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• Old enemy rears its ugly head as England fans clash with police

  11-06-2016 23:49
  
  Scenes prior to opening Euro 2016 match against Russia echo violent images many thought had been confined to historyIt remains the bastard strand of English football’s DNA. The run up to this campaign has been dominated by nostalgia over Euro 96, the moment at which football came home, put on its face paint and transformed into today’s glossy lifestyle choice.But in the images of charging riot police, bloodied faces, flying bottles and packs of fans descending like dogs on downed riv
  
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• At the end of the day: readers' photos on the theme of dusk

  11-06-2016 23:45
  
  For last week’s photography assignment in the Observer New Review we asked you to share your photos on the theme of dusk via GuardianWitness. Here’s a selection of our favouritesShare your photos on this week’s theme ‘delicate’ by clicking the button below
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• British support for Brexit narrowly in the lead - YouGov/Sunday Times poll

  11-06-2016 23:37
  British support for leaving the European Union stood at 43 percent, marginally ahead the 42 percent who want to remain part of the bloc, according to a YouGov poll tweeted by the political editor of The Sunday Times on Saturday. The same pollster found the 'remain' campaign had a one-point lead over the 'leave' side in a poll published on Monday.
  
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• ‘Revenge porn’ threats could be made a crime in England and Wales

  11-06-2016 22:17
  
  Call for tougher law to protect victims following a rapid increase in the number of explicit images being posted online without consentThe threat of circulating “revenge porn” would be criminalised and the evidence threshold lowered to bring England and Wales in line with Scottish law, under changes to be proposed by a former Lib Dem cabinet minister.The law south of the border has failed to keep pace with the rapid increase of the malicious exploitation of explicit or sexual images
  
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• Libyan forces claim Sirte port captured from Isis as street battles rage

  11-06-2016 22:16
  
  Government advance succeeds in seizing key areas after month-long campaign, leaving jihadis pinned down in city centreLibyan government forces fighting to oust Islamic State from Sirte, its last stronghold in the north African nation, have taken the strategic port area and pinned militants into a small part of the city centre.After capturing the airport last week and the seaport on Friday, troops loyal to the UN-backed unity government, mostly militias from Misrata in western Libya, were battlin
  
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• England fans could not understand why Harry Kane was taking corners in the Euro 2016 opener against Russia

  11-06-2016 21:54
  
  If one of our top strikers is taking the corners, who is in the box to seal the deal?!
  
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• How the ‘animal internet’ sheds light on the secrets of migration

  11-06-2016 21:12
  
  Digital tracking of creatures from tiny birds to whales offers up new dataon the epic trips some species make, and their role in ecology and economicsAristotle thought the mysterious silver eel emerged from the earth fully formed. The young Sigmund Freud could not understand how it reproduced, and modern biologists puzzled for years over whether it ever returned to the Sargasso Sea, where it was known to breed.Last year a team of Canadian scientists found conclusive proof of that extraordinary j
  
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• After hit to sterling, poll shows Britons back EU membership

  11-06-2016 21:09
  By James Davey and Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - An opinion poll released on Saturday gave supporters of British EU membership a narrow lead over opponents, a day after another survey had the "Leave" campaign 10 points ahead, underlining how contradictory polling for the June 23 referendum has been. The pound weakened by as much as 1.2 percent against the dollar immediately after the ORB poll for the Independent newspaper was published on Friday evening. Betting odds on a British vote to exit
  
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• Third of EU referendum voters won’t make up their minds until week before poll

  11-06-2016 21:01
  
  London School of Economics research suggests knife-edge referendum vote may be decided at the last minuteUp to 30% of people will change the way they vote or make up their minds in the week before the 23 June Brexit referendum, with half of these only deciding finally on polling day, according to research by academics at the London School of Economics.The findings, in a report sponsored by Opinium and Lansons strategic consultancy, suggest that the result could swing either way – depending
  
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• Bunting is out but in Barking people are leaning towards Brexit

  11-06-2016 20:51
  
  In safe Labour seat, working-class voters say they feel abandoned, know little about Jeremy Corbyn and want to get outA union jack emblazoned with the Queen’s face was hanging over the door to the Thames View library in Barking on Saturday, low enough that taller visitors had to bow to get in. As children of all colours and backgrounds jumped on a bouncy castle outside and had their faces painted in red, white and blue, it was hard to see the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations here a
  
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• Lewis Hamilton hots up in Canada to claim F1 pole from Nico Rosberg

  11-06-2016 20:42
  
  • Mercedes world champion ignores cold and rain to take fourth pole of season
  • Sebastian Vettel is third on grid, Daniel Ricciardo fourthWhile Lewis Hamilton may still trail his Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg by 24 points in the Formula One world championship, his qualifying performances this season belie such a gap – he is still a master of the single-lap discipline and his run in Canada was yet further proof of what he can do when he has the car he needs under him. He deliver
  
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• 'Three Iranians' Rescued Off Sussex Coast

  11-06-2016 20:25
  
  Three men, believed to be Iranian nationals, have been rescued off the English Channel coast after their small boat got into trouble. The trio were picked up by the Border Force cutter HMC Seeker near Hastings in East Sussex after being alerted by the Coastguard at 9.30am on Saturday. A Border Force spokesman said: "HMC Seeker was deployed immediately and has picked up the individuals onboard who are believed to be Iranian nationals.
  
