73 m. ago Alan Shearer tears into VAR with Man United rant after Everton penalty controversy

Everton had a 94th-minute penalty overturned against Manchester United after VAR deemed Harry Maguire had not fouled Ashley Young and recommended an on-field review.

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2 h. ago Can a brown Hindu be English? English people say yes. Why do so many on the right say no? | Kenan Malik

An argument about Rishi Sunak’s identity reveals how ideas of ethnicity and race have become conflated‘They think they’re English because they’re born here. That means if a dog’s born in a stable it’s a horse.” That was a staple of the comedian Bernard Manning’s routine back in the 1970s. Enoch Powell had, a decade earlier, expressed the same sentiment in more refined language: “The West Indian or Asian does not, by being born in England, become an Englishman. In law he becomes a United Kingdom citizen by birth; in fact he is a West Indian or an Asian still.”Few today would laugh along with Manning or take seriously the claim that only white people can be English. Britain has transformed over the past half-century and most English people now embrace Ian Wright and Idris Elba as being as English as David Beckham or Joanna Lumley. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Waste Wars by Alexander Clapp review – the filthy truth about trash

A globe-spanning study of the waste industry reveals how wealthy nations dump their garbage on the poor while the rate at which we produce near-indestructible rubbish only increasesYou know the drill: plastic and glass containers go in the blue recycling bin, paper and cardboard in the blue sack, vegetable matter in the green compost bin, and the rest in the grey general rubbish bin. Households up and down the land go through variations of these familiar refuse-sorting tasks each week. But where does it actually all go?Into the trucks that pick them up, yes, but after that? It’s a kind of act of faith that we imagine our detritus that we’ve carefully – or not so carefully – categorised is transported to the right location where appropriate measures are taken to dispose of it in the most sensible and ecological manner. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This by Omar El Akkad review – Gaza and the sound of silence

This powerful new book examines the moral contradictions of the west and asks what liberal values mean in the face of such brutal and sustained obliteration of human lifeLike many people, I have followed the unrelenting horror that has unfolded in Gaza since the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on 7 October 2023 mainly through the medium of social media. The Instagram reels of citizen journalists on the ground have become for me and countless others the most powerful testimony to the slaughter, destruction and trauma visited on the already beleaguered Palestinian population. Recorded at great risk, they are often heartbreaking and enraging: so many dead infants; so many maimed and traumatised children; so many obliterated families and communities.Some of these witnesses have achieved heroic status among their millions of followers, the likes of Motaz Azaiza, a photojournalist who was evacuated to Qatar after 108 days covering the carnage at close hand; Wael Al-Dahdouh, the Al Jazeer...

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4 h. ago Tate McRae: ‘I find the Britney Spears comparisons so flattering and scary’

As the 21-year-old Canadian pop star releases her third album ‘So Close To What’, she speaks to Ellie Muir about fame, toxic relationships and making music with her rapper boyfriend Kid Laroi

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4 h. ago Rangers nuclear option is GOOD for Celtic and I know the first thing they must do if takeover happens – Hugh Keevins

Shug well remembers the days of David Murray spending tenners for every fiver and welcomes fresh investment from fresh faces

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6 h. ago PIP overhaul could strip financial aid from thousands with chronic conditions

A Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) review is reportedly underway for 87 conditions, including chronic pain, mobility issues, and musculoskeletal disorders, sparking widespread concern

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7 h. ago Man Utd news: Ruben Amorim reacts to VAR controversy vs Everton after 'wrong angle' claim

Manchester United received a late let-off during their Premier League draw with Everton after David Moyes' side saw a late penalty overturned following a VAR check

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10 h. ago Scorpions by Tuppence Middleton: I have to take photos of my taps before I leave the house...

Why? Because that's the only way Downton Abbey actress Tuppence Middleton - who suffers from crippling OCD - can be sure they're turned off.

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10 h. ago Picnic on Craggy Island by Lissa Evans: How Graham Norton Riverdanced his way into Father Ted

This behind the scenes look from the producer of seasons 2 and 3 of Father Ted is the perfect book for any fan.

