3 d. ago Bored mums in clothes shops of the world unite! Together we could be unstoppable | Zoe Williams

We lock eyes while shepherding unruly, ungrateful teens in and out of changing rooms but don’t speak a word. This needs to changeIf there is a solidarity on Earth tighter than “bored middle-aged mothers in a clothes shop”, I don’t know what it is. Whether in Primark, Urban Outfitters or H&M, the crowd is always the same: some teens are in gangs and they are having a fine old time; others, sometimes in sibling pairs, are with their mum, presumably because they have yet to find a way to detach her from her credit card. It’s like that bit in an action movie where you need a guy’s fingerprint to open a vault, so you cut off his arm, except, regrettably, in this case, they have to take the entire body.Some of us are too hot; others are too embarrassing to be believed and have been told that multiple times between each clothes rack. But the main thing we have in common is that we are all incredibly bored. It’s one of those things about youth that I don’t miss at all, along with p...

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4 d. ago Civil servants begin industrial action over work from home ban and closures of London offices

Civil servants working for Angela Rayner start industrial action over moving of Government offices away from capital and lack of flexible working

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4 d. ago John Travolta shocks fan dressed as Danny Zuko in surprise Grease concert

Watch as John Travolta made a surprise appearance at a Grease sing-a-long event dressed as Danny Zuko.

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5 d. ago How do we resist and rise? We have to believe the impossible is possible | V (Formerly Eve Ensler)

Every action matters now. Every effort small or large counts. And moving, movement is the essential key to dispelling despairIn this authoritarian and suffocating climate where being an American feels like a curse, where just breathing here feels like complicity with genocide, psychotic imperialism, misogyny and endless racism, it is hard to move, let alone imagine what one can do to transform this horror to good.Every day people are kidnapped by masked men in unmarked cars, taken to hidden sites and left in deplorable conditions; starving people in Gaza are slaughtered as they clamor for a bag of flour; public officials and leaders humiliated and murdered; the T erased from LGBT; brain-dead women forced to give birth; the glib language of hate and cruelty and easy thoughtless threats of world war, assassination, and dehumanization circling like invisible poison. What feels most perilous is the steady evaporation of the boundaries of what seemed impossible only a few weeks ago. Mora...

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1 week ago Alleged murderer John Belfield tells trial he was watching Finding Nemo when Thomas Campbell was killed

Mr Campbell was found naked apart from a pair of socks after being 'tortured to death'. John Belfield denies murder and is on trial at Manchester Crown Court.

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2 w. ago Irate Rangers warn Scottish FA they will be 'watched closely' as John Brown punishment revealed

Ibrox club fined for comments made by former player

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This gory revenge thriller is already growing a passionate cult following

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2 w. ago Disney+ fans rave 'this is what streaming is for' as 'immaculately crafted' new action movie debuts with epic 97% Rotten Tomatoes score

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3 w. ago John Terry 'proud' of full kit w***** label after Chelsea's Champions League win

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3 w. ago ‘I’m not The Rock, right?’ Julianne Moore on action movies, appropriate parenting and twinning with Tilda Swinton

Ahead of her new film – in which she fights, dives and wrangles horses – the Oscar-winning actor discusses sunburn, age-gaps and hanging from helicoptersJulianne Moore has played some right mothers in her time. There was Amber Waves in Boogie Nights, whose pornography career and cocaine addiction costs her access to her child. Or Maude, the outre artist – “My work has been commended as being strongly vaginal” – whose determination to conceive drives much of in The Big Lebowski. Moore was the infernal, domineering mother – the Piper Laurie role – in the 2013 remake of Carrie, and a lesbian cheating on her partner with the sperm donor who fathered their children in The Kids Are All Right. In May December, the most recent of the five pictures she has made with her artistic soulmate, the director Todd Haynes, she became pregnant by a 13-year-old boy, then married and raised a family with him after her release from prison. Shocking, perhaps, but then she had already played a socialite wi...

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3 w. ago John Swinney watched Air India plane crash with 'absolute horror' as Scots urged to call Foreign Office

John Swinney has spoken about the Air India crash that has appeared to kill all 242 people on board.

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3 w. ago Orlando Bloom is a surprise Oasis fan and channels Liam Gallagher in new British action movie

Orlando Bloom has a Manc accent in an upcoming action movie

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4 w. ago 'I don't like action movies and I've never watched a John Wick film

This is not the film for smaller nuances. This Len Wiseman directorial is after the big punches and Ana de Armas delivers them — one flying kick at a time.

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