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‘We wanted to kick in the doors’: the film-makers reinventing horror
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In January 1788, a fleet of British ships under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip anchored in a bay known as Warrane to the people living there. What happened next is the familiar story of Australia’s founding. Le...
‘I always wanted a girl’: scandal of Czech Roma forcibly sterilised
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Elena Gorolová was 21 when she gave birth to her second son. “The doctor told me I would need to deliver via a C-section otherwise I would be risking the health of me and the baby.” In the delivery room, a nurse gave ...
Wanted: 100,000 pioneers for a green jobs Klondike in the Arctic
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One by one, the 20 engineers and technicians step up to receive their equipment before the briefing. They have come to the far north of Sweden from as far away as Mexico, the US, Saudi Arabia, China, Germany and Russi...
I didn’t want anyone else to look after Mum – until I realised what she wanted
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There was always one thing I was sure of – I’d not let Mum go into a care home or be looked after by a stranger. Marje has always been a brilliant mother, forever loyal when others wrote me off. So come the day when s...
Wanted: British women from all backgrounds who want to go to space
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British women are being encouraged to seize a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to go to space, after the European Space Agency (Esa) extended its deadline to apply to be one of its new astronauts. The agency is seekin...
Michael Cohen: prosecutors could ‘indict Trump tomorrow’ if they wanted
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Prosecutors in New York could “indict Donald Trump tomorrow if they really wanted and be successful”, the ex-president’s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen said on Sunday, discussing investigations of Trump’s busin...
Ex-Nato head says Putin wanted to join alliance early on in his rule
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Vladimir Putin wanted Russia to join Nato but did not want his country to have to go through the usual application process and stand in line “with a lot of countries that don’t matter”, according to a former secretary...
All I Ever Wanted: A Rock ’n’ Roll Memoir by Kathy Valentine review – 10-legged hell-raising machine
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The most successful all-female band of all time – according to the US Billboard charts – remains to this day the Go-Go’s, an irreverent and combustible new wave five-piece formed in the crucible of the LA punk scene w...
Brazil: Bolsonaro never wanted vaccines, says senator
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Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro never wanted to buy Covid-19 vaccines and originally bet on herd immunity beating the coronavirus, the senator leading the upper house’s inquiry into the government’s handling of the...
Wanted: spring pasta dishes that aren’t pesto-based
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What are the best spring vegetarian pasta dishes? Please don’t say pesto!David, Bristol Happily for you, David, vegetarian pastas really come into their own at this time of year. “All the beautiful greens, like aspara...
Ilkay Gündogan: ‘A surgeon wanted to put a big screw in my back’
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Ilkay Gündogan lives alone in Manchester and, during the past strange and solitary year, there have been times when a yearning for other people has left an ache inside him. Apart from one fleeting trip to Turkey in Au...
A new start after 60: ‘I always wanted my own clothing brand – at 71 I got it’
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When she was 17, Magi Sque – who then went by the name of Rosie – had the beginnings of a dream. On Saturdays she worked in the Calypso clothing boutique in Ocho Rios, Jamaica, and after each shift she handed her £5 w...
‘I wanted this film to be 100% Somali’: the fight to make The Gravedigger’s Wife
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“I am Somali and I made this film for Somali people to watch a film in their mother tongue without needing subtitles,” says film director Khadar Ayderus Ahmed. Ahmed made his feature debut with The Gravedigger’s Wife,...
Wanted: a true leader for Europe now Merkel’s reluctant reign is over
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Advancing Panzer tanks and Wehrmacht divisions once symbolised German ambitions to dominate Europe. Eighty years on, the position is wholly reversed. Blitzkrieg has been replaced by snooze-krieg as the leading candida...
Annie Macmanus on the legacy of lockdown: I was forced to stand still – and realised what I wanted
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At the start of 2020, my eldest son was seven and my youngest was three. For as long as they could remember, I had left the house at about 5pm every weekday evening to go to my radio show, and I had worked late DJing ...
My winter of love: I was convinced no one wanted me. But there was a gorgeous man who did
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In a warehouse in Ladywood, Birmingham, with a papier-mache spine down my back and breath like a dustpan, I walked up to a man and said, without any preamble: “You are the most handsome man at this party.” It was Dece...