5 h. ago Gen Z aren't lazy, they're masters of 'justified effort management', says Oxford professor

Katrien Devolder, a professor of applied ethics, said that many older people are workaholics and Gen Z instead chooses to make 'strategic choices about their energy'.

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7 h. ago Arsenal: Andrea Berta’s main transfer priority is clear as Gunners prepare for seismic summer

Mikel Arteta needs a top-class striker and Berta must deliver in a way that the club failed to last summer

Sport

9 h. ago Everything you need to know about the potential pedestrianisation of Oxford Street

London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan wants to make Oxford Street ‘a world-class, accessible, clean avenue’

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9 h. ago Grand National booze prices listed in full as punters to fork out £7.80 for pint

Here's how much a pint or a glass of wine will cost punters today as thousands head to Aintree to enjoy three days of top class racing – from Guinness to Jack Daniels and everything in between

Economics

10 h. ago Yes, I have just done a naked forward roll. But there was a good reason | Adrian Chiles

There I was, lying in bed and worrying I’d lost a basic life skill. Can you blame me for putting it to the test?When I was in the first year at middle school, in Miss Hale’s class, my parents returned from a parents’ evening looking disappointed. My nine-year-old self picked up on this. It wasn’t my schoolwork: that was OK. It was that the teacher had revealed that in PE I was the only one in the class who couldn’t do a forward roll.This was true. It wasn’t that I was physically incapable – I was in the school football team and, without wishing to boast, probably the ninth-quickest runner. I just had this mental block. I couldn’t bring myself to do it. The idea of the world momentarily going upside down was too much for me. The prospect of such disorientation was unbearable. If only Miss Hale had taken me to one side and said: “Look, you’re overthinking this – and, believe you me, if you let it, overthinking will blight your life.” But she didn’t, because teachers didn’t talk like t...

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13 h. ago Carl Hooper’s life in sport: from West Indies to Australia via county cricket

The West Indies batter on his effortless style, playing with his idols and how leadership brought out the best in himBy Wisden Cricket MonthlyBorn in Georgetown, Guyana, Carl Hooper, 58, played 102 Test matches for the West Indies between 1987 and 2003, scoring nearly 6,000 runs, taking 114 wickets with his wily off-spin and captaining the side in 22 of those appearances. Known as one of the most stylish, if not necessarily most consistent, batters of the era, he also played 227 ODIs and had five prolific seasons with Kent, making 22 first-class centuries in 85 matches for the club.Hooper returned to the county game with Lancashire in 2003 and is one of only three players to have scored a first-class century against all 18 first-class counties. “He was so talented, yet he didn’t understand just how good he was,” wrote Brian Lara of his former teammate. “People would ask why he didn’t do full justice to his brilliance, and you know what, there is no clear reason for it.” Continue rea...

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13 h. ago The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovits review – a quietly brilliant midlife roadtrip

Once your kids are at university, what’s next for you? This compelling depiction of life at a crossroads is a male counterpart to Miranda July’s All FoursBen Markovits’s quietly excellent new novel begins with the most mundane of middle-class crises. The book’s narrator, 55-year-old law professor Tom Layward, is taking his youngest child to university. For Tom and his wife Amy, the major tasks of parenting are about to vanish in the rear view mirror. The question is: what’s next?It’s a moment of change and re-evaluation for any couple. But within Tom and Amy’s marriage an unexploded bomb is ticking. Tom tells us in the first paragraph that, 12 years earlier, Amy had an affair. He managed his heartbreak by making a deal with himself that he would leave when his youngest went to college. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago I met my dream man at yoga class...but his wife 'BEHEADED' him when she found out

The yoga teacher girlfriend of murdered Green Beret Clint Bonnell tells DailyMail.com about their doomed relationship - and the ominous warning signs in the days leading up to his horror death.

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27 h. ago Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh, 18, debuts new look at dance class after years of tomboy style

Shiloh Jolie debuted a fresh new hairstyle while attending a dance class in Los Angeles on Tuesday, showcasing a softer look. The adorable teenager is famous for her tomboy aesthetic.

