Month: February 2025

The UK government is hiking defence spending to help build up Europe’s forces against Russia — but decades of funding cuts and recruitment problems have hollowed the British armed forces out.
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ICYMI: University of Surrey – English
Salary: £37,174 to £40,497 per annum
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UK News: Concerns also raised that practice prevents young working-class people from finding paid work in creative industries

Arts employers could be breaking the law by relying on unpaid interns to perform roles that should be left to paid workers, preventing young people from working-class backgrounds from gaining a foothold, experts have said.

Institutions are getting away with exploiting carve-outs in employment legislation to keep interns working for free, they said, which stops working-class people from finding paid work in the industry. Continue reading…
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UK News: Exclusive: Art historian points to ‘bad craftsmanship’ in 17th-century work entitled Samson and Delilah

Doubts about whether Peter Paul Rubens painted the Samson and Delilah picture in the National Gallery have been revived by new evidence.

Forty-five years after it was bought for a then record price, it is being dismissed as a 20th-century copy of a long-lost painting by the 17th-century Flemish master. Continue reading…
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