1 week Ago
IT’S A DAY of rest, and you may be in the mood for a quiet corner and a comfy chair. We’ve hand-picked some of the week’s best reads for you to savour. Matthew Walther’s obituary of the late pontiff looks at the legacy he leaves.
( , approx 11 mins reading time) Antonia Hitchens reports that a culture of obedience and sycophancy now reigns in Washington under the new Trump administration. ( , approx 28 mins reading time) A group of conservative female influencers are putting out content telling young women to be fertile, thin and traditional as part of an organised effort to create a right-wing, anti-feminist movement mirroring that popularised by Andrew Tate. ( , approx 17 mins reading time) Owsley Stanley created it back in the 1960s.
Now it’s being used in clinical trials. ( , approx 24 mins reading time) A man who served in the US air force claims that his health problems can be traced back to toxic waste contamination at the George Air Force Base in California. But was there a cover-up, or is it all conspiracy? Maddy Crowell investigates.
( , approx 25 mins reading time) Life expectancy in Britain has stopped increasing for the first time in over a century. In some communities, it’s falling. In this fascinating article, Rhys Blakely explores why.
( , approx 10 mins reading time) On Easter Sunday in 2008, a fishing boat called the Alaska Ranger sank in the freezing cold Bering Sea. There were 47 people on board. This is the mission that took place to try and rescue them.
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