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Washington Post
04-07-2025
- Climate
- Washington Post
Readers critique The Post: Why is The Post promoting reckless cycling?
Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers' grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing coverage and inconsistencies. These letters tell us what we did wrong and, occasionally, offer praise. Here, we present this week's Free for All letters. The choice of the photo accompanying the June 26 Metro article 'In D.C., four score and too many degrees' was careless. Of all the photographs available to illustrate the record-breaking heat, why choose a picture of recklessness?
Washington Post
27-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Readers critique The Post: What have you done to our beloved print edition?
Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers' grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing coverage and inconsistencies. These letters tell us what we did wrong and, occasionally, offer praise. Here, we present this week's Free for All letters. As an independent, I was interested in reading the June 21 Style article 'MAGA and the single girl' until I braked, hard, at podcaster Alex Clark's description of the left as 'activists with five shades of autism.' I have no words. Actually, I do, but they're not printable in a family newspaper.
Washington Post
20-06-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Readers critique The Post: Everything being erased this Pride Month
Every week, The Post runs a collection of letters of readers' grievances — pointing out grammatical mistakes, missing coverage and inconsistencies. These letters tell us what we did wrong and, occasionally, offer praise. Here, we present this week's Free for All letters. Why did the June 15 front-page article ''No Kings' rallies draw huge crowds to protest president and his policies' immediately turn to the tragedy in Minnesota after stating that rally organizers hoped the 'No Kings' events would be 'peaceful and free of confrontation'? That implied a causal connection, which was misleading.
Telegraph
07-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Take it from me, Harry, it's too late to change your surname, however much you want to
I keep thinking the grievances will end soon. Surely there's no more to come out? Surely we've heard it all by now – in books, in the Netflix series, and in multiple television interviews. But hark, what's this? Another revelation from Montecito. Prince Harry, at one stage of the fallout, apparently discussed changing his name and becoming a Spencer. He talked to his uncle about it, but Charles Spencer counselled against the move, before Harry was advised that the legal issues would be insurmountable. It's a rare moment, these days, that I feel sympathy and kinship with the runaway prince, but I do share some of his anxieties here. In recent years, I've increasingly wondered whether I should start writing under a different name. Not, admittedly, because I've fallen out with my family, moved continents, and now spend my days flying around the globe warning others about global warming. No, my name simply seems to wind up so many people, cause strangers to make so many assumptions about me, and spark such internet grief, that I wonder whether life would be easier if I was something else. Unlike Harry's uncle, my father advised me to change my name when I was starting out. But I was too young, arrogant and determined to listen, and this was 20 or so years ago, when class warfare hadn't quite reached the fever pitch that it has now. I ignored him and have carried on ever since. It's character-building, I've always insisted, through the barbs. Although, last year I was particularly miffed when the best-selling author Kevin Kwan, the writer of Crazy Rich Asians, stuck an airhead journalist called Cosima Money-Coutts in his latest novel. The book had the usual legal disclaimer in the front ('any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental'), but I couldn't help feel that this was a reasonably close resemblance, given that 'Cosima' worked for a posh magazine and I used to work for Tatler. Still, I'll get my own back. I'll name an irritating little berk 'Kevin' in my next book, or maybe an especially yappy dog. So I've stuck with my name, because it is memorable, even if it winds people up. And if I changed it I'd feel fraudulent, like I was running away from something. Now poor Dennis the terrier has been lumbered with the same. When we visit the vet after yet another pavement chicken bone has become lodged inside him, the receptionist says loudly, 'Dennis Money-Coutts?', and there comes the odd titter in the waiting room. It's character-building, I remind him in the car home. If you stopped the average person in the street, I'm not sure they'd know what Prince Harry's surname actually was. Windsor? Mountbatten-Windsor? Wales? He went by Wales at school and for a spell afterwards, I know, because a friend had an excruciating run-in with him over exactly this. It was a shooting weekend, and various 20-something posh boys were joshing one another drunkenly after dinner. 'Wales! Wales!' they kept calling Harry, so my friend, who knew the group less well, decided he could call him that too. 