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Trump trying to roll back decades of vital energy efficiency standards
The Trump administration’s assault on long-standing reforms now has energy efficiency standards in its crosshairs. The rollback is potentially devastating for global environmental targets and is being described as the ‘largest deregulatory effort in history’. Donald Trump is still ploughing through federal laws at full throttle. The latest attempted unravelling will be met with sizable resistance, however. The US Energy Department is reportedly steadfast on rolling back energy efficiency standards for...
vanity space flights + minecraft theatre mayhem
do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Happy hump day everyone! If you’re bored of the relentless hamster wheel that is modern life, don’t get in your feels too much. Easter weekend is rapidly approaching, which means we have another 48 hours to sit on our arses watching football, gorging on e numbers, and palming our children off on our other halves… oh, just me then. Before you can indulge in...
A Minecraft Movie’s meme-shaped success
Gen Z fans have propelled the eponymous film to ridiculous heights thanks to memes and theatre mayhem. Who would’ve thought a movie based on the most popular game of all time would be a smash hit? Honestly, not me. Unless you’ve just woken up from a coma spanning back to 2009, you’ll know all about Minecraft, the global smash sandbox that allows players to create their own worlds one block at...
Gen Z are officially the UK’s gym generation
One in six Gen Zers now subscribe to a gym membership in the UK. A desire for physical fitness isn’t the only reason why. Guinness or gains? More young people are choosing the latter than you’d expect. A record 11.5 million people aged 16 and over are now subscribed to a gym in the UK, according to UKActive’s latest report. The key demographic behind the boom, is Gen Z. This cohort...
UK carbon emissions fell by 4% in 2024
Official government figures state that less use of gas and coal in the national electricity supply led to a 4% reduction in carbon emissions during 2024. A positive climate story, you say. We’ll take it. The UK’s Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) has released figures showing a 4% reduction in carbon emissions in 2024. The statistics, published on Thursday (April 3rd), showed a significant reduction from 385m tonnes in...
News avoidance has become huge internationally
The percentage of people who selectively avoid news has reportedly reached 39% globally. This is an increase of 10% in less than a decade. Blissful ignorance or doomscroll-induced anxiety? Pick your poison. It’s no secret that the state of the world is causing mass panic. Cost of living is on a continual ascent, the climate situation is perilously grim, war crimes are occurring on a daily basis, the threat of terrorism...
Celebrities promos go big on pay-to-pray app ‘Hallow’
Hallow is a Catholic app designed to help people meditate and pray. It sits among the most popular platforms on the Google Store thanks to a slew of promos from some seriously famous faces. So you desire salvation? Time to subscribe. If you haven’t heard of Hallow before, it’s an app designed for those of the Catholic faith to assist in prayer or meditation sessions – and yes, it monetises spirituality. Since...
The adult wrestling cult
‘you’re breaking the fourth wall!’ Wrestling is massive again, and I’m not quite sure how that happened. Every casual conversation I have with a group of lads seems to inevitably turn to how John Cena recently turned heel. Having not tuned in at 5 in the morning, my immense powers of deduction tell me that his character arc has probably gone from good to bad. I’m 30, my daughter is up at...
Opinion – The console wars being over is great news
Title exclusivity has been a major bugbear of gamers for as long as we can remember. With that potentially over, is the future of gaming looking more inclusive – and perhaps less expensive? If you hadn’t heard, the console wars appear all but finito. The tribalistic bloodshed – or more accurately, tit for tat quibbling in social media comments – has reached its logical conclusion after several decades. The short version of...
Trump is erasing public climate change data
Trump has ordered the USDA to take down government websites referencing the climate crisis. Maverick scientists are fighting back and scrambling to preserve public data. Trump still believes climate change is a hoax and is tyrannically plotting to ensure the American people take his word for it. Given there was a 40% decrease in the term across the websites of federal environmental agencies in his last tenure, scientists are bracing...
