2 h. ago Starmer urged to apologise to Epstein victims over Mandelson appointment — UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey attack PM’s record over US ambassador during commons debate that was skipped by StarmerVikram Dodd is the Guardian’s crime correspondent.Police expect to arrest 50 more people following Saturday’s large far-right-led march through London, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police said this morning.If you are Conservative right-minded, then the future is Reform. The country is going to change a lot. The same people who thought that Brexit would not happen think that Reform will not happen. They are in for a shock. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Mum's thoughtful university gift for daughter leaves people 'crying'

She made her daughter a book full of treats for when she went off to university and parents were saying how emotional it was, claiming they wanted to do it when their child went off

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4 h. ago Starmer urged to apologise to Epstein victims as MPs debate Mandelson appointment — UK politics live

Kemi Badenoch and Ed Davey attack PM’s record over US ambassadorVikram Dodd is the Guardian’s crime correspondent.Police expect to arrest 50 more people following Saturday’s large far-right-led march through London, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police said this morning.If you are Conservative right-minded, then the future is Reform. The country is going to change a lot. The same people who thought that Brexit would not happen think that Reform will not happen. They are in for a shock. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Maria Caulfield, former Tory health minister, defects to Reform — UK politics live

Caulfield says ‘the future is Reform’ as second Conservative MP in a week leaves for Nigel Farage’s partyVikram Dodd is the Guardian’s crime correspondent.Police expect to arrest 50 more people following Saturday’s large far-right-led march through London, the commissioner of the Metropolitan police said this morning.If you are Conservative right-minded, then the future is Reform. The country is going to change a lot. The same people who thought that Brexit would not happen think that Reform will not happen. They are in for a shock. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui: ‘Artists are liars who just make things up – but we reveal a lot’

The internationally feted choreographer has worked with pop megastars, a sculptor and the monks of the Shaolin Temple. Now he is tackling the cultural divisions and colonial legacy of his homelandSidi Larbi Cherkaoui is almost offended when I suggest he’s a busy man. “When people tell me, ‘You do so much,’ I cringe,” says the artistic director of the Grand Théâtre de Genève – the largest stage in Switzerland, with its ballet and opera companies – who runs his own company Eastman in his native city of Antwerp. He is also the creator of contemporary dance-theatre productions and a choreographer for film (Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina and Cyrano), musicals (Alanis Morissette’s Jagged Little Pill), pop (Beyoncé and Jay-Z, Madonna) and plenty more.This autumn alone, nine different works of Cherkaoui’s are being performed around the world, including An Accident/A Life, a collaboration with performer Marc Brew, about the car accident that left Brew paralysed from the neck down – “It’s maybe t...

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46 h. ago The forgotten town on the frontline of Britain's migrant crisis: How locals in Dover have been left behind by the small boats war

The Dover coastline is a key arrival point for Channel crossings and with more than 182,000 people reaching England since the migrant crisis began.

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3 d. ago 'People physically cringe at my son's name and I'm worried he'll hate me'

A mum-to-be has said she's worried she's made a huge mistake with the name she wants to give her son after a colleague 'physically cringed' when she told her the moniker

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3 d. ago Mum's touching leaving gift for daughter going to uni leaves parents 'sobbing'

A mum shared the adorable gift she made for her daughter before she went off to university, with other parents saying that they wanted to do similar for their kids

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4 d. ago Republicans call for action against people who have been critical of Charlie Kirk in the wake of shooting

Grieving conservatives demand consequences for social media users who disparage the slain Turning Point USA founder or attempt to make light of his murder

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5 d. ago French lawmaker calls for criminal inquiry into TikTok’s effect on children

Move comes after parliamentary committee finds platform like a ‘slow poison’ to young people A French lawmaker has asked the state prosecutor for a criminal investigation into whether TikTok was responsible for “endangering the lives” of its young users.Arthur Delaporte, a Socialist MP, said he co-chaired a six-month French parliamentary inquiry into TikTok’s psychological effects on minors and heard testimony from families, social media executives and influencers. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago In plain sight: why Mandelson’s role as envoy to US was a big risk for Starmer

