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Radiohead will be headlining Glastonbury 2017
Radiohead have confirmed they will headline next year's Glastonbury Festival. The Oxfordshire five-piece are the first headline act announced for the festival and will top the bill on 23 June. It came after the band's "angry bear" logo appeared as a painted crop circle in front of Glastonbury's Pyramid Stage. -
Brighton v Aston Villa: Premier League – live
via theguardian.comUpdates from the 2pm BST kick-off at the Amex StadiumSunday scoreboard | And you can send Daniel an emailRoberto De Zerbi speaks. He says playing without important players, especially the full-backs, changes something in build-up and “the last 40 metres”, hence the lack of goals and no wins in six. He respects Villa but they want to keep the ball, play football, and take a lot of shots.So where do Villa – potentially fortified with Champions League money – need to strengt -
Middle East crisis live: Netanyahu says he cannot accept ending war in Gaza now as that would keep Hamas in power
via theguardian.comHopes for ceasefire fade as Israeli PM hardens stance against Hamas demands for end to war in GazaA local official in southern Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a village on Sunday killed a couple and their child, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.“The dad, the mother and their little son were martyred”, according to the Mays al-Jabal municipality chief Abdelmoneim Chukair. Continue reading... -
Braverman tells Sunak to ‘own’ dismal election results and ‘fix it’ but says it’s too late for Tories to change leader– UK politics live
via theguardian.comFormer home secretary says Tory voters are ‘on strike’ and are ‘not coming out to support us’ in wake of dire local and mayoral election resultsLabour triumphs in London and West Midlands Braverman says no time to oust Sunak so he must ‘own this and fix it’Full mayoral and council results for EnglandMark Harper is now being interview by Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC. When it is put to him that people in his party want it to change course, Harper says the governm -
Liverpool v Manchester United: Women’s Super League – live
via theguardian.comUpdates from the 2pm BST kick-off at Prenton ParkAny thoughts? Share them with Taha via emailSarah Rendell’s got an eye on the title fight. Can Arsenal do Emma Hayes a massive favour (even if that means the Gunners briefly move ahead of Chelsea)?I’ve crunched the numbers: Liverpool are unchanged from their midweek win over Chelsea, while Manchester United have three from the starting XI in their 1-0 win over Leicester last weekend. Ella Toone, Nikita Parris and Lucía Garc&iacu -
‘If there’s one record that should belong to us, it’s this’: France tries to win back world’s largest baguette title
via theguardian.comParisian bakers prepare to win record back from those in Italy who created a baguette almost 133 metres long in 2019For the past five years, bragging rights over the world’s longest baguette have belonged not to the residents of a small village or a city in France, but rather to a clutch of bakers 500 miles away in Como, Italy.On Sunday a crop of 12 bakers from France set out to rectify this, with plans to spend at least eight hours kneading, shaping and baking their way back to victory. C -
Jak Jones attacks ‘pathetic’ rivals after booking world snooker final with Wilson
via theguardian.comWelsh qualifier will face Kyren Wilson after shock run to finalJones hits back at beaten opponents’ complaints over his styleJak Jones sealed his shock World Snooker Championship final place by beating Stuart Bingham 17-12 – and branded his beaten opponents “pathetic” for complaining about his playing style.The world No 44 will face Kyren Wilson in the two-day final starting on Sunday after Wilson overcame David Gilbert 17-11. Both Bingham and Judd Trump, whom the Welshma -
Tory election hopes rest on the UK economy – they could go the way of the monasteries | Larry Elliott
via theguardian.comThree key economic indicators loom large but none offer great hope for the Conservatives’ survivalTory MPs have been busy this past week and probably not found the time to watch Shardlake, the adaptation of CJ Sansom’s book set during the dissolution of the monasteries in the 1530s, but once the dust has settled from last week’s elections they might want to take a look.This was a turbulent period. Having forced through his own version of Brexit through the break with Rome, Henr -
I was a running addict – but pushing myself to the limit led to two knee replacements | Rod Gilchrist
via theguardian.comBeware what the fitness gurus tell you: the body has its limits. Perhaps that’s why orthopaedic waiting lists are so longI am preparing for an anaesthetist to sink a hypodermic needle into my back at a busy London hospital ahead of a scheduled surgery to replace my knee. Knowing this might be painful, I ask a fellow patient how he got his mind around the jab. “Two spliffs of good dope worked for me,” he confessed. I’m yet to try that, but this is my second left knee repla -
Lancashire v Kent, Yorkshire v Glamorgan and more: county cricket day three – live
via theguardian.comDay three action updates from Old Trafford and beyondGet in touch! Email Tanya or have your say in commentsAt a run a ball! Brings it up with an off drive, then celebrates by kissing the ball straight back past bowler James HArris. Centuries in consecutive matches for Root. Yorkshire 316-2 in just 55 overs, a lead of 95 runs, Harry Brook next man in. Chin up Glamorgan.Ken has provided Lancashire stats for your pleasure/sins: Continue reading... -
Much Ado About Nothing review – frothy fun to please the purists
via theguardian.comGlobe theatre, London
There’s no whiff of stuffiness in a Sean Holmes production characterised by warm summer euphoria, Elizabethan-era magic and entrancing musicThe Globe so often comes under fire for tampering with tradition but here is Shakespeare’s play on love, deception, male singledom and female purity that should please the purists. Its comedy is delivered straight, as it were, complete with Elizabethan-era costumes that contain the production’s greatest wow factor.The -
Why sportspeople should stick to the pitch and stay out of politics | Andrew Anthony
