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Nigel Farage in front of his Breaking Point poster. Philip Toscano/Press Association. All rights reserved.If you woke up this morning in a British city, you can see this happening right in front of your eyes. From the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham – one of the most diverse cities in the UK – the Tories …
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File photo: Ayman al-Zawahri and Osama bin Laden, 1998. Mazhar Ali Khan/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.The combined Russian-Syrian bombardment of eastern Aleppo continues to be intense and often indiscriminate. In this the operation resembles the destruction of Grozny in the two Chechen wars of the 1990s. Strong opposition in western states includes a demand …
Head to any world-class art museum, and you’ll see plenty of statues from the age of antiquity. The figures, especially the Greek ones, tend to be either scantily clothed or completely naked — marble breasts bared for all the world to see. But if you’re a woman visiting a museum with a hungry baby that needs to …
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KOD Warsaw, February, 2016. Flickr/Jaap Arriens. Some rights reserved.The Polish political scene has been deeply polarised since the government led by the right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party took office last autumn following its decisive victory in the October parliamentary election. The catalyst and main focus for this has been a bitter political and legal …
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Tiny houses. We all love them, with their wee-size frames fit for a forest gnome and their Instagram-worthy décor that makes us want to throw away all our belongings—except for one decorative pillow, three books by Jack Kerouac, and forty-five potted succulents. We also love them for their supposed cost effectiveness. Many of us daydream …
Lefteris Pitarakis/AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved. ‘Zones of turbulence’, was a term that the economic historian Fernand Braudel used to describe areas of market instability that were controlled and manipulated by an ‘exalted merchant class’. A few wealthy merchants, Braudel says, in eighteenth-century Amsterdam or sixteenth-century Genoa could throw whole sectors of the European …
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We’ve all been there. You locked yourself out of your apartment, lost the key to your bike lock, or wanted to steal the contents of a mysterious-looking shipping container (kidding). So, what’s an average person to do? Learn from the experts—on YouTube, of course. In a video released May 30, YouTube user HelpfulLockPicker breaks down …
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Remain campaigning the day before the referendum vote. Geoff Caddick / Press Association. All rights reserved.It is becoming clear that Labour faces a potentially fatal dilemma over its response to the Brexit vote, and above all to the question of the free movement of people across borders. The deadly standoff between Jeremy Corbyn and the …
Supporters listening to Nicolas Sarkozy, UMP candidate for the presidential elections during his last campaign meeting on May 3, 2007 in Montpellier, France. ABACA/ Press Association. All rights reserved.National electorates have lost their primacy in deciding the outcome of their elections. They have the vote and they go to the polling booths, but their choice …
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Young men in Harlem are learning math and science though an unlikely ally: golf. Just off 40 West and 117th Street in Harlem, New York, rests the Bridge Golf Foundation, a learning hub for young men of color to learn STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) through the sport of golf. After 2 p.m. the facility fills …
