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Using Zoom to set up video calls with your friends is a helpful way to stay in touch from a distance. You can even make your chats a little more interesting by changing your virtual background. If you are a big Disney fan, you'll want to try out these 14…

The Hillsborough disaster impacted Liverpool as a city in an indescribable way, with families fighting for justice ever since. Hillsborough – April 15, 1989 96 supporters die in a crush during Liverpool’s FA Cup clash with Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough stadium. With supporters spilling onto the pitch due…

The GlenDronach Revival 15 Year Old Single Malt Scotch, “Best In Show Whiskey" at the 2020 San ... Francisco World Spirits Competition GlenDronach Scotland has a long, rich tradition of making world class whisky. In fact, the first known mention of the liquid (from tax records) dates back to 1494.…

Written by Shweta Sharma | New Delhi | Updated: April 11, 2020 9:26:56 am Kunal Kapoor turned host with Spirit of Scotland. (Photos: Kunal Kapoor/Instagram; designed by Gargi Singh)After impressing with his performances in movies like Rang De Basanti, Dear Zindagi, Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities and Luv Shuv…

It feels fitting, somehow, that the final bit of flight-free travelling I managed to squeeze in before the full coronavirus lockdown went precisely nowhere. Well, to be fair, it did go somewhere – but I set off from London and arrived back in London hours later, without setting so much…

Good morning! A poem today. Earlier this week saw the 250th anniversary of the birth of William Wordsworth – a poet who has, for the past couple of centuries, often set the ideological terms of the writing of landscape and nature. I’ve been thinking about Wordsworth’s particular “Romantic” landscapes quite…

In the windswept mountains of the Scottish Highlands a keen eye might spot, in the vast treeless expanses, a tiny outcropping that is too angular to simply be a large rock. It’s actually the roof of a bothy. These backcountry lairs are favorite destinations, or stopping points along a longer…

Keir Starmer has inherited a poisonous legacy from Jeremy Corbyn. Despite his resounding victory in the first round of the Labour leadership contest, the new leader faces a daunting challenge after the recent years of division and extremism which have so alienated the electorate. Yet Labour’s internal problems are more than counterbalanced…

Chris Packham loses High Court bid to stop the clearing of ancient woodlands for the HS2 rail projectPackham claimed HS2 would cause 'irreversible and irreparable loss' to sites Was seeking emergency injunction as part of legal challenge to HS2 go-aheadTwo senior judges refused Packham permission to bring claim against decisionThe Government…

Last time I told the story of His Holiness, Saint Ray the Cat, and how he came to be in our lives. Today I present the senior non-human member of the household, Raksha. Waaay back in 2007, I had just graduated from college and was working as property manager for…