86 m. ago Where is our Tiananmen square ‘Tank Man’ who can stand up to Trump? | Corey Robin

The reason we don’t see that person is because we’re asking the wrong questionEveryone’s waiting for that one person to stand up to Donald Trump. Not just that one person. There are a lot of such people. You can read about them in every newspaper. But that one person with real power who’s willing to risk something costly in defiance. That one university president who’ll say, fuck you and your money. That one Democrat who’ll say, fuck you and your threat to my re-election or that of my party. Everyone’s looking for our Tank Man, staring down a column of tanks, all by himself, in Tiananmen Square.Why don’t we see that person? Where is our Tank Man? (And, no, I don’t think Cory Booker doing a marathon-length filibuster counts.)When you’re thinking of becoming a hero, you feel like a slob. You feel, do you really have a right to do that?Corey Robin is the author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump and a contributing editor at Jacobin. This piece origi...

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2 h. ago F1 Japan GP LIVE: Practice results as two fire incidents bring out red flag in bizarre session

Follow all the latest updates from Suzuka after a disrupted second practice session with four red flags

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2 h. ago Daily Mirror pub quiz: Put your brain to the test with 20 mind

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2 h. ago Daily Star pub quiz: Put your brain to the test with 20 mind

How many fiendishly-fun questions will you get right in this week's pub quiz? There’s only one way to find out!

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2 h. ago Mobile phones will be banned in Perth and Kinross classrooms from August

Councillors have welcomed and approved Perth and Kinross Council's personal mobile devices in schools policy

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2 h. ago Dyson launches Spring Event sale with £150 off 'brilliant' Pure Cool fan

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3 h. ago TRNSMT 2025: BBC Introducing comes to Glasgow Green with 20 emerging acts set to perform

TRNSMT 2025 will bring some of the future stars of the UK music scene to Glasgow Green this year.

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3 h. ago Japanese Grand Prix: McLaren dominate in chaotic Suzuka practice with four red flags

Grass twice caught fire on the side of the circuit during second practice session

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4 h. ago 'I am heartbroken I did not meet your expectations': South Korean president apologises as he is finally ousted following disastrous bid to bring in martial law

Yoon, 64, was suspended by lawmakers over his December 3 attempt to subvert civilian rule, which saw armed soldiers deployed to parliament. He was also arrested on insurrection charges.

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4 h. ago Son desperate to bring critically ill father home from Thailand to help save him

Reginald Leo, 76, has complications from gangrene, Addison’s disease and severe malnutrition.

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4 h. ago H&M’s new Move collection blends luxury athleisure with affordable prices

I tested out H&M’s new Move activewear and found gym-friendly fashion that’s actually flattering, functional and seriously soft

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4 h. ago When the Going Was Good by Graydon Carter review – juicy stories from the heydey of magazines

From Anna Wintour’s table manners to Oscar party hijinks, the former editor of Vanity Fair tells all There are lines in When the Going Was Good, Graydon Carter’s memoir of his swashbuckling career as an editor during the heyday of magazines, that will make any journalist laugh (bitterly) out loud. “There was a bar at the end of each corridor,” writes Carter of his first job at Time magazine in the mid-1970s, where expense accounts were huge, oversight relaxed and, “I went five years without ever turning on my oven”. At Vanity Fair, where Carter took over the editorship in 1992, “the budget had no ceiling. I could send anybody anywhere for as long as I wanted.” For a commission on the collapse of Lloyd’s of London, one Vanity Fair hack ran up expenses of $180,000 – and the piece didn’t run.These are the details most readers will come for and Carter, who at 75 remains a symbol of magazine glamour and excess – a fact somehow vested in the whimsy and extravagance of his comic-book hair ...

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5 h. ago How I Am Maximus can add to the Grand National’s everlasting popularity

The 2024 winner can emulate Tiger Roll and Red Rum in defending his title but regardless of the result he’ll bring the one thing the Grand National truly thrives on

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6 h. ago Josh Barrie On the Sauce at the Red Lion: May the Royals' local boozer soldier on

The Red Lion has a carpet near unrivalled, says Josh Barrie — it must have swallowed more beer than Andre the Giant on a long-haul flight

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6 h. ago Hilton turns 100 – and its Park Corner Brasserie still knows how to charm

In its centenary year, Hilton’s flagship London outpost offers a stay that’s equal parts old-school glamour and modern Mayfair polish – once you’ve survived the wait at check-in, that is. Lilly Subbotin checks in (eventually)

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7 h. ago Dying for Sex review – Michelle Williams’ erotic journey is revolutionary TV

This tale of a terminal cancer patient’s newfound horniness upends every expectation you have for on-screen sex – as well as the definition of a soulmate. It leaves you longing for moreSex is for men. This is a lesson we learn from a very early age. Maybe it is a nice lesson to learn if you are a man, though I imagine the pressure to be seen to know all about it from the off could feel a teensy bit much now and again. I’d probably take that over the internalised shame and alienation from your own body – and from one of the main drivers of pleasure that exists – so that we may all enjoy perpetuating the species, though, I think.(Why yes, this is all about me! And yes I did grow up Catholic, which can’t have helped. You’re such a sweetheart for noticing!) Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Good Night, and Good Luck review – George Clooney’s Broadway debut never quite lands

Winter Garden Theatre, New YorkThe actor-director brings his 2005 drama to the stage, now playing the lead role, but while it’s timely and nicely staged, it feels stiffTime has been kind to Good Night, and Good Luck, George Clooney’s sincere dramatization of the broadcaster Edward R Murrow’s on-air tangles with Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. Sleek, slim and reverent, the 2005 film recalled a time of both cultural panic and promise, before American attention splintered and television’s road forked toward cable news. In its own era, the movie played in implicit contrast to mainstream media’s failure to interrogate the Bush administration’s dubious justifications for the Iraq war. In 2025, well now, as in 1953, the lies run rampant. But in Clooney’s stark black-and-white drama, truth prevails.Wouldn’t that be nice. The ongoing lurch away from due process casts both a haunting pall and a self-congratulatory glow over New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, where Clooney leads a profici...

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7 h. ago Donald Trump's tariffs show that this is a time for calm heads and no knee

Writing in the Daily Record, Salmon Scotland chief executive says the tariffs need to be carefully managed.

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7 h. ago Rangers fan granddad stuck in Benidorm after suffering stroke during Old Firm game

A Rangers supporting granddad is stuck in a Benidorm hospital after suffering a stroke during the latest Old Firm derby, as his family makes a plea to bring him home.

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8 h. ago If you get a boat to this pub you'll be able to eat the best BBQ food in Wales

Feast will bring their fire-cooked food to Wales' best pub 2024

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