Republicans This article is more than 1 year oldRepublican Lauren Boebert compares Ukraine to Canadian truckers’ convoyThis article is more than 1 year oldCongresswoman says ‘our neighbors to the north need to be liberated’, prompting widespread condemnation The Republican congresswoman Lauren Boebert was condemned for comparing the Russian invasion of Ukraine to the clearing of a truckers’ protest in Ottawa, saying: “We also have neighbors to the north who need freedom and who need to be liberated.

CitiesThe sharing economy meets the mania for decluttering, as people realise they can let others use their spare rooms, sheds and attics for cash You may not look around a city like London and notice acres of unused space lying empty. But it is there. There might be some inside your own house. Kamal El-Haj and his wife Michelle live in Chingford, and were expecting their second child last summer, so they had just begun to look for new sources of income when they noticed their garage.

The ObserverFootballAfter the Inter Milan gang leader Vittorio Boiocchi was gunned down in the streets, Tobias Jones examines the changing face of a powerful sporting subculture On 29 October, at 19.48, a 69-year-old man was outside his house in Via Zanzottera, in the north-west of Milan. It was just an hour before kick-off in the match between Internazionale and Sampdoria and Vittorio Boiocchi, nicknamed “lo Zio” (“the Uncle”), was going home to watch the game on TV.

Pop and rock This article is more than 1 year old​Girl bands made British pop great – so where have all the good ones gone?​This article is more than 1 year oldAlim KherajFrom SVN’s moisturiser-ad feminism to the desperately named CuteBad, the groups filling the void left by Little Mix are lacklustre. They should look to the Spice Girls’ example The girl band is in crisis. As Little Mix go on their hiatus and tie up their Confetti tour, touted as their last shows “for now”, the UK finds itself without a major girl band for the first time in nearly 30 years.

Hoop DreamsTwenty years after the landmark documentary was cruelly snubbed at the Oscars, we take a look at where the principals are today In 1986, filmmakers Steve James, Frederick Marx and Peter Gilbert set out to film a 30-minute PBS documentary on playground basketball as a window into Chicago’s street culture. Some 300 hours of footage and three years of editing later, Hoop Dreams emerged overnight as a landmark documentary. Roger Ebert labeled it the best film of the 1990s (ahead of Pulp Fiction, Goodfellas and Fargo), and its exclusion from the Best Documentary category at the 1995 Academy Awards led to a restructuring of how the category was evaluated.