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Top Tory MP defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis (sam., 27 avril 2024)
Exclusive: Ex-health minister Dan Poulter, who also works as a hospital doctor, says Conservatives have become ‘nationalist party of the right’ ‘I’m resigning as a Tory MP and crossing the floor. Only Labour wants to restore our NHS’ A Tory MP and former health minister has staged a dramatic defection to Labour, saying the Conservatives have become a “nationalist party of the right” that has abandoned ­compassion and no longer prioritises the NHS. Dr Dan Poulter, the MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, who works part-time as a mental health doctor in an NHS hospital, announced he was resigning as a Tory MP and would be taking the Labour whip until the next election in an exclusive interview with the Observer. Continue reading...
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Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories Conservative party staff and activists are secretly operating a network of Facebook groups that have become a hotbed of racism, misinformation and support for criminal damage. An investigation has identified 36 groups that appear to be separate grassroots movements opposing the expansion of ultra-low emission zone (Ulez) schemes to reduce air pollution. They do not say they were set up by the Conservatives as part of a coordinated political campaign. Continue reading...
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Revealed: UK government was warned of infected blood risks in 1970s (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Documents show officials were told blood plasma harvested from US convicts was contaminated with viruses • Read more: the true story of the UK infected blood scandal; plus: ‘My mum gave the injections that killed my brothers’ A commercial blood product at the centre of the biggest treatment scandal in the history of the NHS was approved for use after government officials were told convicts were among the paid donors and virus contamination “should be assumed”, corporate filings reveal. The product, given to ­haemophiliacs to enable their blood to clot, was injected into thousands of patients in the UK in the 1970s and 1980s, ­including young children, who were infected with HIV and hepatitis C. Continue reading...
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Disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein hospitalized (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Ex-movie mogul is at New York City department of correction for tests, his lawyer said, and will be transferred to Rikers Island The disgraced former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been hospitalized in New York City for a series of tests, his lawyer said. Weinstein’s hospitalization comes after the New York court of appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction on Thursday. According to the court’s ruling, the judge who oversaw the watershed case during the peak of the #MeToo era prejudiced Weinstein with “egregious” improper rulings and was mistaken in allowing women whose accusations were not part of the case to testify against him. Continue reading...
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Sunak: rise in asylum seekers in Ireland proves Rwanda plan ‘having impact’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
UK PM points to Irish deputy PM’s claim that threat of being deported led people to cross border from Northern Ireland An increase in asylum seekers heading to to Ireland proves that the Conservative party’s Rwanda plan is working, Rishi Sunak has claimed. In an interview with Sky News’ Trevor Phillips that will air on Sunday morning, the prime minister said the “deterrent is already having an impact because people are worried about coming here”. Continue reading...
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London’s Central drama school axes audition fees to end elite grip on the arts (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
The institution hopes to ‘shift the dial’ and encourage a more diverse range of students to apply A key obstacle in the path of poorer aspiring actors is to be removed at one of the UK’s leading drama schools, the Observer can reveal. The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, one of the country’s top drama schools, where Dame Judi Dench, Andrew Garfield, Riz Ahmed, Jason Isaacs, Cush Jumbo and Martin Freeman all learned their craft, is to scrap audition fees for prospective students in an effort to broaden its intake. “None of us want drama schools to be the preserve of the well off. Ideally, they are places where people from all backgrounds can come together and learn from each other,” said Freeman, a Central graduate and star of The Responder, Sherlock and The Office. “Without my grant from Richmond council many years ago, I would never have been able to enjoy my three years at Central. That seems to have become harder and harder in recent years; who knows how many young actors are lost to us, due to lack of funds. I hope this inspires others to follow suit in trying to make attending drama school fairer for all.” Continue reading...
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‘Almost beyond belief’: axing of UK teacher recruitment scheme will worsen crisis, say critics (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
The government’s scrapping of the Now Teach scheme, which has overdelivered on targets for older workers, has sparked an outcry Ministers have been accused of making a crisis in the recruitment of teachers even worse after axing funding to a much-praised programme helping older workers start a new career in the classroom. An outcry is already beginning over the decision to axe the career change programme, with organisers complaining that there “will be barely anyone left to teach our children” unless Rishi Sunak lives up to his party conference pledge to prioritise education. Continue reading...
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UK weighing sending troops into Gaza to distribute aid (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Risk-filled mission to escort aid from US-built floating pier into combat zone under consideration in defence ministry Britain’s defence ministry is considering sending troops into Gaza to escort trucks of aid being driven off a giant floating pier built by the US military, a UK defence source has said. The pier is due to be completed next month in the eastern Mediterranean, and then it will be pushed towards the Gaza shore. But the US president, Joe Biden, has pledged that American forces managing the project will not set foot on land there. Continue reading...
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Prisoner who absconded while attending family funeral found (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Police Scotland thanks public who helped trace 29-year-old Jamie Ross who escaped from guards while at Edinburgh crematorium A prisoner who escaped from guards while attending a family funeral in Scotland has been found, police said. Officers began a search for Jamie Ross after he absconded from custody at about lunchtime on Tuesday. Continue reading...
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Gold pocket watch of richest man on Titanic fetches record-breaking £1.2m (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
Amount paid for businessman John Jacob Astor’s watch is highest ever for Titanic memorabilia, auctioneers say A gold pocket watch that was recovered from the body of the richest man on the Titanic has sold for a record-breaking £1.2m. The watch was sold on Saturday to a private collector in the US at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, for the highest amount ever for Titanic memorabilia, the auctioneers said. Continue reading...
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Lancashire town locked down ‘after grenade donated to heritage centre’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Emergency services corden off large area of Darwen while army bomb disposal unit removes and destroys grenade A town centre in Lancashire was placed in lockdown on Saturday, with British army bomb disposal experts forced to remove and destroy a grenade. It is understood that a member of the public had donated items to a heritage centre in Darwen which included the grenade. Continue reading...
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I am resigning from the Tory party and joining Labour: only it wants to restore our NHS | Dan Poulter (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
As an MP and psychiatrist, I see the burden that a service near breaking point takes on patients, their families and healthcare colleagues • Read more: Tory former health minister Dan Poulter defects to Labour in fury at NHS crisis Alongside serving my ­constituents as their MP, during the junior doctors’ strike I have spent more than 20 night shifts over the past year or so ­working as a mental health doctor in a busy hospital A&E department. It has been a truly life-changing experience. Working on the frontline of a health service under great strain left me at times, as an MP, struggling to look my NHS colleagues, my patients and my constituents in the eye. Throughout the small hours, my clinical colleagues and I cared for many patients suffering from serious psychosis who would routinely be waiting several days, rather than hours, in a windowless room in A&E for a mental health bed. Continue reading...
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London Gaza protest: has row over ‘openly Jewish’ remark changed the march’s mood? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
In the wake of a controversial viral video, Holocaust survivors joined pro-Palestine demonstration while fears of antisemitism grow A woman is standing next to a group of Holocaust survivors and their descendants in Trafalgar Square, clutching her dog’s lead and livestreaming her challenge to the pro-Palestine marchers on her phone. “Why will none of you condemn Hamas?” she repeats several times, for the benefit of those watching online. Most of the marchers ignore her, preferring instead to show their appreciation for the group of 11 survivors who oppose Israel’s actions in the war in Gaza. One man yells at her but is quickly ushered along by his friends. One young woman standing with the survivors kneels down to make friends with the dog. Continue reading...
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‘Everyone knows something’s going to happen’: fears of a new war on Israel’s border with Lebanon (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
As hostilities ramp up, Israelis evacuated from the country’s north say Hezbollah must be pushed back to protect communities from its rockets For the Israeli communities evacuated from the country’s far north in the aftermath of 7 October, there is no longer any doubt about whether full-scale war with Hezbollah in Lebanon is going to happen. For most people, the only question is when. Nissan Zeevi, 40, has spent the past six months working as a first responder in Kfar Giladi, a kibbutz that grows apples and avocados. His wife and two young boys are living near the Sea of Galilee and are yet to come home; it’s just him, bulldog Joy, and his M16 rifle, keeping an eye on the Lebanese villages and Hezbollah outposts clearly visible from the garden, just a few kilometres away. Continue reading...
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The demise of Twitter: how a ‘utopian vision’ for social media became a ‘toxic mess’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
In the early days it was seen as a place for ‘genuine public discourse’, but users have fled since Elon Musk took over. What went wrong? If anything is emblematic of the demise of Twitter, it is the rise and stall of the account of Oprah Winfrey. Oprah joined the platform in 2009, tweeting for the first time live from her wildly popular TV show: “HI TWITTERS. THANK YOU FOR A WARM WELCOME. FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY.” Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...
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It’s 20 years since the UK hit ‘peak booze’. The hangover is still with us (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
A devil-may-care culture led to the UK’s highest drinking rates. Are we now paying the price for years of excess? Most people can foggily recall where they were as the clock struck midnight on 1 January 2000. Me? I hugged the jaundiced rim of a village hall toilet, vomiting 10 shades of bile. I had attempted to complete Team 2000 – a challenge set by 20 friends who endeavoured to consume 2,000 units of alcohol, 100 units each, throughout December. Seasoned soaks might consider this eminently ­achievable – especially around the ­festive ­season – but I was just 15 years old. Later that night, in the grim depths of morning, I defecated while ­unconscious in my friend’s sleeping bag. Welcome to generation peak booze. Continue reading...
