Manchin offers alternative plans to Democrats' 'fiscal insanity'
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‘I’ve been waiting so long’: 007 fans await first public screening – at midnight
Filmgoers are excited to be among first in world to see 25th Bond film, No Time to Die, in Birmingham
For a film spanning 163 minutes – the longest James Bond movie ever made – it takes serious dedication to watch it at a midweek midnight showing.
But the 007 fans outside Birmingham’s Odeon cinema on Wednesday night were excited to be among the first people to see the eagerly anticipated 25th Bond movie, No Time to Die, at a public screening.
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Lesson of the Day: ‘Answers to Questions About the Texas Abortion Law’
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Rep. Jim Jordan's Question About Democrats Gets Turned Into A Punchline About Him
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Kansas City hospital mandated COVID shots for employees. Here’s how many left instead
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Supply chain crisis undermining recovery as stagflation fears grow – business live
Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news
- BoE governor: UK recovery will take longer than thought
- Fed’s Powell: inflationary supply chain problems may persist
- Fuel crisis: UK government mobilises reserve tanker fleet and army
- Transport bosses call on governments across world to ease Covid restrictions
Virgin Money has announced it will close 31 branches – almost all in Scotland and the north of England – in the latest stage of the UK banking sector’s retreat from the high street.
The bank said it expected to make 112 people redundant because of the closures after the coronavirus pandemic accelerated the shift to online and mobile app-based banking, a move that has rapidly reduced the profitability of physical bank branches.
Related: Virgin Money to close 31 branches across Scotland and north of England
In better news, the UK economy grew faster than expected over the summer.
Official figures have been revised to show that GDP expanded by a pacey 5.5% over the April-June period, up from an initial estimate of 4.8%.
GDP grew by 5.5% in Quarter 2 (Apr to June) 2021, revised up from the previous estimate of 4.8%.
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“Household saving fell particularly strongly in the latest quarter from the record highs seen during the pandemic, as many people were again able to spend on shopping, eating out and driving their cars,”
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Overall, while the upward revisions to GDP are clearly welcome, Q2 was three months ago, and the recovery appears to have stagnated since.
Even so, given that there is now thought to be less spare capacity in the economy that will only encourage the Bank of England to hike rates in the not too distant future.
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‘Someone lied’: French foreign minister accuses Australia of submarine betrayal in latest broadside
Jean-Yves Le Drian says Australia reassured France everything was fine right up to the day the Aukus pact was announced
France has accused Australia of lying shortly before Canberra cancelled a major submarine contract, with the French foreign minister declaring “someone lied”.
With no sign of any imminent easing of tensions between the two countries, Jean-Yves Le Drian told a parliamentary hearing that Australia had never expressed doubts about the €56bn (A$90bn) submarine contract or the strategic Indo-Pacific pact before breaking the contract.
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Jessye Norman’s family sue over treatment that allegedly left her paralysed
Exclusive: soprano, who died in 2019, stopped performing after surgery in London in 2015
She had a voice described as a “grand mansion of sound”, won four Grammy awards and thrilled audiences in the world’s opera house – but suddenly stopped performing in 2015.
When Jessye Norman died four years later at the age of 74, her family said she had passed away from septic shock and multi-organ failure secondary to complications of a spinal cord injury she had sustained in 2015. The circumstances surrounding the injury and disappearance from public life were never explained.
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Enduring and surviving the climate crisis – in pictures
Together, Climate Visuals and TED Countdown are releasing 100 photographs that depict climate solutions alongside the global impact of the climate crisis. The images were selected from more than 5,500 shots taken by professionals and amateurs from more than 150 countries. The images will be freely available to key groups communicating on climate – the editorial media, educators, campaigns and non-profit groups – via the Climate Visuals library.
The chosen images needed to be illustrative and powerful, and to communicate positive climate solutions in five key areas: energy, transport, materials, food and nature.
The collection will be displayed at the TED Countdown Summit in Edinburgh from 12-15 October and will also feature during the Cop26 climate conference in Glasgow from 1-12 November.
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‘The woke’ are just the latest faux enemies of Englishness conjured up by the right | Patrick Wright
The myth of a silenced English majority betrayed by a liberal metropolitan elite goes back decades
- Patrick Wright is the author of The Village That Died for England: Tyneham and the Legend of Churchill’s Pledge
Like some of the emeritus professors who have recently steamed into the Conservative party’s “anti-woke” campaign under the name of History Reclaimed, I grew up in a less fractured country, in which, stately occasions apart, waving union jacks seemed largely left to the National Front.
In English classrooms, we were encouraged to be more moved by the famous list of “characteristic fragments” that George Orwell pulled together in the first months of the second world war, as he searched for a unifying “pattern” in the diversity of English life. He wrote of old maids biking to communion through autumn mists and the clatter of clogs in a Lancashire mill town.
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Stephen Colbert Channels Willy Wonka to Explain Congress
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Thousands of Haitians Are Being Allowed Into the U.S. But What Comes Next?
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How Asia, Once a Vaccination Laggard, Is Revving Up Inoculations
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¿Cuánta agua tienes que beber en realidad?
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Laundrie family changed De Soto campground reservations before Brian returned home, docs show
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Wyoming city reflects vaccine hesitancy in conservative US
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Sarah Everard: Wayne Couzens to be sentenced for kidnap, rape and murder
Met officer used police ID card and handcuffs to lure Everard into car before strangling her and burning body
The former Metropolitan police officer Wayne Couzens will be sentenced today for the kidnap, rape and murder of Sarah Everard, whom he lured off the street by abusing his powers and position as a police officer.
Couzens, 48, used his police warrant card and handcuffs to lure Everard off the street before strangling her with his police belt and burning her body, depriving her family of the chance to say a final goodbye, a court has heard.
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‘Call It’: app takes aim at sexual harassment in the film industry
Exclusive: UK producer Kate Wilson hopes it will force film executives ‘to take their head out of the sand’
When she was 24, the film producer Kate Wilson was sexually harassed at work so badly, she left the United States and returned to the UK, at a considerable impact to her career. “That was 21 years ago,” she said, “and I’m only just comfortable referencing it now.”
The co-founder of a soon-to-be-launched app, Call It!, Wilson is determined to ensure that workplace bullying, discrimination and harassment have no place in the UK film and TV industry.
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‘I’ll never go back’: Uganda’s schools at risk as teachers find new work during Covid
Many private schools may not reopen after staff laid off during lockdown say they will not return to the profession
The last message Mary Namitala received from the private school in which she taught was in March last year, the day all schools in Uganda were ordered close due to Covid-19. The message read: “No more payments until when schools open.”
“My husband and I decided to leave our rented house in town and shifted to the village, to our unfinished house. We could not afford to continue paying rent,” says Namitala, from her home in Bombo in central Uganda, about 20 miles north of the capital Kampala.
