15 h. ago AD FEATURE: Man City Champions League 2025/26 season preview: odds, prediction and fixtures

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19 h. ago Champions League Odds: Latest 2025/26 Champions League Betting Odds & Prices

Find the latest Champions League odds as the continent’s elite teams battle for European football’s biggest honour

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3 d. ago Nine officers at Charing Cross Police station suspended after allegations of 'criminality and misconduct'

The alleged misconduct is said to have occurred both on and off duty, between August 2024 and January 2025

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3 d. ago Saturday horse racing tips: St Leger best bets and Doncaster preview

It’s St Leger day and our racing correspondent Jonathan Doidge brings us his horse racing tips for Doncaster’s Saturday card

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3 d. ago Team USA star teases Ryder Cup pairing with the world's best player at bonkers Bethpage

US Open champion looks set to link-up with fellow 2025 Major winner Scottie Scheffler on day one at Bethpage

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4 d. ago Best Free Bets and Betting Sign Up Offers for September 2025

Find the best free bet offers from top UK bookmakers, including exclusive betting sign up offers in 2025

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4 d. ago The Climate Diplomat by Peter Betts review – the most important person you’ve never heard of

A British civil servant’s revelatory account of negotiations to avert climate catastropheWhen it comes to the climate, Peter Betts is one of the most important people you’ve probably never heard of. If the world does manage to avoid the worst ravages of global heating, it will be thanks in part to the countless late nights he spent in windowless rooms, arguing over the placement of commas in impenetrable legal text.Betts would probably have disagreed. He disliked ostentation and grand statements, preferring to get on unfussily with his job – for years, he was the UK’s main negotiator on climate, and leader of the EU’s team on the 2015 Paris agreement. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Ella Baron on escalating tensions between Russia and Poland – cartoon

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5 d. ago Ryder Cup organisers ask Donald Trump to delay Bethpage arrival to avoid security chaos

President’s visit at US Open tennis final caused delaysPGA of America’s priority is delivering ‘seamless’ eventRyder Cup organisers have asked that Donald Trump does not arrive for the opening tee shots at Bethpage this month amid fears of security chaos similar to the scenes that caused a delay to the start of the US Open tennis men’s singles final.Whether the message is heeded at the White House remains to be seen. While Ryder Cup officials have no issue with the US president arriving at the New York golf course as planned on the first day, they believe logistically it would be far easier if Trump attends for lunch and the Friday afternoon session. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago The play that changed my life: ‘Pinter’s Betrayal made me think: this is how I want to write’

In his reverse-chronology play about a married couple dealing with an affair, Harold Pinter asked the audience to find meaning in unspoken wordsI didn’t see Harold Pinter’s Betrayal on stage until after I’d read it. I’m pleased about that – it means I’d “seen” it for myself first. The play is about a married couple, Robert and Emma, and the affair that she has with his best friend, Jerry. It has a reverse chronology, starting in the present day when the affair is over and ending years earlier as it begins, and shows what each of them knows or doesn’t know over the course of that time. I immediately thought: this is how I want to write.I loved its spareness and economy. How taut the language was. Unspoken words filled the room, giving it energy and unpredictability and drama. It showed me how much you can leave for the actors to work out and play with. How much the words matter, but the silences, too. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Best Betting Sites UK: Top 10 Online Bookmakers in September 2025

Our tipster, sports journalist and betting content producer Chris Wilson reviews UK betting sites and picks out his favourites

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6 d. ago Between Moon Tides: hacking nature to save the saltmarsh sparrow documentary

Sea levels are rising in New England at some of the fastest rates in the world. On a quiet ribbon of saltmarsh in Rhode Island, septuagenarian Deirdre isn’t prepared to accept the loss of her beloved saltmarsh sparrow - the species is facing extinction before 2050 due to elevated high tides inundating nests and drowning fledgling birds. Leading a team of citizen scientists, Deirdre unravels the secret to finding delicate nests amid thick marsh grass, while they design and deploy a low-cost ‘ark’ to try to raise the sparrow nests to safety. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Top 10 Best Horse Racing Betting Sites UK for September 2025

We rate and recommend the best horse racing betting sites UK punters have to choose from in 2025

