The architect Sir Norman Foster must ensure his firm is not “complicit” in human rights abuses in Qatar, campaigners have said. The warning came after it was announced that his firm will design the 80,000-seat Lusail Stadium near Doha that will host the final of the controversial 2022 World Cup.
With the ever-fertile musical imagination of Unsuk Chin, and with Netia Jones’s characteristically brilliant meld of projected graphics and live action; with pen-and-ink-blot drawings by veteran cartoonist Ralph Steadman, and with a libretto-on-speed by the prolific David Henry Hwang, this opera on Lewis Carroll’s evergreen fable was a show of all the talents, and in the American soprano Rochele Gilmore it had the ideal performer for the title role.
It’s 10 years today that the first peer-to-peer lender was founded in a barn in Buckinghamshire in March 2005. That was Zopa which has now lent nearly £750m, and expects to hit £1bn this summer.
When Richard Kilty was crowned world indoor champion, he was entered in his home town’s Hall of Fame alongside the creator of the matchstick. Quite what the bright lights of Stockton-on-Tees have in store for him 12 months on, now he has added a European title, is another matter.
Jenny Meadows was expected to merit the middle-distance glory in Prague for the British team but Chris O’Hare instead led the way with bronze in the 1,500m.
