Giorno: 4 Dicembre 2022

World Cup 2022: news and buildup to France v Poland and England v Senegal – live

Read More It wasn’t a bad World Cup campaign for the USA, even if they’ll be disappointed not to have gone further. Here’s the post-mortem on their last-16 exit. Jack Torcello has something to add. “From pretenders to contenders – as Klinsmann said, a lot of the American players are playing this season for Champions […]

Mexican police seize over 600 pounds of fentanyl stuffed coconuts from truck near border

A traffic stop by Mexico police led to the discovery of 660 pounds of fentanyl stuffed into coconuts. The drug-filled coconuts were located Thursday in a truck traveling on a highway in the northern border state of Sonora. Authorities believe the truck was heading to the U.S. Prosecutors said the vehicle was detected on a […]

One Movie, Two Takes: Wakanda Forever

Read More When the first Black Panther premiered in February 2018 there was a lot of excitement. Not only because Marvel Studios was releasing another action movie but because they brought to life a character comic fans of the company were introduced to in the Fantastic Four comic Issue no. 52 published in 1961, The […]

Second Grenfell Tower inquiry play to put Eric Pickles in spotlight

Read More A play dramatising the “merry-go-round of buck-passing” at the Grenfell Tower public inquiry will open in February, casting actors as Eric Pickles, the former housing secretary, and Hisam Choucair, who lost six members of his family in the 2017 fire. Grenfell: System Failure will be the sequel to a critically acclaimed verbatim play […]

Kathy Burke: ‘I’m so glad I didn’t kill myself during menopause’

Read More The director, writer and performer Kathy Burke experienced suicidal impulses as a result of the menopause, she has confided in an interview with the Observer Magazine this weekend. Burke, 58, who has survived a string of serious physical health scares during her career, reveals that her more recent struggles with mental health may […]

Fears of deadly infection surge as China abandons zero-Covid policy

Read More The portable PCR testing booth dangled in the air over a dark Beijing street, captured on camera as it was winched away by a crane in the middle of the night. The image spread rapidly across Chinese social media, the perfect symbol of the bewilderingly rapid end of a draconian era. In the […]

Keir Starmer warned by Labour peers not to waste political capital on Lords reform

Read More Keir Starmer has been warned by Labour peers that he risks getting bogged down in a “constitutional quagmire” that will prevent him completing other urgent domestic reforms if he pushes ahead with plans to scrap the House of Lords in the first term of a Labour government. Several senior Labour figures in the […]

Senegal or England to win? Parents v children in London’s west African community

Read More Football’s capacity to unite is routinely lauded, but Sunday’s World Cup match between England and Senegal has already divided many west African families in London. The split is generational. Parents say they tend to support Senegal, the country of their birth, while their children opt to support the state they were raised in: […]

Art meets philanthropy as Zanele Muholi embarks on a new chapter

Read More I can’t say when I started to understand the work of Zanele Muholi as clearly as I do now. To be honest, I could not have been bothered to understand their work as a young exchange student from South Africa, having arrived only eight weeks before in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.  I had not […]

Ramaphosa: The independent panel’s impeachment report is riddled with loopholes

Read More President Cyril Ramaphosa. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) How to prevent, or punish, the abuse of power is a question that is old as democracy itself. The quest for such a mechanism was necessary for a democratic order. After all, democratic societies dearly embrace the principles of equality and the exercise of executive power for the […]