Greenwich really is a place where time and space meet. The Greenwich meridian does not just mark the man-made divide between east and west, it was the place where the clocks were set in the form of Greenwich Mean Time, now known as Universal Time.
The allegation that several retailers are demanding boarding passes in order to skim the equivalent of VAT from people travelling outside the EU is clearly rankling shoppers.
The abuse directed towards supporters of other candidates by online advocates of Jeremy Corbyn is unpleasant. As Alastair Campbell says, the cybernistas are similar to the cybernats, the Scottish nationalists who became a byword for intolerance on social media during the referendum campaign and afterwards.
The abuse directed towards supporters of other candidates by online advocates of Jeremy Corbyn is unpleasant. As Alastair Campbell says, the cybernystas are similar to the cybernats, the Scottish nationalists who became a byword for intolerance on social media during the referendum campaign and afterwards.
After graduation, two friends who’d been on our English literature course announced they’d made a very big mistake. After years of studying medieval literature, rowing about cultural theory in poky offices and ploughing through five novels a week, both of them admitted that what they really wanted to do was far more hands on: they wanted to be doctors.
Yesterday, in London’s West End, I counted eight mammoth coaches at the end of the road. They were parked illegally on yellow lines; several had their engines running – illegal, too – and they blocked the left-hand-turn lane for a good distance, more than trebling the time it took for the city bus to clear the junction.
Eight years after finishing an agonising fourth at the 2007 World Championships, Britain’s Jo Pavey looks set to be awarded a bronze medal in the ongoing fall-out from the latest set of doping sanctions.
Talk about a reversal of fortune. There was a valedictory feel to the visit by David Cameron’s children to the gallery of the House of Commons to watch the last Prime Minister’s Questions before the election. During the campaign, I travelled enough with the Prime Minister to detect a note of resignation in him. He had done his best. If that wasn’t enough, as he seemed to feel it might not be, he wouldn’t reproach himself.
Soundtracking a work by arguably the English language’s most menacing playwright with music by one of Britain’s most celebrated miserablists is quite a combination.
If the polls and the buzz are right then Jeremy Corbyn is about to become the leader of the Labour Party. He has fought an energetic campaign, and has clearly enthused some people unmoved by his rivals. He has also tapped in to anxieties and anger about New Labour, Ed Miliband's failure to defeat David Cameron, and a desire to see an end to austerity.
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Greece is heading towards its third "bailout". This time €86 billion is on the table, which will be packaged up by international lenders with a bundle of austerity and sent off to Greece, only to return to those same lenders in the very near future.
Athol Fugard's play was premiered in Johannesburg in 1989 before the release of Nelson Mandela and it is set five years previous to that, ending amidst the unrest of a renewed schools boycott by black South Africans against the inferior “Bantu” education policy.
A woman has worn her Fitbit monitor during sex and published the results online in the name of science.
Three o’clock today was the deadline for signing up as a Labour Party member or registered or affiliated supporter to take part in the leadership election, after it was extended because the website crashed. Although I am a centrist Labour sympathiser, I am not a member or registered or affiliated supporter. Two weeks ago David asked me why not, and I apologise for taking so long to reply, but here goes.
Is Michael McIntyre an artist? Does the joke stand alongside the libretto, the pirouette and the poem as a bona fide form of artistic expression? Absolutely, is the contention of the UK Comedy Guild, which has backed a call to the Arts Council to start offering grants to the men and women who know exactly why the chicken crossed the road.
Is it time to declare the great Greek debt saga over? The temptation is there. It has been a seemingly unending crisis, punctuated by summits, crisis summits, riots, elections, referendums, bank closures and an unprecedented opportunity for the world’s financial journalists to top up their tans. The European public, understandably uninterested in the detail, looked on in pity, dismay and fear. The net effect has been to discredit the whole European project, as well as inflicting real hurt on innocent, ordinary Greeks. Читать дальше...
Where do we begin with the spaghetti-like mess that is the supposed link between illnesses such as coronary heart disease and diet? Yet another study appears to have overturned previous advice on cutting down on butter, eggs, red meat and other food containing saturated fats.
