40 h. ago Family of Sarah Everard murdered by police officer slams major jail change plans

The parents of Sarah Everard, who was was abducted, raped and murdered in 2021, are among bereaved families to criticise plans to let prisoners out of jail earlier for good behaviour

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44 h. ago No Straight Road Takes You There by Rebecca Solnit review – an activist’s antidote to despair

Hope is no casual platitude in this inspiring collection of essays; it’s the realistic mindset with which to approach challengesAccording to Rebecca Solnit, a lot of us are suffering from something called moral injury. She describes this as the “deep sense of wrongness” that can infiltrate our lives when we realise we are complicit in something seriously bad.The first time I experienced this in relation to climate change, I was changing my baby’s nappy soon after one of the worst Australian wildfire seasons on record in 2020. The nappy featured a smiling cartoon koala on the front. I immediately recalled the scene of a singed, parched koala being fed water from a plastic bottle by a human as it fled the inferno. A disposable nappy takes up to 500 years to decompose. I felt disgust and despair at the degree of consumption, waste and exploitation that even a modest lifestyle in a high-income country seems to entail. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Biggest reset of prisons in 30 years as plans call for MAJOR jail time change

Keir Starmer has been warned he must 'act with bravery' after years of political demands to be 'tough on crime' have resulted in a huge overcrowding crisis in prisons

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45 h. ago Jamie Carragher praises Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta for 'best transfer decision'

Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta has had to make plenty of big calls during his time at the helm but his decision to change goalkeepers back in 2023 has been singled out by Jamie Carragher

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63 h. ago ITV Lorraine show could be saved from cuts under strict condition but one star is refusing

ITV have announced huge changes to the daytime schedule which is seeing Lorraine's air time being halved and Good Morning Britain's being extended.

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3 d. ago Sadiq Khan accused of ruining livelihoods of thousands of London taxi drivers by creating a licencing 'shambles'

Some 3,000 drivers at a time have been forced off the road after a change to Transport For London's systems triggered huge backlogs on applications for licence renewals.

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3 d. ago ‘We can’t step back in time’: a new book about eco anxiety and climate change

University professor’s visit to ancestral lands in China unleashes waves of ‘eco anxiety’ and results in new book Red PocketsWhen university professor Alice Mah visited her family’s ancestral village for the first time in 2018, she knew it would not be a grand homecoming; her father’s lack of interest in ever making the trip to South China suggested that much. But what she did not expect was that it would unleash waves of eco anxiety which would follow her back to the UK, where she lives.Documented in her new book Red Pockets, Mah confronts her family’s past – the site where her ancestral home used to be, untended graves and the descendants of the villagers who remained. This presents her with a whole host of debts and the impossibility of ever really repaying them. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘There’s a lot we can’t undo’: how an author’s visit to ancestral home prompted a wave of eco anxiety

Alice Mah’s book explores cultural and ecological loss through the lens of a trip to south ChinaWhen Alice Mah, a university professor, visited her family’s ancestral village for the first time in 2018, she knew it would not be a grand homecoming. Her father’s lack of interest in ever making the trip to south China had suggested that much. But what she did not know was that it would unleash waves of eco anxiety that would follow her back to the UK.As documented in her new book Red Pockets, Mah confronts her family’s past – the site where her ancestral home used to be, untended graves and the descendants of the villagers who remained. This presents her with a whole host of debts and the impossibility of ever really repaying them. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Micky van de Ven says it is time to change and believes Spurs ‘deserve trophies’

Tottenham last won silverware in 2008.

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4 d. ago Boredom, injuries and ‘weird guru vibes’: seven signs it’s time to change your workout

It can be hard for gym-goers to know what’s reasonable to expect from a workout or class. Here, trainers and coaches share common problems – and their solutionsIt’s an uncomfortable feeling: you walk out of your fitness class and know the vibe was off but can’t say exactly why. The coach was perfectly polite and the workout itself was fine, but you’re sure you won’t go back. How come?I have a few hunches because I’ve spent a lot of time in gyms. I played three sports in high school, was on the swim team in college, started CrossFit in 2016 and have been a CrossFit coach and personal trainer for the past four years. I’ve written for Men’s Health for almost a decade, and dropped into at least 50 gyms, from luxury boutiques to basement sweat boxes. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago I was left in a coma for three weeks after being battered bloody by a group of CHILDREN

Former prison officer Ryan Goodenough, who was just 21 at the time and left with life-changing injuries, appeared on the ITV show on Monday alongside former inmate and journalist Raphael Rowe.

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5 d. ago A Labour lost in the weeds can’t rebuild this country. Starmer must regain his nerve | John Harris

Labour has good ideas and years left to change Britain. Why is it acting as if its time is almost up? Just under a week on from Keir Starmer’s latest pronouncements about immigration, plenty of people on his own side are still gripped by a queasy sense of fury and disappointment, and it shows no signs of fading away. His aides and allies will now try to gladden left-liberal hearts by emphasising gains from Monday’s UK-EU summit, and the prime minister’s remodelling of Brexit. But the acrid cloud hanging over Starmer will surely remain, and with good reason.Whatever the surrounding context – and whether or not he was consciously echoing Enoch Powell – his suggestion that Britain risked becoming an “island of strangers” still sounded like a horribly calculated provocation. The insistence that the government was set on closing “a squalid chapter for our politics, our economy, and our country” was even more brazen. So was the suggestion after years of “a one-nation experiment in open bo...

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6 d. ago Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’

Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years’ timeA leading European winemaker has warned it may have to abandon its ancestral lands in Catalonia in 30 years’ time because climate change could make traditional growing areas too dry and hot.Familia Torres is already installing irrigation at its vineyards in Spain and California and is planting vines on land at higher altitudes as it tries to adapt to more extreme conditions. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Love Island's Biggs Chris says Netflix show changed his life after enduring 'tough' time

Love Island star Biggs Chris candidly opened up on enduring a tough time in recent years following the heartbreaking split between himself and the mother to his child, Ziyon

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1 week ago Kelp noodle stir fry, soybean spaghetti and dandelion salad: Climate scientists reveal what we'll be eating for dinner in the future

Scientists have teamed up with HelloFresh to predict what Brits will be eating in just 10 years time as we fight to halt climate change.

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1 week ago Google has changed its G logo for the first time in a decade

Google has changed its G logo for the first time since 2015 👀

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1 week ago The time to judge Ruben Amorim at Manchester United has already changed

Man United slumped to a 17th Premier League defeat of the season on Sunday and they have gone nearly two months without a league win.

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1 week ago Eurovision 2025 sees comeback for key changes and unusual time signatures

This year’s contest includes entries with three, five or six beats in the bar, as well as songs in 4/4 time.

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1 week ago Jamie Carragher's worrying Declan Rice prediction as Mikel Arteta faces Arsenal headache

Declan Rice will finish his second season at Arsenal without a trophy but Jamie Carragher doesn't yet believe he'll be questioning his future - but things could change in 12 months time

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1 week ago Screen time rewires your child’s brain – here’s what you can do about it

Scans show screen time can change the brain’s physical structure and pathways

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