Story of a courageous woman who broke her silence and survived

The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman’s rallying call for shame to change sides. For the very first time Giséle Pelicot tells her story. In 2024, Giséle Pelicot waiver her right to anonymity in her legal fight against her ex-husband and the fifty men- accused of sexually assaulting her, a courageous decision that inspired millions of people around the world. Only four years prior, Giséle has made the shattering discovery that her partner, Dominique Pelicot, had been secretly drugging and raping her, and inviting strangers to also abuse her in their home for nearly a decade. “Shame … Continue reading Story of a courageous woman who broke her silence and survived

Bureaucratic expediency

Elimination of an entire fiercest warriors framed as the inevitable outcome of bureaucratic expediency. Now I Surrender is a woman’s desperate flight from an Apache raid unfolds into a sweeping tale of the Mexico-US border wars. Written with a cast of characters both historical and purely fictional, is the story of how the West was “won.” In the contested borderlands between Mexico and the United States, a woman flees into the desert after a devastating raid on her dead husband’s ranch. A lieutenant colonel in service to the fledgling Republic, sent in pursuit of cattle rustlers, discovers he’s on the … Continue reading Bureaucratic expediency

One Battle After Another wins six Oscars 

The 98th Academy Awards held on March 15, 2026,  One Battle After Another won six Oscars, hosted by Conan O’Brien. Paul Thomas Anderson’s film also took best director, best picture and best supporting actor for Sean Penn. Michael B. Jordan won best actor for “Sinners” and Irish actress, Jessie Buckley was named best actress for her performance of a mother shattered by grief in “Hamnet.” Anderson’s adapted screenplay, giving the 55-year-old auteur three statuettes to take home after 28 years of nominations with no wins. One Battle After Another also won Oscar for casting and editing. Ryan Coogler won the original screenplay … Continue reading One Battle After Another wins six Oscars 

Antonelli wins Chinese Grand Prix

19-year-old Kimi Antonelli wins his first Formula 1 victory for Mercedes  and the second youngest Grand Prix winner in history, after leading team-mate George Russell who came second in the Chinese Grand Prix. Mclaren failed to start. Antonelli’s controlled drive after briefly losing the lead at the start to Lewis Hamilton’s Ferrari. Only Max Verstappen, who won for the first time aged 18 at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, has taken the chequered flag in F1 at a younger age than Antonelli. Russell’s second place ensures he keep the championship lead, by four points from Antonelli. Behind them Hamilton and Ferrari … Continue reading Antonelli wins Chinese Grand Prix

Baltic crusades adapted by Nazi expansionism

Crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last Pagan societies in northern Europe, particularly in the Baltic Sea region between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries. Led by Catholic rulers, churchmen, and most importantly of all, the warrior monks of the Teutonic Order, they sought to expand Christendom through conquest and conversion. In the process they forged a new world with a profound legacy that resogates into the present. Aleksander Pulskowski, professor of medieval archaeology at the UK’s university of Reading, explores how the construction of castles and towns, and the introduction of new languages, technology, monetary economies, and … Continue reading Baltic crusades adapted by Nazi expansionism

Inflation, growth, unemployment, balanced budgets are weaponized to enforce market dependency

Amid financial crisis, pandemic and war, Capitalism seems invincible. Professor of Economics at the University of Tulsa, Clara E Mattei illustrates its fragility and restores hope that everything could be different Yanis Varoufakis. Economics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, neutral, exact. This book reveals the true role: to convince us there’s no alternative to capitalism. Mattei rips the mask off our economic system, and unpacks key concepts like growth, inflation, unemployment and balanced budgets to show how they’re weaponized to enforce market dependence, not freedom, stripping us of the power to shape the democratic decisions that govern our … Continue reading Inflation, growth, unemployment, balanced budgets are weaponized to enforce market dependency

Political power, religion, and perpetual dissent

Mohammed Hanif, Booker-longlisted author’s lively and rich novel about the power of language, friendship, and protest in the face of political turmoil. Rebel English Academy is set during the rapid descent of semi-socialist Pakistan into neither its first nor last period of military dictatorship. In 1979, the army’s hanging of leftist prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto precipitates mysterious changes in the Punjab province.  Sir Baghi, a closeted gay communist English teacher who stopped volunteering his critiques of the government after being subjected to brutal torture, when a widow and former track runner Sabiha Bano, on the run arrives at his door … Continue reading Political power, religion, and perpetual dissent

A tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.

“Every Successful marriage has its own private language.” So it is for baby boomer Kate and her beloved architect husband Jack, thirty years into their seemingly idyllic metropolitan North London life. It is for spiky millennial screenwriter Phoebe and her charming loafer of a partner, Tony. John Lanchester, a former restaurant reviewer, brochettes the pretensions affluent, middle-aged metropolitans when architect Jack says at a Notting Hill dinner party that Yotam Ottolenghi had destroyed British cooking and “done more damage to this country than the Luftwaffe”. Jack’s wife Kate, who is one of the novel’s two narrators, finds him dead from … Continue reading A tale of intergenerational tension and revenge from the Booker Prize nominee.

Global purchasing power

2, 500 years of international currencies the future of the U.S. dollar as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies are revealed. Recently the US dollar has fallen more than 10 per cent against other major currencies since the beginning of 2025, and this especially has questioned the its future, that how long can it remain the world’s premier currency and should it fall what will replace it? Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction and fraying international alliances. In Money Beyond Borders, Barry Eichengreen, a leading authority on … Continue reading Global purchasing power

India win T20 World Cup final

ICC  Men’s T20 World Cup- Final at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad India vs New Zealand India 255-5 off 20 ov  Samson 89 off 46, 5 fours, 8 sixes, Sharma 52 off 21, 6 fours, 3 sixes, Kishan 54 off 25, 4 fours, 4 sixes, Neesham 3-46, Ravindra 1-32, Henry 1-49. New Zealand 159 ao off 19 ov  Selfert 52 off 26, 2 fours, 5 sixes, Santner 43 off 35, 3 fours, 2 sixes, Bumrah 4-15, Patel 3-27, Pandya 1-36, Sharma 1-5.           India win by 96 runs India win their third T20 world title and becomes the first team to win on home soil. … Continue reading India win T20 World Cup final