My name is Greta Thunberg. I am 16 years old. I come from Sweden. And I speak on behalf of future generations. I know many of you don’t want to listen to us – you say we are just children. But we’re only repeating the message of the united climate science. Many of you appear…
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Avengers: Endgame fans go to great lengths for franchise finale
“I’m having a baby tomorrow but I need to know how it ends,” says Jo from Clapton, east London, who was among the first wave of fans to see Avengers: Endgame on Thursday. “We were offered a C-section earlier in the week, but because we had the Avengers booked we decided to have it later,”…
The anti-gay extremist behind America’s fiercely strict abortion bans
Janet Porter is a woman who believes life begins at conception and homosexuality is a choice. She has said gay marriage caused Noah’s floods, and was the architect of a 1990s gay conversion campaign. She implied US supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a Jewish woman, is a racist. Like Donald Trump, she was a…
Cyclone Kenneth: Mozambique hit by its strongest storm ever
The strongest cyclone ever to hit Mozambique has made landfall in the country’s north, five weeks after Cyclone Idai devastated its centre, according to meteorologists. Surpassing both Idai and the 2000 cyclone that had been the strongest to date, Cyclone Kenneth hit Cabo Delgado province with wind speeds of 140mph (225km/h), bringing the threat of…
Brexit: Irish backstop could undermine EU standards, report says
It is a dastardly trap, designed to lock freedom-loving Britain into the European Union’s protectionist customs union: that is the argument against the so-called backstop, cited by hardline Brexit advocates as the main reason why they have thrice voted down Theresa May’s deal with the European Union. But as the dust settles after months of…
‘Punk never dies’: celebrating the revolutionary art of an era
When you think of the most memorable figures of punk music, rarely do graphic designers come to mind. Now, the unsung design heroes who defined a raw music movement with cut-and-paste posters are on view at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die: Punk Graphics,…
Extinction Rebellion rushes activists’ handbook This Is Not a Drill into print
Former archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams and Green Party MP Caroline Lucas are among the contributors to a forthcoming handbook about how to become an Extinction Rebellion activist, which will feature instructions on everything from organising roadblocks to dealing with arrest. As 65,000 copies of Swedish student Greta Thunberg’s manifesto Rejoignez-nous (Join Us) hit French…
Trump baby blimp back and could be even bigger for UK state visit
The Donald Trump baby blimp, which became the focal point of protests against the US president’s visit to the UK in July, will rise again for the state visit and could be accompanied by a bigger version, activists have revealed. Anti-Trump campaigners are considering launching a hot air balloon, five times the size of the…
Prince Harry v the Duchess of Cambridge: who is the better photographer?
Spring has brought forth a bumper crop of photographs by members of the royal family. No longer content to spend hours posing for professional snappers as their predecessors did, today’s young royals publish their own efforts. Prince Harry has rare opportunities to travel the world – indeed, it has been reported that the Sussexes are…
Jussie Smollett case: brothers who helped stage attack sue actor’s attorney
Two brothers who say they helped Jussie Smollett stage a racist and homophobic attack against himself filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Empire actor’s attorneys, alleging that they repeatedly asserted publicly that the brothers carried out a real, bigoted attack on Smollett despite knowing that was not true. A lawyer for Olabinjo Osundairo and…