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In this corner of Europe, no one cares about the EU election – POLITICO

In this corner of Europe, no one cares about the EU election – POLITICO

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The last time he voted in an election of any kind was “maybe” 20 years ago. Like most people in Luník IX, an impoverished Roma neighborhood on the outskirts of Slovakia’s second-largest city, Košice, he was not planning to vote in the upcoming European election. It doesn’t make sense for him to vote, because the European Union has changed absolutely nothing in his life, Fratel said. This faraway corner of eastern Slovakia — just a 90-minute drive from the Ukrainian border, in one of the EU’s poorest regions — is removed from the intricacies of Brussels politics. Luník residents face rampant unemployment — more than half of the working population does not have a job, according to local authorities — and difficult housing conditions. Many live in decrepit, overcrowded apartments, with around a dozen people per flat on average, according to local authorities. Many Luník residents live in decrepit, overcrowded apartments, with around a dozen people per flat on average, according to local authorities. | Nicolas Camut/ POLITICO In Slovakia, as in most European countries, …

British judges were right to allow Julian Assange’s appeal. The next three weeks will show who cares about justice | Duncan Campbell

British judges were right to allow Julian Assange’s appeal. The next three weeks will show who cares about justice | Duncan Campbell

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For Julian Assange, the wait continues. The pause can be counted as a small victory in the long battle to fight his extradition to the United States. But it is one of the many shameful issues in this most shameful of sagas that his waiting room is a cell in a high security prison where he has been held for the past five years, despite having been convicted of nothing. The high court decision issued by Dame Victoria Sharp and Mr Justice Johnson means that the US has been given a short time to offer “assurances” as to how his trial would be conducted and that the death penalty would not be imposed. Astonishingly it has previously been unable to provide them. Assange’s defence team will then be allowed to challenge those “assurances” issued by a country with a long record of ignoring many of the basic rights of anyone deemed to be threatening the security of the state in any way. It is almost exactly a year since the Wall Street Journal reporter Evan …

Danny Care’s adorable family album: England rugby star’s 3 children with wife Jodie Henson

Danny Care’s adorable family album: England rugby star’s 3 children with wife Jodie Henson

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Danny Care is enjoying a stellar rugby career. But off the pitch, the England player, who we can expect to see on our screens on Saturday night in the Six Nations Championship game against France, is a doting dad. Followers of the sporting star, 37, may recognise his adorable children from their on-pitch celebratory moments as a family, or from Danny’s Instagram where he keeps fans updated with milestones in his family’s life.  © InstagramDanny and Jodie got married in 2016 Danny married the mother of his children, Jodie Henson, in 2016. The athlete met his bride in 2013 while on holiday in Thailand and never looked back. The happy couple wed at St Andrew’s Church in Cobham, Surrey surrounded by friends and family and a certain pair of royal faces.  Zara Tindall and her former rugby player husband Mike Tindall were in attendance on Danny’s special day. Princess Anne’s daughter wore a blue floral dress and coordinating fascinator while her husband wore a navy suit and pink tie.  “When I saw Jodie for the …

Lauren Oyler Cares a Lot, Actually

Lauren Oyler Cares a Lot, Actually

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I’ve become great friends with people because one of us wrote a positive review about the other—and then subsequently, you can’t write about them anymore, but that’s fine. I became friends with Sheila Heti after I wrote about Motherhood. I got really mad at all of the reviews that she was getting for that book, which I thought were completely shortsighted. I think those reviewers should be like, “That was wrong, I regret that negative review,” because they made them very personal. That’s a wonderful friendship. I’m like, “Well, if I can’t write about Sheila Heti anymore, that’s good, because book reviews are very difficult, and one more person I can’t write about? That’s great.” From this collection, I know a lot about what you think about but not a lot of, say, biographical details. How do you think about the personal in your writing? My first concern is there’s a style of personal essay that has been popular for many years and people keep saying it’s dying, but it’s quite clearly back with a …

Who Really Cares About Democracy?

Who Really Cares About Democracy?

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Protest in Hong Kong: what a blank sheet of paper conveys Source: Wikimedia Commons (HKU student white paper protest 2022). Voice of America/Tang Huiyun. Public domain. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, many observers took the collapse of Communism in Europe as a sign that democracy had triumphed over totalitarianism. Democratic institutions were then on the ascent in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa as well. But today, as we approach the 35th anniversary of the wall’s demise—the 2024 presidential election will take place the same week as that anniversary this November—many voices are expressing concern about the future of democratic institutions in the world. China had halted its 1989 democracy movement by mowing down demonstrators with tanks, just months before Communism’s demise in eastern Europe. Its Communist Party held onto power in the three decades that followed by intensifying its repression of dissent, on the one hand, and achieving record-shattering rates of economic growth on the other. In 1991, the Soviet Communist Party fell from power and the Soviet Union broke up, but after …

