42 minutes ago Don’t listen to opponents of assisted dying: a Labour government’s legacy must be freedom | Polly Toynbee

I have campaigned for the right to avoid a needlessly agonising death all my life. After this vote, I hope I will no longer have toThe time has come for a defining moment early in a Labour era that has so far lacked definition. This is the week a Labour parliament can make its mark in the long campaign for personal freedoms over birth, sex, life and death. If not, if MPs prove pusillanimous in the face of loud but thinly supported objections backed by organised religion, they will ignore the opinion of a public that is strongly in favour: the British social attitudes survey’s first polling in 1983 found 77% of people in favour of assisted dying, and that figure has hardly varied since then. After campaigning all my life on this, I feel: if not now, then probably not in my lifetime.Every...

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5 hours ago ‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit,” author Cory Doctorow wrote earlier this year.In 2023, Doctorow coined the word “enshittification”, which has just been crowned Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year. The dictionary defined the word as follows.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Matthew Richardson’s grand cycling betrayal will leave an asterisk on his glittering career | Kieran Pender

After issuing the findings of its review into the Olympic hero’s defection to Great Britain, AusCycling’s upset is understandableConflicting national allegiances in sport are no simple thing. It is hardly unreasonable for someone with more than one national background to feel competing tugs when it comes to flying the flag on the international stage. Emotion and pragmatism collide to force hard decisions.Australia is a deeply multicultural nation – more than one in four Australians were born overseas, while millions more have parents born elsewhere. We are a nation of complex sporting allegiances. I have dual nationalities; if it wasn’t for the fact that I have all the sporting talent of a gnat, I might have to consider which country to represent. Continue reading...

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6 hours ago Giant bags of Lindt truffles reduced to cheaper than Tesco price are 'perfect' for Christmas

"Bought these to enjoy over the Christmas period. I've had to hide them away or I'd eat them all straight away"

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7 hours ago EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Will King Charles cut back on meat after cancer treatment?

EDEN CONFIDENTIAL: Yet he is now considering cutting back on red meat after his treatment for an unspecified form of cancer .

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7 hours ago Conor McGregor axed from 'Hitman' game after being found guilty in civil rape case

The renowned video game series 'Hitman', under its parent company IO Interactive, declared that McGregor's character will be erased from the game due to the jury's decision

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8 hours ago Menendez brothers’ aunts beg for their release as judge delays resentencing hearing

Erik and Lyle Menendez were found guilty of murdering Jose and Kitty Menendez in 1989 and sentenced to life in prison

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8 hours ago Former Kentucky sheriff pleads not guilty in the fatal courthouse shooting of a judge

A former Kentucky sheriff charged in a judge’s shooting death has pleaded not guilty

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8 hours ago Morrisons Belgian buns turn couple's stomachs as they make revolting discovery

Braden Maunder and Savannah Padfield said they experienced stomach pains and dizziness some hours after eating the sweet Belgian bread bun they purchased from Morrisons

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11 hours ago The Thanksgiving meal Diddy will eat in prison if he isn’t granted bail

Combs’s Thanksgiving dinner in jail will a far cry from the luxury he’s used to

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