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Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Hay Festival announces return of expert panel series The News Review for 2025
Hay Festival will partner with The Independent once again to reprise The News Review, a series of morning panels with renowned guests. Spread over 11 days, festival-goers will be treated to an overflowing itinerary of over 600 events in Hay-on-Wye between 22 May and 1 June 2025. The star-studded lineup includes Yulia Navalnaya, Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil, and many more. The Independent will host nine sessions of The News Review each morning, with the publication's journalists exploring current affairs with leading figures from politics, science, the arts and comedy. Joining TheIndependent to dissect the breaking news of the day will be historians David Olusoga and Kehinde Andrews, comedian Sara Pascoe, broadcasters Jon Sopel and Anushka Asthan and world-renowned philosopher AC Grayling. Journalists Lyse Doucet and Misha Glenny will address the shifting nuances of geopolitics while the subject of climate science will be discussed by academic Friederike Otto. Hay Festival president Stephen Fry highlighted the festival's important role in this year's tumultuous social and political climate, stating: 'Besides the fun and joy of gathering to share stories, it is also the antidote to disinformation and division.' Geordie Greig, Editor-In-Chief of The Independent, said: 'Hay Festival remains the world's greatest exchange for the best works of literature and a forum for ideas, philosophy, politics and provocative debate. I am so pleased that The Independent can once again be at the heart of this meeting of minds, bringing together our journalists with luminaries from all walks of life to discuss the pressing matters affecting us all. 'The Independent has more than 20 million readers in the UK alone, many of whom are passionate about culture in all its forms. I'm looking forward to a fascinating, thought-provoking series, discussing and shaping the news of the day.' Meanwhile, Julie Finch, Hay Festival Global CEO, added: 'We're delighted to be working with The Independent on the News Review series, gathering festival guests each morning to discuss and debate the day's headlines. With the news agenda changing so quickly, this opens up a space in our programme to be reactive and keep pace with the world around us.' The full breakdown of this year's News Review line-up can be found below: Saturday 24 May 2025, 10am –Wye Stage Mike Berners-Lee, sustainability researcher and professor in the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University, author of There is No Planet B; Misha Glenny, geopolitics journalist, author of McMafia. Sunday 25 May 2025, 10am – Global Stage Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London. Monday 26 May 2025, 10am – Meadow Stage David Olusoga, historian and author of Black and British, presenter of Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners; Helen Rebanks, farmer and author of The Farmer's Wife. Tuesday 27 May 2025, 10am – Discovery Stage TBA Wednesday 28 May 2025, 10am – Global Stage Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Paralympic athlete and presenter; Sara Pascoe, award-winning comedian, host of BBC2's Great British Sewing Bee, author of Sex Power Money. Thursday 29 May 2025, 10am – Meadow Stage Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, author of The New Age of Empire; Havana Marking, award-winning director of Undercover: Exposing the Far Right. Friday 30 May 2025, 10am – Discovery Stage AC Grayling, philosopher, founder and principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London; Jon Sopel, former BBC North America editor, host of The News Agents, author of Strangeland. Saturday 31 May 2025, 10am – Discovery Stage Anushka Asthana, ITV's deputy political editor, author of Taken As Red: How Labour Won Big and the Tories Crashed the Party; Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and Senior Presenter. Sunday 1 June 2025, 10am – Wye Stage Sigrid Rausing, publisher of Granta magazine and Granta Books; Philippe Sands KC, Professor of Law at University College London and author of East West Street. Special guests at Hay this year include Good Omens star Michael Sheen, The Good Place actor Jameela Jamil, artist Grayson Perry, comedian Miranda Hart, musician and author Paloma Faith, ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly and activist Katie Piper. They will be joined by British screenwriter and producer Jesse Armstrong, one of the minds behind Succession, Peep Show and Four Lions. As well as its usual literary offerings, the Festival will launch its first cinema section with the MUBI cinema hosting screenings of Bergman Island; How to Have Sex; Fallen Leaves; Queer; First Cow; Alcarràs; Dahomey; Decision to Leave; Aftersun; Priscilla; Perfect Days; Petite Maman; and The Worst Person in the World. They will be followed by discussion and analysis by screenwriters including Hot Milk's Rebecca Lenkiewicz, The Power's Sarah Quintrell, and His Dark Materials producer Jane Tranter. Conclave novelist Robert Harris will also discuss the Oscar-nominated adaptation of his work.
