Hackney leaseholders feel council made the problem worse by leaving £850,000 debt uncollected for eight years Leaseholders in east London have said they are “trapped in unsellable homes” because of an £850,000 debt owed by the building’s developer to Hackney council, who have let it go unpaid for eight years. The 17 leaseholders, who live in a block of flats in Upper Clapton, have appealed to the ...
Hackney leaseholders feel council made the problem worse by leaving £850,000 debt uncollected for eight years Leaseholders in east London have said they are “trapped in unsellable homes” because of an £850,000 debt owed by the building’s developer to Hackney council, who have let it go unpaid for eight years. The 17 leaseholders, who live in a block of flats in Upper Clapton, have appealed to the council for help but their pleas, including requests for a meeting, have been ignored. Continue reading...
Explore wild scenery, empty beaches and beautiful villages on the 110-mile Corfu trail, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year The riverside was heaving. Families spilled from cafes. A marching band trooped on to the bridge, their tasselled metal helmets dazzling in the sun. Priests with bushy beards delivered ageless chants from beneath their cylindrical kalimavkion hats. Men let off sho...
Explore wild scenery, empty beaches and beautiful villages on the 110-mile Corfu trail, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year The riverside was heaving. Families spilled from cafes. A marching band trooped on to the bridge, their tasselled metal helmets dazzling in the sun. Priests with bushy beards delivered ageless chants from beneath their cylindrical kalimavkion hats. Men let off shotguns, terrifying the air. Easter Monday in Lefkimmi. We hadn’t planned this. Simply right place, right time. The capital of southern Corfu, Lefkimmi is a working town, untroubled by tourism. There are Venetian-style houses – variously neat, tatty and decrepit – but no “attractions” to speak of. Just Corfiots doing Corfiot things: chewing the fat in their finest for this religious celebration – Greek Orthodox Easter, which falls on 12 April in 2026 – plus zipping about on scooters, drinking coffee, buying baklava and ice-creams. Continue reading...
Riley has always skewered cruelty with shattering exactitude. What’s new in this story of two old friends in London is the delicacy she brings to moments of tenderness In the opening pages of The Palm House, London is enveloped in a dust storm blown up from the Sahara. As old friends Laura and Putnam meet for a drink in a Southwark pub, a packet of crisps open between them, the occluded atmosphere...
Riley has always skewered cruelty with shattering exactitude. What’s new in this story of two old friends in London is the delicacy she brings to moments of tenderness In the opening pages of The Palm House, London is enveloped in a dust storm blown up from the Sahara. As old friends Laura and Putnam meet for a drink in a Southwark pub, a packet of crisps open between them, the occluded atmosphere renders the city unsettlingly strange: the sky is “dark yellow … like iodine”, while the pictures in the evening paper show a “blood red sun”, a “jaundiced” City square, a “prodigious cloud, menacing the Shard”. Like a Saharan dust storm, Gwendoline Riley’s work recasts our relationship with the familiar, transforming ordinary, unremarkable lives of her characters into something startling and new. Her female protagonists, often writers themselves, struggle with bad relationships: in First Love , shortlisted for the 2017 Women’s prize, Neve grapples with an abusive marriage, while Bridget in 2021’s quietly brutal My Phantoms is caught up with her desperately self-involved mother. The mothers in Riley’s novels are mostly monstrous and persistent, the fathers mostly monstrous and dead. Her stories are not structured around linear plots – nothing much happens – but Riley’s disquieting acuity and her spare and unsparing prose makes them shimmer with tension. She has a phenomenal ear for dialogue, for the myriad ways in which people unknowingly lay themselves bare, both in what they say and, more agonisingly, in what they don’t – or can’t. She is the laureate of disconnection, her bone-dry humour edged with the vertiginous lurch of despair. Continue reading...
With public houses increasingly restricting or banning children, we asked for your thoughts on adult-only pubs A growing number of pubs in the UK are restricting or banning children , citing safety concerns, changing atmospheres and lost trade. We asked people their thoughts on adult-only pubs. Many who contacted us supported child-free pubs, believing adult-only spaces were important, but a good ...
With public houses increasingly restricting or banning children, we asked for your thoughts on adult-only pubs A growing number of pubs in the UK are restricting or banning children , citing safety concerns, changing atmospheres and lost trade. We asked people their thoughts on adult-only pubs. Many who contacted us supported child-free pubs, believing adult-only spaces were important, but a good proportion said they would change their mind if children were “properly supervised by parents”. Continue reading...
Exclusive: Laurence Taylor says separate scheme needed to report concerns over young people’s non-ideological interest in extreme violence The scheme meant to identify people before they become terrorists is being “overwhelmed” by a large surge in referrals, Britain’s head of counterterrorism has said. Assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor told the Guardian that more than 10,000 people would be r...
Exclusive: Laurence Taylor says separate scheme needed to report concerns over young people’s non-ideological interest in extreme violence The scheme meant to identify people before they become terrorists is being “overwhelmed” by a large surge in referrals, Britain’s head of counterterrorism has said. Assistant commissioner Laurence Taylor told the Guardian that more than 10,000 people would be referred to Prevent this year, up more than a third from two years ago. Continue reading...
A new book celebrating four decades of fashion photography duo Inez and Vinoodh features celebrity portraits, surrealist visions and a meditation on love itself Continue reading...
A new book celebrating four decades of fashion photography duo Inez and Vinoodh features celebrity portraits, surrealist visions and a meditation on love itself Continue reading...