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We’re told not to bottle up bad experiences – but a stiff upper lip can be for the best | Adrian Chiles
As an inveterate over-sharer, I learned a lesson this week from a former army nurse. Perhaps airing our worst moments gives them too much space to grow
Sometimes people I speak to on my radio programme say something that will stay with me for a long time. Marguerite Turner, 98, said two such things to me last week. She was talking about her work in the second world war. Her most vivid memory is of a single night in May 1942. As a nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment, she was stationed in the south of England at a large private house being used as a medical facility. Around midnight, she stepped outside to take a break in the blissful scented silence of the garden. Then: “I heard a sort of engine noise from somewhere. There was no light. The noise grew louder and louder, then a whole lot of planes flew over. You couldn’t see them; they were so high up. They went on and on. I knew they must be ours because there was no one shooting at them. I stood listening in that garden. Then they grew fainter and fainter, obviously going somewhere.”
Those planes, it turned out, were among the first of Bomber Harris’s so-called “thousand bomber raids” on German cities. That night the target was Cologne. Nearly 500 Germans were killed outright and 45,000 were made homeless. Forty-three of the aircraft she had heard didn’t return. And there, deep in the darkness a long way down, stood this young nurse, her tranquillity overwhelmed by the deafening din of violence. Seventy-nine years on, the viciously juxtaposed smell and sound are with her as if it was yesterday. As she puts it: “The scent of lilac and a curtain of engines.”
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Supply chain crisis could last months admits PM but fuel situation ‘improving’
Labour accuses PM of ‘reducing the country to chaos’ with cars continuing to queue and fights breaking out
Britain’s supply chain strain could last until after Christmas, Boris Johnson has admitted as he urged motorists to stop panic-buying fuel by insisting supplies were “improving” – despite thousands of forecourts remaining dry.
The prime minister intervened after being accused by Labour of “reducing the country to chaos” with car queues continuing to build up and fights breaking out at petrol stations, while teachers and hospital workers were left unable to get to work.
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Activists block M25 for seventh time despite threat of fines and prison
Climate crisis protesters defy court injunction and glue themselves to road
Activists of Insulate Britainblocked a roundabout at a junction with the M25 by glueing themselves to the road on Wednesday morning.
The protest, which started at about 7.30am, is the seventh similar action to be taken by the Extinction Rebellion splinter group – and the second since the granting of a court injunction that threatened imprisonment or unlimited fines if they did not stop.
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UK accused of ignoring plight of green activists in Afghanistan
Environmental campaigners who worked with UK officials fear for their lives after receiving death threats
The UK government has been accused of ignoring the plight of three environmental activists from Afghanistan who worked with British officials to mitigate the damaging impact of climate change on their country before the Taliban takeover.
The campaigners, who have received credible threats to their lives, do not know the fate of one of their colleagues who was detained by the Taliban.
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Police defend shooting of rare white stag on street in Bootle
Merseyside force says officers ‘gutted’ to kill animal after attempts to tranquillise it had failed
Merseyside police have responded to public criticism of their decision to shoot dead a marauding deer by saying officers were “gutted” to have to pull the trigger.
The rare white stag was killed by police on Sunday evening after it spent nine hours running through Bootle town centre, despite animal welfare experts urging officers to let it find its way home.
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Lesson of the Day: ‘Bringing Black History to Life in the Great Outdoors’
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El arma secreta para combatir los incendios forestales: las cabras
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Trump skipped anesthesia for a previously unreported procedure at Walter Reed to avoid giving Pence temporary power, according to new book
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UK army’s 150 tanker drivers could be deployed to help fuel crisis ‘by end of week’ – live
Reports suggest a decision on whether to deploy military tanker drivers has yet to be taken but 150 will get ready
AstraZeneca has just overtaken Next as the FTSE’s top riser, up 3.1%, after announcing that its newly acquired Alexion division would take full control of the rare diseases specialist Caelum Biosciences in a deal that could be worth up to $500m.
Caelum is developing a monoclonal antibody treatment for AL amyloidosis, a a rare disease in which misfolded amyloid proteins build up in organs throughout the body, including the heart and kidneys, causing significant organ damage and failure that could ultimately be fatal. The drug is in late-stage clinical studies.
Next is the top riser on London’s FTSE 100 index, after the UK fashion chain raised its full-year outlook again on the back of soaring sales, although it also warned over rising prices and staff shortages in the run-up to Christmas.
Its shares went up as much as 4% in early trading to hit a fresh record of £84.08, after the company reported pre-tax profits of £346.7 million for the six months 31 July. Full-price brand sales jumped 62% year-on-year and were 8.8% higher compared with pre-pandemic levels.
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Genetically modified food a step closer in England as laws relaxed
Government removes costs and red tape in go-ahead for more trials of gene edited crops
The prospect of genetically modified foods being grown and sold in the UK has come a step closer after changes to farming regulations that will allow field trials of gene edited crops in England.
Companies or research organisations wishing to conduct field trials will still have to notify the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the government announced on Wednesday, but existing costs and red tape will be removed so more trials are likely to go ahead.
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‘Living in a cave is no life’: Pakistani villagers trapped by Taliban and poverty
Seven years after fleeing army clashes with militants, 100 families eking out an existence on a hillside near the Afghan border are unable to return home
“Don’t talk to me about the government. They don’t help.”
Ninety-year-old Shah Mast is angry. He has been living in the cave he calls home for seven years, ever since an offensive by the Pakistan army against the Islamist militant group Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) destroyed his home.
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Covid lawsuits and inquiries are looming – but blame won’t prevent future pandemics | Laura Spinney
As legal proceedings over coronavirus begin, history tells us that boosting solidarity is more helpful than pointing the finger
Earlier this month, proceedings opened in Austria in a civil suit brought against the authorities by the widow and son of a man who died of Covid-19 after staying in Ischgl, the ski resort widely regarded as having hosted a super-spreader event early in the pandemic. The week before, former French health minister Agnès Buzyn was ordered by a court to answer, essentially, for the government’s lack of anticipation of the pandemic.
In the UK, meanwhile, the government has promised a public inquiry into the handling of the crisis. It’s due to start next spring. Those pushing for it to begin sooner argue that the lessons learned could still save lives, but apportioning blame is another function of a public inquiry. The finger of blame has hovered over this pandemic since the beginning, and now it is tapping on actual shoulders.
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Coronavirus, economics and Asia-Pacific: Issues shaping Japan’s election.
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Texas nurse faces capital murder trial for 4 patient deaths
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Republicans want voters to blame the national debt on Joe Biden and the Democrats. The truth is they own it too.
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Wyoming city reflects vaccine hesitancy in conservative US
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A moment that changed me: when I failed my O-level in my favourite subject
The results for my art exam came in and I felt talentless, a dunce. For decades I was too scared to pick up a paintbrush, until a powerful woman entered my dreams
Having hands, I drew with them. That’s what hands were for: grasping crayons, freely and joyously making marks. I scribbled on the walls at home, on the pavements outside, as most children love to do.
At primary school, we learned to write using slates and chalks, with wetted sponges to hand. Writing seemed another form of drawing, scrawling loops and curves. We shaped individual letters into repeating lines. They were abstract forms, delightful but meaningless patterns. I had trouble learning to read clumps of letters as words, but I could draw them.
