How much coverage of the Indian general elections has there been in the British press? In a blog for the LSE, Mukulika has given several reasons why she thinks the elections have been “free but not fair”. But she has commended the British government’s selection of Simon Armitage, a 57-year-old “white, male” Yorkshireman, for what is considered the highest honour in British poetry. But, ominously, a former Land Rover chief engineer, Charles Tennant, says that “we should not take any notice of either Tata Motors or Jaguar Land Rover denials at all. What saved the Duke of Edinburgh’s life in January this year, when his vehicle somersaulted in an accident, was that the 97-year-old was driving a robustly-built Land Rover.

Source: The Telegraph May 18, 2019 07:28 UTC