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What to Do When an Acclaimed Film Director Normalises and Romanticises Rape?

Michael MacLennan | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Spanish, Pedro Almodóvar, I?M So Excited, Film, Cinema, UK Film, Rape, UK Drama, UK Entertainment News
Michael MacLennan

I went in expecting to be underwhelmed, given that the reviews hadn't been glowing, but instead left furious at one of its main plot threads. To explain why, I think it best to reverse the flip gender of the characters involved, and go into some detail about the plot. (So beware spoilers.)

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Pirelli: 'Want Us to Give Red Bull the Tires to Win the Title?'

Todd McCandless | Posted 15.05.2013 | UK Sport
Read More: Formula One, Silverstone, Horner, Italian, Paul Hembery, Spanish, Spain, F1, Race, Grand Prix, Delamination, Mercedes, Change, Racing, Boss, Pirelli, Tires, Compound, Motor Sport, Wear, Red Bull, Formula 1, Degradation, Tire, UK Sport News
Todd McCandless

Pirelli have admitted that a four-stop strategy is too many stops for a Formula One race and most of Sunday's runners did just that. Even a few three-stop strategies were changed on the fly to a 4-stop tactic to stay within tow of Ferrari's blistering pace.

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McLaren Looks for Correlation in Spain

Todd McCandless | Posted 14.05.2013 | UK Sport
Read More: Formula One, Issues, Spanish, Spain, F1, Mclaren, Race, Grand Prix, Pull-Rod, Suspension, Racing, Jonathan Neale, Motor Sport, Correlation, Formula 1, Parts, Development, Kit, UK Sport News
Todd McCandless

What is the correlation between struggling in the top 10 for the first four races of the season and the new design approach that McLaren have taken for their chassis in 2013? That's what managing director Jonathan Neale says the team is dedicated to finding out.

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Premium Travel in... Palma, Majorca

Raj Gill | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Karam, Christians, English, Majorca, Portixol Hotel, Christmas, Sikhs, Jeevan, Palma Aquarium, Porthouse Suite, Hogmanay, Spanish, Palma, Dominique, UK Lifestyle News
Raj Gill

It wasn't even the school holidays, but with impending Christmas and Hogmanay festivities, we were getting pretty stressed, which is insane considerin...

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PHOTOS: Restore Your Own Ecco Homo Fresco!

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 31.08.2012 | UK Comedy
Read More: Amateur Art Restoration, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Fresco Restoration, Funny Pictures, Jesus Christ, Pics & Giggles, Ecce Homo, Spanish, Spain, Cecilia Prize, UK Weird News, Cecilia Gimenez, Fresco, UK Comedy News

Remember Spanish pensioner Cecilia Giminez's attempt to restore the fresco in her local church to its former glory? Just to remind you, here's a quick...

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Action Needed on Modern Languages

Neil Jeffery | Posted 18.10.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Read More: French, Coalition, Education, Politics, Twigg, Gove, German, Languages, Spanish, UK Universities & Education News
Neil Jeffery

Beneath all the traditional media publicity and right-wing outcry about public examinations results in England this last Thursday, there was one statistic that for me was very worrying indeed.

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Murray Revs Up Take On Spaniard Ferrer In Quarter Finals

PA | Posted 04.07.2012 | UK Sport
Read More: UK News, Wimbledon, Scotland, Spanish, Andy Roddick, Wimbledon Quarter Finals, News, Tennis, Andy Murray, 2012, UK Sport News

Andy Murray will take on a player at the peak of his powers when he faces David Ferrer in the Wimbledon quarter-finals on Wednesday. The Spaniard i...

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Flowing Like Transfluent

Laila Escartín-Sorjonen | Posted 26.08.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Twitter, President Obama, Michael Monroe, Facebook, Translation, Chinese, Spanish, Transfluent, UK Tech News
Laila Escartín-Sorjonen

I absolutely love the beauty, silence and peace Nature provides. I am more of the Walden-type than the High-tech-type. No question about it. But one lives the times one is destined to live and the Zeitgeist is more tinted with High-tech colours than those of Mother Nature. Ignoring it would be sheer foolishness.

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Spain Makes Official Plea For Banking Bailout

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 25.06.2012 | UK
Read More: UK News, Bailout, Banking Bailout, Banking, Banks, Spanish, UK Business, Spain, De Guindos, News, UK News

Spain has formally requested a bailout to help prop up its beleaguered banking sector. The plea for international aid was made by Spanish economy m...

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My Weekend as a Valenciano

Joanne Shurvell | Posted 13.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Read More: Southern Europe, Jazz, Restaurants, Valencia, Food, Travel, Spain, Destinations, Spanish, Holidays, UK Lifestyle News
Joanne Shurvell

An unexpected highlight on a trip to Valencia last month was an invitation to a fish auction from Bernd Knoller and Steve Anderson, two of the city's finest chefs.

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Elisa Palomino | London Fashion Week A/W 2012 - Catwalk Show Review

Akeela Bhattay | Posted 05.05.2012 | UK Style
Read More: Art Deco, Designer, Florine Stettheimer, Freemasons Hall, 1930s, Elisa Palomino, Crystal Flowers, New York, 2012, London Fashion Week, Avant Garde, Vauxhall Fashion Scout, Autumn Winter 2012 2013, 1920s, Covent Garden, Alexander McQueen Central Saint Martins, Eccentric, Spanish, UK Style News
Akeela Bhattay

When I discovered the work of Spanish designer, Elisa Palomino last year, it was a moment of triumph for me. Finally I had found a designer that seeme...

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Mange Tout! Two In Three Brits Can't Speak A Single Foreign Word

Huffington Post UK | Felicity Morse | Posted 18.11.2011 | UK
Read More: Tourism, Hotels, Holidays, UK News, Foreign Language, French, Spanish, British People Abroad, Europe, Cerveza, News, German, Tourist, UK News

It’s not just Del Boy who has trouble with speaking French it seems, as two in three Brits have admitted they can't speak a single world of a foreig...

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