seven! seven! tributes pour in for the former head judge of strictly and king of the catchphrase, len goodman, who s died aged 78. he had no understanding ofjust how big he was, how much people loved him. in my own house we still never use the word seven, we say seven differently. he changed a whole number for so many of us. how a third of government money for extra school tutoring after the covid lockdown still hasn t been spent. and with just under two weeks until the coronation, a bbc poll suggests less than a third of18 21i year olds want the monarchy to continue. and coming up on bbc news: the draw for the sixth round of rugby league s challenge cup will take place shortly on the bbc. 16 teams go into the hat to see who will play whom in the ties in may. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the head of the un has called on the security council to do all it can to pull sudan back from what he called a catastrophic conflagration which could engulf the whole re
was to try and resolve sexual harassment cases rather than remove the offenders, which led to a reluctance on the part of those complaining, emboldening those with abhorrent attitudes. now in response, the cbi said it would take the following action. adopt a zero tolerance to sexual harassment and bullying. compulsory training for all cva staff and board members on harassment and bullying prevention. a new director general and a chief people officer with a seat on a reconstructed board and an independent and external whistleblowing channel for complaints. the cbi said it will suspend all lobbying activities until an emergency meeting of its members injune, some of whom remain unconvinced. i think as a former member i m underwhelmed by what i heard today. i applaud them for recognising that they have a toxic culture behind the scenes.
The Atlantic
A Marvel Series That Cares Little for Marvel’s Universe
For more than a decade, the studio’s films and shows have been paragons of careful continuity. So far,
Loki does away with that.
Loki
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For 13 years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe built up the Infinity Stones as objects of grand power, capable of manipulating all existence when united. In
Avengers: Infinity War, they turned half of the cosmos to dust; in
Avengers: Endgame, the surviving heroes chased them down across time. In
Loki, the Disney+ series released today, they’re nothing more than colorful paperweights.
The cheeky gag befits a series about a trickster god, but it’s a surprising one for Marvel to pull. The studio has never dismissed its own storytelling this way more than a dozen films insisted on the profundity of the stones. Yet in a single scene, Loki (Tom Hiddleston) learns that the objects he’s long sought and by extension, the objects fans have long been conditioned to care ab