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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review – a fine start to a family trilogy
This simmering 70s-set domestic drama is warm, expansive and funny – a pure pleasure to read
The times are a-changing in solid, respectable New Prospect, Illinois, where Christmas 1971 arrives in a whirl of sex, drugs and folk music, while the Vietnam war grinds on off stage. Inside the First Reformed church, the worshippers are attempting to ride out the storm, casting about for something rock solid and true. This might be God or family or a fresh myth to believe in, a 20th-century pursuit-of-happiness tale, self-authored if need be.
New Prospect is in a state of flux but Jonathan Franzen remains reliably, defiantly Franzen-esque, tending to his faltering flock in fair weather or foul, and whatever the ructions in the country at large. Crossroads, his splendid sixth novel, comes billed as the first part of a proposed trilogy, A Key to All Mythologies, named after Edward Casaubon’s absurd, unfinished tract in Middlemarch. But, in the best possible way, it feels less like a beginning than like the latest yield of a familiar crop, or a newly discovered branch of a big midwestern family.
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Covid can infect cells in pancreas that make insulin, research shows
Results of two studies may explain why some people develop diabetes after catching the virus
Covid-19 can infect insulin-producing cells in the pancreas and change their function, potentially explaining why some previously healthy people develop diabetes after catching the virus.
Doctors are increasingly concerned about the growing number of patients who have developed diabetes either while infected with coronavirus, or shortly after recovering from it.
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The secret to becoming a morning person? It involves motherhood – and screaming | Arwa Mahdawi
Gone are the days of setting an ambitiously early alarm and snoozing away the hours until I got up. Now I just daydream about sleeping
I woke up in the middle of the night recently with a sinking feeling. It turns out that I had, in fact, sunk. My air mattress had sprung a leak, and I was lying on the living room floor with a crick in my neck. “OWWW,” I whimpered. “WAHHHH,” screamed the baby from the bedroom. “NOOOO!” yelled my wife from the couch. “WOOOOF,” barked my dog from his bed in the corner.
This, to be clear, was not a normal night in the Mahdawi household. It was a night of wretched desperation. For the past few months, my wife and I have not slept. That’s what happens when you have a baby: you don’t sleep. You wipe drool off yourself constantly, while daydreaming about eight solid hours of rest. Some babies helpfully oblige with this and sleep through the night early on; ours did not. So, after several months of severe sleep deprivation we decided we were going to sleep train our child. Our one-bedroom apartment is not an ideal place to sleep train an infant, but we decamped to the living room and tried to let the kid “cry it out” in our room. In the end, we cried it out in the living room while the baby screeched it out in the bedroom.
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The ancient battles continues between birds being alive and humans arsing about in space | First Dog on the Moon
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Sabina Nessa: man charged with murder of London schoolteacher
Koci Selamaj, 36, was arrested on Sunday over death of Nessa, 28, whose body was found in Kidbrooke
A man has been charged with the murder of Sabina Nessa, the primary school teacher who was found dead in a park close to her south London home.
Koci Selamaj, aged 36, was arrested by police early on Sunday morning in Eastbourne, east Sussex, just over a week after the body of the 28-year-old teacher was found. He will appear at Willesden magistrates court on Tuesday on a charge of murder.
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R Kelly found guilty on racketeering and sex trafficking charges
Jury finds singer guilty of running a criminal enterprise that recruited women and children and subjected them to unwanted sex and mental torment
A jury has found the R&B superstar R Kelly guilty of being the ringleader of a decades-long racketeering and sex trafficking scheme that preyed upon Black women and children.
The disgraced singer was found guilty on all nine counts on Monday afternoon after decades of avoiding criminal responsibility for numerous allegations of misconduct, in a major #MeToo victory for Black women and girls.
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New UK broadband rules will make it easier to switch supplier
Ofcom hopes One Touch Switch process will encourage people to seek out better deals
The UK media regulator, Ofcom, has introduced a new service to make it easier for customers to switch broadband supplier to get a better deal.
Ofcom hopes the new process, One Touch Switch, will encourage people to seek out better deals after research found that more than two-fifths of people were put off switching broadband suppliers because of the hassle.
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‘My future is overseas’: Tunisians look to Europe as Covid hits tourism
As the pandemic deals a death blow to an already struggling sector, former workers see little hope for recovery
The seafront along the town of Hammamet in Tunisia is deserted. Looking out at the bright empty coast from his souvenir shop, Kais Azzabi, 42, describes the crowds that would stroll along the broad boulevards. Today, there is nobody.
“It was very busy here,” he says, gesturing to the street and the Mediterranean Sea beyond. “Since the corona started, everything stopped.”
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In a queue for petrol in Essex, I found an unexpected camaraderie | Tim Burrows
At first, I thought drivers lining up in case they was a fuel shortage were foolish. Then I joined them
Before this weekend, I had never seen a petrol station cashier answer a telephone. Yet here he was, this harassed man in front of me, fielding several calls as I queued to pay for my fuel. “I would come soon if I were you,” he suggested to one caller. “We haven’t got much left.”
A couple of hours earlier I had been relaxing in the bliss of the era before this latest episode of Crisis UK – the nationwide rush for petrol, ultimately sparked by labour shortages in the haulier industry. I admit that I had read the news of clogged forecourts with a sense of smugness at the perceived foolishness of those involved – collectively worsening the problem that they were trying to avoid. Then I joined them. My fuel story was that I had a call from my wife who reminded me that she was planning to drive her mother from Essex to Norwich to visit her new grandson. The trip had been planned for months and so, of course, was one of those marked essential. And our tank was empty.
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Explore the Space Race With The New York Times’s Archive
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'Reputational damage' for China over two detained Canadians: analyst
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Texas inmate faces execution for fatally stabbing 2 brothers
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Benjamin Zephaniah: ‘Footballers have a voice and a platform. They aren’t taking injustice any more’
Writer, actor and activist explains how he fell in love with this England football team and his respect for players making a stand
“I went to an England game at the start of the Euros,” Benjamin Zephaniah says while explaining how he has come to love the national team for the first time in his 63 years. Zephaniah is a warm and amusing man who refers to himself, wryly, as “a dub revolutionary poet”. He is also a writer, an actor (most recently when playing the role of a preacher in Peaky Blinders) and an activist who has fought against racism most of his life.
Zephaniah has loved football since he was a boy supporting Aston Villa in the late 1960s. But his relationship with England has always been a tangled affair – at least until Gareth Southgate built a team full of players Zephaniah identified with, admired and even loved. He reels off some of the names in the squad that prepared for England’s first game of the European Championship – Raheem Sterling, Marcus Rashford, Harry Kane, Jack Grealish, Tyrone Mings, Bukaya Saka and the others who have so impressed him on and off the field.
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‘The whole system is rotten’: life inside Europe’s meat industry
Unions are calling for a Europe-wide ban on the use of subcontracted workers, kept on lower pay and conditions
Read more: exploitation of meat plant workers rife across UK and Europe
Every inch of Margot’s body hurt from the unrelenting work. Her hands bled from blisters that burst as she repeatedly hauled carcasses, but she would wait until she got home to sterilise her wounds with ammonia. “If you didn’t do your job well, you’d be pushed – they didn’t care if your hands were full of blood,” she says.
