5 h. ago Chelsea’s crash tackle king exposes Tottenham’s confused mess of a team | Barney Ronay

Spurs resemble a pile of sticks leaning against a wall with the rampaging Moisés Caicedo happy to dismantle themSitting through this tightly stitched but still oddly shapeless game of football, you kept thinking: what does this remind me of? The trapped energy, the collisions. The sense of something always but never really happening.Oh yes. Watching the full 90 minutes of Chelsea’s narrow but still comfortable 1-0 defeat of Tottenham was like staring at one of those hypnotic drunken city centre brawls that appear on social media from time to time, where nothing ever really seems to start or stop, where the whole things is just a kind of tortured flailing, but one that must also be pored over endlessly in the comments. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Tottenham’s confused mess of a team exposed by Chelsea’s crash tackle king | Barney Ronay

Spurs resemble a pile of sticks leaning against a wall with the rampaging Moisés Caicedo happy to dismantle themSitting through this tightly stitched but still oddly shapeless game of football, you kept thinking: what does this remind me of? The trapped energy, the collisions. The sense of something always but never really happening.Oh yes. Watching the full 90 minutes of Chelsea’s narrow but still comfortable 1-0 defeat of Tottenham was like staring at one of those hypnotic drunken city centre brawls that appear on social media from time to time, where nothing ever really seems to start or stop, where the whole things is just a kind of tortured flailing, but one that must also be pored over endlessly in the comments. Continue reading...

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13 h. ago Schools spend £540MILLION a year to help children who don't speak English as mother tongue

Department for Education (DfE) figures for the current school year show costs have risen by £125m in just five years - up from £415m in 2020.

Economics

14 h. ago ‘You’re either poor or rich’: the Argentinians struggling under Milei’s chainsaw austerity

Despite falling inflation, a majority are failing to make ends meet as wages and purchasing power have nosedivedFrancisco Jiménez spends at least eight hours a day, seven days a week, riding through the streets of Buenos Aires as a delivery app rider, yet he still struggles to make ends meet.Next month, the 32-year-old will have to leave his rented house on the outskirts of Argentina’s capital and move with his wife and three children into his mother-in-law’s flat because he can no longer afford the rent. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago How this peddler of 'pseudoscience' convinced family courts to wrench children from their mothers: We expose 'confusing CV', eye

The last time Erin saw her youngest child, was six years ago... Her fate, in the Family Court, hinged on a psychologist named Melanie Gill.

Society

20 h. ago Unregulated sperm donor still advertising services despite court warnings to women

Exclusive: Behaviour of Robert Albon, or ‘Joe Donor’, described as compulsive by judge who said he targeted vulnerable womenA prolific unregulated donor is still attempting to sell his sperm despite warnings from two family court judges, a Guardian investigation has found.Robert Albon, who calls himself “Joe Donor”, has appealed to the courts to gain access to at least four of his biological children against their mothers’ wishes. In a rare move, a judge named him in 2023 to warn women of the risks of using his services, which he promotes on social media. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Researchers say Covid infection during pregnancy is tied to autism — but they aren’t yet sure why

Roughly 16 percent of the 861 children whose mothers had Covid during their pregnancy received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis

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63 h. ago Lanarkshire councils team up to support fundraiser to help kids in Ukraine

A dedicated team from UNISON North Lanarkshire is coordinating the transportation of surplus specialist children’s gym equipment from the Aquatec facility in Motherwell to the Aquarena Sport Complex in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

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3 d. ago Amanda Owen shuts down ex Clive Owen probe as she states 'I'm not going with him'

Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen opened up on being a mother of nine children and living with her ex-husband Clive Owen during her recent appearance on Loose Women

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3 d. ago ‘No more children are going to die like you’: how Sheffield mother kept her promise to boys killed by father 11 years ago

Claire Throssell has been central to the campaign to repeal parental contact laws following the deaths of her two sons at the hands of their father in 2014When Claire Throssell held her dying son Jack in her arms, she made him a promise: that no more children would die in the circumstances he had – at the hands of a violent parent, on a court-ordered unsupervised visit.Jack and Paul, then aged 12 and nine, were killed by their father 11 years ago, when he lured them into the attic with a new train set, barricaded the house shut and used Throssell’s possessions to set 14 separate fires. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Psychologist whose advice led to at least a dozen children being removed from their mothers has evidence thrown out in custody case

Melanie Gill describes herself as a 'highly specialised' expert who has been paid tens of thousands of pounds to give evidence in family court disputes..