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She was told her babies were dead. Instead they were sold abroad. What happened when she met them 40 years on? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Four families torn apart by Chile’s illegal adoption scandal finally found each other decades later. They describe the emotional moment they met – and how they pieced together the lives they had spent apart For Sara Melgarejo, the wait at Santiago airport was agonising. The 65-year-old had travelled about 30km north from San Bernardo, a working-class suburb of the Chilean capital, for the reunion. She walked the length of the building trying to calm her nerves, holding her breath for the arrival of the two children she had spent the last 40 years believing were dead. “My heart was racing and my body was trembling,” she says, “but I felt pure joy.” Siblings Sean Ours, 40, and Emily Reid, 39, walked into arrivals together, having arrived on a flight from the US. Even though they had never met Sara in person, there was no question that she was their biological mother – they share the same eyes, the same infectious smile. Continue reading...
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Three and a bit years after Brexit, are border checks finally here? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Sort of: this week will see inspections of some goods. But the hit to businesses and inflation will be inescapable When Michael Gove announced the first delay to post-Brexit checks on plant and animal products coming into the UK from the EU, he was keen to make one thing clear. “Although we recognise that many in the border industry and many businesses have been investing time and energy to be ready on time, and indeed we in government were confident of being ready on time,” the then minister for the Cabinet Office said, “we have listened to businesses who have made a strong case that they need more time to prepare.” Continue reading...
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Moses McKenzie: ‘I was thinking about the predicament of the black British diaspora’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The award-winning Bristol-raised novelist on his new book about a teenage Rastafarian living in the city in volatile times, how he was influenced by The Catcher in the Rye - and being celebrated by a Tory politician Continue reading...
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The moment I knew: he kissed me goodnight – then rang to make sure I saw the moon (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
When MasterChef Australia winner Julie Goodwin met Mick, she thought he was ‘too cool’ for her. Then one moonlit night, she realised he was a keeper Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email In the weeks between school ending and university beginning in Sydney, I ran into my friend Chris who was flat-out with a new youth group he had started under the banner of St Vincent de Paul. I asked if I could come along and rocked up to my first meeting in January 1989. The other people in the room were all guys who had gone to St Leo’s Catholic College, including Micky G, the tallest boy I had ever met, standing at six foot seven inches – 2 metres. There was colourful language and boisterous laughter. These guys were rough as guts, but here they were organising blanket and food drives for local people who were struggling. They were distributing sandwiches in Sydney city in the dead of night. They had hearts of pure gold, and they became my people. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...
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The ‘boring phone’: stressed-out gen Z ditch smartphones for dumbphones (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The feature-free phone, launched at Milan design week, is the latest device to tap into young people’s concerns about attention-harvesting and data privacy It’s almost enough to make you stop doomscrolling: dull devices are now cool. The Boring Phone is a new, featureless flip phone that is feeding the growing appetites of younger people who want to bin their smartphones in favour of a dumbphone. Continue reading...
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Editors’ picks: How to style a knitted tank top for summer 5 ways – in pictures (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
Preppy or plain, stripy or simple... The tank top is early summer’s understated hero. Here’s how the sleeveless classic gives every outfit a shot in the arm Continue reading...
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John Mitchell’s new England pass French test and will only get better | Robert Kitson (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The Red Roses clinched a sixth successive Women’s Six Nations but never before have they had such impressive balance England’s head coach, John Mitchell, before this season’s Women’s Six Nations, could not have been any clearer on the subject of his squad’s ambitions. “The potential of this side is huge,” he told the Guardian. “We’ve been a very good team but we want to be an outstanding team.” The objective was not just to win games but to surpass anything they had previously achieved. On the evidence of this latest coup de grace in Bordeaux that mission is firmly on track. A sixth successive Six Nations title and a third straight grand slam may look, at first glance, to be a mundane tale of the expected but this one stands out for several reasons. First, it was their first under Mitchell, whose familiar brand of no-nonsense Kiwi nous is already paying dividends. Second, it was clinched on French soil against decent opposition who kept coming and posed persistent problems. Continue reading...
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Bukayo Saka: ‘The hunger to win keeps me going, that’s why I keep getting up’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Arsenal’s world-class attacker on embracing the occasion of a pivotal derby at Tottenham with team’s title hopes on the line Even when the stakes could barely be higher, Bukayo Saka finds the capacity to step back a little and marvel. He needs no telling what Sunday’s north London derby means, the possibilities victory would unlock and the likely implications of falling short, but it would not feel the same without a sense of fun. “When you go in the stadium and see the atmosphere, it’s beautiful,” he says of those afternoons when Arsenal and Spurs face off. “I try to enjoy it. There has to be an element of seriousness, discipline and focus, but you have to try to enjoy it as well.” Continue reading...
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‘There’s going to be fire if I speak’: Salah adds fuel to touchline row with Klopp (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Liverpool forward was pulled away from coach by Darwin Núñez Klopp: ‘We spoke in the dressing room … it is done for me’ Mohamed Salah ruined Jürgen Klopp’s attempt to play down his touchline row with the winger by saying there would be “fire” if he stopped to speak after Liverpool’s faltering title challenge suffered another blow in their 2-2 draw at West Ham. Salah, who was dropped after Liverpool’s midweek defeat at Everton, cut a disgruntled figure while he was waiting to come off the bench at the London Stadium. The winger reacted badly after Klopp, whose side were chasing a late winner after squandering a 2-1 lead, tried to speak to him. The incident ended with Darwin Núñez, another substitute, having to pull Salah away from Liverpool’s manager. Continue reading...
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Emma Hayes sees Champions League dreams washed away in the rain | Sophie Downey (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The Chelsea manager’s last tilt at the biggest prize to elude her ended in valiant defeat by Barcelona in the semi-final As the rain relentlessly tumbled to the Stamford Bridge turf, Emma Hayes and her Chelsea players trudged forlornly around the ground, the pain etched on their faces knowing how close they had come. A matter of inches the wrong side of the post, a series of questionable refereeing decisions and a key injury to Mayra Ramírez who had caused Barcelona so many issues at the Estadi Olímpic just a week earlier. Millimetres, a series of moments … so close but so far once again. The Champions League is the one trophy that has eluded Emma Hayes in her 12-year tenure. The one that, despite her protestations, she so desperately wanted to complete her haul of winning every available trophy at a club she had built from the ground up. Continue reading...
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Idrissa Gueye’s strike sinks Brentford and ensures Everton’s safety (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Evertonians can sleep peacefully in May for the first time in three years. Their team has suffered two points deductions totalling eight points, their club faces an uncertain financial and ownership future, but they will have top-flight football for a 71st consecutive year thanks to the superb accomplishments of Sean Dyche and his players. Idrissa Gana Gueye delivered victory over Brentford and Premier League safety into the bargain. It was an arduous watch, “quite boring” admitted a frank Thomas Frank, lacking the quality, intensity and emotion of Wednesday’s Merseyside derby defeat of Liverpool. Continue reading...
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European football: Harry Kane reaches new best, Leverkusen stay unbeaten (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
Harry Kane scores twice to take total to career-best 42 goals Bayer Leverkusen grab dramatic 2-2 draw with Stuttgart Harry Kane scored once in either half to guide Bayern Munich to a 2-1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday and a welcome boost before Tuesday’s Champions League semi-final first leg against Real Madrid. The Bavarians, who saw Bayer Leverkusen end their 11-year-Bundesliga reign by securing the league crown two weeks ago, have only the Champions League left to fight for with departing coach Thomas Tuchel eager to leave on a high note. Continue reading...
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Championship roundup: Hull fight back to dent Ipswich’s promotion challenge (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Ipswich still in third after conceding late equaliser in 3-3 draw Huddersfield all but relegated after draw with Birmingham Omari Hutchinson scored twice but Hull came from behind three times to stop Ipswich moving into the Championship promotion places with a 3-3 draw at the MKM Stadium. Ipswich started the day a solitary point behind Leeds having played two games less, knowing a victory would put them in healthy position to return to the Premier League, and George Hirst fired the visitors in front in the 19th minute to give them a perfect start. Continue reading...
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Rafael Nadal delivers a timely reminder of his calibre to delight home crowd (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Nadal triumphs 7-6 (6), 6-3 against Alex de Minaur in Madrid First time since November 2022 Nadal has beaten a top-30 player In the feverish buildup to his final appearance at the Madrid Open, Rafael Nadal made himself abundantly clear. It was not too long ago that he was unsure if he would ever return to the court at all and so, with his lingering physical limitations, he came to Madrid with the intention of saying goodbye to his home crowd, not to win. But this is a 22-time grand slam champion whose career has been defined by his ability to win tennis matches on clay courts regardless of age, physical shape or environment. Of course he was not going to leave without a desperate fight. Barely a week after he was dismantled by the very same opponent, Nadal returned to the fourth round here with an excellent performance, defeating Alex de Minaur, the 10th seed, 7-6 (6), 6-3 after more than two hours. Continue reading...
