The collective noun for a gaggle of octopuses, in case you had been questioning, is a consortium – not, as some wags may let you know, a seafood buffet. I personally don’t eat octopus, and have made plenty of noise about why: they’re as sensible as parrots, their mind is unfold over their arms, they’re […]
Hotel lodging is dear and inefficient as a system for managing migration flows to the UK. Different services may be considerably cheaper – the House Workplace places the price of lodge rooms at £6m a day – however that’s not the one motive why Robert Jenrick, the immigration minister, on Wednesday introduced a plan to […]
Dani Garavelli’s piece on Humza Yousaf’s election massively overstates the difficulties that the Scottish Nationwide celebration authorities finds itself in (The SNP was already clouded by failure – underneath Humza Yousaf it might lose energy altogether, 27 March). A largely widespread, relentless election-winning machine has already survived the unionist mud-slinging on the NHS (the place, […]
What occurs within the household courts stays within the household courts. That has been my expertise over greater than 10 years as a barrister specialising in household regulation. Each single day, household judges hear circumstances of home abuse which are damaging the lives of ladies and kids. But these tales are hidden from public scrutiny, […]
The Guardian has lengthy been thought-about a champion of progressive values, rooted in a northern English radical custom. So it is going to come as a shock to many who a lot of the wealth of the Manchester Guardian’s founder, John Edward Taylor, and that of most of his backers was linked to transatlantic slavery. […]
Franklyn Addo Three years in the past, frightful particulars emerged of the strip-searching of a 15-year-old Black schoolgirl by cops in Hackney. On the time, I used to be working within the borough as a part of a hurt discount programme, participating with susceptible younger folks in settings starting from hospitals to pupil referral items. […]
TikTok’s chief govt, Shou Zi Chew, found throughout his five-hour grilling by US Congress what Huawei may have advised him all alongside: being owned by a Chinese language firm is unhealthy for enterprise. In truth, the panic over TikTok is lots like like Huawei and 5G once more. The safety and privateness dangers are believable, […]
Humza Yousaf’s election as chief of the Scottish Nationwide occasion is a turning level for his nation – however it stays to be seen whether or not his nation will flip for him. Mr Yousaf has devoted his working life to the purpose of Scottish independence, however he takes energy simply because the trigger’s standing […]
Janet Walker remembers Kate Wilson’s stunning singing voice and I can recall persuading her to hitch the newly fashioned Camden Choir in 1971. She turned as much as the primary rehearsal along with her good friend Harriet Harman and each voices enhanced the choral sound. I briefly labored with Kate at Penguin Books within the […]
When individuals discover out that I dwell on a narrowboat, their eyes gentle up. They are saying issues like “Gosh, I’d love to do this,” and “That’s so bohemian of you!,” and “It should be so peaceable”. It’s peaceable, generally, but it surely’s simple to neglect that while you’re struggling to push open a heavy […]