43 m. ago Chris Packham warns of massive change we must make to save UK's garden birds

The BBC star says people won't want to do it, but they might have to, and he hopes to show what's needed using scientific proof

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1 hour ago The Guardian view on microplastics research: questioning results is good for science, but has political consequences | Editorial

Errors in measuring microplastic pollution can be corrected. Public trust in science also needs to be shored up It is true that science is self-correcting. Over the long term this means that we can generally trust its results – but up close, correction can be a messy process. The Guardian reported last week that 20 recent studies measuring the amount of micro- and nanoplastics in the human body have been criticised in the scientific literature for methodological issues, calling their results into question. In one sense this is the usual process playing out as it should. However, the scale of the potential error – one scientist estimates that half the high-impact papers in the field are affected – suggests a systemic problem that should have been prevented.The risk is that in a febrile political atmosphere in which trust in science is being actively eroded on issues from climate change to vaccinations, even minor scientific conflicts can be used to sow further doubt. Given that there...

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2 h. ago Strictly's Vicky Pattison teases 'not long now' as fans 'counting down the days'

The BBC star will be joining her fellow 2025 contestants on the Strictly tour

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2 h. ago Government pulls amendment to Hillsborough law after backlash

Proposed change relating to spies was criticised by campaigners and MPs as allowing an opt-out for senior officialsThe government has pulled an amendment to its proposed Hillsborough law amid concerns from campaigners and MPs that the legislation was being watered down.The public office (accountability) bill aims to force public officials and contractors to tell the truth after disasters. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ‘It’s about trust’: Trump’s fresh tariff threats push Europe to harden its stance

Aggressive US rhetoric over Greenland demands a change in strategy by the EU and UK, officials say

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3 h. ago Piers Morgan jokingly blames Trump for fall as he shares health update from hospital bed

Morgan, who previously deemed Trump a friend, has changed his tune in the last few years

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3 h. ago Meet the Love Island All Stars bombshells already making moves on one contestant

The villa has already descended into chaos just days in to the new series

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4 h. ago Love Island stars to unleash chaos amid 'big twist' as bombshells finally confirmed

Love Island viewers are set to meet the three new All Stars bombshells as producers drop hint about a 'text which changes everything' ahead of tonight's episode

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4 h. ago 'World's hottest scientist' gets hands on with deadly sea beast as she 'changes the narrative'

Rosie Moore is making it her mission to change the narrative around sharks and has boarded a real-life functional replica of the boat in the infamous movie, Jaws to do so

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5 h. ago ITV's Gladiators is making a 'big change' that will terrify contestants and change show

EXCLUSIVE: Gladiators bosses have made the show even tougher by introducing a new game that's played at heights never seen before – which will be sure to raise heartbeats

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5 h. ago BBC's Gladiators is making a 'big change' that will terrify contestants and change show

EXCLUSIVE: Gladiators bosses have made the show even tougher by introducing a new game that's played at heights never seen before – which will be sure to raise heartbeats

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5 h. ago AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its rootsI am a science-fiction writer, which means that my job is to make up futuristic parables about our current techno-social arrangements to interrogate not just what a gadget does, but who it does it for, and who it does it to.What I do not do is predict the future. No one can predict the future, which is a good thing, since if the future were predictable, that would mean we couldn’t change it. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Lauren Harries launches blistering string of attacks on David Dickinson for 'stitching up' contestants on his ITV show with 'disgusting prices'

Antiques dealer and presenter David, 84, has fronted Dickinson's Real Deal on ITV since the programme made its debut back in 2006.

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6 h. ago Strictly Come Dancing's Amber Davies was given warning by bosses before BBC debut

Welsh star Amber Davies was a contestant on the 2025 series of Strictly Come Dancing and spoke about taking part in the BBC series on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch

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7 h. ago Scotland World Cup tracker as Harvey Barnes claim rings out, party date set and Ancelotti makes key Brazil change

The in-form winger has been pitched as an option for Thomas Tuchel and the Three Lions.

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7 h. ago How can we defend ourselves from the new plague of ‘human fracking’?

Big tech treats our attention like a resource to be mercilessly extracted. The fightback begins hereIn the last 15 years, a linked series of unprecedented technologies have changed the experience of personhood across most of the world. It is estimated that nearly 70% of the human population of the Earth currently possesses a smartphone, and these devices constitute about 95% of internet access-points on the planet. Globally, on average, people seem to spend close to half their waking hours looking at screens, and among young people in the rich world the number is a good deal higher than that.History teaches that new technologies always make possible new forms of exploitation, and this basic fact has been spectacularly exemplified by the rise of society-scale digital platforms. It has been driven by a remarkable new way of extracting money from human beings: call it “human fracking”. Just as petroleum frackers pump high-pressure, high-volume detergents into the ground to force a litt...

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7 h. ago ‘I looked exceptional but I was out of breath’: the bodybuilder who switched to mindful movement

Ten years ago, Eugene Teo was obsessed with lifting weights. But, gradually, he realised his extreme mindset was making him unhappy. So he changed his outlookEugene Teo, 34, began lifting weights at the age of 13, looking for validation. “I was short, skinny and I thought it would give me confidence,” he says. “Bodybuilding for me was the ultimate expression of that.”Now living on the Gold Coast in Australia, with his partner and daughter, the fitness coach spent from age 16 to 24 training and competing. At times, he lifted weights for up to four hours a day, aiming to get as muscular and lean as possible. The ideal he was chasing? “If you grab your eyelid and feel that skin,” he says, “that’s the skin thinness you want on your bum and abs.” Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Polyamory, regrets and revenge: changing the story on infidelity

From Lily Allen to Raven Leilani’s Luster, a new generation is re-writing the script around love and cheating, argues the author of The Ten Year AffairO n the first track of Lily Allen’s breakup album West End Girl, we hear a long phone call that leads to a marriage’s unravelling. Allen listens, confused then hurt, for almost two minutes as a presumed husband on the other end asks to open up the relationship. Fans made the obvious connection to Allen’s own marriage to David Harbour, the cop from Stranger Things (who is perhaps equally well known for his tasteful Brooklyn townhouse). The two dabbled in polyamory, goes the tabloid story, only to have Harbour break the rules and hurt Allen in the end.The album is good – pretty and catchy, with an appealing edge of anger. But public reaction went beyond appreciation for the work. The breakup became the object of gruesome rubbernecking. It was a juicy story about one of the oldest topics: infidelity, betrayal, an...

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7 h. ago The Apprentice bosses insist they will review their vetting processes after new contestant's 'racist and sexist' social media posts were revealed

Levi Hague, 33, is set to star in the upcoming season of the BBC show, but on Saturday it emerged he'd shared vile comments in a series of tweets in the early 2010s.

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7 h. ago Australian Open winner dubbed 'hottest athlete in the world' looks unrecognisable now

A former Australian Open champion has changed dramatically since her last victory in Melbourne almost 20 years ago

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