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<p>Operation Black Vote chair says Tory leader’s claim that Britain should not apologise has caused ‘hurt and disbelief’</p><p>The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, has caused “profound anger, hurt and disbelief” among many black voters with her comments about transatlantic slavery, according to the chair of <a href="https://www.obv.org.uk/">Operation Blac

The dust had barely settled on last year’s Torino Film Festival when artistic director Giulio Base began plotting his next move. 2026 would mark the centenary of Marilyn Monroe’s birth, and Base was determined not to be beaten to it. “I really wanted to be the first to announce a retrospective,” he says. “I knew […]

Jairam Ramesh shared a rare 1947 photograph of a young Indira Gandhi greeting Sardar Patel, on Patel’s birth anniversary and Indira Gandhi’s death anniversary

Since it was first published in October 1726, the novel purporting to tell the fantastical travel tales of Captain Lemuel Gulliver has never left print. An exhibition of rare editions and adaptations in Dublin celebrates Swift's most famous work

Binyamin Netanyahu’s hold on power is in the balance as neither his far-right coalition nor the opposition is forecast to win a majority

From a charismatic Formula 1 racing legend to a brilliant but flawed soccer god to a troubled, tragic singer, Academy Award-winning docmaker Asif Kapadia has made a career out of telling the stories of larger-than-life figures. But when it comes to his “dream job,” it was a group of “ordinary people” in their seventies who […]