Month: June 2026

It’s for good reason that the Galapagos Islands appear on many a travel bucket-list. Nowhere else in the world can travellers expect to enjoy such intimate and unusual encounters with this staggering range of wildlife. Isolated from human society, the creatures of this volcanic archipelago show little fear toward their curious human visitors, facilitating close-up
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David Fletcher has been promoted to chief executive of Katharine House Hospice after four years at the charity. Fletcher, who joined the Stafford-based charity in 2022 as its director of care, will succeed Richard Soulsby. Soulsby left the charity earlier this month after 27 years in charge to take up the top job at the
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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. Here are the stories we covered ourselves on Book Riot this week. Every month, the American Booksellers Association put together a list of the top 25 new book releases of the upcoming month as their
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The chief executive of Toynbee Hall has announced plans to step down. Rebecca Sycamore, who was appointed in April 2023, will leave the poverty relief charity in early July. In a LinkedIn post announcing her departure, she said: “For me, this feels like the right moment to move on, and for the organisation to begin
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