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Silent salons: why people are choosing to keep quiet at the hairdresser
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“Would you like to chat with us, or would you prefer us to keep it quiet?” A new client questionnaire introduced publicist Odette Barry to the world of silent salons – hairdressers giving people the option to ditch th...
The Friday wives: how a quiet picket grew to push for change in Cambodia
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The night that six Cambodian police officers dragged Prum Chantha’s teenage son out of their home for criticising the government in a group chat, she was so distraught that her neighbours insisted on sleeping on her f...
‘Just a quiet place’: the Hungarian border village helping Ukraine’s refugees – video
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In the village of Beregsurány, on the Hungary-Ukraine border, a crowd of volunteers are tending to refugees flooding in, cooking them pancakes, and helping them to continue their journeys. In contrast to the refugee c...
‘It is not possible to stay quiet’: Putin’s first victim of ‘fake news’ law speaks out
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One of the first three people to face a criminal case under Russia’s “fake news” law has said the charges mean she has been “officially declared a decent person”. “To find out I was the first one to be charged was bot...
A drowning world: Kenya’s quiet slide underwater
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One of the first scientists to realise that something was wrong with the lakes was a geologist named Simon Onywere. He came to the topic by accident. Between 2010 and 2013 he had been studying Lake Baringo, Kenya’s fo...
‘When I surf I feel so strong’: Sri Lankan women’s quiet surfing revolution
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Growing up in a small fishing village along the east coast of Sri Lanka, Shamali Sanjaya would often sit on the beach and look out at the boisterous waves. She would watch in envy as others, including her father and b...
Quiet part loud: Trump says Pence ‘could have overturned the election’
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Donald Trump was accused of “saying the quiet part loud” on Sunday night, when he protested that Mike Pence, his former vice-president, could have overturned his election defeat by Joe Biden. Though he has appeared t...
‘Quiet fabulosity’: remote New Zealand church gets pink makeover to celebrate queer community
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On the wild and remote west coast of New Zealand’s South Island, an old dame is getting a hot-pink makeover, with all the synthetic flowers, coloured beads and glitter she can take. Her name is Gloria, and she is an ...
Sport is indifferent to the Uyghur genocide: the Warriors investor said the quiet part out loud
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The US state department has described the Uyghur human rights issue as a genocide and the largest-scale detention of an ethno-religious community since the second world war. And yet to hear one leading professional sp...
Biden urges Senate to eliminate filibuster in voting rights pitch: ‘I’m tired of being quiet’ – live
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My winter of love: I was homesick in New York. The quiet Danish poet was just what I was longing for
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There was a strip of cafes and bars that ran alongside Tompkins Square park in the Lower East Side in New York and none of them minded if all you bought was a single coffee and sat all night long. So I did just that. ...
Citizen Ashe review – tribute to Wimbledon champ and Obama’s quiet inspiration
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A clip towards the end of this respectful documentary shows Barack Obama revealing that his role-model heroes were Muhammad Ali and Arthur Ashe. Surely, Ashe had to be the bigger influence: the only black man ever to ...
Peng Shuai needs more than ‘quiet diplomacy’. If she can be silenced, no Chinese athletes are safe
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When I first experienced abuse as an athlete, I made a vow to myself to never tell anyone. Ever. I was worried that I wouldn’t be believed, but also the thought that anyone would know me as a “victim” mortified me. On...
Quiet revolution of non-voting Tory MPs spells danger for No 10
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Some Conservatives describe it as almost a revolution on the quiet, one for which there are, so far, few consequences: an outbreak of Tory MPs who are not voting against the government, but simply not voting at all. M...
A quiet revolution: the female imams taking over an LA mosque
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When Tasneem Noor got on the stage at the Women’s Mosque of America in Los Angeles, she felt butterflies in her stomach. Facing about fifty women on praying rugs, ready to deliver a sermon – khutba in Arabic – she too...
Citizen Ashe: The quiet heroism and triumph of a tennis champion
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Confidence fueled Arthur Ashe’s success in tennis. If he was confident enough, he said, he could hit the ball backwards. In 1968, he had plenty of forward momentum, going two months without losing a match. At that yea...