37 h. ago Struggling Kyogo sends Hatate a Celtic reminder from afar as 'priceless' midfielder told cautionary tale by club hero

Stiliyan Petrov reckons Hatate only needs to look as far as Kyogo to see the grass isn't always greener

Politics

59 h. ago ‘Bleak Week’ Film Festival Goes Global, Expanding to 8 Cities Including London

‘Bleak Week’ Film Festival Goes Global, Expanding to 8 Cities Including London  SM Mirror

Culture

3 d. ago Handmaid’s Tale showrunners say show’s ‘chilling’ warning ‘was ignored’ by Trump voters

‘The series has been called a cautionary tale about what can happen when power is abused and people’s rights and freedoms are stripped away,’ said showrunner Eric Tuchman

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9 d. ago Millionaires move out of London: Capital drops down the wealth list after losing higher proportion of super rich than anywhere but Moscow

An annual report on global wealth shows London is only two cities in the top 50 that has fewer rich people than ten years ago.

Economics

3 w. ago ‘There’s a dangerous epidemic in boxing’: the tragic, cautionary tale of Paul Bamba

Paul Bamba was ambitious and loved by his friends and family. But his quest for success was built on dubious fights and a fatal disregard for his own healthAs 2023 drew to a close, Paul Bamba was a marginal club fighter with a record of five wins and three losses, compiled against mediocre opposition. Then his career changed in a very strange way. Bamba fought 14 times in 2024 and won all 14 of those fights by knockout. On 21 December 2024 he was credited with defeating Rogelio Medina Luna in a fight for the World Boxing Association ‘gold’ cruiserweight championship when Medina quit on his stool after the sixth round.Bamba was living his dream. But the dream appears to have been a fantasy built in significant measure on fixed fights. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones’Oakland, California, is often treated as a city on the margins, best known for its struggles with poverty and gun violence, as well as for its history of radical Black activism. But a new book, The Pacific Circuit, argues that Oakland should be viewed as one of the centers of global change in the past century, serving both as a key node in the new global economy built around trans-Pacific trade, and as one of the “sacrifice zones” this economy requires.Far from being an outlier, US journalist Alexis Madrigal argues, Oakland is in fact an early adopter of the technological and economic changes now tearing through cities across the US, and around the world. Oakland has long been the canary in Silicon Valley’s coalmine of disruption, the book suggests. But its residents don’t suffer passively: they organize and learn how to fight back. Continu...

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