87 m. ago Liverpool boss Arne Slot not thinking about Premier League title this weekend

If Arsenal were to lose at Ipswich on Sunday the Reds could clinch a record-equalling 20th championship with victory at Leicester later in the day.

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87 m. ago ‘I dealt with everyone at a distance’: what do Joan Didion’s therapy diaries reveal about guilt, motherhood and writing?

The writer’s previously unpublished notes from her sessions with a psychiatrist offer an incredibly intimate insight into her relationship with her daughter, depression and creativityLast month, the New York Public Library opened the doors on one of its most thrilling acquisitions of recent times: the archive of Joan Didion and her husband and collaborator John Gregory Dunne. After two years of preparation, both scholars and anyone with a library card can arrange a visit to pore over the material contained in a total of 336 boxes of correspondence, photographs and screenplays from the couple’s joint projects, which included the 1976 version of A Star Is Born and the film that in 1971 provided Al Pacino with his first leading role, The Panic in Needle Park.Alongside material evidence of two long writing careers, there is much that is deeply personal: paperwork recording the naming of orchids in honour of Didion, Dunne and their adopted daughter Quintana, the couple’s only child;...

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87 m. ago In the Rhododendrons by Heather Christle review – back to the mother land

A poet’s memoir of family, trauma, and Virginia Woolf pulses with feeling and intelligenceLike most kids, Heather Christle was drilled about “stranger danger”. Like some, she had a family codeword designed to show that an adult picking them up from school when her mother was busy could be trusted. But, in her American home town in the 1980s, no other kid’s word was a bygone British sweet. And so “Dolly Mixture” joins the growing list of things learned from her English mother that Christle, looking back, finds out of place. Things such as dining etiquette, cardigans, M&S outfits, margarine. But also bigger stuff: beliefs and behaviours. Assumptions. Silence. Shame.With her mother in her 70s and their relationship strained, Christle, a poet and academic, embarks on a quest for new understanding – of her mother, of “Englishness”, and of herself. In a memoir that pulses with feeling and intelligence, she excavates the past to expose difficult truths. As she proved with her acclaimed...

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2 h. ago Loop earplugs review for sleep: Do they drown out noisy neighbours and plane sounds?

Now that we're heading into the warmer weather and leaving our windows open, Mirror's shopping writer Grace tested out Loop's Dream Earplugs to see if they could block noisy neighbours

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2 h. ago BRIAN READE: 'Don't fall for Nigel Farage's latest rebrand, he'll never fix Britain'

Pollsters are predicting big wins for Reform UK at next month's election, warns Brian Reade, but there are a few glaring truths voters should keep in mind

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2 h. ago The Homemade God by Rachel Joyce review – portrait of a patriarch

The mysterious death of an artist causes havoc among siblings in a novel that astutely observes family dynamicsWhat would writers do without problematic patriarchs? From King Lear to Logan Roy, they are the linchpins of countless family dramas: adored fathers who dominate and damage their children in equal measure.The new novel from Rachel Joyce, bestselling author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Miss Benson’s Beetle and others, revolves around one such man: Vic Kemp, a successful artist with four grown-up children. Vic is a widower who raised his offspring alone, and the story begins with him summoning them to a noodle bar to announce that he’s in love with a twentysomething called Bella-Mae he met online. He’s also the proud owner of a goatee, a surefire sign of an identity crisis. The offspring are aghast. “If he’s so lonely, he could get a cat,” says one. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago World Snooker Championship 2025: Results, draw and schedule in full

Ronnie O’Sullivan has admitted he could still withdraw as he bids for a record eighth title at the Crucible

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3 h. ago US supreme court orders temporary halt to deportations of Venezuelan men

The order is the latest example of how the courts are challenging the Trump administration’s overhaul of the immigration systemThe US supreme court has ordered the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan men in immigration custody, after their lawyers said they were at imminent risk of removal without the judicial review previously mandated by the justices.“The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court,” the justices said early on Saturday. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Corontation Street's Betsy Swain 'lashes out' as she takes 'revenge' after Rob Donovan shooting

As fans of the ITV soap know, Betsy was the victim of Rob's hostage situation last month when the convicted murderer returned to the street

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4 h. ago Mapped: The Morrisons stores which have closed across the UK

The grocer said its proposals came after a “wide-ranging review” found these services were not financially viable

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4 h. ago It's only April, but 2025 is already the UK's second worst year on record for wildfires

There have been 115 blazes this year

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4 h. ago Billy Idol: ‘I’m the sexy sexagenarian. Then I’m gonna be the sexy septuagenarian, ha ha!’

The punk rocker who broke America with ‘White Wedding’ looks back on the ‘unhinged’ time of free love and sex before Aids, legging it from rehab back to crack addiction, and making his starry new album. And, finds Craig McLean, he also has a sensitive side...

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4 h. ago Viljami Sinisalo happy to emulate Joe Hart as Celtic keeper reflects on 'surreal' 12 month journey to Hampden

A year on the day he runs out in Mount Florida the keeper was helping Exeter City win at Northampton in England's League One

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4 h. ago Appeals court pauses Judge Boasberg’s contempt probe against Trump administration

A federal appeals court late Friday temporarily halted U.S. District Judge James Boasberg’s contempt investigation against the Trump administration after he accused officials of failing to comply with his order regarding deportation flights to El Salvador last month.

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5 h. ago Shoppers praise 'best cordless vacuum yet' that's 'light but sturdy'

One buyer, is nearly 80, said in their review that it "works equally as well on carpets and hard floors, is extremely light to carry".

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5 h. ago Popular fashion chain closing store today in major blow for UK high street

The major fashion chain confirmed that it would be closing its branch at Vicar Lane Shopping Centre in Chesterfield and its Willow Place branch in Corby this month

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5 h. ago ‘I visited a Texas dancehall and this is the one traditional you must stick to’

We went on a trip to Austin, Texas, to experience the best things to see and do in the Southern state - from line dancing to traditional BBQ, here's what we discovered

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5 h. ago ‘I went line dancing with locals in Austin, Texas – this is the one rule you must follow’

We enjoyed barbecues, bike rides and line dancing in the Texan capital of Austin and the surrounding area, staying in a stunning holiday rental home we never wanted to leave

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5 h. ago Pensioners with any of these 10 health conditions could get up to £441 each month

Nearly 1.7 million people over State Pension age are claiming Attendance Allowance.

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9 h. ago Huge European country predicts record numbers of tourists and it's not Spain

Almost five million Brits are slated to visit a huge EU hotspot this year, following several years of growing anti-tourist sentiment raging across Spain

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