This wasn’t the life Margot* imagined when she left her job in a clothes factory near her home village in Romania in search of better prospects for her young family in western Europe. She thought labour conditions in the Netherlands – where she worked for three years in a meat factory – would be much more favourable than in her home country. “I didn’t expect it to be so awful.”
Life as a meat worker can be brutally hard. But Margot soon realised there were two types of workers: employees, who she says were mainly Dutch; and precarious workers, mostly migrants like herself, who had to work harder and faster but earned less. “The ones hired directly by the company have more rights, get more relaxed work, stability and hours,” she says.
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My libido is highly unreliable. Will I ever be able to satisfy a partner?
My sexual desire comes in peaks and valleys, but these days the peaks are fewer and further between. Do I need medical help?
I’m a 35-year-old gay man. I’ve always felt as though my sexual cycles may be different to everyone else’s. Sexual desire comes in peaks and valleys; I have periods of high sexual activity and then it plummets to almost zero. In my 20s, I shrugged it off by not staying in sexual or romantic relationships for long, having more casual partners in the highs and just enjoying time alone in the lows. However, as I get older, I notice these peaks are fewer and further between and much less pronounced. I worry that, now I’m longing for more stable relationships, I may not be able to offer a fulfilling sex life to a potential partner. Is this a medical condition I should fix? Or is this something I should learn to negotiate with any potential partner?
Men and women have cycles of libido – largely driven by hormonal activity – and everyone has to learn to adapt to them. These cycles and their intensity naturally change as we age or undergo life changes. They are also affected by elements such as stress, fatigue, anxiety and illness.
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Japan to end state of emergency as Covid cases plummet
Restrictions in 27 of country’s 47 prefectures to end on Thursday, PM Yoshihide Suga announces
Japan will lift emergency coronavirus measures across the board at the end of this week, amid a dramatic fall in cases and rapid progress in its vaccination rollout.
The prime minister, Yoshihide Suga, said restrictions in place in 27 of Japan’s 47 prefectures would end on Thursday.
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I survived rape, but I didn't understand what trauma would do to me | Lucy Hall
Victims can find it almost impossible – as I did – to deal with their pain. We need access to proper mental health support
Last month I thought about taking my life and wrote a note. I hadn’t made up my mind about dying, but I thought it was best to be prepared. I used the most legible form of my handwriting I could, I kept it succinct and without blame. I hoped the core message would come through: “I have tried so, so hard, but the pain is too much.”
I didn’t realise the irony. I didn’t realise yet that it was the “trying” that was killing me. I was trying much, much too hard to be OK and to be happy. And because I wasn’t (and am not) happy – or, a lot of the time, OK – I felt like a failure. This feeling of failure was the thing making me want to die. I hope that in detailing the depths of pain I felt that night, this article might help someone.
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For Transgender Youth, Stigma Is Just One Barrier to Health Care
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‘Las cosas se pusieron muy difíciles’: los haitianos en Chile siguen migrando a EE. UU.
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‘False choice’: is deep-sea mining required for an electric vehicle revolution?
Deep sea mining firms claim their rare metals are necessary to power clean tech – but with even major electric car firms now backing a moratorium, critics say there is an alternative
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At the Goodwood festival of speed near Chichester, the crowds gathered at the hill-climb circuit to watch the world’s fastest cars roar past, as they do every year. But not far from the high-octane action, there was a new, and quieter, attraction: a display of the latest electric vehicles, from the £28,000 Mini Electric to the £2m Lotus Evija hypercar. Even here, at one of the biggest events in Britain’s petrolhead calendar, it’s clear the days of the internal combustion engine are numbered.
As countries strive to meet stringent carbon-emission targets, and vehicle-makers phase out combustion engines, 145m electric vehicles are predicted to be on the roads within a decade, up from 11m last year. The car batteries they require, along with storage batteries for solar and wind power, have sent demand for metals soaring, taking mining firms to the bottom of the sea in the hunt for those metals.
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Covid live news: India reports lowest deaths since mid-March; England parents warned over hoax vaccine letter
India reports 179 Covid deaths for Tuesday; hoax letter in England aimed at spreading misinformation as 12- to 15-year-olds can now get jab
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The coronavirus pandemic has made people in the UK more likely to support the use of technology such as artificial intelligence and data analytics in enhancing public safety a new report argues.
A study by Goldsmiths University and Motorola found that three-quarters of people surveyed believed technology should be used to help emergency services predict risk, while a similar number said all forms of technology including video surveillance, needed to be more widely used to address the challenges of the modern world.
A major study of vaccine hesitancy among schoolchildren has found that younger children and those who are from more deprived communities were the most hesitant to get the jab. Those who were less willing to be vaccinated also felt less connected to their school community.
Researchers say the study shows the need to focus information more on social media than in traditional news outlets so that it can reach a younger audience.
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We argue over statues, yet history shows they're really all about power | Mary Beard
Today it’s ‘culture wars’ – but from Caesar to Colston, public art has long been reviled and reinterpreted
- Mary Beard is a professor of classics at Cambridge University
Two thousand years ago the ancient Romans had some imaginative solutions to the problem of what to do with statues of rulers they had come to deplore. Some they gleefully toppled and threw into the nearest river, Edward Colston-style. But others they carefully reworked. It didn’t take much to get out a chisel and refashion the face of the old tyrant into the face of the new beloved leader.
If cash was very tight, you might just put a new name on to an old statue, because hundreds of miles away hardly anyone knew what these guys really looked like. As Alex von Tunzelmann deftly captures in her recent book, Fallen Idols, statues are always works in progress: toppled, moved, reworked, reerected and reinterpreted. There has never been a time when they were not contested.
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Can a mother ever be good enough? I know what my son would say ... | Zoe Williams
My almost 14-year-old is annoyed that I think his birthday is a bigger deal for me than it is for him. Still, it will always be my special day
I was casually telling my son, before his 14th birthday this week, why it was a bigger deal for me than it was for him. His birth was the best day of my life to that point, I explained; it was merely the first day of his life. I was looking out of the window, directly into the Palace of Westminster (it was St Thomas’ hospital, by Westminster Bridge), thinking I had just created something so miraculous that he was actually going to be the salvation of the world. I suddenly understood the story of the baby Jesus – it was a metaphor for the grandiosity of bliss. But I was also half-wondering when my myrrh would arrive. It’s possible I’d had too much gas and air. Still, I was conscious, just about. He was like a tiny blinking hedgehog. QED.
Back in the present day, this really annoyed him. I annoyed him more by going: “What? It’s not like I want you to get me a present. I will still observe your birthday in the regular way. You should just know that, really, it’s my special day.”
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Cop26 climate talks will not fulfil aims of Paris agreement, key players say
Major figures privately admit summit will fail to result in pledges that could limit global heating to 1.5C
Vital United Nations climate talks, billed as one of the last chances to stave off climate breakdown, will not produce the breakthrough needed to fulfil the aspiration of the Paris agreement, key players in the talks have conceded.
The UN, the UK hosts and other major figures involved in the talks have privately admitted that the original aim of the Cop26 summit will be missed, as the pledges on greenhouse gas emissions cuts from major economies will fall short of the halving of global emissions this decade needed to limit global heating to 1.5C.
