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Prejudices that led to witch-hunts still affect women today, says historian
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Prejudices that led to witch-hunts hundreds of years ago have not disappeared and women are still on the receiving end of men’s anger, a leading historian has said. Writing in the Radio Times, Lucy Worsley, a historia...
‘We have to be careful’: why are masks still worn in Japan and South Korea?
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For more than two years, the people of Japan and South Korea have been united by their embrace of little white rectangles. While the US and countries in Europe debated the efficacy of masks at the start of the Covid-1...
The celebrated assassin: the play about Gandhi’s killer, still dividing India
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‘Sometimes the truth is messy and illogical,” says Anupama Chandrasekhar. “But theatre can display the truth in ways journalism or other nonfiction cannot. It’s not just the facts that people can struggle to understan...
Fish fingers containing Russian whitefish still on sale across UK
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Fish fingers sold in most UK supermarkets use whitefish caught by Russian ships, despite many chains pledging to boycott Russian produce. While supermarkets have taken steps to signal their solidarity with Ukraine, re...
‘I’d like to file lawsuits in all 50 states’: Mike Lindell still pushing Trump’s lie
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Among the rightwing crusaders promoting Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, the wealthy pillow entrepreneur Mike Lindell occupies a key niche, spending lavishly on lawsuits to ban voting mac...
Half of Covid-hospitalised still symptomatic two years on, lo studio trova
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More than half of people hospitalised with Covid-19 still have at least one symptom two years after they were first infected, according to the longest follow-up study of its kind. While physical and mental health gene...
Compass v Ocado proves bottom-line profits and dividends still matter
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Imagine that on the first day of 2020 you had magically been granted insight into the size and commercial impact of the coming Covid pandemic. From this shortlist of two food-related companies in the FTSE 100 indice, w ...
for colored girls: the 40-year-old masterwork that’s still captivating audiences
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In the first five minutes of the late artist Ntozake Shange’s masterwork, for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, a character makes plea of witness and recognition: “somebody/ anybody ...
Dobermann review – Vincent Cassel’s brutal pulp thriller still bites
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Very over the top, extremely brutal and as French as a Johnny Hallyday calendar – here’s a rerelease for the gonzo crime thriller from 1997, directed by Jan Kounen and adapted from the pulp policier series by Joël Hou...
‘Absolutely enthralling’: why Matisse’s Red Studio still packs a punch
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The artist’s studio is their world. It’s among their most private places, and in Henri Matisse’s case, it’s as intimate a portrait as viewers can get of an artist who very rarely portrayed himself. “The studio is the ...
In Scotland, the SNP still reign supreme – but the Conservatives have fallen from grace
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It shouldn’t be too hard to find a decent post-election shindig in Scotland this weekend – unless, questo è, you’re looking to celebrate with members of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party. Nel 2016 a Tory tide...
We hoped for a Starmer surge; this is middling Miliband territory. Ancora, there’s hope
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A new dawn has broken, has it not. But the difference between 1997, when Tony Blair famously greeted victory with these words, and the rather more anticlimactic muddle of this year’s local elections, is that this isn’...
The Ohio primary shows that Trump still has a tight hold on the Republican party
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Martedì, JD Vance won Ohio’s Republican nomination for US Senate. After lagging in the polls for months, Vance hit the tape first after garnering Donald Trump’s endorsement. Although Vance received under a third of...