I thought I knew everything about Wicked when Cynthia Erivo walked into a meeting room in the Guardian’s London offices. She felt wildly incongruous, way too perfect and vivid for the neutral surrounds, like seeing a princess on an escalator, but I suspect she comes off like that in a lot of rooms. Last week,…
A quarter of people in England experienced poor NHS care over the last year but fewer than one in 10 of them complained about it, a report by the patient watchdog has revealed. When people did complain, more than half were not satisfied with either the process involved or the outcome, Healthwatch England said. Complaints…
Mediator Qatar has announced that an agreement has been reached to release an Israeli civilian hostage and allow Palestinians to return to northern Gaza, easing the first major crisis of the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Qatar’s statement early on Monday said Hamas would hand over the civilian hostage, Arbel Yehoud, along with two…
A 73-year-old British sailor is lost at sea and his yacht has been found “eviscerated” off the French coast in stormy weather. A French air force helicopter was dispatched to find the man after he set off his distress beacon at 3pm on Saturday, approximately 50 miles (80km) west of Lacanau in south-west France. The…
When Elon Musk’s arm shot out in a stiff arm salute at Donald Trump’s inaugural celebrations, startled viewers mostly drew the obvious comparison. But in the fired-up debate about Musk’s intent that followed, as the world’s richest man insisted he wasn’t trying to be a Nazi, speculation inevitably focused on whether his roots in apartheid-era…
Jane Hume rejects Dreyfus’ attack on ‘attempts to politicise the Holocaust’ Liberal senator Jane Hume has responded to attorney general Mark Dreyfus’ comments earlier, which implied the opposition leader, Peter Dutton, had been “politicising” the Holocaust and antisemitism. Speaking to Sky News, Hume said: Antisemitism is grotesque … We’ve seen 15 months, here in Australia,…