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10 h. ago UK to unveil raft of new sanctions to 'turn the screws' on Russia over Ukraine

Foreign Secretary David Lammy will set out the sanctions on Monday to coincide with the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine

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10 h. ago UK to unveil new Russia sanctions to mark three years of Ukraine war

The US has started negotiations on ending the conflict with Russia, but excluded Kyiv from the talks.

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10 h. ago Nuno Espirito Santo tips Nottingham Forest star for first England call

Elliot Anderson returns to Newcastle on Sunday and Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo believes the ex-Magpies midfielder should be in Thomas Tuchel's thoughts

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12 h. ago Dope Girls review – the dodgy accents could give Peaky Blinders a run for its money

This fun, gory tale of women trying to set up a nightclub in the 1918 Soho underworld is lively – even if it tries to cram too much in. Shame about the ropey vocal affectations The Peaky Blinders comparisons have been flying around ever since filming on Dope Girls began, so it sounds as if the BBC was hoping that it might have a successor on its hands. Certainly, there are some superficial similarities between the two. Dope Girls is set in 1918 and deals with the aftermath of the first world war, as the surviving men return. But here, it’s the women who are in the spotlight, as the female workforce of the past four years suddenly find their newfound social status has been relegated once again. In mood and tone, however, it is less a return to Small Heath, and more of a predecessor to Cabaret.Kate Galloway (Julianne Nicholson) is a businessman’s wife and wartime butcher, who falls on hard times after a family tragedy. Destitute and homeless, she heads to London, where Armistice Day i...

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12 h. ago Two contestants receive the golden buzzer as Britain’s Got Talent returns to ITV

The show also took a gruesome turn when horror-themed act Auzzy Blood began to insert a number of metal items into his face.

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16 h. ago Writer David Szalay: ‘We live in an era of short attention spans – we have to work with it the best we can’

The Hungarian-English author on addressing what it’s like to be a male body in the world, learning the tricks of literature from Frederick Forsyth, and the feeling of nearly winning the BookerDavid Szalay, 51, grew up in London and now lives in Vienna with his wife, having previously moved in 2009 to Hungary, his father’s birthplace. In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Booker prize with his fourth novel, All That Man Is, nine separate stories “self-assembled in the reader’s mind into a sort of collage-novel” (London Review of Books). His new novel, Flesh, follows the fluctuating fortunes of a young Hungarian ex-convict who makes his life in the UK after serving in Iraq.Tell us how Flesh came to be. I decided to abandon a book I’d started in 2017. It just wasn’t working, so it felt like a weight off my shoulders; nevertheless, I was under contract and had to come up with something. Literally nothing in Flesh is directly autobiographical, but it started with my underlying experience of...

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16 h. ago Hibs show Bayern Munich how it's done as Celtic knocked off their perch

Campbell at double as Hibs claim Champions League scalp

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16 h. ago David Moyes doesn't hold back on VAR after Everton controversially denied Man Utd win

Everton thought they had a chance to claim a last-gasp victory against Manchester United from the penalty spot, only for a VAR overturn to deny David Moyes' team

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17 h. ago Brennan Johnson at the double as Tottenham’s winning run continues

Djed Spence continued his fine form to help Spurs to a third consecutive Premier League victory.

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17 h. ago West Ham’s Jarrod Bowen delivers major blow to Arsenal’s title hopes

So it turns out Arsenal should have signed a striker. Fourteen months after they last put a major dent in Arsenal’s title aspirations, a goal from Jarrod Bowen secured West Ham’s second successive Premier League away win over their north London rivals as Mikel Arteta’s side saw their hopes of maintaining the pressure on leaders Liverpool evaporate.To compound Arteta’s misery, substitute Myles Lewis-Skelly was shown a straight red card in the second half as Arsenal – who had toiled with Mikel Merino again filling in as a makeshift attacker – struggled to find an equaliser against a defence that would have done Graham Potter’s predecessor, David Moyes, proud. Yet while this was a welcome triumph for Potter, it also laid bare the deficiencies in Arsenal’s squad caused by so many injuries to forward players that has made their task of overhauling Arne Slot’s side almost impossible. A first defeat in 15 games – a run that had stretched back to the start of November – almost leaves them n...

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