London politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
18 hours agoContractor that cut back ancient oak in London park identified
The unauthorized felling of a 500-year-old oak in London raises questions about safety claims and contractor transparency.
The public outcry was swift and furious-this was, after all, by some reports, the most photographed tree in the country, the so-called Sycamore Gap Tree. "The senseless destruction of what is undoubtedly a world-renowned landmark-and a local treasure," was how one law enforcement official described it in the pages of the New York Times, before the culprits had even been apprehended.
When I was a 20-year-old undergraduate student at Cambridge University, I was plastered all over the national press for making a tweet about white people. It has not turned out to be a big deal for my life or career, but at the time it felt monumental: racist hate mail was sent to my college for months; the Conservative MP Bob Blackman called for my prosecution; and tabloid journalists turned up at my home and harassed my mother
Incredibly, White House communications director Steven Cheung mocking the "pearl clutching" "losers" who raised concerns about the East Wing being demolished did not quell the outrage over President Trump unilaterally deciding to tear down part of the White House to make way for his ballroom. So the White House tried a different tactic on Wednesday afternoon: having President Trump explain that everyone needs to chill out because the East Wing was pretty ugly and his new White House ballroom will be totally badass.
I am filing a case immediately with the Paris state prosecutors so that this man will be found and sanctions imposed to make an example of him, Patricia Miralles, minister for veterans and remembrance, wrote on X.
Dr. Christina B. Propst was placed on leave after a controversial social media post suggested MAGA voters in Texas deserved the flood disaster they voted for, leading to public outrage.
"In an investigative action coordinated by the Attorney General's Office, CTI personnel and the police arrested one of the alleged perpetrators of the murder of a trans woman, whose given name was Sara Millerey González, in Bello, Antioquia, on April 5."