78 minutes ago Stage and screen star Bill Paterson warns Scottish culture funding is in 'dire need' of rethink

Fleabag and Outlander star throws weight behind campaign demanding ‘essential increased investment’ in culture

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79 minutes ago ‘Woke’ didn’t lose the US election: the patrician class who hijacked identity politics did | Nesrine Malik

Why is this simple explanation being so widely embraced? Because it does not require a commitment to real, structural changeThe day that wokeness died. That has been one of the primary analyses of Donald Trump’s resounding election victory: that it was a resounding rejection of the “woke” left and the casting off of the shackles of political correctness. According to sections of the media and political establishment, people are tired of being harangued and scolded for not using the right language, annoyed by a constant focus on race and identity, and alarmed by a new orthodoxy of radical politics eager to please individual groups at the expense of common sense. “The era,” summarised one British journalist, “of Black Lives Matter, Latinx, critical race theory, pronouns and defunding the ...

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80 minutes ago Pep Guardiola dream transfer exactly what Man City are missing in midfield

Manchester City are on their worst run under Pep Guardiola's management and they are making life too easy for opponents at the moment.

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99 minutes ago LONDON CENTER applications open for Summer 2025, Fall 2025, and Spring 2026. Deadline is February 15, 2025!

LONDON CENTER applications open for Summer 2025, Fall 2025, and Spring 2026. Deadline is February 15, 2025!  Ithaca College

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1 hour ago Pep Guardiola reveals why Man City's current nightmare was always bound to happen

Pep Guardiola is suffering the worst run of his coaching career, with Manchester City having lost five straight games and Saturday's home demolition by Tottenham Hotspur a new low for the champions under the Catalan

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2 hours ago Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes: ‘I was called an English rose – it really pissed me off’

She became famous in the late 00s as Effy in Skins, and now she’s back in Netflix drama Senna. She talks about growing up poor in London, why she loves doing action films – and the pitfalls of taking her kids to workAs well as an eight-year-old son and a two-year-old daughter, Kaya Scodelario is the dedicated parent of a 10-year-old French bulldog called Arnie. She is hiding from at least one of them during our video call, and says it’s the dog.She is in the cosy and, crucially, locked spare bedroom of her home in north London, where she sits cross-legged on the floor. The mood is decidedly wholesome, and spiritually a million miles away from the place where audiences first encountered her, on Channel 4’s landmark teen drama Skins. Her character, Effy Stonem – sister to Nicholas Hoult’s...

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2 hours ago Tsunami: Race Against Time review – a gripping, moving look at the worst natural disaster of our lifetimes

This documentary about the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami is horrifying, heart-rending and essential. It’s a privilege to hear some of these survivors speak about the experienceWhat more can be said about the worst natural disaster of our lifetimes? The 2004 Boxing Day tsunami, caused by an earthquake (the third-most powerful in history) off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, affected 14 countries around the Indian Ocean basin and killed more than 225,000 people. As an incomprehensibly massive event that occurred before smartphones were ubiquitous, the tsunami is very well documented and yet not: the mess of scrambled pictures has been picked over many times.Tsunami: Race Against Time, a four-part documentary that flies by, reshapes the catastrophe into an anthology of gripping stories, capturin...

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2 hours ago Queen Camilla's new Christmas tree baubles filled with special meaning after dog tragedy

King Charles' country estate has been decked out with festive decorations for the season, including a poignant tribute to a recent heartbreaking loss

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2 hours ago Thousands of Scots patients in A&E wards waiting more than an hour for initial assessment

Triage is the key stage where NHS staff assess the urgency of a patient’s case so that those with serious conditions can be quickly seen.

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3 hours ago 'I would scream at my father to stop when he hit my mother': Sir Patrick Stewart opens up about growing up in a violent home in the wake of Queen Camilla's work with domestic abuse

Mr Stewart, 84, revealed how from a young age he would have to 'scream' at his father to stop when he would hit his mother 'again and again.'

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