‘My career is finished, my friends are in prison and I’m an alien in my city’: life after Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/jun/24/norman-choi-apple-daily-hong-kong-china-alien-in-a-strange-city?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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LBC: James O’Brien schools Leave voter who asks him to stop mentioning Brexit
James O’Brien schools Leave voter who asks him to stop mentioning Brexit
James O’Brien had a firm response to this Leave voter who asked him to stop mentioning Brexit because it was “unbelievably boring” and “almost childlike”.
Read in LBC: https://apple.news/At3-ig3E9T9WKYL3aE72_YA
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INEWS: Brexit referendum six years on: 4 biggest wins and losses from leaving the EU for Boris Johnson’s Government
Brexit referendum six years on: 4 biggest wins and losses from leaving the EU for Boris Johnson’s Government
From taking back control to getting new free trade agreements, i takes a look at whether Vote Leave’s promises have come to fruition
Read in inews: https://apple.news/AYnkXcI6BTpmxBEjXMKgs5g
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The Sainsbury Wing redesign: spare us the art-world good taste
The Sainsbury Wing redesign: spare us the art-world good taste
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/19/the-sainsbury-wing-redesign-spare-us-the-art-world-good-taste?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Architecture students deserve better than toxic cultures and sleepless nights
Architecture students deserve better than toxic cultures and sleepless nights
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/18/architecture-students-deserve-better-than-toxic-cultures-and-sleepless-nights?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
CNN: How I survived 70 days confinement in the world’s toughest Covid lockdown
How I survived 70 days confinement in the world’s toughest Covid lockdown
In Hong Kong, Omicron was running amok, but in Shanghai cases were still in the single digits and with China’s iron-fisted approach to infections it seemed reasonable to think things would stay that way. That was my first mistake.
Read in CNN: https://apple.news/AsvQOMt8HSAWv6rTSh2kdwg
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91
Jean-Louis Trintignant, star of A Man and a Woman and Amour, dies aged 91
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jun/17/jean-louis-trintignant-star-of-a-man-and-a-woman-and-amour-dies-aged-91?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
SKY NEWS: Shoddy workmanship, flammable cladding and unprepared firefighters: what the inquiry has heard so far
Shoddy workmanship, flammable cladding and unprepared firefighters: what the inquiry has heard so far
On 14 June 2017, a small flat fire spread rapidly up a west London tower block and engulfed the building in a raging inferno.
Read in Sky News: https://apple.news/ADONyxxs9RgGaMk8jLXixKA
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HOW SAN FRANCISCO BECAME A FAILED CITY And how it could recover
THE TIMES AND THE SUNDAY TIMES: Corner-cutting, cover-ups and a disregard for human life: why Grenfell really happened
Corner-cutting, cover-ups and a disregard for human life: why Grenfell really happened
Five years ago 72 people, including 18 children, died in the tower. This is the shocking account of the appalling errors and corporate complacency that led to the inferno.
Read in The Times and The Sunday Times: https://apple.news/AmuzevtRqRzWauymzCShfxQ
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Paapa Essiedu on grief, doubt and fury at Boris Johnson: ‘Bigotry is the backbone of his character ’
Paapa Essiedu on grief, doubt and fury at Boris Johnson: ‘Bigotry is the backbone of his character’
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jun/11/paapa-essiedu-grief-boris-johnson-i-may-destroy-you-michaela-coel?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
THE INDEPENDENT: Brexit ‘largely to blame’ for £31bn loss to UK economy, study fin ds
Brexit ‘largely to blame’ for £31bn loss to UK economy, study finds
5.2% GDP shortfall ‘mostly’ down to Britain’s exit from EU, according to top think tank
Read in The Independent: https://apple.news/A6KWkVLISRnq555gT1M7y7Q
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CNN: See how AR-15 style guns create ‘explosion inside the body’
See how AR-15 style guns create ‘explosion inside the body’
Researchers at Wayne State University use gelatin to demonstrate how AR-15 styles weapons create an “explosion inside the body” compared to handguns. CNN’s Josh Campbell reports.
Read in CNN: https://apple.news/AZvGduyxxTCWk8nR-ovxX5A
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My 98-year-old friend fled Nuremberg on the Kindertransport. Today would he be sent to Rwanda? | Chitra Ramaswamy
Artist Paula Rego, known for her visceral and unsettling work, dies aged 87
RIP
Artist Paula Rego, known for her visceral and unsettling work, dies aged 87
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/08/paula-rego-artist-dies-aged-87?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other