6 h. ago Premier League CEO Richard Masters delivers his verdict on promoted clubs’ survival chances

The last two Premier League seasons have seen the three promoted clubs relegated

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46 h. ago Trump’s Washington DC takeover is straight out of a fascist playbook| Moustafa Bayoumi

Some 800 National Guard troops will be deployed in the nation’s capital because, according to the president: ‘our capital city has been overtaken by violent gangs’A key chapter in the fascist playbook has always been to convince the public that it is living in such a state of mortal danger and unbridled chaos that the only chance of survival is to cede individual rights to the determined will of the Dear Leader. That’s why fascist leaders have constantly demanded that their populations venerate all violence performed in the service of the state and revere the apparatuses of state violence, such as police forces and the military. In this scenario, state violence is not only necessary for the nation’s survival. State violence is understood as even beautiful, something the public can and must believe in.Buying into state violence this way produces something historian Robert Paxton has called a “mobilizing passion”. In his book The Anatomy of Fascism, Paxton described how “the beauty of...

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2 d. ago Alan Shearer issues Leeds United relegation verdict as Daniel Farke fact emerges

Alan Shearer believes Leeds United have the best fighting chance of surviving in the Premier League out of the three promoted sides, although he's still not convinced they will

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6 d. ago ‘I live for a chance to leave Iraq’: how I survived torture and slavery at the hands of Islamic State

A decade on from being freed, a Yazidi woman tells how she endured being abducted by militants when she was aged nineMy childhood living in a village in northern Iraq near the city of Mosul was rich in happiness despite the lack of resources. I was fond of my school and friends and enjoyed a warm family life filled with laughter. That all vanished when Islamic State forces invaded our area.When we heard of their approach [IS took control of large areas of northern Iraq and its second biggest city, Mosul, in 2014], we tried to escape but were surrounded by five IS vehicles. The men were separated and they took my father and one of my cousins and shot them in front of us. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Mum left in a coma after botched BBL 'ecstatic' over cosmetic cowboy crackdown

A mum who was only given five per cent chance of survival leaving her family devastated is 'over the moon' the Government have announced a crackdown on the cosmetic cowboys

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3 w. ago Newlyweds’ nightmare battle against super rare disease as man given 5% chance of survival

EXCLUSIVE: Jake Bartel went to bed with a headache but when he woke the next morning, his life was turned upside down by a rare disease that left doctors baffled

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