Section: The United Kingdom
How Armenia lost its Eurovision mojo – or the fickle appeal of singing in your own language
Nearly 20 years ago, a rule change allowed countries to compete in English. But this year has seen a huge rise in countries singing in their native tongue. Don’t get me wrong, Armenia is great at a lot of things. Playing chess. Producing superstar business dynasties. Stuffing vine leaves. Squeezing pomegranates. All the skills. But nowhere...
Champions League fans offered free rooms
Sky-high hotel prices in Kiev for the Champions League final have led to residents offering free rooms. …read more Source:...
Premier League transfer news: Mohamed Salah, Wayne Rooney, Jorginho, Malcom
Description Mohamed Salah has scored 43 goals in his first season at Champions League finalists Liverpool Credits Julian Finney/Getty Images Alt Text Mohamed Salah Liverpool transfer news Real Madrid Egyptian star Salah is happy at Liverpool and has ‘ambitions’ for his Anfield future …read more Source: The...
Estonia gets creative about integrating local Russian-speakers
THE grey Stalinist blocks, potholed roads and intimidating communist-era plazas hardly suggest a hipster hotspot. But Narva, an Estonian town on Russia’s border, is suddenly all the rage. “Within the last six months Narva has become hip in Estonia. Everyone wants to go there,” says Helen Sildna, who runs Tallinn Music Week and who is going...
Donbass review – freakish fake-news kaleidoscope of Ukrainian civil war
Filled with the violence and Orwellian unreality ruling eastern Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa’s feverish procession of scenes is handled with steely control “What was that flying circus all about?” says one of the many dead-eyed, cynical functionaries in Sergei Loznitsa’s macabre new social-realist portmanteau movie about the civil war in...
Russia shows its teeth with Victory Day parade
Credits Maxim Shipenkov/AFP/Getty Image Alt Text Russian servicewomen march in Red Square during this year’s Victory Day military parade in Moscow Why this year’s Red Square event was worth watching One-Minute Read Thursday, May 10, 2018 – 6:14am …read more Source: The...
Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy review – Europe nearly became uninhabitable
A compelling history of the 1986 disaster and its aftermath presents Chernobyl as a terrifying emblem of the terminal decline of the Soviet systemThese days, European travel agencies offer trips to Chernobyl for as little as €500. Tourists are promised safety, comfort and the ghoulish thrill of visiting the site where, at 1.23am on 26 April 1986,...
Cristiano Ronaldo will be fit to face Liverpool in the Champions League final
Description Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo was taken off at half-time against Barcelona Credits Josep Lago/AFP/Getty Images Alt Text Cristiano Ronaldo injured Real Madrid Champions League Liverpool Real Madrid’s star striker was injured in the El Clasico draw against Barcelona One-Minute …read more Source: The...
World War 3 WARNING: Bizarre claim ‘Reptilian aliens’ set stage for war in Ukraine
A BIZARRE World War 3 conspiracy theory has surfaced online, claiming an overlord raced of Reptilian aliens is orchestrating world events to trigger a global war in Europe. …read more Source:...
Why Marx is more relevant than ever in the age of automation
On the bicentenary of his birth, Marx continues to be a key thinker thanks to his surprising faith in the individual. The blurry snapshot catches Leon Trotsky in mid-sentence, in Frida Kahlo’s house sometime in 1937. To the left of the frame is Natalia Sedova, Trotsky’s wife. To the right is Kahlo and, half hidden behind her, a young...
