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Celebrity Great British Bake Off returns as part of Channel 4 s Stand Up To Cancer campaign. In support of the cause, a plethora of famous faces have agreed to have their baking skills judged by none other than Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith. Here s everything you need to know about the Celebrity GBBO 2021 cast.
A Stay Sane, Feel Connected sign along the New River Walk.
- Credit: Stay Sane, Feel Connected
A group of friends has installed an interactive art project along an Islington waterway to connect people with their environment and with each other without breaking social distancing rules.
Five people took about 48 hours over the weekend of February 19 to position ten small upcycled-wooden signs along New River Walk displaying questions, challenges and small illustrations designed to invoke deeper thoughts in pedestrians strolling along the waterway
They include musings such as How would you greet this tree? and Can you spot a pigeon? .
There was a lot of optimism throughout the 1990s and early 2000s that the world was moving fast and progress was indisputable. Back then, the tech optimists were the staunchest proponents of development and advancement. They believed digital technologies and social media would bring a wave of democratisation across the world, generating more avenues for freedom, opportunity and fulfilment for everyone. If individuals were given enough information, they argued, they would certainly make the right choices.
But no one wondered how totalitarianism would survive in the face of digital platforms. Back then, not many realised that social media is like a moon, with a bright and a dark side. That the same digital platforms could contribute to the spread of slander, misinformation, hate speech, division and falsehood and would be received enthusiastically by autocratic regimes, extremists and demagogues. These cons of social media have been aptly penned down by the Prime Minister Imran Khan-e
So much of the talk about Camden rapper Ocean Wisdom the past five years has been about the rapidity of his flow. And it’s true: he’s got lungs like a whale and officially spits words quicker than Eminem, according to Guinness World Records. That skillset saw him attract collaborators as esteemed as Method Man and Dizzee Rascal, and comparisons to speed-merchants like Busta Rhymes. While there are some impressive sprints on his fourth album, it’s not simply an exercise in flashy velocity. In fact, it’s when
Stay Sane is cruising that it’s most compelling – think Childish Gambino rather than, say, Twista.
His own digital forays are of the gentler, dad-posting kind: the actor, who was raised in Liverpool (and remains a diehard fan of Liverpool FC) has in recent months been filling his Instagram feed with snaps of homegrown cucumbers and hand-kneaded sourdough, Government-sanctioned trundles across Hampstead Heath with his collie-cross, Billy, and his reading list (Elif Shafak’s
How to Stay Sane in an Age of Division being a pertinent choice).
He has also fulfilled another pandemic cliché by starting a podcast, Who Am I This Time?, in which he asks thespian pals – from Derek Jacobi to David Harewood and Anne-Marie Duff – to detail their most significant roles. As an interviewer he is understated yet interested, interjecting only occasionally.