Tag: World news
What the cleaner saw: dirty secrets of the upper crust
The Long Read: When I took a job cleaning expensive Manhattan apartments, I had no idea what I would find out about my clients. I heard about the cleaning company from a friend’s boyfriend, a musician who had supported himself by cleaning houses for years. I was living in an apartment in Brooklyn, sharing a […]
If George HW Bush votes against Trump, he’ll be in good Republican company | Jamie Weinstein
Bush’s opposition can be dismissed as the qualms of a north-eastern moderate. But alongside him are many with unimpeachable conservative credentials. It wouldn’t be surprising if, as one recent visitor to the Bush compound in Kennebunkport reports, former president George HW Bush will be voting for Hillary Clinton over Donald Trump this fall. After all, […]
Libya’s future looks dark with fate of government close to being sealed
Situation has deteriorated since David Cameron’s upbeat visit after Gaddafi fell, with latest administration on the brink. On 15 September 2011 David Cameron flew into a newly liberated Tripoli with the then president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy, to be mobbed by rebels grateful for Nato airstrikes that had helped them secure victory over Muammar Gaddafi. […]
US afflicted with ‘third world’ police says author Marlon James
Speaking in Paris, the Jamaica-born Man Booker prize-winner compared US police to Argentina state-sanctioned death squads The United States is afflicted with third World police which has led to almost state-sanctioned killings of people from minority groups, one of the countrys leading black writers said on Sunday. Marlon James, who won the Man Booker prize […]
The Anthropocene epoch: scientists declare dawn of human-influenced age
Experts say human impact on Earth is so profound that Holocene must give way to epoch defined by nuclear tests, plastic pollution and domesticated chicken. Humanity’s impact on the Earth is now so profound that a new geological epoch the Anthropocene needs to be declared, according to an official expert group who presented the recommendation to […]