14 m. ago I drove 25 cars in 2025 and the best wasn't a Porsche, BMW, or Ford

From the Alpine A110R to electric SUVs and pick-up trucks, here's my personal ranking of 25 cars tested in 2025, including some that surprised me for all the right and wrong reasons

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4 d. ago 'I'm furious over reason son's girlfriend dumped him but people say I'm wrong'

A mum has expressed her frustrations about her son getting dumped by his girlfriend 'right before Christmas' after refusing to propose to her, leaving the mum furious with the girlfriend

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5 d. ago F1 2025 awards as Lando Norris denied best driver and Lewis Hamilton wins for wrong reasons

Formula 1 correspondent Daniel Moxon was on duty for all 24 F1 race weekends in 2025 and has now confirmed his awards, from the best driver and team to 'numpty of the year'

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1 week ago Wilfried Nancy threatens to make Celtic history for all the wrong reasons but Jury grants him stay of execution

The Monday Jury believes sacking the boss after just one week is madness – but there's no hiding from his horrible start

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1 week ago Spotify unspun: Listening habits of First Minister and his political rivals revealed from Motorhead to Eminem

The annual Spotify Wrapped phenomenon delivers the honest truth on our listening habits - would our political leaders resist spin and share their top tunes?

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1 week ago Salah back in Liverpool fray after Slot talks, Premier League buildup and more – matchday live

⚽ All the latest pre-match news, previews and updates⚽ Fixtures | Tables | Read Football Daily | And mail usLiverpool v Brighton: The reaction from Salah’s comments in the UK and in his home country could not be on two further ends of the spectrum.The true measure of Salah’s cultural weight became clear in the breadth of national conversation, as talk around his interview spilled beyond the confines of football punditry. One of Egypt’s most known news presenters, Amr Adib, whose loud, brash political and economic opinions often go viral for all the wrong reasons, staunchly came to Salah’s defence. Political commentators dissected Salah’s words through the lens of negotiation tactics. Even YouTube film critics and foodie TikTokers felt compelled to offer their analysis. “It feels as if every public voice has an opinion to air,” says the president of one of Liverpool’s oldest fanclubs in Egypt, Ahmed Fahmy. “The dramatics of it all proves that a crisis involving Salah is a crisis fo...

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1 week ago Taylor Swift's teary breakdown after meeting the families of murdered kids has left me with an almost unsayable thought: KENNEDY

On Friday, billionaire pop tyrant Taylor Swift released her new six-part Eras Tour docuseries. In one scene (gone viral for all the wrong reasons), Taylor is seen sobbing.

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2 w. ago 'Hypocrite' Mark Zuckerberg sparks backlash as his enormous new $300m 387

Mark Zuckerberg's lavish yacht has gone viral for all the wrong reasons after critics slammed its reported impact on the planet.

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2 w. ago Five reasons your Spotify Wrapped data looks 'off' this year

Spotify rolled out its annual Spotify Wrapped feature this week – but some users complained that their listening habits don't look as accurate as they would expect. Here's why

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2 w. ago Spotify Wrapped has dropped but here are 6 reasons yours might look 'wrong'

Spotify dropped the data for their annual Spotify Wrapped this week, but some people believe their streaming information looks 'wrong' - and there are some reasons for that

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2 w. ago The Guide #220: The best things we watched, read and listened to this year – that weren’t from 2025

In this week’s newsletter: We revisit forgotten noirs, rediscovered albums and retro games that stole the year• Don’t get The Guide delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWe’ve just inched into December, which of course means Christmas list season. Already, five days in, plenty of publications have shared their cultural best-ofs for 2025 – you can read the Guardian’s best books and songs of the year right now, with our countdowns in TV, film and music coming very soon.Meanwhile, many of you will have been bombarded on social media by screengrabs of your colleagues/friends/enemies’ Spotify Wrapped playlists (though Mood Machine author Liz Pelly has written pretty convincingly about why you shouldn’t share yours). This year’s Wrapped includes a “listening age” feature, which uses the release dates of the music you streamed to determine how horribly out-of-date your tastes are – revealing to some users that they are, in fact, centenarians. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago I spent hours listening to Sabrina Carpenter this year. So why do I have a Spotify ‘listening age’ of 86?

Many users of the app were shocked, this week, by this addition to the Spotify Wrapped roundup – especially twentysomethings who were judged to be 100“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally.” Those words were the first inkling I had that I was about to receive some very bad news.I woke up on Wednesday with a mild hangover after celebrating my 44th birthday. Unfortunately for me, this was the day Spotify released “Spotify Wrapped”, its analysis of (in my case) the 4,863 minutes I had spent listening to music on its platform over the past year. And this year, for the first time, they are calculating the “listening age” of all their users. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘A little less cool’: Spotify’s listening age feature stirs delight and dismay

Some users jump generations in expanded Wrapped review while Taylor Swift tops UK streams for third yearIt has given some in middle age dubious hope that they have their finger on the cultural pulse. Meanwhile, some younger users have been told their listening habits suggest they are well into retirement.Spotify has confected a wave of intrigue over what our musical preferences suggest about our vintage, with its “your listening age” feature causing delight and consternation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Spotify Wrapped: These are the alternatives across the internet

There are plenty of other platforms giving music lovers the chance to delve further into their listening habits

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift issues surprise Spotify Wrapped message to fans

Taylor Swift sent a special message to her top fans across the world as part of Spotify Wrapped.

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3 w. ago Everyone's complaining about Spotify Wrapped for this one 'brutal' reason

Spotify Wrapped 2025 is out and not everyone is happy. That's because one of the new features for this year provided a very brutal account to some of the millions of users. Let's take a look

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3 w. ago Brits urged to make key heart check in NHS 'Spotify Wrapped' message

The NHS provides a calculator on its website to help people determine one thing

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3 w. ago NHS shares 'Spotify Wrapped' alert and urges Brits to make one check

The NHS has joined the conversation with its own Wrapped message

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3 w. ago Spotify Wrapped 'ruined' after people learn why data can feel wrong

Spotify dropped its annual Spotify Wrapped data this week, and if your data doesn't look quite right, there could be a very simple explanation - as it's all to do with time

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3 w. ago Pop, smut and Swift: what Spotify Wrapped 2025 reveals about Australian tastes

Lack of local content is notable this year in the music platform’s analysis of users’ personal music, podcast and audiobook choicesGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt may be Fred Again, Donna Summer or Barkaa. Your musical “listening age” could be 21, 57 or three. You have listened to 14 minutes or 40,000.But it’s not likely to feature much Australian content. Continue reading...

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