42 m. ago Beastie Boys fans stunned to learn the real meaning of band's name more than 40 years later

The hip hop group, who first formed in New York in 1979, was composed of guitarist Adam 'Ad Rock' Horovitz, bass player Adam 'MCA' Yauch and Michael 'Mike D' Diamond.

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64 m. ago Taylor Swift's mysterious 'Lucy' confirms identity after name

Boygenius singer and songwriter Lucy Dacus has come forward to confirm that she is the 'Lucy' who Taylor Swift mentions in her track The Tortured Poets Department

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85 m. ago Boys with cancer can face infertility as adults. Can storing their stem cells help?

Researchers have performed the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells in hopes of restoring fertility in a man who survived childhood cancer

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1 hour ago Keir Starmer's spin chief quits Downing Street after just NINE months as he's replaced by his deputy and a former TikTok communications boss

Matthew Doyle, who also served as Sir Keir's communications chief in opposition, is departing to prompt a shake-up of the Prime Minister's top staff.

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1 hour ago Keir Starmer says people on benefits are 'slightly fearful' of looking for work as he defends cuts to disability cash amid Labour rebellion

The Prime Minister made the remark as he highlighted how the government would help the unemployed back into work.

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1 hour ago Brendan Rodgers in frank Kasper Schmeichel injury admission as Celtic boss takes keeper snipers down

The 38-year-old picked up a shoulder injury in Denmark's game against Portugal and has been taking stick for his performance

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2 h. ago The Adolescence alarm: ‘If there’s a problem with boys’ behaviour, it’s because of us’

Millions have been gripped by a story of toxic masculinity in children that’s been called a ‘wake-up call’. But is it a moral panic, and how should we respond?There is a scene in the Netflix super hit Adolescence, about an elfin-faced 13-year-old boy who stabs to death a female schoolmate, motivated by a fear and loathing of women apparently fuelled by his exposures online, that is not – relatively speaking– very tense.The lead investigator, DI Luke Bascombe, played by Ashley Walters, is roaming the children’s bleak, grey high school searching for clues as to the murder weapon and the motive. His own son, Adam (Amari Bacchus), a gangly, bullied senior, takes his father aside into a room of stacked chairs and blue-tinged light. He wants to help him understand. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Fact check: How much Labour is spending on transport in the North

Keir Starmer says his government is now spending more on transport in the North of England than the South. Is it true?

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3 h. ago Tragedy as boy, 14, dies eight days after horror electric scooter crash

He was rushed to hospital in a life-threatening condition

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3 h. ago Starmer ‘disappointed’ Sentencing Council won’t change guidelines that have prompted fears of two tier justice – UK politics live

Justice secretary says ‘all options are on the table’ and threatens to change law Keir Starmer has said that he is “disappointed” at the Sentencing Council’s refusal to agree to the government’s request to withdraw the guidelines that have led to claims it is promoting “two-tier” justice. (See 11.44am.) Asked about the Sentencing Council’s letter this morning, he said:Look, I’m disappointed in this response, and the lord chancellor is obviously continuing to engage on this, and we’re considering our response.All options are on the table. I’m disappointed at this outcome, and now we will have to consider what we do as a result.Farage wants you to eat chlorinated chicken just so he can keep licking the boots of his idol Donald Trump. It’s so pathetic and unpatriotic. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago How has fascism in Britain got this far? Neoliberalism has opened the door for it | George Monbiot

Neoliberalism destroys democratic hope and the far right fills the political void. We need a new politics of belonging, not Labour’s craven appeasement of capitalThe democratic recession does not begin when a far-right party takes office. It begins when a centrist party crushes hope in democracy. When Keir Starmer’s government takes a chainsaw to people’s aspirations for a fairer, greener, kinder country, he cuts off not just faith in the Labour party but faith in politics itself. The almost inevitable result, as countries from the US to the Netherlands, Argentina to Austria, Italy to Sweden show, is to let the far right in.So what’s the game? Why adopt policies that could scarcely be better calculated to prevent your re-election? Why stick to outdated fiscal rules when projections suggest they’ll make almost everyone worse off, especially those in poverty? Why impose devastating attacks on wellbeing, such as sustaining the two-child benefit cap, freezing local housing allowance and...

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4 h. ago Farage confirms he wants new NHS funding model but Labour says plan would lead to huge patient bills – UK politics live

Nigel Farage has tried to fend off claims that Reform UK would force people to pay to see a doctorNigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, also told Today that the UK should negotiate a wide-ranging trade deal with the US. This should include agriculture, he said. Farage acknowledged that in the past talks on this have been held up by Britain not wanting to allow food imports produced to America’s less rigorous standards, but he claimed the solution was just to give consumers a choice. He said:Now there’s been some concern about chlorine-treated chicken etc, but there is an answer to that which is label things, let consumers decide I would allow consumers in America to buy our products and consumers here to buy their products, and provided we have the right labelling, that’s good.It looks like Nigel Farage has had the full indoctrination at Mar-a-Lago. No one in this country wants chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves.Farage wants to sell out our hard-working British farmers for...

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4 h. ago Boy, 13, charged with murder after girl shot in playground after school bus row

Anaya Zachary was shot four times after a row on the school bus in Baytown, Texas. Her cousin told reporters the 14 year old was shot twice before trying to run away when she was shot two more times

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5 h. ago Keir Starmer’s communications chief quits after just nine months in Downing Street

Matthew Doyle becomes the second member of Sir Keir Starmer’s top team to quit less than a year into the job

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5 h. ago Huge change to Keir Starmer's top team with senior figure quitting after 9 months in No10

Matthew Doyle, Keir Starmer's director of communications in No10, has surprisingly quit after just nine months in the job - he said it is time to 'pass the baton on'

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6 h. ago Gang of four boys aged 15 to 17 who 'raped woman in churchyard alleyway' are to appear in court

The boys, two aged 15 and two aged 17, are accused of carrying out the sex attack in an alleyway off St Mary's Memorial Gardens in Newark on December 28, 2023.

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6 h. ago Little boy bursts into tears after being given cake for heart

A little boy who was given a slice of cake left people baffled after he burst into tears at the simple gesture – but after learning the reason, some have been left heartbroken

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8 h. ago King Charles cancels engagements after suffering 'temporary side effects' from cancer treatment

Sir Keir Starmer sends best wishes to King Charles after he required a short period of observation in hospital

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8 h. ago Boy who stole city's heart before he died is remembered in special way

It will ensure his name will "live forever" in his home community

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10 h. ago Keir Starmer is one of Labour’s most rightwing prime ministers. And one of its most leftwing, too | Andy Beckett

The PM offers a political hybrid designed for a fickle electorate. There are short-term electoral gains to be won, but risks in the long termFor more than eight months now, since shortly after Labour won power, more and more people have been outraged by the government’s moves to the right. Starting with its decision to keep the Conservatives’ cruel two-child benefit cap last July, the government has regularly given these critics reasons to feel shocked, betrayed or just disappointed.From deportation videos to Keir Starmer’s declaration that “I like and respect” Donald Trump, from repeated public sector cuts to the chancellor Rachel Reeves’s talk of “tearing down regulatory barriers” in this week’s spring statement, Labour has often behaved as if the boundaries between its supposedly centre-left politics and the politics of the right or even the far right have simply melted away. Continue reading...

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