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It’s immoral to push children into poverty, but that’s what the benefits cap does | Torsten Bell (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Claimants were supposed to be deterred from having more children, but the policy has made families poorer, not smaller There’s much talk of “fiscal pinch points” driving economic policy decisions. But there are moral pinch points, too. Not least when it comes to our children: for many in larger families, we have now come close to creating a poverty guarantee. Since 2017, the two-child limit has prevented families from receiving child-related benefits for a third or subsequent child, worth about £3,200 per extra child. The result? Half of children in families with three or more children are now in poverty vs a third in 2011/12. And that’s before the policy’s full bite has been felt (by 2035, 750,000 families will be affected, vs 420,000 last year). These statistics risk sounding abstract, but the reality they reflect isn’t. While one in three smaller families are materially deprived, that proportion rises to three-quarters of larger families. Continue reading...
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Did five frightened horses bolting through London really mean the end was neigh? | Michael Hogan (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
It says a lot about our turbulent times that we’ve started seeking omens in random events Woah there, cried the nation. Easy, boy. This week’s most arresting visuals came on Wednesday morning when runaway horses brought central London to a standstill. Five working animals from the Household Cavalry, based at Hyde Park barracks, were on exercise when they were spooked by noises from a building site and dramatically broke loose. The equine escapees caused chaos bolting through the capital, colliding with vehicles and startling pedestrians. They galloped for six miles, making it as far as Limehouse in the East End. Four people were taken to hospital. Two horses were left in serious condition. The footage was mesmerising, the images indelible. It elicited a giddy mix of fear and excitement, reminiscent of when a bird flies through an open window. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...
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Chris Riddell on how one-word Ofsted assessments would apply to the Tory party – cartoon (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The school assessor’s minimalist judgments are here to stay. But how would inspectors rate the government? Continue reading...
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Social media lies can unleash a dangerous contempt for others. We can stop it | Max Jeganathan (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
In our atomised society, we don’t just reject ideas and identities, we dehumanise those who hold them. There is a way out The Bondi Junction attacker and the teen who allegedly stabbed the bishop used knives, but judging from the online reaction to both events, many of us have a different weapon in our hands: our smartphones. Some fault lines simmer under our headlines – landlords v renters, ute drivers v EV advocates, zoomers v boomers. But sporadic moments of horror reveal our trust deficit. Continue reading...
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Civil War is a terrifying film, but Trump: The Sequel will be a real-life horror show | Simon Tisdall (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
If the former president regains the White House in November, America faces a more dystopian future than that being shown in cinemas Director, cast and critics all agree: Civil War, the movie depicting America tearing itself to bloody bits while a cowardly, authoritarian president skulks in the White House, is not about Donald Trump. But it is, really. Likewise, the first ever criminal trial of a US president, now playing to huge audiences in New York, is ostensibly about claims that Trump fraudulently bought the silence of a former porn star called Stormy after a tacky Lake Tahoe tryst. But it isn’t, really. Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a letter of up to 250 words to be considered for publication, email it to us at observer.letters@observer.co.uk Continue reading...
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‘Woke’ isn’t dead – it’s entered the mainstream. No wonder the right is furious | Gaby Hinsliff (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
When even the Met police and National Trust scones are apparently ‘peak wokerati’, it’s become the establishment norm Is woke dead? Is it over? Has it “peaked”, run its course before we’ve even properly agreed on what this endlessly controversial but somehow never quite defined social justice movement actually was? Though American rightwingers have been hopefully pronouncing its last rites for a while now, until very recently rumours of its death seemed exaggerated in Britain. Sure, some vegan restaurants have gone bust lately, but sadly so have plenty of other restaurants in the face of a cost of living crisis. And yes, oat milk sales are down. But is that because it has been toxified by political association, or because it has fallen out of favour with the wellness lobby, or just because it’s expensive? Even reports of a YouTube-fuelled anti-feminist backlash among some young men, or of young women lapping up the original (not very woke) Sex and the City series on Netflix didn’t feel like much of a tipping point. But then came the paediatrician Dr Hilary Cass’s landmark review on treating transgender children, which found that medical interventions have been underpinned by “remarkably weak evidence” and made clear treatment should be holistic, seeking a full understanding of everything going on in children’s lives. Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
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Who would’ve thought booking a table would require superhuman strength | Rachel Cooke (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
In New York, ‘reservation scalpers’ are making $80,000 a year, but I’m banking on a neighbour’s generosity The land of restaurants is increasingly paradoxical. Every day, good ones close. Running costs are punitive and broke customers are eating at home more often. Yet still there are places where it’s next to impossible to bag a table; where to have even the remotest chance of doing so requires near superhuman levels of patience and determination, as well as no other demands whatsoever on your time – including paid employment. I laughed when I read in the New Yorker’s annual food issue of the “reservation scalpers” who make $80,000 a year by hoarding bookings to then sell them on to the desperate-to-be-there rich. Only in Manhattan, I thought. But this didn’t stop me. Just moments later, I was urging my neighbour, Sue, who is to restaurants what Harry Houdini once was to padlocks and straitjackets – just you watch her bust her way in! – to try to get us a table at X (I won’t say its name, for obvious reasons). Sue is also a hoarder of reservations, with the key difference that she then shares them with (I flatter myself) beloved friends at no extra charge. So now we’re on tenterhooks, waiting and hoping – and hoping and waiting – for the hottest Sunday lunch in town. Continue reading...
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Discussing Sonia Sotomayor’s retirement is not sexist – it’s strategic | Arwa Mahdawi (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The liberal justice has been called the supreme court’s conscience but we can’t afford a repeat of Ruth Bader Ginsburg A month ago Josh Barro (a man) at the Atlantic wrote a piece headlined Sonia Sotomayor Should Retire Now. Around the same time the Guardian’s Mehdi Hasan (a man) similarly opined that “for the sake of all of us, Sonia Sotomayor needs to retire from the US supreme court.” The University of Colorado Boulder law professor Paul Campos (a man) also went on CNN to argue that 69-year-old Sotomayor should consider stepping down as a justice in order to give Joe Biden time to fill the seat with another liberal judge should the worst happen. And pundit Nate Silver (you guessed it … another man) said much the same thing. Continue reading...
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The Observer view on Dan Poulter and the failing Conservative government | Observer Editorial (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The former Tory health minister has defected to Labour over the crisis in the NHS and has rightly called for an early election This week, voters across England and Wales will go to the polls in the last set of local elections before the next general election. But one Conservative MP has decided he cannot endorse Rishi Sunak as prime minister: former public health minister Dan Poulter announced this weekend that he is resigning his membership of the party. Poulter, who is also a practising NHS consultant, has delivered a stinging rebuke to Sunak; writing exclusively for the Observer, he says that his firsthand experience of crisis in NHS mental health services has persuaded him that “the only cure is a Labour government”. He will be taking the Labour whip until the next election – which he has said Sunak should call as soon as possible – and he will then stand down as an MP. Poulter is entirely correct that on the NHS – but also across every area of policy – this is a government that has neglected the huge social and economic challenges facing Britain. Public services are creaking under the strain. From the infected blood scandal to the victims of Windrush to the Post Office scandal, ministers have dragged their feet on righting terrible harms inflicted on people by the state. Increasing numbers of Conservative MPs are losing the whip and facing police investigations as a result of allegations of sleaze and corruption. Continue reading...
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The Guardian view on patriotism and the Last Night of the Proms: time for a change (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
For years, Rule, Britannia! has had a divisive presence in the festival. It should make way for other anthems of national identity Here we go again: Britannia will continue to rule at the Last Night of the Proms. Unveiling a wide-ranging programme for this year’s festival, Sam Jackson, controller of BBC Radio 3 and also director of the Proms, assured audiences that the jingoistic 18th-century anthem would take its customary place at the climax, despite calls for it to be dropped. A dignified and unhectoring case for standing the song down was made on Desert Island Discs by the cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a soloist in last year’s Last Night. Revealing that he had left the concert early to avoid it, he said: “I think maybe some people don’t realise how uncomfortable a song like that can make a lot of people feel, even if it makes [the people singing it] feel good.” Continue reading...
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Gaza, Germany, justice and reconciliation | Letters (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
When it comes to reconciling bitter enemies, the notion of ‘justice’ has its limitations, writes former judge Sir Konrad Schiemann Eva Ladipo’s article is impressive (My family’s past, and Germany’s, weighs heavily upon me. And it’s why I feel so strongly about Gaza, 19 April). For millennia different people and different groupings have wanted the same thing, which is regarded as desirable by each. Obviously they cannot both have it – unless what they both want is peace. The challenge has been and continues to be, both in Europe and elsewhere in the world, to construct a political order which enables competing sides to live in continuing peace, notwithstanding that they cannot each have all that they wish. For each side to insist that the other is overcome does not lead to lasting peace – as France and Germany and many other places have shown over centuries. Continue reading...
