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Liam Gallagher

Noel Gallagher cuts a casual figure in white tee and jeans as he leaves recording studio in London

Noel Gallagher cuts a casual figure in white tee and jeans as he leaves recording studio in London... after revealing unheard Oasis trackBy Eve Buckland For Mailonline Published: 11:11 BST, 5 May 2020 | Updated: 12:04 BST, 5 May 2020 He recently sent Oasis fans into a frenzy by revealing…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Catalonia

Can the European Union Survive a Pandemic?

There are two things a quarantined European will reliably find when he goes online for news in this age of the coronavirus: first, the clucking of local pundits at how the Trump administration has managed the epidemic in the United States; second, unmistakable evidence that every one of the major…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Meritocracy

Sarah Broom’s New Orleans Saga

Sarah Broom’s New Orleans saga. Archives have always been contested spaces. Who and what gets recorded often has more to do with those in power than it does those without it. Historians have wrestled with this fact for decades, trying to address the assumed neutrality of the political and cultural…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Doping in Cycling

Viva l’Italia! Phillipe Brunel on cycling’s one-of-a-kind, Marco Pantani

Viva l’Italia! We celebrate all things Italian this week as the country begins to open its doors again after over two months in lockdown due to the coronavirus crisis. Businesses have been closed and bike races been canceled. And while the Giro d’Italia has been postponed, we will celebrate Italy’s rich cycling heritage and culture in…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Palestine

On Saudi TV, drama of Israel’s place in the region challenges viewers

The Saudi man cannot believe his ears.“You told him that the Israelis are right and that you want to do business with them?” he asks in response to the suggestion that perhaps, after years of open animosity, Israel isn't the enemy Saudi Arabia once believed them to be.“The enemy is…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

US Universities Creating Social Credit Coronavirus Surveillance System

Three US universities are responding to the coronavirus crisis by creating (irony of all ironies) a Chinese style social credit surveillance system that will ‘score’ people based on their exposure to the virus.According to a report from Tech site dot.LA, researchers at the University of Southern California, Emory University, and the University…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

NOAA

NOAA again extends waiver to allow fishing without monitors

BOSTON — The federal government is extending its suspension of the requirement for at-sea monitors in some East Coast fisheries until at least the middle of the month.Some fishing boats are required to carry workers on board who collect data about commercial fishing. They’re called observers or at-sea monitors, and…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Trickle-Down

Time to redraw national priorities on health and agriculture

The Covid-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown since March 25 has brought to centre-stage the age-old frailties of our country that successive governments have failed to address.In recent decades, we have been obsessed with economic growth and the so-called ‘trickle-down theory’. Benefits of economic growth following policies of liberalisation, globalisation…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Aral Sea

From Wuppertal to China with a camper van

"The Far East in the fast lane" is the title of the new book by journalist and truck driver Jochen Dieckmann. It chronicles his adventurous journey, which he undertook in 2019 along the new Silk Road. In one of the photos Jochen Dieckmann brought back from his trip around the…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Spanish Flu

A brief history of people refusing to wear masks

Should people be forced to wear face masks in public? That’s the question facing governments as more countries unwind their lockdowns. Over 30 countries have made masks compulsory in public, including Germany, Austria, and Poland. This is despite the science saying masks do little to protect wearers, and only might…

bubmagMay 5, 2020

Noel Gallagher cuts a casual figure in white tee and jeans as he leaves recording studio in London

Can the European Union Survive a Pandemic?

Sarah Broom’s New Orleans Saga

Viva l’Italia! Phillipe Brunel on cycling’s one-of-a-kind, Marco Pantani

On Saudi TV, drama of Israel’s place in the region challenges viewers

NOAA again extends waiver to allow fishing without monitors

Time to redraw national priorities on health and agriculture

From Wuppertal to China with a camper van

A brief history of people refusing to wear masks

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