In the aftermath of a terrifying new reality in Afghanistan, this year’s Concrete has a difficult job to make sense of it all. Luckily, we’ve already started. The Taliban’s treatment of women and children – despite widespread denial – is shocking and unjustifiable. We only know this thanks to the work of media groups on…
Sport
Transfer Window: the wildest yet?
The football transfer window closed on 31st August after one of the strangest and cheapest windows in Premier League history. Apart from the eye catching £100m spent by Manchester City on Jack Grealish and Chelsea’s £97.5 million fee for Romelu Lukaku, most clubs showed an unusual degree of spending restraint after reduced ticket sales due…
Features
Social Media: most of us use it, but at what cost?
The most successful people in life always turn their phone on silent. And I say this without a grain of evidence. Think of it as more of a belief, than a proven fact. It makes sense though, right? After all, phone calls from your parents in the middle of that interview for that dream job,…
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Explosions at Kabul Airport kill dozens, injure hundreds
At least 12 US servicemen and 90 Afghan civilians have reportedly been killed in an apparent explosion at Kabul International Airport, the head of the US Central Command told reporters at a press briefing this afternoon. Among the dead are 11 Marines and one Navy medic in what has since been recognized as the deadliest day…
Sport
British and Irish Lions Tour of South Africa ended in defeat, but did it start that way too?
The British and Irish Lions have a history of touring South Africa during the country’s most challenging moments. “We should not have gone,” said former British and Irish Lion flanker, John Taylor, to The Telegraph, about the 1968 tour of South Africa during the country’s years of apartheid. Many people are saying the same thing…
News
Obituary for Richard Deswarte
The last paper was always reserved, even if no one said so. Between six-thirty and seven o’clock, under the occasional cover of darkness, a thin, smallish man with a rising forehead would walk across UEA’s square to the SU shop it complete what would be for any other person, afternoon tasks. He would go in,…
Arts
Amie Maria Marie’s ‘The play about Theresa May’: “She showed no remorse”
Playwright, Amie Maria Marie speaks her mind with extraordinary openness. “The long and short of it was, I was really frustrated with Theresa May. I didn’t like her as home secretary. I didn’t like her Go Home vans, which cost a lot of money and got barely anyone to self deport.” The driving force behind…
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Hundreds killed by earthquake in Haiti
More than 700 people are believed to have been killed after a 7.2 magnitude earthquake was reported in Western Haiti on Saturday morning, at approximately 8:29 AM local time. The epicentre of the quake was 5 miles from the town of Petit Trou de Nippes, around 150km west of the capital Port-au-Prince, which has a…
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Plymouth shooting leaves six dead
A serious shooting in Plymouth has led to a “number of fatalities”, according to local police. In a statement, they said: “Police were called to a serious firearms incident in Biddick Drive, in the Keyham area of Plymouth at around 6.10pm last night [Thursday 12 August].” According to eyewitness reports, ‘loud bangs’ and ‘gunshots’ were…
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