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MDMA trials are showing it has promise as a psychiatric medicine | Letters (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
Readers respond to a letter which said that MDMA is not helpful in mental health care Rachel McNulty (Letters, 19 April) is right to emphasise the need for proper funding of integrated mental health care and social support, but wrong to dismiss MDMA based on a single anecdotal case. I can provide a number of counter-anecdotes showing the value of MDMA to mental health, including a friend of mine who has said that it saved him from taking his life in his youth. However, science-based healthcare is not about anecdotes, but systematically gathered evidence and controlled trials. Such trials are already under way and are showing strong promise for both MDMA and psychedelics as effective psychiatric medicines when used appropriately. They are absolutely necessary to provide a clear evidence base that cuts through both “war on drugs” scare stories and psychedelic hype. Continue reading...
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Sadiq Khan’s green credentials may be critical in London mayoral election (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
As mayor aims to win third term, what has he achieved so far on air pollution, the climate crisis and nature? When Sadiq Khan launched his campaign for a third term as Labour mayor of London, he put his green policies front and centre, highlighting his work on air pollution, the climate crisis and nature. For seasoned Khan watchers, this came as little surprise. The mayor, who last year published a book called Breathe: Seven Ways to Win a Greener World, has been widely praised for his work tackling air pollution, as well as his efforts on nature restoration and getting London to net zero by 2030. The introduction and expansion of the ultra-low emission zone, which excludes the most polluting vehicles from the capital and has contributed to roadside N02 emissions dropping by 50%. The introduction of thousands of new electric buses and taxis, and the continued expansion of the cycle network and promotion of walking. A rewilding programme that has reintroduced a range of species, including beavers, expanded green spaces, and included a mass tree-planting programme. Continue reading...
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Wave of exceptionally hot weather scorches south and south-east Asia (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
Warnings of dangerous temperatures across parts of Philippines, Thailand, Bangladesh and India as hottest months of the year are made worse by El Niño Millions of people across South and Southeast Asia are facing sweltering temperatures, with unusually hot weather forcing schools to close and threatening public health. Thousands of schools across the Philippines, including in the capital region Metro Manila, have suspended in-person classes. Half of the country’s 82 provinces are experiencing drought, and nearly 31 others are facing dry spells or dry conditions, according to the UN, which has called for greater support to help the country prepare for similar weather events in the future. The country’s upcoming harvest will probably be below average, the UN said. Continue reading...
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Weather tracker: heavy rainfall causes flooding and death in east Africa (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
Rain in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi kills at least 90 people and damages farmland and infrastructure Eastern Africa has experienced heavy rain in recent weeks, with flooding in Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi. About 100,000 people have been displaced or otherwise affected in each country, with 32 reported deaths in Kenya and 58 in Tanzania, alongside damage to farmland and infrastructure. There are also fears that large areas of standing water could give rise to outbreaks of waterborne diseases. Continue reading...
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Global heating and urbanisation to blame for severity of UAE floods, study finds (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
World Weather Attribution group says intensified El Niño effects caused torrential rain, but rules out cloud seeding as cause Fossil fuels and concrete combined to worsen the “death trap” conditions during recent record flooding in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, a study has found. Scientists from the World Weather Attribution team said downpours in El Niño years such as this one had become 10-40% heavier in the region as a result of human-cased climate disruption, while a lack of natural drainage quickly turned roads into rivers. Continue reading...
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SNP split from Greens boosts Keir Starmer’s election chances, say Labour insiders (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
As first minister Humza Yousaf fights to stay in power, sources believe fallout from defunct coalition could help Labour win seats at general election An increasingly bitter split between the SNP and the Greens has brought even more Scottish parliamentary seats into play for Keir Starmer, Labour figures believe, amid a desperate fight by the first minister, Humza Yousaf, to stay in power. Yousaf has already refused to rule out a Holyrood election as he faces damaging no-confidence motions this week. On Saturday he wrote to the leaders of Scotland’s political parties in an attempt to find “common ground” following his decision to axe a coalition with the Scottish Greens that had propped up his government. Yousaf maintained that it would be a “poor choice” for the Greens to back a no-confidence motion in his minority government. Continue reading...
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Rageh Omaar says he was ‘determined to finish’ after becoming unwell on air (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
ITV’s international affairs editor became unwell while presenting News at Ten on Friday and is recovering at home Rageh Omaar has thanked everyone for their “kindness and good wishes” as he recovers at home on Saturday after being treated in hospital. The ITV News international affairs editor was presenting the News at Ten on Friday evening when he appeared shaky and to be having difficulty reading the news bulletins. Continue reading...
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Body found more than a year after man disappeared from Highlands village (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Rodrigo Falcon last seen in early hours of 11 December 2022 after leaving The Vault nightclub in Aviemore A body has been found in the search for a man who was last seen in a Highlands village more than a year ago. Rodrigo Falcon, an Argentinian, disappeared in freezing conditions in the early hours of 11 December 2022. Continue reading...
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Jacob Rees-Mogg says university protests against him were ‘legitimate, if noisy’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Cross-party MPs criticise protesters who waved Palestinian flags and shouted at former Tory minister who was flanked by security Jacob Rees-Mogg has said the protests against him at Cardiff University were “legitimate and peaceful, if noisy” after he was chased off campus on Friday, as the incident received cross-party condemnation from elsewhere. Footage showed the Conservative MP being followed by a small number of shouting demonstrators as he was escorted into a waiting car by eight security guards after speaking at the university’s Conservative society. Continue reading...
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Wonky Waitrose billboard fenced off by London council as stunt backfires (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Concerned public contact council over safety fears after retailer erected askew billboard in Wandsworth A Waitrose billboard erected in a wonky fashion as a marketing stunt was fenced off by council staff amid public safety fears. The retailer erected an askew billboard on Lindore Road, in Wandsworth, south-west London, in a nod to its falling prices. Continue reading...
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Teenager finds ‘holy grail’ Lego octopus from 1997 spill off Cornwall coast (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Boy discovers octopus figurine that fell from cargo ship along with 5m other Lego pieces during storm A 13-year-old boy has discovered a “holy grail” Lego octopus which spilled into the sea from a shipping container in the 1990s. The octopus is one of nearly 5m Lego pieces that fell into the sea in 1997 when a storm hit a cargo ship 20 miles off Land’s End, Cornwall. While 352,000 pairs of flippers, 97,500 scuba tanks, and 92,400 swords went overboard, the octopuses are considered the most prized finds as only 4,200 were onboard. Continue reading...
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Let Rishi Sunak ‘get on with the job’, says Grant Shapps (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Defence secretary says MPs must give the PM space as Tory figures appear to be vying for leadership Conservative MPs looking for a new party leader need to allow Rishi Sunak to “get on with the job”, Grant Shapps has said. Amid speculation that Sunak could announce an election next week in order to stave off potential challengers for the top job, the defence secretary said now was not “the time or place” to try to put another Conservative leader in place. The party is on its fifth leader since 2015. Continue reading...
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The end of empire: revamped British Academy stakes claim for modern role in UK’s global mission (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Rana Mitter, vice president for public engagement, keen to move on from colonial guilt and post-Brexit introspection Britain’s most revered academic institutions ought to stop worrying about their outdated image, since they now offer the best route to global influence, according to British historian Professor Rana Mitter. The renowned China expert, now based at Harvard’s Kennedy School, told the Observer that educational prestige is an increasingly important tool for tackling challenges to trust and fresh threats to the world order – and he wants a newly revamped British Academy in London, where he is vice-president for public engagement, to play a key role. “Outside our concerns with Brexit and decolonisation, the wider world has moved on and it still wants Britain to play a big part. Continue reading...
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British army unsure if injured runaway horses will return to duties (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Vida and Quaker from the Household Cavalry are recovering from surgery after four horses broke loose in London The army has said it is too early to know for sure if two military horses that suffered serious injuries after running loose through London will return to duties. Seven horses and six soldiers from the Household Cavalry were on an extended exercise in Belgravia on Wednesday when the horses were spooked by builders moving rubble. Continue reading...
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Man dies in Devon after after taking ‘unusually strong batch’ of heroin (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Eight others taken to hospital and four arrested on suspicion of supply of controlled substance, say police A man has died and eight others have been taken to hospital after an “unusually strong batch” of heroin circulated across north Devon, police have said. Four people were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the supply of a controlled substance. Continue reading...
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Sanders hits back at Netanyahu: ‘It is not antisemitic to hold you accountable’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
US senator says Israeli prime minister is using antisemitism to distract attention from ‘extremist and racist government’ policies Bernie Sanders has hit back fiercely at Benjamin Netanyahu over the Israeli prime minister’s claim that US universities were being overrun by antisemitism on a scale comparable to the rise of Nazism in Germany. In a video posted on X, the progressive senator from Vermont – who is Jewish – accused Netanyahu of “insult[ing] the intelligence of the American people” by using antisemitism to distract attention from the policies of his “extremist and racist government” in the military offensive in Gaza. Continue reading...
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South Africa marks 30 years since apartheid amid growing discontent (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Polls predict ANC likely to lose parliamentary majority, due to high unemployment and wealth inequality South Africa marked 30 years since the end of apartheid and the birth of its democracy with a ceremony in the capital that included a 21-gun salute and the waving of the country’s multicoloured flag. Any sense of celebration on the momentous anniversary was however set against a growing discontent with the current government. Continue reading...
