Posts by Sarkiya Ranen
Turkish court rules to remove head of main opposition party
A Turkish court has issued a ruling that effectively removes the head of the country’s main opposition party, in the latest blow to challengers of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The ruling, issued by an appeals court in Ankara on Thursday, annulled a 2023 leadership contest within the Republican People’s party (CHP), deposing the party’s leader,…
Read MoreHS2 is the wildest white elephant in British history. Please put it out of its misery | Simon Jenkins
So it is official, as if that makes a difference. After a 15-month review by the new chief executive, the transport secretary, Heidi Alexander, has revealed that HS2 will now cost up to £102.7bn and trains may not start until 2039. Alexander called the original design a “massively over-specced folly” and called the increase in…
Read MoreTUC leader ‘angry’ at state of Labour but says it can recover to win next election
The UK’s most powerful union leader has said he is angry at the state of Labour and Keir Starmer’s government and warned that significant change is needed to prevent Reform UK from winning power. In his first intervention as the battle rages over the future of the Labour leadership, the TUC’s general secretary, Paul Nowak,…
Read MoreTUC leader ‘angry’ at state of Labour but says it can recover to win next election
The UK’s most powerful union leader has said he is angry at the state of Labour and Keir Starmer’s government and warned that significant change is needed to prevent Reform UK from winning power. In his first intervention as the battle rages over the future of the Labour leadership, the TUC’s general secretary, Paul Nowak,…
Read MoreOil markets nearing ‘red zone’ as summer travel season nears, warns IEA chief
Oil markets will enter the “red zone” by July and August as stocks dwindle before the summer travel season amid a shortage of fresh oil exports from the Middle East, the executive director of the International Energy Authority warned on Thursday. Fatih Birol added that the most important solution to the Iran war energy shock…
Read More‘Per my last email’: how email incivility can affect us at work
Received a rude email at work? You’re not alone. When I was weighing a move from full-time to freelance work, a terse email from a colleague – demanding I redo a task from scratch over a technicality – settled the matter instantly. I quit on the spot. Around the same time, thousands of US government…
Read MoreFrench Open draw: Djokovic avoids Sinner half but Raducanu faces early Sierra test
Novak Djokovic has avoided Jannik Sinner’s half of the French Open draw but faces a challenging path as he tries to hit form and launch a deep run after a torrid, injury-ravaged period before the second grand slam event of the year. Djokovic, a three-times champion at Roland Garros, returns to Paris aiming for a…
Read MoreBig science and uncanny prescience: Laurie Anderson’s greatest songs – ranked!
20. Three Expediences (1978) From a compilation released by William Burroughs associate John Giorno – fellow contributors included Patti Smith, Philip Glass and the Fugs – comes the fledgling sound of Laurie Anderson’s breakthrough Big Science: spoken word, electronically manipulated voices, violin. It doesn’t quite work, but it’s worth hearing, not least for the distinctly…
Read More‘Really entertaining in a horrible way’: the indestructible appeal of Tosca
Gustav Mahler hated it. Its publisher was convinced it would be a commercial disaster. Critics complained it was mostly just “noise” and predicted that it would quickly be forgotten. But more than 125 years since Tosca’s premiere in January 1900, Giacomo Puccini’s fifth opera remains one of the most bankable in the business. We love…
Read MoreNHS trust sacks staff who illegally accessed records of Nottingham attack victims
An NHS trust has sacked 11 staff members who illegally accessed the medical records of the victims of the Nottingham stabbing attacks. Valdo Calocane killed two 19-year-old students, Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, and Ian Coates, a 65-year-old caretaker, and attempted to kill three other people in the city in June 2023. Nottingham university hospitals…
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