Fifty-two-year-old, Karen Gordon, Countess Spencer, reveals that she is separating from Earl Spencer, the brother of Prince Diana, after 13 years of marriage, and leaving Princes Diana’s childhood home, Continue reading Countess Spencer is separating from Earl Spencer
Nancy, a London-based narrator, has just discovered that she has a half-brother from New Zealand and a half-sister, inherited from her father’s previous relationship. Her other has died recently and never fully explained to the reader. Nancy finds to her surprise that she is pregnant by a distant partner. The discovery of Oliver , her half-brother, ruptures Nancy’s relationship with Rita her half-sister. Rita struggles to accept a stranger as part of a family that is complicated enough especially when doing so tarnishes the image of her late father. Nancy’s world is punched inside out at the above discoveries. As … Continue reading Siblings lost and found
Capitalist elite runs corporation as a business that uses its accumulated wealth to own the means of production and exercise economic power. In the twenty-first century, our most desired goods and services aren’t stacked in warehouses or on container ships, they appear on your screen, fit in your pocket or occupy your head. Although, we consume more than ever before, big business faces now faces a crisis of legitimacy. The pharmaceutical industry creates life-saving vaccines but has lost the trust of the public. The widening pay gap between executives and employees is destabilising our societies. Facebook and google have more … Continue reading Global businesses lost trust of the public
In 1979, Margaret Thatcher was elected to Downing Street with rampant double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and flatlining economic growth. Her grocery experience and monetarist orthodoxy held the control of money supply by rejecting the old orthodoxies and was promoted by only a minority of economists’ policy based on the doctrine of monetarism. Tim Lancaster, was the private secretary for economic affairs to Thatcher during the early years of her government, and gives an insider’s account explains her attitudes and decisions and those of the other main players in this deeply damaging experiment in economic policy making, which promised much but … Continue reading Policy blunder led to recession in Thatcher era
A rough 2, 492-carat diamond, believed to be the second-largest has been unearthed in Botswana at Karowne mine ( 300 miles north Botswana’s capital, Gaborone) worth about £31million, owned by Canadian firm Lucara Diamond. The previous biggest discovery in Botswana was a 1, 758-caraat diamond found at the same mine in 2019. Botswana is one of the world’s biggest producer of diamonds about 20 per cent of global production. Lucara’s head William Lamb, in a statement said “one of the largest rough diamonds ever unearthed”. The biggest diamond in the world is 3,106-carat Cullinan diamond, found in south Africa in … Continue reading Second largest 2, 492-carat diamond discovered in Botswana’s mine
Raddison Red Heathrow hotel boast about plunging into culture, their hotels are different as they put a twist on the normal to make it unforgettable. The Night team left reception desk empty, call for help were ignored. Inadequate safety at the hotel enabled a miscreant knocking on their guest room doors and windows of the cabin crew of Air India leading to a sexual assualt last week. On Thursday at Raddison Red Heathrow hotel an assailant entered a woman cabin crew’s room with the help of a card key when she was sleeping and sexually assualted her at 1:30am. Her … Continue reading Air India cabincrew sexually assaulted by intruder in London Hotel room
UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, co-founder of Autonomy, and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morgan Stanley’s international chair Jonathan Bloomer, Chris Morvillo, a lawyer at Clifford Chance, are among the six unaccounted for after superyacht was hit by a tornado and sank within sixty seconds. Chamberlin, the former vice-president of finance at Autonomy, Lynch’s co-defendant in a US trial related to the sale of his software company to Hewlett-Packard had died after being hit by a car while out running in Cambridgeshire. The 59-year-old Lynch was acquitted by a jury in San Francisco in June, after he spent more then a … Continue reading Sicily Tornado hit Superyacht sinking with millionaires
Acclaimed BBC newsreader and journalist Mishal Husain, reveals the transformation of her grandparents’ lives amidst empire, political upheaval and partition, as we;; as a chronicle of one of the most cataclysmic events in South Asia. “I witnessed the dwindling glow of the British Empire. I saw small men entrusted with great jobs, playing with destiny of millions’. Mary Quinn, a student nurse and devout Catholic married for love & Mumtaz Husain was he only son of extremely conservative Muslims. In early 1942 they quietly arranged consecutive weddings : one performed by an Imam in Lahore, who reasoned that even the … Continue reading Dealing with destiny of millions
Adele rosenfeld’s novel Jelly Fish Have No Ears – was the finalist for Prix Goncourt du Premier in 2022 – explores what it is likely to live with an invisible disability. Louise F is partially deaf and have always felt adrift between communities not deaf enough to be part of deaf culture, not hearing enough to be fully within the hearing world. Hearing for Louise is inseparable from reading other people’s lips. Through sight, she perceives words and strings them together like pearls to reconstruct a conversation. After an audiology exam reveals that she lost a further 15 decibels, her … Continue reading Darkness of silence
No animal is so entangled in human history s at the horse. Horse had a central role in culture, commerce and conquest when delve into the history of civilisation. Domestication of horses, followed by the advent of riding, powered mighty empires Persian, Mongol, Mughal spanning Iran, Turkey, Afghanistan, China, India, Russia. The deep and ancient bond between humans and their horses connected a vast continent, forged trade routes, linked cultures and fuelled war machines. David Chaffetz, a scholar of history, tells the story of the steppe raiders, rulers and traders who amassed power and wealth on horseback from the Bronze … Continue reading Horse powered mighty empires