The Independent
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Hay Festival announces return of expert panel series The News Review for 2025
Hay Festival will partner with The Independent once again to reprise The News Review, a series of morning panels with renowned guests. Spread over 11 days, the festival will feature an overflowing itinerary of over 600 events in Hay-on-Wye between 22 May and 1 June 2025. The star-studded lineup includes Yulia Navalnaya, Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil and many more. The Independent will host nine sessions of The News Review each morning, with the publication's journalists exploring current affairs with leading figures from politics, science, the arts and comedy. Joining The Independent to dissect the breaking news of the day will be historians David Olusoga and Kehinde Andrews, comedian Sara Pascoe, broadcasters Jon Sopel and Anushka Asthan and world-renowned philosopher AC Grayling. Journalists Lyse Doucet and Misha Glenny will address the shifting nuances of geopolitics while the subject of climate science will be discussed by academic Friederike Otto. Hay Festival president Stephen Fry highlighted the festival's important role in this year's tumultuous social and political climate, stating: 'Besides the fun and joy of gathering to share stories, it is also the antidote to disinformation and division.' Geordie Greig, Editor-In-Chief of The Independent, said: 'Hay Festival remains the world's greatest exchange for the best works of literature and a forum for ideas, philosophy, politics and provocative debate. I am so pleased that The Independent can once again be at the heart of this meeting of minds, bringing together our journalists with luminaries from all walks of life to discuss the pressing matters affecting us all. ' The Independent has more than 20 million readers in the UK alone, many of whom are passionate about culture in all its forms. I'm looking forward to a fascinating, thought-provoking series, discussing and shaping the news of the day.' Meanwhile, Julie Finch, Hay Festival Global CEO, added: 'We're delighted to be working with The Independent on the News Review series, gathering festival guests each morning to discuss and debate the day's headlines. With the news agenda changing so quickly, this opens up a space in our programme to be reactive and keep pace with the world around us.' The full breakdown of this year's News Review line-up can be found below: Saturday 24 May 2025, 10am –Wye Stage Mike Berners-Lee, sustainability researcher and professor in the Institute for Social Futures at Lancaster University, author of There is No Planet B; Misha Glenny, geopolitics journalist, author of McMafia. Sunday 25 May 2025, 10am – Global Stage Friederike Otto, Senior Lecturer in Climate Science, Imperial College London. Monday 26 May 2025, 10am – Meadow Stage David Olusoga, historian and author of Black and British, presenter of Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners; Helen Rebanks, farmer and author of The Farmer's Wife. Tuesday 27 May 2025, 10am – Discovery Stage TBA Wednesday 28 May 2025, 10am – Global Stage Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Paralympic athlete and presenter; Sara Pascoe, award-winning comedian, host of BBC2's Great British Sewing Bee, author of Sex Power Money. Thursday 29 May 2025, 10am – Meadow Stage Kehinde Andrews, Professor of Black Studies at Birmingham City University, author of The New Age of Empire; Havana Marking, award-winning director of Undercover: Exposing the Far Right. Friday 30 May 2025, 10am – Discovery Stage AC Grayling, philosopher, founder and principal of the New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London; Jon Sopel, former BBC North America editor, host of The News Agents, author of Strangeland. Saturday 31 May 2025, 10am – Discovery Stage Anushka Asthana, ITV's deputy political editor, author of Taken As Red: How Labour Won Big and the Tories Crashed the Party; Lyse Doucet, the BBC's Chief International Correspondent and Senior Presenter. Sunday 1 June 2025, 10am – Wye Stage Sigrid Rausing, publisher of Granta magazine and Granta Books; Philippe Sands KC, Professor of Law at University College London and author of East West Street. Special guests at Hay this year include Good Omens star Michael Sheen, The Good Place actor Jameela Jamil, artist Grayson Perry, comedian Miranda Hart, musician and author Paloma Faith, ITV presenter Lorraine Kelly and activist Katie Piper. They will be joined by British screenwriter and producer Jesse Armstrong, one of the minds behind Succession, Peep Show and Four Lions. As well as its usual literary offerings, the Festival will launch its first cinema section with the MUBI cinema hosting screenings of Bergman Island; How to Have Sex; Fallen Leaves; Queer; First Cow; Alcarràs; Dahomey; Decision to Leave; Aftersun; Priscilla; Perfect Days; Petite Maman; and The Worst Person in the World. They will be followed by discussion and analysis by screenwriters including Hot Milk' s Rebecca Lenkiewicz, The Power 's Sarah Quintrell, and His Dark Materials producer Jane Tranter. Conclave novelist Robert Harris will also discuss the Oscar-nominated adaptation of his work.
