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‘A Sikh soldier pulled me out of the rubble’: survivors recall India’s violent partition – and reflect on its legacy
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The story of India’s bloody partition in August 1947, that led to the deaths of at least 1 million Indians and the displacement of around 15 百万, is a very British one. In what was to become the British Raj’s swan...
‘This was her dream’: Olivia Newton-John’s legacy lives on at cancer research centre
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It’s not often a medical institute has to say it is unable to take calls because of overwhelming demand, but that was the case on Tuesday at Melbourne’s Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness & Research Centre, 后 ...
印度 1947: Partition in Colour review – a heartbreaking, rage-inspiring history of Britain’s colonial legacy
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How many documentaries about the brutal partition of India have opened with an RP-accent uttering a variation of the nostalgia-scented sentiment: “India was the jewel in the crown …”? 印度 1947: Partition in Colour (...
The Observer view on Boris Johnson’s baleful legacy
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For seven years, Britain has been transfixed by the grotesque character flaws, overweening, principle-free ambition, recklessness, faux buffoonish “charm” and moral vacuum that is Boris Johnson. From the moment he re-...
Boris Johnson has made life miserable for poor families – our suffering is his legacy
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I watched Boris Johnson on the news, his mouth flapping, regurgitating those three-word slogans telling us to stay at home – and I believed him. He was locking down the country for our safety, he was looking after the...
卫报对鲍里斯·约翰逊的看法: a shameful legacy
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Fraud is a word that can describe a person and an action; the deception and the deceiver. Boris Johnson is both. He is a serial liar, but also the incarnation of untruths sold to the country by the party that chose to...
‘A massive betrayal’: how London’s Olympic legacy was sold out
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To Paul Amuzie, it seemed like a life-changing opportunity. 他是 16 and living in temporary accommodation with his mother and three siblings, having moved from home to home since his parents divorced. The east Londo...
Deborah James hailed as a ‘beacon’ whose legacy will save lives
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When Dame Deborah James revealed that she was receiving hospice-at-home care for terminal bowel cancer, she admitted that she had hoped to be an outlier who would live for ever. That was not to be. But James’s legacy ...
Sheryl Sandberg’s influence reaches all of us. But it’s a troubling legacy
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If you are reading this, odds are that you are one of the 2.87 billion daily users of the products offered by Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. If you are not using any ...
‘End of an era’: Sheryl Sandberg leaves behind powerful – if complicated – legacy
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Sheryl Sandberg announced on Wednesday she will step down from her role as chief operating officer of Facebook, 后 14 years as one of the most powerful figures at a company that transformed Silicon Valley. During h...
The Donald and the Kremlin Don: how Trump’s toxic legacy helps Putin
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Even by Donald Trump’s chaotic standards, the “comprehensive peace agreement” for Afghanistan signed by the US in Doha in February 2020 was a huge own goal. The pact posited no binding ceasefire, no power-sharing requ...
Ellen DeGeneres walks away from her talk show empire and leaves behind a mixed legacy
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With tear-stained cheeks, Ellen DeGeneres signed off her chatshow for the final time on Thursday, ending a daytime TV juggernaught that had lasted 19 年. The guest list for the final show included Billie Eilish, Pi...
有毒的遗产: 为什么电力的未来不能是核能
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在 10 十月 1957, 哈罗德·麦克米伦致信德怀特·艾森豪威尔总统. 他问美国同行的问题是: “我们将如何处理这些俄罗斯人?” 斯普特尼克六号卫星的发射 ...
Upon my death, delete: how to plan your digital legacy
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Our favourite memories and important documents used to be kept as physical objects: photo albums, scrapbooks, postcards, contracts and certificates of ownership. That meant, when we died, these things would be relativ...
Jackie Sibblies Drury on race, creativity and the legacy of Mary Seacole
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Seeing Fairview at the Young Vic in London in December 2019 was electric. The play had arrived in the UK from New York with a Pulitzer prize for drama attached – and an extraordinary word-of-mouth reputation. “Let me ...