Janet Williams and Emma Murphy both had children with disabilities, then started doing some digging … and uncovered a jaw-dropping medical fiasco that rivals thalidomide. Long may they fight!
The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on M John Harrison’s win: A visionary writer gets the recognition he deserves Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for The End of Everything, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history. Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that while plenty of previous winners had dabbled in science fiction, Harrison’s was “the first Booker winner to have emerged from t
President Trump says he's halting aid to Israel. Israelis are worried. But experts say the U.S. is just shifting aid from the State Department to the Pentagon, with less congressional oversight.
The French Government will increase the minimum wage by 1.6% starting in December, a month ahead of schedule, to try to contain social unrest. The measure will raise the minimum income to…
The French Government will increase the minimum wage by 1.6% starting in December, a month ahead of schedule, to try to contain social unrest. The measure will raise the minimum income to…
Negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States are set to meet in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday for a new round of talks aimed at ending nearly five years of full-scale…
United and City dominate the news cycle with stories so strange and vast they threaten to consume the rest of the league In Manchester this weekend it was possible to bookend your Thursday‑to‑Sunday entertainment with two cultural events. First up, a debut screening of the re‑released and uncensored Ken Russell film The Devils at Trafford Odeon. And three days later, three miles down the road, Manchester United versus Aston Villa at Old Trafford. As expected, one of these events provided a visceral cinematic experience, a deeply disturbing two-hour public meditation on the meaning of faith, bl