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• Britons narrowly support remaining in the EU - Opinium poll

  11-06-2016 20:00
  The survey, which found 13 percent of people were undecided, contrasts with an ORB poll for the Independent newspaper published late on Friday, in which respondents backed Brexit by 55 percent to 45 percent.
  
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• Canada has declared oral sex with animals legal

  11-06-2016 19:41
  
  The Canadian Supreme Court ruled that penetration is needed for bestiality to have occurred.
  
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• Thousands march for LGBTI rights in Warsaw amid rising hostility

  11-06-2016 19:27
  
  Campaigners say LGBTI freedoms are at their lowest point in staunchly Catholic country under nationalist Law and Justice governmentThousands of people have marched with rainbow flags through Warsaw in a sign of defiance against a rising tide of extremism under Poland’s nationalist Law and Justice government. Speeches at the start of the Equality parade – which began at the symbolic Palace of Culture and ended with a “beach party” across the Vistula river – warned of
  
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• Real Housewives Of Cheshire star Dawn Ward found guilty of assaulting pop star Sinitta

  11-06-2016 18:40
  
  Dawn Ward, who is married to former footballer Ashley Ward, was found guilty of one count of common assault.
  
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• Warren Buffett lunch costs $3,456,789 for anonymous bidder

  11-06-2016 18:15
  
  Fifteenth annual auction of meal with Sage of Omaha will benefit Glide, a San Francisco homeless charity, and equals record set in 2012
  For any investor looking to reach the top of the global rich list, blowing their fortune on a single lunch may seem an unlikely way of securing a leg up on their rivals. But that’s just what one anonymous bidder has done, paying almost $3.5m to break bread with Warren Buffett and the opportunity to glean some advice from one of the world’s most succe
  
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• Border force rescues three Iranian men from boat near Hastings

  11-06-2016 18:12
  
  Trio picked up after coastguard receives alert over vessel in peril, with RNLI lifeboat also deployed to help the menThree Iranian men have been rescued off the coast of the Channel after their small boat got into trouble. The trio were picked up by the border force vessel HMC Seeker near Hastings in East Sussex after it was alerted by the coastguard at 9.30am on SaturdayContinue reading...
  
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• Fantasy book covers – in pictures

  11-06-2016 18:00
  
  A decade-long fascination with wordplay, consumer culture and illustration is what first led Anna Hoyle to start painting imaginary book covers. “I’ll be cooking dinner and I’ll get this silly sentence in my head or this silly bundle of words,” says the Melbourne-based artist. “In my studio I’ve got a long list of words and sentences that are books ready to have their covers illustrated.” Her satirical book titles serve to remind us, she says, that physi
  
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• Briton Drifted For Two Hours In Hudson River

  11-06-2016 17:33
  
  Nineteen-year-old Armaan Raj Munglani ended up drifting in the Hudson River for more than two hours on a flimsy piece of wood before eventually being rescued, the New York Post reported. The Londoner had intended to head to Battery Park on the opposite side of the river from where he was staying in Jersey City early on Thursday morning. Instead, he wandered into the Newport Yacht Club and Marina and out onto a makeshift dock.
  
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• Woman found dead at home in Stewarton, Ayrshire

  11-06-2016 17:03
  
  Andrena Douglas, 53, discovered by police officers who had recently found her partner seriously injured in a caravan fireA murder investigation has been launched after a woman was found dead at her home in Ayrshire in Scotland.
  Andrena Douglas, 53, was found dead in her house in Stewarton by police officers at about 6.20am on Thursday. They had gone to the property to tell her that her partner had been found seriously injured in a caravan fire nearby. Police Scotland are now investigating whethe
  
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• Princess Charlotte and Prince George looking adorable at the Trooping the Colour will make your heart hurt a little bit

  11-06-2016 16:36
  
  Prepare for your icy heart to melt.
  
