is third Tory prime minister in less than two months and fifth in six years. Plus, the history of radical art protest by women

The Guardian - UK

Just Stop Oil’s Van Gogh soup stunt is the latest streak of radical art protest by women

‘What is worth more: art or life?’ asked protesters Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer this month in an echo of the suffragette who slashed Velázquez’s Rokeby Venus

Evening Standard

Eco-warriors attack Van Gogh’s Sunflowers with Heinz soup – here are the other famous acts of art vandalism

What is it about art that activists (love to) hate so much?

Newsroom.co.nz

Mauger denies lobbying mayor over son’s studio plans

'I would personally regard it as a conflict,' says outgoing Christchurch Mayor Lianne Dalziel.

The Guardian - US

How the homelessness crisis hit one of California’s most affordable cities

Fresno considered itself a success story in the fight against homelessness. By 2019, things had changed drastically

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