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1 week ago | 
eldiarioar.com | Ana Requena Aguilar |Maria Ramirez |María Ramírez |Zoe Williams |Francesca Cicardi
Un 44% de los jóvenes entre 18 y 24 años dice que las redes sociales y las plataformas de video son su principal fuente de noticias, según un informe del Instituto Reuters publicado este martes, que constata la pérdida de influencia de los medios de comunicación tradicionales.
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1 week ago | 
eldiarioar.com | Ana Requena Aguilar |Maria Ramirez |María Ramírez |Zoe Williams |Andrés Gil
El presidente de Estados Unidos, Donald Trump, advirtió este martes que si Irán ataca objetivos estadounidenses, la respuesta será contundente.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Zoe Williams
I am always considered likely to be a quiz asset, because I’m old, and yet I’m a huge quiz deficit – not only usually wrong, but with such confident delivery that I make others in the team, who are right, lose their way, like a magnet on a compass. After another stunning defeat, in which we slipped from a mediocre seventh or eighth back to last place, having had 20 points deducted because I poked the quiz guy with a pencil, I’m ready to pass on some basic quizdom.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Zoe Williams
MI6 has never had a female head in its 116-year history – until now. How fitting that the first woman should be called Blaise Metreweli. That forename has it all: derring-do (courtesy of Modesty Blaise), onomatopoeia, modernity. Metreweli will take over in the autumn as C, the real-life version of M from James Bond. She currently runs Q branch, MI6’s technology division, which apparently is named after the Bond quartermaster.
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1 week ago | 
inkl.com | Zoe Williams
Daniel Craig and Judi Dench in 2012’s Skyfall. The Bond franchise introduced a female spy chief in 1995; the real-life MI6 has made the leap 30 years later. Photograph: Sony Pictures/Allstar MI6 has never had a female head in its 116-year history – until now. How fitting that the first woman should be called Blaise Metreweli. That forename has it all: derring-do (courtesy of Modesty Blaise), onomatopoeia, modernity.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Zoe Williams |Ivor Manley |Sami Kent
On Friday it was announced that David Beckham was to receive his knighthood – the fruits of a campaign for the honour that started more than a decade ago. So why now? And what does it say about the UK’s honours system – and its class system – that it took so long?
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Helen Pidd |Zoe Williams |Ivor Manley |Sami Kent
“England trail by two goals to one. Beckham could raise the roof here with a goal,” goes the commentary, as David Beckham lines up a free-kick against Greece, shortly before whipping it into the top corner. “I don’t believe it! David Beckham scores the goal to take England all the way to the World Cup finals! Give that man a knighthood!”The year was 2001, and the ultimate honour seemed close for England’s biggest football player – and perhaps the most famous living Briton, full stop.
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1 week ago | 
taipeitimes.com | Zoe Williams
By Zoe Williams
/ The Guardian When US President Donald Trump was elected the first time, German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt’s books flew off the shelves in the US. It was not all good news — J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy was also enjoying a surge in popularity and Trump was, of course, still about to be president.
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1 week ago | 
eldiarioar.com | Zoe Williams
“Reflexionar sobre el fenómeno del trumpismo supone llegar a la conclusión de que el sistema en Estados Unidos no está funcionando para la clase trabajadora”, afirma Bernie Sanders en un encuentro en la redacción de The Guardian en Londres. “Trump sacó provecho de esta situación; de una manera falsa e hipócrita. Sus supuestas 'soluciones' no harán más que empeorar el problema”.
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2 weeks ago | 
inkl.com | Zoe Williams
When Miranda July’s All Fours was published in May last year, it triggered what felt like both a spontaneous resistance movement and the sort of mania last experienced when the final Twilight book dropped, except this time for women in midlife rather than teenage girls. Two friends separately brought it to my house, like contraband dropped out of a biplane. Book groups hastily convened, strategically timed for when the men were out of the picture.
