43 m. ago ‘Trauma and lack of help’ key factors in suicidal feelings among autistic people

The new research is believed to be the largest survey on autism and suicide to date that asked people directly about their experiences.

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3 h. ago While Starmer struggles with a broken system in Westminster, real power keeps leaking elsewhere | Rafael Behr

Far from No 10, Nigel Farage has been amassing power in the sprawling, networked space where 21st-century politics happensSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreWith a buzz of activity in parliament and mandatory back-to-school metaphors, a new political season opens in Westminster, but is that where politics really happens? Yes, in terms of people making policy and law in buildings that are world-famous for that purpose, the SW1 postcode is where it is at.But the heart of the machine beats with a weak pulse. The UK state is heavily centralised by the standards of most democracies, yet the people at the centre don’t feel powerful. Ministers can’t enforce bin collections in remote areas or call a halt to Middle East wars but they are made to feel answerable for all that is ill in the world, from hyperlocal to geopolitical.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist ...

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17 h. ago Travis Kelce still feels ‘giddy’ telling people about engagement to Taylor Swift

Speaking on the New Heights podcast, Kelce reflected on the past week since the couple announced their engagement.

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65 h. ago Johnny Vegas on swapping comedy for ceramics: ‘You’ve got to be hungry for it, and right now, I’m hungry for sculpture’

At 54, the comic has found a new lease of life by embracing his first love – pottery. He talks about agoraphobia, ADHD and creating ceramic cuddlesIn a cavernous room in an old pottery factory, Johnny Vegas is approaching his work and his face is a delight. “Is it wrong to love your own pieces?” he says, seeing his sculptures for the first time in the place they will be shown, on a table lit by beams of dusty sunlight. Called Just Be There, and made in collaboration with the sculptor Emma Rodgers, each form is the result of two people embracing around a soft clay column. The huggers are mostly from Stoke-on-Trent, where Vegas’s work in the British Ceramics Biennial, one of more than 60 artists included, is being shown. Some are collapsed – thanks to a bear hug. Some are more restrained, the clay holding the imprint of people’s feelings about personal space. They’re robust and beautiful, and Vegas looks absolutely thrilled.The first time he produced a body of work to be on public sho...

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2 d. ago Rural racism leaves people feeling ‘unwelcome and unsafe’ in UK countryside

Minority groups ‘are depicted as outsiders, reinforcing exclusionary narratives’, study warns

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3 d. ago Defiant Reeves admits working people ‘feel stuck’ but insists Britain is not broken

Exclusive: Rachel Reeves launches her post-summer fightback with a boost for working parents as she tackles critics of Labour’s plans and the economy

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9 d. ago Trump is wrong about crime – but right about the fear of it | Austin Sarat

The deployment of the national guard in Washington ignores the data. But Democrats must not ignore how people feelIn most of America’s largest cities, crime, especially violent crime, is down. But the fear of crime is increasing.Donald Trump has made a career out of ignoring the reality of crime rates and of stoking that fear. Well before he entered politics and throughout his political career, he has talked about city life as life in a proverbial jungle.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell professor of jurisprudence and political science at Amherst College, is the author or editor of more than 100 books, including Gruesome Spectacles: Botched Executions and America’s Death Penalty Continue reading...

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1 week ago Helen Mirren feels ‘insulted’ by ‘condescending’ comments from young people

‘They think they are being kind – but they’re not,’ the British star said

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1 week ago Undertaker accused of 'making funeral about him' after marching ahead of hearse

A video of an undertaker has stirred up mixed feelings as some people accuse him of making the funeral 'about himself' while other praise his 'professionalism'

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1 week ago How to make the perfect fish finger sandwich – recipe | Felicity Cloake's How to make the perfect

Everyone in the UK has an opinion on this British classic, and here is our resident perfectionist’s I must be the only person in Britain not to have grown up with fish finger sandwiches – we always had them with mash and peas – but after discovering them on pub menus as an adult, it wasn’t hard to see the appeal. These crunchy batons of firm, creamy fish in soft white bread, often topped with a tangy sauce, are surely the UK equivalent of Mexican fish tacos or West African fish rolls – a quick, nutritious and very satisfying light meal or snack.(NB: if you’re skim-reading this before leaping below the line to demand to know who needs a recipe for a fish finger sandwich, I can assure you a lot of people online seem to feel there’s a demand.) Given their popularity (indeed, this column was a reader request), I must echo Helen Graves, who prefaces her recipe thus: “I am bracing myself for the comeback on this one, because everyone (or at least everyone in the UK) has an opinion on what...

