75 m. ago London stocks rise after Fed cuts rates as expected; focus on Bank of England By Reuters

London stocks rise after Fed cuts rates as expected; focus on Bank of England By Reuters  Investing.com

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82 m. ago Trump’s suit against the New York Times is nonsense. Yet it poses a grave threat | Robert Reich

The president won’t prevail in court. But his cases against media companies have a potential chilling effect on criticism of the governmentDonald Trump has sued the New York Times for, well, reporting on Trump.Rather than charging the Times with any specific libelous act, Trump’s lawsuit is just another of his angry bloviations.Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is a professor of public policy emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Guardian US columnist and his newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com. His new book, Coming Up Short: A Memoir of My America, is out now Continue reading...

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86 m. ago London stocks rise after Fed cuts rates as expected; focus on Bank of England

London stocks rise after Fed cuts rates as expected; focus on Bank of England  Reuters

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2 h. ago Manchester experts warn everyone with a driveway as 'complaints rise'

Waste experts based in the area say people need to be on their guard this autumn

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2 h. ago Netflix Black Rabbit star's other dark thriller is 'masterclass in suspense'

Some fans say the crime thriller adaptation is better than the book.

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2 h. ago Queen Camilla tells Kate 'shoo' with sweeping hand gesture next to Melania Trump

Extraordinary footage appears to show Queen Camilla asking Princess Kate to move with a sweeping hand gesture during Donald and Melania Trump's formal welcome at Windsor Castle

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2 h. ago Twilight author confirms she has ‘other stories outlined’ for vampire series

‘The stories go on,’ said Stephanie Meyer

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3 h. ago The Traitors Circle by Jonathan Freedland review – a propulsive story of German resistance

A thriller-like account of the influential men and women who opposed Hitler and paid a terrible priceOn 10 September 1943, a loose group of well-connected friends met in a small apartment in the Charlottenberg area of Berlin. The host was Elisabeth von Thadden and the nominal reason for the get-together was her younger sister’s 50th birthday. Really, though, this was a cover story for nine influential people meeting to discuss what should happen now that it was clear that Hitler was losing the war.Otto Kiep, a former diplomat, talked hopefully about how Mussolini’s recent toppling meant that Italy was ready to make peace with the allies, while political hostess Hanna Solf gleefully anticipated the moment when Hitler fell: “We’ll put him against a wall.” Meanwhile, Von Thadden herself, a devout Protestant and former headteacher of an elite girls’ school, warned of the humanitarian crisis that would follow the end of hostilities. For those who gathered on that late summer’s day f...

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3 h. ago Man United handed new Ruben Amorim sack verdict with extraordinary demand

Manchester United appointed Ruben Amorim as the permanent replacement for Erik ten Hag after an interim period, during which time Ruud van Nistelrooy took charge

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3 h. ago M&S reveals exact date its Christmas 2025 food will be available to order online

The M&S Food to Order service allows customers to book and pay for their Christmas dinner and other food ahead of time before collecting it closer to the festive period

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4 h. ago Genius way Victorians kept their draughty homes warm before central heating

As energy costs continue to rise, households nationwide are seeking ways to keep their homes cosy without cranking up the heating and inflating their energy bills

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4 h. ago Next delivers profit boost, but cautions over ‘anaemic’ UK economic growth

The fashion and homewares group reported a 13.8% rise in pre-tax profits to £515 million for the six months to the end of July.

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5 h. ago Clown Town by Mick Herron review – more fun and games with the Slow Horses

The ninth novel in the Slough House series, this tale of IRA infiltration is a perfect mix of one-liners, plot twists and real-world-tinged intrigueTrigger warning: the new Slough House novel shares its name, I assume accidentally, with a particularly bleak soft-play centre on London’s North Circular Road in which sticky under-fives circulate through an infernal apparatus wailing and stabbing each other with plastic forks while the grownups sit at plastic tables drinking horrible coffee and waiting for death. Just a glimpse at the dust jacket sent me back a decade to that environment of grubbiness, boredom and mild peril. It’s not that big a leap, mind. There’s something of the knockabout quality of a soft-play centre in Mick Herron’s fictional world: all fun and games until someone loses an eye.That said, as far as I know, none of the injuries in the real-world Clown Town will have been occasioned by the victim being held down so the front wheel of a Land Rover Defender c...

