75 m. ago Photographer Joy Gregory on her new project, decades in the making: ‘A lot of people I worked with on it have died’

A new retrospective by the Black British artist plays with everything from the Victorians’ use of flowers to Eurocentric beauty standards – including one piece she started in 2003There weren’t many Black students at the Royal College of Art when Joy Gregory was a student in the 1980s, but she did study alongside artist and Blk Art Group founder Keith Piper, who was putting together a Black photography exhibition. “He asked me if I would submit some work,” says the 65-year-old artist.Piper had liked her work, which explored themes of colonialism, beauty, gender and race. However, her submission was rejected by the organisers on the basis that it simply wasn’t Black enough. “You have to recognise the political climate at that time around practice and making a mark and I was basically taking pictures of flowers,” says Gregory. “For me, you have the right to make whatever work you want. By shutting down what can and cannot be, you start to censor yourself. I was a bit pissed off, thinki...

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2 h. ago Man arrested for 'calling for Starmer to be assassinated' at huge Tommy Robinson rally

Arrest comes after a video circulating on social media appeared to show a man saying ‘Keir Starmer needs to be assassinated’

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3 h. ago Clarks opens up a shoebox of memories with museum to mark 200th year

Shoemakers Museum in Somerset village of Street displays everything from school shoes to Wallabees and Desert BootsFor some visitors, the museum may bring back memories of being fitted for their first pair of school shoes on a rather chilly metal gauge. For others, the cabinets of pristine Wallabees and Desert Boots may recall teenage obsessions with US hip-hop or Britpop movements.Memories will also flood back for the many local people whose families made Clarks shoes for generations, when the box-fresh Shoemakers Museum opens in the Somerset village of Street, near Glastonbury, on Thursday. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Aberdeen hero rolls back the years with stunning finish in memorial cup for ex

Winters, 50, bagged the winner in the final of a memorial tournament for Alan Paterson

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3 h. ago Kaleb Cooper says he's 'grown up' after birth of third child

The 27-year-old Clarkson's Farm star has published a new children's book, Kaleb’s Farmyard Tales

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4 h. ago Black Rabbit review – it’s almost impossible to care about Jude Law and Jason Bateman in this TV misery

The two actors play brothers dragged into danger by gangsters, but are too stupid or poorly sketched for you to sympathise with them. It’s a relentlessly cheerless watchHard on the heels of the airless misery of Mark Ruffalo’s new venture, Task, comes Jude Law and Jason Bateman’s Black Rabbit, which has a bit more action but the same relentless, cheerless tone and even less forgiving lighting. One more entry and it’s officially a trend! We’ll all have to schedule recovery viewings of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, like winter vitamin D shots, to make it through unbowed.Law and Bateman are working-class brothers Jake (Law) and Vince (Bateman) Friedkin from Coney Island. They grew up in what we assume from relatively early on was a violent home, dominated by an alcoholic father. They became a Nirvana-lite rock group – Jake the handsome lead, Vince the drummer and creative force – until the latter’s taste for drugs and mayhem put paid to their success. Jake pivoted into management, primarily of m...

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4 h. ago Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg unveils new smart glasses powered by AI

The glasses start at $799 and will be available on September 30 at limited stores

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8 h. ago Family of Black student found hanging from tree on school campus hires lawyer Ben Crump

Questions mount after Delta State University staff found body of Demartravion Reed near campus pickleball courtsThe family of a Black student who was found hanging from a tree on a college campus in Mississippi has retained the civil rights attorney Ben Crump as questions continue to mount around the death.On Monday, staff at Delta State University found the body of Demartravion “Trey” Reed near campus pickleball courts. Michael Peeler, the Delta State police chief, has said Reed appeared to have died by suicide and that there were no signs of foul play, but concerns have grown and the case has brought up painful memories of the state’s history of racist violence. Continue reading...

