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3 days ago | thearticle.com | David Herman

Is there an epidemic of abuse, stalking and harassment aimed at women professionals in sport? As Wimbledon (30 June-13 July) and the UEFA European Women’s Championship (2-27 July) approach, it is very disturbing to see that the sports pages are so dominated by stories of the abuse of sportswomen, much of it online. First, there is the ongoing story of a man stalking the British tennis player, Emma Raducanu.

1 week ago | thearticle.com | Patrick Maxwell

Sir Keir Starmer is coming up to a year as Prime Minister. There won’t be too many celebrations. For one thing, the man himself always insists on moving on with things, “getting the job done”, enacting “change”. That’s one of his primary characteristics, at least according to the interesting if hagiographical biography by Tom Baldwin, published last year, a few months before his election as Prime Minister.

1 week ago | thearticle.com | David Herman

Here’s an odd thing. Since the abductions, rapes and murders by Hamas on 7 October 2023, BBC News programmes have been consistently biased against Israel. It started on the Today programme when Mishal Husain refused to call Hamas a “terrorist organisation” and got into an idiotic row with Sir Grant Shapps. Days later, John Simpson, who clearly knows on which side his bread is buttered,  also refused to call Hamas “a terrorist organisation”. This was just the beginning.

2 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Raymond Keene

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3 weeks ago | thearticle.com | Patrick Maxwell

Remember AstraZeneca? They were the superheroes of the pandemic, coming to the rescue with their relatively safe and uncontroversial vaccine in the depths of the second lockdown of winter 2020-21, simultaneously justifying the Government’s serendipitous investment right at the start of the coronavirus outbreak. If there was a British success story among the general failures, it was “AZ”. Since 2020, the firm has only grown, and is now one of the biggest in Britain by market capitalisation.