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Very few in the crowd wore national team jerseys. Football was still almost a novelty for mainstream Australia. Behind hoardings for Winfield Blue and Fosters was a motley collection of some of the least fashionable people you could imagine, revelling in a decade that became a byword for fashion’s nadir. … [Read more...] about My favourite game: Australia v Israel, World Cup qualifier 1989

That, incidentally, should be noted by those anti-Israel campaigners who insist there’s no connection between the two, that it’s perfectly possible to despise everything about Israel – the world’s only Jewish country – without showing any hostility to Jews. Jews themselves usually don’t see it, or experience it, that way. Most of them are bound up with Israel, one way or the other. As the great British Jewish novelist Howard Jacobson puts it, Jews see in Israel “a version of themselves”. … [Read more...] about Diaspora Jews offer a rare chance for hope in the Middle East

The clubs in the landlocked Central Asian country of nine million people are largely unknown outside Tajikstan but the Super Cup match between the champions, Istiklol, and the league runners-up, Khujand, on Saturday could bring some solace to fans this weekend with bookmakers already offering bets and even live streams of the game. … [Read more...] about ‘At least the championship starts here:’ Tajikistan season opens amid shutdown

So, the science is clear. We do not know when we are sick. If we are sick, then when we speak we are projecting virus-laden droplets into the air. Wearing a simple cloth mask stops those droplets in their tracks. “I’m not going to wear a surgical mask, because clinicians need those,” said Dr Harvey Fineberg, chair of the National Academy of Sciences’ standing committee on emerging infectious diseases and 21st century health threats. “But I have a nice western-style bandanna I might wear. Or I have a balaclava. I have some pretty nice options.” Fineberg led a committee of experts that has just released an expert consultation explaining that the virus can spread through talking, or even breathing. … [Read more...] about Wear a mask: it may be our best weapon to stop coronavirus in its tracks

Asked to comment on the new allegations, the Department for International Development issued a statement in the name of "a government spokesperson", which said: "All ministers are subject to the Ministerial code. We do not comment on individual personnel matters.” … [Read more...] about Priti Patel could have to give evidence under oath as third bullying claim erupts