Swastika Night: Nineteen Eighty-Four's lost twin | Fiction
Books blogFictionSwastika Night: Nineteen Eighty-Four's lost twinWhile Orwell's dystopia is embedded in our culture, an equally powerful novel exploring parallel themes is almost completely unknownThis week's Berlin Wall ceremonies marked a golden moment in the history of that most benighted of cities. They also reminded us of the incredibly enduring power of Nineteen Eighty-Four: it's almost impossible to write or think about totalitarianism without slipping into that chilling Orwellian lexicon. Big Brother, Newspeak, Thought Police, unperson, Room 101 … Nineteen Eighty-Four has percolated through the culture, language and collective mind with a thoroughness and absoluteness O'Brien would be proud of.
Top five restaurants with animals | Food
The ObserverFoodTop five restaurants with animalsNo elephant on the menu, but go to the right place and you might see one out of the window...1 La Ferme de Mon Père
Megève, France
Tel: 00 33 4 50 21 01 01
Marc Veyrat was awarded three Michelin stars last year for this faithful reconstruction of a Savoyard farmhouse in the mountains of the Haute Savoie. Purpose-built to his own design, the building is a homage to his peasant-farmer father and his own roots, where every night the animals would be brought into the stables under the house.
Chicago mayor faces backlash for asking students to work on campaign for credit | Chicago
Chicago This article is more than 1 year oldChicago mayor faces backlash for asking students to work on campaign for creditThis article is more than 1 year oldLori Lightfoot’s office asked teachers to encourage their students to submit résumés in exchange for ‘class credit’
Chicago’s mayor, Lori Lightfoot, is facing criticism after her office attempted to recruit students with school credit to help with her re-election campaign.
Emails encouraging students to volunteer were sent to several Chicago Public School (CPS) teachers’ work emails from Megan Crane, who identifies herself as Lightfoot’s deputy campaign manager on LinkedIn.
How I turned $15,000 into $1.2m during the pandemic then lost it all | Reddit
‘I had gained an extraordinary amount of money, but my mind was consumed by the half a million I had missed out on by not selling.’ Illustration: Avalon Nuovo/The GuardianInvesting in risky stocks gave me the illusion of control in a time of uncertainty – until it derailed my entire life
by Alexander HurstI kept the news in all the way out of the terminal until halfway through the airport parking garage, which was as far as I could hold it.
Last voices from the twin towers | World news
World newsLast voices from the twin towersTranscript release divides victims' families'It's a big plane or a little plane?" a woman asks a young man who has just picked up the phone at a police desk on the ground floor of the World Trade Centre shortly after the first attack.
"Gotta be small," he says.
A few seconds later the second plane hits and the conversation takes a dramatic twist.
"Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa,"
Prince Harry's passing out parade | UK news
UK newsPrince Harry's passing out paradeMarching on parade is hard work at the best of times, but when your entire family has turned up, half of them in uniform, and your granny's taking the salute, it must be a terminally uncool experience. There was little wonder that Prince Harry, 21, appeared to be blushing deep to the roots of his red hair as he took part in the passing out parade at the end of his training at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy yesterday.
Russia-Ukraine war: Kyiv says attack on Russian oil depot in Klinsty fair retaliation for Mosc
06.32 ESTKyiv says attack on Russian oil depot in Klinsty part of 'fair' retaliation for Moscow strikes on Ukraine infrastructureUkraine said it was behind a drone strike that sparked a huge inferno at an oil depot in western Russia on Friday, the latest in a series of escalating cross-border attacks.
The strike is the second on a Russian oil depot in as many days, part of what Kyiv has called “fair” retaliation for Moscow’s strikes on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Sexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon Club | Boris Johnson
A scene from the 2014 film The Riot Club, which drew its inspiration from the antics of the all-male members of the Bullingdon Club. Photograph: Allstar/BLUEPRINT PICTURES/Sportsphoto Ltd.A scene from the 2014 film The Riot Club, which drew its inspiration from the antics of the all-male members of the Bullingdon Club. Photograph: Allstar/BLUEPRINT PICTURES/Sportsphoto Ltd.The ObserverBoris Johnson This article is more than 4 years oldSexism, vandalism and bullying: inside the Boris Johnson-era Bullingdon ClubThis article is more than 4 years oldWoman who recruited members during the club’s 80s heyday reveals the true extent of members’ destructive behaviour
The nature of ...Insects This article is more than 2 years oldA praying mantis: she bites into her mate’s head like an apple and cleans her face ‘like a cat’This article is more than 2 years oldHelen SullivanThe mate is not discouraged. Instead, a ‘separate mini-brain in his tail kicks in and actually speeds up his performance’
When the female praying mantis is mating, she does not bite the head off the male with one swift snip: she chomps into it, like an apple.
African woman going home after 200 years | World news
World newsAfrican woman going home after 200 yearsAn awful chapter in the history of colonialism came to a dignified end yesterday when the remains of an African woman who had been taken to Europe and exhibited as a circus freak was finally handed back to South African officials at a ceremony in Paris.
To the beat of marimbas and the melody of gospel songs, the skeleton and bottled organs of Saartjie Baartman were returned in a white wooden box draped in an African cloth.