Mr Scobie's book claims that Meghan wrote a letter to King Charles, who at the time was the Prince of Wales, expressing concern about unconscious bias in the Royal Family. This came after the Duchess of Sussex claimed in her March 2021 interview w...
” I yelped. Tony Rodriguez, the boy I’d had a crush on in sixth grade. The man who’d stood by me during the lawsuit. I assumed he’d left town. He hadn’t been at my mother’s funeral, and I hadn’t run into him at Safeway or Royal Cleaners....
Who is royal biographer Omid Scobie? Palace 'considering options' as King and Princess of Wales named in 'racist' row He wrote of his shock and confusion when he found out the royals' names had been published: "I was in the middle of TV interviews in New York on 28 November when a...
I must say that I was shocked by how the British looked down on the Irish in the book. It was the same condescending and almost racist way they would have talked about Indians or Africans. I didn’t expect it. The sense of the empire and of entitlement is strongly ingrained in the Br...
It was the same condescending and almost racist way they would have talked about Indians or Africans. I didn’t expect it. The sense of the empire and of entitlement is strongly ingrained in the British characters, even the moderate Major. It’s not always written directly but paragraphs ...
Then, finally there is a description of Beeple as a series that began by doodling on “internet bile (racist caricatures, nude women… political satire)” before using animation software in 3D. It just gets more unreadable after this point, as the author digresses into random characters in ...
Khumanego claims the men are innocent and that their arrest is due to racist antagonism from the local police. Kubu investigates the case, resulting in the release of the suspects. But then another man is found murdered in a similar fashion — this time a visitor from neighboring Namibia. ...
It’s time to call out the racist, ableist, and classist undertones of this assumption and invest in transit so that it becomes the reliable, comfortable choice to get us where we need to go. As employers began to rehire after the initial pandemic layoffs, in many cases making telework ...
It's 20 years since Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced a death sentence on Salman Rushdie for 'insulting' Islam with his novel The Satanic Verses. The repercussions were profound - and are still being felt. Andrew Anthony traces the course of the affair, from book-burnings ...
Like Pete, I’ve got a strong connection to working men’s clubs. Although my parents tended to prefer pubs – better beer, better atmosphere – they were also members of The Railwayman’s Club in Bridgwater, and of The Royal British Legion. ...