13 h. ago Swearing, booing and spitting: is crowd behaviour out of control?

As Ryder Cup fans throw beer at players’ wives, we investigate if fans’ conduct has got worse or changed little since ancient Athens when Plato bemoaned the mobThe abuse hurled at Europe’s golfers in the Ryder Cup elicited gasps and dismay on both sides of the Atlantic. The crowd at the Bethpage Black course in New York graduated from boos and heckles to homophobic slurs and insults aimed at players’ wives. The first-tee master of ceremonies set the tone by leading a chant of “fuck you, Rory!”, putting Rory McIlroy firmly in the crosshairs – along with his wife, who was hit with a beer cup.After initially playing it down, American golf officials apologised and said some fan behaviour had “crossed the line”, but the affair has left a nagging sense of unease. What if the line has in fact moved? What if accepted codes of crowd behaviour have changed? Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Let me in you f***ing b****: Watch Alice Evans's Ring doorbell meltdown at 'old woman'

Appearing worse for wear, Ms Evans, who has two daughters with Welsh hunk Ioan Gruffudd, is seen calling one neighbour a 'b***h' and a 'scary old woman' in unseen Ring doorbell footage.

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4 d. ago Let me in you f***ing b****: Watch Alice Evans' Ring doorbell meltdown at 'old woman'

Appearing worse for wear, Ms Evans, who has two daughters with Welsh hunk Gruffudd, is seen calling one neighbour a 'b***h' and a 'scary old woman' in unseen Ring doorbell footage.

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1 week ago Katie Price's friends 'worried' as they fear she's 'out of control' following recent public appearances

Katie Price has been slammed for her 'out of control' behaviour after she was late to a gig and cancelled a high-profile appearance last minute, claims a source

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2 w. ago Uefa and Atletico Madrid set to investigate alleged ‘spit’ during Liverpool chaos

A member of Atletico Madrid’s coaching staff appeared to spit into the crowd as manager Diego Simeone was sent off

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2 w. ago Trump is no 'strongman' when it comes to Russia or Israel. If other democracies don’t step up, anarchy awaits | Simon Tisdall

Putin and Netanyahu are creating chaos in the vacuum left by a weak US president. But there are still ways to foil themIt is too easy to blame Donald Trump for everything that goes wrong in the world. The ability of any US president to fundamentally change or control the behaviour of other major powers is frequently overestimated. Yet by posing as a sort of uncrowned global monarch and grand arbiter of war and peace, Trump perpetuates fantasies of US hegemony, omnipotence and divine right. Intoxicated by such ego-inflating delusions, he pledged before taking office to swiftly end the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Perhaps, in his vanity and hubris, he truly believed he could.Eight months on, the exact opposite is happening. Both crises are expanding and escalating. The bubble has burst, his bluff has been called, the emperor has no clothes – and there is no denying that Trump, by alternately appeasing, excusing and encouraging the two foremost villains of these twin tragedies, is great...

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3 w. ago I Swear: My Life With Tourette's by John Davidson: The day I caused a royal bomb scare

From spooking the Queen to being tossed off a bus, John's life with tourette's has been a mixed bag.

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