24 March 2023

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Spectre Of 2008, Xi’s Moscow Mission And Iraq War, 20 Years On
You’d be forgiven for having allowed the collapse of the tech industry lender Silicon Valley Bank, earlier this month, to pass you by. Even the news that SVB’s UK operation had been salvaged in a deal brokered by the British government might not have
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Science And Environment
The James Webb space telescope has captured the rare and fleeting phase of a star on the cusp of death. The observation was among the first made by the telescope following its launch in late 2021, but the picture was only released last week. It shows
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Global Report
The Biden administration quietly resumed deportations to Russia. Immigration advocates were taken by surprise when a young Russian man, who came to the US fleeing Vladimir Putin’s efforts to mobilise citizens to fight in Ukraine, was abruptly deporte
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A Crisis Is Long Overdue. Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Won’t Be A One-off
It has been a year since the Federal Reserve started to raise interest rates and banks are starting to fall over in the US. Anybody who thinks Silicon Valley Bank was a one-off is deluding themselves. Financial crises have occurred on average once a
Guardian Weekly2 min readFinance & Money Management
Cheques And Balances Is This Another Financial Crash?
Are we in a banking crisis? Opinions diverge on this. The California-based Silicon Valley Bank is the biggest US bank collapse since 2008, and Credit Suisse has joined peers that were sold at fire-sale prices during the financial crisis. Shane Oliver
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The Travails Of Credit Suisse And SVB Have Stirred Up Bad Memories For A Public Still Scarred By The Last Global Financial Crisis 15 Years Ago
No one in the British government’s Treasury department had expected March to be easy. Last Monday’s economics-heavy review of defence and foreign policy, and the budget that followed two days later, meant that a tough week for its mandarins had alrea
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Xi’s Visit Consolidates Beijing’s Upper Hand Over Putin
ENVIRONMENT ‘Final warning’ issued on climate crisis Page 22 → Xi Jinping said China is ready with Russia “to stand guard over the world order based on international law” as he arrived in Moscow for a state visit on Monday, days after Vladimir Putin
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Pension Reform Macron Faces The Moment That May Define His Presidency
When furious demonstrators in Dijon set fire to an effigy of Emmanuel Macron, and thousands of people took to the streets in cities such as Paris, Rennes and Marseille last week to protest against the government raising the pension age without a parl
Guardian Weekly3 min readCrime & Violence
Court Drama What Does The ICC Arrest Warrant Mean For Putin?
What is the international criminal court arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for? The court has issued arrest warrants for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and Russia’s commissioner for children’s rights, Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova, in relati
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Kashmir Muslims Crushed By ‘Bulldozer Politics’
Suhail Ahmad Shah stood despairingly before the wreckage that for two decades had provided his livelihood. Just hours before, he had been busy at the workshop when he heard an ominous crunch, and the tin roof began to cave in. He barely made his esca
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Out Of Time? On The Road To Hell, Signposts Still Point To A Liveable Future
After a 10,000-year journey, our human civilisation has reached a climate crossroads: what we choose to do in the next few years will determine our fate for millennia. That choice was laid bare in the landmark report published on Monday by the Interg
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Scientists Issue ‘Final Warning’ On Climate Crisis
Scientists have delivered a “final warning” on the climate crisis, as rising greenhouse gas emissions push the world to the brink of irrevocable damage that only swift and drastic action can avert. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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Escobar’s Hippos May Be Sunk
The first time a hippo emerged from the trees, waddled across the grass and slid down the river bank into the murky waters of the Cocorná River, the fishers in Las Angelitas froze in awe. “We’d heard rumours of these hippos and seen footprints down-r
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Gujarat Big Cats
Lion conservation efforts in the Indian state of Gujarat have been so successful that a new sanctuary will be opened to house the abundant numbers of big cats. Gir national park is home to the world’s only Asiatic lion population and the only place o
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The Brainwashing Cycle
Tonight, and almost every night, something amazing will happen inside your brain. As you turn off the light switch and fall asleep, you will be switching on the neurological equivalent of a dishwasher deep-clean cycle. First, the activity of billions
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Mothers With A Goal Of Peace
So many of their sons loved football. The game meant inclusion and friendship regardless of language or culture; it cemented bonds in their own community and promised a way to forge new ones outside of it. As Noraini Abbas readies team shirts and pre
Guardian Weekly1 min readDiet & Nutrition
Mediterranean Diet ‘May Lower Risk Of Dementia’
A Mediterranean diet of nuts, seafood, grains and vegetables could lower the risk of dementia by almost a quarter, according to new research. The data suggests eating plant-based foods may have a “protective effect” against dementia, regardless of ge
Guardian Weekly7 min readAmerican Government
Special Report The Invasion That Haunts Global Politics To This Day
The French statesman Georges Clemenceau once said: “War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.” In the case of the invasion of Iraq, however, the war that began 20 years ago started in victory and has ended in a series of catastrophes
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Trump’s Legal Woes Mount As 2024 Race Hots Up
As Donald Trump runs again for the White House, he’s dogged by four criminal investigations, shortening the odds that he will face charges, say former federal prosecutors. Two investigations are homing in on Trump’s nonstop efforts to thwart his 2020
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Disabled villains: the Trope That won’t die
