Ben King

5 days ago | bbc.com | Ben King

Ocado apologises to Mumsnet over 'hateful political views' commentBen KingGetty ImagesMumsnet founder Justine Roberts says a number of companies had pulled their advertising over the site's gender discussionsOcado has apologised "unreservedly" to Mumsnet for citing "hateful political views" when it pulled out of a commercial partnership over the parenting forum's stance on the definition of sex in the Equality Act.

3 weeks ago | digitalcommons.library.tmc.edu | Alexander Le |Saba Siddiqi |Celine Nguyen |Céline Nguyen |Ben King

AbstractWhen COVID-19 data on Asian Americans are available, they are frequently aggregated, concealing community-specific concerns. Consequently, there is limited COVID-19 literature on Vietnamese Americans. In this study, we investigated the association between health insurance coverage and non-medical challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, in Vietnamese Americans in Texas.

1 month ago | bbc.co.uk | Tom Espiner |Theo Leggett |Ben King |Oliver Smith

The BBC understands the airport has back-up power for certain systems, but kickstarting alternative power supplies for the whole airport takes time, and the systems need to be checked to ensure they are working properly. However, Heathrow uses as much energy as a small city, so it is not possible for it to have the back-up power by itself to run its operation safely.

1 month ago | tinnitist.com | Ben King

I love it when a song you know and love gets used in a film or TV series in such a way that it makes you feel differently about the song. Check out the example above: Waiting For Something by Jay Reatard. The final track on his 2009 album Blood Visions will now be forever reminiscent of the awful scene at the end of the third episode of Season 1 of The Handmaid’s Tale, when Emily (Ofglen) awakes in a nondescript, stark white post-surgical room to discover her clitoris has been removed.

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Sean Coughlan |Ben King

A deal to take over the Duke of York's former start-up business network now seems to be in doubt, sources close to the negotiations have told the BBC. Dutch company Startupbootcamp (SBC) had held talks about buying Prince Andrew's Pitch@Palace network, a sale that could have provided him with a multi-million pound financial lifeline.