38 minutes ago Trump voters hail controversial cabinet picks as the government they want

Trump voters in the American heartland are excited, even as senior Republicans are less than enthusiastic about some of the president-elect’s choicesIn the American heartland, they’re excited. Finally, say voters who put Donald Trump into the White House for a second time, they are about to get the president they wanted all along.Even as leading Democrats decry Trump’s cabinet nominations as “agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance”, the former and future president’s supporters are interpreting the selections as evidence that he has finally broken free of the Washington establishment. Continue reading...

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51 minutes ago Victoria Beckham finally sets record straight on strict diet with frank reveal

Former Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham, 50, follows a strict diet - and she said she started being more conscious about what she eats due to skin concerns in her 20s

Events

1 hour ago How the collapse of one of Britain’s biggest building firms will hit Labour’s prison and schools plan

ISG, the sixth-biggest builder in the UK, collapsed in September, leaving 2,200 workers immediately redundant and plenty of subcontractors out of pocket

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2 hours ago Ibrahima Konate gobsmacked by Liverpool youngster as he challenges him in dressing room

Premier League leaders Liverpool were happy to get back into the swing of things after the international break, but one member of the squad left his team-mates astonished

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2 hours ago ‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes

One of Britain’s most prolific actors, Stephen Graham is the face of countless hard-to-forget TV and film characters, a regular Scorsese collaborator and good mates with Leo DiCaprio. He talks about living it up in Leicestershire – and why he’s in the shape of his lifeStephen Graham likes to quote that very famous saying in acting, “There are no small parts, only small actors” – though it has nothing to do with the fact that the 51-year-old stands a power-packed 5ft five-and-a-half inches. When in 2020 he set up his own production company, Matriarch Productions, after a storied career as one of our great character performers, he made it one of the company’s founding principles.Graham established Matriarch with his wife, the actor Hannah Walters. Their first project was the 2021 film Boi...

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2 hours ago The 80s: Photographing Britain review – in your face and to the barricades

Tate Britain, LondonFrom Greenham and Orgreave to Belfast and City slickers, visceral images from a turbulent decade jostle for attention in a show that feels overwhelming in its scale and confusing narrativeThere are several photographs in this exhaustive and exhausting exhibition that could be considered iconic. John Harris’s black-and-white image of a mounted police officer swinging a truncheon at the head of a woman during the miners’ strike is certainly one of them. Another, perhaps not so obvious contender is Paul Graham’s colour photograph of a seemingly ordinary looking traffic roundabout in Belfast, in which you have to look closely to see a British soldier running across the road in the background.One visceral, the other understated, they both say something about a decade that...

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3 hours ago Man Utd 'eye PSG star' as Ruben Amorim wants reunion to solve problem position

Manchester United are eyeing up a move for PSG's Nuno Mendes with Ruben Amorim keen to reunite with the defender, whom he worked with at Sporting Lisbon, as he seeks wing-backs

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3 hours ago Like a luxury spa – for £20: where to enjoy Britain’s Turkish baths revival

In 1900, there were 600 Turkish baths in Britain and Ireland. Today, only a handful survive. We enjoy a revived hammam in Newcastle and take a look at 10 more around the countryMy sister and I are lying on slabs like flounders in a fishmonger’s. Instead of a bed of ice, though, we’re stretched out on heated marble. We move between three hot rooms, each resembling little chapels with vaulted ceilings, chatting quietly in the cooler one, applying face and hair masks in the middle one, and simply lying still, sweating, in the hottest one. Later, we will be scrubbed and massaged. In between, we cool off under a rain-mist shower, or retire to a bed in our own private mahogany-panelled booth beneath a glazed dome.It sounds like a luxury spa, with prices to match. In f...

Economics

3 hours ago Max Verstappen seals fourth world title as George Russell wins in Las Vegas

Fifth place was enough to guarantee the Dutchman a fourth straight crown.

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