27 minutes ago Could we all be as positive as Chris Hoy facing death? Perhaps knowing when we will go changes everything | Simon Jenkins

As Hoy has said, there is agony in trying to predict the future. Medical advances mean we might be able to navigate an awful diagnosis with some certaintyWe can all sympathise with Chris Hoy for his terminal cancer, and admire the manner in which he revealed it. Dignity so rarely goes with celebrity. We wish him well. But Hoy has two advantages over me. First, he cycles faster. Second, he knows how long he has to live. It is four years at the outside.Hoy can therefore plan. He can draw up a final bucket list. He can complete the projects, deepen the friendships and make the trips. He still has time to climb the munros, visit Machu Picchu and see all of Shakespeare. Or he can choose not to. He can be a hedonist and take each day as it comes, revelling in what he calls his good fortune to...

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33 minutes ago Moment teen sex killer arrested by cops for bludgeoning Scots dad to death with hammer

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36 minutes ago Supreme Court rejects Michael Cohen’s case alleging retribution by Trump over tell

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36 minutes ago TV doctor urges people to see GP after Chris Hoy reveals he has terminal cancer

Dr Xand van Tulleken said that Sir Chris Hoy assumed his initial cancer symptom was just from a work out

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45 minutes ago ITV Coronation Street to air extra episode amid whodunnit in major schedule shake

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51 minutes ago Has the King's tour of Australia been overshadowed by the protests? Vote in our poll

King Charles and Queen Camilla were confronted by an Indigenous senator during their five-day trip to Australia, who accused them of "committing genocide" - and we want to hear your thoughts

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51 minutes ago Indigenous elder scolds Lidia Thorpe for yelling ‘disrespectful’ comments at King Charles

Aunty Violet Sheridan says the Victorian senator ‘does not speak for me and my people’ and called her yelling of ‘fuck the colony’ inappropriateWho is Lidia Thorpe, the Australian senator who accused King Charles of genocide?A Ngunnawal elder has rebuked Lidia Thorpe over her confrontation with King Charles, saying the Victorian senator doesn’t speak for her people and that her comments of “fuck the colony” were “disrespectful”.Aunty Violet Sheridan, 69, met the royals as part of an official greeting party on Monday and was sitting near the king in Parliament House when Thorpe “jumped out”, marched forward and started shouting at the royals. Thorpe yelled at the king to “give us our land back”, and shouted “fuck the colony” and “you are not my king”. Continue reading...

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