More than half of hospitals in England rated substandard by health regulator The Care Quality Commission also evaluated 68% of hospitals in London as ‘inadequate’ or ‘requires improvement’ The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023
UK universities paying millions in agent fees to secure international students Student recruitment industry has rapidly expanded as universities become increasingly dependent on income from overseas The Guardian - UK · Nov 18, 2023
Loon Star State: Whacked In the latest from cartoonist Ben Sargent, a reflection on Ken Paxton's "family business" as seen through the eyes of Michael Corleone. Texas Observer · Nov 17, 2023
Amazon shows ‘contempt’ for UK law over parcel thefts Its insistence that customers need a police report to get a refund after goods fail to turn up could go against Consumer Rights Act The Guardian - UK · Nov 14, 2023
These Are the Right-Wing Ideologues Taking Over School Boards Conservative consultants and PACs are turning Texas school boards into partisan battlegrounds. From Steven Monacelli. Texas Observer · Nov 13, 2023
How the UK far right hijacked Armistice Day Police and on-the-ground accounts suggest violence came largely from counterprotesters rather than those on Palestine march The Guardian - UK · Nov 13, 2023
Private UK health data donated for medical research shared with insurance companies Observer investigation reveals UK Biobank opened its biomedical database to insurance firms despite pledge it would not do so The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023
‘I am all for strangeness’: Tilda Swinton on artistic integrity, acting and the afterlife The Oscar-winning Scottish actor answers questions from Observer readers and famous fans including Pedro Almodóvar, Wes Anderson and Elton John The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023
The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson by Nadine Dorries review – the treachery of ‘Oddjob’, ‘The Wolf’ and ‘Dr No’ The former PM’s biggest fan pins the blame for his downfall on a group of Bond-like Baddies known as The Movement in a pyramid of piffle acclaimed by David Icke The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023
The state of contraception, 1985 Might there be a new age of sexual liberation just around the corner? The Guardian - UK · Nov 12, 2023
For the record Teatro Massimo / Kaoru Nakajima | Cuban missile crisis | Fig cake The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2023
Sadistic and misogynistic? Row erupts over sex claims in book about George Orwell’s marriage Author of acclaimed biography Wifedom hits back at critics who say book casts Orwell in an unfairly negative light The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2023
Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber review – bum notes The author of Under the Skin’s eccentric take on music fails to reverberate The Guardian - UK · Nov 9, 2023
Domestic Abusers Under Protective Orders Often Get to Keep Their Guns Fewer than 10 of 254 counties have protocols forcing subjects of a protective order to hand over their firearms as required by law. Texas Observer · Nov 6, 2023
The Guardian - UK · Nov 5, 2023 ‘It would be amazing if this led to something’: Anna Readman, winner of our graphic short story prize 2023 Dancing Queen, Readman’s meditation on a lost friend, won this year’s Observer/Faber graphic short story prize. Now she’s glad she gave up the day job…
The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2023 Tory MPs blast ‘out of touch’ Sunak as he woos homeowners in king’s speech Conservatives furious at PM’s ‘naive’ meeting with Musk ahead of last Westminster session before election
The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2023 Himmler ordered mass execution of prisoners in only Nazi camp on British soil, documents reveal Papers from SS headquarters uncover instruction to kill up to 1,000 enslaved labourers on island of Alderney
The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2023 Revealed: UK coastguard downgraded 999 calls from refugees in days before mass drowning Investigation finds evidence that many calls received prior to 2021 Channel disaster were treated as less urgent
France 24 · Nov 2, 2023 'In Senegal, homophobia follows you even after death': Mob exhumes, burns corpse A mob in a small town in Senegal dug up the body of a man suspected of being gay, dragged his body through the streets and then burned it during the night of October 28, 2023. While there have been other instances of exhumations of people suspected of being gay,…
Texas Observer · Nov 2, 2023 This 11-Year-Old Brownsville ISD Honor Student Was Put in Solitary A fifth-grader reported being bullied by his principal. Five days later, he was handcuffed and detained.
Texas Observer · Nov 2, 2023 Biden Quietly Gave Border Wall Contract to Company Used by Trump, Abbott “Clearly DHS, under the Biden administration, has no more respect for border residents than it did under the Trump administration.”
The Guardian - UK · Nov 1, 2023 Gerry Cranham obituary Pioneering sports photographer whose work revealed, through his composition, human endeavour and the poetry of motion
The Conversation · Oct 31, 2023 UK newspaper coverage of the 1967 six-day Arab-Israeli war foresaw decades of conflict in Middle East Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, describes his country’s war against Hamas as Israel’s “second war of independence”. The first was fought in 1948, but the war that gave Israel control of Gaza took place 19 years later.
The Guardian - UK · Oct 31, 2023 A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-1965 by David Kynaston review – cheerfulness through the gloom A government clinging on, railways in crisis… This latest volume in the social historian’s mighty history of postwar Britain may sound horribly familiar – but at least there was the Beatles
The Guardian - UK · Oct 29, 2023 ‘It only makes the news when the toilets stop working’: has the 25-year-old International Space Station been a waste of space? The ISS is destined to be sent spiralling into the Pacific Ocean in 2031, yet the controversy over the £120bn behemoth continues