Giorno: 29 Marzo 2023

Democratic Alliance’s Cilliers Brink elected Tshwane mayor

Read More Xed out: The plan by the Democratic Alliance’s Cilliers Brink for the Tshwane metro election has backfired. Photo: Deon Raath/Gallo Images The Democratic Alliance-led coalition emerged as the victor in the City of Tshwane mayoral election on Tuesday afternoon when its candidate, Cilliers Brink, came out on top. Brink garnered 109 of […]

Paul O’Grady, TV presenter and comedian, dies aged 67

Read More The TV presenter and comedian Paul O’Grady has died at the age of 67, his partner Andre Portasio has said. O’Grady, also known for his drag queen persona Lily Savage, died “unexpectedly but peacefully” on Tuesday evening, a statement by his representative said. “It is with great sadness that I inform you that […]

UK ‘strikingly unprepared’ for impacts of climate crisis

Read More The UK is “strikingly unprepared” for the impacts of the climate crisis, according to the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which said there had been a “lost decade” in efforts to adapt for the impacts of global heating. The CCC, the government’s official climate adviser, said climate damages will inevitably intensify for decades to […]

How our founders’ links to slavery change the Guardian today | Katharine Viner

Read More I remember the moment. We were meeting the historians who had been commissioned by the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian, to look into our past. The Black Lives Matter movement had put unprecedented focus on racism in our societies, and it had inspired the Guardian to look at itself. Dr Cassandra Gooptar, […]

Slavery and the Guardian: the ties that bind us | David Olusoga

Read More If you know how a trick is done, if you have peered through the smoke and looked past the mirrors, if you have figured out how the illusion is accomplished, surely you can no longer be fooled by it? Surely? The smoke-and-mirrors trick I thought I had seen through sits at the centre […]

Guardian owner apologises for founders’ links to transatlantic slavery

Read More The owner of the Guardian has issued an apology for the role the newspaper’s founders had in transatlantic slavery and announced a decade-long programme of restorative justice. The Scott Trust said it expected to invest more than ?10m (US$12.3m, A$18.4m), with millionsdedicated specifically to descendant communities linked to the Guardian’s 19th-century founders. It […]

Pence on Classified Docs: I’ll Cooperate With Senate

In an interview with Newsmax on Tuesday, former Vice President Mike Pence expressed his willingness to cooperate with Senate lawmakers in addressing the matter of classified documents found at his Indiana residence earlier this year.