1 hour ago Liverpool fans think they know what Virgil van Dijk said to Alexander Isak amid £125m chase

Liverpool are on the hunt for a new forward to ensure they keep hold of their Premier League title and Newcastle's Alexander Isak has been identified as their primary transfer target

Economics

2 h. ago India beat England by four wickets: first women’s cricket ODI – as it happened

India beat England by four wickets in Southampton to take 1-0 lead in the ODI seriesIndia review for LBW against Beaumont! This looks close. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago India beat England by four wickets in first women’s ODI – live reaction

Updates from the series opener in SouthamptonRead today’s edition of The Spin | And mail JamesIndia review for LBW against Beaumont! This looks close. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Physician associates should ‘never be used to replace doctors’ – Streeting

Wes Streeting pledged to implement in full the findings of a review which said physician associates must not diagnose patients.

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5 h. ago Girls gone bad: Lena Dunham’s Too Much is just not good enough

The creator of the seminal HBO hit has followed up with an underbaked Netflix background watch, a crushing disappointment for her ardent fanbaseThere is one TV show that has been enjoyed most often, and most reliably, among my cohort in New York: Girls, the seminal HBO dramedy about Brooklyn’s downwardly mobile and highly self-important creative class of the 2010s. Though a cultural lightning rod when it aired from 2012 until 2017 – its whiteness, convincing narcissism, frank sexuality and frequent nudity all catnip for the cresting blogosphere and cyclical moral panic – Girls has rightfully settled into its status as one of the best television series of the 21st century, a foundational text for millennials as well as a biting satire of solipsistic, Obama-era striving. (Although viewers too young to remember it as anything other than canon now see the girls’ flailing – their freedom to wear terrible prints, listen to Vampire Weekend and be earnest – as something to be envied rather ...

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6 h. ago I Know What You Did Last Summer review – fun 90s slasher revival hooks us back in

Jennifer Love-Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr return for a gory, slickly made legacy sequel stuffed with fan serviceRushed into production after the surprise success of 1996’s Scream, I Know What You Did Last Summer has forever lived, and suffered, in the same bracket. Sure it’s another slasher with another cast of unblemished faces and sure it’s also written by Kevin Williamson but it’s always been a far simpler, straighter, sillier film. Scream was trying to reinvent the wheel while I Know What You Did Last Summer was just trying to keep it going.As a franchise, it then quickly became the very thing Williamson was poking fun at in the first place with a rubbishy Bahamas-set sequel (I Still Know What You Did Last Summer!) and, at the time, an inevitable, tossed off, straight-to-video follow-up (I’ll Always Know What You Did Last Summer!). People quickly gave up caring what anyone had been up to during any summer on record and as the subgenre died, it wisely followed. But as Hollywood ...

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6 h. ago Rihanna’s Smurfs movie is obnoxious, confusing and very unpleasant to look at

Rihanna, James Corden and Jimmy Kimmel are among the stars who voice the magical denizens of a mushroom village in this unfunny and often inexplicable disaster of a movie

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6 h. ago Smurfs review – Rihanna is star turn of the new generation of floppy

James Corden and John Goodman join the singer voicing the Belgian creatures in this uninspired, unengaging kids’ animationThe star vocal turn of the very moderate new Smurfs film is Rihanna, phoning in an undemanding audio contribution as the female character named “Smurfette”. But there is little to no music in this laborious slice of content, one of the many frustrating and disconcerting things about it. And for me, this film shows yet again that there is something about the Smurfs, those little Belgian creatures with blue skin and floppy-protuberant hats, which is basically kryptonite to comedy and entertainment.The script by Pam Brady (justly respected for her work on South Park and Team America: World Police) follows the template of being pretty bland for the sweet Smurfs themselves, but is sharpened up with one or two properly funny lines for the all-too-brief scenes featuring the evil wizard characters Razamel and Gargamel (both voiced by JP Karliak) whom the Smurfs are up ag...

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6 h. ago Keir Starmer removes Labour whip from four ‘persistent rebel’ MPs

Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff pushed out and three trade envoys lose rolesUK politics live – latest updatesKeir Starmer has removed the Labour whip from four MPs for repeatedly breaching discipline and stripped three further Labour MPs of their trade envoy roles in an effort to assert his control over the party.The Guardian understands that the four MPs who have lost the whip are Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff. They were informed on Wednesday afternoon and told their positions would be kept under review. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Is Saily eSIM worth the hype? I took it on holiday to find out

How eSIMs can save you time and money while travelling abroad

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7 h. ago Tour de France 2025 live: Stage 11 route and updates with Wout van Aert and Mathieu van der Poel chasing win on chaotic day in Toulouse

A 157km route starts and ends in Toulouse as the Tour de France returns after the first rest day

Society

8 h. ago Amess family ‘deeply hurt’ after Home Secretary letter following Prevent review

The murdered MP’s family spokesman said Yvette Cooper’s ‘piecemeal approach will never deliver the whole truth, accountability and justice’.

Society

8 h. ago Mad Cool 2025 review: Further proof that Olivia Rodrigo is unquestionably a rock star

Muse and Nine Inch Nails delivered knock-out sets at the hot Madrid festival while Gracie Abrams triumphed over tech problems

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8 h. ago Urgent change for teachers demanded in disturbing Southport attacks report

A review into the Prevent programme recommended a string of steps to prevent more failings like those made with Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana and terrorist Ali Harbi Ali, who killed Tory MP Sir David Amess

Events

9 h. ago Manchester suspect charged with attempted robbery at Greggs bakery

Vincent Foley is due to appear in court today

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9 h. ago Prevent programme should continue referrals for no ideology – review

The review looking at lessons learned from the cases of MP Sir David Amess’s murderer Ali Harbi Ali and Southport murderer Axel Rudakubana.

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10 h. ago Air ambulance lands with major road closed after woman hit by van

There was a large cordon in place

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10 h. ago Plant milks ‘not nutritionally equivalent’ to cows’ milk – expert review

Soya, oat and almond milk have become increasingly popular in recent years.

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10 h. ago Brit tourist plunges from Cyprus hotel balcony and can't walk after holiday 'nightmare'

24-year-old Sam Hudson, from Lincoln, was enjoying a holiday getaway in Ayia Napa with his step-brother on June 15 when he suffered an accidental fall from his hotel balcony

Society

11 h. ago Stalker followed ex around supermarket where she worked and threatened to be her 'worst nightmare'

A judge said it was clear 27-year-old Joshua Hearn had not been able to accept the ending of the relationship

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