2 h. ago New calls to ‘stop PIP cuts’ and protect vulnerable people on disability benefits

Planned changes to health and disability benefits are set to start next year.

Politics

2 h. ago Who's in Race Across the World this year? From a divorced couple to 'embarrassing' brothers

Five teams will be battling it out on a race from the Great Wall of China to the southernmost tip of India

Politics

9 h. ago My sister died 10 years ago. Here’s what I wish I had known about dementia when she was alive | Jackie Bailey

I think back to my 20-year-old self and my sister, lost in her imagined worlds, and I feel compassion for us bothWhen my sister was 21, she was diagnosed with dementia. She had survived a malignant brain tumour diagnosis when she was 10, but her cancer was inoperable and sat directly on her hippocampus, the part of the brain responsible for memory formation.My sister moved in and out of what I would call “reality”. She spent days talking to people I couldn’t see, laughing at jokes I couldn’t hear. I would cajole her into playing Scrabble with me, and after a couple of hours she might say something “normal”, like, “How are you, Jackie?” She just needed mental stimulation, I would think. If I could play Scrabble with her every day, she would come back to me. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago New update on calls to scrap proposed DWP changes to benefits for disabled people

More than 10,000 people have signed an online petition urging the UK Government to halt welfare reforms.

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55 h. ago The Balcony Movie review – funny/sad film that offers a view into strangers’ lives

Pawel Lozinski’s documentary collects conversations with passers-by he talks to from the window of his Warsaw flatPolish film-maker Pawel Lozinski has curated this amusing, cumulatively melancholy documentary which he has shot from the first-floor balcony in his flat in the Saska Kępa district of Warsaw. Over a number of years, and with a microphone discreetly attached to the chainlink fence at street level, he simply calls down to people going past and asks them to stop and talk about something, anything.There are a lot of dog-walkers and people with babies; most people smile or grimace politely and say they are not special enough to be featured in a film. A priest says he can’t talk because he is carrying the Holy Sacrament. Others obligingly talk: one woman sings a rather beautiful song, a man talks about being homeless, having just got out of prison. People confide their sadness at the loss of a loved one, though one woman sheepishly confesses her profound happiness that her abu...

Culture

3 d. ago SNL mocks ‘messiah’ Trump over chaotic tariffs policy with Easter

‘Some people call me the Messiah because of the mess I uh made out of the economy’

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4 d. ago Ewan McGregor, Elizabeth Debicki and Kate Fleetwood: ‘There’s slight snobbery about film actors doing a play’

The garlanded trio are taking on marital and sexual politics in a radical modern update of Ibsen’s ‘The Master Builder’. They take on the hot potato of star power, annoying theatregoers and ‘why people call us luvvies’ with Annabel Nugent

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5 d. ago People are calling divorced couple's 'birdnesting' arrangement 'genius'

American photographer Devin Justine and firefighter Brendan Cleary, both 33, had been married for eight years and were expecting their second child when they decided to part ways.

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5 d. ago Labour’s welfare cuts consultation called a ‘sham’ as PIP changes not up for discussion

Campaigners have called the conversation a ‘sham’ as people are invited to discuss only half of the proposals

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5 d. ago Ruth Jones returns to Welsh town after Gavin & Stacey and says 'who knew?'

The series of programmes will shine a light on the history of the town and celebrate the people who call it home

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5 d. ago The big lesson for Europe? Trump backed down under pressure | Alexander Hurst

The EU neither ‘kissed ass’ nor unleashed its most powerful trade weapon. Now it must provide the world with an alternative to US chaosMy condolences to everyone who spent days trying to play 5D chess with Donald Trump’s market-exploding tariff mess. Where Trump is involved, there is a cloud of malevolent chaos, and there is grift amid the chaos. What grandmasters there are to be found are almost certainly grandmasters of grift.When markets dump $10tn in three days and then gain trillions back in a single afternoon on the erratic decisions of one deeply corrupt person, you can be sure that a small number of people have made immense sums of money out of that volatility. Were the people responsible for abnormal spikes buying into the markets (including call options on various indexes and exchange-traded funds) on Wednesday morning – and again, 20 minutes before the tariff announcement went public – extraordinarily lucky? Were they in the right Signal group? Or were they just simply fo...

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6 d. ago People urged to call police immediately if they see this man

Officers would like to speak to Sarfraz Nazir

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6 d. ago Teen who survived shark attack calls for changes to keep people safe in the water

Lulu Gribbin and her friend had been diving for sand dollars before the attack

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6 d. ago Nearly quarter of children spend more than four hours a day on devices – poll

The Children’s Commissioner for England has called for ‘stronger action’ to protect young people from harmful content online.

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6 d. ago Michelle Obama breaks silence on rumors she and Barack are getting divorced

The couple sparked divorce rumors in January when Michelle did not attend Jimmy Carter’s funeral with Barack

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6 d. ago Urgent appeals issued as police hunt four wanted men in Greater Manchester

People are urged to call police if they see them

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7 d. ago People urged to call police immediately if they see this wanted man

Glen James is wanted

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7 d. ago Thai restaurant called out for offering discount to skinny people

Many criticised the ‘skinny body, skinny bill’ rule as discriminatory towards larger individuals

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7 d. ago Kevin Costner and Kim Kardashian's divorce lawyer reveals the most common reason marriages break down

Laura Wasser, whose experience in dissolving marriages has earned her the nickname 'disso queen', has shared some expert insights into divorce - and the key reasons why marriages fail.

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8 d. ago A mom and her kids were ‘snatched’ from their house in Tom Homan’s hometown. After protests, they’ve been released

Some 1,000 people marched passed Tom Homan’s upstate New York home to call for the release of the family

Society