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• James Haskell keeps it simple as England’s muscle eclipses Australia | Eddie Butler

  11-06-2016 16:31
  
  Eddie Jones has worked wonders with the Wasps flanker but it was the coach’s bold introduction of George Ford that helped England hold off the hosts in BrisbaneIn the age of multiple No7s being packed into the back row, of David Pocock and Michael Hooper doubling up and reinforcing the effectiveness of breakdown specialists, especially on a night of open play, ready-made for them, it was James Haskell who stole the show. The great overgrown puppy dog of England is not a game-reading No8, i
  
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• Palace Balcony Debut For Princess Charlotte

  11-06-2016 16:23
  
  Crowds gathered outside Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Queen's 90th birthday were treated to a royal balcony debut by Princess Charlotte. The 13-month-old, in the arms of her mother, the Duchess of Cambridge, joined older brother Prince George and their father as waves of RAF planes flew over the Mall and the palace following the Trooping the Colour ceremony. Sky's Royal Correspondent Rhiannon Mills said: "Prince George came out in the first line of the Royal Family to give us a wave, lookin
  
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• Sterling hit after survey puts Brexit camp 10 points ahead

  11-06-2016 16:01
  By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - Betting odds on a British vote to exit the European Union shortened on Saturday after an opinion poll put the "Leave" camp 10 points ahead of "Remain", hitting the value of the pound. "Since we first started taking bets on this, 80 percent of the money we’ve taken has been for ‘Remain’.
  
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• Philip Green should be stripped of his knighthood | John McDonnell

  11-06-2016 16:00
  
  The shadow chancellor calls for an end to the era of rapacious, modern-day robber baronsLast week, we saw the ugly face of British capitalism. The excellent work of the business select committee, and its Labour chair, Iain Wright, has helped throw a spotlight on some of the more disgraceful practices that are taking place here in the UK. We discovered that the management of BHS were threatening to kill one another and the head of Sports Direct spuriously claim that he doesn’t even know wha
  
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• McDonnell joins calls to strip Sir Philip Green of knighthood if he snubs MPs

  11-06-2016 16:00
  
  Shadow chancellor says retail billionaire should be punished if he refuses to be grilled by Commons committee next weekJohn McDonnell has joined calls for former BHS boss Sir Philip Green to be stripped of his knighthood if he refuses to be grilled by MPs next week.The shadow chancellor has added his voice to the mounting antipathy in Westminster towards the retail billionaire, claiming that abolishing Green’s knighthood would be one way to “help restore public faith in the honours s
  
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• Germany asks UK to widen undercover policing inquiry

  11-06-2016 15:30
  
  Berlin wants Home Office to extend inquiry into activities of undercover British officers in GermanyThe German government has written to the British Home Office asking for the Pitchford inquiry into undercover policing to be extended to covert operations by British police in Germany.The inquiry, which was set up following the revelation that former Metropolitan police officer Mark Kennedy had infiltrated protest groups and entered intimate relationships under false pretences, is currently only s
  
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• National Trust criticised for using unpaid interns to do admin jobs

  11-06-2016 15:26
  
  Employment campaigners say charity offers paid travel and lunch expenses but no pay to 33 workers in placements that last for six months to boost workforceThe National Trust has been accused of using dozens of unpaid interns to complete the work of full-time administrative roles at its properties and head office.The charity, which currently has 33 unpaid workers in placements that last for six months, has been accused by employment campaigners of using rolling adverts for internships with paid t
  
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• Trump and Clinton on quest to woo Sanders fans and uneasy Republicans

  11-06-2016 15:19
  
  It’s unlikely Sanders’ supporters would jump ship and vote for Trump, but can a Clinton team aware of trust gap within her party win over wary progressives?Trump hopes for white votes amid difficult demographics, polls showAs the sun went down over what may prove to be Bernie Sanders’ last rally as a Democratic presidential candidate this week, the conversation among his supporters turned to a topic suddenly back on the lips of many Republicans too.
  “Can I bring myself to
  
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• Clean-up of Marseille under way after violent clashes between football fans

  11-06-2016 15:02
  
  England fans abroad have been involved in scuffles with police and locals.
  
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• John Cooper Clarke: ‘Impotent rage is my default setting'

  11-06-2016 15:00
  
  The poet, 67, on late fatherhood, not liking crowds, and being a control freakIt only takes one person to change a lot of minds. I went to what can only be described as a slum school in Salford – rough and full of trainee punks – but I was very lucky in that I had one inspiring teacher, John Malone, who gave the whole class an interest in romantic poetry. Somehow he created a hothouse, competitive atmosphere. Poetry, because of him, became a macho thing at our school, and we discover
  
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• Trooping the colour on the Queen's 90th birthday – in pictures

  11-06-2016 14:49
  
  Thousands flocked to central London for the ceremony to mark the official celebration of the monarch’s birthday Continue reading...
  
