You have to take your pleasures where you find them in this new age of miserabilism. Anyone found to be enjoying themselves too much might accidentally cause a run on the pound. Smile and Lucy Powell will have to call in the International Monetary Fund. Such pronouncements are apparently now to be taken seriously. We … Read more
New Delhi: Exhorting the BJP karyakartas to “challenge the challenges”, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday gave tips to the party cadre on how to enroll members during the “Sangathan Parva Sadasyata Abhiyan 2024”, kickstarted by the party on Monday. Mr Modi became the first BJP member to renew his membership and was enrolled as … Read more
Single-word school ratings awarded by Ofsted in England are to be immediately scrapped, the government has announced. They will be replaced by report cards aimed at improving standards and helping parents better understand schools’ strengths and weaknesses. The four headline ratings – outstanding, good, requires improvement and inadequate – will disappear as part of the … Read more
Hyderabad: Justice T. Madhavi Devi of the Telangana High Court directed the principal secretary of home to be present in court if he failed to implement the December 2023 order of the court. The judge granted four weeks to the officer in a contempt case filed by Ch. Satish. The petitioner was selected in a … Read more
Members of Brazil’s supreme court have unanimously voted to uphold the ban on X, after Elon Musk’s refusal to comply with local laws saw the social network blocked in one of its biggest markets. On Monday, five of the court’s justices were asked to consider Friday’s decision to temporary banish X from Brazil, where the … Read more
It was, Sahra Wagenknecht declared on the social media platform X on Sunday, “a historic result” achieved from almost a standing start. Within eight months, her leftwing-conservative Sahra Wagenknecht Allianz (BSW) has gone from an upstart party of breakaway populists to a decisive player with the potential to upend the German political scene. The BSW … Read more
The acclaimed Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar has called for euthanasia to be legalised worldwide. Almodóvar was speaking ahead of the world premiere of his first English language feature, The Room Next Door, which stars Tilda Swinton as a journalist with cancer who decides to end her own life and asks an old friend, played by … Read more
‘And Ticketmaster crashed!” Stuart Maconie kicks off the in-demand Supersonic pub quiz on Sunday with a riff on the festival’s entirely unintentional namesake, who a day prior broke the internet with demand for their upcoming reunion shows and spurred talks of government action on the ticketing market. At the risk of stating the extremely obvious, … Read more
On my way to Hard Graft, a new exhibition at the Wellcome Collection in London, I sat beside an employee with a lanyard round her neck like a chain whose exhortatory instruction read, “straightforward, purposeful, collaborative behaviours” – but to what end I had no idea. Jobs come with added sententiousness these days, as employers … Read more
My mum’s not who you think of when you think of suicide When you think of suicide you may not picture someone like my mum – a middle-aged woman with four children and a loving husband. Yet, at the age of 18, my world changed forever when she took her own life at just 53. … Read more