Society

11 h. ago Kane at the double as Bayern Munich spoil Chelsea’s Champions League return

The Allianz Arena will always hold cherished memories for Chelsea but when they pick through the wreckage of their first night back in the Champions League there will be plenty of moments that they would probably rather not have to think about again.Back at the ground where they became European champions for the first time, there was the brief prospect of the team in blue pulling off another unlikely heist in Bavaria. Yet while there was defiance after Bayern Munich went 2-0 up, Cole Palmer halving the deficit, the problems at the other end were too great for Chelsea to overcome. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Kane at double as Bayern Munich spoil Chelsea’s Champions League return

The Allianz Arena will always hold cherished memories for Chelsea but when they pick through the wreckage of their first night back in the Champions League there will be plenty of moments that they would rather not have to think about again.Back at the ground where they became European champions for the first time, there was the brief prospect of the team in blue pulling off another unlikely heist in Bavaria. Yet while there was defiance after Bayern Munich went 2-0 up inside 27 minutes, Cole Palmer halving the deficit with typical nonchalance, the problems at the other end were too great for Chelsea to overcome. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago Man arrested for allegedly calling for Starmer to be assassinated at rally

Between 110,000 and 150,000 people turned out for political activist Tommy Robinson’s rally on Saturday in central London.

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11 h. ago Donald Trump joins royals for state banquet at Windsor – UK politics live

Politicians, dignitaries and high profile tech entrepreneurs attend feast as protests mark US president’s second state visitLucy Powell has hit out at the “sexist” framing of her deputy Labour leadership campaign, with people claiming she and her rival, Bridget Phillipson, are standing as “proxies” for two men, Aletha Adu reports.Most of Donald Trump’s policies horrify progressives and leftwingers in Britain, including Labour party members and supporters, but Keir Starmer has said almost nothing critical about the Trump administration because he has taken a view that maintaining good relations with the White House is in the national interest.I understand the UK government’s position of being pragmatic on the international stage and wanting to maintain a good relationship with the leader of the most powerful country in the world. Faced with a revanchist Russia, Europe’s security feels less certain now than at any time since the second world war. And the threat of even higher US tarif...

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13 h. ago Norfolk museum worker denies stealing exhibits to sell at auction

Norfolk museum worker denies stealing exhibits to sell at auction  BBC

Economics

13 h. ago The full implications of Welsh Senedd poll as Eluned Morgan in danger of losing her seat

The Welsh Labour leader's own future as an elected politician has a question mark hanging over it

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14 h. ago Trump’s admiration for our royal family has given Starmer a unique playing card – he must use it well

Editorial: It is all too easy to dismiss Donald Trump’s second state visit to Britain as an exercise in vacuous flummery. But it is a mark of the prime minister’s seriousness of purpose that he is able to put aside their differences to engage with the US president in the national interest

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15 h. ago Eddie Howe keen for Newcastle to make their mark on Champions League

The Magpies missed out on qualification from the group stage two seasons ago.

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15 h. ago Precious gold samples stolen in raid on French natural history museum

Museum says specimens taken are worth €600,000 based on price of gold but have ‘immeasurable heritage value’Historic gold samples with a street value of €600,000 but priceless to scientists and researchers have been stolen from the French national natural history museum in the latest of a series of museum robberies in France.“This has happened in a critical context for cultural establishments in France, particularly museums,” the Paris museum said. “Several public collections have been the victims of robberies in the past months.” Continue reading...

Culture

16 h. ago Watch: Spectacular Red Arrows flypast over Windsor for Trump’s UK state visit

Watch as the Red Arrows fly over Windsor Castle to mark Donald Trump's state visit to the UK.

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17 h. ago Both Trump and Vance are now set to speak at Charlie Kirk’s memorial this weekend

Trump will travel to Arizona for the memorial event after his state visit to the United Kingdom

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17 h. ago South Ayrshire memorials to be expanded beyond traditional benches

High demand and a lack of space for memorial benches has seen council officiers suggest new options, including plaques and memorial trees.

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