4 h. ago 23andMe’s demise is a warning: the US needs to overhaul genetic data protection | Dalton Conley

We’re moving toward a society where genetic information is a part of everyday life – and we don’t want it in the wrong handsWith a heavy heart, I clicked on my 23andMe account on a recent morning, confirming that I wanted to delete my data. The genetic testing company filed for bankruptcy late last month and the California attorney general and others have recommended that users delete their data lest it be acquired by less scrupulous companies as the company is stripped for parts during bankruptcy proceedings.I was one of the company’s earliest customers and had used their service to genotype not just myself but my entire extended family. I even got my kids’ babysitter a kit.Dalton Conley is Henry Putnam university professor of sociology at Princeton University and author of The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture Continue reading...

Events

6 h. ago Welsh villagers lose four year long fight to stop farmer building barns near their homes

The farmer who applied to build the barns said he lost livestock in the years he waited for a decision on his plans

Society

8 h. ago The reckless fantasy of austerity as a panacea is coming for European football | Aaron Timms

The same economic forces that led to stagnation today are already in practice at the world’s biggest clubsThe problem with running a modern top-flight football club is that raising revenue is hard to do. Once you’ve grabbed your slice of league-wide media rights, made a vaguely colonial-sounding pre-season tour of the “Far East,” stitched up some sponsorship deals with a gambling company or a country’s tourism agency, and shipped as many shirts as the global merch market can handle, you hit the ceiling of your earning capacity. At that point, as a club, what do you do?You can raise ticket prices, which risks alienating fans and the local community you’re supposed to represent. You can try your hand at a few miserable little crypto or AI plug-ins to build “engagement” among supporters or become a pioneer in the nascent field of fan “activations,” with limited potential returns. You can promise to build a new 100,000-seat stadium, but that takes time and money and doesn’t solve your i...

Sport

9 h. ago Eerie predictions about life in the 2000s that came true REVEALED

Children interviewed in the year 1966 made eerily accurate predictions about what life in the 2000s would look like. They warned of many issues society is grappling with today.

Politics

9 h. ago Children in 1966 made eerily accurate predictions about life in the 2000s

Children interviewed in the year 1966 made eerily accurate predictions about what life in the 2000s would look like. They warned of many issues society is grappling with today.

Politics

10 h. ago Bruno Fernandes told he's wasted his career at Man Utd after being dubbed 'worst team

Bruno Fernandes has been told he has wasted the best years of his career at Manchester United as rumours once again build linking the player with the Old Trafford exit

Politics

11 h. ago Lando Norris risks handing Oscar Piastri F1 title advantage with crucial mistake

McLaren look likely to build up a strong advantage in the early months of this Formula 1 season, leaving drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri poised for a title duel

Events

11 h. ago Jamie Carragher claims Liverpool need ‘six signings’ if they want to build on success

The Reds’ squad may need a summer overhaul with the potential exits of Trent Alexander-Arnold, Mo Salah and Virgil van Dijk

Politics

11 h. ago Cheers for nothing! Kelsey Grammer's plan to bulldoze his 200

Kelsey Grammer, 70, and his wife Kayte Walsh, 46, had earlier failed in a bid to build an extension but has now been told 'no prior approval' is needed to get rid of the cottage in Somerset.

Politics

11 h. ago Ozempic is hailed as a miracle drug. But how does it affect people with eating disorders?

Doctors worry about semaglutides being used by people with restrictive eating disorders – but research also shows they could help others struggling with binge eatingGLP-1 drugs like Ozempic have, in three short years, changed our attitudes to the body. They’ve revived a cultural fervor for thinness that has been blamed for everything from the closure of wine bars to killing off the body positivity movement. What began as a seeming miracle drug posited to help those most in need of losing weight for health reasons has led to a clamor in which one in eight Americans have tried the drugs and telehealth companies have offered cheaper off-brand versions with very little oversight.Ozempic (the brand name for semaglutide) and other GLP-1s mimic a natural hormone in the body, stimulating insulin and slowing the rate of stomach emptying after eating, increasing one’s sense of fullness. But the very qualities that make GLP-1s such powerful tools for weight loss also make them potentially dang...

