The home secretary is holding a “landmark” summit on Friday aimed at smashing people-smuggling gangs all over the world. I am a Syrian refugee in the UK and I believe this will lead to more people like me becoming slaves in countries such as Libya, or losing our lives in the sea. In her announcement, … Read more
At one end of Banquet Records in Kingston upon Thames the Dutch indie band Personal Trainer are performing a short set next to the album racks. Before them are 30 or 40 people who have pitched up on a Thursday evening to see them launch their second album, Still Willing. Afterwards, the band will sign … Read more
Here’s some sobering facts about plastic. Australia produces more single-use plastic waste per capita than any other country except Singapore, according to a Minderoo Foundation report. And our plastic consumption is going up: it increased by 60% from an estimated 92kg per person in 2000 to 148kg per person in 2020-21, according to the Australia … Read more
Not 18 hours after Leeds indie band English Teacher won the Mercury prize for their debut album, singer Lily Fontaine told the Guardian: “We’re still pinching ourselves, really.” Their Top 10 widely acclaimed This Could Be Texas beat the favourite Charli xcx, along with efforts by the likes of Corinne Bailey Rae and Portishead’s Beth … Read more
It’s 5pm on Auckland’s Karangahape Road, and the tables spilling on to the street outside Coco’s Cantina are full – but these aren’t your usual sticky toddlers, or after-work suits. As the sun glints off the dusky-pink frames of her glasses, Gabriella Stead, 32, says she doesn’t care if it’s uncool to tuck into Italian … Read more
Everything was set up for a bowling day in south London. After a thunderstorm at 5am, the skies had remained overcast. And with the floodlights on and moisture in the air, not even Dhananjaya de Silva, a captain who chose to bat first in Manchester gloom, and bowl in sunshine at Lord’s, was not going … Read more
An Anglican church group is to launch a £7m reconciliation project in Barbados to atone for the atrocities of transatlantic slavery and compensate descendants of enslaved people. United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG), a UK-based missionary organisation created in 1701 to convert people in the colonies to Christianity, will work with local and regional … Read more
Racism has been the achilles heel of American democracy since its founding as a racialized project, predicated on theft of land, of labor and of the reproductive autonomy of Black women. These are truths that Maga extremists want to erase. But it is not just history that Maga wants to silence and it isn’t just … Read more
This week’s Guide is a guest post from the great Lucinda Everett, on the actors and directors who can’t keep away from each other. I’ll be back next week. – Gwilym I’m all for a reunion. Oasis tour? If my “refresh page” finger hadn’t let me down, then absolutely. Reality TV cast reunions after a … Read more
Born in South Korea in 1974 and raised in Toronto, Canada, Ins Choi is a writer and actor. He’s best known for his play turned sitcom Kim’s Convenience, an offbeat comedy inspired by his immigrant family’s shop. It premiered at the Toronto fringe in 2011, with Choi playing the titular family patriarch’s son, before being … Read more