Category: Feature
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‘They sacrificed their freedom’: remembering incarcerated black activists
Show caption Jalil Muntaqim by Sophia Dawson. Photograph: Courtesy of the artist Art ‘They sacrificed their freedom’: remembering incarcerated black activists Artist Sophia Dawson has created artwork using correspondence and ephemera from jailed activists to call attention to their situation, past and present Dream McClinton Wed 1 Sep 2021 19.55 BST Share on Facebook Share…
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Velodrome domination slips away but Kennys remain Team GB’s golden couple
Show caption Jason and Laura Kenny with their medals after a mixed Tokyo Olympics for Britain’s cyclists. Photograph: Alex Broadway/SWpix.com/Shutterstock Velodrome domination slips away but Kennys remain Team GB’s golden couple William Fotheringham Britain did not dominate Tokyo on two wheels as they once did but there is plenty of emerging talent to be excited…
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What Attempts to Measure India’s Caste System Get Wrong
The Washington, D.C.-based Pew Research Center recently released a landmark survey on religion and society in India. Administered to 29,999 respondents in 17 languages between November 2019 and March 2020, the survey is certainly a formidable endeavor. The final report provides fascinating insights into the coexistence of religiosity, pluralism, and secularism in modern India. When…
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My dad, Mr Nice: life as the daughter of Britain’s best-known cannabis smuggler
Show caption Howard Marks’ passport photos used as evidence in his 1981 Old Bailey trial Howard Marks My dad, Mr Nice: life as the daughter of Britain’s best-known cannabis smuggler Howard Marks was a notorious drug smuggler. He was also a caring, fun father, says his daughter Amber – now a barrister and pharmacology expert.…
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Hong Kong’s government is crushing the city’s pro-democracy unions
O NCE CHINESE state media labelled the group a “poisonous tumour”, it was clear that its time was running out. Within hours of that slur, in late July, the Hong Kong Professional Teachers’ Union was disowned by the city’s education bureau. For ten days the union, which represents about 80% of the city’s teachers, sought…
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Warhammer maker Games Workshop hands staff £5,000 bonus after lockdown sales surge
Show caption The Grey Knight Terminator army battle group, part of Games Workshop’s hand-painted Warhammer 40,000 miniature figures series. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Retail industry Warhammer maker Games Workshop hands staff £5,000 bonus after lockdown sales surge UK firm praises workers for ‘exceptional performance’ during pandemic after sales rose more than a third Sarah Butler…
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China and Russia hold large-scale joint military drills
Exercise in north-central China to feature 10,000 ground troops and air forces as Beijing and Moscow eye closer ties. Russia and China have begun holding a large-scale joint military exercise in China’s north-central Ningxia region, drills which come as the pair spar with Washington and its Western allies over a range of issues, including human…
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Tom Daley: last Olympic chance for teenage sensation turned crocheter
Show caption Tom Daley has won two Olympic medals while suffering doubt and grief and becoming one of the few British sportsmen to have come out publicly. Photograph: adidas UK Tom Daley Tom Daley: last Olympic chance for teenage sensation turned crocheter The diver stepped into the spotlight as a small, smiley youngster and, after…
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Covid origins: Australia’s role in the feedback loop promoting the Wuhan lab leak theory
Show caption Security staff keep watch outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology during a visit by the World Health Organization team who investigated the origins of Covid-19. Australian reporting about the ‘lab leak theory’ was picked up around the world. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters Coronavirus Covid origins: Australia’s role in the feedback loop promoting the Wuhan…
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The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco reassesses its past
AN INDIAN WOMAN peers over a parapet, her skin hot pink, her bindi red. Gold jewellery decorates her forehead and fist, where a golden knuckle-buster spells out “BOOM”. The mural by Jas Charanjiva, called “Don’t Mess With Me” (pictured), is one of three works by contemporary artists installed in a new pavilion at the Asian…