Etichetta: tricks
Greens urge Labor to reject international carbon offsets as ‘accounting tricks’
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The Greens have called on the Albanese government to reject advice that Australia should allow greater use of international carbon offsets, arguing it would delay cuts in greenhouse gas emissions locally. A review of ...
Rivelato: UK ran cold war dirty tricks campaign to smear Kenya’s first vice-president
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British cold war propagandists smeared Kenyan vice-president Oginga Odinga in the 1960s in “black” propaganda operations, newly declassified files reveal. The Foreign Office’s propaganda arm, the Information Research ...
Rivelato: UK ran cold war dirty tricks campaign to smear Kenya’s first vice-president
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British cold war propagandists smeared Kenyan vice-president Oginga Odinga in the 1960s in “black” propaganda operations, newly declassified files reveal. The Foreign Office’s propaganda arm, the Information Research ...
‘Grubbiest campaign’: how Tory race was defined by smears and dirty tricks
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At first the candidates kept coming. A few hours after Boris Johnson resigned, Tom Tugendhat became the earliest contender to declare, promising, for the first of many times, “a clean start”. But the ensuing battle, io...
‘Perception and deception’: Australian glass art prize winner plays tricks on the eye
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Artist Tim Edwards has won the prestigious Tom Malone prize for Australian glass art with a work that plays tricks with the viewer’s eye. The winning work, titled Ellipse #8, is a luminous blue form 47cm tall and from...
Martin Rowson: what’s left in the Tories’ box of tricks? – cartoon
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Dennis Waterman, Minder and New Tricks star, muore invecchiato 74
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The actor Dennis Waterman – who starred in the TV shows Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks – has died at the age of 74. Waterman starred as the bodyguard Terry McCann in Minder after first finding fame playing tough ...
I’ve just had a lash lift – will these eyelash tricks kill off mascara for good?
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I recently booked myself in for a lash lift and, as I emerged with curlier, fluttery eye-valances, I wondered why I don’t do this more often. Lash lifting offers a more lasting curl than mascara for those of us with d...
Anatomy of a BS real estate listing: eight tricks we all fall for
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There are lies, there are damned lies, and then there are real estate listings. If you have ever wasted hours of your life clicking through houses for sale or rent (are you human? of course you have) then you will kno...
Festive shrinkflation: tricks chocolate makers use to make us pay more
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Getting value for money might not be your prime goal when buying Christmas presents but if you are planning to snap up chocolates or sweets for the ones you love, it pays to check what you are going to get for your ca...
Tim Dowling: Sono sulle mie mani e sulle mie ginocchia, insegnando al nostro nuovo gatto vecchi trucchi
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È una mattina gelida e sono in piedi in cucina a piedi nudi, tenere la porta aperta per il gatto. Il gatto abbassa la testa, studiando il mondo oltre la soglia. "Più veloce, micio," Dico. Il gatto annusa...
‘The weather keeps playing tricks’: living on the frontline of global heating
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Throughout the 2021 United Nations climate change conference, the Guardian will be publishing the stories of the people whose lives have been upended – sometimes devastated – by the climate breakdown. I knew farming ...
Tory Halloween tricks but no treat – cartoon
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Chris Riddell on ghouls, Brexit and the budget• You can order your own copy of this cartoon
‘A one-man scam Pac’: Trump’s money hustling tricks prompt fresh scrutiny
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Donald Trump’s penchant for turning his political and legal troubles into fundraising schemes has long been recognized, but the former US president’s money hustling tricks seem to have expanded since his defeat by Joe...
Tricks, flips and disconnects: BMX freestyle joins Olympic party in Tokyo
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Thirteen years after BMX racing made its Games debut in Beijing, the off-road cycling pursuit has welcomed its flashier sibling, BMX freestyle, into the Olympic fold. Both disciplines are fast and furious, but with di...
TUC condemns Batley byelection ‘dirty tricks’ after fake Labour leaflet
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Campaigners have condemned “dirty tricks” in the Batley and Spen byelection and expressed fears for activists, after fake leaflets suggested Labour believed “whiteness” was the biggest threat to communities. Meanwhile...