Giorno: 19 Novembre 2022

Town vs gown and car vs bike: row erupts over Cambridge congestion plan

Read More In 1381, a mob sacked university buildings and burned books in the town square, shouting: “Away with the learning of clerks!” More recently, battle lines have been drawn over plans to build homes on green belt land and attempts to ban wild swimming in the river Cam. Now, tensions between town and gown […]

VP Harris, China’s Xi meet to ‘keep lines of communication open’

Chinese President Xi Jinping met briefly with Vice President Kamala Harris Saturday as both nations look to “keep lines of communication open.” The meeting occurred on the sidelines of an economic forum in Bangkok – at the request of the vice president, China says – just days after President Biden and Xi met in their […]

Europe’s opposition to controversial oil pipeline angers Uganda’s government

Read More Since 2006, when commercially viable deposits of oil were discovered in western Uganda, the government has been trying to get that oil to international markets. Its solution is a 1 443km pipeline that will stretch across Uganda and northern Tanzania to the port of Tanga. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) will also […]

The rise and fall and rise of the fashion House of Gucci

Read More For 100 years, Gucci has been synonymous with heritage, craftsmanship and innovation. Since 1921, Gucci has given the world luxury Italian fashion but the House of Gucci has been a house divided.  Internal power struggles fuelled by family politics, as portrayed in Ridley Scott’s 2021 film House of Gucci, tell as story of […]

Iran forces shoot dead three protesters in Mahsa Amini’s home province

Read More Iranian security forces have shot dead at least three people in the western province of Kurdistan in the latest deadly protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, a rights group said. The country’s clerical leadership under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is facing its biggest challenge since the Islamic Revolution of 1979, in two […]

Awaab Ishak death: boss of Rochdale housing body sacked

Read More The chief executive of the housing association which ran the home in which two-year-old Awaab Ishak died after exposure to mould has been removed from his post. Rochdale Boroughwide Housing said on Saturday afternoon that Gareth Swarbrick had been removed with “immediate effect”. It comes after Swarbrick said on Thursday that he would […]

Sinistra, abbandona l’estremismo governista

Read More Lula ha vinto le elezioni, ma in Brasile. Sembrerebbe una ovvietà questa affermazione ma leggendo i giornali e seguendo i social nei giorni scorsi si avvertiva come una ventata di illusorio ottimismo per ciò che stava accadendo dall’altra parte dell’oceano. Qui da noi si cerca affannosamente un “Lula” capace di riportare la sinistra […]

Ucraina – Russia, le news dalla guerra oggi. Missili su Zaporizhzhia. Zelensky: “No a tregua breve”. Kiev: “La guerra terminerà entro la fine della primavera”

Read More I russi hanno lanciato un attacco missilistico contro un impianto industriale nella città di Zaporizhzhia: i bombardamenti dal giorno dei missili caduti in Polonia non si sono mai più fermati. Ora la Difesa di Mosca accusa anche gli ucraini di avere ucciso a sangue freddo “più di dieci soldati russi” nel Donbass e […]

Design falls short in today’s cars

Read More There’s something about modern cars that make them increasingly difficult to fall in love with.  Design is playing second fiddle, with looks that sometimes appear to have succumbed to geeky computer-generated images instead of being carefully crafted.  I can remember being thrilled by renowned car designer Walter da Silva at Auto Africa many […]