Culture

29 h. ago Oxford Street pedestrianisation could shake investor confidence and cause crime spike, City Hall warned

Plan to remove motor traffic from ‘nation’s high street’ seen as ‘enormously contentious’ by local residents, Soho Society argues

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30 h. ago Major brand announces new flagship store in Oxford Street to open this autumn

The global brand will welcome shoppers to the new 24,000 sq ft space in the former Gap store at 376-384 Oxford Street located near Bond Street station in London's West End.

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30 h. ago Oxford Street would be 'extremely unpleasant' if cyclists were allowed in pedestrianised area

But cyclists could be allowed to ride through the street ‘out of hours’

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33 h. ago Grand National's wildest fights – champagne bottle cracked over head to baring

The Grand National is a chance for top-class racing – but the excitement is not only set for the course, with some wild brawls having taken place throughout the years

Sport

33 h. ago Dance studio plan is announced for former Chinese restaurant in Ayr

According to the applicant the proposal seeks a change of use for 38 North Harbour Street, Ayr, from a restaurant (Class 3) to a dance studio (Class 11).

Politics

34 h. ago Mr Burton review – the teacher who inspired and encouraged screen legend Richard Burton

Toby Jones plays the spaniel-eyed schoolmaster setting Harry Lawtey’s needy young pupil on course for haughty international stardomThe career of Richard Burton seemed mythic at the time, and more so in retrospect. In Pedro Almodóvar’s latest movie The Room Next Door, Julianne Moore’s character is even shown reading Erotic Vagrancy, Roger Lewis’s account of Burton’s then-adulterous relationship with Elizabeth Taylor in the early 60s, the title taken from Pope John XXIII’s extraordinary denunciation: “You will finish in an erotic vagrancy, without end or without a safe port.” In fact, the nearest thing Burton ever had to a safe port was his inspirational English teacher Philip Burton in Port Talbot, south Wales, whose own frustrated dreams of the theatre were poured into the bright young miner’s son Richard Jenkins, coaching him in acting and even making him his legal ward and getting him to change his surname to Burton to facilitate the teacher’s sponsorship of his Oxford scholarship...

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34 h. ago OnlyFans hit with class action lawsuit from two men who say they weren’t talking to models

M. Brunner and J. Fry of Illinois say creators they subscribed to were employing agencies to “impersonate” models

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40 h. ago My life in class limbo: am I working class or insufferably bourgeois?

I have two degrees, two books to my name and I write for the Guardian. Yet I spent time in care, live at home and struggle for money. Can Karl Marx help me make sense of myself?I have been obsessed with and confused by social class all my life. Both of my grandparents grew up in Liverpool in the 1930s in traditionally working-class households. They were clever and conscientious and managed to earn scholarships to university, eventually becoming teachers. My parents have university degrees and own property; one of them is now a judge. To most people, all these things place me squarely and categorically in the middle class. But I was in special educational schools from the age of nine, spent part of my childhood in care, left education altogether at 14 and collected the dole until getting my first job in a cotton mill. All these things make me a dyed-in-the-wool prole.And yet I have two degrees, I have written two books and I freelance for the Guardian – you can’t get m...

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51 h. ago Puma to open huge new West End flagship on Oxford Street this Autumn

Puma’s move follows announcements from Ikea and Mango about major launches this year

Politics

52 h. ago We’ve driven the new Tesla Model Y – is this the return of the EV king?

The new Tesla Model Y rights the wrongs of its predecessor to send it to the top of the class – it’s now the EV SUV everyone must beat

Politics

56 h. ago A tower topped with a pangolin! The Oxford university building inspired by Tolkien and the pandemic

A chubby, rhubarb and custard-coloured tower bedecked with anteaters and moles make a fun neighbour to the city’s dreaming spires. It’s left some locals lost for wordsA carved stone pangolin clings to the top of the tower, its scaly tail curled into the crevice of a cornice, as if holding on for dear life. It crowns an arresting arrival to Oxford, the city of dreaming spires, the anteater taking its place on this skyline of slender steeples and gurning gargoyles, up there at the summit of the newest – and strangest – spire of them all.“I was thinking, ‘How do you mark Covid in a building?’” says David Kohn, architect of this curious addition to the campus of New College. “We were developing the designs in the middle of the pandemic, when pangolins had been in the limelight for all the wrong reasons.” Continue reading...

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