42 h. ago Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicityA few weeks after the Brexit referendum, a leave-voting friend of mine told me what the biggest benefit would be. “We will never hear about immigration again,” he said. If you give the people the control over the border they want, the logic went, then Brexit will finally dissolve immigration as an issue that politicians can exploit, and the country can crack on with all the other important stuff that needs doing. And, well, let’s just say that this prediction did not pan out on such a colossal level that no follow-up conversation has been necessary.Because that’s just not how the whole immigration thing works. The goalposts always move. Nothing clarifies that more than Nigel Farage getting everything he has said he ever wanted, the country heaving itself out of the EU and ending free movement, only for another boil to fester around the issue of immigration – and gue...

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42 h. ago Vote Brexit, stop the boats – the goalposts on immigration keep moving, and those who oppose it will never be appeased | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicityA few weeks after the Brexit referendum, a leave-voting friend of mine told me what the biggest benefit would be. “We will never hear about immigration again,” he said. If you give the people the control over the border they want, the logic went, then Brexit will finally dissolve immigration as an issue that politicians can exploit, and the country can crack on with all the other important stuff that needs doing. And, well, let’s just say that this prediction did not pan out on such a colossal level that no follow-up conversation has been necessary.Because that’s just not how the whole immigration thing works. The goalposts always move. Nothing clarifies that more than Nigel Farage getting everything he has said he ever wanted, the country heaving itself out of the EU and ending free movement, only for another boil to fester around the issue of immigration – and gue...

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63 h. ago Dominic Solanke injury will not change Tottenham’s transfer plans – Thomas Frank

Spurs are hopeful Solanke will return after the international break.

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3 d. ago Tottenham handed major blow as Thomas Frank provides Dominic Solanke injury update

Spurs striker is not involved in this afternoon’s Premier League clash in north London

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3 d. ago Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on leaving her marriage for a dying friend: ‘She said, Let’s just live balls to the wall until I die!’

One was a happily married and internationally famous writer, the other a cool, funny hairdresser and ex-drug addict. Then a shock diagnosis pitched them into an intense love affair ...Sometime in the summer of 2017 I wrote in my journal, “Jesus fucking Christ, please save me.” I was trapped in hell, and I could see no way out. Our beautiful, sunny, two-bedroom penthouse apartment in the East Village – which I had rented for Rayya to make her happy in the last months of her life – had become a dungeon of misery, danger, degradation, drugs. Rayya kept the shades drawn at all hours of the day, not only because the light hurt her eyes but also because she had become intensely paranoid that she was being watched by the police, and that they were coming for her.And, to be honest, the police might very well have come for her (for both of us, actually), because our apartment now contained thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth of cocaine – some of which Rayya was cooking down and shootin...

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6 d. ago Tottenham dealt blow in pursuit of Savinho as Manchester City make decision over future

The Brazilian has been strongly linked with a move to London but may now be set to stay.

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6 d. ago Urgent appeal to trace missing East Lothian teen who vanished 'meeting friend'

Concern grows for 15-year-old who vanished after leaving home to meet a friend

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8 d. ago Cruel catfish 'stole 15 years' from best friend pretending to be her boyfriend

A woman has been jailed for a shocking 15-year “catfishing” campaign in which she invented a boyfriend and child to dupe her best friend, leaving the victim devastated

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8 d. ago Man City injury update: Ederson, Josko Gvardiol, and Savinho latest news and return dates

Manchester City suffered a double blow as they were dealt a 2-0 defeat by Tottenham over the weekend.

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1 week ago Man City dealt major injury blow vs Tottenham as new signing limps off

Rayan Ait-Nouri was making his Etihad debut for Manchester City but was forced off in the early stages against Tottenham.

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1 week ago Thomas Frank only wants players who want to wear ‘fantastic badge’ of Tottenham

Spurs were beaten to the signing of Eberechi Eze by north London rivals Arsenal this week.

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1 week ago Tottenham only want players who wear club’s ‘fantastic badge’, says Frank

‘I don’t want players that don’t want to come to the club’Mikel Arteta echoes importance of desire to join a teamThomas Frank has made it clear that he only wants players at Tottenham who are committed to the club’s “fantastic badge” as the dust begins to settle on the Eberechi Eze saga.Spurs reached an agreement with Crystal Palace for the transfer of the England forward on Wednesday and believed they had one with the player as well. Yet hours later, Arsenal swept in to gazump them and are primed to confirm his arrival in a £67.5m deal. If it is a coup for Arsenal and a dream move for Eze, who supported the club as a boy, it has been an episode Spurs would rather forget. They failed in a bid for Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White in July and are without their two main central attacking midfielders, Dejan Kulusevski and James Maddison. Both have long-term injuries. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man City given injury blow ahead of Tottenham but two players return

Manchester City can welcome Phil Foden and Rodri back to their squad for the Tottenham game but are still missing four

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1 week ago Tottenham remain interested in Savinho after missing out on Eberechi Eze

Spurs entered talks with Manchester City last week over Savinho.

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1 week ago Deja vu for dithering Tottenham as Arsenal show how big clubs act with Eberechi Eze transfer coup

Latest Spurs transfer embarrassment threatens their progress under Thomas Frank

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1 week ago Tottenham attack new transfer targets before deadline after Eberechi Eze blow

Spurs are diving back into the transfer market after being beaten to their top priority by Arsenal

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1 week ago Share your experience of getting your dream job and it not working out

We’d like to hear from people who secured the job of their dreams but found it wasn’t what they expectedYou’ve done it. After years of study, sacrifice or pure graft, you finally secured your dream job. But what happens when it doesn’t work out? If your dream job turned sour, we would like to hear from you.Tell us your journey to your dream job. What went wrong? If it wasn’t what you expected, did you leave? What did you do instead and how did your friends and family react? Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Prince Harry leaves 'secret' tribute to late grandfather Prince Philip

Harry asked a friend to leave the note and wreath

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2 w. ago Lucas Bergvall excited about Tottenham’s ‘really good squad’ after winning start

Bergvall was pushed further forward into an attacking midfield role in the 3-0 win over Burnley.

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2 w. ago Tottenham: Manor Solomon hopes of dream Leeds return dealt blow

Solomon wants Elland Road switch but Leeds identify fresh forward target

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