54 minutes ago 20 years since Labour banned fox hunting but why are meets still taking place?

Two decades since The Hunting Act (2004) gained royal assent there are claims the pursuits continue. Labour has pledged to ban trail hunting which it said "allows the illegal hunting of foxes, deer, and hares."

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78 minutes ago Father of former British soldier captured in Russia fears son will be tortured

Scott Anderson said he and other family members had tried to convince the 22-year-old not to fight for Ukraine

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2 hours ago Ant and Dec slam Jane Moore for ‘unfair’ I'm a Celeb attack on Barry McGuigan and Danny Jones

I'm a Celeb presenters Ant and Dec have their say on Jane Moore, and her claims in camp that the decision to give her the washing up was sexist and ageist

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3 hours ago Lord Byron museum to open in Italian building where poet had intense affair

Visitors will be able to explore Palazzo Guiccioli in Ravenna, where Byron romanced its aristocrat owner’s wifeA museum dedicated to the flamboyant British poet and satirist Lord Byron is due to open in the northern Italian city of Ravenna, housed in the same building where he pursued an intense affair with the wife of an aristocrat and completed some of his most famous works.Byron unabashedly moved in 1819 into Palazzo Guiccioli, owned by the husband of Countess Teresa Guiccioli, whom he met at a party in Venice. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Foreign firms taking billions of litres from UK aquifers to make bottled water

Coca-Cola extracts largest amount of freshwater of any drinks company in England, FoI request finds‘It’s not drought - it’s looting’: the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking waterForeign multinational companies are extracting billions of litres of water from British aquifers to sell as bottled water, the Guardian can reveal.Coca-Cola extracts the largest amount of freshwater of any drinks company in England, the data obtained through freedom of information legislation shows. It has a licence to extract 1.59bn litres of water a year from boreholes in Sidcup, Kent for its soft drinks. On top of that, it has the right to take 377m litres for its bottled water brands Glaceau Smartwater and Abbey Well from Morpeth in Northumberland. Continue reading...

Economics

3 hours 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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3 hours ago Kim Deal on addiction, Pixies and going solo: ‘It’s nice I lasted long enough to contemplate the past’

The Pixies bass player and Breeders frontwoman is an icon of the 1980s and 1990s alt-rock scene. As she releases her first solo album at the age of 63 she talks to Annabel Nugent about getting clean, her tricky relationship with Black Francis and why Kamala Harris lost the US election

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4 hours ago Father of ‘former British soldier’ captured in Russia fears son will be tortured

Scott Anderson said he and other family members had tried to convince the 22-year-old not to fight for Ukraine.

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4 hours ago Overhauls of 'heritage brands' raise the question: How important are our products to our identities?

A spate of iconic rebrands in recent weeks have left some people reeling in a consumerist society where what we buy says a lot about who we are

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