10 h. ago Rest of Europe should follow Denmark’s lead in banning phones in schools, says expert

Chair of Danish wellbeing commission says whole continent should halt digitalisation of children’s livesThe whole of Europe should follow Denmark’s lead by banning mobile phones from schools to stop them from being “colonised by digital platforms”, the chair of the country’s wellbeing commission has said.Removing mobile phones from schools gave young people a “pause” from online life, teaching them how to be part of analogue communities and train their attention spans, said Rasmus Meyer, who led the government commission to investigate growing dissatisfaction among children and young people. Continue reading...

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22 h. ago The SNP's lack of urgency over mobile phones in school will harm our children

Writing in the Daily Record, Labour MP for Livingston Gregor Poynton says the SNP should ban mobile phones in schools immediately.

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58 h. ago Referee breaks silence on shocking incident that could lead to SEVEN MONTH ban

Lyon chief Paulo Fonseca attempted to headbutt referee Benoit Millot, it's claimed, wile the official watched the VAR screen during Lyon's meeting with Brest at the weekend

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69 h. ago The dazzling underdog with amazing legs: how Anora swept the Oscars

Sean Baker’s film took five Academy Awards on Sunday evening. Here’s how it triggered the landslide• Anora dominates the Oscars – here’s the complete list of winnersAnora is officially film of the year, crowned supreme at the Oscars, just as it was at Cannes when it was anointed with the Palme d’Or last May. That’s a long path to glory, and a fairly untrodden one. Parasite made it five years ago; the previous film to do so was Marty in 1955. (In fact, Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend achieved a similar feat 10 years before that, but then the top prize at Cannes was the Grand Prix, and it was shared.)Anyway: a small number. Acquired by Neon for the US before Cannes, Anora opened there last October in an effective rollout. Half of its earnings were made stateside, with the rest predominantly in Europe, and France – which takes Cannes seriously – proving the major market. It has also done brisk trade in Russia ($3m so far), which can’t be said for a lot of the other nominees, and says s...

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4 d. ago Stereophonics' Kelly Jones' brilliant text from Oasis' Noel Gallagher and why he's 'learned a lot' from his son

You may know everything you need to know about the band, but here is everything you need to know about its lead singer

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4 d. ago Iconic punk singer from New York Dolls dies after stage four cancer battle

David Johansen, the former lead singer of American rock band New York Dolls, has sadly died at the age of 75 following a battle with stage four cancer and a brain tumour

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5 d. ago Ukraine is not going to get the peace settlement it needs and deserves

Editorial: As tempers flared in the White House, it is President Zelensky – and the rest of Europe – who will suffer

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5 d. ago Scotland's education secretary faces fresh demands for national ban on mobile phones in schools

Jenny Gilruth was asked to enforce a blanket ban on phones by Pam Gosal MSP - saying new guidance handing the decision to individual schools was “failing” pupils.

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5 d. ago Make right call on phones in schools amid fresh demands for national ban

Record View says the Scottish Government needs a stronger line on this problem.

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6 d. ago Parents calling for phone bans in schools to improve their youngsters' classroom behaviour

A poll of 1000 parents and 500 secondary school teachers by research agency Public First has found that both groups see classroom behaviour as the main cause of classroom disorder.

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6 d. ago ‘The love child of Mick Hucknall and Crazy Frog’: is Eurovision’s Lumo the worst mascot ever?

Meet the song contest’s first ever mascot – a sentient heart with a bizarrely sexy mouth that looks like the result of the ChatGPT prompt ‘please ruin my day’. Why oh why has this happened?The miracle of Eurovision is how much it has legitimised itself over the last decade and a half. For years, the song contest was the laughing stock of Europe, a toe-curling night on which all the continent’s fifth-rate novelty acts would gather and bing-bam-boom themselves to death while the rest of Europe looked on and jeered.But look at it now. By carefully repositioning itself, and by encouraging countries to submit relevant, modish entries, Eurovision has transformed into the party of the year. People love Eurovision – and not ironically, either. At a time of growing international strife – the sort of strife that it was designed to combat – Eurovision represents a moment of unity. It is, in short, in the shape of its life. It would take something spectacular to mess it up. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago It’s the liberal German dilemma: Merz is anathema, but he might stand up to Trump | John Kampfner

Amid the gloom, the truth is dawning: the country faces hard political choices, and needs a more muscular approach to defence Donald Trump and his lieutenants have done Germans an enormous favour. Perilously late in the day, the US president and special envoy to the Kremlin has alerted Germany and the rest of Europe that there is one fault line, and one alone, between democracy and autocracy. All other political issues facing the country pale into insignificance.It seems that Friedrich Merz gets it, even if many in his country still don’t. Since winning Sunday’s election, the Christian Democrat (CDU) chancellor-elect has used every opportunity to warn of the dangers of the Trumpian new world order. He has not sought to provide reassurance, something that Germans tend to crave from their politicians. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world

London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world  The Register

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9 d. ago The 1975 band members not liable for Malaysian festival closure, judge rules

Lead singer Matty Healy kissed a bandmate after a ‘profanity-laden speech’ at a 2023 show which angered Malaysian authorities.

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1 week ago The moment I knew: I thought I was too cool for love. My rock idol knew better | Trent Dalton

Trent Dalton had a crush on his sophisticated colleague Fiona. The lead singer of his favourite band helped him find the words to tell herFind more stories from The moment I knew series hereOn 10 January 2000 I started my first job in journalism at the Brisbane News. I was 20 years old, a starry-eyed rube from suburban Bracken Ridge who didn’t even know what a flat white was.On my first day my editor had the rest of the journos join us at a cafe to welcome me to the team. That’s when I met Fiona. Fi. She’d been out on assignment and arrived late; the only seat left was right next to me. She was so natural and warm in the way she chatted with me. What was just polite small talk felt to me like an enormous show of generosity; like a light shining on me. She also reminded me of my childhood screen crush Toni Pearen. I was instantly taken with her. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Phones should be banned in schools to combat alarming trend of filming violence

"Our kids cannot afford to suffer any longer."

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1 week ago Anas Sarwar: I will ban mobile phones in school classrooms as Labour First Minister

The Scottish Labour leader said he would make schools ‘safe, calm places for learning again’

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1 week ago Mobile phones to be banned in Scots schools if Labour wins next Holyrood election

Anas Sarwar used his keynote speech at the Scottish Labour conference to promise he would make schools "safe, calm places for learning again"

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1 week ago Trump brings Russia in from the cold, but at what cost to Ukraine? – podcast

In a matter of days, Donald Trump completed the most radical shift in US foreign policy in decades, bringing Putin back into the fold while sidelining Europe. He claims to have brought the end of the war in Ukraine in sight, but with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the rest of Europe excluded from the US-Russia talks, are we really any closer to peace? And, at what price?Jonathan Freedland speaks to veteran US diplomat Kurt Volker, who served as Trump’s special representative for Ukraine during his first term, and the Guardian’s US live news editor Chris MichaelSend your questions and feedback to politicsweeklyamerica@theguardian.com Help support the Guardian by going to theguardian.com/politcspodus Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Imagine Dragons fans are just learning the double meaning behind the band's name

Imagine Dragons fans have been left gobsmacked after learning the band's name has a double meaning as lead singer Dan Reynolds tries to hold onto the mystery surrounding it

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