Covid’s lost generation: meet the under-25s whose lives have been stunted by the pandemic Katie Strick
When Helena Wiltshire pictured her life at 23, she thought she’d be worrying about which university friends to live with and how to impress her new boss.
But the realities of the past year mean flatshares and office relationships couldn’t feel further from the Regent’s University graduate’s list of concerns. Among the more pressing: how many more CVs she’ll have to send before she hears back; how long before she can move out of her parents’ house; whether she’ll ever experience office life as it was.
Alabama Republicans not blaming Trump for actions of supporters who stormed Capitol
Updated Jan 11, 2021;
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Alabama Republicans condemn the mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday but mostly do not blame President Trump, who fired up his supporters with false statements about his election defeat, or Congressman Mo Brooks, who told the crowd it was their day to start “kicking ass.”
Alabama Democrats do blame Trump for the riot that led to deaths and injuries and interrupted America’s time-honored process for peaceful transitions of power.
“When you incite a crowd like that, that you already know they are riled up because you continue to feed them lies about an election that you lost, something is inherently wrong with that man that called himself the president of these United States of America,” Senate Minority Leader Bobby Singleton, D-Greensboro, said. “Something is inherently wrong with that. If nobody wants to give him any blame for what happened (
The Island Race Debate
Derek Turner, American Renaissance, May 2006
It is something of a cliché to say that “the world changed” when those airliners hurtled into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. And yet clichés sometimes become clichés because there is truth in them. I believe the Sept. 11 attacks signaled the beginning of the end of multiculturalism, and that in retrospect they may even come to be seen as a turning point in the global ethnic struggle for space and self-determination.
In the years after 1948, when large-scale immigration into the UK began again for the first time since the Norman Conquest almost 1,000 years ago, there had been a consensus on immigration. There had been a fondly-held hope uniting the mainstream left and right that immigration policy wasn’t really important compared to budget deficits, ownership of public utilities, free milk for schoolchildren, and the sex lives of politicians. There was a belief grounded in always dubious,
d) Tank the penguin from
Surf’s Up.
3. Azores based Nazaré charger Hugo Vau has taken a lower key approach to garage/HQ/base camp at the port, opting for an old shipping container and a rickety yellow camper van.
What classic surf vehicle serves as both Hugo’s accomo and kitchen?
a) Ford Transit
b) VW Transporter
c) one of those Lada truck thingies usualy found in carparks in the Algarve with the chimney pot, proprietor with one long dread and undone clompy leather boots, full quiver of juggling accoutrements.
d) Mercedes Vito
4. Maya Gabeira has paid her dues at Praia da Norte. In September 2020, she beat her own Guinness World Record for the biggest wave surfed by a woman (albeit in controversial circumstances). Earlier in the year,