Mainland Chinese investors extended their buying spree of Hong Kong stocks in March, looking past the turmoil triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran and betting that Chinese assets would be able to withstand the oil shock. Onshore traders bought HK$61.4 billion (US$7.8 billion) of the city’s stocks through the cross-border exchange link programme last month, marking a third consecutive month of ne...
Mainland Chinese investors extended their buying spree of Hong Kong stocks in March, looking past the turmoil triggered by the US-Israel war on Iran and betting that Chinese assets would be able to withstand the oil shock. Onshore traders bought HK$61.4 billion (US$7.8 billion) of the city’s stocks through the cross-border exchange link programme last month, marking a third consecutive month of net inflows, data from the Hong Kong stock exchange and Bloomberg showed. The buying came even as the...
“Pet spirit money” in various currencies has emerged as a burgeoning trend, with many promoting “luxury dog funerals” that include paper servants and companion pets, as well as unique paper offerings such as salmon, tuna, steak, Wagyu beef and dried chicken. In China, holding funerals for loved ones and burning joss paper have long been revered mourning traditions, originally intended to express r...
“Pet spirit money” in various currencies has emerged as a burgeoning trend, with many promoting “luxury dog funerals” that include paper servants and companion pets, as well as unique paper offerings such as salmon, tuna, steak, Wagyu beef and dried chicken. In China, holding funerals for loved ones and burning joss paper have long been revered mourning traditions, originally intended to express remembrance and respect for the deceased, as well as to convey the hope that they will thrive in the...
Indians Are Online Bragging About Scamming Europe's Education System Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Europe is literally paying Indians hundreds of euros a month to “study” while its own students can’t afford rent and are drowning in debt. In a now-viral video, an Indian student in Europe boasts about the arrangement. He explains how the EU provides him with 1400 euros every single mo...
Indians Are Online Bragging About Scamming Europe's Education System Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Europe is literally paying Indians hundreds of euros a month to “study” while its own students can’t afford rent and are drowning in debt. In a now-viral video, an Indian student in Europe boasts about the arrangement. He explains how the EU provides him with 1400 euros every single month that covers rent, travel, and meals, with zero student debt , while he still saves 600 euros every single month . He walks through what he calls “elite scholarship secrets,” noting that a simple bachelor’s degree, a valid passport, and basic English proficiency suffice — adding that “IELTS is not always mandatory” and a certificate from some random school abroad will do. europe literally paying Indians 1400 euro a month to "study" here while our own students can't afford rent and are drowning in debt. this guy is literally bragging about scamming the system with a degree that’s worth less than a high school diploma in the west. total subversion… pic.twitter.com/IA0yxdlaaY — pallasmaxxer (@pallasmaxxer) March 30, 2026 The poster highlighted the post with clear frustration: “literally bragging about scamming the system with a degree that’s worth less than a high school diploma in the west… total subversion of our education system and you are the one footing the bill. Peak comedy.” In follow-ups, the same account pointed out that the individual admits “you don’t need to be a topper to get 1400 euro a month… a 75% gpa from a third world uni — literally a mediocre 6.5/10 here… you don’t even need a real English test.” This reflects a broader pattern visible online where some Indians treat European scholarships and student visas as an easy backdoor. Other posts have referenced credential issues in India, including claims that one can simply buy degrees and credentials in India and use them to secure educational places in Europe with a visa. The same dynamic has played out for...
Good morning . Brent climbs above $107 and stock futures fall as Donald Trump signals an escalation against Iran. Tehran pushes back. And NASA astronauts lift off on a mission bound for the moon. Listen to the day’s top stories . Brent jumped above $107 and equity futures tumbled as Donald Trump signaled an escalation in the war against Iran, dimming hopes of a quick resolution. The US president s...
Good morning . Brent climbs above $107 and stock futures fall as Donald Trump signals an escalation against Iran. Tehran pushes back. And NASA astronauts lift off on a mission bound for the moon. Listen to the day’s top stories . Brent jumped above $107 and equity futures tumbled as Donald Trump signaled an escalation in the war against Iran, dimming hopes of a quick resolution. The US president said he will hit Iran “ extremely hard ” over the next two to three weeks but gave no clear exit timeline . He also revived threats to strike Iranian power plants. Iran’s president wrote a letter to Americans, urging them to look past rhetoric and saying his country had not chosen aggression . Changing flags and paying tolls are some of the ways ships stuck in the Persian Gulf are looking to get through the strait. Diesel cargoes are taking stranger journeys that would normally make little economic sense. US stocks are entering their danger zone: Thursday and Friday sessions have produced stinging losses since the war began. A similar dynamic has been playing out in European and emerging-market shares. It’s been particularly stark, though, in the S&P 500 Index. Rubio Sponsored Law Now Blocking Trump From Exiting NATO Scarred by Wirecard, Germany Takes on a Global Payments Scandal Check out our Markets Today live blog for all the latest news and analysis relevant to UK assets. Deep Dive: Europe’s Clean Energy Reservoir High in the mountains of southern Norway, where winter is usually measured in meters of snow, engineers are confronting an unfamiliar sight . Standing atop the Vatndals dam on a recent day, the hydrologist Sverre Eikeland looked out over craggy slopes that should still be blanketed in white powder. The reservoir , large enough to fill nearly half a million Olympic swimming pools, depends on spring melt to replenish and generate electricity. But after Norway’s driest winter in decades, the water level is far below where it should be, prompting companies to limit...
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