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Chinese jets fly sorties over Taiwan strait in show of force as US delegation departs (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
End of secretary of state Antony Blinken’s three-day visit marks upsurge in military activity after period of relative calm Taiwan has reported that a dozen Chinese warplanes flew sorties close to the island on Saturday, in a sudden surge of military activity just hours after the US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, left Beijing following talks with President Xi Jinping and top Chinese officials. Before Blinken’s three-day visit to China, US officials had pointed to a period of relative calm in the Taiwan strait over the past few months, after years of aggressive Chinese military manoeuvres and threats, as a factor in improving US-Chinese relations since Joe Biden held a summit meeting with Xi in November. Continue reading...
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Baltimore teacher accused of using AI to create fake, racist recording of principal (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Dazhon Darien arrested over fake recording of principal complaining about students and faculty members A high school athletics director suspected of using artificial intelligence to create a fake, racist recording of a principal in Baltimore has been arrested by police. Police arrested 31-year-old Dazhon Darien of Pikesville high school on Thursday after an investigation into an AI-generated recording which featured the duplicated voice of the school’s principal, Eric Eiswert. Officers allege that Eiswert was investigating Darien in connection with the potential mishandling of school funds when the latter man purportedly created the recording. Continue reading...
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Iraq makes same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in jail (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Amendments to anti-prostitution law also enable courts to sentence trans people to three years in prison Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill making same-sex relations punishable by up to 15 years in prison, in a move condemned as an “attack on human rights”. Transgender people will also be sentenced to three years in jail under the amendments to a 1988 anti-prostitution law, which were adopted during a session attended by 170 out of 329 lawmakers on Saturday. Continue reading...
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Body of climber who died after 1,000ft fall recovered from Alaska mountain (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
Robbi Mecus, 52, and climbing partner, who was rescued and hospitalized, fell from Mount Johnson in Denali national park A helicopter crew on Saturday recovered the body of a climber who died after falling about 1,000ft (305 metres) while on a steep, technical route on Mount Johnson in Alaska’s Denali national park and preserve, park officials said in a statement. Robbi Mecus, 52, of Keene Valley, New York, died of injuries sustained in a fall Thursday while climbing a route on the south-east face of the 8,400ft (2,560-metre) mountain, the park said. His climbing partner, a 30-year-old woman from California, was seriously injured; she was rescued Friday and flown to an Anchorage hospital, park officials said. Continue reading...
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Briton in critical care after ‘unusual’ shark attack on Tobago (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Peter Smith, 64, received critical care for injuries to arm, leg and stomach after attack in shallow waters A British man is in intensive care after an “unusual” shark attack on the Caribbean island of Tobago. Peter Smith, 64, received critical care after sustaining serious injuries to his left arm, left leg and stomach on Friday morning, according to a local official. Continue reading...
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Arizona woman pleads guilty to stealing parts of corpses and trying to sell them (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Candace Chapman Scott of Little Rock, 37, worked at a mortuary and arranged to transport remains to buyers across state lines A former mortuary worker in Arkansas has admitted to stealing parts of corpses and trying to sell them. On Thursday, the US attorney for the eastern district of Arkansas announced that 37-year-old Candace Chapman Scott of Little Rock, Arkansas, had pleaded guilty to transporting stolen body parts across state lines and conspiring to commit mail fraud. Continue reading...
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The prince, the plotters and the would-be putsch: Germany to try far-right coup gang (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Ex-soldier, conspiracy theorist, astrologer and anti-vaxxer among the first of 27 people on trial for trying to violently topple the German government – led by Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss One of the largest legal proceedings in German history is due to start on Monday with the first of three trials of a group of far-right conspiracists who planned to violently overthrow the country’s parliament. So sprawling is the network, so extensive their plans, that for a mixture of logistical and security reasons, the 27 people due in the dock have been split into three separate groups. Continue reading...
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Kenya flood death toll rises as more torrential rain forecast (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Total deaths reach 76 and more than 130,000 displaced as weeks of flooding also affects east African neighbours Seventy-six people in Kenya have died because of flooding triggered by torrential downpours since March, the government has said, warning residents “to brace for even heavier rainfall”. Kenya and its east African neighbours have been battered by stronger than usual rain in recent weeks, compounded by the El Niño weather system. Continue reading...
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‘These people matter’: why Diana Matar photographs the sites where US police have killed civilians (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The celebrated US photographer’s haunting new series, documenting the locations where people have died in encounters with police, is a quietly devastating commemoration and a critique of modern American culture In their monochrome starkness, Diana Matar’s images of modern America possess a melancholic undertow that is both familiar and unsettling. Whether a deserted backroad fringed with sun-burnished grass in rural Texas or a single-storey liquor store in a sprawling Californian suburb, there is the sense that these often nondescript places are not where locals tend to linger, never mind gather to mourn and to remember. And yet the 110 photographs in her new book, My America, are of sites where civilians were killed by law enforcement officers across Texas, California, Oklahoma and New Mexico in 2015 and 2016. “I chose those four states because Texas and California are where most people die in encounters with law enforcement,” she says, “while Oklahoma and New Mexico have the highest per capita deaths. I would have liked to have photographed in other places like Chicago and Georgia, but I simply ran out of money.” Continue reading...
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‘There’s history in these walls’: is Mojos in Fremantle Australia’s best music venue? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Having set the stage for some of the world’s most iconic bands over its wild, debauched lifetime, Mojos is still drawing crowds more than 50 years later Tell us: what is Australia’s best music venue? Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email Behind a painted red, blue and yellow 1900s-era shopfront, an indie-pop band called Little Guilt is stepping onto a small stage framed with velvet curtains. They’re launching their new single to a sweaty throng of 20-somethings at Mojos Bar on a Saturday night in North Fremantle. It’s a scene reminiscent of Berlin, or perhaps even Austin: a heady blur of mullets, moustaches and midriffs, pool table flirtation, graffitied toilets and hazy conversations, surrounded by crumbling paint likely older than the punters themselves. This fresh-faced crowd mightn’t know it, but they’re standing on hallowed turf for Western Australian music. Since the late 1960s, Mojos has been a testing ground for some of the country’s (and the world’s) most loved bands including homegrown icons Tame Impala, the Triffids, the Farriss Brothers (who later became INXS), Pond, Jebediah, Spacey Jane, John Butler, Abbe May, San Cisco and too many others to name. Continue reading...
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‘Dismissing global warming? That was a joke’: Jeremy Clarkson on fury, farming and why he’s a changed man (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The former Top Gear presenter claims his controversialist persona was just a caricature, and he’s really a reformed character living the good life. But do old habits die hard? “Are you happy?” I ask Jeremy Clarkson. A few times on Clarkson’s Farm, you said were happy. His thick eyebrows seem low, like storm clouds gathering. “I said that in season one, episode one,” he replies. “And I meant it then. Lockdown was a blessed relief. You thought: no one’s inviting me out, I don’t have to go anywhere. Lisa would say, ‘Let’s go on holiday again next weekend.’ And I could say, ‘No! We can’t!’ It was brilliant. We were stuck here. So I was very happy at work then.” Didn’t he say he was happy at another point, while building his pigpen or sowing on his tractor? He looks at me, eyebrows locking, lips pursed in thought. He has perfect recall of the entire Clarkson’s Farm archive. He was pleased when he did those things, but it wasn’t a blanket expression of happiness. Pleased? “Well, what did I do for 25 years? I drove around corners shouting and achieved nothing. Nothing! And then you plant a field of mustard, which I did last year, and some of it grew. Not as much as I’d been hoping, but some. So you have a sense of achievement.” Could we allow for the possibility that he might be contented, then? Clarkson concedes that springtime is nice. “This is going to sound awfully pretentious, but I’ve never noticed the buds coming on the trees before. I spent a good 20 minutes yesterday staring at buds, going, is that too early? Or is that later than normal?” Continue reading...
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A room of her own: Mona Lisa could be moved, says Louvre (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
New room would give thousands of daily visitors better experience, says museum president The Mona Lisa, the world’s most famous portrait, could get a room of its own in the Louvre, the museum’s president said. Such a move would give visitors, many of whom visit the Louvre for the famous painting alone, a better experience, Laurence des Cars told the broadcaster France Inter. Continue reading...
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‘Ours was a love story, not an attempted murder story’: Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the day her husband, Salman Rushdie, was stabbed (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
They had only been married for 11 months when the world-famous novelist was attacked by a frenzied knifeman. His wife remembers the intense drama of hearing the news, and the traumatic aftermath I woke early and alone on the sunny morning of Friday 12 August 2022. I was having coffee at the moment my husband, the Indian novelist Salman Rushdie, was nearly killed in a stabbing on stage in Chautauqua, New York. This was the last morning, innocent and ordinary, before my life was shattered by the 27 seconds Salman’s attacker took to stab him more than a dozen times, driving a knife into his right eye until it nearly touched his optic nerve. Continue reading...