Politics

8 d. ago Meghan Markle finally reveals why she always goes barefoot to greet guests

Montecito-based Meghan has even managed to convince her family members to follow in her footsteps, with the Duke of Sussex famously baring his 'dirty' soles in Lilibet's pregnancy announcement.

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8 d. ago ‘When I told him I’d secretly seen his films, his eyes filled with tears’: Isabella Rossellini remembers her father Roberto

The Italian director’s career was briefly derailed when his ‘scandalous’ affair with the Hollywood star Ingrid Bergman hit the headlines in the 1950s. Their daughter Isabella remembers a devoted parent and a brilliant film-makerIn June 1977, Roberto Rossellini died suddenly of a heart attack, home in Rome, less than a week after serving as jury president of the Cannes film festival. The director’s daughter Isabella – the fourth of his seven children – was then in her mid 20s. She remembers her mother, Ingrid Bergman, saying: “Dad left us quickly, just as quickly as he drove his Ferrari.”The story of Roberto’s last two decades is told in Living Without a Script, a new archive-based documentary, which premieres this week in Rome. While the film serves as a reminder of its subject’s status as one of the greats of world cinema – the key figure in postwar Italian neorealism – it also shows his life beyond movies. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Baby P’s mother tells parole hearing she would be ‘risk to children in her care’

Tracey Connelly’s public parole hearing is taking place on Wednesday and Thursday.

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1 week ago Mother spends $21,000 on lifelike baby dolls that look so real people stop her in the street

Mary Lee Beatson, 42, from South Carolina, parents and takes care of the lifelike creations, that aim to mimic the look and feel of real human babies, alongside four children of her own.

Economics

1 week ago Meet the mother who has saved dozens of children ravaged by war

A mother who has saved dozens of children ravaged by war in Bosnia and Gaza has been awarded a Pride of Britain Lifetime Achievement award for her three decades of work.

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2 w. ago Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice to make 'new move' over dad Prince Andrew

Princess Eugenie and Princess Beatrice are expected to support their father as he faces the latest scandal to rock the Royal Family, with insiders convinced they 'couldn't live with themselves'

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2 w. ago Families protest 'dangerous' A316 Twickenham roundabout after near miss involving mother and three children

The protest took place near the A316 at Margaret’s Roundabout in Twickenham, where a driver crashed through roadside barriers last year, narrowly missing family

Society

2 w. ago Putting a price tag on motherhood sends out the message: Don’t bother having kids

The Office for National Statistics has revealed that women in the UK lose about £65,000 from their earnings in the five years after the birth of their first child – and with three kids, it’s up to £100,000. It’s shocking, but we can’t reduce motherhood into a spreadsheet, says single mum of two, Charlotte Cripps

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2 w. ago ‘I wanted to write more than I wanted to have children’: author Sarah Perry on rejecting motherhood

When the novelist was faced with the decision of whether to pursue fertility treatment or focus on her career, her literary ambitions kicked inFifteen years ago, having said all my life that I never wanted a baby, that I couldn’t fathom why any free woman would do such a thing to her body and her mind, I suddenly and passionately wanted a child. I remember where I was when this feeling, so heretical to me, arrived: it was early morning in London, and having come down Fleet Street on my way to work, I was standing at the till of a newsagents to pay for a Diet Coke, a flapjack and a pack of Silk Cut. There were no children there and no pregnant women; nothing had been said or done to change my mind. It had simply landed on me, and more or less immediately – because I’ve never known how to control an impulse, and because I was 30, which seemed to me then a great age – my husband, Robert, and I set about trying to have a child.When for s...

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