EasyJet prompts half-term travel chaos as 200 Gatwick flights cancelled

Read More Travellers hoping to enjoy a half-term getaway have continued to be hit by cancelled flights as drivers were warned to expect long delays on major roads. Passengers stranded at Gatwick have expressed their anger after easyJet cancelled more than 200 flights from the airport at short notice during one of the year’s busier […]

Pasta, bread and crisps among biggest UK budget food price increases

Read More UK consumers are facing significantly bigger increases in the price of some budget food items including pasta, crisps and bread, new experimental data shows, as poorer families bear the brunt of the cost of living crisis. Highlighting the challenge for low-income households, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed prices for […]

Pasta, bread and crisps among biggest UK budget food price increases

Read More UK consumers are facing significantly bigger increases in the price of some budget food items including pasta, crisps and bread, new experimental data shows, as poorer families bear the brunt of the cost of living crisis. Highlighting the challenge for low-income households, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed prices for […]

A 21st-century stoning in Nigeria

Read More Students at the Shehu Shagari College of Education in Sokoto, Nigeria, have a WhatsApp group to coordinate their coursework with activities. Like WhatsApp groups everywhere, not everyone sticks to the topic at hand.  On a Thursday morning earlier this month, Deborah Samuel, a 22-year-old economics student, had had enough. In a voice note, […]

A tale of two cities and two European cups

Read More France. A country of two halves, to tweak a sporting cliché.  Rugby, in Marseille. Football, in Paris.  The two big European Cups. The big European Cups – with disproportionate global cachet.  A great deal to play for: huge prestige, not to mention the financial stakes.  In one, La Rochelle versus Leinster; the petite […]

Generations of storytelling: Charlie Vundla on his most personal film

Read More It’s a Monday night in 1993. Countless South African families sit together, huddled around one of those television sets that need a smack on the side to get a proper signal from the bunny-ears aerial. The country watches as a tuxxed-out young groom from a family of means is about to marry his […]