76 m. ago Inmates locked up in UK prison given dancing lessons and invited to 'film nights'

Female inmates at HMP New Hall in West Yorkshire have been offered line dancing lessons and can attend film nights featuring popcorn and fizzy pop as part of the prison's incentive scheme

Events

77 m. ago Wales finally show spark in new era but Ireland stay on track for Six Nations grand slam

Wales 18-27 Ireland: Wales ultimately fell to a 15th successive Test match defeat but started the post-Warren Gatland era with plenty of positives

Politics

2 h. ago Ludovico Einaudi: ‘The way you blend the elements you eat is similar to composing a piece of music’

The pianist and composer talks about his passion for chillies, teas and saucepans, and cooking for his dad’s remarkable literary dinner partiesI live in Torino [Turin], a town where I grew up, where I was born. There’s a famous dish from there called bagna cauda. It’s a meeting of the garlic from the area of Piedmont, the mountains, with the anchovies coming from the sea in Liguria. It’s a very simple dish, a bit like a broth, perfect in winter, and you eat it with raw vegetables of the season. But there’s so much garlic in it that, when you eat it, you need a couple of days away from other people.There is a connection between how you eat and how you make music: the way you blend the elements that you eat, the colours, it’s similar to composing a piece of music. If I take my solo piano repertoire, I would associate it with a very simple food, with few elements and few colours, not overelaborate. If I think of a piece of mine with more instruments, more orchestral, I would ...

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3 h. ago The Bank Hotel, Istanbul: An elegant stay steeped in history

Nicole Holcroft-Emmess falls for one of Europe’s most exciting cities after a stay at this chic design hotel

Politics

3 h. ago All episodes of 'dark and absorbing' gritty British crime drama now streaming on BBC

The critically acclaimed crime drama features a talented detective taking on some of London's most horrific murder cases

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4 h. ago How OnlyFans's sex revolution failed: Adult site was hailed for 'empowering women' at its inception

Former Love Islander Megan Barton-Hanson previously praised the app for 'changing the power dynamic for sex workers' and 'empowering women' in December 2020.

Sport

4 h. ago A very big house in the city! Blur star Graham Coxon is renting out this £3m family home on AirBnB as his divorce costs spiral

The four-bed Muswell Hill home is 'perfect for group getaways' but guests booking on Airbnb are warned their stay may be interrupted by viewings as the property is also listed for sale.

Society

5 h. ago What is Apple's data protection tool? The controversial encryption feature being axed

Advanced Data Protection (ADP) protects data stored in iCloud with end-to-end encryption, which means the data can only be seen by the user who owns it, and only on their trusted devices

Politics

6 h. ago Britain's Got Talent star Paul Potts' life after win and surprising Taylor Swift connection

Britain's Got Talent is set to return to ITV screens this weekend with a host of talented acts set to take to the stage.

Politics

6 h. ago Missouri lawmaker proposes registry of pregnant women ‘at risk’ for abortions

Dubbed ‘eHarmony for babies’, bill would create connected databases for pregnant women and those looking to adoptA Republican lawmaker in Missouri has introduced legislation to create a registry of pregnant women who are “at risk” of having an abortion – a proposal the bill’s author characterized as an “eHarmony for babies” that could also help match adoptive parents with babies.If passed, the bill would create two registries: one for people “at risk” of abortions and one for people looking to adopt. Members of each registry could access the other, while Missouri government officials would be tasked with helping members meet each other and facilitating adoptions. The bill’s goal is to “reduce the number of preventable abortions in Missouri”. Continue reading...

Events

7 h. ago Republicans put the sick in sycophancy as they compete to fawn over Trump

From adding the president’s face to Mount Rushmore to pushing for him to serve a third term, party members are getting inventive in their brown-nosingIf proof were needed that Donald Trump’s cult of personality has never been stronger, it comes in the inventive ways Republican members of Congress have spent his first month in office trying to lionise him. Welcome to the sycophancy stakes.On 23 January the congressman Addison McDowell of North Carolina introduced legislation to rename Washington Dulles international airport as Donald J Trump international airport. Continue reading...

Politics

7 h. ago Needle drop! The world’s first sewing machine orchestra takes Munich

This weekend, a symphony of Singers (not that kind) will lead an experimental performance that stitches together feminism and fashion – and offers the audience free repairsStepping into the studio of the Brazilian-born artist and performer Lisa Simpson – no relation to the cartoon character – feels like entering a crossover between the Mad Hatter’s workshop and a postindustrial steampunk landscape with a colourful girl-power twist. The ground floor space in Berlin’s southern district of Neukölln is filled with shelves laden with old sewing machines and coat racks brimming with hats, bags and fabric scraps. Even more sewing machines propped on two tables might suggest that this is a tailor’s workshop, were it not for the tangle of cables and synthesisers connected to them. Toy sewing machines in candy colours have a purple phone receiver attached; colourful cables with knitted covers sneak out of household sewing machines and seam overlockers; pins and needles are connected to microp...

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8 h. ago 'Miracle' £12 collagen supplements Amazon users use to stay 'forever young'

Incite Nutrition's Marine Collagen Capsules are an 'Amazon Choice' product based on over 3,000 global Amazon reviews.

Economics

9 h. ago Culture wars: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agendaIn 1937, leaders of Germany’s Third Reich hosted two simultaneous art exhibitions in Munich. One, titled the Great German Art Exhibition, featured art viewed by the regime as appropriate and aspirational for the ideal Aryan society – orderly and triumphant, with mostly blond people in heroic poses amid pastoral German landscapes. The other showcased what Adolf Hitler and his followers deemed “degenerate art” (“Entartete Kunst”). The works, chaotically displayed and saddled with commentary disparaging “the sick brains of those who wielded the brush or pencil”, were abstract, profane, modernist and produced by the proclaimed enemies of the Reich – Jewish people, communists or those suspected of being either.The Degenerate Art exhibition, which later toured the country, opened a day after Hitler declared “merciless war” on cultural disintegrati...

Politics

9 h. ago I revealed Liam Payne's last picture. Ten minutes after it was taken, he was dead. This is what doesn't stack up: FRED KELLY

This was a judgment with a sting in its tail. On Wednesday, three of the five people named in connection with the death of Liam Payne had all charges dropped against them in an Argentine court.

Events

10 h. ago TRAVEL: Where to stay, eat and shop in Bristol (and the bar with the best cocktails)

Six in the city

Politics

10 h. ago AD FEATURE: Why college life at Gower College Swansea could be your best move

Kelly Fountain talks about the many benefits of college for school leavers, including the range of subjects, outstanding teaching, pastoral support and industry links

Politics

11 h. ago Extremists would not need to create an authoritarian state in Britain: Starmer is doing that for them | George Monbiot

The PM and his ministers are supporting illiberal laws that hard-right authoritarians could apply with zealIf the Trump project implodes, it might take with it the extreme and far-right European parties to which it is umbilically connected. Like all such parties, the hard-right Reform UK poses as patriotic while grovelling to foreign interests, and this could be its undoing.But we cannot bank on it. The UK government must do all it can to prevent the disaster that has befallen several other European nations. If it fails to meet people’s needs and keeps echoing far-right talking points, we could go the same way as Italy, the Netherlands, Hungary, Finland, Sweden and Austria.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Culture

11 h. ago AD FEATURE: A parents' guide to studying at Swansea University

The university recently used a webinar to answer questions from parents and guardians

Events

12 h. ago Grand 1701 Penzance vicarage packed with period features for sale for £850k

The property is for sale for the first time in over a century

Economics