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The migrants heading from Belgium to Britain… with a helping hand from the French

The migrants heading from Belgium to Britain… with a helping hand from the French

Published by Sam Flores

On the Belgian coast during two world wars, thousands of British soldiers lost their lives. In Coxyde Military Cemetery, more than 1,500 valiant souls are laid to rest. Men like Gunner A W Loney, of the Royal Field Artillery, who was 20 when he died at Passchendaele. Next to his grave lies that of a 19-year-old soldier killed in the relentless shelling and sniping around Ypres. These men made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our borders. Today, standing amid the rows of white gravestones as the spring sunshine lights up the names engraved on them, it is hard not to wonder what they would have made of the invasion that is under way today. Across the road from the cemetery is an accommodation centre for illegal immigrants. Sooner or later, some will be heading to the UK. Belgium is the new front in Britain’s losing battle against migrants. In recent weeks, more than 20 small boats have left the beaches of West Flanders for the UK. In previous years, there were no more than two …

Best Enterprise SEO Agencies Helping Tech Startups Scale in 2026

Best Enterprise SEO Agencies Helping Tech Startups Scale in 2026

Published by skeptic

Tech startups in 2026 are operating in a radically different search landscape. Traditional SEO is no longer enough. With the rise of AI-driven search, generative engine optimization, and multi-platform discovery, enterprise SEO has become a core growth lever rather than a marketing afterthought. Understanding different types of market research is also becoming essential, as startups need deeper insights into user intent, behavior, and evolving search patterns across platforms. Startups that scale fastest today are those that partner with agencies capable of handling complex technical ecosystems, AI visibility, and content-driven growth at scale. Enterprise SEO is now about aligning engineering, product, and marketing into a unified search strategy that drives measurable revenue. The New Reality of Enterprise SEO for Startups Modern enterprise SEO is no longer just about rankings. It includes: AI search visibility across tools like ChatGPT and Gemini Technical scalability for large SaaS platforms Content systems that generate compounding traffic Data-driven decision making tied to revenue Research shows that AI-powered search experiences are reshaping how users discover products, forcing brands to optimize beyond traditional …

DeviantArt Is Helping Artists Cut Through The Noise and Fuel Careers

DeviantArt Is Helping Artists Cut Through The Noise and Fuel Careers

Published by José Betancourt

More than 25 years after its founding, the site has evolved into the internet’s leading platform for artists to grow and monetize their audience. If you spend much time online — especially around Gen Z — you may have noticed that Y2K  internet culture is having a moment. Scrolling fatigue, coupled with a reliable nostalgia factor, has sparked a return to the user-generated, creator-centric format and aesthetics of the Blogosphere and early social media. Launched in 2000, DeviantArt is to many an avatar for this era and synonymous with Web 2.0’s niche subcultures. But in 2026, DeviantArt is more accessible, widely used, and creator-friendly than ever before. After a period of network decline through the 2010s, the platform underwent a multi-year overhaul to modernize its user experience and strengthen its core offerings. As a result, usership has been on a steady rise since 2019; DeviantArt now boasts more than 108 million users worldwide. Courtesy of DeviantArt The site calls itself a home for artists of all kinds, with more than 100 million new artworks across …

Car wash owners jailed for helping smuggle more than 400 people into Europe | UK News

Car wash owners jailed for helping smuggle more than 400 people into Europe | UK News

Published by Sam Flores

Two men who ran a car wash in South Wales have been jailed for 19 years each for their part in a people smuggling ring. Dilshad Shamo, 43, and Ali Khdir, 42, helped transport hundreds of people to Europe from Iraq, Iran and Syria. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said migrants were offered three tiers of service: the cheapest in the back of a lorry or by foot; the next offering travel by cargo ship or yacht; and the top by providing plane travel. Payment was handled in Iraq and Turkey by bankers using the Hawala system – an informal transfer method that works outside the normal banking system. The pair even got migrants to film videos on their way to Europe and used the positive “reviews” as adverts on social media. Shamo and Khdir communicated with other smugglers in the larger network via WhatsApp. Prosecutors said they helped transport at least 409 people in just six months in what the NCA called a “round-the-clock” operation. The men – who had a car wash business …

Are low lunges not helping release tension in your hips? A yoga instructor wants you to try these four poses instead

Are low lunges not helping release tension in your hips? A yoga instructor wants you to try these four poses instead