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7 d. ago A better life is possible – but only if you dive deep into your unconscious

We are used to skimming the surface of our emotions, distracting ourselves with endless doing. To discover what we really need, we must move beyond the shallowsEver since I discovered the mating dynamics of the deep-sea anglerfish, where the male fuses with the female, and how closely this mirrors some disturbing human relationship patterns, I have been chewing over the idea that everything that exists in our unconscious also exists in the ocean. From the methodical violence of sharks, to dolphins who mourn their dead and jellyfish whose pulsating contractions remind me of my labour, the only phenomenon on Earth that is as rich and colourful and dark and fascinating as the deep sea is the deep unconscious.My problem, as I realised in a session not long ago with my psychoanalyst, is that I have been swimming in shallow waters. This is something I have seen many times in myself, and perhaps these moments of recognition help me to see it in my patients – the unconscious pull to stay in...

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8 d. ago Between the Waves by Tom McTague review – the long view on Brexit

An ambitious history of Britain’s volatile relationship with Europe, culminating in the 2016 referendumNext year marks a decade since Britain voted to leave the EU. A whole 10 years of turmoil, and still the country can’t seem to agree exactly why it happened or what should happen next, with both leavers and remainers increasingly united in frustration about what the referendum has delivered. How did we end up here?In Between the Waves, New Statesman editor Tom McTague makes an ambitious attempt to answer that question by zooming out and putting Brexit in its broader historical context. The result is a great big entertaining sweep of a book, tracing the roots of Britain’s ambiguous relationship with its neighbours back to the end of the second world war, and will be joyfully inhaled by any reader who loves the kind of podcasts that invariably feature two men talking to each other. It charts the path from a time when membership was seen as an antidote to British decline – the ch...

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9 d. ago France’s political crisis reveals deep rift between the people and their politicians

The likely fall of prime minister François Bayrou exposes a political malaise that is likely to sour French politics well beyond the 2027 presidential election as the far right exploits the momentAs the French government faces likely collapse in a confidence vote on Monday, plunging the eurozone’s second biggest economy and key diplomatic power into a domestic political crisis, Jonathan Denis, a 42-year-old a bank manager and health rights campaigner, was concerned about the terrible impact it will have on France’s dying and terminally ill.The centrist president Emmanuel Macron had promised assisted dying and improved palliative care would be the biggest social reform of his second term but the bill, which had been scheduled to go before the senate next month, now risks being delayed once more by the unpredictable revolving door of four prime ministers in just over three years. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Blur’s Dave Rowntree: ‘People think music was better in the old days, to which I say: bollocks!’

The drummer for the Britpop band on why Oasis aren’t his nemesis, his failed bid to become a UK Labour MP and how he finally conquered mathsGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYou’ve just put out a coffee table book of photographs of your early years with Blur. I imagine you didn’t have too many expectations at the time. Why had you stopped taking photos by the time the band blew up?I told myself that I was not experiencing life, that I was looking at it through the lens of the camera. But what really happened was, after a few years, things stopped being bright and shiny and new and exciting. It was pretty clear that we were going to have a career, that this wasn’t just a 15-minute Warholian burst of fame. I just moved on to other things.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morningNo One You Know: Dave Rowntree’s Early Blur Photos is out now Continue reading...

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1 week ago Arsenal’s Beth Mead: ‘Chelsea are lethal but we can play better football than them’

After lifting European titles with Arsenal and England this year, forward aims to knock WSL champions off their perchBeth Mead leans back slightly in her seat, the wall behind her displaying iterations of the Arsenal crest through decades of change and says: “It’s a tough club to walk away from.”After a year of gossip, wondering, and a summer of speculation, the transfer window has shut and Mead is heading, hungrier than ever, into her ninth full season at the club she joined at 21. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Best Football Betting Sites UK 2025: Top 10 Ranked and Reviewed

Betting on football is as popular as it’s ever been and we’ve searched a long list of football betting sites to find the best on the market

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1 week ago 2025 NFL season prediction and best bets: Double delight for Ravens and Lamar

Read the latest tips and odds ahead of the 2025 NFL season beginning on Thursday, 4 September

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