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Time Out
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Out
All Tate Modern exhibitions will be free for loads of Londoners this weekend
How did you celebrate your 25th birthday? If I recall correctly, mine involved half a dozen pints, a couple of shots, a drunk Maccies on the night bus home and a monumental hangover the next day. But the Tate Modern is a hell of a lot more sophisticated that I was at 25, and its quarter-century celebration this weekend knocks my little pub gathering out the park. Featuring four days of free workshops, talks, participatory performances, live music and late night DJ sets, the massive weekender starts tomorrow, and the gallery has just announced yet more cool stuff happening across the weekend. Alongside already-announced DJ line-ups curated by some amazing London crews and collectives the gallery has revealed two huge headliners for its two late openings over the weekend. Friday's late opening spotlights south London's vibrant creative communities, and will feature a headline set from Romy. The xx member turned solo artist will be taking to the decks for a 2-hour DJ set from 10pm-midnight, with earlier sets curated by the likes of Peckham listening bar Jumbi and British Caribbean festival Radiate. Saturday night's festivities will see the gallery taken over by yet more cutting-edge artists and collectives, including a rare London set by Afrobeats station Cultur FM in the Tanks, featuring a headline set from BBC Radio 1 DJ Jaguar. Other DJs throughout the evening have been curated by South Asian creative collective Daytimers, female-fronted Peckham station Afro-Caribbean LGBTQ+party Queer Bruk and artist and DJ Crystallmess. The gallery will also be hosting a full day of activities beforehand, including live tarot readings as part of Meschac Gaba's Museum of Contemporary African Art exhibition and site-specific participatory installation Measuring the Universe. And best of all? Tate Modern has announced that all of its paid exhibitions will be free throughout the four-day celebration for members of the Tate Collective, its free-to-join scheme for 16 to 25-year-olds. If you, like Tate Modern, are lucky enough to be in your early twenties, you can sign up here to nab free entry to Leigh Bowery! and . If not, there's no better time to sign up for a Tate membership, with the gallery offering Lifetime Memberships for a limited time only, allowing art lovers to enjoy the gallery's fantastic programme of temporary exhibitions free of charge for the next 25 years. Planning on joining the festivities? Many of the events across the four-day celebration are drop-in, but you will need to secure free tickets for some of the more popular ones. Be sure to check out the full programme to the four-day party on the Tate's website and reserve some tickets ahead of your visit. Catch us raving it up in the Turbine Hall!
Telegraph
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Putin's Victory Day display is a charade, not a parade
President Putin's Victory day parade tomorrow will give a completely false idea of what's actually going on in the Russian armed forces. It's an attempt by the dictator to deceive the Russian population into believing that a great patriotic victory is being delivered, as Stalin genuinely did in 1945. The reality is that Russia's few remaining modern(ish) tanks, elite soldiers and powerful missiles will be mostly in the parade: on the front line these things are in very short supply. They will play their part in Putin's political theatre, not the theatre of war. The real Russian Army is culminating in Ukraine – a technical term for the point at which an army's efforts start to collapse. Russia is suffering 1000 casualties a day and 1 million in total thus far. Even Stalin would have baulked at these rates of loss. He at least had battle-hardened generals to advise him, but Putin is losing his most senior military experts at an alarming rate, right on his own doorstep. The Russian tanks now being delivered to the front date from the 1950s and are little more than mobile coffins. These T-62s are even older than the Chieftain tank I first commanded in the late 1980s. We were positioned on the inner German border to oppose the then Soviet hordes, who back then had T-72s and T-80s. Those tanks are now all smouldering hulks in the Donbas. I'm not sure I'd go to war in a Chieftain today even if a Russian commissar ordered me to at gunpoint! Meanwhile most of the Russian air defences are positioned in and near Moscow protecting the elite, not the Russian troops on the frontline. Even so, Ukrainian drones are already causing chaos in Muscovite airspace. And Russian senior officers are now being assassinated almost within a stone's throw of the Kremlin. It looks rather as though the FSB and National Guards are on the back foot in the covert warfare being waged on Russian soil. I believe – as I am told, by some western intelligence agencies – that Putin is rapidly running out of military road. He says he will go nuclear, but this is bluster, and each time it is repeated it gets more threadbare. The fact is that he's killed off a million men and bankrupted the country. He seems to think that President Trump is an idiot and will cut the US off from Ukraine and allow it to fall into Russia, but with the minerals deal with Zelensky signed, this would damage US interests. So, as we look at the shiny tanks and missiles rumbling through Red Square, we should not be fooled as to the state of the Russian Army and Putin's position. Hard military power these days is shown in drones, cyber, space and highly trained and motivated soldiers. It's a charade, not a parade. Let us hope the Russian people get this before it's too late.
India.com
23-04-2025
- Politics
- India.com
For how many days can Pakistan's army stand against India? Here's a look at the military strength of both nations
According to Global Firepower, a well-known organization that ranks military strength globally, India has around 1.44 million active military personnel, making it the second-largest army in the world. In comparison, Pakistan's military is less than half that size. India also has a much larger paramilitary force, with over 2.5 million personnel, compared to just around 500,000 in Pakistan. India's firepower includes: 4,500 tanks 538 fighter aircraft A vast inventory of modern weapons and missile systems India's military strength score, according to Global Firepower, is 0.1025 (lower is better), while Pakistan's is 0.1695—showing a significant gap in overall power. Indian Army's ground strength 1.44 million active troops 1.15 million in reserve 25 lakh+ paramilitary forces On the ground, India's Army is equipped with advanced battle gear like: Arjun Main Battle Tanks T-90 'Bhim' Tanks Pinaka Multi-Barrel Rocket Launchers BrahMos Cruise Missiles Howitzers and other modern artillery India's military isn't just about numbers—it's also backed by strong technology, manufacturing, and strategic positioning. In short, while both countries have powerful armies, India's military is larger, more advanced, and better equipped across all three forces—Army, Navy, and Air Force. If a war were ever to occur, it's widely believed that Pakistan wouldn't be able to hold out for long against India's full-scale military capabilities.
