44 m. ago Zarah Sultana does not invite Jeremy Corbyn to her Your Party rally on eve of conference marred by expulsions, talk of 'witch hunts' and a row over what they should be called

Tensions continue to simmer between the party's main figures as two MPs quit and members of the Socialist Workers Party were forced out just hours before the start of the conference.

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88 m. ago Is Rangers vs Falkirk on TV? Live stream, TV and kickoff details for Premiership clash

It's back to league business for Rangers as they look to shake off their latest European gut-punch against flying Falkirk

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1 hour ago David Martindale reveals personal Rangers howler apology from John Beaton as Livingston boss repeats call to bin VAR

Martindale says he got a phone call from John Beaton to apologise for the penalty his side didn't get

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1 hour ago Stranger Things star's 'perfect' period drama was labelled 'riskiest show on TV'

There's no better time to revisit the unique literary adaptation as the Netflix show comes to an end

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2 h. ago M4 brought to a standstill after horror crash involving multiple vehicles with 2 miles of congestion and severe delays

A MOTORWAY has come to a standstill after a multiple vehicle crash. The smash happened on the M4, eastbound between junction 15 (Swindon) and junction 14 (Hungerford). The National Highways Agency has warned anyone travelling towards London to expect lengthy delays. The accident that has caused the long delays is believed to involve two cars...

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2 h. ago ‘If I was American, I’d be worried about my country’: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more

Democracy, birds and hangover cures – famous fans put their questions to the visionary authorAfter the ­phenomenal global success, not to mention timeliness, of the TV adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale in 2017, Margaret Atwood has been regarded as “a combination of figurehead, prophet and saint”, the author writes in her new memoir Book of Lives. Over 600 pages this “memoir of sorts” ranges from her childhood growing up in the Canadian backwoods to her grief at the death of her partner of 48 years, the writer Graeme Gibson, in 2019, with many friendships, the occasional spat and more than 50 books (including Cat’s Eye, Alias Grace and the Booker prizewinning The Blind Assassin and The Testaments) in between.The author, who turned 86 last week, always likes to take the long view, often from a couple of centuries’ distance. As Rebecca Solnit notes below, she now has a long view of our times. Age and the freedom of being a writer (as she says, she can’t get sacked) make her fearless in...

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3 h. ago 'Camp masterpiece' musical classic and 'even better' sequel both airing for free today

Musical fans will be delighted to see both the original 1992 hit and its underrated sequel airing on TV today

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3 h. ago ‘Masterpiece' musical and 'even better' sequel both on TV for free today

An incredible double bill of musical classics is available to watch for free this weekend

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3 h. ago Betting column: Best bets for this weekend including Chelsea vs Arsenal

ROLL UP, roll up the Greatest League on Earth. No idle boast after Europe’s finest were dismantled in London in midweek. Now we’ve got the greatest match in the greatest league on Earth tomorrow, as leaders Arsenal land at second-placed Chelsea. The Gunners arrive holding a six-point advantage, having lost only once all season in...

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4 h. ago Harry Potter star's erotic drama branded 'hottest in decades' is finally here

The Harry Potter alum stars in a fresh romance that follows an unconventional partnership between a shy singer and a domineering biker

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4 h. ago Fiona Hill: Russian expert on why Putin knows exactly how to get Trump on side

Vladimir Putin knows exactly how to get Donald Trump on side, a former White House adviser who observed meetings between the pair has said.

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4 h. ago ‘Putin’s whole life revolves around war – he’s manipulating Trump and doesn’t want peace’, ex

Fiona Hill, a Russian expert and former White House adviser, who witnessed meetings between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, tells The Independent podcast World of Trouble’s Sam Kiley that the Russian president knows how to mesmerise his US counterpart - and has no plan to give up his designs on Ukraine

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4 h. ago My cultural awakening: Thelma & Louise made me realise I was stuck in an unhappy marriage

One line from Ridley Scott’s classic movie was the shove I needed to walk out on my husband after years of his controlling behaviourIt was 1991, I was in my early 40s, living in the south of England and trapped in a marriage that had long since curdled into something quietly suffocating. My husband had become controlling, first with money, then with almost everything else: what I wore, who I saw, what I said. It crept up so slowly that I didn’t quite realise what was happening.We had met as students in the early 1970s, both from working-class, northern families and feeling slightly out of place at a university full of public school accents. We shared politics, music and a sense of being outsiders together. For years, life felt full of promise. When our first child arrived, I gave up my local government job to stay at home. That’s when the balance between us shifted. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Get perfectly cooked fried eggs without flipping by adding 1 item to pan

Getting fried eggs with runny yolks and fully cooked whites can be tricky, but this simple method helps you achieve better results without flipping

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5 h. ago Bathroom mould can be repelled with 1 item you already have at home

Mould can be a problem in bathrooms, particularly in the grout between your tiles. But one item you've probably already got in the cupboard could help repel water and keep mould at bay

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5 h. ago Brain damage, blindness and death: the global trail of trauma left by methanol

Methanol, a cheap relative of ethanol, is entering the supply chain, causing thousands of deaths around the worldFor Bethany Clarke, poison tasted like nothing. There was no bitter aftertaste, no astringent sting at the back of the tongue. If anything, she thought in passing, the free shots she and her friends were drinking at a hostel bar in Laos had probably been watered down – she wasn’t detecting a strong vodka flavour through the veil of Sprite she had mixed it with.All in all, Clarke remembers drinking about five of those shots, sitting with her best friend, Simone White, and a crowd of others at the hostel’s happy hour. CCTV footage shows the group laughing in the warm air of the open bar in the town of Vang Vieng, green and red lights dancing over their shoulders. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Why the life of John Quigley, chef to stars like Paul McCartney and Tina Turner, has a lesson for us all

The late John Quigley lifted every room he entered and, when you met him, it was a better day

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5 h. ago Rookie Rohl sees Rangers comment dissected by Jury as verdict delivered on Wilfried Nancy introduction

The Record Sport team debate all the big issues ahead of another big week in Scottish football

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5 h. ago Panutche Camara reveals wife asked him what Dundee United score was while she was giving birth

Camara says his wife asked him what the score was against Falkirk – while she was giving birth

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6 h. ago The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism

Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protectionKaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions. Kallas, the former Estonian prime minister, was not just indulging in some form of historical mathematics. She was seeking to make a point that lies at the heart of the dispute between the US and Europe over Ukraine’s future, a dispute that has again revealed the chasm across the Atlantic about the true nature of the Russian regime.Kallas reads history books as a leisure activity and – drawing on her own country’s history of Soviet occupation – has long maintained that the Soviet Union fell, but its imperialism never did. “Russia has never truly had to come to terms with its brutal past o...

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