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Grant Shapps, spreadsheet schemer, takes Home Office reins

The former transport secretary was a major backer of Liz Truss’s rival Rishi Sunak in the Tory leadership contest.

The Independent UK · Oct 19, 2022

Ales Bialiatski, a life of peaceful struggle for human rights in Belarus

A co-laureate of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, the human rights activist Ales Bialiatski is the fourth person in the history of the Nobel to receive this award while in prison. With this symbolic yet powerful gesture, the Nobel committee recognised Bialiatski’s 35 years of work upholding human rights in…

The Conversation · Oct 18, 2022

Climate change must be a catalyst for reform of the World Heritage system

Over the last few years, many parts of the world have been devastated by extreme droughts, floods, wild fires and heatwaves linked to climate change. But climate change is not only influencing our weather: it also poses an existential threat to the outstanding universal value (OUV) of many of the…

The Conversation · Oct 16, 2022

How did the patriarchy start – and will evolution get rid of it?

READER QUESTION: Many people assume the patriarchy has always been there, but surely this isn’t the case? How did it really originate? Matt, 48, London.

The Conversation · Sep 20, 2022

A ragtag community is keeping this aughts Wikipedia gadget alive

The WikiReader, a single-purpose gadget that holds all 6.5 million articles on English Wikipedia, launched in 2009.

Input · Sep 19, 2022

What Wikipedia Can Teach the Rest of the Internet

Jimmy Wales talks about why his online encyclopedia works, how to improve social media, and why Section 230 isn't the real problem with the internet.

Reason · Sep 18, 2022

The Queen’s corgis have a history of biting people, including the Queen herself

From biting police officers to “Beware of the dog” signs, the Queen’s corgis may not be as loving as they seem

The Independent UK · Sep 15, 2022

Fastest 'was' in the West: Inside Wikipedia's race to cover the queen's death

Within seconds of the news of Queen Elizabeth II's death, an army of Wikipedia editors rushed to update her page on the site. It was chaos.

WEKU · Sep 15, 2022

Who the hell updated Queen Elizabeth II’s Wikipedia page so quickly?

Mere seconds after the news of her passing broke, User:Sydwhunte, whose edits are mostly on sports pages, had already changed "is" to "was."

Input · Sep 9, 2022

No summons from Indian government over Arshdeep Singh’s Wikipedia page, says Wikimedia Foundation

The Foundation that runs Wikipedia has received an email from the IT Ministry enquiring about the incident in which Indian cricketer Arshdeep Singh’s Wikipedia page was vandalised

The Hindu · Sep 6, 2022