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Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men review – Cuddly reassurance is favoured over deep analysis

Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men review – Cuddly reassurance is favoured over deep analysis

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter In eight years as England manager, Gareth Southgate took the team to two major international finals, as well as a World Cup semi. And yet his legacy as one of the national team’s most successful leaders remains contested. Was he too meek? Did he squander a generational chance to bring silverware back to Wembley? And was he too fixated with draining the macho atmosphere that has long surrounded the Three Lions? These questions will continue to spark debate, but it is the latter cause that provides inspiration for Sir Gareth as he tackles his first television documentary, BBC One’s Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men. Almost two years on from leaving his job as England manager, Southgate has a new mission: to improve outcomes for young men in society. “I’ve raised and highlighted a problem,” he says in this …

Gareth Southgate explains why he refuses to say Andrew Tate’s name in manosphere documentary

Gareth Southgate explains why he refuses to say Andrew Tate’s name in manosphere documentary

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Gareth Southgate is on a mission to help struggling young men in his new BBC documentary as more of them are sucked into the “manosphere” way of thinking – however, he won’t be mentioning Andrew Tate. The former England men’s football manager explores how an increasing number of boys are feeling lost after the pandemic in Gareth Southgate: Changing the Game for Young Men. Speaking to young men across the country, the ex football coach looks at how many are overlooked in education, employment and family life, with some turning to influencers who peddle toxic masculinity online. While controversial social media personality Andrew Tate is often seen as a “manosphere” figurehead, Southgate has revealed that he won’t be talking about him in his new documentary. “I don’t want to give him the publicity,” he told The Times. “He’s not worth it.” …

Dear England review – Cringe-inducing Gareth Southgate drama makes even Ted Lasso look subtle

Dear England review – Cringe-inducing Gareth Southgate drama makes even Ted Lasso look subtle

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter “The important thing about football,” wrote the late novelist Terry Pratchett, “is that it is not just about football.” Any fan of the sport knows this innately: the 90 minutes of a football match can seem to contain humanity in all its multitudes. It’s an idea that playwright James Graham pushed to breaking point in 2023, when he wrote Dear England, a self-serious state-of-the-nation play about Gareth Southgate’s tenure as the manager of the England men’s national team. Now, that play has been made into a four-part BBC series – one that somehow makes Ted Lasso seem like a work of subtlety and restraint. Joseph Fiennes, reprising his Olivier-nominated stage role, bafflingly plays Southgate with the sort of tortured intensity usually reserved for films about war veterans. When he takes the England job, in 2016, he inherits a talented but discordant …

Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits .5B valuation

Firmus, the ‘Southgate’ AI data center builder backed by Nvidia, hits $5.5B valuation

Published by skeptic

Asia AI data center provider Firmus on Monday announced a fresh $505 million raise led by Coatue at a $5.5 billion post-money valuation. With this round, Firmus has raised $1.35 billion in six months, it says. The Singapore-based data center company previously raised AU$330 million (approximately $215 million) at an AU$1.85 billion ($1.2 billion) valuation from investors, including Nvidia. Firmus is developing an energy-efficient “AI factory” network of data centers in Australia and Tasmania, a project it dubs Project Southgate. It is using Nvidia’s reference designs for building these efficient data centers. These new data centers will use Nvidia’s Vera Rubin platform — the chip giant’s next-gen AI computing system succeeding its Blackwell architecture, expected to ship in the second half of 2026. Firmus originally provided cooling technologies for Bitcoin mining and has become yet another crypto-roots-turned-AI provider company that investors love. Source link