9 h. ago Why chaotic Norway and hosts Switzerland will set the tone for Euro 2025

The level of European teams has increased ahead of Euro 2025, but will either Norway or Switzerland emerge from their packs to make it a tournament of shocks?

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10 h. ago Switzerland hoping for festival of football as hosts get Euro 2025 party started

Enthusiasm is palpable as fans buy in to a tournament where progress should be made on and off the pitchIn any downtime from ensuring Euro 2025 passes smoothly, Uefa staff can take a short walk to watch Nyon’s summer jazz festival in full flow. Rive Jazzy is in its fourth decade and there should be something for everyone. The Greasers will be on stage to set a tone before England face Wales on 13 July; this Friday anyone with a penchant for swing can turn up at Place du Molard to enjoy harmonies by the Hot Shooters.The more pressing hope is that there will be plenty of those on Switzerland’s football pitches across the next 25 days. At its elite level, the women’s game has never before been blessed with the depth of quality it can showcase this month. There is justified optimism that no weak link will stick out like a sore thumb among the 16 contenders in this European Championship; at the top end a valid expectation exists that, while Spain are obvious favourites, at least three or...

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24 h. ago Musk vows to unseat lawmakers who support Trump’s one big beautiful bill

Tesla CEO also threatened forming an ‘America Party’ if the bill, which would increase US deficit by $3.3tn, is passedElon Musk has vowed to unseat lawmakers who support Donald Trump’s sweeping budget bill, which he has criticized because it would increase the country’s deficit by $3.3tn.“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he wrote on his social media platform, X. Continue reading...

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24 h. ago Musk vows to unseat lawmakers who support Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill’

Tesla CEO also threatened forming an ‘America Party’ if the bill, which would increase US deficit by $3.3tn, is passedElon Musk has vowed to unseat lawmakers who support Donald Trump’s sweeping budget bill, which he has criticized because it would increase the country’s deficit by $3.3tn.“Every member of Congress who campaigned on reducing government spending and then immediately voted for the biggest debt increase in history should hang their head in shame! And they will lose their primary next year if it is the last thing I do on this Earth,” he wrote on his social media platform, X. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago When does the Women's Euros begin? Euro 2025 Lionesses fixtures, start date and hosts

Everything you need to know about the Women’s Euro 2025, including start date, fixtures and host

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58 h. ago When does the Women's Euros start? Euro 2025 Lionesses fixtures, dates and hosts

Everything you need to know about the Women’s Euro 2025, including start date, fixtures and host

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4 d. ago Zohran Mamdani has struck a blow to the Democratic party's passivity | Moira Donegan

Democrats’ actions have not matched the passions of its energized voters. You can only antagonize your base for so longWe’re told that the Democratic party is at a crossroads, that leaders have lost their identity and their way. We’re told that they must spend millions discovering their own “Joe Rogan”, or espouse deregulation, or surrender the fight for the rights of targeted minorities. The Democrats, we’re told, are in a moment of soul searching, of trying to find out how they lost young men and the white working class. They’re still thinking, half a decade on, of how to undo the supposed damage of the 2020 summer, when protesters opposed to the extrajudicial killings of Black civilians shouted: “Defund the police.” The subtext of this handwringing, which has been incessant in the media and among party insiders since the November election, is that the party must move, yet again, to the right. It is presumed that they can’t attract voters otherwise.The apparent victory (still unof...

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6 d. ago Serpentine Summer Party 2025: Cate Blanchett hosts the society event of the season

The great and the good partied in Kensington Gardens to celebrate the Serpentine Pavilion

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8 d. ago Lady Violet Manners' high society wedding descends into party mode

One of high society's most popular weddings of 2025 descended into party mode with disco balls, dancing on tables and drinks aplenty at Belvoir Castle this weekend.

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1 week ago I visited the EURO 2025 hosts and was pleasantly surprised by what I saw

I went on a three-day trip to visit Switzerland ahead of EURO 2025 and was surprised by what I saw.

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2 w. ago Women's Euro 2025: When does Euro 2025 start? Matches, start date, host and opening fixtures

Everything you need to know about the Women’s Euro 2025, including start date, fixtures and host

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2 w. ago Women’s Euros host cities and towns in Switzerland: Where they are and how to visit

The charming lakeside towns and cities of Switzerland are set to host this year’s Women’s Euros

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2 w. ago Eric Cantona and Ella Toone help meld football and art for Manchester festival

The two players are among those collaborating with artists to create the Football City, Art United exhibition“Everybody needs his own ritual or way of preparing,” says the former Dutch footballer Edgar Davids. “Those minutes that you’re in the tunnel is where we’re going to start.”Davids is talking about a piece he has worked on alongside the artist Paul Pfeiffer in which the pair recreate the tension of the tunnel before a big game. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Women’s Euros host cities in Switzerland: Where they are and how to visit

The charming lakeside towns and cities of Switzerland are set to host this year’s Women’s Euros

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2 w. ago 25 photos of Parklife Festival 2025 as fans bring party vibes to Heaton Park

Brat summer is in full swing in Heaton Park as day two of Parklife 2025 gets underway

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2 w. ago Helena Bonham Carter, Zadie Smith and Jennifer Saunders gather for RA Summer Exhibition party

As the annual societal bash gathers famous faces from art, music, and fashion, Olivia Petter reveals what went down at the highlight of London’s social calendar

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2 w. ago I was a Republican – the party I believed in no longer exists | Paolina Milana

I didn’t leave the Republican party lightly. I left because it left meI’m writing this not as a Democrat or an Independent, but as someone who, for most of her life, was a proud Republican.I voted for Ronald Reagan and admired his belief that “character counts”. I believed in personal responsibility, faith and country – and the Republican party seemed to reflect those values. I even rooted for George W Bush during the chaotic “hanging chads” recount in 2000, not because I thought he was perfect, but because I believed he would lead with decency and conviction.Paolina Milana is a first-generation Sicilian American with journalistic roots and the author of several books, including the memoirs The S Word and Committed, and most recently, The Caregiver Chronicles Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Four former staff of Taiwan’s ruling party charged with spying for China

Accused held senior positions with Democratic Progressive party including one who worked for Taiwan’s presidentTaiwan prosecutors have charged four former staffers in the ruling Democratic Progressive party with spying for China while they worked in senior positions.The four include a former aide to Lai Ching-te when he was vice-president and for a time during his current presidency, and a senior staffer to Joseph Wu, then foreign minister and now the national security chief. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Made for sex’: the hedonistic party palaces of New York’s Fire Island – and the blond bombshell who made them

It is a ‘queer Xanadu’, a sliver of sand where weekend-long revelling takes place in fabulous modernist beach-houses. As Fire Island gets its mojo back, we celebrate the Speedos-wearing architect who defined its lookPosters advertising a “bear weekend” cling to the utility poles on Fire Island, punctuating the wooden boardwalks that meander through a lush dune landscape of beach grass and pitch pine. It’s not a celebration of grizzlies, by the looks of the flyers, but of large bearded men in small swimming trunks, bobbing in the pools and sprawled on the sundecks of mid-century modernist homes. You might also find them frolicking in the bushes of this idyllic car-free island, a nature reserve of an unusual kind that stretches in a 30-mile sliver of sand off the coast of Long Island in New York.Over the last century, Fire Island Pines, as the central square-mile section of this sandy spit is known, has evolved into something of a queer Xanadu. Now counting about 600 homes, it is a pl...

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