9 h. ago My petty gripe: people keep throwing food away without asking me if I want it. Of course I do!

What does it cost you to let others finish your bowl of chips at the pub? What do you gain by binning the soggy fruit salad?Last week’s chicken too dry to finish off. A carrot so old it flops like a garden hose. Yoghurt – with a carton of mouldy blueberries – three weeks past its use.You might see trash; I see entree, dinner and dessert. There’s no such thing as food too old to eat. Continue reading...

Politics

3 d. ago Newsom condemned for ‘throwing trans people under bus’ after sports comment

Democratic California governor faces backlash after saying trans women playing in female sports was ‘deeply unfair’Gavin Newsom, the Democratic governor of California believed to be eyeing a run for president in 2028, is facing fierce backlash from LGBTQ+ rights advocates after his suggestion that the participation of transgender women and girls in female sports was “deeply unfair”.In the inaugural episode of his podcast, This Is Gavin Newsom, the governor hosted conservative political activist and Maga darling Charlie Kirk. The co-founder and executive director of the rightwing Turning Point USA, a Phoenix-based organization that operates on school campuses, told Newsom: “You, right now, should come out and be like: ‘You know what? The young man who’s about to win the state championship in the long jump in female sports – that shouldn’t happen.’ You, as the governor, should step out and say: ‘No.’” Continue reading...

Politics

5 d. ago Police arrest two boys, aged 14 and 16, after huge seat thrown from third floor of Westfield shopping centre lands inches from people walking below

In footage posted on social media, a man, wearing a grey hoodie, can be seen inside Westfield in Stratford, London, hurling a blue pouffe from the top floor down to the bottom.

Events

7 d. ago My petty gripe: why can’t I boot my freeloading kids off Netflix when I finally have time to watch?

In my few stolen moments of recreational screen time, I need a big red button that automatically restores primacy to me, the bill payerNetflix could solve this problem if it would just give me a big red button to nuke my kids. Like, not actually nuke them. But, yeah, blow those freeloading teenagers off Netflix whenever I choose.Such a beautiful, all-powerful button should only be on the app of the primary account holder – you know, the person who pays the monthly bill. In my case, moi. Continue reading...

Politics

8 d. ago Why Ozempic could be a miracle cure for the millions battling deadly liver disease: Record numbers are developing the condition thanks to poor diet

Weight-loss jabs such as Ozempic could throw a lifeline to millions of people battling deadly liver disease - amid growing concern about the spiralling number of cases.

Events

1 week ago Eleven dead and five missing in horror boat crash in China after oil spill clean up ship and passenger vessel collide on the Yuanshui River

Nineteen people were thrown overboard when the oil spill cleanup boat crashed into the passenger vessel on the river near the town of Qinglang in Hunan province on Tuesday.

Events

1 week ago Woman, 18, 'who hurled her newborn baby from hotel room moments after birth' named

American gap year student Mia McQuillin, 18, was part of ‘a group of young people traveling in Europe’ when she is alleged to have thrown a baby from a second floor window just moments after giving birth

Politics

2 w. ago My petty gripe: you have 400 parks to picnic in, why would you choose an off

Almost every time I unclip my dog, it seems, he can find and inhale the literal poisons laid out by carefree picnickers in defiance of signageMy beautiful stupid boy. So long and brave as he bounds at light-speed across the sunny fields, looping past the old trees and disused play equipment, a joyful cascade of limitless hope and unhinged, insatiable hunger. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Shocking moment mass brawl between men and women erupts at Atlanta airport departure gate

Viral video shows a dozen people throwing hands during chaotic scenes at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in the Georgia capital on Wednesday.

Events

2 w. ago A Thousand Blows review – the irresistible new boxing drama from the Peaky Blinders creator

Steven Knight’s latest series is a hugely fun journey into the murky world of Victorian bare-knuckle fighting. It’s a ripping yarn full of audacious dialogueSome will come for the boxing. The Peaky Blinders creator, Steven Knight, has set his latest endeavour in the East End of London and the shadowy underworld of late‑Victorian bare-knuckle fighting. The new series is called A Thousand Blows, and this is an understatement. Some will stay away because of the boxing. This would be a mistake, because it is about so much more. It is about all kinds of violence – that perpetrated against children by those supposed to protect them, against the increasingly poor by the increasingly rich, against women by men, against the colonised by colonisers – and what happens when you throw people together in the melting pot of a rapidly industrialising city where only the fittest can survive.There is a lot going on – narratively, thematically and cartilage crunchingly – in Knight’s historically ...

Events