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1 week ago Voices: Jewish history is blinding us Israelis to the suffering in Gaza

Having endured and survived millennia of persecution at the hands of others, should Jewish people feel obliged to take a stand against the devastation Palestinians are now experiencing, asks Yaniv Korman

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1 week ago 'Selfish' mother sparks outrage for treatment of crying toddler as people say 'I feel sorry for him'

Rebecca, from New Zealand, was unfazed as she enjoyed a frozen mango treat while her son had a tantrum because he wanted her to share.

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1 week ago Former Premier League striker retires less than ONE month after joining new club

The 34-year-old claimed it 'doesn't feel it's right to collect a wage from such good people' after losing his passion for the game. And so ends a career which has spanned 531 games.

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1 week ago People are paying £19.90 for French toast in Manchester for wild reason

People across Manchester have been left with mixed feeling after one brunch hotspot started added something wild on the top of their French toast to turn it into a viral product

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1 week ago Great British Sewing Bee judge laments ‘loss of pride in making things’

BBC show’s judge feels the arts are now pastimes that middle-class people pay money to do

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1 week ago Experts pinpoint foods that could be causing people to feel 'tired all the time'

American researchers have revealed a molecule in lots of popular foods could be making you sleepy throughout the day.

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2 w. ago I'm a legal refugee in Britain. So why am I always being treated like a criminal? | Ayman Alhussein

I’ve met wonderful people here who make me feel that I belong – but there are now many who see asylum seekers as an easy political targetHardly a day goes by without a new insult being hurled in the faces of asylum seekers and refugees. We’re scroungers, rapists, fighting-age men who shouldn’t have left our home countries. Sometimes we’re simply “illegals”, the most dehumanising term of all. When did it become a crime to run for your life?The people levelling these accusations are superb at making themselves heard. Mud sticks – and most of us are too scared to try to set the record straight. I don’t know how many of our accusers have sat down with us, human to human, and listened to our stories. Here’s mine.As told to Diane TaylorAyman Alhussein is a Syrian film-maker based in London Continue reading...

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2 w. ago The UK city 'so overrun' with tourists that locals 'don't live there anymore'

Millions of people visit the city every year - but locals have said that they feel the city has been 'overrun' with tourists and that many people have left the area

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2 w. ago ‘It has echoes of happiness’: life for gen Z in the seaside town I once called home

The Guardian’s former north of England editor returned to Morecambe after 25 years to discover the place where she grew up has even fewer amenities for young people – and the feeling of being ‘left behind’ is stronger than everPhotographs by Polly BradenIf you had asked me as a teenager whether I saw my future in Morecambe, I’d have laughed you out of our faded seaside town. I’d been plotting my escape since I was 14. The sea was grey, the sand was treacherous and the wind was always messing up my hair. I was totally unmoved by the view across the bay of the Lake District fells.It felt like half of the world was cut off. You could go left or right on the prom but never straight ahead, unless you wanted to end up stuck in mud waving frantically for the coastguard. A whole compass point was out of reach. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Liam Gallagher is funnier than most standups!’: Is comedy the new rock’n’roll – or vice versa?

Oasis’s tour gobbled up Edinburgh audiences while fringe comics put on shows about Britpop and Arctic Monkeys. The music industry and the funny business could be more entwined than ever‘Comedy is the new rock’n’roll!” This line, variously attributed to a defunct listings mag, a member of the Comedy Store Players and Janet Street-Porter, became common currency in the 1990s, when comedy gatecrashed arenas with Newman and Baddiel’s maiden Wembley gig in 1993. Had the art of making people laugh eclipsed – in size, public enthusiasm, cultural cachet – the art of making people groove?It feels like a quaint conversation in light of the arrival of Oasis’s mega-tour in Edinburgh this month, which triggered panic among standups at the gazumping of their fringe audience. But has comedy returned to playing second fiddle to its sexier, better-loved big brother? Or are such distinctions meaningless in a cultural landscape unrecognisable from the 1990s? Continue reading...

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