Mark Bridge
The Times of London
United Kingdom
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Letters to a soldier who died at Arras recovered from skip in France
Letters to a teenage soldier who survived the Somme only to die at Arras have been recovered from a skip in France after they were found under floorboards during renovation.The letters to Lance → Read More
Backlash against ‘snowflake’ police warnings as Britons enjoy the weather
The chance to build snowmen and go sledging gave much of Britain a break from lockdown tedium today.Many regions woke up to snow after temperatures plummeted overnight, falling as low as -10C in parts → Read More
Diana’s brother Charles Spencer aims to exhume King Henry I
The fourth son of William the Conqueror brought peace and stability to a troubled England before slipping into relative obscurity, such that his final resting place may now be under a nursery.A → Read More
Bridge on the River Kwai was a bridge too far for War Office
The War Office feared a public backlash over The Bridge on the River Kwai’s “inauthentic” portrayal of British PoWs.In the late 1950s, the Hollywood producer Sam Spiegel wrote to the department → Read More
Amateur detectorists to get training from professional archaeologists
Britain’s growing army of amateur metal detectorists will be trained by professional archaeologists.The Association of Detectorists, which has received the backing of Historic England as well as → Read More
Bust of St Agnes bought for £10 is Renaissance masterpiece
It was thought to be an anonymous sculpture of the Virgin Mary, bought for £10 in the 1930s and stored for decades above a cupboard in an English country house. Now the lifesize bust has been → Read More
It chills my blood to return, says Holocaust survivor who saw mother shot dead at death camp
“It’s always blood-chilling,” said Hannah Lewis, 82, a Holocaust survivor on her third visit to Auschwitz since the war. In a funny way, she added, the weather was right too. “It’s cold, it’s grey — → Read More
Plea to honour French doctor Frédéric Pétri who hid injured Jewish girl from Nazis
Relatives in Britain of two Jewish sisters who fled Hitler have started a campaign to honour the French doctor who hid one of them from the Nazis in the ski resort of Val d’Isère. Frédéric Pétri... → Read More
Woodland back to ‘medieval levels’
Britain’s woodland cover has returned to medieval levels thanks to 20th-century forestry and the “rewilding” trend. The area of woodland is about 3.19 million hectares, according to the Forestry Commission. This represents 13 per cent of the land area, or 10 per cent in England, 15 per cent in W → Read More
UN general assembly: Boris Johnson sees future of psychic mattresses and robot assassins
The prime minister has been accused of ignorance and hyperbole over his warnings of a dystopian future. In his inaugural speech to the United Nations general assembly Boris Johnson described developments in which “your mattress will monitor your nightmares” and artificial intelligence might lead t → Read More
Fake news sticks in minds of voters
Fake news that plays to people’s political biases can lead to tenaciously held false memories, researchers have said. Presented with a mix of true and false news stories relating to topical issues... → Read More
Google’s next translation: sign language
A breakthrough from Google engineers could enable the real-time translation of sign language on a phone app. The ability to track hand movements in footage has been “decidedly challenging” as individual fingers are often obscured or difficult to make out when people gesticulate, the researchers say. → Read More
Life’s a beach for mothers-to-be with VR headset
If you are in pain and exhausted and have a gibbering wreck for a spouse, you’ll be forgiven for wanting to teleport to an empty tropical beach where the only sound is the lapping of waves. And now, at least if you’re a woman in Cardiff going into labour, you can. In a trial of technology that could → Read More
Woke social network is an anti‑radicalisation scheme
A “woke” social network aimed at young British Muslims is a counter-terror project, officials have admitted.The network, Woke, is described in Facebook and Instagram pages as a “diverse social news platform” that engages “in critical discussions around Muslim identity, tradition and reform”. Offici → Read More
Teenagers hit jackpot at Fortnite World Cup
There was a time when being 15 involved cramming for exams and earning a few pounds from a paper round to spend on LPs and illicit alcohol. For today’s youth, however, it can mean playing video games in front of a global audience and banking millions of pounds for their efforts. On Saturday Jaden A → Read More
Instagram’s move away from ‘likes’ could mean death of influencers
It could bring withdrawal symptoms for millions of smartphone zombies who start their day by checking their Instagram for overnight “likes”. The Facebook-owned photo app is experimenting with hiding the like-count to “remove pressure” on users. In trials people will not see the number of likes on → Read More
FaceApp: privacy fears over app that has gone viral
The UK’s data watchdog is considering concerns raised about the FaceApp service over privacy issues.Fears emerged over the Russian company’s privacy policy after celebrities began posting highly plausible doctored photos of themselves from the app, leading to it going viral.The app allows people t → Read More
Assyrian lion destroyed by Isis rises again through latest tech
A stone beast that once guarded a goddess of love and beauty until it was smashed to pieces by Islamic State has been reconstructed through technology and put on display in London. The Lion of... → Read More
Jordan Peterson hails Thinkspot the censorship-free platform
An academic shunned by Cambridge for his views has launched an “anti-censorship” platform. Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto whose visiting fellowship at Cambridge was rescinded in March, said that content on the website, named Thinkspot, would only be remo → Read More
Why social media could be putting your toddler at risk
Children as young as two are watching material on social media sites, raising concerns that their social development and mental health may be harmed. The children’s charity Barnardo’s said in a... → Read More