Society
Britain, Australia, Poland and Switzerland each said publicly why they would not let Ye in. On 15 August he walked onto the Central Stadium in Almaty: 31,000 people, five billion tenge. He played the old hits — nothing he was barred for. What Kazakhstan argued about for a week was the grass.
Society
The young are spoilt today — the line turns up in texts thousands of years old. If the young have been spoiling for three thousand years running, perhaps they are not the problem. They are a barometer: they show with heightened sensitivity where opportunity is missing and where adults say one thing and live another.
Society
On 17 July Andy Burnham became Britain's prime minister as the only admitted candidate: 379 members of parliament nominated him and no vote was held. He is the seventh prime minister in ten years, a rate not seen for almost two centuries. The episode tests the argument that stability matters more than plurality.