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The week in audio: The Bachelor of Buckingham Palace; The Price of Paradise and more – review (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Ugly truths emerge when two very different reality shows go under the microscope. Elsewhere, a star turn from Ted Danson, and why bands break up The Bachelor of Buckingham Palace | Wondery The Price of Paradise | Wondery Beef and Dairy Network episode 109: Ted Danson | Maximum Fun Split Ends Radio 4 | BBC Sounds Reality TV shows. How did we ever live without them? (Answer: we managed fine.) In the 24 years since Big Brother was first broadcast, reality shows have become the UK’s everyday media fodder, providing genuine news as well as silly gossip. And now: prime source material for podcasts. Continue reading...
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Thousand island blessing: the wonders of Croatia’s sun-soaked shores (Wed, 17 Apr 2024)
With stunning sunsets, one of the most beautiful beaches in the Mediterranean and must-see medieval cities, Croatia’s coast and islands are nothing short of spectacular Once seen, never forgotten. Croatia’s fabulously beautiful coast and islands (1,246 to be precise) – with their rocky coves, iconic beaches, historic towns and gorgeous sunsets, all surrounded by some of the most breathtakingly blue waters imaginable – are places that stay in the mind, and they have a habit of luring you back. Rovinj in Istria is one of the most instantly recognisable towns on the Croatian coast, its narrow streets and colourful facades climbing upwards to a soaring bell tower, modelled on that of St Mark’s Basilica in Venice. Travel north just a little and you’ll reach Poreč, home to Unesco-listed Byzantine mosaics to rival those in Ravenna or Istanbul – or south to Pula, with its magnificently preserved Roman amphitheatre. For a peaceful oasis set among some of the country’s finest vineyards, head just five miles inland from the sea walls of Novigrad to Brtonigla. Continue reading...
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Cultural marveller or foodie explorer – what’s your travel personality type? Take our quiz to find out (Wed, 17 Apr 2024)
Do you enjoy exploring the cobbled streets of historic towns, or is spending long days stretched out on the beach more your thing? Answer these questions to find out your Croatian holiday persona Find out more by visiting croatia.hr Continue reading...
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Festivals, folklore, art and food: Croatia’s unmissable cultural highlights (Wed, 17 Apr 2024)
From baroque music events to medieval architecture and delicious Adriatic cuisine, Croatia has something for everyone Croatia’s fabulous mishmash of cultures – from ancient Greeks to Romans, Venetians, Austrians, Hungarians and Italians – has left a rich legacy all around the country. You’ll see it in the Venetian architecture of Rovinj, Korčula, Dubrovnik and Hvar, the Habsburg townhouses of Zagreb and Opatija, and the ancient Roman ruins of Istria and Dalmatia. You’ll taste it in the delicious cuisine where the Adriatic and central Europe meet and mingle. You’ll hear it when top-flight performers bring their magic to the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Split Summer Festival and the baroque music festivals of Korčula and Varaždin. Sultry Dalmatian summer nights echo to the sound of polyphonic klapa singers whose a cappella music makes the skin tingle. The klapa festival in the beautiful Dalmatian coastal town of Omiš every July is one of the summer’s unmissable events. Continue reading...
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From stunning hikes to secluded wild swimming coves: seven reasons why Croatia is a must for adventure lovers (Wed, 17 Apr 2024)
Whether you’re a climbing fanatic or a novice sailor, there’s plenty of outdoor experiences to be found in this amazing Adriatic country With spectacularly diverse landscapes and beautifully unspoilt nature, Croatia offers a wealth of experiences in the great outdoors – from hiking and kayaking, to cycling, climbing and more. So come and take a walk on Croatia’s wild side – or peddle, paddle, swim – and discover just how much outdoor adventure this beautiful Adriatic country has to offer. Continue reading...
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Ask Ottolenghi: what’s the best way to get a garlicky flavour into tomato pasta sauce? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The answer, surprisingly, is not just to use more garlic (but you can go to town with the basil) Ask Ottolenghi: send in your kitchen questions How can we get a pleasingly strong garlic taste in our tomato sauce for pasta? Is the secret the amount of garlic, or how you cut it, or the length of cooking? Our sauces tend to be bland rather than zingy. The same goes for basil, in the same simple sauce – how to highlight its flavour? Nancy, New York I trust that’s pleasingly strong as opposed to harshly strong? If so, slow-roasting would be my initial go-to. Don’t turn on the oven just for this, though, but next time you have it on, cut the very top off a head of garlic, just to expose the cloves, drizzle over a little olive oil, then wrap in tin foil and pop it in the bottom of the oven for about 45 minutes. Remove and, once cool enough to handle, squeeze out the now amazingly soft and sweet garlic flesh, and stir it into your tomato sauce. The chains of fructose in the garlic will have broken down during roasting and given rise to something called glutamic acid, which brings with it that bold umami taste and depth we all look for in a sauce. In short, you’ll have created the most mellow but bold, sweet and pleasingly strong burst of garlicky flavour. If you’ve not had time to roast it, it’s also fine to start with raw garlic. The more you mince it, the more the flavour compounds are released and the stronger the flavour will be, so crush or finely mince it, rather than slice it, if you want that garlic flavour really to penetrate the sauce. Continue reading...
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‘I didn’t expect anything to change’: what makes long-term de facto couples decide to marry? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Why tie the knot with someone you have lived with for years – and what happens next? Three women share their stories On the surface, marriage might not appear relevant to many Australians today. Indeed, most women and half of men say that’s so. De facto couples enjoy the same legal rights as their wedded counterparts, one in seven Australians are in a de facto relationship, and a new survey showed a 15% drop in marriage rates among young Australians between 2001 and 2021. Yet sometimes even long-term de facto couples are choosing to marry, even after decades (and multiple children) together. Why? And more pertinently: after such a long time, does it change anything? Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...
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This is how we do it: ‘Since having prostate cancer I can’t get an erection, but I still get just as much pleasure’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
With penetrative sex no longer an option, Sebastian and Teresa have found different ways to satisfy one other How do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymously I was really worried about how it would affect Teresa. There’s this whole stigma that a ‘real’ man has a working penis Continue reading...
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Like father, like son? The complex factors that shape a parent’s influence on their child (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Scientific studies cannot agree on the relative importance of genes and environment on how we turn out as adults The eternal mystery of how much we are shaped by our parents – or how much we shape our children – was stirred again last week with the publication of a study that suggests that we are less like our parents than we had previously thought. Led by René Mõttus of Edinburgh University’s department of psychology, the study looked at more than 1,000 pairs of relatives to establish how likely children are to inherit what psychologists call the “big five” or “Ocean” personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. Continue reading...
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Michelle Collins: ‘When I was 45, I was told I was too old to work in Hollywood’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The actor on doing the ‘trash walk’ at McDonald’s, wishing she was better with money, and being too tired for sex Born in London, Michelle Collins, 61, was a backing singer for Mari Wilson in the early 80s. From 1988-98, she played Cindy in EastEnders, and last year she returned to the soap. She also had a role in Coronation Street from 2011 to 2014. Her latest project, Stephen, which is about addiction, is in cinemas now and is also a touring installation, launching at the Exchange in Penzance on 4 May. She is married, has a daughter, and lives in London. What is your greatest fear? Being murdered – I listen to too many true-crime podcasts. Continue reading...
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All play and no work: a fun renovation in Mexico City (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
A home in an old office block clocks on a new look How do Europeans live in such grey, beige places? I’m happy waking up in a pink room. Vibrant colours make you joyful; you will never be sad with pink and red,” laughs artist and gallery owner Carlos Rittner from his apartment in Mexico City. From the exterior, the 1940s converted office block, which is a stone’s throw from the Zócalo plaza, the world’s largest city square, is modest, but step through the banana-yellow front door and you are instantly transported into an art installation. Continue reading...
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Tell us: have you been affected by whooping cough? (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
We’re interested to hear about people’s experiences of whooping cough and how their doctor’s surgery handled it Cases of whooping cough have been rising across England, Wales and Scotland. We’re interested to hear from people who have recently been affected. What were your (or your child’s) symptoms? How did your doctors’ surgery handle it and and how are you feeling now? Had you had it before? Are you aware of other cases within your community? Continue reading...
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Ukrainian men abroad: share your views on Poland and Lithuania’s statements on conscription (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
After Poland and Lithuania said they are prepared to help Ukrainian authorities return men subject to military conscription, we want to hear how you feel about it Poland and Lithuania have pledged to help Ukrainian authorities repatriate men subject to the military draft after Kyiv announced it is ending consular services for such men who are abroad. We would like to speak with Ukrainian men living abroad about their views on this development. Whether you left Ukraine following Russia’s full-scale invasion or years before that, we want to hear how you feel about the statements and Kyiv’s suspension of consular services for émigrés. Continue reading...
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Share your experience of accessing private medical care in the UK (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
We would like to hear from those who have undergone an operation, or other medical treatment, privately in the UK We want to learn more about the experiences of people in the UK who have accessed private health treatment for the first time recently. Did you undergo an operation or medical treatment privately? How much did it cost? Why did you decide to do it privately? How was the experience? You can see an article that included respondents to this callout here. You can contribute to open Community callouts here or Share a story here. Continue reading...
