54 m. ago Easy hack to stop condensation and damp in your home as temperatures drop

Condensation is one of the most common and persistent household nuisances, often first appearing as misty windows or small puddles of water on cool surfaces, here are five ways to tackle it

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67 m. ago Missoma’s jewellery advent calendar is the best for trendy pieces

The likes of Bella Hadid and Kate Middleton regularly wear jewellery from this brand

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1 hour ago ‘The vocals were on another level’: how Counting Crows made Mr Jones

‘It’s about the night me and my best friend Marty Jones hung out with a flamenco troupe, wishing we were cool musicians too – so that we could talk to the girls a little better’Our first four records had been mostly made in houses in the hills above Los Angeles. August and Everything After was our first major label album, so it was a pretty big deal. Our advance was $3,000 each; I bought a 1971 cherry red VW Karmann Ghia convertible and drove it to LA. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Hamnet at LFF review: Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley enthrall in this Shakespeare tearjerker

Chloé Zhao’s clever adaptation grounds the Bard’s backstory in love, loss and the natural world

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2 h. ago The Last Frontier lands just 44% on Rotten Tomatoes but fans have been 'gripped' from episode one

The new series has received disappointing reviews but some fans are loving every minute

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2 h. ago The war in Gaza is over, says Trump. Now who will be responsible for maintaining the peace? | Roy Schwartz

Israelis believe their interests are better served by Washington than Jerusalem. But will Trump and Netanyahu’s focus change now the hostages are home?Roy Schwartz is a senior editor and op-ed contributor at HaaretzThe streets of Tel Aviv felt empty this Monday morning. Apart from people rushing to work or walking their dogs, the place seemed relatively deserted. Even some of the most popular coffee spots had more vacant seats than occupied ones. This day feels like a holy day – not because it actually is one (it’s Simchat Torah Eve) – but because of the return of the last 20 living hostages from Hamas captivity. There was no need to ask where everyone was. Thousands had gathered in “Hostages Square” in Tel Aviv (formerly known as Museum Square – and who knows if that name will ever return). Others were glued to their television screens at home, as if it were the World Cup final. Thinking about it, the war’s final act trumps even that. Apparently, the sound of silence can be full of...

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2 h. ago New Apple TV+ action thriller grips viewers 'from the start' but leaves critics cold

Apple TV+ has just released a new crime drama series, but it has left some viewers and critics torn

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2 h. ago The Fiery Furnaces reissue a cult classic: ‘We knew we wouldn’t seem like an also

As the divisive duo re-release Blueberry Boat for its 20th anniversary, they talk being unfit for success, how indie got soft and the ‘dream come true’ of getting 1/10 in NMEThe Fiery Furnaces had no expectations for their second album, 2004’s Blueberry Boat. The sibling duo recorded it before their debut had even come out, and so had no idea that 2003’s Gallowsbird’s Bark would receive such wild acclaim: in an 8.4 review, Pitchfork called its shambolic rock’n’roll and frontwoman Eleanor Friedberger’s arcane lyricism a “a mess of weird, undulating musical bits that are hugely intriguing despite not always making a whole shitload of sense”. They were busy fulfilling a five-album deal with Rough Trade, a luxury that was pretty much par for the course as a buzzy Brooklyn band in the time of the Strokes and Interpol – not that their Beefhearty blues had much in common with preening rock revivalism. “I thought they were so bad. I just didn’t give a shit about that stuff,” was one of Elea...

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3 h. ago Voices: ‘I’ll be holidaying outside the EU’: Readers lament as new post

Our community blamed Brexit for the new EU border chaos, saying the UK is now facing the costly consequences of decisions it helped design before leaving the bloc

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3 h. ago H is for Hawk review – Claire Foy is tremendously authentic in eccentric grief drama

London film festival: Foy convinces as a grieving academic who trains a goshawk in this film based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoirCan training a goshawk cure grief? Or treat it, in some way? Will keeping it indoors – hooded so that it remains calm – and then taking it out hunting allow you to reconnect radically with nature in a way that prissy townies will never understand? Or is this just a domesticated festival of cruelty to both bird and prey and a symptom of serious depression? Philippa Lowthorpe’s intriguing, likably performed if slightly precious film – based on Helen Macdonald’s bestselling nature memoir from 2014 – addresses these questions, but can’t quite deliver the Hollywood redemption narrative that it appears to offer: the story of a woman in the depths of melancholy who is helped through the darkness and, we have to assume, out the other side, by her goshawk, whimsically named Mabel. (Macdonald used she/her pronouns at the time of publication and came ...

