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Ukraine war: why are so many Russian generals being killed?
Yet another Russian general, Lieutenant-General Andrei Mordvichev, is reported to have been killed by Ukrainian forces in a conflict that is less than a month old. Mordvichev’s death was announced on Ukraine social media on March 20 2022, but has yet to be confirmed by the Kremlin. His death, ifContinue Reading
Bridgerton season 2: Who’s who in the Ton as the Netflix hit returns
A fter more than a year’s wait, Bridgerton is coming back to our screens in T-minus three days and the tension is threatening to burst our bodices. You would have been hard-pressed to have missed the first series. The frocks, drama and scandal made it a worldwide hit, viewed byContinue Reading
Ukraine coverage shows gender roles are changing on the battlefield and in the newsroom
News coverage of Ukraine’s war with Russia has been illustrated by images of men, young and old, taking up arms and fighting for their country. The political leaders involved are men who represent very different versions of masculinity. Meanwhile, from an ad hoc TV studio outside Kyiv, Ukrainian news anchorContinue Reading
Sky-High Gas Prices Push Europe’s Gig Workers to Strike
Drivers and couriers in the UK and Germany are protesting this week as the rising cost of fuel erodes their earnings.Continue Reading
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iranian arms dealing continued in the UK even after notorious tank deal fell apart in 1979
UK government/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Following her release from detention in Iran, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, held hostage since 2016, said: “what happened now should have happened six years ago”. She was referring to the fact that her release had been secured at the same time as the British government paid Iran aContinue Reading
UK’s daily Covid cases 14% lower than last week with 94,524 new infections
THE UK has seen a dip of 14 per cent in daily Covid cases compared to a week ago – with 94,524 new infections reported today. Omicron is a milder strain, with studies showing vaccines slash the risk of hospitalisation or severe illness even further. Most people who catch itContinue Reading
Ukraine war: people are fighting and dying for Vladimir Putin’s flawed version of history
Vladimir Putin invoked history to justify his country’s invasion of Ukraine. To cement that message at home, his regime is feeding domestic audiences propaganda insisting that the Russian army fights “against Nazism” across the globe. In a bid to ensure this message takes root among the country’s youth, Russia’s MinistryContinue Reading
World Cup play-offs fixtures: Who will Portugal, Wales and Scotland play?
THE World Cup play-offs are almost here and we now know that one of football’s giants will not make it to Qatar. European champions Italy surprisingly failed to qualify for the tournament as qualifying group winners following a 0-0 draw in Northern Ireland. And if they triumph at home toContinue Reading
COVID: five things the UK must prioritise in its pandemic recovery plan
On the second anniversary of Britain first going into lockdown, and with the country now opening up, this is a good opportunity to make sense of what happened in the pandemic, what it meant, and what needs to be done next. Some of the pandemic’s patterns are now all tooContinue Reading
Peaky Blinders episode 4: Tommy comes up against his biggest foe yet
H eard about the guy who got a call from his doctor, and got checked out immediately? No, of course you haven’t. That’s because some people are Olympic gold medallists at sticking their heads in the sand. It seems that this ducking the inevitable stretches back at least to 1933Continue Reading