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How does a mother tell her child that there will be no bread today—or tomorrow? What words can soften the ache when a little one asks, “When will we eat like other children do?” In Gaza, war isn’t ...
May Bulman is investigations editor at Lighthouse Reports, a non-profit investigative newsroom. Previously, she was social affairs correspondent at the Independent ...
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Dominic Sandbrook is speaking about Gordon of Khartoum. He lowers his voice to a reverent whisper, leans into his microphone and tells me of “an imperial hero, an adventurer, who ended his days on the ...
Has the media contributed to “tinderbox Britain”? Alan and Lionel discuss in this week’s Q&A episode, in light of protests outside a hotel housing asylum seekers in Epping, as authorities anticipate a ...
How I made five million in under 10 seconds Small print: this happened in the digital realms of ‘Old School RuneScape’ ...
“LinkedIn doesn’t know me anymore,” someone complained to me recently. “What do you mean?” I asked. She explained that the platform has replaced the old “recommended jobs” section, which used to show ...
You may not have heard of Lord Leggatt, a judge who joined the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom in 2020. One may not expect anything sensational from a former English commercial lawyer, even one ...
Does Oscar hate Marty? Martin Scorsese has won the Academy Award for Best Director just once. And it wasn’t this year for ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ ...
During the final curtain call for a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Il trovatore at the Royal Ballet and Opera the other week, dancer Danni Perry raised a Palestinian flag. What ensued was a graceless ...
In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in 2016, a spate of reading lists was published, aiming to arm readers with the literary weapons they would need to “resist” the administration. Guides to ...
Sixty million people in the developing world are leaving the countryside every year. The squatter cities that have emerged can teach us much about fut ...