Month: April 2019

Game of Thrones is finally big enough to engulf us. As the HBO blockbuster reaches its final season, it has definitively crossed over from the novelty mugs and Funko Pop! figurines of middle-class nerdery and into the full mainstream. And with that comes a cultural cachet that threatens to ruin the spider’s web-thin magic of…

The milkman of human kindness is angry. Not just generally, but specifically now, as he arrives at a BBC building in central London. On the train up from Dorset, where he lives, Billy Bragg has read about British soldiers in Kabul firing shots at a poster of Jeremy Corbyn. He is angry because it is,…

Libya is on the brink of an all-out civil war that will upend years of diplomatic efforts to reconcile two rival armed political factions. An advance led by Khalifa Haftar, the warlord from the east of the country, has diplomats scrambling and the UN appealing in vain for a truce. The French government, the European…

It could take the US government up to two years to identify potentially thousands of children who were separated from their parents by the authorities at the southern border, the government said in a court filing. The filing late on Friday outlined for the first time the Trump administration’s plan for identifying which family members…

A hospital in southern California issued an apology to women who claimed they were secretly filmed during gynecological surgeries. More than 80 women sued Sharp Grossmont Hospital in La Mesa last week, alleging they were recorded by motion-activated cameras set up in three operating rooms as part of an effort to catch a possible drug…

Click:slot milling After asking the media to “take it easy”, R Kelly gave a 28-second performance at a club in Springfield, Illinois, in the small hours of Sunday morning. He then spent about half an hour mixing with fans who paid $50 to $100 to see him. In February, the R&B singer, 52, was charged…

The dilemma My partner of 30 years comes from a privileged family and has a sense of entitlement, which can occasionally make him seem superior. Or maybe that’s just my perception. It’s something I find hard, mainly because I don’t like that type of behaviour and find it embarrassing, but most of the time I…

Senior Democrats are keeping up pressure on attorney general William Barr to release the full Mueller report, claiming collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia happened “in plain sight”. More than two weeks after Robert Mueller, the special counsel conducting the Russia inquiry, handed his final report to Barr, there is no sign of…

Civilians in Kashmir have been banned from using the only highway out of the disputed region for two days each week to allow Indian security personnel to be safely moved in and out. The order, which local political parties have compared to the policies implemented by Israel in the Palestinian territories, followed a suicide bombing…

Switch to a menstrual cup Made of medical-grade silicone and typically available in two sizes, menstrual cups can hold up to 12 hours’ flow, compared with four to eight hours with a tampon – and as they are reusable and can last up to 10 years, they are much better for the environment. Though the…