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Stephen Armstrong

Journalist at Freelance

Journalist at Freelance

Articles

  • 6 days ago | observer.co.uk | Stephen Armstrong

    The retailer announces it is cutting a fifth of its workforce, including 150 jobs in Wakefield, but the chief executive strikes an optimistic note When Burberry was successful, it bottled the essence of Britishness. It is now a medium-sized player that has gone through successive changes of management, facing an increasingly volatile world while seeming uncertain of its identity. So still the essence of Britain.

  • 1 month ago | tortoisemedia.com | Stephen Armstrong

    Harvard has raised the stakes in its fightback against the US government. On Monday, the world’s richest university sued the Trump administration over its freezing of $2.3 billion in funding. The lawsuit claims the administration’s actions are unlawful, arbitrary and violate the university’s rights to free speech. This was followed yesterday by a joint statement signed by more than 170 university leaders who criticised the “political interference now endangering American higher education”.

  • 1 month ago | tortoisemedia.com | Stephen Armstrong

    Harvard has rejected Donald Trump’s demands for sweeping reforms aimed at purging “woke” ideology from America’s oldest and richest university. So what? It could hardly do otherwise. In a social media post on Wednesday Trump accused Harvard of hiring “Radical Left, idiots and ‘birdbrains’”. He added that Harvard “is a joke, teaches hate and stupidity and should no longer receive federal funds”.

  • 1 month ago | tortoisemedia.com | Stephen Armstrong

    As reported here yesterday, young cinemagoers are being warned against bad behaviour in screenings of A Minecraft Movie. For Hollywood, the film is proving good as gold. Before its release last weekend, the industry was facing its worst March box office in decades and Warner Bros. studio bosses were rumoured to be facing the chop. Reviews of A Minecraft Movie were dreadful: “an expensively cheap, 100 per cent corporate mess”, “boring, bad and annoying”, “a hyperactive hot pink mess”.

  • 1 month ago | tortoisemedia.com | Stephen Armstrong

    There is presumably a safe in Hollywood where they keep the spy/assassin/ordinary-man-taking-revenge script and it’s carved from ancient wood with names picked out in solid gold. Bourne. Taken. John Wick. Kill Bill. Point Blank. The Equalizer. And The Amateur? It won’t be joining them. It has a promising premise. Geeky CIA cryptographer Rami Malek’s wife is murdered in a London terrorist attack, and he goes postal.