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Australian former rugby union player Dan Palmer: ‘The longer the [Israel] Folau saga dragged on, the more I felt a responsibility to say something.’ Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images
Huge support for former Wallabies player who has come out as gay
  • Rugby
  • October 31, 2020, 06:00

There has been an outpouring of support for Dan Palmer, the Australian former rugby union player, after he became the first Wallabies player and just (...)

‘The car is seen as a problem, to be dealt with through policing rather than being used positively.’ Photograph: iStock
How enthusiasm for cars can break down racial boundaries

We are, all of us, hoist by the petard of our own prejudices, of our own narrow world view. No matter how you view yourself – as worldly, as liberal, (...)

Survey finds the ‘neither’ category remains the largest of the three identities. Photograph: iStock
Fewer NI residents identify as neither unionist nor nationalist

There was a significant strengthening of identity among nationalists in Northern Ireland in the run-up to the UK’s exit from the EU, according to rese(...)

A levy should be imposed on big tech companies to protect quality journalism and to “take down parasites” who should have to pay for reporters’ work, according to journalist Olivia O’Leary. Photograph Nick Bradshaw
Tax big tech ‘parasites’, says Olivia O’Leary

A levy should be imposed on big tech companies to protect quality journalism and to “take down parasites who should have to pay for our work,” accordi(...)

CGI of “Facebook town” beside the company’s Menlo Park campus in California
‘Facebook town’ plan echoes company settlements of the past

Reporting from the heart of Cannapolis, North Carolina in 1933, a Fortune magazine journalist noted the town was “like a medieval city, standing aloof(...)