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New shin-kicking champion crowned at centuries-old rural games

More than 2,500 spectators attended the anicent games

The Independent UK · May 30

Straw flies as shin-kicking champion crowned at ancient rural games

The event was first run on a Gloucester hillside in 1612.

Evening Standard · May 30

Trump’s Board of Peace launches into a warring world

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The Conversation · Jan 22

Gaza Update: as Israel begins its ground offensive, the conflict's reverberations are being felt far beyond the Strip

The ground assault on Gaza is now well underway and, as they advance into the Strip’s urban areas, the Israel Defence Forces are coming up against an elusive enemy that has been preparing for this conflict for years. For Hamas’s military wing, a key part of those preparations has been…

The Conversation · Nov 3, 2023

Let the bog snorkelling commence! 10 of the weirdest sporting events in the UK

From ferret racing to shinkicking, we round up some of the country’s most eccentric sporting events. Oddly, cricket isn’t among them …

The Guardian - UK · Jun 28, 2023

Ukraine recap: Russia's 'modern siege tactics' fail to break the people's will to resist

First, let’s clear up some unfinished business from last week. We reported here that Russia’s defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, had been talking up the idea that Ukraine was planning to use a “dirty bomb” and specified a couple of facilities which he said were involved in the preparation of such…

The Conversation · Nov 3, 2022

Ukraine recap: what Putin's mobilisation order means for the war and the west

The political climate got a few degrees warmer this week after Vladimir Putin announced a plan for partial mobilisation of Russian reserves, calling on a reservoir of somewhere between 300,000 and a million troops to bolster the Russian military’s parlous position in Ukraine.

The Conversation · Sep 22, 2022