First 1001 Days Movement says five-year decline in toddler development is a ‘ticking time bomb’ for the UK An incoming Labour government must revive the 1997 spirit of Sure Start and put babies at the heart of policies if it is to achieve its goals, a coalition of charities has said. The First 1001 Days…
Ran der Merwe’s documentary returns the director to the Northern Cape where he grew up, but glosses over trauma and injustice Situated in the Northern Cape province of South Africa, Calvinia is a rural town blessed with a magnificently scenic landscape, where towering mountain ranges give way to far-reaching plains. It is also the birthplace…
The new Welsh Labour leader will be Europe’s first Black head of government. Now he must address concerns about donations to his campaign It is impossible to think about Vaughan Gething’s victory in the Welsh Labour leadership election without reference to the recent news about a Tory donor’s vicious racist rant against Westminster’s first Black…
The world’s first hammock hiking trail in southern Switzerland takes hikers into quiet corners of the Alps – with their beds in their backpack for lazy pit stops and overnight stays It was a summer’s morning in the Lepontine Alps in Ticino, Switzerland’s Italian-speaking canton, and there was the vague threat of a storm on the…
A mother describes how her autistic son became one of thousands of under-18s caught viewing or sharing indecent images of children Louise* thought she had been open and clear with her two children about the dangers of the internet. But last year there was a knock on her door at 6am. It was the police…
The first in a series of crime mysteries by Ukraine’s most famous writer has a rattling plot and a torrent of enjoyable absurdities Andrey Kurkov’s latest novel to be translated into English, The Silver Bone, has begins in dramatic fashion. Its hero, Samson Kolechko, is walking in the streets of revolutionary Kyiv. It is the…
Wilf Bishop was anguished by the death of his wife of six decades. He could no longer ski, but knew he wanted to return to the mountaineering they both loved. Then a friend gave him an idea … In March 2023, 82-year-old Wilf Bishop found himself almost a thousand metres above sea level, snowshoeing across…
Sosul de soia nu lipsește din rețetele asiatice, însă este un ingredient ce poate aduce un plus de aromă multor preparate culinare, chiar și în bucătăria românească. Iată la ce preparate poți adăuga sos de soia. Cu un gust ușor sărat, și o aromă caramelizată, sosul de soia poate fi un ingredient vedetă în preparatele…
După intrarea României în NATO (2004) și UE (2007) ne-am resemnat cu ideea că nu mai avem un „proiect de țară”. Lipsa unui asemenea obiectiv național, deasupra partidelor politice, a devenit principalul stereotip critic la adresa unei elite tot mai slabe, care nu dă semne că poate planifica evoluția societății noastre pe termen mediu și lung. Din păcate,…
România a importat, în luna ianuarie 2024, 108.800 de tone de gaz natural, cu 143,3% mai mult față de aceeași perioadă a anului trecut, arată Institutul Național de Statistică (INS). Producția internă de gaze naturale ar putea crește Țara noastră a produs, în ianuarie, 662.000 tep de gaz, cu 0,1% mai mult față de luna…
It’s not all about Alice Todays puzzles are all penned by Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and appear in a delightful miscellany of his non-Alice scribblings, Lewis Carroll’s Guide for Insomniacs, curated by LC superfan Gyles Brandreth. They may be oldies, but they are goodies! 1. The Chelsea Pensioners Continue reading…
Armata Coreei de Sud a anunțat luni că Phenianul a lansat „o rachetă balistică neidentificată spre Marea de Est”, cunoscută și ca Marea Japoniei, relatează agenţia de presă sud-coreeană Yonhap, citată de AFP, notează Agerpres. Lansarea avut loc în timp ce la Seul se afla și secretarul de stat al SUA, Antony Blinken, pentru a…
