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It was only five years ago that Spain’s break-out party Podemos became a dazzling new lodestar for Europe’s lost and troubled left. But with a snap election just weeks away, it now risks a crash as spectacular as its rise. Has the leftwing populist model of ponytailed rebel Pablo Iglesias and his gang of talented young thinkers, so admired by many Jeremy Corbyn backers and others around Europe, pr
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Margaret Cavendish was an anomaly. Born into an aristocratic family in 1623, in an era when women’s writing was vanishingly rare and usually anonymous, she put her name to poetry, plays and philosophy, scientific observations and fantastical romances. She was also unashamedly, publicly ambitious, in a way still discouraged in women today: well aware that her sex barred her from public and intellec
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You receive an invitation, emblazoned with a question: “A bouncing little ‘he’ or a pretty little ‘she’?” The question is your teaser for the “gender reveal party” to which you are being invited by an expectant mother who, at more than 20 weeks into her pregnancy, knows what you don’t: the sex of her child. After you arrive, explains cognitive neuroscientist Gina Rippon in her riveting new book, T
Viral 'Momo challenge' is a malicious hoax, say charities
The Momo messages are said to come from a profile with this distorted image of a woman, but experts say the story is no more than a ‘moral panic’ among adults. Photograph: PSNI The Momo messages are said to come from a profile with this distorted image of a woman, but experts say the story is no more than a ‘moral panic’ among adults. Photograph: PSNI
Green Book’s Oscar shows Hollywood still doesn’t get race | Joseph Harker
Viggo Mortensen, left, and Mahershala Ali in Green Book. ‘It feels like a major step backwards that this Oscar went to a nostalgic tale of a racist white driver ‘saved’ by his black passenger.’ Photograph: Universal Pictures/AP Viggo Mortensen, left, and Mahershala Ali in Green Book. ‘It feels like a major step backwards that this Oscar went to a nostalgic tale of a racist white driver ‘saved’ by
Venezuela coup linked to Bush team
Specialists in the 'dirty wars' of the Eighties encouraged the plotters who tried to topple President Chavez Observer Worldview The failed coup in Venezuela was closely tied to senior officials in the US government, The Observer has established. They have long histories in the 'dirty wars' of the 1980s, and links to death squads working in Central America at that time. Washington's involvement in
France fumes as Dutch government takes stake in Air France-KLM
The Netherlands said it was prepared to increase its stake to 14% to ensure it can bring Dutch influence to bear on the company, putting it on an even keel with France, which holds about 14%. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The Netherlands said it was prepared to increase its stake to 14% to ensure it can bring Dutch influence to bear on the company, putting it on an even keel with France, which hold
Breakdancing at the Olympics? Bring it on... | Alex Clark
For the naysayers, though, breakdancing’s likely arrival to the Games is eclipsed only by the news that in France, lightsaber duelling has just been officially recognised as a competitive sport. What is the world coming to when doing a passable impression of Obi-Wan Kenobi is on a par with doing that painful-looking hoppy-skippy run and hurling oneself into a sandpit? A world where you can medal i
Skin in the game: do we need to take down nudes – or look at them harder?
The Three Graces, circa 1517-18, by Raphael. Photograph: Royal Collection Trust/Royal Collection Trust/Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth IINevertheless, in the last few years, the borderlines of acceptable looking have become blurred. In 2017, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York received a petition to remove Balthus’s Thérèse Dreaming, a painting of a young girl reclining on a chair, one leg up o
Danish woman who fought against Isis faces jail sentence
Returning Isis fighters have benefited from the so-called Aarhus model of reintegration and deradicalisation instead of custodial sentences. Under the Aarhus model, returning fighters are assigned mentors, psychological counselling and are helped to apply for jobs or to resume education. The passport laws Palani is accused of breaching are part of a number of measures taken by Denmark to attempt t
Origins by Lewis Dartnell review – how the Earth made us
It can be reassuring to reassess life by taking a long view. In this book about “how the Earth made us”, Lewis Dartnell considers the last billion or so years, in his mission to understand how our planet has been “a leading protagonist in the story of humanity”. Our human bodies are, inevitably, made from the elements of Earth: our blood, sweat and tears come from the rocky fabric of its crust; ou
Bill Gates says poverty is decreasing. He couldn’t be more wrong | Jason Hickel
‘Virtually all wealth is being captured by the rich.’ Bill and Melinda Gates on a panel at the 45th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Photograph: Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA ‘Virtually all wealth is being captured by the rich.’ Bill and Melinda Gates on a panel at the 45th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Photograph: Jean-Christophe Bott/EPA
Going underground: mod revival fanzines – in pictures
Going underground: mod revival fanzines – in pictures A detail from the cover of fanzine In the Crowd. Photograph: Courtesy of Eddie Piller & Omnibus Press Over the past year, Acid Jazz label owner/DJ Ed Piller and designer Steve Rowland have been putting together a book of mod revival fanzines from 1978 to 1984, entitled Modzines. “They’re an important social record,” Piller says. “By 1980, the m
The disturbing racial bias of The Greatest Dancer
The BBC’s latest Saturday night competition hands power to the people (and we all know how that goes) … The Greatest Dancer. Photograph: BBC/Syco/Thames/Tom Dymond The BBC’s latest Saturday night competition hands power to the people (and we all know how that goes) … The Greatest Dancer. Photograph: BBC/Syco/Thames/Tom Dymond
Ariana Grande mocked for Japanese tattoo typo: ‘Leave me and my grill alone’
Ariana Grande acknowledged her new hand tattoo was missing a symbol but said the design won’t last, as skin on the palm regrows faster than that on the rest of the body. Photograph: Jesse Grant/Getty Images for iHeartMedia Ariana Grande acknowledged her new hand tattoo was missing a symbol but said the design won’t last, as skin on the palm regrows faster than that on the rest of the body. Photogr
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