38 h. ago Martinelli welcomes competition for places as Arsenal’s squad depth fuels belief

Arsenal substitutes have scored in five consecutive games and a sense of purpose is growing in Arteta’s sideGabriel Martinelli started the sequence when he came off the bench to open the scoring in Arsenal’s 2-0 Champions League win at Athletic Bilbao last month. He continued it when he came on again in their next game to conjure the stoppage-time equaliser against Manchester City in the Premier League. And together with everyone at Arsenal, not least Mikel Arteta, who has not stopped talking about the importance of “finishers”, he can luxuriate in how it has grown.When Bukayo Saka was introduced to score the clinching goal in Wednesday’s 2-0 Champions League victory over Olympiakos, it was the fifth match in a row that an Arsenal substitute had found the net. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Nottingham paper takes legal action over Reform council’s ban on reporters

Publisher says stopping it from talking to Nottinghamshire council’s leader is breach of the right to free expressionA local paper whose journalists have been ostracised by a Reform UK council is taking legal action, arguing the move is a breach of its right to free expression.The Nottingham Post, and its online site Nottinghamshire Live, has been barred from speaking to the council’s leader and removed from media mailing lists by the Reform-led Nottinghamshire county council. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago 'I got petty revenge after teenage passenger kicked me for 9

A man was left fuming after he was kicked and jostled by an 'entitled' teenager who removed her shoes and didn't stop talking throughout the entire flight

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3 d. ago Aldi shoppers can't stop talking about new 'sensational' £2.99 chocolates

Customers love the supermarket's 'delicious' new snack that comes in two flavours

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9 d. ago Trump DOJ risks losing death penalty for Luigi Mangione if officials don’t stop talking about his ‘guilt’: judge

Federal judge said they would consider recent comments from DOJ employees while weighing whether to remove the death penalty

Events

1 week ago ‘Guess what?’ Macron phones Trump after US president’s motorcade blocks his car

Bemused French president forced to take unscheduled 30-minute trek through the streets of New YorkEmmanuel Macron had to walk half an hour by foot through New York after his speech to the United Nations on recognising Palestine as a state.Video footage shows him getting out of his car to talk to police officers after they stop his vehicle to make way for the expected arrival of the motorcade of Donald Trump, the US president. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Coronation Street feud as Ken Barlow actor stopped talking to co

Coronation Street legend William Roache said he had a feud with a co-star which lasted for two years before they made up

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1 week ago As the UK talks up its global vision in New York, Trump abandons the UN

As the UK tries to stop the global talking shop being drowned out by US self interest, it becomes clear how far Donald Trump is from a shared vision, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley in New York

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1 week ago ‘We’re exhausted – but not from doing too much’: can this woman help us survive the age of distraction?

With three jobs, three children and a labradoodle, the behavioural scientist Zelana Montminy knows a lot about being pulled in all directions. What can her new book about finding focus teach the rest of us?Zelana Montminy once had a client who, when he finally looked up from his phone, found love. He was so absorbed in – or distracted by – his work that in his sessions with Montminy, he would often stop talking mid-sentence to check his phone. Montminy asked him to walk outside with her, and to put his phone in his pocket. His eyes darted around uneasily at the people on the busy sidewalk “as if he wasn’t sure what to make of the world”. But after this, while he waited at a crossing one morning, he said hello to the woman beside him. “Finally,” the woman said. “I’ve stood in this spot for two months and you’ve never looked up.”The anecdote serves Montminy’s purpose so well. She could have made it up, but she insists that not only did it happen, but her client and his fellow pedestri...

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1 week ago Marks & Spencer shoppers can't stop talking about new novelty Christmas baubles

M&S shoppers are obsessed with its new novelty Christmas baubles, from foodie favourites to quirky designs they're already a festive season must-have

Politics

1 week ago The students who debated with Charlie Kirk: ‘His goal was to verbally defeat us’

Young liberals challenged Kirk’s conservative views on the viral YouTube series Surrounded - an ‘unnerving’ spectacle, according to a rhetoric expertIn the days after his killing, Charlie Kirk was remembered by his allies as a great debater. A quote taken from a widely shared video of Kirk discussing his life’s work – “when people stop talking, that’s when violence happens” – emblematized such eulogies.Kirk toured American college campuses with his rightwing non-profit Turning Point USA, where he would set up a tent, table and microphone, and debate with undergrads. The goal, he said, was to “save western civilization”, and remembrances after his death positioned him as a budding statesman – a conservative hero who strode across the political divide for the sake of open dialogue. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dog expert explains 'frustrating' night habit and when to worry about your pet

If you're a dog owner, you'll know the sound of your pet grooming themselves in the middle of the night all too well - but why do they do it and is there any way to stop them?

