The dynamic diversity of our history should give us courage
I had been feeling sad and hopeless, but a letter from an 87-year-old and a musical rekindled my optimism this week.
I had been feeling sad and hopeless, but a letter from an 87-year-old and a musical rekindled my optimism this week.
The Labour leadership election becomes even more captivating as a potential game-changer descends from above. The deus ex machina is Yvette Cooper’s late Great Auntie Liz, whom she cites as the catalyst for her political awakening. Yvette tells the Sunday Mirror she was diverted from her girlhood dream of becoming a tap dancer by an epiphany. “Her charisma [sic] shines through,” claims a Sunday Mirror interviewer, “as she recalls the moment in 1988 that set her off on the journey to Westminster.”... Читать дальше...
In an explosive week for British athletics, some trackside pyrotechnics were blamed for a serious hamstring injury sustained by the British sprinter Adam Gemili.
The Birmingham Diamond League was supposed to be the Mo show, instead it was a no-show as Britain’s under-fire athlete flew back to the United States at the crack of dawn.
Mo Farah found himself under fire from his peers after pulling out of the Birmingham Diamond League meeting over the doping allegations surrounding his coach, Alberto Salazar.
It’s an obvious pitch. Just when the Americans are frothing around for something sane to say about their non-existent policy in the Middle East, along comes the al-Nusra Front – al-Qaeda beheaders and sectarian killers – to suggest that they are just the “moderates” Washington wants to fight the Assad regime in Syria. The word comes from the boss himself. Is al-Nusra anxious to attack the West? Think not of it. An enemy of the Christians, Alawites and other minorities in Syria? Perish the thought. Читать дальше...
It might have been the amount of Ommadon I had been listening to. Oppressive, instrumental Scottish doom metal can alter one’s outlook on life, after all.
A man lies dead at the side of the road; other residents hover in the background. It is probably blood that is creating the darkness around the corpse’s head. The scene is unutterably bleak.
From the Isle of Islay, all the way to Tooting by way of County Down, we went on a juniper-fuelled adventure to find the best bottles
One in five British adults admits they have had an affair, according to a new poll.
When he left the White House in early 2009 and headed back to Dallas, few people were sad to see George W Bush depart from highest office. Americans were aching for him to go. The 43rd president of the United States was seen by most fellow citizens as a disaster, leaving behind two unfinished wars and the deepest recession since the Great Depression. Little wonder his presidential ratings were the lowest for decades, with just 22 per cent approval.
Carey Mulligan, Helen Mirren and Ruth Wilson are hoping to bring home a Tony Award for Britain tonight after being nominated for the Best Actress in a Play award.