Published by Jenni Sidey

Yoga instructor Imogen Smith has noticed a common issue that many of her clients complain about: tight hips. And she’s not surprised by how widespread the issue is, because the causes of tension around the hips are plentiful, though for most people it’s the hours they spend at their desks. “Long periods of sitting keep your hips in flexion (a shortened position), especially the hip flexors,” says Smith. “Weak or underactive glutes [your buttock muscles] mean that your hips or even hamstrings can tighten to compensate. Article continues below You may like “We also hold a lot of tension in our hips if we are stressed or keeping in repressed emotions. “Your psoas muscle in particular is linked to your nervous system, so when you are stressed for long periods, this muscle can stay subtly contracted.” And although it’s a common problem among Smith’s clients at MoreYoga—which has over 40 studios across London—she has advice that could rectify the issue. Smith has noticed that many clients concentrate on a lunge stretch to open up the …

Helping Black Women Remove the Mask

Helping Black Women Remove the Mask

Published by Jenni Sidey

Classification is an innate behavior, often used to categorize, organize, and create a predictable sense of behavior and outcomes. Born out of our brain’s instinct to classify is the reality of stereotypes. However, stereotypes, unlike classification, have a negative connotation, particularly because stereotypes are often infused with unfounded beliefs, misconceptions, and biases. Black women, like many other racial and gender groups, are classified based on how people perceive them. The challenge is that, most times, pre-formed stereotypes are harmful to who that black woman really is and often suppresses who she wants to be in the process. So, when she enters your office, she is likely able to tell you who she wants to be, what she wants to work on, and how she wants to engage with herself and others. Equally so, she is equipped to tell you the societal norms, pressures, and common stereotypes that she has to contend with the moment she walks out of her house. Our job, as clinicians, is not to refute her reality nor to tell her how …

Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Is Helping Out on Viral Fraud Videos Now

Edward ‘Big Balls’ Coristine Is Helping Out on Viral Fraud Videos Now

Published by skeptic

Nick Shirley—the right-wing creator whose YouTube investigation sparked the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in Minnesota—claims that his most recent video about alleged fraud in California was bolstered by data provided by none other than Edward Coristine, one of the first members of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) known online as “Big Balls.” Coristine, who joined DOGE at 19 years old with no prior government experience, was staffed across several agencies including the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Before joining DOGE, Coristine worked at Elon Musk’s Neuralink for several months and founded a startup known for hiring black hat hackers. In an interview with Coristine published on Shirley’s YouTube channel on Thursday, Shirley claims that Coristine personally pulled data on Medicaid spending for businesses based in California as potential targets. Coristine nodded along, telling Shirley that the government must create more opportunities to crowdsource fraud investigations. The information Coristine allegedly pulled for Shirley was from a dataset published by the DOGE team at the Department of Health and Human …

Maternal health and the innovative technology helping to support new mothers

Maternal health and the innovative technology helping to support new mothers

Published by Daniella Wilson

According to research by the Maternal Mental Health Alliance, at least one in four women will experience a mental health problem during pregnancy or in the early years of motherhood – and yet 70 per cent of those who do will hide or underplay their struggles. This speaks volumes about both the scale of the issue and the culture of silence that surrounds it. Marie Louise, NHS midwife, bestselling author, and Momcozy brand ambassador for the company’s International Women’s Day campaign, spoke at the AllBright Step Forward 2026 summit as part of her partnership with the brand. Addressing the pressures facing modern mothers, she shared: “More women than ever before have so much pressure on them, to do it all, to be it all, to perform at work and be this kind of perfect mother at home. It’s so unachievable and unrealistic.” Marie Louise spoke candidly about the state of maternal healthcare and workplace culture in the UK, making a compelling case that society is asking more of mothers than ever before while providing less …

How a Huggy Dog Is Helping Children With Wartime Trauma

How a Huggy Dog Is Helping Children With Wartime Trauma

Published by Jenni Sidey

We turn on the news and hear about war and devastation every day and wonder, what about all the children in these regions who are affected by wartime trauma? Who is helping them and how? If you have or know children, you must wonder, as I do, how these young people survive such staggering events or avoid symptoms of PTSD. I recently interviewed clinical psychologist Shai Hen-Gal of Tel Aviv, Israel. Hen-Gal works with wartime trauma in children and has created a successful short-term intervention we should all know about: Hibuki. Hibuki is a Hebrew term that roughly translates to Huggy, the name Hen-Gal has given to an adorable stuffed animal dog with a sad face and extra-long limbs that can hug a child as it wraps itself around the traumatized little one, offering some healing and a friend. Hen-Gal uses Huggy to help treat traumatized children who have experienced the horrors of war. Karly McBride: Where did this idea come from? Shai Hen-Gal: I was volunteering in refugee camps and wanted to find something …