From the Guardian archivePolitics pastFrom the archive, 12 April 1848: The Chartist meeting in LondonOriginally published in the Manchester Guardian on 12 April 1848Kennington Common was the appointed place of meeting and was the great centre of attraction to all who felt an interest in the proceedings. At an early hour on Monday morning, a few straggling groups had assembled there; but, until ten o'clock, the numbers present did not amount to more than a few hundreds. Read More...
First look reviewToronto film festival 2021ReviewA pandemic-made project, starring the Oscar winner as a mother racing to save her son, starts out with tension but ends up in silliness
As more pandemic-produced movies continue trickling out, we’re able to see that for the majority, they can be easily placed in two separate, if ultimately similar, columns: those that use the empty outside expanse to maintain distance from others and those that use a small interior setting to keep things simple. Read More...
The ObserverEvertonIn an extract from his autobiography, The Keeper, Everton’s Tim Howard explains how OCD and Tourette syndrome affected his childhood but how they also brought unique skills to his gameI wasn’t much of a student. Actually, that’s an understatement: I despised school. I couldn’t sit still, couldn’t focus, desperately wanted to be anywhere but at my desk. I hated school, hated everything about it – the tick, tick of the clock on the wall. Read More...
