Facebook is being sued in the US in a landmark lawsuit that could end up with the tech giant being stripped of its prized assets, Instagram and Facebook.[1] Regulators, who argue Facebook built its digital monopoly over the years by violating antitrust (competition) laws, are considering breaking up the company.
The UK government and car industry have teamed up to launch a new initiative researching, testing, and trialing driverless car technology within British cities.[1] Dubbed ServCity, this Nissan-backed project forms part of the UK’s £100m ‘Intelligent Mobility’ fund and will run for two and a half years.[2] What does this mean? ServCity is but the latest manifestation of the government’s enthusiasm to push for autonomous vehicles. Last year...
As a result of Covid-19 restrictions, the judiciary in England and Wales has published a slew of measures to promote remote hearings in order to reduce the backlog of cases. The Lord Chief Justice set the tone in March by urging for an increased use of telephone and video technology.[1] This was quickly followed by the Coronavirus Act 2020...
On August 10, a US Superior Court judge forced Uber and Lyft, to reclassify their workers as employees.[1] Ten days later, hours before the landmark ruling came into force, Uber and Lyft were granted a reprieve to delay the deadline until their appeal was heard.[2] This compounds Uber’s transatlantic woes: the company is currently appealing a similar decision in the UK Supreme Court.[3]
The General Court (GC), Europe’s second-highest court, annulled a 2016 ruling made by the European Commission to block a proposed £10.25bn merger between O2 and Three on consumer interest grounds.[1] The court ruled that the Commission had made several ‘errors of law’ and could not prove that competition would be harmed in the crowded UK telecoms market. This landmark ruling could pave the way for further consolidation between Europe's mobile operators.
Last week, Spain’s government injected €3.7 billion into reviving its ailing automobile industry. This followed an €8 billion pledge made by French President Emmanuel Macron to invest in green subsidies and research in hydrogen-powered vehicles and driverless cars. What does this mean? The onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020 substantially reduced the demand for new vehicles.
It didn't even take a biography to make Boris Johnson stand out as a latter-day Winston Churchill. Myth, as much as reality, accompanies our understanding of Churchill. Yet, among less salubrious aspects, what remains clear is his uncompromising determination, his dyed-in-the-wool patriotism, and, of course, his penchant for purple prose. In other words, characteristics that could be applied to Boris Johnson, who views Churchill as not so much a hero as an idol, a staunch defender of the natio
Last Saturday, gilet jaune protestors brought Paris to a standstill for the 21st weekend in a row. Their demands? Too many to summarise, but most would make it onto a best hits album of contemporary populism. Lower fuel taxes. End to austerity. No more neoliberal President shrugging his shoulders at France's rural dwellers from the safety of his Parisian palace. French and British media have correctly classified the gilet jaunes as a populist movement. Certainly the group — if such an eclectic
Over the past few years, the Selwyn Snowball has hit upon a winning formula. This year's offering showed that an old dog can still be taught new tricks. Selwyn turned green for one evening only as the college played host to Cambridge's only annual Winter Ball, this year with the theme ‘Into the woods’. Branches and forest fruits found their way into every nook and cranny, whilst a large electrical tree, dazzling the 900 guests as they entered Old Court, dispelled any doubts as to the nature of
It’s free, and it always will be! As ever, the news that no lunch comes complimentary seems to come as a great shock to all those who previously placed great faith in Facebook’s watertight privacy policy. Amid all this brouhaha, Jeremy Corbyn has made his position crystal clear: he will not be jumping on the #DeleteFacebook bandwagon. On the one hand, it is refreshing to see a public figure refusing to bow to such an insincere movement: just how many people will regret their ephemeral indignati
In response to the lowest scores recorded in 26 years for la dictée — a sort of obligatory spelling test for college students — the Socialist government in France announced earlier this year the implementation a controversial spelling reform that will accompany the National Education program for the 2016-17 academic year. More than 2,400 words will be simplified in a move that has incurred the wrath of purists, such as the transformation of the humble onion from oignon to ognon.
A prize will be awarded to the person with the most points at midnight on the 26th December 2016. That time of the year has rolled around again. As news of big money transfers dominate the back pages, and players return back to their clubs for pre-season training and warm-up matches, fans across the country will soon be facing some tough and difficult decisions.
Rio 2016 has been a rollercoaster ride. The build-up to Brazil's Olympic Games was marred by doping controversies, concerns about the Zika virus and the quality of stadiums, as well as civil unrest at the vast sums of money spent on readying the city. But in the end, the Olympics have not failed to produce moments of poignancy and inspiration, of hilarity and controversy, that can be looked back upon and savoured.
Unaffordable ticket prices, displaced local populations and a very hefty bill: Rio 2016 may have offered us golden beaches and clear blue skies, yet it remains to be seen whether Brazil has passed the Olympics test with flying colours. What cannot be doubted, however, is the attitude of the athletes, for whom the Games represented the culmination of years of self-discipline and rigorous training regimes; as such, all deserve the recognition that participation at the highest stage warrants.
London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Richard Chambers has taken over the role of assistant coach, Cambridge University Boat Club (CUBC) announced earlier this week. Replacing Ed Green – who swaps the buttery for the blackboard, as he helps develop the rowing programme at Millfield School – Chambers has said he hopes to employ his UK Coaching Certificate in order to help turn the tables on recent disappointing results in the annual University Boat Race.
Watching a dour England performance during the Euros, I quietly let it slip to my contemporaries that I didn’t sing the national anthem before games. “What?!” they all spluttered, as if I had just offered to poison the Queen. Unable to seek diversion from Harry Kane’s set-pieces, I was left wondering why my personal opinions regarding nationalism, respect and social cohesion generated so much opprobrium among otherwise open-minded individuals.
30th August 2016. England’s batsmen thrash out a record 444 runs in 50 overs, swishing the blade left, right and centre to keep the boundaries flowing as readily as the warm pints held aloft by Trent Bridge’s enraptured spectators. As poor as Pakistan were in the field, England were truly exceptional: with 171 runs to his name, Alex Hales now has the highest individual ODI score by an English batsman, blowing the dust off a record that had stood since 1993.
Professional cycling, with its colourful history of blood doping and internal corruption, has faced an uphill battle in recent years to demonstrate its worth to the neutral sports fan. However, the spate of confessions and subsequent openness about doping that followed Lance Armstrong’s dramatic disclosure on live TV suggests that cycling, as an elite sport, may have a chance for redemption.
Selwyn I were agonisingly denied their first victory of their CUAFL Premier League season on Saturday afternoon, as a late equaliser from table-toppers and last season’s champions Queens’ I saw a tense match end in a 2–2 draw. Nonetheless, coming off the back of three consecutive defeats, Selwyn will undoubtedly be the happier of the two teams at sharing the spoils, despite leading for much of what was a frantic second half where – with the wind behind them – Queens’ pressed hard for an equaliser.
Over the course of the past few months, I have made the most of being potentially one of the last British students eligible for Erasmus funding to study abroad in Paris. In the Ecole Normale Supérieure, no less, France's grandiloquently named answer to Oxbridge. Over the years, this venerable establishment — elitist haven of degenerate debauchery, for our Mail readers — has churned out such bastions of supervision essay fodder as Sartre, Foucault and Césaire, and it is not alone in France.
