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Rich Britain sending refugees to Rwanda isn’t ‘burden-sharing’. It’s shameful exploitation
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In my time working for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a stark fact was often mentioned: the vast majority of the world’s displaced people are hosted by the world’s poorest countries. ...
Joshua rubbishes reports of £15m deal to walk away from Usyk rematch
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Anthony Joshua has dismissed suggestions he has signed a £15m deal to step aside from his rematch with Oleksandr Usyk. Reports claimed Joshua was willing to allow Usyk to instead fight Tyson Fury for the undisputed he...
‘I’m a quick learner’: Joshua out to regain titles from Usyk in 2022 rematch
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In the early hours of Sunday morning, Oleksandr Usyk and Anthony Joshua confirmed they are ready to meet again in February or March next year. Joshua, who lost all four of his world heavyweight titles after being beat...
Anthony Joshua stirred by local clubland memories before Usyk test
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‘Oh, yeah, the Opera House,” Anthony Joshua exclaims in a box at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as his face creases with amusement and nostalgia. Rather than revealing a sudden passion for opera in Covent Garden, the w...
Anthony Joshua keeps the pounds off to counter Oleksandr Usyk’s ringcraft
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Anthony Joshua appears to have chosen speed and fluidity as a way to counter the versatile skill-set with which Oleksandr Usyk will threaten him in the ring on Saturday night. At Friday’s weigh-in he scaled 240lb whic...
Oleksandr Usyk insists pressure is all on reigning champion Anthony Joshua
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Oleksandr Usyk will watch Peaky Blinders and read the Bible in the last stressful hours before he steps into the ring against Anthony Joshua for their world heavyweight title fight at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in ...
Anthony Joshua expects Usyk fight to be his toughest since facing Klitschko
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Anthony Joshua has suggested his world heavyweight title defence against Oleksandr Usyk at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday night could be his most difficult fight since he beat Wladimir Klitschko in an epic batt...
‘Finally, let’s get it on!’ Anthony Joshua reiterates his desire to fight Tyson Fury
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Anthony Joshua has reiterated his desire to fight Tyson Fury despite the deflation he felt when their heavily hyped world heavyweight title unification contest fell apart this summer. “Finally, finally, let’s get it o...
Joshua Jackson: ‘Patrick Stewart relit my fire’
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The Canadian-American actor Joshua Jackson, 43, made his name playing Pacey Witter in teen drama Dawson’s Creek. Subsequent TV shows include Fringe, The Affair, When They See Us and Little Fires Everywhere. He now sta...
The police bill is not about law and order – it’s about state control
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Tucked away in the government’s 300-page police, crime, sentencing and courts bill, are various clauses which will have serious implications for the right to protest. The bill seeks to quietly criminalise “serious ann...
How Joshua Coombes became hairdresser to the homeless and example to us all
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One evening in spring 2015, Joshua Coombes did something that changed his life for ever. He was walking to a friend’s house after finishing work at a hairdressing salon when he stopped to talk to a homeless man he’d s...
Anthony Joshua to make title defence against Oleksandr Usyk in London
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Anthony Joshua will defend his WBA, IBF and WBO heavyweight titles against former undisputed world cruiserweight champion Oleksandr Usyk as the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium hosts a boxing event for the first time on 25 S...
There’s a new tactic for exposing you to radical content online: the ‘slow red-pill’
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I spend a lot of time on Instagram. Not posting stories, but researching Gen Z online political subcultures. That’s how I first stumbled across a content strategy that I’ve dubbed the “slow red-pill”. A red-pill – the...
California couple fined $18,000 for illegally uprooting 36 Joshua trees
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A couple has been fined $18,000 after uprooting 36 Joshua trees to make space for a home and then burying them in a hole. Authorities hope the fine discourages others from mowing down the crooked-limbed plant, which i...
Anthony Joshua ordered to defend his WBO title against Oleksandr Usyk
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Anthony Joshua has been ordered to defend his WBO heavyweight title against mandatory challenger Oleksandr Usyk following the apparent collapse of the Briton’s fight against domestic rival Tyson Fury. Fury announced e...
Fury concedes he might have to fight Wilder before Joshua after legal ruling
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Tyson Fury’s projected world heavyweight title fight against Anthony Joshua appears to have been plunged into doubt by a US legal ruling, with Fury conceding that he might now have fight Deontay Wilder first. Fury an...