A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which …
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The courts protected police abuses for years before George Floyd’s death. It’s time to rethink “qualified immunity.” A portrait of George Floyd on a lamppost outside the Minneapolis Police Department’s Third Precinct station on Wednesday. A Minneapolis police officer, who was filmed kneeling on George Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes until the life left …
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By filing a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin that a judge is likely to dismiss, the county prosecutor in Minnesota is setting the stage for a miscarriage of justice. Demonstrators gather to protest the killing of George Floyd on May 30 in Minneapolis. Scott Olson/Getty Unless prosecutors in Minnesota file more serious charges against …
On Sunday, April 22, 1990, the voice Gideon Orkar, a major in the Nigerian army, welcomed Nigerians to the 7am news bulletin of Radio Nigeria. His mission: announcing the overthrow of Ibrahim Babangida as the military president. The highlight of his speech was the excision of Sokoto (today’s Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara states), Borno (Borno …
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The peak Inside the mind of Dr Jim Down, a leading intensive care consultant, on the night of the peak number of deaths from Covid-19 in hospitals. For a moment, the world is as it used to be – unconfined, uncurtailed, alive with human teeming: coronavirus-free. The early light of a mid-April morning is already …
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