53 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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54 minutes ago Shakeup for top of Disney: New chairman named with new CEO expected in 2026

The Walt Disney Co. is tapping Morgan Stanley executive James Gorman to serve as its next chairman, beginning early next year

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55 minutes ago Antler sale sees statement cabin bag get mega price cut as Ryanair issues 'lost luggage' warning

The airline has issued a statement saying a simple solution will help with losing luggage during the busy Christmas period - grab a vibrant cabin bag for less with Antler's flash sale

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62 minutes ago 'Loving mother and daughter' dies in 'unexplained' circumstances as police investigate

Mary Lewis, who was 47, died at a property in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire on Friday

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71 minutes ago Strictly fans point out 'criminal' detail after viewing 'winning moment' of 2024

Strictly Come Dancing viewers have claimed they've spotted the "winning moment" of the 2024 series as they also branded a move as being "criminal" in the same instance

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73 minutes ago Budget 2024: National Insurance rumours explained and if changes will affect your payslip

Rachel Reeves is said to be considering a hike to employer National Insurance contributions as part of her Autumn Budget.

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75 minutes ago Face value: the masterly theatrical masks of Kitazawa Hideta – in pictures

A new book celebrates the Japanese masks carved by Hideta, a traditional wood-carving artist. They are for classical and contemporary noh and kyōgen theatre performances Continue reading...

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75 minutes ago Tax on high earners ruled out as Rachel Reeves looks to plug £40bn Budget black hole

Sources close to the chancellor issue clarification after minister refuses six times to say whether Britons on six-figure salaries count as ‘working people’

Economics

78 minutes ago More and more, I sense I’m out of touch. Can my expat writing still call Australia home? | Mikaella Clements

Writing anything is an exercise in vulnerability, but the fear of writing Australia and getting it wrong is embarrassing and invalidatingI’ve lived overseas for 12 years, the vast majority of my adult life. I visit Australia every year (global pandemics permitting), but I’m no longer allowed to vote. I consider Melbourne my hometown and brag about it relentlessly, but my accent has become hopelessly mangled. And though my nationality is the first line of my standard bio – Mikaella is an Australian writer based in Berlin – it’s rarely apparent in my actual writing.My fiction already has a strange, hybrid quality; I write novels with my wife, Onjuli Datta, our two voices twining around one another with more than a decade’s worth of practice to create a shared language I step into as easil...

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78 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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