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Turner prize 2021: a collective effort to make art radical again
Pickled cows and unmade beds: the art award has always challenged convention. But in 2021 it is going further, by abolishing individual artists altogether
The Turner prize has given us some great characters. Grayson Perry was a little-known alternative potter before this annual competition for avant garde British art launched him as a commentator and media personality. Tracey Emin became a national sensation when she showed her unmade bed in 1999, though she lost out to Steve McQueen – yet another talent for whom it was the beginning of great things.
But it’s a fair bet that no individual will become rich or famous as a result of this year’s Turner exhibition at Coventry’s Herbert Art Gallery. This is no slight on the 80 or so people I count behind the five collectives on this year’s shortlist. It’s just that you have to scan the small print to even find these folks’ names. The Turner has turned on itself.
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The trillions in our pension pots could be key to tackling the climate crisis | Richard Curtis
Ahead of Cop26, the UK could take the lead in diverting investments away from carbon emitters
- Richard Curtis is a filmmaker and activist
Someone said something so simple yet so shocking to me recently: that weather used to be the last thing on the news, now it’s the first. Fire, floods, drought; it’s impossible to ignore. Well, I can’t help but feel that we should treat our pensions the same. They used to be the last thing on our minds – the worst possible thing to bring up at a party – but in order to tackle the climate crisis, they must now be the first.
With delegates from across the globe descending upon Glasgow in November for Cop26 – the most important climate negotiations for a generation – a new movement now has the power to deliver on the world’s most urgent agenda.
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Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks
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Labour conference live: Mandelson says leadership election rule change will keep out another Corbyn
Latest news from Labour conference after Keir Starmer wins vote on party reforms to require leadership candidates to have backing of 20% of MPs
- Labour leadership rule changes pass after last-minute Unison backing
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- Labour to scrap business rates if elected, says shadow chancellor
The voting figures published by Labour show that Sir Keir Starmer only won the vote on the party leadership election rule changes with union backing. In some respects that is a reversion to Labour’s past, when the leadership regularly used to rely on rightwing unions to outvote leftwing activists, although that is not a description of how the party is generally operating at the moment.
In the card vote on this rule change, the constituency Labour parties (CLPs) were 52.86% against and 47.14% in favour. But the affiliates (mostly the unions) were 60.2% in favour, and 39.8% against.
Good morning. Sir Keir Starmer won the vote last night on the internal Labour reforms that will require leadership candidates to have the backing of 20% of MPs, not 10%, stop registered supporters voting in leadership elections and make it harder for activists to trigger a reselection ballot in their local Labour MP. The changes were passed by 53.67% to 46.33%, which was closer than some expected, but it does go some way to compensating for Starmer’s failure to get the unions to back his plan to change the leadership election system more fundamentally (he wanted to return to the electoral college) and his allies are treating this as a significant victory.
In an interview for the Today programme this morning, Lord Mandelson, one of the main architects of New Labour and a Starmer supporter, was much more explict about that this might mean than Starmer himself, and his shadow ministers, have been. He said this was all about locking out another leader like Jeremy Corbyn. He said:
Jeremy Corbyn built on the rules that Ed Miliband introduced, which allowed hundreds of thousands of people to apply to vote for our future leader without actually caring about the Labour party, knowing about the Labour party and in many cases not even becoming a member of the Labour party.
That avalanche of people who were allowed in the Labour party to back one far left candidates who they wanted to see elected leader will now no longer be allowed to happen ...
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Aldi to create 2,000 jobs in £1.3bn UK expansion plan
Discount supermarket chain to open further 100 stores as it reports 10% rise in UK and Ireland sales
Aldi will create 2,000 jobs and open another 100 stores across the UK as part of a £1.3bn plan to take a larger share of the British grocery market.
Aldi said it would also use the cash to expand its distribution centres, including a new 1.3m sq ft warehouse in Leicestershire, and trial a new checkout-free store in Greenwich in London, where it will use cameras, sensors and artificial intelligence to scan items and charge shoppers.
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‘They wanted to end masculinity’: the artist inspired by anti-sexist men’s groups
Albert Potrony’s exhibition turns Gatehead’s Baltic into a giant creche, inspired by a radical Dutch playground architect and the forgotten feminist men’s movement of the early 70s
For most parents, the ritual of pushing your child on a swing or kicking a ball with them in the park is the diametric opposite of high culture and radical politics. But artist Albert Potrony doesn’t see it that way. “Play is an amazing vehicle to explore absolutely everything,” he says. “Play is a fundamental tool for self-discovery, for knowing how to be in the world. It’s basically the artists’ process. We play – but it’s serious play.”
In his past work (if “work” is the right word), Potrony has given children the freedom to devise their own toys and encouraged students and refugees to make sculptures together. In his latest exhibition, Equal Play at Gateshead’s Baltic, Potrony uses the realm of the children’s playground to smuggle in ideas about urban theory, imagination and masculine roles. A key reference point, he explains, is Aldo van Eyck, the pioneering Dutch architect who opposed the soulless, abstract, top-down tendencies of modernism.
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‘I Just Want to Be Normal’: A Mentally Ill Man’s Death at Rikers
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Driver stabbed, killed on school bus with students aboard
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Germany election: SPD wins narrow victory as Merkel era ends in near-deadlock
Social Democrats edge out Christian Democrats, according to preliminary results, but tight finish leaves third-placed Green party as kingmaker
Germany is set for weeks or even months of protracted coalition talks after the race to succeed Angela Merkel after 16 years in power failed to produce a clear winner, with the centre-left Social Democrats just ahead of the centre-right conservative alliance according to official returns.
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UK jobseekers are offered six months of free broadband
Joint TalkTalk and government scheme to tackle digital exclusion gives no-contract uncapped usage
People looking for work can now apply for six months of free broadband to help them search for jobs.
A national programme has been launched by the telecoms company TalkTalk and the Department for Work and Pensions that aims to tackling digital exclusion and remove barriers to employment.
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Rhik Samadder tries … track cycling: ‘It’s like being overtaken by lorries on a motorway designed by Escher’
I am clamped into a razor-thin perineum-mashing machine with no brakes. What could possibly go wrong?
This is hardly the place to admit it, but I hate cyclists. I never know if they are going to stop at traffic lights or plough through; they’re often very shouty due to always being in danger; and the worst thing is, they’re right. We should all be cyclists as it’s good for the planet. I hate being around people who are right but, to my credit, I am always willing to have my rabid road prejudices punctured, so I have agreed to give track cycling a go.
Track cycling is like cycling squared, but in an oval. You’ve seen it at the Olympics: supercharged, smooth, oddly soothing – until a collision takes out half the cyclists because they’re riding mere millimetres apart. I am surprised anyone is able to have a go at whipping around the London 2012 velodrome on a two-dimensional bike that looks like it weighs less than a toaster. The Lee Valley VeloPark, in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, east London, is huge and engulfing. On the main floor, other people trying today’s taster session sit in three-sided metal pens, spaced apart like we’re at a sheep auction. I feel as if I’m in the hive where they make cyclists. I scan around for a giant alien ovipositor. Where is the Queen?