IDECIDED, SOME YEARS AGO, TO READ ALL OF IAN FLEMING’S James Bond novels. It may have been a fit of nostalgia for the Roger Moore films I grew up watching, or perhaps I was bored with writing short stories for a minuscule readership and wanted to kno
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My Mother, the Troll
‘THERE WAS THIS ENTIRE PART of Mum that I never knew about,” Ben Leyland says. Brenda Leyland was a stylish, well-spoken and rather private woman who lived in a picturesque village in Leicestershire. He knew she told stories, and that some of them ma
Guardian Weekly4 min readInternational Relations
In Global Affairs, The US Still Acts Only In Its Own Best Interests
STEFAN STERN Perk-cession means a work culture rethink Page 47 → In the two decades since the second Iraq war, the United States appears like the Bourbon kings who had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. The illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq
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We’re In A Perk-cession. Bosses Should Consider What Staff Really Want
Three-course dinners, access to wellness centres, even free drycleaning – for years the goodies that came with a job in the elite tech sector were more than mere accessories – they symbolised your membership of an exclusive club. TNow, as some compan
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Rohingya Refugees Live In Perpetual Insecurity – They Need A Stable Future
The hungry and desperate are now much more so. Last month, the rations to Rohingya living in the world’s largest refugee camp – Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh – were slashed. This is, as a UN expert warned, a matter of life and death. The Rohingya have live
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Letters
The BBC ought to look at its own conduct first In contrast to some other presenters, Gary Lineker was not revealing any party preferences nor his voting intentions in his tweet (Spotlight, 17 March). He was not offering general criticism or endorseme
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Biden’s Alaska Drilling Consent Betrays The Planet And His Pledges
The Willow project is an act of terrorism against the climate, and the Biden administration has just approved it. This massive oil-drilling project in the wilderness of northern Alaska goes against science and the administration’s many assurances tha
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Mr.Brightside
Show goes on for Shakespeare’s First Folios Page 54 Is the sequin perhaps the most glamorous product of evolutionary biology? Psychologists say humans are drawn to things that sparkle because once our ancestors searched for light reflecting on rivers
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Bard Times Shakespeare’s First Folios To Be Revived
Four hundred years ago, a small band of William Shakespeare’s loyal friends and fellow thespians embarked on the complicated challenge of bringing his complete works together in one bound volume. Whether it was an act of love and respect or a money-m
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Mary, Quite Contrary A Philosophical Look At George Eliot’s Life And Work Asks Why Marriage Was A Central Concern When She Lived An Unconventional Life
Mid-Victorian society never forgave George Eliot for setting up home in 1854 with a rackety married man, the journalist and scientist GH Lewes. Late-Victorian society, by contrast, could not forgive her for choosing to wed in church when, following L
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Reviews
Ovo Hydro, Glasgow, Scotland The US singer’s UK tour kicked off on International Women’s Day with an all-female band, three female backing vocalists, the Little Bigs, Lizzo’s longtime DJ, Sophia Eris, and the 10-strong Big Grrrls dance troupe, stars
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Psst! Wanna Buy An Oscar?
In March 2000, three weeks before the 72nd Academy Awards, that year’s shipment of Oscars – 55 individually marked, 24-carat gold-plated statuettes – disappeared en route from the manufacturer in Chicago to Los Angeles. The story briefly became a sho
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Beat The Clock Maybe The Point Is To Be More Alive, Rather Than To Live Longer, Says An Intriguing Look Into Our Attitudes To Time
Time took on an elastic and sinuous quality during the Covid-19 lockdowns, if it retained any coherence at all. Days bled into each other, as did walks and Zoom catchups and Sopranos episodes. Feeling a sense of “temporal weirdness”, California artis
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Doubting Tomás Javier Marías’ Final Book Is A Seductive Thriller With A Plot Secondary To Evocative Descriptions And Literary Dialogue
There is an irony in this novel’s title being the name of its protagonist/narrator. Tomás Nevinson has had many personae. He sometimes loses track of which character he is inhabiting. In the long middle section, when he is living undercover in a prov
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Books Of The Month
By Liz Nugent Sally doesn’t see why everyone is up in arms when she attempts to incinerate her adoptive father’s corpse. Psychiatrist Thomas Diamond, to whom she was case study as much as daughter and with whom she has lived a reclusive life in an is
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There’s A Hole In My Roof – But I Have An Ingenious Fix
The gap between the side of the house and the garden wall is roofed over with sheets of clear corrugated plastic. It’s where we keep things that don’t need to be warm, but do need to be dry: paint, scrap wood, garden tools and a toaster that isn’t qu
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I Don’t Want Gadgets In My Kitchen – Well, Maybe That Herb Stripper
Sometimes, in pursuit of a better life, I turn to the ads on Instagram, because the world is always better there. It has the gloss you get off a coffee table that’s just had a polish after a spray of Mr Sheen. For here are an array of devices specifi
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№ 210 Smoked Haddock And Coconut Soup
Prep 15 min Cook 45 min Serves 4 • DAIRY FREE • GLUTEN FREE Vegetable oil1 onion, peeled and finely choppedSalt½ tsp smoked paprika½ tsp ground turmeric1 tsp ground cumin1 tsp ground coriander½ tsp black pepper2 garlic cloves, peeled and crushed3 thy
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Diversions
Thomas Eaton 1 Three-year-old Eliza Armstrong was the first patient at which hospital? 2 What is the world’s largest trade book fair? 3 Marduk was the chief god of which city? 4 Which songwriter was musical director for Marlene Dietrich? 5 Which thre

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