Cambridge historian Emily Chung finds philosopher’s blistering depictions of segregation may have been exaggerated Friedrich Engels stands accused of exaggerating, or perhaps taking “creative liberties”, with just how segregated Manchester was in the mid-19th century, a study has found. The great socialist thinker, who co-authored with Karl Marx the Communist manifesto, was a Manchester resident, appalled and galvanised by the squalor and inequality he saw in the city. Continue reading...

* Afghanistan captain Rashid Khan makes plea for ‘education to all’ * Move ‘harms the whole country,’ says Mohammad Nabi Two of Afghanistan’s national sporting heroes have called on the Taliban to reverse a decision to bar women from education and…