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How the US vaccine effort derailed and why we shouldn’t be surprised
Low vaccine rates may be the predictable outcome subject to entrenched social forces that have diminished American health and life expectancy since the 1980s, health researchers say
Dr Claudia Fegan’s patient was a congenial, articulate and unvaccinated 27-year-old deli worker who contracted Covid-19 and became so ill he required at-home oxygen treatments.
Now recuperating, he told his doctor his 64-year-old boss had been vaccinated, and she too was sickened with a “breakthrough” case. However, she only had mild symptoms.
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Badenoch's empire comments speak to the enduring mentality of colonialism | Nesrine Malik
The equalities minister says she doesn’t care about Britain’s imperial impact. It’s a sign of how deep-rooted the legacy is
In every single country that was ever under British rule, you will find a significant number of people who praise colonialism or claim they would willingly welcome back the British. It’s a sort of meme – half joke, half genuine frustration over political or economic instability.
Sometimes these laments are wistful longings for things that never really happened, such as the trains running on time, or lost status from a period when “people knew their place”. But they are almost always issued by those who have internalised the logic of empire itself – which is that it was, overall, an improving mission, albeit with a small number of unsavoury excesses.
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Massage therapist gets 25 years to life for sex crimes
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Mystery solved: Biden gets proof of family ties to India
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Britney Spears was 'scared' and 'crying' after she smelled weed backstage during a tour stop: 'I will fail a drug test. I won't see my boys'
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US, Pakistan face each other again on Afghanistan threats
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Unsung hero: how ‘Mr Radio Philips’ helped thousands flee the Nazis
In June 1940, a Dutch salesman, acting as a consul in Lithuania, issued Jewish refugees with pseudo visas to escape Europe. His remarkable story is only now being told
He helped save more Jewish lives than Oskar Schindler, but while the brave deeds of the German industrialist were known around the world because of an Oscar-winning film, few know the name Jan Zwartendijk, a Dutch radio salesman who helped thousands of Jews flee Nazi-occupied Europe.
Now a book by the celebrated Dutch writer Jan Brokken seeks to rescue Zwartendijk from obscurity, as well as other courageous officials who bent the rules to help several thousand Jews trapped between Nazi Europe and the Soviet Union.
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Assad the outcast being sold to the west as key to peace in Middle East
After 10 years of bloodshed, foreign allies are seeking to rehabilitate the Syrian leader
For almost a decade he was a pariah who struggled to get a meeting abroad or even to assert himself on his visitors. Largely alone in his palace, save for trusted aides, Bashar al-Assad presided over a broken state whose few friends demanded a humiliating price for their protection, and weren’t afraid to show it.
During regular trips to Syria, Vladimir Putin arranged meetings at Russian bases, forcing Assad to trail behind him at functions. Iran too readily imposed its will, often dictating military terms, or sidelining the Syrian leader on decisions that shaped the course of his country.
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‘Anything I do, I want to be the best’: Usain Bolt
Can the fastest man on the planet become a chart-topping reggae star?
Hang on,” I can’t help thinking as I wait for Usain Bolt – the Usain Bolt, Fastest Man In The World Usain Bolt – to magically appear on the laptop screen in my kitchen. Bolt has released a reggae album with his childhood friend and manager Nugent “NJ” Walker, and I’ve been granted an interview. Except… has there been some terrible mix-up? Am I interviewing some other Usain Bolt, some lesser-known reggae artist who just happens to share his name? Why on earth would a man widely considered to be the greatest sprinter of all time, a three-time world record holder, be releasing a reggae record?
But, nope, there he is, beaming at me from a nondescript kitchen somewhere in the world. (He’s actually in the UK, ready to play for the World XI against an England XI at Soccer Aid at Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium; days later, a clip will circulate of the long-retired Liverpool and England footballer Jamie Carragher beating him in a foot-race for a through ball.) He’s got the Bolt brand logo – a black bolt of lightning inside a yellow B – on the left breast of his black T-Shirt. There’s no mistaking it.
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Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen review – spiritual successor to The Corrections
The pastor’s family at the heart of Franzen’s sixth novel – a bravura examination of the mores of liberal America in 1971 – are his most sympathetic creation to date
The characters in Jonathan Franzen’s sixth novel exist in that much-disputed no man’s land between hip and square, in the culture wars of 1971. Since The Corrections, 20 years ago, Franzen has made himself the modern master of that fundamental driver of the 19th-century novel, the understanding that all happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Here, his never less than acute attention falls on the interior lives of the Hildebrandt family in small-town Illinois in the run-up to Christmas.
The patriarch, Russ Hildebrandt, is the minister at the First Reformed church in New Prospect, beset by temptation in the sweater-dressed form of his recently widowed congregant, Frances Cottrell, and usurped in his spiritual mission by a new young youth minister, Rick Ambrose, who offers the town’s teenagers a heady mix of gospel platitudes and rock music (you are reminded that Jesus Christ Superstar had opened on Broadway that autumn). Ambrose has created Crossroads, a cultish youth group for midwestern adolescents, which renounces sex and drugs in favour of “honest interactions” and “personal growth”. Fringed denim, earnest eye contact and cross-legged confessions are mandatory. Partly as an act of rebellion, Hildebrandt’s three eldest children have neglected their father’s Sunday sermons and joined Ambrose’s after hours’ mission. Perry, 16, with an IQ of 160, sees the group in part as a useful market for his pot dealing. His sister, Becky, has sensed the godhead in the 12-string guitar and sensitive fingers of Tanner Evans, Ambrose’s most charismatic young disciple. Nights at Crossroads, in the falling snow, are James Taylor songs come to life.
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Fears for 1 million furloughed staff with Sunak set to finally end scheme
After the success of the chancellors’s £70bn programme, there is uncertainty about the future direction of the economy
The biggest state intervention in the UK’s labour market in peacetime comes to an end this week when the government finally winds up its furlough support.
Barring an unlikely last-minute change of heart, a wage subsidy that has been in place for 18 months and has cost £70bn will no longer be open to struggling firms.
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The Marines Reluctantly Let a Sikh Officer Wear a Turban. He Says It’s Not Enough.
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She Bought Her Dream Home. Then a ‘Sovereign Citizen’ Changed the Locks.
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‘Slipping Into the Cool Water Always Feels Like Slipping Back in Time’
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Eco-friendly construction material “mass timber” gains traction
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Trend alert: 10 key AW21 fashion trends – in pictures
Look out for block colours and sparkling jewels, long gloves and cosy dresses… Here’s what’s coming to a wardrobe near you this autumn
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Sunday with Al Murray: ‘I’d like to say a special thanks to the creators of Paddington 2’
The comedian talks about his Big Green Egg, his rowing machine and his and his young child’s favourite film
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How does Sunday start? At 7.30am, with this small person who lives with us waking me up gleefully. I’d like to say a special thanks to the creators of Paddington 2: we watch it week-in-week-out, and I enjoy it as much as my toddler.
What’s cooking? Not much for breakfast; I save myself for lunch. I’ve got a Big Green Egg – a charcoal-fired barbecue and oven. I pop in a chicken with wine, garlic, butter and herbs and it steams through the meat.