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2 w. ago 'Outstanding' Western is so gripping Netflix viewers are watching it again and again

A film has been dubbed a "must watch" that is deemed tense and "quietly haunting", and people can't stop talking about how good it is. The "outstanding" Western is on Netflix now

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2 w. ago ‘We’re insanely hubristic’: how The Rest Is History became the world’s biggest history podcast

Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook on storytelling, their strangest interactions with fans and bonding over The Lord of the RingsHow does one measure success? For Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, the historians behind the hit podcast The Rest Is History, it could be the number of unexpected and overly familiar conversations with strangers. On a holiday high up in the mountains of Bulgaria, Holland was wandering around a secluded monastery when someone called out, “Love the podcast!”Sandbrook, meanwhile, is used to getting weird looks from fans who find it hard to compute that the man in front of them is one half of the soundtrack to their dog walks and commutes. “The weirdest thing that people say – which I’ve heard more than once – is, ‘My wife and I listen to you in bed every night,’” he says, looking mildly appalled. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Stop talking about wealth taxes — make these reforms instead

Any sane discussion of changes that both right and left could agree on is being crowded out by tax populism

Economics

3 w. ago Starmer fancies himself a leader among leaders – but his tough talk on defence is just expensive bluster | Simon Jenkins

With the world in crisis, the PM is spending billions to back his posturing. But he has no clout over Gaza or Ukraine, and it’s time he acted accordinglyEach night we wonder where we are. We sit in comfort watching death and destruction fall on thousands in Gaza and Ukraine. Each night we see buildings exploding, people screaming and children starving. Statesmen stand around and deplore. There is anxious talk of what next – another 9/11 perhaps, or a Cuba 1962? Or is it, as some say, a 1939 or 1914 moment? As for the one man with notional power over the world, Donald Trump, his pledge of an end to wars has proved futile – and a bonanza for defence industries everywhere.Whenever someone cries that something must be done, I always ask by whom? Day after day, Britain’s Keir Starmer – when he isn’t battling domestic crises and scandals – rises in the Commons to announce that he is working towards a ceasefire. But he is not. He is talking about working. If Trump cannot stop the killing –...

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3 w. ago NIGEL FARAGE: The Left tried to silence my friend Charlie Kirk with wild slanders. Did they create the febrile atmosphere where someone thought it was legitimate to stop him talking for good?

The murder of my friend Charlie Kirk was a very dark day for American democracy. And a dark day too for the cause of free speech in the US and the West, which has lost one of its champions.

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3 w. ago Boreholes leaking methane? Not as funny as it sounds | First Dog on the Moon

It is in fact actually quite dangerousSign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are publishedGet all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action

Replacements help Gunners down newcomers, Vignola strikes three and Koga is backed to be ‘one of the best’Sonia Bompastor, the Chelsea manager, expressed her frustration at what she perceived to be a deliberate tactical timeout orchestrated by Manchester City during the first half of Friday’s season-opener. While the City goalkeeper Ayaka Yamashita was down receiving treatment, head coach Andrée Jeglertz used his tactics board to show instructions to his players. Bompastor could be seen remonstrating with the officials at the time and, after the game, she said: “For me, that’s not fair. It’s not in the rules. I mentioned that last season as well, with all the goalkeepers going down just for the coach to have a tactical stoppage to talk to the players. I’m not saying I will never use that, because I know that it can be part of a strategy, but tonight it was too much. It was a long break, it was obvious for everyone, they had the board and everything.” Tom GarryMatch report: Chelsea 2...

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3 w. ago 'I said my sister's baby's name sounds like a dog and she stopped talking to me'

A woman was branded the "villain" for brutally honest feedback on the name her sister chose for her newborn after mistaking it for a joke

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