4 h. ago Met Police detective is sacked for football hooliganism after he threw a firework into crowd during Arsenal's defeat to Bayern Munich in Germany

Detective Constable Gordon Irikefe was found to have committed gross misconduct in acts of 'unacceptable' football hooliganism.

Sport

6 h. ago Detective sacked for football hooliganism including "tragedy chanting"

The officer wore a balaclava and sunglasses at games to hide his identity

Politics

61 h. ago Culture wars: Trump’s takeover of arts is straight from the dictator playbook

US president’s attempt to control or dismantle cultural institutions plays into a long history of authoritarians using arts to push their agendaIn 1937, leaders of Germany’s Third Reich hosted two simultaneous art exhibitions in Munich. One, titled the Great German Art Exhibition, featured art viewed by the regime as appropriate and aspirational for the ideal Aryan society – orderly and triumphant, with mostly blond people in heroic poses amid pastoral German landscapes. The other showcased what Adolf Hitler and his followers deemed “degenerate art” (“Entartete Kunst”). The works, chaotically displayed and saddled with commentary disparaging “the sick brains of those who wielded the brush or pencil”, were abstract, profane, modernist and produced by the proclaimed enemies of the Reich – Jewish people, communists or those suspected of being either.The Degenerate Art exhibition, which later toured the country, opened a day after Hitler declared “merciless war” on cultural disintegrati...

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3 d. ago Antony transfer truth becomes clear after Bayern Munich claim and Real Betis revival

Latest Manchester United news includes an update on Antony after reports in Germany claimed Bayern Munich were eyeing a summer move

Politics

4 d. ago Thomas Muller Celtic treatment 'humiliating' as Vincent Kompany sparks outrage and gets it tight from German legend

The Bayern Munich boss has received plenty of criticism in Germany

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4 d. ago Grave stickers mystery as cops investigate after thousands appear at cemeteries

More than 1,000 stickers have appeared on gravestones at three cemeteries in Munich, Germany, without any indication of where they came from or why, sparking a police investigation

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