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Repression in Tigray: Beaten, harassed, arrested

Amnesty International calls on the authorities to release Tigrayans, activists and journalists, and reveal whereabouts of unnaccounted detainees. Arrests seem ethnically motivated and while some people released on bail, hundreds remain in detention   Police in Addis Ababa have arbitrarily arrested and detained vast swathes of  activists and journalists without […]

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The heart of lightness

These three short novels by Sylvia Townsend Warner, written in the 1920s and ‘30s, show the author to be one of the most underappreciated of 20th century British writers of fiction.   Sean Sheehan   The stories have very different settings and characters and are testimony to the imaginative range […]

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Trouble down below

I woke up in hospital, on a Monday afternoon, and behold! – a catheter was protruding from my nether regions.   Steve Latham   I’d gone in for an investigation, to see whether I had bladder cancer; the result was gratifyingly negative. But I had not expected to leave with […]