‘Withdrawal’ of Labour peer from US is more evidence of prime minister’s failure to pick right people, say critics

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5 d. ago Why the Mandelson affair raises questions about Starmer’s judgment

‘Withdrawal’ of Labour peer from America is more evidence of prime minister’s failure to pick right people, say critics

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5 d. ago Three people were critically wounded in shooting at a suburban Denver high school, authorities say

Three teens have been hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting at a suburban Denver high school

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6 d. ago Iconic Scottish hotel welcomes young cancer patients for meaningful residential stay

Crieff Hydro Hotel was recently honoured to support young people affected by cancer through hosting an annual residential stay, organised by the Teenage Cancer Trust and funded by the NHS Lothian Charity.

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6 d. ago Jamie Oliver slammed for 'shaming people' over weight issues amid cost of living crisis

Jamie Oliver has come under fire for 'shaming people' as he tried to encourage healthy eating amid the cost of living crisis during an appearance on This Morning

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6 d. ago Six shot dead in two days as Cape Town reels from gang violence

Minister admits there is ‘no proper plan’ to tackle violent crime in divided city that pulls in 2.4 million visitors Six people have been shot dead in two days in a crime-plagued area of Cape Town, adding to the death toll in a city already reeling from the scourge of gang-related violence.At 11.30pm on Monday, two women, aged 19 and 25, were killed and a 24-year-old woman injured in a shooting in Wallacedene, an informal settlement on Cape Town’s north-eastern edge, South African police said. About 10 minutes later, two other women in their 20s were killed by gunshots to the head in a bedroom in the same area, with police saying the deaths may be linked. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago People gathered for great meat feasts at end of British bronze age, study shows

Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to ‘age of feasting’These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take part in the wonderful craziness of the Glastonbury festival.It turns out that at the end of the bronze age – also a time of climatic and economic crisis – the same sort of impulse gripped people. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ‘Most of the time I was only wearing tiny shorts’: how Devendra Banhart made I Feel Just Like a Child

‘I wanted something more interesting than a key change. So when someone walked by the studio with a husky, I said, “Do you want to howl with your dog?”’I wrote I Feel Just Like a Child when I was 18, but it wasn’t until I was 23 or 24 and making the Cripple Crow album that it made sense to record it properly. As a teenager I’d thought of myself as an old blues guy and demoed it on an unplugged electric guitar as a slow blues. When we recorded it for Cripple Crow I’d found my musical family, people like [producer-musicians] Andy Cabic from Vetiver, Noah Georgeson and Thom Monahan. Along with the likes of Joanna Newsom and Adam Green from Moldy Peaches, we were doing a sort of anti-folk that was labelled “freak-folk”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘It’s my second home!’ Gen Z and the sudden, surprising boom of luxury gyms

Expensive fitness facilities might seem a tough sell in a cost of living crisis. But for young people in crowded or dilapidated house shares, the high price for a haven can be worth payingThe best part of Owen Willis’s day is his morning shower. Notes of lavender and eucalyptus waft through his private, stone-tiled shower room as he uses a £32 bottle of Cowshed bodywash. He dries off with a fluffy white towel before slathering on Cowshed body lotion (£24).This isn’t Willis’s home, however. It’s his gym. He belongs to Third Space in London, which calls itself a “luxury health club”. Memberships start at £230 a month for an individual site and go as high as £305 for access to all of its branches, including the Mayfair club, where gym-goers can expect “UV-treated fresh air” and “a Himalayan sea-salt walled sauna and steam room”. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago The real life 'Dexter': Brazilian serial killer slaughtered over 100 people

Brazilian serial killer Pedro Rodrigues Filho, who is said to have killed more than 100 people, is believed to have only targeted criminals like murderers and rapists.

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