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‘We feel we’re not going to get really sick’: why the pandemic hasn’t dissuaded ocean cruisers
Travel agents report Australians’ interest in cruising increasing 40% each month since June, with one analyst describing it as ‘the Teflon market for travel’
On 16 September, Miami-based Oceania Cruises, a luxury culinary-focused cruise company that is a division of Norwegian Cruise Lines, set an all-time, single-day booking record. It was driven by the introduction of its newest ship, Vista, due to take its first passengers in April 2023. Nearly half the available inventory of Vista’s inaugural season was sold in one day. These were new cash bookings, 30% of which came from people booking with the company for the first time.
It’s hard to know what this means for Australia. According to Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), 1.34 million Australians took a cruise in 2018, one of the highest rates in the world by population, yet international travel is currently off limits.
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Arsenal centurion Vivianne Miedema says she can get ‘a hell of a lot better’
- Striker faces depleted Man City after hitting 100-goal milestone
- Miedema training harder after ‘reality check’ during lockdown
Vivianne Miedema believes she is only going to get better after passing 100 goals for Arsenal. As she gears up to face a depleted Manchester City defence on Sunday, Miedema said she has been working even harder on her game since being struck by a realisation during lockdown.
The striker has 102 goals in 110 games for Arsenal – without having scored a single penalty – but conceded that to a certain extent she has been coasting. “So far I’ve been able to do a lot just with my talent,” she said.
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Scottish roundup: Michael Smith helps Hearts keep track of Rangers
- Hearts beat Livingston 3-0 as Michael Smith leads way
- Jon McLaughlin's penalty save helps Rangers win 1-0 at Dundee
Jon McLaughlin’s second-half penalty save helped Rangers secure a 1-0 win at Dundee to remain top of the cinch Premiership. It meant Joe Aribo’s early goal was enough for Steven Gerrard’s champions to get back on track in the division having been held to a draw by Motherwell last weekend, but Hearts are on their coattails thanks in part to Michael Smith, who opened the scoring in their latest win.
Aribo’s fine finish following good work by Alfredo Morelos with 16 minutes played gave Rangers the upper hand at Dens Park but the basement club made life far from straightforward after.
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Vipers edge out Diamonds to claim Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy
- Southern Vipers, 187-7, bt Northern Diamonds, 183, by 3 wkts
- Emily Windsor (47*) and Tara Norris (40*) pull off victory
Southern Vipers triumphed in a thriller at Northampton to retain their Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy title, beating Northern Diamonds by three wickets with just two balls to spare.
Vipers had looked down and out at 109 for seven but the batting depth that had seen them secure victory in six out of seven group-stage matches and gain automatic passage to the final came good once again – Emily Windsor (47 not out) and Tara Norris (40 not out) adding 78 runs to see their side over the line. For Diamonds, it was third time unlucky: they have now appeared in and lost all three finals since the new women’s regional setup was put in place last year.
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Mystery solved: Biden gets proof of family ties to India
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Greta Thunberg: ‘I really see the value of friendship. Apart from the climate, almost nothing else matters’
The world’s most famous teen activist opens up about how she’s been transformed since she started her school climate strike in 2018
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Armando Iannucci’s epic Covid poem: ‘It’s my emotional response to the past 18 months’
When Covid stalled his film work, the writer took revenge on the virus in the form of a poem about Britain, Brexit and the pandemic – exclusively extracted here
Where do you start with the pandemic? It may have been one of the most universally shared moments in history but that collective experience was instantly refracted into billions of entirely unique memories. How also do you address the weird paradox that for many the pandemic was an uncomfortable blend of positive and negative? “Me being at home was great for the children, but we’ve had to close our business.” “It was nice to spend more time with the family, but we lost my uncle.” It’s a mesh of contradictions; the cheerful banging of pans mingling with the distant screech of an ambulance siren. The pre-pandemic era feels both a long time ago and yesterday. As we emerged from lockdown, everything was both totally different and kind of the same.
And how do I respond to the pandemic as a writer and a director? Like many working in film and television, I had mixed fortunes. My film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, never made cinemas around the world, but it got shown on streaming platforms. As a writer, I’m used to working at home anyway, and, though work slowed, it never went away. I’m currently starting up a shoot we shut down eight months previously and I feel both blessed and guilty to have been one of the lucky ones. Strangely, although I thought about it often, my response to the pandemic won’t be a film or TV show. Unexpectedly, it’s emerged spontaneously as a poem.
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‘Vigil portrayed us as malevolent robots’ – submariners torpedo the BBC’s nautical hit
Fifteen minutes to launch a nuke? Rampant drugs and hairspray? No beer in the torpedo hatches? As the tense thriller concludes, navy experts scuttle its boatload of mistakes
What did the BBC did get right in Vigil, its tale of sex, drugs, treason, murder and perfect shoulder-length hair aboard a Trident submarine? “I noticed the clingfilm over a mug to stop spillage,” says Alexandra Geary, curator of the National Museum of the Royal Navy. “A submariner or sailor has obviously given them that tip.”
But ahead of the hit show’s finale, in which millions of fans will be hoping Suranne Jones and Rose Leslie’s detectives sail off into the sunset in their very bubbly bathtub, having made the world a safer place for Britain’s floating nuclear arsenal, the reception from submariners and naval experts I’ve spoken to has been disappointment at its lack of research and empathy.
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You be the judge: is it ever OK to put eggshells back in the box?
In our new column, we air both sides of a domestic disagreement – and ask you to deliver a verdict
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Struggling McIlroy dropped after USA open historic one-day lead at Ryder Cup
- Hosts lead 6-2 after stellar display at Whistling Straits
- McIlroy to sit out Ryder Cup session for the first time
- USA’s margin after day one its best in continental era
Two defeats in as many Friday outings were sufficient to see Rory McIlroy left out of a Ryder Cup session for the first time in his career. McIlroy, who made his Ryder Cup debut in 2010 and has featured in 26 matches in succession, was the notable absentee as Pádraig Harrington named his European pairings for day two’s foursomes.
McIlroy and Ian Poulter lost 5&3 to Patrick Cantlay and Xander Schauffele in Friday’s foursomes. The Northern Irishman partnered Shane Lowry in the afternoon fourballs but the outcome was similar, this time a 4&3 loss to Tony Finau and Harris English. McIlroy looked out of sorts throughout, with Harrington therefore and unsurprisingly opting to keep him on the sidelines as Europe attempt to rein in a rampant United States team. The hosts lead 6-2 after two sessions.
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After 25 years of the Suits, is the spinning, self-interested ECB still fit for purpose? | Barney Ronay
Slick marketing Suits replaced the fusty Blazers 25 years ago but the cricket landscape now is very different to 1996
Do you remember “The Blazers”? Cobwebbed and liver-spotted, ranged around the walnut-inlaid committee table in kipper-stained tie, regimental cufflinks and masonic under-truss, The Blazers were a kind of management class in British sport. People would often rail against The Blazers, their short-sightedness, their gentleman-amateur snobbery. But The Blazers pretty much had the run of things right through to the 1990s, when they were replaced by The Suits.
