💌 It’s Friday! Open for your headlines roundup, recs, quiz and more

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Happy Friday, readers - Calypso here!

As The Know’s resident careers expert and a self-discovery coach, I’m on hand to help you express your most authentic self at work and beyond. Today, I’m talking about negotiating - something that’s seriously important both in our careers and our personal lives, but doesn’t come naturally to many of us.

Whether we’re asking for more pay, flexible working or something small, like leaving work early to make school pick up, negotiating is so often framed as a difficult or extravagant ask. This shouldn’t be the case. We’re always within our rights to negotiate - and we need to reframe negotiation as an empowering conversation. Check out my new guide featuring tips for doing just that!

If there are any other topics you’d like to see us cover in this slot - whether that’s related to work or relationships - hit reply to this email. And keep scrolling for our usual roundup of the week’s biggest headlines, culture recs from the team and lots more!

Big love,

Calypso x 

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POLITICS & GLOBAL AFFAIRS

📰 The Israel-Hamas conflict continued into a fourth week, bringing further instability to the Middle East (if you’re finding the news overwhelming right now, we hear you - and you might want to check out our doomscrolling guide). The Guardian has this summary of what we know on day 28 of the conflict.

😷 The Covid inquiry heard that a lack of “female perspective” in No. 10 created problems with pandemic policymaking. Helen MacNamara, a former senior civil servant, suggested that there was “more focus on issues like shooting and football than domestic abuse or pregnancy”.

🇺🇸 Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump took to the stand in a New York court to testify in the ongoing fraud trial against their father and the family business. The former president is scheduled to take the stand on Monday.

CULTURE

🇮🇹 The Italian city of Milan cracked down on disruptive nightlife in its busy Porta Venezia neighbourhood by banning the sale of takeaway drinks and food from 1:30-6am on Friday and Saturday nights.

📚 The British Library is celebrating the genre of dragons, wizards and reluctant heroes through a new, multimedia exhibition. Fantasy: Realms Of The Imagination opens today (read what Londonist had to say about it here). 

🇪🇸 The Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia in Spain opened its door to nudists by holding a 90-minute tour in collaboration with a local naturism club. “We wanted people who came… to feel exactly the same as the work they were looking at,” said a tour guide.

WORK & INNOVATION

📱 Meta announced that social media users in the EU will be charged up to €12.99 a month for ad-free versions of Facebook and Instagram, as a way of complying with strict data privacy rules.

🤖 Around 100 world leaders, tech experts and academics gathered in the UK on Wednesday and Thursday for a landmark summit on safety in artificial intelligence. 

😡 People who are angry can see better results when attempting to achieve a desired goal than those who are “emotionally neutral”, found a new study by researchers at Texas A&M University.

UPLIFTING STUFF

🏞️ The home countries of three major rainforests agreed to cooperate to overcome deforestation and safeguard biodiversity on the final day of the Congo Republic-hosted Three Basins summit.

🇦🇺 Scientists at Griffith University, Australia, developed a pain-relieving gel using compounds from the bark of a mudjala mangrove tree - a medicine used by the country’s indigenous Nyikina Mangala community.

🩰 The London City Ballet is set to be rebooted in 2024, nearly 30 years after it ended operations. The company will move into purpose-built studios at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in north London - the site where it was based up until 1996.

🍷 Read: When we asked you about your approach to alcohol in our newsletter the other week, a whopping 80.37% of you said that you’ve adopted more of a low or no approach when it comes to drinking. All of us at The Know are in this category too, which is why we were super interested to read this article by Jackie Adedeji, columnist for AllBright (the place for ​​women at every stage of their career) about why we’re all in our “sober curious” era and how it’s changing the way we network.

📺 Watch: The Killer (out in cinemas now), The Lions of Sicily (Disney+), All the Light We Cannot See (Netflix), The Search for Instagram’s Worst Con Artist (ITVX).

🎧 Listen: Tracks, an award-winning conspiracy thriller podcast from the BBC. It’s an atmospheric and utterly addictive listen about the murky ethics of scientific innovation - and ideal if you’re looking to dial down your screen time. 

🍝 Do: Try your hand at making some authentic Italian pasta - from traditional tagliatelle to delicate ravioli - at this joyful workshop (which ends with consuming the fruits of your labour, of course). Not in London? Nonna Live offers some virtual cookery classes taught by Italian grandmothers!

🎟️ Book: Tickets to our news quiz IRL. We’ve teamed up with AllBright to host an in-person “pub” quiz in central London on the evening of Wednesday 22 November! Whether you want to come along solo or with a team, everyone’s welcome - so come and test your knowledge of the news, pop culture, kick-ass women and more.

We list jobs with qualities we know our readers are looking for: purpose-driven opportunities, flexible and female-founded environments, and employers who champion mental health.

Our top jobs this week include roles at renewable energy company Low Carbon, food awareness organisation ProVeg and student platform Unifrog. Check them out 👉 here 👈

Want to reach 200,000+ women with your latest roles? Email [email protected] if you’d like to list a job with us.

In our Tuesday morning email, we featured the news that the cap on bankers’ bonuses has been removed - and asked you whether you thought that was a good decision or not. You were (fairly) unanimous in your response:

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🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 No, I don’t (382)

We were really interested to read some of the comments you left alongside your answers. “I think a bonus of 2X their salary is big enough and unlimited bonuses risks irresponsible handling of money,” wrote one reader. Another had a different approach, writing: “I don’t like the greed mentality but capping the bonuses didn’t work and post Brexit the ailing economy needs a boost. Maybe this will help?”. Thanks to everyone who shared their thoughts!

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