Is Sadiq Khan a good mayor of London? Let’s not pretend the far right cares | Zoe Williams

Is Sadiq Khan a good mayor of London? Let’s not pretend the far right cares | Zoe Williams

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My kids have this stunt that I fall for every time: they ask me a question they know I’ll answer in an incredibly long, unbroken monologue, and they can zone me out until I’ve finished. It is the equivalent of putting me in a playpen. They have been doing it since they were small – “What dog will you have when you’re old?” – and have refined it over time: “What exactly happens in Heathers?”; “What’s wrong with having a single tax rate for everyone?”   So yesterday, I got: “Is Sadiq Khan a good mayor?” In normal times, I would have talked about how all politicians shout a good game on housing, but so few of them build anything, and how Khan has broken the mould on that, though he has been frustrated in the speed of his endeavour by what they call “challenging market conditions”, when they mean, “since the Liz Truss disaster”. I’d have mentioned his Hopper fare, which lets you get on as many buses as you like within an hour …

Who cares if he loves me not? My friendships are the most romantic relationships of my life

Who cares if he loves me not? My friendships are the most romantic relationships of my life

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Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Hello, you glorious angel sent straight from heaven! Who gave you permission to be so unbelievably beautiful? It’s too much!” These words greet me as I walk into my local cafe to meet, not some smooth-talking Lothario, but a good friend. We spend several minutes exchanging admiration for each other’s outfits, our make-up free faces, our general energy and “aura”, all the while engaging in a deep embrace and occasionally stroking each other’s hair, like chimpanzees affectionately grooming their mates. This is not some heartfelt reunion after a long spell apart. It is, rather, a fairly typical encounter – I see Steph at least once a week, usually more. But I’ve noticed of late that my interactions with her and the other friends in my close network are all imbued with the kind of romance I always assumed would only come when I met my future …

If women’s football cares about the climate crisis it must cut ties with Barclays | Women’s football

If women’s football cares about the climate crisis it must cut ties with Barclays | Women’s football

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When I play football I feel free from the worries of day-to-day life. But as a young person living in a climate and environmental crisis, these worries have become increasingly hard to ignore. This has been made even harder by the fact that the climate crisis is killing my sport, and one of the companies most responsible is plastering its name all over football in England to distract from what it is doing. As a professional footballer, I’ve had the privilege of representing my country, New Zealand, 15 times. From being a champion of Italy with Juventus to playing most recently for Hearts in the Scottish Women’s Premier League, I have been lucky enough to experience football in a variety of settings. The goal was always to use football as a means to experience the world, but it turns out the world I’ve been experiencing isn’t what I thought it would be. For this reason I am using my career to fight for the defining issue of our generation: tackling climate change. Call me a …

Blinken in Africa seeks to reassure that the U.S. still cares

Blinken in Africa seeks to reassure that the U.S. still cares

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Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save ABIDJAN, Côte d’Ivoire — Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in West Africa this week and drove straight to an African soccer championship match, a moment of pride for this coastal country and a prime opportunity to show American support for a national event. But Beijing had been here first: The venue, a massive new Olympic Stadium called Ébimpé, was constructed by China, and China’s top diplomat, Wang Yi, visited Abidjan last week to promote the “win-win” partnership with Côte d’Ivoire. Blinken this week will cross sub-Saharan Africa in a bid to prove that the United States is not abandoning the continent despite its intense focus on raging crises in Gaza and Ukraine. As China and Russia press their advantage here while Washington focuses elsewhere, Blinken is using his fourth trip to the region to reassure nations that the continent is still a destination for U.S. dealmaking and policymakers. “We’re here for a very simple reason, because America and Africa’s futures, their peoples, their prosperity, …

Sununu reacts to ‘Never Nikki’ site: ‘Nobody cares what Rand Paul thinks’

Sununu reacts to ‘Never Nikki’ site: ‘Nobody cares what Rand Paul thinks’

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New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) went after Sen. Rand Paul (R-K.Y.) during a recent appearance on Newsmax, saying that “nobody cares what Rand Paul thinks” after the senator targeted Haley’s campaign Friday morning.  Sununu, who endorsed Haley in the GOP primary back in December, was asked during his Friday appearance on Newsmax about Paul’s newly-forged anti-endorsement of Haley. The libertarian-leaning senator said that Haley is the “only” candidate he would not be comfortable with as the GOP nominee.  “What does this mean for her campaign?” the hosts asked Sununu.  “What does Rand Paul mean? Nothing,” Sununu said in response. “I’m sorry, but nobody cares what Rand Paul thinks in this race. This race is in Iowa and New Hampshire, it’s in South Carolina. She’s the only candidate that’s surging.” Sununu reiterated his response later in the interview, doubling down on his diss towards Paul.  “Maybe when the U.S. Senate actually starts doing something and actually starts delivering some results, they can stand on a soapbox and think that their words matter,” Sununu said. “But …