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Architect Lesley Lokko: ‘There is a sense in Africa that it is our time’ | Lesley Lokko

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[ad_1] “Africa” says Lesley Lokko, stopping over in a London hotel on the way from Accra to Venice, “is the world’s youngest continent. It is the most rapidly urbanising and has the fewest architects.” It is therefore a place of instability and invention, minimally constrained by professional structures, where the “speed of change is likely […]

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Jonathan Majors arrested in New York after police called to domestic dispute | Jonathan Majors

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[ad_1] The actor Jonathan Majors has been arrested in New York on charges of strangulation, assault and harassment. New York City police said Majors, the star of Creed III and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, was involved in a domestic dispute on Saturday with a 30-year-old woman. Police responded at about 11am to a 911

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Lebanon split into two time zones in row over daylight saving | Lebanon

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[ad_1] The Lebanese government’s last-minute decision to delay the start of daylight savings time by a month until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan has resulted in mass confusion. With some institutions implementing the change while others refused, many Lebanese have found themselves in the position of juggling work and school schedules

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Stretching his 15 minutes of fame: why Andy Warhol still has the power to inspire | Andy Warhol

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[ad_1] When he appears in Nicole Flattery’s recently published novel Nothing Special, Andy Warhol is a spectral presence. “I never saw him come in but I felt the atmosphere change when he did,” Flattery writes from the watchful point of view of the teenage narrator of the book. The coming-of-age novel set in the mid

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Back-to-work schemes in England previously funded by EU forced to close | Unemployment

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[ad_1] Back-to-work schemes across England previously paid for by the EU are being forced to close and lay off staff, despite a last-minute rule change by the government aimed at allowing councils to fund them. Michael Gove’s Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) wrote to local authorities last week giving them the green

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‘Another historic day’: WRU clubs vote overwhelmingly for reform at meeting | Wales rugby union team

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[ad_1] Welsh Rugby Union clubs voted overwhelmingly in favour of governance reforms at an extraordinary general meeting on Sunday. Of the 252 votes cast, only seven did not vote in favour, meaning the required 75% majority was comfortably exceeded. The WRU will now appoint an independent non-executive director (INED) as chair and recruit two further

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Black children much more likely to be strip-searched in England and Wales than white peers | Police

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[ad_1] An official report accuses police of abusing their power to strip-search children, with black children much more likely than white children to be selected by officers for the ordeal. Data collected by the office of the children’s commissioner found there were at least 2,847 recorded strip-searches of children pre-arrest across England and Wales between

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Relationships are a rollercoaster ride: here’s how to take the ups with the downs | Relationships

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[ad_1] When couples get together, there is often the unspoken expectation that you will remain the same as you were on those first dates. An assumption that your level of curiosity, generosity, adaptability and interest will endure, or even increase, throughout your relationship. Even though we all know fairytales are dangerous, there’s a pervading myth

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Readers reply: why do we pay twice as much tax on earned income than on unearned income? | Life and style

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[ad_1] Why do we pay twice as much tax on earned income than on unearned income? What would happen if the tax rates were equalised? Martin h Send new questions to nq@theguardian.com. Readers reply Because poor people earn their income and rich people don’t. And rich people make the rules. user0 Because unearned income is

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