Xavier Greenwood

1 week ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

With its 4-1 defeat to Newcastle last weekend, Manchester United notched up an unwelcome achievement. Whatever happens in the rest of the season, the club will finish with its lowest points total since the Premier League was formed in 1992. So what? Manchester United also has debts of £1 billion; 20 years ago it had virtually none. One of the most successful and historic names in sport, business and culture is facing irrelevance on the pitch and a financial crisis off it.

1 week ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

Shipping has become the first industry to have internationally binding targets to reduce CO2 emissions. From 2028, owners of large ships will have to increase their use of less carbon-intensive fuels or pay fines measured by the tonne. The agreement, passed on Friday at the UN’s International Maritime Organization meeting, follows ten years of negotiations.

2 weeks ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

Cinemas across the world are attempting to deal with unruly behaviour at screenings of A Minecraft Movie, a children’s movie based on the hit video game. A Cineworld in Oxfordshire has threatened to remove viewers who clap or shout during the film, while a theatre in New Jersey banned unaccompanied minors after what it called an “unfortunate situation”.

2 weeks ago | tortoisemedia.com | Alexi Mostrous |Xavier Greenwood

series Who Trolled Amber? 3h 23 mins • 7 Episodes What comes to mind when you think of Amber Heard? Liar? Survivor? Narcissist? Millions of us watched the celebrity trial of the century, Depp v Heard, in 2022. Amber Heard lost and Johnny Depp was vindicated. But what if Amber was actually the victim of an organised trolling campaign? What if the online hate against her was manufactured? Alexi Mostrous investigates what happened to Amber and who might have been responsible.

2 weeks ago | tortoisemedia.com | Xavier Greenwood

A Mississippi college student is planning to take legal action against ESPN after the sports channel amplified viral misinformation that she had slept with her boyfriend’s father. In February, Mary Kate Cornett became the subject of Internet rumour after an anonymous X user called @Magageddon shared an unverified image of an apparent Snapchat conversation detailing the affair.