via theguardian.comFormer England cricketer Monty Panesar is to stand for parliament, but he doesn’t seem to know what his own policies areThere’s an old adage that says sport and politics don’t mix. It’s a moot point with persuasive arguments on both sides. But in light of former England spin bowler Monty Panesar’s jaw-dropping radio interview last week as George Galloway’s Workers Party of Britain’s prospective candidate for Ealing Southall, west London, in the next -
Track Record by George the Poet review – Black artistry and home truths
via theguardian.comThe spoken word artist and podcaster’s hybrid of social history and rallying cry is heartfelt, if occasionally hectoringGeorge Mpanga, better known as George the Poet, is a British-Ugandan spoken word artist, poet and rapper. In 2019 he was offered, and turned down, an MBE, a gesture indicative of his progressive politics. He is best known for his award-winning podcast, Have You Heard George’s Podcast?, which has won him legions of fans. Wittily and rhythmically, the show combines so -
Something old: why six brides picked a second-hand wedding dress
via theguardian.comA vintage or handed-down dress can be a meaningful, sustainable choice. No wonder pre-loved looks are on the riseClothing connects us to the past, memories woven into every stitch and stain. Wedding dresses are especially precious, passed down through the generations. Their unique designs tell a story, and every puffed sleeve or dramatic drop-waist reveals the era they came from.In an industry that leans towards overconsumption, second-hand wedding dresses can be a meaningful, personal and susta -
Read me a story: why reading out loud is a joy for adults as well as kids
via theguardian.comSarah Manavis and her partner have a guilty secret. What they love to do most of all in private is… read out loud to each other. And, as she’s discovered, it has many surprising benefitsNeither of us can remember exactly how it happened, but we both agree we were probably a little drunk. It was December 2016. We had been dating for eight months. Even with the booze we were, by many measures, still shy around each other, fearful of spoiling the magic. Which is why neither I nor my pa -
‘It’s just not hitting like it used to’: TikTok was in its flop era before it got banned in the US
via theguardian.comI used to be an avid user of TikTok, but the algorithm serves much less delight and serendipity than it used toTikTok is facing its most credible existential threat yet. Last week, the US Congress passed a bill that bans the short-form video app if it does not sell to an American company by this time next year. But as a former avid user whose time on the app has dropped sharply in recent months, I am left wondering – will I even be using the app a year from now?Like many Americans of my de -
Europe’s best beach holidays: Arcachon, France
via theguardian.comA buzzy town prom, plates of moules with chilled rosé and cycle rides to sandy beaches on Cap Ferret add up to happy holidays on the Atlantic coastThe Bay of Arcachon, on the south-west coast of France, is a happy place. It must be, because I’ve been visiting it with my family nearly every year for the past 15 years. We usually rent a small apartment in Arcachon town for four or five days, but such is the draw that we have been known to make a two-hour drive just to spend the day th -
‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests
via theguardian.comPro-Palestine protesters hope encampments at universities will contribute to an ‘international student revolt’ Students across Britain have said they hope pro-Palestine protests will reach the same scale as those seen on US campuses as they call for universities to divest from companies supplying arms to Israel.Protests have spread across university campuses in Sheffield, Bristol and Leeds, after a crackdown in the US on protests, which led to mass arrests of students and staff. Cont -
Fishmongers’ Hall heroes in housing project for ex-inmates
via theguardian.comMany prisoners are homeless after release but former inmate and probation worker want to fix thatDarryn Frost and Steve Gallant are still dealing with the trauma of tackling a terrorist at Fishmongers’ Hall, London Bridge, in 2019.Gallant, 47, who was on day release from prison where he was serving a life sentence for murder, helped fend off the attacker alongside Frost, 43, a probation worker who had grabbed a 1.5-metre long narwhal tusk as a weapon. Continue reading... -
Why Labour leapt on board with private open access train providers
via theguardian.comThe party’s move made it look pro-business, but some say the system makes for inefficient use of our rail networkA direct train from London to Wrexham? The chance to whiz to Scotland for less than £50? Trains run by a firm specialising in a single route, competing to lure customers away from the expensive big operators? What’s not to like?Given the promise of cheaper fares to under-served UK destinations, it is perhaps little wonder that Labour’s plan for a “pragmat -
Nezouh review – magic realism amid the ruins of Damascus under siege
via theguardian.comSoudade Kaadan’s poetic tale of family life in the bombed-out Syrian capital is visually poetic, if a touch too theatricalThere’s an unexpected flourish of magical realism in this story of life under siege in Syria. Fourteen-year-old Zeina (Hala Zein) lives with her mother and father in Damascus; at the dogged insistence of her father, Mutaz (Samer Al Masri), who refuses to flee his home, they are one of the few remaining families in a devastated neighbourhood. Covert visits from a l -
‘My role was to be a truthful witness’: photographer Jack Lueders-Booth’s Polaroids of American female prisoners
via theguardian.comIn the 1970s, the photographer began teaching in a progressive US women’s prison and made moving portraits of many of the inmates. Looking back, he sees how many of them actuallyfelt safer in prisonIn 1970, aged 35, Jack Lueders-Booth left a well-paid management job at an insurance company in his native Boston, Massachusetts, to pursue his interest in photography. “Until then, I was a serious hobbyist,” he tells me over the phone from the city where he still lives, “but m -
It’s six months until the US election. Do pollsters know where their candidates are?