The Suits were different. The Suits were rainmakers and modernisers. They came from “business”, a basking pet food wholesale magnate here, a semi-retired double glazing tycoon there. They used words like “monetise” and “customer-facing” and “multilayered corporate emancipation”, all of which basically meant the same thing, which was “monetise”.
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¿Cómo fue que los simios y los humanos perdieron sus colas?
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Robinhood Hits Campus, Where Credit Card Companies Fear to Tread
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People are 'de-worming' themselves using digestive supplements, but experts say they're just flushing out good bacteria
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China issues dominate election of Taiwan opposition leader
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Southwest Airlines' next CEO said an application to work at Whataburger was stapled to his food bag: 'That's what it's come to'
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'Yes, I wept’: AOC explains why she cried over Iron Dome vote
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British tabloids are slamming Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's New York trip for the same reasons they celebrated Prince William and Kate Middleton's last visit to the city
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China clamps down on cartoons in latest morality move
Entertainment industry told to uphold ‘truth, goodness and beauty’ and remove vulgar and violent content
China’s broadcasting regulator said it will encourage online producers to create “healthy” cartoons and clamp down on violent, vulgar or pornographic content, as Beijing steps up efforts to bring its thriving entertainment industry to heel.
The National Radio and Television Administration said in a notice posted late on Friday that children and young people were the main audience for cartoons, and qualified agencies need to broadcast content that “upholds truth, goodness and beauty”.
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UK energy crisis: what happens now – and should you switch?
The lowdown on firms collapsing, the price cap – and what to do if you’re struggling with bills
Britain’s domestic energy market is in crisis. Seven energy firms have gone bust in the past few weeks. Green and Avro collapsed this week and many more are thought to be at severe risk. Analysts are likening recent events to the 2008 financial crisis but the government maintains it won’t bail suppliers out. Some customers are facing a more than 50%increase in bills. We explain what this means for you and look at your options.
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Dining across the divide: ‘She didn’t call me an insensitive buffoon – but I was armed and ready’
Two strangers, on opposite sides of the left-right political divide and with very different lives – can they find common ground over dinner?
Abby, 45, London
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You be the judge - send us your domestic disputes
If you’d like to take part in our new series about domestic disagreements, please get in touch
Each week the Guardian invites readers to share their domestic disagreements in a feature called You be the judge.
After both sides of the dispute have made their case, readers on theguardian.com will be able to vote on who is right. We will also ask a pre-selected jury of readers to make their own rulings.
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A great walk to a great pub: the Green Dragon, Yorkshire Dales
A four-hour stroll on the fells followed by a pint, a bite and a place to rest your head – with a waterfall out the back
Start Green Dragon pub Hardraw
Distance 9½ miles
Time 3-4 hours
Total ascent 490 metres
Difficulty moderate
An important truth was established some time ago when that celebrated bar room pundit Aristotle proved beyond all reasonable doubt that any decent walk undertaken in the British Isles must end at a good pub.
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La crisis de basura que nos deja la covid
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Lesson of the Day: ‘How to Paint 50,000 Miles of Lines’
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Hong Kong Is Holding Elections. It Wants Them to Look Real.
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'Maderna' tourist wanted after skipping Hawaii Zoom hearing
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Brian Laundrie argued in Wyoming restaurant hours before Gabby Petito vanished: eyewitnesses
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Return of the common cold: infections surge in UK as autumn arrives
After 18 months of social distancing, scientists believe people’s immune defences have weakened
The return of schools and the arrival of autumn means common colds and other respiratory infections are firmly on the rise, spreading coughs and sneezes, more severe illnesses, and prompting some to report their worst colds ever.
According to Public Health England, there is no particularly nasty new virus doing the rounds, but as cases rise, experts warn that people can expect more frequent infections and more serious symptoms now the UK is emerging from lockdown.
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House committee on Capitol attack subpoenas Trump’s ex-chief of staff and other top aides
Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon and Dan Scavino among advisers called to testify over president’s connection to 6 January events
The House select committee scrutinizing the Capitol attack on Thursday sent subpoenas to Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and a cadre of top Trump aides, demanding their testimony to shed light on the former president’s connection to the 6 January riot.
The subpoenas and demands for depositions marked the most aggressive investigative actions the select committee has taken since it made records demands and records preservation requests that formed the groundwork of the inquiry into potential White House involvement.
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Ray Liotta: ‘Why haven’t I worked with Scorsese since Goodfellas? You’d have to ask him. I’d love to’
After years of avoiding crime films, he’s back as a mafioso in the Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark. He talks about being adopted and getting into acting – and saves a surprise for the end
I am a little trepidatious ahead of my interview with Ray Liotta because the reviews, shall we say, are mixed. Not about his acting, which has been accoladed and adored from his first major film role, as Melanie Griffith’s crazy ex in 1986’s Something Wild, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe. No, the problematic reviews are about Liotta personally. One person who worked with him described him to me as “the rudest arsehole I ever met”; another said he’s “a bit of a wildcard”, and I suspect that the latter is a euphemism for the former.
This would explain a long-running movie mystery: why isn’t he more successful?’ It took Liotta, now 66, until he was 30 to bag Something Wild, but after that, movie stardom seemed assured. He went from there to starring opposite Tom Hulce in the little-remembered Dominick and Eugene, and then playing “Shoeless” Joe Jackson in the extremely well-remembered Field of Dreams.
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The Green Knight review – Dev Patel rides high on sublimely beautiful quest
Director David Lowery conjures up visual wonders and metaphysical mysteries from the anonymously authored 14th-century chivalric poem
Christ’s sacrifice and the erotic death-wish of earthly glory: these are the components of this freaky folk horror from writer-director David Lowery, a mysterious and sensationally beautiful film inspired by the 14th-century chivalric poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, which was written by an anonymous contemporary of Chaucer. Its creator’s identity remains a puzzle to the present day – though the film playfully hints at the question of authorship.
The story could not be more simple or more perplexing: a nobleman at the court of King Arthur is challenged by a stranger to a martial contest on Christmas Day. But the contest utterly negates or deconstructs the whole idea of manly valour, strength, courage and skill in battle. All that is required is submission.
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‘It’s awful. It’s exhausting’: Alaska rations care as it hits Covid nadir
The state has the highest rate of Covid in America, leaving hospitals overwhelmed and health workers burned out
Health systems in Alaska are at a breaking point, and the Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, has activated crisis standards of care for the entire state, joining all of Idaho and part of Montana in rationing medical care.
Alaska now has the highest rate of Covid in America. On Wednesday the state hit its record number of cases and hospitalizations in the entire pandemic, and the numbers continue rising as its rolling seven-day average of daily cases tops 800.
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We have to insulate Britain, but M25 protests don't make the case for it | Gaby Hinsliff
No need to scream ‘Apocalypse!’ Showing we can make homes warmer and save cash is an easier way to bring people on board
If anything was going to make me well up in public, I never imagined it would be the joys of insulation. Loft lagging does not generally make the heart sing. People do not normally get choked up over cavity wall filling. But it turns out they probably should.
A few weeks ago someone showed me a film about a regeneration project to retrofit a social housing estate in Padiham, near Burnley, with green energy measures – and frankly, it would have melted a heart of stone.
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An Insider Details the ‘Black Box’ of Money and Power in China
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