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Why does Boris keep promoting Charlotte Owen?
Sep 6, 2024 · At the age of 29, her elevation to the peerage in July 2023 by Boris Johnson was quite the mystery. Now she’s got stuck into the role in earnest it feels about time to check on her progress in the House of Lords. A reminder, if the name doesn’t ring a bell. Seven years ago, Charlotte was something of a blank sheet of paper: a York ...
The world’s top 50 thinkers 2020 - Prospect
Jul 14, 2020 · The immediate relevance of some of our thinkers to the Covid-19 era speaks for itself: vaccinologist Sarah Gilbert and science writer Ed Yong being prime examples. Just as interesting, however, are those who work in fields a mile away from medicine, but who have nonetheless acquired a new salience in the dark and peculiar circumstances of 2020.
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The truth of the Guildford bombings - prospectmagazine.co.uk
Oct 3, 2024 · A single idiot acting alone can cause chaos. But to make a scandal—the kind of horror that sticks in the national memory—you need lots of people to do their job so badly that whole systems collapse; and then you need more people, probably in very senior positions, to engage in sustained dishonesty and smug indifference in order to draw a curtain of secrecy around the whole mess.
The rise and fall and rise again of Lutfur Rahman - Prospect
March 27, 2024. At a meeting in Tower Hamlets Town Hall, Mayor Lutfur Rahman is being roundly bollocked by a local petitioner over the council’s plans for Victoria Park. “Once again,” she proclaims, “the mayor has decided that he knows better than the Tower Hamlets people, that he can ignore the Tower Hamlets people and that he can cut ...
How the monarchy cashes in on our seabed - Prospect
Jul 19, 2023 · Sadly, the Crown Estate has impeded some plans by civil society groups to replant thousands of acres of seagrass by charging, in at least one case, £500 an acre for doing so. One kelp farm company abandoned plans to develop a network of 58 farms around the seabed due to lengthy bureaucratic delays by the Crown Estate.
An American massacre—1,200 dead - prospectmagazine.co.uk
Sep 25, 2024 · He presents a forensic study of the massacre at Bud Dajo on Jolo, an island in the southwest Philippines, in March 1906, when units of the US Army killed more than 1,200 Moro men, women and children—more than the number of dead at My Lai (1968) and Wounded Knee (1890) combined—with a loss to themselves of 21 killed and 73 wounded.
Why the UK needs a written constitution - Prospect
May 19, 2022 · The UK’s “unwritten” constitution is, of course, largely written. It is not, however, codified in a single document. We find it in acts of parliament, such as the Bill of Rights 1688, the Acts of Union 1707, the Human Rights Act 1998, the Parliament Acts of 1911 and 1949, and in laws concerning the devolved nations and British Overseas Territories.
The founders of Palestine Action on how to shut down a
Jun 5, 2024 · The pair founded Palestine Action in 2020 to take direct action against Israeli weapons factories operating in Britain. Later that year, along with other activists, they climbed onto the roof of an Elbit factory in Staffordshire, where they spent three nights causing carnage with hammers and tools, before police hauled them down in stretchers.