Новости за 02.09.2015

Maybe it’s too late to swing the voting for the Labour leadership. But Yvette Cooper’s speech on Tuesday on asylum is one of the very few in the contest so far, if not the only one, with at least a chance of remaking the political weather, and perhaps even in time of changing public policy. This isn’t just because of the passion with which she delivered her call for the admission of 10,000 refugees from Syria, or because she was saying something that, as she herself understated it, “won’t be popular with everyone”... Читать дальше...

He was someone’s precious child. The little boy’s family was fleeing the savagery of the conflict in Syria and seeking a new life in the European Union. Their small boat capsized as they made the two-mile sea crossing from Turkey to the Greek island of Kos.

Europe is seeing a crisis at the moment, but nobody can agree on what sort of crisis it is. If you believed some of the language used by British politicians – David Cameron’s description of those arriving in Calais as a ‘swarm’, for instance, or Philip Hammond’s characterisation of them as a group of people ‘marauding around’ who will threaten Europe’s ‘standard of living and social structure’ if allowed to settle in the UK – then you might be forgiven for thinking that this is a crisis for Britain... Читать дальше...

He looks asleep, far away in dreamland, as if he dropped off after a long day of play and fun, of tricks and naughtiness. His trainers are still on his feet. Did he pester mum and dad until they bought them? His red T-shirt and trousers have rolled up to reveal his tummy. I want to touch his soft, plump tummy, to hold him, wake him gently and dry him off.

As if cracking down on Kurds wasn’t bad enough, Turkey is now cracking down on journalists who report on this, too.  Days ago, two British journalists and their Iraqi fixer, working for Vice News, were arrested in Diyarbakir, southeast Turkey, where they were filming clashes between the Kurdish PKK party and police. Charged with “engaging in terrorist activity”, they now face trial – a move condemned by Vice and human rights organisations alike.

The migrant crisis is continually being presented as a “problem” to which a “solution” is urgently required, some of which are becoming increasingly bizarre – such as the latest suggestion from Yvette Cooper of distributing 10 migrants per town, as if they were discrete entities that can be parcelled out.

Some of the leading figures in the pornography business have spoken out about the need to discuss racism in the adult industry and how it can be overcome.

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At my first wife’s school, they realised something was amiss when the A3 was blocked due to road works and several pupils were absent.

When William Hague addressed the Conservative Party Conference at the age of 16, all wide lapels and blue kipper tie, warning of the perils of the “Socialist state”, and pouring scorn on James Callaghan’s vision of a “promised land”, he could surely have not imagined that a career which encompassed both leading his party and a period as Foreign Secretary would climax with his being re-introduced to the nation as a “brilliant new columnist”.

Raise a glass to Bourbon Heritage Month with our pick of these American-made whiskies

Back in 2000, David Hare's play My Zinc Bed suggested that, in the moral vacuum left by the collapse of the old certainties, addiction (to drink, drugs, shopping) had replaced ideology. We were now driven by our compulsions rather than our convictions, it was argued, and one of its characters castigated Alcoholics Anonymous as a cult that substituted one form of dependency with another. I liked the piece better than some, while agreeing that it was slightly too systematic and that it didn't pull... Читать дальше...

This summer, 12 families have lost loved ones to bullfights or bull runs. These individuals were gored to death, and in each case it was entirely preventable. Others have been maimed or otherwise injured but have escaped with their lives. The bulls, of course, are never that lucky.

The extent to which parents are resorting to to live within their desired school catchment area has been revealed in new research from Santander Mortgages as competition for places at the UK’s best schools continues to increase.

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The allegations of sexual assault and rape against Julian Assange are serious. So it is not funny that plans have been leaked to smuggle him out of the Ecuadorian embassy in fancy dress, or across the rooftops of London to a helipad.

Durban has been announced as the host city for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

The tactics of big pharmaceutical companies often come under the microscope. A report today lays bare the extent of their efforts to lobby Europe’s premier political institutions, both directly and indirectly.

“Reluctant” probably sums up British voters’ attitude to the European Union. That, though, will not be an option on the referendum ballot paper, and scepticism about the European project makes the exact wording of the question of vital importance.