via theguardian.comDepending on the expert, either Biden or Trump is likely to pull ahead, but nothing about this election – especially events – is predictable“You know what I hate?” Donald Trump asked in Freeland, Michigan, on Wednesday night. “When these guys get on television, they say – pundits, you know, the great pundits that never did a thing in their whole lives – ‘You know, we have two very unpopular candidates. We have Biden or we have Trump. These are very -
Doing the Baghdad walk: art tour highlights creativity in the heart of Iraq
via theguardian.comAnnual tour shows war-torn capital is still alive with invention and reflectionA buzz is building in the Bab al-Sharji neighbourhood in central Baghdad where preparations for an annual contemporary arts festival are underway. The city has long been considered one of the most dangerous in the world but artists in the Tarkib collective want to send a different message – that the capital is alive with creativity and culture.The event, which began when the collective was founded in 2015, compr -
Keane review – note-perfect return with added emotional wallop
via theguardian.comFirst Direct Arena, Leeds
TikTok phenomenon Somewhere Only We Know inspires much hugging and joy, but the band led by a revived Tom Chaplin are more than just a one-hit wonderAfter the chart-steamrollering success of their 2004 debut album Hopes and Fears, singer Tom Chaplin’s drug and alcohol addiction meant things had gone badly awry by the time Keane took an “indefinite hiatus” 10 years ago. However, here they are, packing out arenas at least partly due to the startling seco -
Shadow of war hangs over Orthodox Easter as Zelenskiy and Putin mark holiday
via theguardian.comRussian president attends service led by one of his staunchest backers while Zelenskiy asserts God is on Kyiv’s sideOrthodox Easter services in Ukraine and Russia have taken on a political tone, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy asserted that God had a “Ukrainian flag on his shoulder” and Vladimir Putin attended a church service led by a staunch supporter of Moscow’s invasion.Noting that Ukraine had now been fighting Russia for 802 days, Zelenskiy called on Ukrainians to pray for ea -
‘I was happy they still stand beside us’: Palestinians in Rafah on US campus protests
via theguardian.comWord of the demonstrations that have spread across the west has cheered some in Gaza’s southernmost cityMiddle East crisis – live updatesIn the tented camps and crowded streets of Rafah, the pro-Palestinian campus protests in the US have been followed closely.“We hear a lot of news about students’ demonstrations in American universities … When I saw that, I was very happy that there are still those who stand beside us and in support of us,” said Nevin Abu Sha -
The Big Apple blossoms: from red carpet to Trump courthouse, New York lives again
via theguardian.comEmerging from Covid’s shadow, the city is resonating with glamour, politics and power – and the traffic jams are building up tooCall it a return to IRL (In Real Life). New Yorkers are experiencing a bracing resumption of the physical experience of living in the city, four years after the onset of the pandemic upended routines, pushed people online and left much of the population, as in so many places, wondering if normality would ever return.Uptown, police have broken up student prot -
‘It was a one-way journey’: the couple whose flat changed with their life
via theguardian.comForm follows function in this sensitively remodelled London flat, where every stick of furniture was made by its creative inhabitants Architect Mike McMahon and optometrist Jewlsy Mathews have built every piece of furniture in their home. There’s a papier-mâché dog sitting on top of the first shelving unit Mike designed to make the most out of a nook in their London flat. The ornament ran the Dalston Derby, a remote-control car race the couple organised to celebrate Mike&rsquo -
‘I see cocaine in wild shrimp in Suffolk’: meet the scientist who analyses our wastewater
via theguardian.comWater detective Dr Leon Barron studies London’s wastewater, analysing it in all its chemical, narcotic, polluted glory, before and after treatment. Amazingly, he still drinks the stuff from the tapIf you live in London, Dr Leon Barron knows what you’re up to. He knows what prescribed drugs you’re on – painkillers, antidepressants, antipsychotics or beta blockers – and what illicit ones you’re taking for fun. He knows if you’ve been drinking and when (&ld
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