It is intriguing to wonder what goes through the monarch’s mind when she receives a first draft of the speech she is expected to deliver to Parliament. This time round, she may well have wondered what happened to the Government’s pledge to scrap the Human Rights Act.
America’s criminal justice system can be criticised for its high-handedness, its fondness for publicity and its broad claims of extra-territorial authority. But with the indictment of 14 individuals, including seven current Fifa officials, on corruption and fraud charges, the US Justice Department has rendered a signal service to football fans everywhere – by setting in motion the desperately overdue cleansing of the gigantic Augean stable that is the governing body of the world’s most popular sport. Читать дальше...
Pakistan had sought the help of the FBI and Interpol in the case
The contrast could hardly be starker – the sprawling chaos of Tangiers, where Moe Sbihi would spend six weeks of his summer holidays each year, and the London suburb of Surbiton, where British rowing’s man-mountain grew up.
If you were born in the 1950s and are female, you could be facing a much worse retirement that you hoped for.
George Farquhar's 1707 play is both a late Restoration romp and a proto-feminist piece that scrutinises marital misery from the enslaved wife's point of view, extraordinarily ahead of its time in advocating “no fault” divorce as the solution.
On balance, you would not be in your right mind, as the saying goes, to voluntarily take psychedelic drugs. Though the long-term physical and psychological effects of LSD are sometimes exaggerated in the public mind, a bad “trip” carries risks.