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5 h. ago Touch grass: How Gen Z stopped going outside and why it matters

As a new study reveals that most British young people stay indoors for days at a time, it starts to make sense of why we’re witnessing the mass decline of mental health – and the continuing rise of the age of rage, writes Helen Coffey

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6 h. ago Rachel Roddy’s recipe for lasagne with courgette and three cheeses | A kitchen in Rome

A meat-free version of the classic layered pasta dish made with good strong cheese and a few essential details you may not have thought ofWhen I was writing a book about pasta, an acquaintance from Naples who lives in Chișinău, Moldova, with his Welsh wife suggested that the first step with lasagne is to approach it like a town planner. That is, first work out the size of the dish in relation to the size of the pasta sheets (this applies to both fresh and dried), then decide how many layers you want, not only to establish how many sheets you need, but also to proportion the various fillings accordingly. We also decided that the construction of a lasagne should be like that of a bricklayer combined with a Jackson Pollock approach to the sauces.My ceramic lasagne dish is 30cm x 20cm, and three 10cm x 25cm dried lasagne sheets make a single layer in it, so a five-layer lasagne requires 15 sheets. Most dried lasagne sold today doesn’t require pre-cooking or soaking, but those sheets dep...

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6 h. ago Jeffrey Archer: ‘Nigel Farage is the best mob orator I’ve heard in my lifetime – I could never vote for him’

As he publishes his 30th novel, the former deputy chair of the Conservative Party is showing no signs of slowing down. In his riverside penthouse in London, he talks to Chris Harvey about the rise of Reform, Peter Mandelson’s sacking over his friendship with Epstein, and his big life regret

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6 h. ago Kaleb Cooper says he's 'grown up' after birth of third child

The 27-year-old Clarkson's Farm star has published a new children's book, Kaleb’s Farmyard Tales

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7 h. ago ‘Resistance is when I put an end to what I don’t like’: The rise and fall of the Baader

In the 1970s, the radical leftwing German terrorist organisation may have spread fear through public acts of violence – but its inner workings were characterised by vanity and incompetenceIn the summer of 1970, a group of aspirant revolutionaries arrived in Jordan from West Germany. They sought military training though they had barely handled weapons before. They sought a guerrilla war in the streets of Europe, but had never done anything more than light a fire in a deserted department store. They sought the spurious glamour that spending time with a Palestinian armed group could confer. Above all, they sought a safe place where they could hide and plan.Some of the group had flown to Beirut on a direct flight from communist-run East Berlin. The better known members – Ulrike Meinhof, a prominent leftwing journalist, and two convicted arsonists called Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader – had faced a more complicated journey. First, they’d had to cross into East Germany, then they took ...

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7 h. ago France should have recognised Palestinian statehood years ago. The cynic in me asks: why now? | Rokhaya Diallo

Weakened domestically, Emmanuel Macron wants an international legacy. Yet still, he does nothing to sanction IsraelWhen Emmanuel Macron announced that France intended to recognise Palestinian statehood, he drew a furious rebuke from Israel – and caused a diplomatic storm with the US. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote a letter accusing the French government of failing to “confront the alarming rise of antisemitism” in France, adding the harsh and unequivocal assessment: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on this antisemitic fire.”In the same letter, he praised Donald Trump’s action to “protect the civil rights of American Jews”.Rokhaya Diallo is a Guardian Europe columnist Continue reading...

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8 h. ago State Pension alert – Millions face paying income tax for first time

The state pension is set to rise by 4.7% in April, but the increase will push millions of pensioners into paying income tax for the first time

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