33 minutes ago Pride and protest: a photographic history of the fight for LGBTQ+ rights

Images by Fred W McDarrah feature in a new exhibition that follows key moments of community and liberationThe Manhattan photographer Fred McDarrah came to prominence documenting the Beat movement that overtook Greenwich Village in the 1950s, capturing, among others, Jack Kerouac (who sat for a portrait in McDarrah’s apartment) and one of the earliest photos of a very young and unknown Bob Dylan. It was this portfolio that made his name at the Village Voice, where he would work for an astonishing 50 years, but toward the end of the 1960s McDarrah began to photograph an entirely new movement sweeping over the Village.In spring 1966 at Julius’s Bar, a short walk from the Stonewall Inn, four gay men – Dick Leitsch, Craig Rodwell, John Timmons and Randy Wicker – engaged in what they termed a...

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97 minutes ago Ignore the online CV truthers. If anything, Rachel Reeves is overqualified to be UK chancellor | Gaby Hinsliff

Gordon Brown and George Osborne studied history, but neither faced the questions of suitability levelled at the first woman in the jobRachel Reeves is not for turning. She won’t be pushed around, knocked off course, undermined by backbench mutterings or criticism from the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). The message the chancellor seemingly wants to send this week is that it’s her way or the highway, and if this attempt to stamp her authority on a jittery political moment feels a bit defensive or even impervious to criticism – well, perhaps it’s worth acknowledging that that authority is now being challenged in ways that strangely didn’t happen to her male predecessors.Is it just a coincidence that the first female chancellor is also the first to be swarmed by a mob of online tr...

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1 hour ago 'Novak Djokovic hiring Andy Murray might be greatest show of nepotism in sporting history'

"What is the most decorated male player of all-time Novak Djokovic going to learn from the bloke he bullied Down Under more times than Andy Murray will care to remember?"

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1 hour ago Satellite images show North Korea expanding key facility making missiles Russia uses in Ukraine

The plant at Ryongsong Machine Complex in Hamhung reportedly makes Hwasong-11 solid-fuel ballistic missile

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6 hours ago The $808M series that's the biggest flop in TV history... and there's still three seasons to go

The Amazon series is now the most expensive TV show in history, with costs up to $808.9 million, even though almost two-thirds of viewers quit before the first-season finale.

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8 hours ago Netflix demands the identity of person who leaked Squid Game footage called 'worst leak in streaming history'

Netflix has gone to court to reveal the identity of the user responsible for the early leak of Squid Game Season 2 footage.

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11 hours ago Alistair Johnston wants own part of Celtic history as he targets second Champions League all

The Hoops hero didn't get any sleep after dumping the Bundesliga side and he is ready for a repeat this midweek

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12 hours ago WW3 fears as nuclear warning highlights area '15 minutes from disaster'

As the Russia-Ukraine war rumbles on and tensions around the world spike, the US government has issued a grim guide on how to survive a nuclear bomb as it shares fallout maps

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13 hours ago Coronation Street character is set to be killed off 40 YEARS after making show debut as bosses plan heartbreaking storyline and exit 'to go down in the history books'

A Coronation Street legend is set to be 'killed off' after they will suffer a gruelling new health story line

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