Etiqueta: revolution
Nearly half of Britain’s biodiversity has gone since industrial revolution
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Almost half of Britain’s natural biodiversity has disappeared over the centuries, with farming and urban spread triggered by the industrial and agricultural revolutions being blamed as major factors for this loss. Tha ...
Could space-going billionaires be the vanguard of a cosmic revolution?
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I’m old enough to have watched the grainy TV images of the first moon landings by Apollo 11 en 1969. I can never look at the moon without recalling this heroic exploit. It was achieved only 12 years after the first ob...
Claire-Louise Bennett: ‘If there was a revolution, I’d be there’
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A conversation with Claire-Louise Bennett is a dizzying experience: one minute as rowdy as a fairground, the next more like a reflective walk through woodland. She laughs a lot, and raucously, to the point where the e...
The Hungarian revolution begins – archive, octubre 1956
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24 octubre 1956 Budapest, 24 octubre (2soy)One person is reported to have been killed and several others injured when Hungarian police opened fire on thousands of Hungarians demonstrating here a few hours ago. The dem...
Ralf Rangnick’s arrival is a response to Thomas Tuchel’s Chelsea revolution
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Ed Woodward always gets his man. Or at least, Ed Woodward always gets a man. Give Manchester United’s chief executive his due. People definitely keep turning up. There is probably some kind of method in the decision t...
Rio Tinto’s past casts a shadow over Serbia’s hopes of a lithium revolution
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A battery sign, flashing dangerously low, appears superimposed over a view of the globe as seen from space. “Green technologies, electric cars, clean air – all of these depend on one of the most significant lithium de...
Luego se puso una piel de leopardo como: Covid-hit UK theatre needs a John Osborne-inspired revolution
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British theatre must take inspiration from John Osborne and make itself essential to a mass audience if it is to thrive in a post-Covid world, according to David Hare, who says the artform is in need of a “revolution”...
Soy of the Rovers: the vegan football club kickstarting a green revolution
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A player miskicks the ball – skies it – and its clatter on the metal roof is the loudest sound in the Covid-emptied stand. There’s not much by way of a corresponding stand on the other side of the pitch, mostly just a...
As the ocean industrial revolution gains pace the need for protection is urgent
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The ocean is often seen as the last wild frontier: a vast and empty blue wilderness where waves, whales and albatrosses rule. This is no longer true. Unnoticed by many, a new industrial revolution is unfolding in our ...
‘Revolution dwells in the heart’: Myanmar’s poets cut down by the miltary
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His words captured the unflinching determination of the Myanmar public in the face of military brutality: “They shoot in the head, but they don’t know revolution dwells in the heart.” The poet Khet Thi was taken from ...
The RSC at 60: the glorious past and vital future of a theatrical revolution
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Lo que hay en un nombre? Quite a lot, como sucede. En 1960 Peter Hall created a theatrical revolution. He turned a summer Shakespeare festival in Stratford-on-Avon into a year-round enterprise based on a permanent ensemble...
Sudan’s coup has shattered the hopes of its 2019 revolution
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Last week in Sudan, two years disappeared in a flash. Two years of working to bring Sudan in from the cold after almost three decades of isolation. Two years of trying to establish a civilian government. Two years of ...
Paint your clothes and redesign your t-shirts: revive your wardrobe with Fashion Revolution
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A week after lockdown began to ease in the UK, Fashion Revolution Week (FRW) kicks off today with a reminder that “back-to-normal” isn’t always best – especially when it comes to the fashion industry. “Covid was like ...
Revisión de Mothers of the Revolution - regreso emocional a Greenham Common
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Si alguna vez hubo una película que garantizara traer una lágrima a los ojos de los lectores sentimentales de The Guardian de cierta edad, es este. Esencialmente, es un documental directo de cabezas parlantes y material de archivo sobre el G ...
The zero-waste movement: how a new wave of shops is driving a refill revolution
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Refills make sense. Not only does taking your old detergent bottles back to a store to be replenished help reduce plastic waste, but cutting out unnecessary new bottles makes it cheaper, también. In the case of a five-lit...
Manchester City and Chelsea continue to learn the lessons of Sacchi’s revolution
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Like art, business or politics, football is shaped by personalities. The present one is influenced by three coaches from Italy, Portugal and Spain. This will also be evident at Saturday’s Champions League final betwee...