'Wales!' he cried across the table, only for Prince Harry to look up sharply and wag his finger at him. My friend had overstepped the mark – too familiar. A touch of the Prince Andrews about that exchange, I've always felt. If it's a disguise he's after, it's his first name he should worry about. That's the one we really know. How about Prince Larry? Prince Barry? Prince Gary? But it was Spencer he wanted, with one rumour suggesting this was because his wife was particularly keen. I'm not sure how many of you found time to watch it, but in Meghan's most recent television series, she talks determinedly of being Sussex. 'It's so funny you keep saying 'Meghan Markle,'' she admonishes a friend, while demonstrating how to make a sandwich, although she doesn't sound like she finds it very funny at all; 'You know I'm Sussex now.' Except 'Spencer' would bring her closer to Diana, says a source, which is what she really wants. A friend of mine who is a Spencer (no relation to Charles) says her American colleagues constantly ask whether she's related to Diana, so perhaps the idea that this is what people would assume isn't as far-fetched as it sounds. Although, my friend is half-Korean, so I love the idea that her colleagues are trying to work her into the Althorp family tree. Unfortunately, the change would also make Harry and Meghan's daughter Lilibet Diana Spencer, and is that a good name to saddle a small girl with? I'm also just not sure Meghan would want to be plain old Meghan Spencer. What, no dukedom? The trouble is, for Harry, that while he may want to change his name, it wouldn't change who he is. Symbolic, yes, and another potential wedge driven between him and his father and brother. Maybe, for a spell, it would make him feel angry relief at putting another bollard between them. Not content with moving 5,000 miles away, he'll cast off their name, too. More and more Shakespearean by the day. 'Presume not that I am the thing I was,' and all that. But just as I'd be the same, writing the same jokes about dogs and posh matters, albeit in disguise as Sophie Cash-Natwest (or something terrifically cryptic like that), so would he. Prince Harry, or Harry Spencer, once the boy that everyone had such a soft spot for; now, still, so furious at everyone's behaviour but his own. More grown-up, more sensible to stick with what you have already, Harry. That's what I always tell myself, anyway.
Gulf Business
26-05-2025
- Business
- Gulf Business
Dubai issues new guidelines to ensure accountability in public finances
Image: Dubai Media Office Sheikh Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, First Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Deputy Prime Minister, and Minister of Finance of the UAE, has issued Decision No (4) of 2025 in his capacity as Chairman of the Financial Audit Authority. The move establishes operational procedures for the Central Violations Committee and the Grievances Committee under the authority, aiming to enhance The decision applies to all employees and senior officials — including CEOs and those in higher executive positions — within entities falling under the authority's jurisdiction. It lays out clear and structured procedures for addressing financial and administrative violations while ensuring that any disciplinary action is fair, proportionate, and legally justified. Safeguarding rights and ensuring due process A key component of the decision is the establishment of the right to appeal, with the aim of promoting workplace stability and job satisfaction. It stipulates that employees can contest decisions affecting their legal status or working conditions, providing a 15-working-day window from the date of notification to file a grievance. Appeals submitted beyond this timeframe will be deemed invalid. The decision also clarifies the composition and responsibilities of the Central Violations Committee. It requires disciplinary procedures to be objective and impartial, prohibits multiple penalties for the same offence, and ensures employees are given an opportunity to submit written statements in their defence. Penalties must align with the severity of the violation and be limited to those authorised by law. We have issued a decision approving the operational procedures for the Central Violations and Grievances Committees within the Financial Audit Authority in Dubai, to ensure fairness in disciplinary processes, empower employees to defend their rights, reinforce principles of… — Maktoum Bin Mohammed (@MaktoumMohammed) Public finances guidelines: Confidentiality and oversight To maintain integrity in the proceedings, all sessions, records, and deliberations of both the Central Violations Committee and the Grievances Committee must remain confidential. Disclosure of information is only permitted with the approval of the Director General of the Financial Audit Authority and must serve the public interest. The Grievances Committee, whose rulings are binding, is empowered to address complaints within the stipulated framework. Once a ruling is issued, the concerned entity is obligated to implement it and notify the Financial Audit Authority of the action taken. In support of these functions, the Financial Audit Authority will provide the necessary administrative and technical backing to both committees, in line with Law No (4) of 2018, which governs the authority's operations. Officials say the new procedures reinforce a culture of compliance and transparency, strengthening the UAE's ongoing efforts to safeguard public resources while protecting employee rights.
