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The finding of a polio virus in repeated sampling from the sewage system in London during 2022 is less of a concern for highly vaccinated communities in the UK, where children are immune to the rare chance of paralysis. However, it is a portent of potential individual catastrophe for ...

For many, the platinum jubilee pageant was an opportunity to look back at the Queen’s 70-year reign.But friends Megan Goddard, 21, Hannah Thickett, 23, and Jessica Cavill, 22, said the festivities left them contemplating the future.The trio gathered on the Mall to watch the final piece of the lavish ...

The unspoken rationale underlying British immigration policy since the second world war has always been about race. A new leaked Home Office document, which was never intended to be seen by the public, spells this out. The report, which was commissioned by the Home Office in the wake of ...

When Vladimir Putin recognised Donetsk and Luhansk as independent republics, days before his invasion of Ukraine, one of the most powerful denunciations came from Kenya’s envoy to the UN. Martin Kimani cited his country’s own history as he warned against irredentism and expansionism: “We must complete our recovery from ...

What puts a smile on your face and makes you feel a little warm, fuzzy and romantic while watching cricket? It might be the sight of your favourite player in full flow, or taking in a particular skill – a leggie ragging it square or a quick delivering a ...

On the morning of 3 December, Priyantha Kumara, the 49-year-old export manager of Rajco Industries, asked his workers to remove a sticker from a machine in their factory in Sialkot. Kumara, a Sri Lankan, had lived in the industrial town in Punjab since 2010, when he and his two ...

Haris Aziz is not a man to let a problem pass him by. Born in Pakistan, he did a Bsc at Lahore University of management sciences, an MSc in maths at Oxford, a PhD at Warwick and is now an associate professor at the University of New South Wales. ...

In less than a year, millions of football fans will descend on Qatar to cheer on their favourite teams in the 2022 World Cup. They’ll be greeted by dozens of shiny new hotels, restaurants, roadways, and seven glistening new football stadiums. It will be a proud moment for Qatar ...

Arooj Aftab – Vulture PrinceArooj Aftab: Mohabbat – videoFollowing her 2015 debut Bird Under Water, Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer Arooj Aftab intended to make a more danceable second album. Then came the unexpected death of her brother, bringing new meaning to the Vulture Prince concept she had taken as her ...

The last time cricket appeared in the Commonwealth Games, in 1998, England paused, filed their nails, and decided it wasn’t for them. The one-day tournament was to be held in Kuala Lumpur in September, just as the County Championship was coming to a head. Clearly, in those late 20th-century ...