Ethnic ethics
Actor Ed Skrein withdrew from a cartoon film after protests that he had the wrong ethnic background to play a Japanese-American. Some famous performances which, on the same principle, could be regarded as unacceptable:
— Laurence Olivier blacked up to play the lead role in the 1965 film of Othello.
— Andrew Sachs, son of a German Jew, played Manuel the Spanish waiter in Fawlty Towers in 1975 and 1979.
— Eddie Redmayne, who is not disabled, played Stephen Hawking in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda, who is of Puerto Rican descent, played founding father Alexander Hamilton in the Broadway musical Hamilton, which he also wrote.
Bridge of size
How does the Queensferry Bridge, the new road bridge across the Forth, measure up against its predecessor?
| Queensferry bridge / Forth bridge |
|
| Opened | 2017 / 1964 |
| Cost | £1.35bn / £11.5m (£210m today) |
| Main span | 2,130ft / 3,300ft |
| Height above high-tide level |
683ft / 512ft |
| Tonnes of steel | 35,000 / 39,000 |
| Construction deaths | 2 / 7 |
Vicious cycles
A cyclist using a ‘fixie’ bike with no front brake was convicted over the death of a woman who stepped into the road.
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