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Gerety Awards Introduces the Moments Cut and Reveals the 2026 Grand Jury

Stuart Mitchell

Gerety Awards is expanding for 2026 with Moments Cut, a new category created to honour campaigns that didn’t wait for permission—ideas that reacted with instinct, capturing culture in real time. Announced alongside the category debut is an early look at the 2026 Gerety Grand Jury, a global panel of founders, chief creatives, brand and media decision-makers shaping the standards for what creative leadership looks like today. Introducing the Moments Cut — for the work that defined the “now”Open across all media, Moments Cut celebrates the work powered by instinct, timing,…

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Ambitious new UK project to transform human disease modelling

Stuart Mitchell

A major new initiative aims to redefine human-based research models for greater understanding of disease and the acceleration of new medicines. The proposal will enable the development of advanced, specific and highly reproducible human in vitro models with the aim of making them widely available to researchers in academia and industry. The £15.9 million project has been funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), Wellcome and Innovate UK. In vitro models In vitro models use isolated cells and tissues outside the living body. These can come in many forms, including…

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Oxfam accuse Swedish politicians of sticking ‘head in the sand’ on poverty

Stuart Mitchell

Oxfam stunned Stockholm with a bold, guerrilla-style protest outside the Swedish Parliament. Eight life-sized mannequins, each representing a different party leader from Sweden’s eight parliamentary parties, stood with their heads buried in sand, symbolizing politicians’ refusal to address the growing poverty and inequality in the country.  As the city awoke, the protest took politicians heading for the parliament by surprise. The sight of the “heads in the sand” drew attention from passersby and sparked impromptu debates among politicians, many of whom stopped to discuss the urgent issue of rising poverty.…

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Kenya Launches 2026 International Volunteer Year

Stuart Mitchell

  On 5 December 2025, Kenya officially launched the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable Development (IVY 2026) at a high-level event held on the margins of the 7th UN Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) at the United Nations Office in Nairobi, followed by an environmental volunteering activity at Karura Forest. This national launch celebrates Kenya’s critical leadership at global and national levels. In 2023, Kenya served as a Core Group Member that negotiated and co-facilitated the UN General Assembly Resolution A/RES/78/127, which proclaimed 2026 the International Year of Volunteers for Sustainable…

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Octopus EV surges past £2bn in electric car funding

Stuart Mitchell

Octopus Electric Vehicles (Octopus EV) has extended and upsized its funding line from global banks to get more electric vehicles on roads, bringing its total EV funding to £2 billion. The deal allows Octopus to supercharge its EV fleet, pushing it from 40,000 cars currently to more than 75,000 once all funds are deployed.   This builds on a major funding line agreed with Lloyds in 2023, now joined by international banks Morgan Stanley and Crédit Agricole CIB.  The announcement was made at COP30 in Brazil and comes as electric cars…

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