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Ruling annuls 2023 CHP leadership contest to depose Özgür Özel, in blow to Erdoğan’s rivals
A Turkish court has issued a ruling that effectively removes the head of the country’s main opposition party, in the latest blow to challengers of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
The ruling, issued by an appeals court in Ankara on Thursday, annulled a 2023 leadership contest within the Republican People’s party (CHP), deposing the party’s leader, Özgür Özel.
Continue reading...New papers matter less for royal gossip than for what they reveal about the UK’s fragile constitutional culture of trust, prestige and informal power
The most shocking revelation in files released on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s appointment as Britain’s trade envoy isn’t that he loves golf or prefers ballet over theatre. It is that no one asked the obvious question: how risky would it be for a headline-grabbing prince with no business experience to front the UK’s commercial diplomacy without formal vetting? The 11 documents that were released on Thursday show that having experience and being an expert weren’t as important as being a member of the royal family. After the Epstein scandal, those assumptions no longer look merely anachronistic. They look dangerous.
The late Queen pushed, wrongly as it turned out, for her son to inherit the role from the Duke of Kent, according to the papers released through a humble address motion. David Wright, then head of British Trade International, wrote that it was her wish for the then Duke of York to assume a “prominent role in the promotion of national interests”. In 2000, royalty was not peripheral to Britain’s commercial diplomacy. It was central to it.
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Continue reading...Survivors are right to be angry at the nine years taken to reach this point. Those to blame for the fire must face justice
Relief at this week’s news that police are sending files to the Crown Prosecution Service, recommending charges against 77 individuals and organisations for their roles in the Grenfell Tower fire, is mixed with grief and anger. On 14 June the disaster’s survivors and their supporters will gather for the ninth annual silent walk around the west London neighbourhood in which the ruined tower stands. Next year marks a decade since the fire.
The public inquiry into the disaster pointed the finger at multiple public and private bodies, decisions and individuals. Three construction firms, Arconic, Kingspan and Celotex, were found to have been deliberately dishonest about their products. Poor regulation of building safety was the fault of central government. Kensington and Chelsea council, and its tenant management organisation, were strongly criticised for poor fire safety and other lapses. So were the architects and contractors commissioned to oversee the block’s refurbishment. The London fire brigade was culpable for its dangerous “stay put” policy, which should have been changed following previous cladding fires, including the one that killed six people in Lakanal House, south London, in 2009.
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Sword Interval by Ben Fleuter is a completed webcomic set in a parallel present where magic and monsters are a fact of life. It's a monster-hunting roadtrip with striking creature designs. Originally posted for vertical-scroll, the strip's currently being reposted in page-at-a-time format.
Sword Interval is also a reboot (let's call it a second take) of his unfinished previous comic, Parallel Dementia (archive link). Or for a shorter read, The Beekeeper's Tale is a dramatic prologue to a comic that never happened, but worth reading on its own merits. Fleuter is currently colalbroating with Natasha Tara Petrović on Sever & Pierce - a comic about a ghost--hunting automaton and their vampire companion.
Sword Interval is also a reboot (let's call it a second take) of his unfinished previous comic, Parallel Dementia (archive link). Or for a shorter read, The Beekeeper's Tale is a dramatic prologue to a comic that never happened, but worth reading on its own merits. Fleuter is currently colalbroating with Natasha Tara Petrović on Sever & Pierce - a comic about a ghost--hunting automaton and their vampire companion.
De Rotterdamse gemeenteraad reageert „geschrokken” op huurmisstanden met arbeidsmigranten in de wijk Carnisse. Het college had de raad „meer mee moeten nemen in wat we tegenkwamen”, aldus de verantwoordelijke wethouder.
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