35 h. ago Antony shows true colours with passionate message amid £40m Man United transfer claim

The winger has been a breath of fresh air for Real Betis since joining on loan from Manchester United in the January transfer window

Economics

6 d. ago The Tiger’s Share by Keshava Guha review – hopeless sons vs brilliant daughters

Families are at war in the new India, in a novel raising complex questions about patriotism, nationalism and how the country is changingIn Delhi the seasons are “human-fucked”, explains Tara Saxena, the narrator-protagonist of The Tiger’s Share. Autumn is the “season of smogs and mellow murderousness”; once the smoke arrives in October, “we could no longer see the sky”. Over summer the Loo, a dry “caramelising” wind, slurs through the city, while inside their flats people “lived as cheese and chocolate do in India, refrigerated”. Now and then comes the brief respite of rain. In its aftermath, people head out into the parks to enjoy the momentary cool, the only time when the air is “useably fresh, like a banana that is only one-third rotten”.Food-related imagery abounds in Keshava Guha’s second novel; you are never allowed to forget that all things – produce, people, every species – are perishable, that from the moment of our birth the decay is inbuilt, and that such a truth is all t...

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7 d. ago Emmerdale fans heap praise on newcomer as a 'breath of fresh air' and liken him to soap icon

Kammy joined the ITV soap in March and has already left his mark on the Dales

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1 week ago Gareth Anscombe suffers fresh injury blow with future up in the air

The sidelined fly-half is expected to leave Gloucester at the end of the season

Events

1 week ago Fresh Prince of Bel Air fans gobsmacked after realising major star 'hasn't aged at all'

People have been left gobsmacked after seeing what a Fresh Prince of Bel Air star looks like today – admitting they don't think the major actress has aged a day since the 90s

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1 week ago Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain | Jonathan Freedland

Whether it’s sweeping up disgruntled US scientists or rejoining the EU, a bold Starmer must capitalise on Trump’s extremismThanks to Donald Trump, a vacancy is opening up in the international jobs market. For decades, if not centuries, and always imperfectly, the US offered itself to the world as the guarantor of democracy and the land of the free. Now that it’s pivoting away from that job description, there’s an opportunity for someone else to step in.The evidence that the US is moving, even galloping, away from basic notions of democracy and freedom is piling up. Just because the changes have happened so fast doesn’t make them any less fundamental. We now have a US administration that blithely ignores court rulings, whose officials say out loud “I don’t care what the judges think”. In a matter of weeks, it has become an open question whether the US remains a society governed by the rule of law.On 30 April, join Jonathan Freedland, Kim Darroch, Devika Bhat and Leslie Vinjamuri as t...

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1 week ago Samsung's 'brilliant' Fit3 watch dubbed a 'breath of fresh air' amid £20 Amazon price slash

"The Galaxy Fit3 is a solid option for anyone looking for a reliable and affordable fitness tracker."

Economics

2 w. ago Joe Trivelli’s recipes for carrots with wild garlic, pork tenderlion, rhubarb charlotte and cinnamon ice

Spring has finally sprung and it’s time to celebrate with vivid, exciting colours and tastesAs the smell of wild garlic fills the woodlands of Britain, it’s time to leave all thoughts of winter behind us and embrace the new. This is a menu to celebrate March, with its tripping lambs and nodding daffs. Verdant shoots give vibrancy to the landscape, urban and rural, and hope is in the air. These recipes celebrate the arrival of fresh new flavours, while not being overly optimistic, with staples such as carrots and dried green peas acting as the backbone of the dishes such as rhubarb, that blushing harbinger of spring, which gives a decisive nod to better times in the charlotte pudding, along with delicately spiced ice-cream. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Joe Trivelli’s recipes for carrots with wild garlic, pork tenderloin, rhubarb charlotte and cinnamon ice

Spring has finally sprung and it’s time to celebrate with vivid, exciting colours and tastesAs the smell of wild garlic fills the woodlands of Britain, it’s time to leave all thoughts of winter behind us and embrace the new. This is a menu to celebrate March, with its tripping lambs and nodding daffs. Verdant shoots give vibrancy to the landscape, urban and rural, and hope is in the air. These recipes celebrate the arrival of fresh new flavours, while not being overly optimistic, with staples such as carrots and dried green peas acting as the backbone of the dishes such as rhubarb, that blushing harbinger of spring, which gives a decisive nod to better times in the charlotte pudding, along with delicately spiced ice-cream. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘It’s happening fast’ – creative workers and professionals share their fears and hopes about the rise of AI

Photographers, translators, academics and GPs are among those whose jobs are either threatened or aided by the techOliver Fiegel, a 47-year-old photographer based in Munich, was reading a German national Sunday newspaper recently when he saw a front-page image that looked strangely off. The image showed a boy chasing a football on a pitch. But some of the wildflowers on the grass floated without stems. Half the goal net was missing. The boy’s hands were misshapen.In previous years, many of Fiegel’s photography clients had been newspapers and magazines. But that work has dried up recently. This image, he felt, showed one reason why: “generative illustration”, the supplied caption said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Will Smith and Tatyana Ali team up with Doechii to recreate legendary Fresh Prince of Bel Air dance

Will Smith and Tatyana Ali collaborated with Doechii to recreate the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air dance, which has taken social media by storm.

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2 w. ago The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – ‘It was like fresh air’

A fascinating, exciting history of how the agency smuggled subversive books across the iron curtainIn, I think, November 1978, I got a call from a rather grand British journalist who’d heard that I was about to go to Moscow. “A Russian friend of mine would dearly like the latest volume of Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago. I don’t suppose you’d smuggle it in for him?” I did, of course, disguising it rather feebly by wrapping it in the dust jacket of the most boring book I owned: Lebanon, A Country in Transition. A customs official at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport flicked through it briefly, but even though the text was in Russian he didn’t spot what it was about. Two nights later, near the entrance to Gorky Park, I handed over the book to a shifty character who seemed to be a supplier of forbidden goods to the dissident community. He gave me a small 18th-century icon in exchange for it.It’s only now, all these years later, that I’ve realised I was almost certainly a rather n...

Society

3 w. ago Tom Aspinall wants to make MMA as big as boxing – and he’s just the man to do it

The Wigan heavyweight, who holds the interim UFC title, has been a breath of fresh air in MMA. He talks to Alex Pattle about fear, humility, and why he’s ‘not bothered’ about Jon Jones

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3 w. ago 'We just took him out for fresh air, it all happened so fast'

Ten-month-old Tobi had to be put down after being run over

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3 w. ago Saltmoore review: Rest and relaxation at the North Yorkshire wellness retreat that welcomes dogs too

Inhaling the fresh sea air with the sun glistening through the trees as we strolled through Saltmoore's woodland haven towards Whitby, I was excited to be embarking on my first ever visit to this delightful pocket of North Yorkshire.

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