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Tell us: what’s your favourite everyday gadget? (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
We would like to hear about your favourite, most useful everyday utensil What’s your favourite, most useful everyday gadget? It could be a much-used kitchen gizmo, a tool for your daily beauty routine that you can’t live without, or a piece of kit that makes your day-to-day life easier: anything small, genuinely useful, and inexpensive to buy (nothing over £20). Continue reading...
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‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
A peaceful action at the school near Atlanta, Georgia, was met with violent use of force and 28 arrests of students and faculty Clifton Crais, a history professor, was walking to class at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, outside Atlanta, on Thursday shortly before 10am when several students rushed up to him. “Please, please contact president Fenves,” they begged, referring to the university president, Gregory Fenves. “Ask him to not call the police.” Several dozen protesters seeking the university’s divestment from Israel and opposing a $109m police training center colloquially known as “Cop City” had set up tents on the school’s grassy quad – the size of a football field – several hours before. Continue reading...
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How one Wisconsin man plagued election offices and stoked mistrust (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Peter Bernegger has brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices over alleged fraud – now he faces criminal charges Peter Bernegger has spent the last three and a half years bombarding local election offices in Wisconsin with litigation and accusations of fraud. He’s brought at least 18 lawsuits against election clerks and offices in state court, and on social media, he has relentlessly promoted his litigation and circulated false claims about election fraud in the swing state. His campaign has recently landed him in legal trouble – Bernegger now faces criminal charges for allegedly falsifying a subpoena in connection with a lawsuit against the state’s top election office. Continue reading...
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How the Trump trial is playing in Maga world: sublime indifference, collective shrug (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The hush-money criminal trial receives less prominence in conservative media, and when Trump-friendly networks do turn to the trial, they give viewers an alternative narrative In one America, he cuts a diminished, humbled figure during coverage that runs from morn till night. “He seems considerably older and he seems annoyed, resigned, maybe angry,” said broadcaster Rachel Maddow after seeing Donald Trump up close in court. “He seems like a man who is miserable to be here.” But in the other America – that of Fox News, far-right podcasts and the Make America Great Again (Maga) base – the trial of the former president over a case involving a hush-money payment to an adult film performer is playing out very differently. Continue reading...
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‘Demolishing democracy’: how much danger does Christian nationalism pose? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Documentary Bad Faith looks at the history of a group trying to affect and corrupt politics under the guise of religion Bad Faith, a new documentary on the rise of Christian nationalism in the United States, opens with an obvious, ominous scene – the storming of the Capitol on 6 January 2021 – though trained on details drowned out by the deluge of horror and easily recognizable images of chaos. That Paula White, Donald Trump’s faith adviser, led the Save America rally in a prayer to overturn the results for “a free and fair election”. That mixed among Trump flags, American flags and militia symbols were numerous banners with Christian crosses; on the steps of the Capitol, a “JESUS SAVES” sign blares mere feet from “Lock Them UP!” The movement to overturn the 2020 election for Donald Trump was, as the documentary underscores, inextricable from a certain strain of belief in America as a fundamentally Christian nation, separation of church and state be damned. In fact, as Bad Faith argues, Christian nationalism – a political movement to shape the United States according a certain interpretation of evangelical Christianity, by vote or, more recently, by coercion – was the “galvanizing force” behind the attempted hijacking of the democratic process three years ago. Continue reading...
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Trump on Trial: What we learned from David Pecker’s testimony (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
We’ve now finished our first week of testimony in former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial – and have one major witness in the books. Sign up for our free Trump on Trial newsletter We’ve now finished our first week of testimony in former president Donald Trump’s criminal trial – and have one major witness in the books. Continue reading...
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Questions in rocket-hit Sderot over whether IDF can ever destroy Hamas (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
People in city bordering Gaza say Israel will never be safe while Hamas exists – but worry it cannot achieve its objective The two men, faces blurred and voices disguised, are screened by a dense scrub of fig and trailing vine and thorns in northern Gaza as they film themselves loading a rocket launcher. It is daylight and the fighters, wearing civilian clothes, work quickly and calmly, the sound of fighting audible around them as they prepare the weapon in less than a minute. Metal scrapes on metal as four missiles are slotted into tubes and wires connected to a red timer for launch against the nearby Israeli border city of Sderot and neighbouring communities. Continue reading...
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‘We live in a golden time of exploration’: astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger on the hunt for signs of extraterrestrial life (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Austrian astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger has spent her life hunting for signs of life in the universe. Here she talks about aliens, space exploration and why studying cosmology is like eating pizza Staring into the abyss… Am I really reaching anyone out there?” Lisa Kaltenegger is laughing about the unsatisfactory experience of teaching astrophysics over Zoom during Covid lockdowns, but she could be talking about her vocation: trying to discover if there’s life beyond our solar system. Kaltenegger founded the Carl Sagan Institute in 2015 to investigate just that. A burst of sunny energy and infectious enthusiasm on a grey day, she’s speaking to me from the legendary extraterrestrial life researcher’s old office, now hers, overlooking the leafy Cornell campus in upstate New York. The institute brings together researchers across a range of disciplines to work out what signs of life on other planets might look like from here, so that we recognise them if (or when) we find them. Continue reading...
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What happens when an ex-Daily Star journalist applies clickbait tactics to running for election? (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Keane Duncan is trying to win the mayorship of North Yorks with policies such as nationalising a hotel. But is there substance behind the headline-grabbing stunts? Keane Duncan’s highest profile success, prior to being chosen as the Conservative candidate aiming to be the first elected mayor of York and North Yorkshire, was as the journalist who broke the news that Morrisons would not sell meat pies to people in Middlesbrough before 9am. “That went off the charts, with millions and millions of views,” recalls the 29-year-old, who worked for a number of local news outlets in the north of England before quitting to focus on politics. Continue reading...
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From Tyneside to London: five key battlegrounds in England’s 2 May local elections (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The main parties’ strengths and vulnerabilities will be starkly on show in the capital, the West Midlands, Tees Valley, the north-east and Dorset On 4 May, Rishi Sunak faces a set of local elections that risk further destabilising his premiership and emboldening his critics. Here are five contests that will reveal how the main parties are shaping up, just months before a general election. Continue reading...
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‘It was wet. It was filthy. It was aggressive. I said, I’ll take the racoon. But keeping exotic pets is cruel’ (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Lindsay McKenna’s wildlife centre takes in exotic animals when owners can’t cope. She and other experts fear the law is failing the very animals it is designed to protect When Lindsay McKenna went out to buy a piece of furniture from a seller, the last thing she expected was to return with a wild animal. “Something moved in the garage when I was in there helping the guy lift [the furniture],” she said. “It was a racoon in an incredibly small cage, it could hardly turn around. It was wet. It was filthy. It was skinny, aggressive.” Continue reading...
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Police clash with US students protesting against war in Gaza – video (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
Police made arrests after clashing with demonstrators participating in student-led protests against Israel's war in Gaza. The arrests came amid a wave of demonstrations at campuses across the US, which began last week after students at New York’s Columbia University set up encampments calling for the university to divest from weapons manufacturers with ties to Israel. The House speaker, Mike Johnson, jumped into the fray on Wednesday with a visit to Columbia’s campus, where he faced jeers from the pro-Palestinian protesters Police arrest protesters amid crackdown on student rallies across US campuses Continue reading...
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Reports of mass graves at Gaza hospitals 'horrify' UN rights experts – video (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has said it is 'horrified' by reports of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies at two of Gaza’s largest hospitals. Palestinian civil defence teams began exhuming bodies outside the Nasser hospital complex in Khan Younis last week after Israeli troops withdrew. A total of 310 bodies have been found in the past week, Palestinian officials have said. Palestinian rescue teams and several UN observation missions also reported the discovery this month of multiple mass grave sites at al-Shifa hospital compound in Gaza City after an Israeli withdrawal. Officials in Gaza said the bodies at Nasser were people who had died during the siege. Israel’s military on Tuesday rejected allegations of mass burials at the hospital, saying it had exhumed corpses in the hope of finding hostages taken by Hamas in October UN rights chief ‘horrified’ by reports of mass graves at two Gaza hospitals Continue reading...
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What's behind the fight between Elon Musk's X and Australia's eSafety commissioner? – video (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
Elon Musk is at war with Australia — in particular Australia's online safety regulator — due to videos that were circulating on his platform after an alleged stabbing at a church in Sydney last week. After the eSafety commissioner requested all social media platforms to remove video of the stabbing from their platforms, X made the videos unavailable to view within Australia, but they're still available to watch both outside of Australia. Now, X and the eSafety commissioner are fighting it out in court, while X's owner Elon Musk continues to fight it out online. Guardian Australia's Josh Taylor explains what's going on behind the tweets Elon Musk’s X v Australia’s online safety regulator: untangling the tweet takedown order Bishop will argue video of his Sydney church stabbing should not be removed from Elon Musk’s X, court hears Continue reading...
