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Nightclubbing: The Birth of Punk Rock in NYC review – where the party started
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On the site of what is now a CVS Pharmacy on Park Avenue South stood one of New York’s most legendary venues: Max’s Kansas City. In the late 1960s and 70s it became the key hangout and centre of glam rock and then pun...
Adrenaline-seeking firefighter started French wildfires, say prosecutors
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A firefighter from the south of France is responsible for a series of wildfires in the region which he started in a quest for adrenaline, French authorities have said. L'uomo, a volunteer firefighter from the Herault...
Putin claims Russia has barely started campaign in Ukraine, dares west to fight on battlefield
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Vladimir Putin has issued one of his most ominous warnings yet, claiming Moscow has barely started its campaign in Ukraine and daring the west to try to defeat it on the battlefield. Speaking at a meeting with parliam...
We Started to Sing review – Barney Norris’s fragmented family ode
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Barney Norris has written a personal play about family life and the passing of time. “These are my parents and grandparents,” he states in his script’s introduction. Writing them, Aggiunge, is “the only way I know how ...
New Zealand to fully reopen borders for first time since Covid pandemic started
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New Zealand will fully reopen to the world two months earlier than originally planned, prime minister Jacinda Ardern has announced as part of a wider shake-up to immigration settings. The country swiftly closed the bo...
‘We all started honking, a car-howl’ … trapped in the ferry queue at Dover
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Some time into our fourth hour in a stationary car, the kids and I passed a happy five minutes zooming in on the traffic jams on the BBC website to see if we could see ourselves. We didn’t, but we saw the two vans tak...
Fire burning on Wirral marshland believed deliberately started
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Firefighters have been dealing with a suspected deliberately started fire on marshland on the Wirral. Fire engines were scrambled to the scene where about 500 sq metres of marsh were in flames at Parkgate, 10km from L...
Housing ministry ‘started rebuttal operation two days after Grenfell fire’
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Two days after the Grenfell Tower fire, the UK government mounted a rebuttal operation to counter potentially damaging reports that building regulations had allowed the use of combustible cladding, the public inquiry ...
‘We started eating them’: what do you do with an invasive army of crayfish clones?
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Small, bluish-grey and speckled, it would be easy to overlook the marbled crayfish. Except for the fact it is likely to be coming to a pond or river near you soon – if it is not already there. The all-female freshwate...
‘I started campaigning before I could even vote!’ Amika George on period poverty, politics and the power of protest
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Amika George, 22, didn’t set out to be an activist. “None of my immediate family were involved in formal politics in any way," lei dice. E ancora, while still a teenager, she ran the successful Free Periods campaign th...
The epic struggle for America’s soul is just getting started
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Is democracy in America really on the brink of collapse? A lot of serious people appear to think so. Last week’s first anniversary of the Capitol Hill insurrection, viewed by Democrats as a coup attempt incited by Don...
Always wanted to write? Booker winner George Saunders on how to get started
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While George Saunders was writing his latest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he noticed something strange. The book examines seven Russian short stories, which Saunders has taught on the creative writing course at...
‘I felt powerless – so I started filming’: CyclingMikey on his one-man battle with dangerous drivers
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As we chat, Mike van Erp keeps glancing at the line of vehicles queueing on the road in Hyde Park, Londra. Ad un tratto, he spots something. “Here we go," lui dice, swinging around his sensible-looking blue touring bike, un...
New Year’s Eve TV: Olly Alexander gets the party started
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It’s time to say “so long” (or “good riddance”) per 2021. Anni & Years singer Olly Alexander, who helped a lot of us ease into this year with It’s a Sin, takes the hosting reins for an hour. Kylie Minogue and Pet...
‘The lights went out and the shooting started’: #EndSars protesters find no justice one year on
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In October last year, thousands of mainly young Nigerians took to the streets to protest against police abuses, particularly among the now-disbanded brutal special anti-robbery squad (Sars) police unit. – Yet the sev...
Pakistan PM says he has started dialogue with Taliban over inclusivity
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Pakistan’s prime minister says he has initiated a dialogue with the Taliban to encourage them to form an inclusive government that would ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan and the region. Imran Khan tweeted on ...