61 h. ago Appropriate age for letting children play outside alone as Easter holidays approach

If you're considering giving your child more freedom when it comes to venturing out of the house in the school holidays, tips are at hand from a leading children's charity

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4 d. ago ‘Do not play’ lists: why every party needs one – or you’re bound to upset the guests

It could be that you really dislike a song, or perhaps the person who sings it. Either way, your DJ needs to knowName: “Do not play” lists.Age: It’s probably been a thing for pretty much as long as playlists have been a thing, but it’s now more officially a thing because there was just a New York Times article about them. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Sarah Silverman: Postmortem, London Palladium: The provocative ’00s comic plays her first London show in an age

Sarah Silverman: Postmortem, London Palladium: The provocative ’00s comic plays her first London show in an age  Time Out

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1 week ago ‘No consent’: Australian authors ‘livid’ that Meta may have used their books to train AI

A searchable database showed titles from former prime ministers Malcolm Turnbull and John Howard, as well as journalist Tracey SpicerFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralian authors say they are “livid” and feel violated that their work was included in an allegedly pirated dataset of books Meta used to train its AI.The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is being sued by authors in the United States, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and the comedian Sarah Silverman, for copyright infringement.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inside BBC legend Andy Peebles' life from nightclub DJ to John Lennon's final interview

Radio presenter and disc jockey Andy Peebles has passed away at the age of 76 as radio legends play tribute to the BBC Radio 1 host who worked for the station from 1978 to 1992

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2 w. ago England star Morgan Rogers reflects on 'struggle' to reach top after Man City rejection

Morgan Rogers, 22, was on Manchester City’s books as a teenager and played through all the England age groups but found it difficult to realise his full potential

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3 w. ago Gerwyn Price aims dig at Luke Littler saying darts is no longer a ‘working men’s game’

Gerwyn Price reckons the days of old-school players working up through the ranks is over, with the game instead being dominated by younger players trained from a young age

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3 w. ago ‘Finding time for pleasure’: what orcas taught me about sex in midlife

Female killer whales lead playful sex lives as they age – and are also celebrated for their matriarchal wisdomHow much do you spend on health and wellness a month?Four years ago, I was thrown for a loop by a wave of strange new symptoms including night sweats, an expanding midsection, dry skin, and a strong and sudden intolerance for noise. I suspected they had something to do with the neurological and physiological changes of perimenopause but was frustrated by the absence of clear answers about what was happening to my middle-aged body. Lacking few nuanced representations of this period of life, I began looking at what midlife looks like elsewhere in nature.It was inspiring. Trees, for instance, illustrate the capaciousness of midlife: as they mature, they add rings to their ever-expanding trunks. Mature trees in urban areas – those 20 years and up – remove higher levels of air pollution, sequester more carbon from the atmosphere and provide much more leaf area and shade than thei...

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3 w. ago Athol Fugard, South African political dissident playwright, dies aged 92

A giant of political drama, Fugard captured the injustices of apartheid in works such as Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The IslandThe South African playwright and director Athol Fugard, whose works included the plays Sizwe Banzi Is Dead and The Island and the novel Tsotsi, has died at the age of 92.A major political dissident playwright of the 20th century, Fugard wrote more than 30 dramas including Statements After an Arrest Under the Immorality Act (in 1972) and “Master Harold” and the Boys (1982). Both of those drew upon the time in the 1950s when he could only find employment as a clerk in one of the courts where black South Africans were charged (and inevitably convicted) of breaches of the “pass laws”, designed to control the movements of a racially segregated population under the apartheid system. There, he witnessed hourly the dehumanisation of those who had chosen the “wrong” streets or people. Continue reading...

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