41 m. ago Alexander Isak's new Liverpool wage and where he ranks against Mo Salah and Erling Haaland

Alexander Isak completed his £125million move from Newcastle to Liverpool on transfer deadline day, and that has seen the Swedish striker earn a mammoth pay rise

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69 m. ago Security staff at Houses of Parliament set for strike action

PCS union members will walk out in a dispute over pay and conditions.

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85 m. ago ITV Good Morning Britain migrant report sparks rage as viewers fume 'it's a total disaster'

Good Morning Britain delivered a fresh update on the government's 'one in one out' migrant agreement with France on Tuesday morning.

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1 hour ago EastEnders' Zoe Slater star addresses 'struggles' with character ahead of soap comeback

Michelle Ryan's Zoe Slater will be reuniting with her mother Kat Slater (Jessie Wallace) two decades after her explosive EastEnders exit

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2 h. ago A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?

From Shakespeare’s fools to Donald Trump, this exhilarating read considers stupidity in its many formsStupidity, no question, can be just as rich and subtle as its opposite. Three and a half decades on, I still sometimes meditate on what a school friend of mine said in a here’s-a-profound-thought tone of voice: “I’d rather be stupid than happy”.In this clever book, Stuart Jeffries starts out at a double disadvantage, though. First: he has an excellently snappy title but it’s open to question whether stupidity can be said to have a history in any meaningful sense. The quality of stupidity is just, sort of, there; and there’s lots of it. Could you write a history of happiness, or bad luck, or knees? You’d be on firmer ground, as he recognises, historicising the concept of stupidity: a short history, in other words, of “stupidity” – how successive societies and thinkers have defined and responded to reason’s derr-brained secret sharer. As an intellectual historian w...

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2 h. ago Alexander Isak's new Liverpool wages compared to Erling Haaland's as one earns much more

Alexander Isak finally got his wish on deadline day as his record-breaking transfer to Liverpool was confirmed, with the Swede also earning a massive bump in pay

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3 h. ago Man living off 75p frozen meals must choose between eating and paying council tax

A report has found the amount of council debt arrears has surged by £600million to £6.6billion in the past year, as Stevenage local Dieg Lombard claims his local authority threatened to take him to court

Economics

4 h. ago The best and worst of times: American advertisements of the 1930s – in pictures

It was a decade that saw the end of prohibition but also the start of the Great Depression and the looming threat of war, an unusual period for commerce, summed up in Taschen’s latest look at American ads from a certain era. In All-American Ads of the 30s, colorful advertisements for everything from alcohol to cereal showcase new developments in design and a persistent optimism despite economic concerns. The book will be released in September Continue reading...

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6 h. ago France has a massive debt crisis. So why is it spending billions a year subsidising business? | Alexander Hurst

The government is on the brink of collapse over planned austerity. Instead it must face up to the costs of its unnecessarily rigid labour marketAs someone who has always been against austerity, I find France, with a national debt at 114% of GDP and a budget deficit of 5.8% of GDP, a conundrum. Despite years of denunciation from his left and far-right opponents that Macron has engaged in “ultraneoliberalism”, there hasn’t been any. Not on a macro level, anyway, where both French government spending (57.3% of GDP) and tax receipts (51.4% of GDP) are among the highest in the world, including social spending, which outpaces any of its European neighbours.At the same time, it’s impossible to have spent the past decade in France without encountering the widely shared perception and accusation that public services are in decline. Doctors and nurses denounce a labour shortage in public hospitals; people who live in rural areas denounce the closing of rural train lines; students and academic...

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6 h. ago Police uniforms "not fit for purpose" as cops forced to buy own

The quality of police uniforms has been criticised in a new report which reveals that frontline officers are being forced to buy their own kit including trousers because the official issue does not fit properly.

Events

7 h. ago Vietnam celebrates 80 years since declaring independence with flags, boba tea and a military parade

Vietnam marked its National Day with its largest military parade in decades

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9 h. ago Scots police forced to buy their own uniforms due to 'poor quality' standard issue kit

Scotland's frontline police officers are buying their own uniforms as the standard issue kit is 'ill-fitting' and of 'poor quality', a new report has found.

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10 h. ago Supermarket launches UK's first gender reveal caterpillar cake

Aldi has launched the UK's first gender reveal caterpillar cake to cater for the millions of millennial Brits who now mark the moment with family and friends.

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11 h. ago Four in ten women killed by male partner had tried to leave, femicide data shows

Too many men are left at ‘liberty to harm, rape and kill’ after 122 women were killed in a year, report finds

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11 h. ago North Sea has ‘much more to do’ to meet emissions targets for 2040 onwards

A new report said while emissions from oil and gas had fallen for the fifth year, investment is needed to meet targets for 2040 and 2050.

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11 h. ago 700,000 GCSE pupils without a specialist physics teacher, report suggests

Just 16% of total teaching hours for combined science are provided by a physics teacher with a post-A-level qualification, the analysis found.

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11 h. ago Jodie Foster, 62, flashes her gray roots while going makeup free... after being a Hollywood blonde for decades

The 62-year-old movie icon made no effort to hide the streaks with a headband or hat as she seemed to be proud of the naturally changing hue of her locks.

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12 h. ago She was a fugitive accused of killing a woman in a 2006 car crash. Two decades later, she’s been captured

Leydis Menendez Abdala, 52, faces charges of vehicular homicide and DUI manslaughter in connection with the 2006 death of 39-year-old Gloria Marcia Hall

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12 h. ago Nestlé boss sacked one year into job after failing to disclose 'romantic relationship' with subordinate

Laurent Freixe worked for the Swiss food giant for four decades before being dismissed this week

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12 h. ago Away the lad: how Isak’s long and messy departure from Newcastle unfolded | Louise Taylor

A story that began with the offer of a pay rise ran through a successful season on the pitch and ended with a British record transfer to LiverpoolNot too many players are capable of upstaging Mohamed Salah but, last month, Alexander Isak revelled in revealing that rare ability.Salah had assumed centre stage at Manchester’s Opera House and, as the latest recipient of the Professional Footballers’ Association player of the year award, was preparing to deliver an eagerly awaited acceptance speech when he lost a previously rapt audience. Continue reading...

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