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Our lives in the UK asylum system: 'the power of fear' – video (Thu, 28 Mar 2024)
The Guardian has been working with a group of community reporters in Rochdale and Oldham who wanted to highlight the realities for women in the asylum system across Greater Manchester. Supported by the Elephants Trail, the group met women stuck in the asylum backlog, women traumatised by detention and women struggling to find housing. They were all volunteering in their communities, while reckoning with a hostile climate towards refugees and asylum seekers. This film is part of a collaborative video series called Made in Britain Britain's broken welfare system is leaving our community on the brink Continue reading...
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Why Prague's homeless are resorting to poverty tourism – video (Thu, 18 Apr 2024)
Homelessness is on the rise globally, and the Czech Republic has the highest rate in central and eastern Europe. The Guardian visited Prague, for a long time a popular destination for tourists, to see how even this sector caters for the city’s visitors - and to meet the range of people aiming to tackle the causes of homelessness in all its forms. Continue reading...
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How cruise ships became a catastrophe for the planet – video (Thu, 07 Mar 2024)
Cruising is booming – 2023 ticket sales have surpassed historic levels and 2024 has seen the launch of the largest cruise ship ever built. But as cruise tourism's popularity has increased, so have the pollution problems it brings. To customers, it may not be evident that any problems exist, since some cruise line companies claim to be becoming more climate-friendly. But the truth can be quite different. Josh Toussaint-Strauss interrogates what impact the world's biggest ships are having on the planet ‘Biggest, baddest’ – but is it the cleanest? World’s largest cruise ship sets sail ‘A good cruise is one that doesn’t come’: Europe’s ports bear brunt of ship pollution Shipping’s dirty secret: how ‘scrubbers’ clean the air – while contaminating the sea Continue reading...
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Weekend podcast: ‘I was hammered on stage’ – David Harewood on racism and success; John Crace on ‘tetchy’ Rishi; the answer to insomnia hell; and Baby Reindeer fall out (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
Beware of ‘Tetchy Rishi’ – the prime minister struggles to control his anger during the Rwanda bill press briefing (1m24s); David Harewood on acting, racism and mental health (9m08s); Phil Daoust’s surprisingly simple solution to insomnia hell (24m33s); and Stuart Heritage examines the dangerous fallout from Netflix’s Baby Reindeer (42m29s) Continue reading...
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Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest – podcast (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
Organising is a kind of alchemy: it turns alienation into connection, despair into dedication, and oppression into strength. By Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix Continue reading...
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White House correspondents dinner: is there still space for humour? (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
The annual White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner returns this Saturday for a night of comedy ‘roasting’ – where the great and the good are ruthlessly mocked in celebration of the freedom of the press. In recent years, however, the night has taken on a different tone, with the atmosphere of warm self-deprecation and bipartisan bonhomie replaced by something more scathing and serious. This week Jonathan Freedland is joined by Jeff Nussbaum, a former senior speech writer to Joe Biden, to discuss the art of writing gags for presidents and whether there is still space for humour in US politics. Continue reading...
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The US college protests and the crackdown on campuses - podcast (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
Police have arrested dozens of students across US universities this week after a crackdown on pro-Palestine protests on campuses. Erum Salam and Margaret Sullivan report from New York As the Israel-Gaza war grinds on amid a worsening humanitarian crisis, the world’s attention this week was captured by a battle on the campuses of elite US universities. Pro-Palestine student protesters were arrested en masse by New York City police at the prestigious Columbia University, prompting outrage that spread across other college sites. Guardian US reporter Erum Salam tells Michael Safi that the scene on Columbia’s campus was one of orderly drum circles and organised anti-war demonstrations, not the all-out violent chaos that might have been imagined. Continue reading...
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Have Everton dashed Liverpool’s title dreams? – Football Weekly Extra (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Jonathan Liew and Robyn Cowen as Liverpool lose the Merseyside derby … and maybe more Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today: Everton sink Liverpool in a Merseyside derby that could be the end of the Reds’ title hopes, and which may well be enough to secure the Toffees’ Premier League status. Continue reading...
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From birds, to cattle, to … us? Could bird flu be the next pandemic? – podcast (Thu, 25 Apr 2024)
As bird flu is confirmed in 33 cattle herds across eight US states, Ian Sample talks to virologist Dr Ed Hutchinson of Glasgow University about why this development has taken scientists by surprise, and how prepared we are for the possibility it might start spreading among humans Read more Guardian reporting on this topic Continue reading...
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Arsenal thrash Chelsea and a Football League update – Football Weekly (Wed, 24 Apr 2024)
Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Ben Fisher, Sanny Rudravajhala and George Elek as Arsenal beat Chelsea 5-0 and to run through the EFL as those divisions reach a conclusion in the coming weeks Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts, Soundcloud, Audioboom, Mixcloud, Acast and Stitcher, and join the conversation on Facebook, Twitter and email. On the podcast today; Arsenal keep pace at the top of the Premier League – were they brilliant or are Chelsea inexcusably bad? It’s probably a touch of both. Continue reading...
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Sign up for the Fashion Statement newsletter: our free fashion email (Tue, 20 Sep 2022)
Style, with substance: what’s really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved, direct to your inbox every Thursday Style, with substance: what’s really trending this week, a roundup of the best fashion journalism and your wardrobe dilemmas solved, delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday Explore all our newsletters: whether you love film, football, fashion or food, we’ve got something for you Continue reading...
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Sign up for the Guardian Documentaries newsletter: our free short film email (Fri, 02 Sep 2016)
Be the first to see our latest thought-provoking films, bringing you bold and original storytelling from around the world Discover the stories behind our latest short films, learn more about our international film-makers, and join us for exclusive documentary events. We’ll also share a selection of our favourite films, from our archives and from further afield, for you to enjoy. Sign up below. Can’t wait for the next newsletter? Start exploring our archive now. Continue reading...
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Guardian Traveller newsletter: Sign up for our free holidays email (Wed, 12 Oct 2022)
From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays. From biking adventures to city breaks, get inspiration for your next break – whether in the UK or further afield – with twice-weekly emails from the Guardian’s travel editors. You’ll also receive handpicked offers from Guardian Holidays. Continue reading...
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Sign up for the Feast newsletter: our free Guardian food email (Tue, 09 Jul 2019)
A weekly email from Yotam Ottolenghi, Meera Sodha, Felicity Cloake and Rachel Roddy, featuring the latest recipes and seasonal eating ideas Each week we’ll send you an exclusive newsletter from our star food writers. We’ll also send you the latest recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi, Nigel Slater, Meera Sodha and all our star cooks, stand-out food features and seasonal eating inspiration, plus restaurant reviews from Grace Dent and Jay Rayner. Sign up below to start receiving the best of our culinary journalism in one mouth-watering weekly email. Continue reading...
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We love: fashion fixes for the week ahead – in pictures (Sun, 28 Apr 2024)
Audrey Hepburn in Paris, tennis-themed stationery and a pop-up shop celebrating summer Continue reading...
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A look into Melbourne’s live music scene over 50 years – in pictures (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
From a young Paul Kelly and bop dancing in the streets to legends like Ray Charles, music fan and photographer Brian Carr has spent 50 years documenting the notable and not so well-known musos who make up Melbourne’s vibrant live music scene. He has now published a book, Music City, from his extensive archive Continue reading...
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Dyeing art: Ptolemy Mann’s vibrant thread paintings – in pictures (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
“The act of hand weaving and dyeing cloth is extremely labour intensive – it can take months to make one piece,” says British artist Ptolemy Mann, who has been creating textile works of extraordinary colour and vibrancy for nearly 30 years. In 2021, after a period of experimenting with painting on paper, she turned her brush to her painstakingly dyed and handwoven cloths – the striking results can be seen in Mann’s first monograph, Thread Painting (published 9 May, Hurtwood Press), and a solo show at Cromwell Place, London (15-19 May). “There’s something radical about taking a precious handwoven cloth and applying a wet, loaded paint brush to its surface,” she says, noting that most traditional paintings are done on woven (albeit plain) canvases. “People are astounded that I am willing to take the risk. They love the madness of them.” Continue reading...
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Original Observer Photography (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
From a mural in Birmingham commemorating poet Benjamin Zephaniah to the Observer’s favourite food shops: the best original photographs from the Observer commissioned in April 2024 Continue reading...
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‘There aren’t many fields, so the children play around the pier’: Jelly Febrian’s best phone picture (Sat, 27 Apr 2024)
The photographer documents daily life at Sunda Kelapa harbour in North Jakarta, Indonesia, including the schoolchildren who turn it into their playground After school, many of the children local to the Sunda Kelapa harbour, in North Jakarta, Indonesia, go down to the water to swim and play. Jelly Febrian enjoys shooting the daily activities there whenever the weather is good. Always prepared for the right moment, he carries his phone with him to capture crews loading their boats, people fishing, and boys and girls jumping from the boats, as pictured. “In the maritime villages near here there aren’t many fields, so the children mostly play around the pier. Every boat that docks here has a different owner and purpose, they load and unload basic necessities, and every week they sail to other Indonesian islands, such as Papua, Sumatra and Sulawesi. Continue reading...
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The week around the world in 20 pictures (Fri, 26 Apr 2024)
War in Gaza, the election in India, clouds of dust in Athens and the London Marathon: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalists Warning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing Continue reading...
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