The National
08-02-2025
- Science
- The National
World is ‘accelerating into the problem' of climate change amid global temperature surge
The news that last month was the hottest January on record offers further evidence that the international community is a long way from getting to grips with the pressing threats posed by climate change. Temperatures in January were about 1.75°C above pre-industrial levels, indicating that the world is likely to breach the 2015 Paris Agreement's target of keeping increases below 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. The El Nino weather system in the Pacific, which involves cyclic increases in temperature caused by changes in water circulation patterns, has ended, so scientists thought January 2025 might be cooler than the same month last year, which also set a record. But this was not the case. 'We have no understanding of why it's got so high, and the scientific community doesn't understand. It might be that we've triggered cascading tipping points,' said Prof Mike Berners-Lee, a climate researcher at Lancaster University in the UK. Prof Berners-Lee, author of There is No Planet B and How Bad are Bananas: The Climate Footprint of Everything, outlines why the world has failed to deal with climate change, and what is needed to get to grips with the issue, in a book published to be next month, A Climate of Truth. 'Our species is operating in a different context, now, from the one we always used to be in. We haven't learnt to adapt to it,' he told The National. 'We're very powerful compared to the ability of the planet to put itself back together again.' Prof Berners-Lee said people around the world 'haven't got anywhere with the climate crisis', with the use of fossil fuels increasing. "We're making the climate crisis worse by a larger amount every year than we did the year before. We're accelerating into the problem," he added. Scientist believe efforts have so far fallen short of what is needed to prevent severe effects from climate change, despite most of the technology needed to achieve net zero being available already. Dr Delf Rothe, of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg in Germany, and author of Securitising Global Warming: A Climate of Complexity, said renewable energy sources such as solar power were becoming more competitive and 'could take over' from fossil fuels. 'That's very positive,' he said. '[But] my perception is it's not sufficient, because there are not enough cuts in energy use in total. As long as energy consumption is increasing, due to digital technology, artificial intelligence and so forth, the degree and speed of the transition isn't sufficient.' Figures from the International Energy Agency show that in 2022 global electricity demand rose by 2.4 per cent, while in 2023 it increased by 2.2 per cent. Without relying on technology such as carbon capture and storage – where emissions are captured from industrial plants and stored underground – or direct air capture, where carbon dioxide is taken from the atmosphere and stored, Dr Rothe said there had to be 'some political steering' so growth in energy consumption was phased out. Countries often put off making the 'really difficult decisions' about dealing with climate change, said Dr Phillip Williamson, an honorary associate professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in the UK. 'Then the crunch comes and there are costs involved and there's quite vocal opposition,' he said, adding that people in effect say they 'believe in net zero, but not yet'. 'The climate disaster might happen sooner,' he explained. 'The climate science isn't sufficiently well defined. The uncertainties are that natural systems can have a life of their own.' Prof Berners-Lee said climate breakdown was only one of myriad environmental problems facing the planet. He said the world was in the midst of a polycrisis, because of the 'haemorrhaging' of biodiversity, plastic pollution, especially microplastics, and loss of land fertility. The key thing needed to deal with climate change is 'reducing the rate at which fossil fuels are taken out of the ground and used', Prof Berners-Lee said. He added that changes in people's diets – with a reduction in the quantities of meat and dairy foods consumed – were also important. If the necessary changes are to be made, he said more truth was required in politics, business and the media. Obscuring the truth could prevent the necessary action from being taken. 'We have this post-truth [culture] in the UK, and US. We've been pretty careless about the truth and we don't need to be,' he said. He called on the public to highlight instances of 'greenwashing', when a product or service is described incorrectly as being environmentally friendly. 'There's so many people saying, 'The problem is so big.' [People ask] is there anything meaningful they can do? I say, 'Yes there is, if you insist on high standards of honesty,'' he said. While Prof Berners-Lee said there were failings in the world's approach to climate change, he lauded efforts in the UAE to transition away from a reliance on fossil fuels. 'I was there a few months ago,' he said. 'It's transitioned in quite a remarkable way. It seems to be a global role model on what it looks like to transition away from fossil fuels while having a vibrant economy. There is so much opportunity to grow further in the desert using new technologies and take us away from fossil fuels.'
