Tag: Person

27 MAR

‘Who the hell is that?’ James Martin baffled after random person gatecrashes interview

“Now you just opened this the last time I was there, explain to us what you’ve got in the show,” James asked. Jim replied: “We do all local produce, we’re supported by a lot of great producers. “We go to a lot of great restaurants and we sell a lot of their produce in the […]

16 FEB

Doctor Who: Jodie Whittaker replacement ‘should be person of colour’ says former Time Lord

Sylvester McCoy, who featured in three series as the Time Lord said he was “always surprised by who they pick” to take on the lead role.  “It has to be someone with lots of character. It can’t be someone bland and beautiful, rather handsome and characterful. “I was surprised when they got Matt Smith. He […]

31 DEC

A lion has escaped from an enclosure at a North Carolina wildlife non-profit and killed one person

A lion escaped from an enclosure and killed a worker at the Conservators Center, a wildlife non-profit in North Carolina. The lion was shot and killed after it attacked the worker in an enclosure that was being cleaned, Associated Press reports. Officials are withholding the name of the victim until the family is notified. A […]

29 DEC

A British adventurer just became the second person in history to cross Antarctica alone and unaided, reaching the finish line two days after an American did it first

Mario Tama/Getty Images Louis Rudd, a 49-year-old British adventurer, just became the second person in history to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. Rudd’s achievement comes just two days after an American, Colin O’Brady, reached the same finish line on the Ross Ice Shelf. British explorer Louis Rudd has become the second person to ever cross […]

29 DEC

A British adventurer just became the second person in history to cross Antarctica alone and unaided, reaching the finish line two days after an American did it first

Mario Tama/Getty Images Louis Rudd, a 49-year-old British adventurer, just became the second person in history to cross Antarctica alone and unaided. Rudd’s achievement comes just two days after an American, Colin O’Brady, reached the same finish line on the Ross Ice Shelf. British explorer Louis Rudd has become the second person to ever cross […]

25 NOV

Jeff Bezos pictures Amazon as an inverted pyramid, in which he is the least important person at the bottom

Cliff Owen/AP A seasonal Amazon worker, who wrote an anonymous column in The Guardian, described the induction talk they were given on their first day. A manager took an image of an inverted pyramid, labelled the bottom “least important” and said that CEO Jeff Bezos thinks he belongs at this end of the diagram. Amazon’s […]

22 NOV

The person who is doing most to undermine the Reserve Bank of India

SOMETIME IN THE 1990s Jagdish Bhagwati, one of India’s most distinguished economists, encountered Swaminathan Gurumurthy, a financial commentator associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu-nationalist organisation. Mr Gurumurthy was making the case that globalisation, brought in by well-connected financiers, was destroying India. Mr Bhagwati came to a caustic conclusion. If RSS ideologues like […]