40 m. ago Conservatives overwhelmingly back JD Vance for president in 2028, according to poll

It may be early days but Vice President J.D. Vance is the clear frontrunner for the 2028 Republican nomination, according to a straw poll of conservatives published on Saturday.

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64 m. ago The moment I knew: I thought I was too cool for love. My rock idol knew better | Trent Dalton

Trent Dalton had a crush on his sophisticated colleague Fiona. The lead singer of his favourite band helped him find the words to tell herFind more stories from The moment I knew series hereOn 10 January 2000 I started my first job in journalism at the Brisbane News. I was 20 years old, a starry-eyed rube from suburban Bracken Ridge who didn’t even know what a flat white was.On my first day my editor had the rest of the journos join us at a cafe to welcome me to the team. That’s when I met Fiona. Fi. She’d been out on assignment and arrived late; the only seat left was right next to me. She was so natural and warm in the way she chatted with me. What was just polite small talk felt to me like an enormous show of generosity; like a light shining on me. She also reminded me of my childhood screen crush Toni Pearen. I was instantly taken with her. Continue reading...

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64 m. ago Fatboy Slim: ‘I was in the same class as Keir Starmer – he’s one up on me now’

The electronic producer and DJ Norman Cook talks about learning the violin with Keir Starmer, his love for his label maker and crossing swords with MobyGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailYou did violin lessons with Keir Starmer when you were a child. Who was better at violin?I can’t actually remember the violin lessons. But I was in the same class at school as Keir for five years, so I remember him well. He must have been better at the violin than me, because I did it for about one term. My parents could take no more noise, so I would say Keir was better. It is quite weird when one day you see someone on the telly and go, “Oh look, it is Keir Starmer from 4B.” I think he’s one up on me by becoming prime minister.Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning Continue reading...

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79 m. ago Katie Price reveals 'early menopause' fears at 46 as she struggles with sleep

Katie Price revealed she is struggling to sleep and has been left covered in cold sweats, prompting her to worry she may be entering the menopause at 46.

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1 hour ago Tom Ford fans 'blown away' by £16 Lost Cherry alternative some argue 'is even better'

"One of my favourite perfumes I was given a bottle as a gift and since then it's all I wear I'm now on my 3rd bottle! I get so many compliments on it and it really does last all day! So happy!"

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2 h. ago Rangers fall to another lacklustre Ibrox defeat as St Mirren pull off shock

Rangers remain 13 points behind league leaders Celtic, who lost 2-1 at Hibernian earlier in the day

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2 h. ago Chris Riddell on Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump: the angels of peace descend on Ukraine – cartoon

The US president, on a Russian leash, holds talks that exclude the invaded countryYou can buy a copy of this cartoon Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Agonising final days of man who suffered most painful death ever after 'burning from the inside out'

After a horrific incident at a uranium processing plant, Hisashi Ouchi spent 83 hellish days in hospital, enduring what is widely believed to have been the most painful death on record

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2 h. ago Donald Trump trolled in 'Putin's puppet' banner as thousands support Ukraine in London march

Thousands of people marched on the Russian embassy in London on Saturday - and a person who attended the protest held a banner branding Donald Trump 'Putin's puppet'

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3 h. ago My boiler has broken and I’m finding solace in a slice (or several) of toast | Rachel Cooke

There are whole chapters in cookbooks dedicated to it and now an endless variety of new things to spread on top, including butters with a waiting listMy subject today is toast, which is much on my mind right now, a buttery ticker tape that calls me constantly to the kitchen. Our boiler has packed up, the new one won’t be installed for a week, and though it’s only the central heating that’s down (the cooker’s fine), the freezing cold has turned me into a toast monster. It’s all I want, a feeling I haven’t had since I was a student and living in a house that was so badly insulated, we sometimes had to break the ice on the water in the loo. How many loaves can a person get through in a week? Come back to me in a few days for an answer. I’ll give you a tour of my chilblains at the same time.What is amazing about toast is the way it has lately become so pimped. This started a few years ago: I first noticed it in Moro Easy by Sam and Sam Clark, a cookbook that came out in 2022 and whose o...

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3 h. ago From saviour to Judas How Trump’s pivot on Russia also endangers his own country | Simon Tisdall

With a Putin-appeasing president at the helm, it is clear the transatlantic alliance is collapsing and European leaders must plot their own courseHow do I betray thee? Let me count the ways Apologies to Elizabeth Barrett Browning for mangling her celebrated poem to reflect Donald Trump’s multiple Ukraine treacheries. This most perfidious of presidents surpassed himself last week, accusing Kyiv of invading itself three years ago . “You should have never started it. You could have made a deal,” he fatuously griped.Candidate Trump, touting a just peace, pledged to end the war in a day. Now he praises Vladimir Putin, claims Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is “a dictator” and backs a settlement on Moscow’s criminal, one-sided terms. This deranged collapse into craven capitulation, this transition from American saviour to American Judas, took less than a month. It’s contemptible. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Kendrick Lamar earns first UK number one with Drake diss track

The song was reportedly streamed more than six million times in the past seven days

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3 h. ago Alan Shearer agrees VAR used 'wrong angle' as controversial decision saves Man Utd

Match of the Day pundit Alan Shearer took to social media to offer his opinion after a late penalty in Everton's draw with Manchester United was overturned following a VAR intervention

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4 h. ago Ludovico Einaudi: ‘The way you blend the elements you eat is similar to composing a piece of music’

The pianist and composer talks about his passion for chillies, teas and saucepans, and cooking for his dad’s remarkable literary dinner partiesI live in Torino [Turin], a town where I grew up, where I was born. There’s a famous dish from there called bagna cauda. It’s a meeting of the garlic from the area of Piedmont, the mountains, with the anchovies coming from the sea in Liguria. It’s a very simple dish, a bit like a broth, perfect in winter, and you eat it with raw vegetables of the season. But there’s so much garlic in it that, when you eat it, you need a couple of days away from other people.There is a connection between how you eat and how you make music: the way you blend the elements that you eat, the colours, it’s similar to composing a piece of music. If I take my solo piano repertoire, I would associate it with a very simple food, with few elements and few colours, not overelaborate. If I think of a piece of mine with more instruments, more orchestral, I would ...

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4 h. ago Police 'increasingly concerned' for missing runner Jenny Hall who was last seen four days ago

Jenny Hall was last seen leaving her home in County Durham on Tuesday afternoon

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5 h. ago Police 'increasingly concerned' for missing runner as dashcam footage shows abandoned car

The search for missing runner Jenny Hall has entered its fourth day, with a major operation combing the wild countryside of County Durham.

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5 h. ago Thousands of marchers take to the streets of London to show solidarity with Ukraine at anti

Demonstrators were chanting 'stop Russia, stop the war' and 'Russia is a terrorist state', after marching to the embassy in Notting Hill on Saturday.

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5 h. ago Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan smile in defiant appearance after burglary horror

Mark Wright and his pregnant wife Michelle Keegan enjoyed a lunchtime date together, days after it was revealed the pair's lavish Essex mansion had been broken into

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5 h. ago Specialist drones used on fourth day of search for missing runner Jenny Hall

The 23-year-old was last seen leaving her home in Tow Law, County Durham, just after 3pm on Tuesday.

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6 h. ago The cheeky moment Kate Middleton was caught out by a lip reader at Prince William's passing

It was a day to remember for Prince William - and it was made even better as his then-girlfriend Kate Middleton had been invited to the passing-out parade at Sandhurst on December 15, 2006.

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