Events

15 h. ago Did John and Yoko split because of Richard Nixon? The making of revelatory music film One to One

The director of One to One: John & Yoko reveals how he was given access to a trove of intimate and family archive material that changes how we see the star couplePeople are usually at their most interesting when they are in flux – uncertain of the way forward, of what life they ought to build. That was the case with John Lennon and Yoko Ono when they arrived in New York in 1971. They were both fleeing England – the recriminations around the Beatles breakup; the terrible misogyny and racism levelled at Ono – but also running towards the optimism and creative excitement of the New York art scene.This is the period I have tried to recreate in my film One to One: John & Yoko – using a plethora of previously unheard phone recordings, home movies and archive. It’s an unconventional film in many ways, pitching the viewer headfirst into the life, politics and music of the time without the usual music documentary guardrails. At its heart is the One to One concert that the couple...

Culture

29 h. ago Britain can retaliate or negotiate with Trump – but there is no way we can win at this game | Gaby Hinsliff

Starmer will try to calm the situation and focus on May’s local elections, but one thing is clear: our ties with Europe are more crucial than everNobody wins a trade war. You can lose it by greater or lesser degrees: you may be one of the luckier casualties. But that’s about as good as it gets. So, while there will have been initial relief in Downing Street on Wednesday night, a feeling even that Keir Starmer’s placating of Donald Trump looks vindicated, what followed was no victory lap.How could it be, after that grotesquely swaggering show trial the president staged in the White House garden, all the better to jazz up an economic assault on what were once his country’s allies? Come on down, Britain, escaping with just the minimum 10% tariff on its exports to the US and no drive-by insults! Better than Taiwan (32% plus a lecture about how the US used to build all the semiconductors once), Vietnam (“They like me, I like them” but still a brutal 46%), the EU (“very very tough traders...

Politics

30 h. ago UK rocked by 57th earthquake of the year as seismic activity ramps up across country

Experts from the British Geological Society has recorded another earthquake in the United Kingdom, which would be the 57th to strike the country since the start of 2025

Politics

31 h. ago The new high society 'superclub' where Meghan Markle is banned... from the founders of noughties nightspot Boujis, famed for Royal hedonism

Boujis 3.0 aka Gallery has opened its doors in Kensington, with the same quartet of entrepreneurs behind it. But there's one name apparently not on the royal guest list.

Politics

33 h. ago Russian state media falls for April Fool's joke claiming Britain will build aircraft carrier called HMS Prince Andrew which can carry 'infinity' jets

Russian channel RT ran the article headlined 'Britain to expand navy due to Russian "threat", following a satirical report by an online military news site.

Politics

33 h. ago Plan for Norfolk megafarm rejected by councillors over environmental concerns

Application, submitted by Cranswick, would have created one of the largest industrial poultry and pig units in EuropeA megafarm that would have reared almost 900,000 chickens and pigs at any one time has been blocked by councillors in Norfolk over climate change and environmental concerns.Councillors on King’s Lynn and West Norfolk borough council unanimously rejected an application to build what would have been one of the largest industrial poultry and pig units in Europe. Continue reading...

Politics

35 h. ago How The Lady became Tinder for toffs: As historic magazine faces closure, its saucy personal ads are still thriving

There's no holding back in the personal ads on troubled high society mag The Lady's classified section, the content of which could inspire a season of Netflix's Rivals.

Politics

36 h. ago How Afrofuturism can help us imagine futures worth living in | Lonny Avi Brooks and Reynaldo Anderson

Afrofuturism knows that futures are made – and that who gets to make them is a political questionThe digital age sings a seductive song of progress, yet a deliberate erasure echoes within its circuits. We stand at a crossroads, where technology, particularly the promise of artificial intelligence, threatens both to illuminate and to obliterate.Whose perspectives will shape, and whose will be erased from, the future we build? AI, in particular, has become the latest battleground in a culture war that oscillates between unchecked techno-optimism and dystopian fear. We are told, on one hand, that AI will save us – from disease, inefficiency, ignorance – on the other, that it will replace us, dominate us, erase us.Lonny Avi Brooks is Professor and Chair of Communication at Cal State East Bay, co-founder of the AfroRithm Futures Group, and co-creator of AfroRithms From The Future, a visionary storytelling game that imagines liberated futures through Black, Indigenous, and Queer perspecti...

Politics

37 h. ago An expert trainer says these are the three best exercises for longevity, helping you ‘live better for longer’

A personal trainer tells Harry Bullmore how you can easily build a fit and functional body, improve your posture and enhance metabolic function

Politics

37 h. ago Grand Designs viewers rage over 'tone deaf' couple with £900k build who complain of money fears yet spend a fortune on kitchen... even host Kevin called it 'suspicious'

In last night's episode of the Channel 4 show, HR director Sarah and technology director Pip were faced with the mammoth task of transforming an old barn in Bedfordshire.

Economics