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4 h. ago ‘Thrilling’ crime drama grips viewers ‘from the very start’ despite poor reviews

A new thriller on Apple TV+ has just premiered to mixed reviews, but several viewers are already hooked on the drama

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5 h. ago Souleymane’s Story review – superb performance ballasts drama of man clinging on in the margins in Paris

Abou Sangaré is magnificent in a story that shines light on the enforced invisibility of economic migrantsThere’s a turnaround in the climax of this noctambulist Paris immigrant drama that suddenly charges the film’s seemingly neutral title with meaning. Food courier protagonist, Souleymane, is hopefully in the process of altering his destiny, and this key scene is carried by fantastic acting from Abou Sangaré: trembling violently as a lifetime’s tension and struggle, as well as the daily grind of an app wage slave, comes pouring out.Souleymane is a kind of every-immigrant, clinging on at the margins of the French capital. Hailing from Guinea, he sublets the delivery app account of Cameroonian Emmanuel (Emmanuel Yovanie) in order to work. Under constant pressure to meet food delivery targets, he needs money in order to pay fellow Guinean Barry (Alpha Oumar Sow), who is coaching him how to pass his asylum interview the day after next. But the harassed Souleymane struggles to reproduc...

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5 h. ago Bugonia review: Emma Stone is mesmerising in this bleak alien conspiracy

Screened at the BFI London Film Festival, the film sees Stone re-unite with Yorgos Lanthimos for a black comedy that’s low on laughs until a blood-spattered final act

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6 h. ago Gen Z taking out loans for up to £25,000 to pay for their dream holidays

We all love the sound of a dream holiday - whether that's a beach escape, a cruise or a backpacking journey. But how many of us would take out a loan in order to finance such a luxurious experience?

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6 h. ago Crohn's disease sufferers given new hope as NHS GP details 'new treatment coming to UK'

Following successful studies, the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has recommended a new drug for adults with moderately or severely active Crohn’s

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7 h. ago Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska ’82: Expanded Edition review – fabled album falls short of expectations

(Sony Music)Rumours of the existence of E Street versions of Springsteen’s masterpiece have swirled for decades, but the reality doesn’t live up to the hypeFor the last 40-plus years, the holy grail for diehard Bruce Springsteen fans was something referred to as Electric Nebraska. The rumour circulated that there were full E Street Band versions of the songs from Springsteen’s 1982 solo acoustic release that were recorded, but remained unreleased and never leaked.Nebraska’s origin story had already made the album mythical: demos recorded in Springsteen’s bedroom got turned into a album. After spending literal years in the studio for his previous records, this time he walked in with finished songs. The cassette tape that he had carried around in his pocket got turned into a classic, five-star record of desolate modern folk songs about the dark side of the American dream. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Jack Grealish has already made feelings clear on Man United's top transfer target

Manchester United have been given a raving review by Jack Grealish

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7 h. ago Pick a Colour by Souvankham Thammavongsa review – behind the scenes at the nail salon

This impressive novel shows how war, colonialism and migration play out in a small room where everyone’s name tag says SusanPick a Colour, the first novel from Laotian-Canadian poet and short-story writer Souvankham Thammavongsa, takes place over one summer’s day in a nail bar; implicitly in Canada, but it could be in any city. The narrative potential of such businesses, where customers pay for a particular service and expect to receive other kinds of care, has been explored in films and novels set in taxis, hairdressers and, in Katja Oskamp’s Marzahn, Mon Amour, a chiropody clinic. Such settings open rich questions: who has the power, the one who pays or the one who shapes the customer’s body, often with alarmingly sharp implements? How human can such exchanges of cash for care or “beauty” be? What do we buy and what do we sell in these transactions?The novel sets out its stall plainly. Narrated by Ning, the salon owner and a retired boxer, t...

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8 h. ago Sydney Sweeney flashes toned legs in preppy fall look and reveals 'challenging' transformation for new film

The 27-year-old American Eagle brand ambassador - who's dating Scooter Braun - strolled arm-in-arm into the Pacific Design Center with her onscreen leading man Ben Foster

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8 h. ago Nothing ear (3) review: A cool design and excellent sound make these a go

Phone brand Nothing is back with its third iteration of the ear bud and this time the (3)s come with a new talk button gimmick to help you converse with your mobile's AI and friends on the phone

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