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Women's secret war: the inside story of how the US military sent female soldiers on covert combat missions to Afghanistan

A US Army handbook from 2011 opens one of its chapters with a line from Rudyard Kipling’s poem The Young British Soldier. Written in 1890 upon Kipling’s return to England from India, an experienced imperial soldier gives advice to the incoming cohort:

The Conversation

Triumph and disaster: Boris Becker documentary proves tennis’s former poster boy still has deceptive streak

Above the players’ entrance at Wimbledon’s Centre Court read the words of Rudyard Kipling: “If you can meet triumph and disaster and treat those two imposters just the same”.

Evening Standard

England’s Jamie George backs Wales players but is wary of bounce effect

Hooker has ‘huge sympathy’ for Six Nations rivals yet is convinced they will charge out with renewed spirit after a fraught week

The Guardian - UK

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The 6 most glaring edits to Roald Dahl’s books by publisher Puffin

Author’s children’s stories have been rewritten to remove language deemed problematic

The Independent UK

The 6 most glaring edits to Roald Dahl’s books by publisher Puffin

Author’s children’s stories have been rewritten to remove language deemed problematic

The Independent UK

How 19th-century Victorians’ wellness resolutions were about self-help — and playful ritual fun

On Jan. 1, 1887, a poem appeared in two British newspapers.

The Conversation

Canadian engineers call for change to their private 'iron ring' ceremony steeped in colonialism

For almost a century, iron rings worn by Canadian engineers have been shrouded in mystery — at least for outsiders like me, an English professor and director of the Critical Media Lab at University of Waterloo, who teaches ethics to engineers.

The Conversation

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Illinois governors in their own words

Sneed provides remembrances of interviews with chief executives going back to Richard Ogilvie.

Chicago Sun-Times

The book that changed me: Hugh Brody's The Other Side of Eden showed what hunter-gatherer societies can teach us today

Many years before I encountered Hugh Brody’s writing, I read Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894). This was the first book I remember that significantly influenced my life. I read it many times, and still regularly re-read Kipling. The Jungle Book is a colonial version of the “wild child” story:…

The Conversation

Two new dance adaptations of classical works impress at Fringe

UNDER Christopher Hampson’s leadership, Scottish Ballet has not shrunk from innovation and risk-taking. In transposing the 1870 ballet Coppelia…

The National (Scotland)

Akram Khan puts nature front and centre in new production of The Jungle Book

A NEW work by the acclaimed choreographer Akram Khan is always a highly anticipated event in the world of dance-theatre. The creator of such…

The National (Scotland)

43 times Boris Johnson lied, mocked and even broke the law

The PM is no stranger to political scandals and lying to the British public

Liverpool Echo

Fisher: Wisdom From the Greats to Survive China's Bear Market

Investors should remember ‘if you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs ... yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it’

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