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Why it’s time to celebrate TV’s most neglected relationship: the straight best mate
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I went to my first Pride with a straight best mate. Eddy rocked up wearing the 2013 lad’s lad weekend uniform: navy jacket, navy chinos, navy cap and a Newcastle United 2008 away top (available in navy) while I “darin...
‘Neglected’ fostering services face crisis in morale and funding, warns UK charity
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Ministers are facing demands for a comprehensive overhaul of foster care after Britain’s most comprehensive assessment of the service revealed low morale, funding shortfalls and poor support has fuelled a critical sho...
‘Their music lit a fire in me’: hearing the voices of three neglected composers gave me my own
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I first met Florence Price (1887-1953) and Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) in the autumn of 2009. I was an undergraduate exchange student at McGill University in Montreal, and as I sat in my professor’s early 20th-century ...
‘Always neglected’: Bradford braced for bad news in rail plan
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“We’re out of it … again,” said retired yoga teacher Jane Ayers, as she walked out of the railway station concourse on an unseasonably mild Wednesday morning. “As per usual. Bradford is always neglected.” Ayers, 82, w ...
Home review – captivating revival of a neglected classic
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Harry and Jack – distinguished-looking older chaps in well-cut check weekend suits – chat in a wild garden. One claims to be a heating salesman, the other to run a high-end jam emporium, although shifty eyes and wobbl...
Chineke!/Bovell review – young orchestra continue to make strong case for neglected repertoire
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It’s a long time since I heard any of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Hiawatha cantata trilogy in a concert; probably not, infatti, since as a schoolboy I played in a performance of the first part, Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast....
‘Openly neglected by an obscene administration’: Sean Penn criticises Trump’s handling of pandemic
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Sean Penn has criticised Donald Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, likening the former president’s approach to someone opening fire on vulnerable communities. Speaking at a press conference following the p...
Children neglected by a profit-making system
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So the Ministry of Justice is going to raise the minimum legal age of marriage in order to protect vulnerable children (Government pledges to raise legal age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales, 11 giugno). My small ...
UK workers’ rights neglected during pandemic, Labour warns
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The failure to appoint a new employment tsar has highlighted the government’s neglect of workers’ rights during the pandemic, the Labour party has said. The search for a replacement for Matthew Taylor has been going o...
Neglected tropical diseases are the landmines of global health
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In January the World Health Organization launched a new strategy for eradicating neglected tropical diseases, boldly setting targets to eliminate 20 of them by 2030. But what are neglected tropical diseases (NTDs)? L...
Forgotten Voices review – students bring neglected voices to life
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Marking International Women’s Day in a week-long festival online, the SWAP’ra organisation – Supporting Women and Parents in Opera – is celebrating female composers, both past and present, whose music has not been suf...