Etiqueta: clase
Acting Class by Nick Drnaso review – ah, look at all the lonely people
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En 2018, Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina was longlisted for the Booker prize, the first graphic novel in its history to be so. And no wonder. Drnaso’s story, about a missing woman and the effect her disappearance has on those c...
Louisiana child kicked out of class because parents are same-sex couple
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A Louisiana five-year-old was allegedly forced out of her kindergarten class at a religious school because her parents are a same-sex couple. Emily and Jennie Parker said they were informed by school officials at the ...
The phrase ‘white working class’ is a fiction – so why are the Tories obsessed with it?
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The “white working class” is such a peculiar phrase, so widely deployed and so misleading. Of course there are white people who are working class, but the class as a whole is the most diverse of any group. This is a p...
What the absurd class cosplay of Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss tells us about Britain
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One of the most bewildering things I’ve come across as an adult immigrant to the UK, after the price of train tickets and separate hot and cold water taps, is how people talk about class. British people from well-off ...
Tuesday’s hearing was a master class on the threats posed by Trump to our republic
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El martes, the House select committee delivered a two-hour masterclass on the threats posed by Donald Trump to our republic and democracy. Cassidy Hutchinson, a deputy to Mark Meadows, Trump’s chief of staff, may hav...
Royal Mail admits a fifth of first class parcels do not arrive next working day
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One in five letters and parcels sent first class do not arrive the next working day, Royal Mail has admitted. Just weeks after it increased its postage prices, when the cost of a first-class stamp went up 10p to 95p, ...
Business class travel helps post-pandemic airline sales take off
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It was proclaimed moribund, if not doomed, just a year ago. Pero ahora, is business class air travel taking off again? British Airways’ owner IAG, forecasting a return to profit this year, said that a strong recovery in ...
Kinder Scout 90 años después: UK’s national parks still largely white and middle class
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Ninety years ago, the Kinder Scout mass trespass took place, a protest on the highest point in the Peak District in which walkers mainly from Greater Manchester trespassed en masse calling for greater access to the mo...
‘A nursery of the Commons’: how the Oxford Union created today’s ruling political class
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When I arrived at Oxford in 1988 to study history and German, it was still a very British and quite amateurish university, shot through with sexual harassment, dilettantism and sherry. Michael Gove, Boris Johnson and ...
Netflix subscribers in Russia launch class action for loss of service
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Russian Netflix users are suing the streaming firm for suspending its service as a result of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Netflix, which has only about 1 million subscribers in Russia, suspended its services ...
Far right ‘mimicking video games to lure middle class children to terrorism’
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Children from middle class backgrounds are being lured into extreme rightwing terrorism with online content based on violent video games shaped to indoctrinate them, Britain’s most senior counter-terrorism officer has...
‘I’ll never grow up!’ Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee on comedy, class and her new show Skint
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When Lisa McGee was a kid in Derry in the 90s, she swore she would never write about Northern Ireland, least of all about the Troubles. She wanted to write Murder She Wrote, or better still, to grow up and become its ...
Fury over ‘reckless’ Tennessee bill that would class some gun owners as police
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Gun safety advocates have condemned Tennessee legislation which would designate some gun owners as police, allowing civilians to carry firearms in locations usually reserved for law enforcement. The proposed law, intr...
Stacey Dooley: ‘I’m middle class now. I never used to eat olives’
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In my childhood, it was the three Ps: Pop-Tarts, Peperami, Pot Noodle. That was my diet and I could still eat that as a three-course meal now. It’s a miracle my organs are still working to be honest, I’ve eaten so muc...
Bomb threats reported at six HBCUs prompt class cancellations
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Six historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) reported bomb threats on Monday, cancelling classes for thousands of students. It was the second time this month that HBCUs faced simultaneous threats. Earlier...
Astronomers discover mysterious pulsing object that may be new class of star
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Astronomers have discovered a mysterious object emitting a radio wave beam that pulsed every 20 minutos. The team behind the discovery believe the object could be a new class of slowly rotating neutron star with an ul...