27 h. ago The forgotten history of the London estate built to be a utopian city after the Blitz

The forgotten history of the London estate built to be a utopian city after the Blitz  My London

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5 d. ago Sprawling Sonoma Wine Estate With Mysterious Ties to Author Jack London Hits the Market for $4 Million

Sprawling Sonoma Wine Estate With Mysterious Ties to Author Jack London Hits the Market for $4 Million  Realtor.com

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5 d. ago Trump defends Mohammed bin Salman over killing of Jamal Khashoggi, claiming Saudi crown prince ‘knew nothing about it’ and ‘things happen’

President blasts ABC News as fake news during Oval Office meeting with Saudi crown princeTrump says US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudis as Prince Mohammed visitsA reminder that Donald Trump’s family has a strong personal interest in Saudi Arabia. In September, London real estate developer Dar Global announced that it plans to launch Trump Plaza in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.It’s Dar Global’s second collaboration with the Trump Organization, the collection of companies controlled by the US president’s children, in the kingdom. Last year, the two companies announced the launch of Trump Tower Jeddah. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Donald Trump welcomes Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to White House

President set to sell F-35 stealth jets to the kingdom in crown prince’s first US visit since 2018 killing of regime critic Jamal KhashoggiTrump says US will sell F-35 stealth jets to Saudis as Prince Mohammed visitsA reminder that Donald Trump’s family has a strong personal interest in Saudi Arabia. In September, London real estate developer Dar Global announced that it plans to launch Trump Plaza in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.It’s Dar Global’s second collaboration with the Trump Organization, the collection of companies controlled by the US president’s children, in the kingdom. Last year, the two companies announced the launch of Trump Tower Jeddah. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Can ceramics be demonic? Edmund de Waal’s obsession with a deeply disturbing Dane

The great potter explains why he turned his decades-long fixation with Axel Salto – maker of unsettling stoneware full of tentacle sproutings and knotty growths – into a new showPotter and writer Edmund de Waal, a dark silhouette of neat workwear against the blinding white of his studio, is erupting with thoughts, all of them tumbling out of him at once. He is giving me a tour of the former gun factory on a London industrial estate gently disciplined into architectural calm. It has work stations for his staff (it’s quite an operation); store rooms; and a main space nearly empty but for some giant black lidded vessels he made in Denmark, as capacious as coffins. At either end, up discreet sets of steps, are the places of raw creation. One, with its potter’s wheel, is where he makes; the other, with its desk and bookshelves, is where he writes.He opens a door to the room housing his two mighty kilns, its back wall lined with rows of shelves with experiments in form and glaze, and tell...

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8 d. ago Brian May's wife Anita Dobson's brutal realisation after quitting London

Queen guitarist Brian May and his wife Anita Dobson swapped their London home for a lavish Surrey estate after it flooded with sewage

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8 d. ago London boroughs seek ‘funding firepower’ to tackle housing crisis through investment in existing estates

London boroughs seek ‘funding firepower’ to tackle housing crisis through investment in existing estates  London Post

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9 d. ago Leaseholder fury at £100k bills for new windows during major works beset by delays

Westminster City Council is consulting on refurbishing the final five tower blocks on the Hallfield Estate in Bayswater

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9 d. ago ‘Outrageous’: 21 arrested and four officers injured in protest clashes at Chicago

The Chicago-area facility has been a hub for protests since the Trump administration began its Operation Midway Blitz immigration crackdown on the city in September

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9 d. ago London leaseholder fury as they face over £100k bills for new windows in major works beset by delays

Westminster City Council is consulting on refurbishing the final five tower blocks on the Garde II-listed Hallfield Estate in Bayswater

Economics

1 week ago ‘MigraWatch’ trainings to ‘Whistlemania’ events: Chicagoans fight back against ICE raids

Residents are organizing in response to raids across the city amid Trump’s wide-ranging ‘operation midway blitz’Anaís Robles didn’t expect to get teargassed. The co-owner of Colibrí Cafe, the coffee shop that opened this year in Chicago’s East Side neighborhood, saw commotion outside in mid October and ran to see what happened.Robles saw federal agents donning masks and decided to step back, she was half a block away when the tear gas canisters hit. “People were just in the streets, so to clear out the area, they teargas all of us, and like, multiple teargas [cannisters],” she said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Life on the West London estate where 'joke' refurbishment has 'turned it into a construction site'

Life on the West London estate where 'joke' refurbishment has 'turned it into a construction site'  MyLondon

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2 w. ago Odyssey review – estate agents, cocaine and mental collapse in a jagged London thriller

Odyssey review – estate agents, cocaine and mental collapse in a jagged London thriller  The Guardian

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2 w. ago Odyssey review – estate agents, cocaine and mental collapse in a chaotic London thriller

Odyssey review – estate agents, cocaine and mental collapse in a chaotic London thriller  The Guardian

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3 w. ago Orphans of history: the forgotten republic of Transnistria – photo essay

Photographer Didier Bizet has spent time documenting life in the self-proclaimed autonomous republic, which is not recognised by the international community. Its status raises complex questions about the identity of its inhabitants – Ukrainians, Russians, Moldovans and Bulgarians – in a land searching for direction and lacking a clearly defined national identityAmid the ongoing war in Ukraine and between the fragile borders that crisscross the former Soviet Union, the self-proclaimed Republic of Transnistria, which broke away from Moldova more than 30 years ago after a brief but bloody conflict, remains locked in deep political and diplomatic isolation.Home to about 450,000 people, Transnistria is a narrow strip of land wedged between Moldova and Ukraine, along the eastern bank of the Dniester River. Its de facto capital, Tiraspol, lies less than 60 miles from the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. Though small in size – about 125 miles long – the region holds outsized strategic importan...

Culture

3 w. ago East London group who stashed £100k cannabis farm in industrial estate jailed

East London group who stashed £100k cannabis farm in industrial estate jailed  MyLondon

Economics

3 w. ago Three east London men jailed for growing cannabis at Essex industrial estate

Three east London men jailed for growing cannabis at Essex industrial estate  Romford Recorder

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3 w. ago Forgotten Liverpool summer signing desperate to 'write history' ahead of possible debut

Liverpool host Crystal Palace in the fourth round of the Carabao Cup on Wednesday night in a fixture which could offer opportunities to Arne Slot's squad players

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3 w. ago One of West London's biggest industrial estates to be totally demolished and regenerated

One of West London's biggest industrial estates to be totally demolished and regenerated  MyLondon

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3 w. ago Teenager stabbed man to death during fight between ten males on west London estate

Teenager stabbed man to death during fight between ten males on west London estate  East London Advertiser

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