7 h. ago Reform UK are 'chancers' and no friends of working people says GMB chief

The General Secretary is expected to praise Labour’s employment bill - but urge the party to “think again” on other issue

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3 d. ago Friends actor warns Jewish people ‘the cavalry ain’t coming’ after Colorado flamethrower attack

“I don’t think I have felt scared since October 7,” Michael Rapaport said

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4 d. ago Reserve train seats and someone else sat in them? How you could get ALL your money back! DEAN DUNHAM

I bought train tickets with assigned seats for me and my friend but, once on board, people were sitting in them and refused to move. It was packed so we couldn't sit together. What are my rights? J.F., Bath.

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4 d. ago Did you reserve train seats only for someone else to sit in them? This is how you could get ALL your money back... and even compensation! DEAN DUNHAM

I bought train tickets with assigned seats for me and my friend but, once on board, people were sitting in them and refused to move. It was packed so we couldn't sit together. What are my rights? J.F., Bath.

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6 d. ago Nigel Farage hates the very idea of Scotland having its own Parliament

In his regular column for the Record, Scotland's First Minister says the Reform UK leader is no friend of ordinary hardworking people.

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8 d. ago A growing number of New Orleans fugitives' friends and family arrested for aiding in jail escape

The 10 men who escaped from a New Orleans jail more than two weeks ago by cutting out a hole behind a toilet received help from at least 14 people, many of them friends and family who provided food, cash, transport and shelter according to court documents

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1 week ago Liverpool’s European glory in Istanbul was a great day shared with great people

Twenty years on from being at that win over Milan, I still cherish the company I kept as much as the comeback I witnessedWe can tell ourselves something different but, the truth is, getting old is rubbish. There are various reasons for this but the main one is loss. The loss of vigour, the loss of mobility the loss of hair. Most of all, though, it’s the loss of people.There are loved ones – friends as well as family – who pass, and then there are those who you share a special moment with and never see again. And so it is that this piece is for David, his dad and his mate. The trio I knew for only a day but which happens to be one of the greatest days of my life. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Liverpool’s European glory in Istanbul was a great day shared with great people | Sachin Nakrani

Twenty years on from being at that win over Milan, I still cherish the company I kept as much as the comeback I witnessedWe can tell ourselves something different but, the truth is, getting old is rubbish. There are various reasons for this but the main one is loss. The loss of vigour, the loss of mobility the loss of hair. Most of all, though, it’s the loss of people.There are loved ones – friends as well as family – who pass, and then there are those who you share a special moment with and never see again. And so it is that this piece is for David, his dad and his mate. The trio I knew for only a day but which happens to be one of the greatest days of my life. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Jog on! Lazy Strava users are using a secret app to FAKE their runs

It's the go-to running app for millions of people around the world. But if you spot one of your friends posting impressive runs on Strava, all may not be as it seems.

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3 w. ago I’ll solve the loneliness epidemic with AI, says Mark Zuckerberg. But isn’t his best mate even more money? | Emma Brockes

He’d like to persuade us that chatting to a bot is like having a friend, and of course, that’s nonsense. But if we succumb, it’s another income stream for him Mark Zuckerberg has gone on a promotional tour to talk up the potential of AI in human relationships. I know; listening to Zuck on friendship is a bit like taking business advice from Bernie Madoff or lessons in sportsmanship from Tonya Harding. But at recent tech conferences and on podcasts, Zuck has been saying he has seen the future and it’s one in which the world’s “loneliness epidemic” is alleviated by people finding friendship with “a system that knows them well and that kind of understands them in the way that their feed algorithms do”. In essence, we’ll be friends with AI, instead of people. The missing air quotes around “knows” and “understands” is a distinction we can assume Zuck neither knows nor understands.This push by the 41-year-old tech leader would be less startling if it weren’t for the fact that semi-regular...

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3 w. ago Do you trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve your loneliness with an ‘AI friend’? No, me neither | Emma Brockes

He’d like to persuade us that chatting to a bot is like having a real pal. Of course that’s nonsense. Still, it’s more money for himMark Zuckerberg has gone on a promotional tour to talk up the potential of AI in human relationships. I know; listening to Zuck on friendship is a bit like taking business advice from Bernie Madoff or lessons in sportsmanship from Tonya Harding. But at recent tech conferences and on podcasts, Zuck has been saying he has seen the future and it’s one in which the world’s “loneliness epidemic” is alleviated by people finding friendship with “a system that knows them well and that kind of understands them in the way that their feed algorithms do”. In essence, we’ll be friends with AI, instead of people. The missing air quotes around “knows” and “understands” is a distinction we can assume Zuck neither knows nor understands.This push by the 41-year-old tech leader would be less startling if it weren’t for the fact that semi-regularly online now you can find ...

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4 w. ago My big break ... as a photograph: meet the TV and film stars who don’t even have to act

From the murdered teen in Adolescence to Love Actually’s deceased wife, some characters’ roles are literally two dimensional. The people behind them open up about fame, money – and devastated friendsWhat’s it like for an actor to star in a humongously successful show – as a photograph? How does it feel to be a big part of a huge production, but barely even act – essentially to have your face be cast? It turns out that – whether you’re the employee of the month in the background of a sitcom or a deceased soldier in an Oscar-winning drama – it can have a variety of unforeseen consequences, from upset grandmas to bemused baristas.“My mum was very weirded out,” says 14-year-old Emilia Holliday, who plays Katie, the murdered teen in Adolescence. She is only seen being stalked and stabbed in distant CCTV footage, has no lines, and her role is largely limited to a few photographs – including one that is framed and surrounded by flowers and balloons in an impromptu memorial, which wasn’t th...

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4 w. ago ‘Buddhism and Björk help me handle fame’: novelist Ocean Vuong

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous made him a literary superstar. Now the Vietnamese American author is exploring his working-class roots in an ambitious follow‑upThere are three kinds of family, muses the novelist and poet Ocean Vuong. There’s the nuclear family, “which often we talk about as the central tenet of American life”. There’s the chosen family, “the pushback”, the community and friendships built by people who have been rejected by their parents, often because of their sexuality or gender identity. And then there’s the family we talk about much less frequently, but spend most of our waking hours within – our colleagues, or what Vuong describes as “the circumstantial family around labour”.Vuong’s forthcoming second novel, The Emperor of Gladness, encompasses them all. There’s its 19-year‑old hero Hai’s relationship with his mother, a poor Vietnamese immigrant who believes that he has fulfilled her desperate aspirations for him by going to university, when he has actually...

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