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• The Queen turns fashionistas everywhere green with envy as she rocks neon birthday outfit

  11-06-2016 14:43
  
  She certainly didn’t want to be overshadowed on her big 9-0.
  
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• Philip Green calls on BHS inquiry chair to resign

  11-06-2016 14:21
  By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) - British retail tycoon Philip Green has called for the resignation of the chair of a lawmakers' committee probing the collapse of the BHS department store chain he used to own, accusing him of seeking to destroy the billionaire's reputation. In March last year, TopShop-owner Green sold BHS to an investor group led by Dominic Chappell, a former bankrupt with no retail experience, for one pound. Britain's Pensions Regulator is investigating if BHS's former owners s
  
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• Bilderberg in Dresden: an innocent conference or conflict of interests?

  11-06-2016 13:55
  
  Corporate titles of super-rich industrialists just don’t fit in with Bilderberg’s veneer of academia as well as ‘fellow’ or ‘professor’When they roll up outside Bilderberg, some of the guests simply cannot keep the grin off their faces. It’s all too amazing. This is the big time: their entry into the inner sanctum of power. The chance to rub clipboards with power, and slip out for a mid-conference cigarette with the king of Holland. Make a good impressio
  
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• Happy Birthday Ma'am! Queen Joins The Party

  11-06-2016 13:50
  
  Thousands of people are making their way to Buckingham Palace after watching Trooping the Colour at Horse Guards Parade in central London. The annual ceremony is part of a weekend of events to mark the Queen 90th birthday on 21 April. The Queen and other members of the Royal Family will watch it from a balcony at the palace.
  
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• Briton Rescued After Two Hours In Hudson River

  11-06-2016 13:45
  
  Nineteen-year-old Armaan Raj Munglani ended up drifting in the Hudson River for more than two hours on a flimsy piece of wood before eventually being rescued, the New York Post reported. The Londoner had intended to head to Battery Park on the opposite side of the river from where he was staying in Jersey City early on Thursday morning. Instead, he wandered into the Newport Yacht Club and Marina and out onto a makeshift dock.
  
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• Queen's 90th birthday celebrated with trooping the colour parade

  11-06-2016 13:40
  
  Display of military pomp and pageantry in central London honours longest reigning and oldest monarch in British historyThe Queen’s 90th birthday has been celebrated with a precision display of military pomp and pageantry. The trooping the colour parade in Whitehall honoured the longest reigning and oldest monarch in British history and her ties with the armed forces Continue reading...
  
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• Betting odds, poll indicate rising chance of Brexit

  11-06-2016 13:13
  Betting odds on a British vote to exit the European Union narrowed on Saturday after an opinion poll gave the "Leave" camp a double-digit lead over "Remain." The implied probability of a vote to stay in the EU in a June 23 referendum fell to 70 percent from 78 percent earlier this week, according to odds supplied by bookmaker Betfair. It was responding to the publication of an opinion poll by ORB for The Independent newspaper on Friday showing support for "Leave" on 55 percent, versus 45 percent
  
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• More than half of jobs in UK solar industry lost in wake of subsidy cuts

  11-06-2016 13:01
  
  Change in government’s energy policy blamed for job losses just as solar power eclipses coal in electricity generationThe solar power industry says it has seen the loss of more than half its 35,000 jobs due to recent changes in government energy policy, just at a time when solar power has eclipsed coal as a major generator of Britain’s electricity.Experts believe ministers had cut subsidies too far and too fast, praising the “seismic”, record-breaking growth of solar in r
  
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• Tig Notaro: ‘People were wanting to take care of me, just to look good’

  11-06-2016 13:00
  
  She was a little-known comedian until a catalogue of tragedies changed her life. The cult favourite talks sellout shows, being let down by famous friends and life after breastsOn 3 August 2012, the American comedian Tig Notaro decided to change her life. The prospect in itself didn’t scare her. After all, she’d already gone through an extraordinary number of life changes in the previous year. “Four months,” Notaro quickly and firmly corrects me when we meet at her house i
  
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• Sjón: I’m one of the few people who’ve had Björk as a backing singer

  11-06-2016 13:00
  
  The Icelandic writer self-published poems at 15, was Oscar-nominated for his lyrics for Lars von Trier and gave Björk’s Sugarcubes a hit – but novels are his bedrockThe first thing I notice about Sjón is that he’s bleeding. As we shake hands outside a north London cafe, a bright-red drop beads on his upper lip, trembles for a moment, then spills. The sight is so surprising that it throws me completely: I exclaim; he apologises; we ditch the hellos and cast around fo
  
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• Jailed for 40 years, a prisoner reaches the outside world with his art

  11-06-2016 13:00
  
  William Burns Livingston III discovered he could draw after being incarcerated – now his work is being collected by the likes of punk legend Ian MacKayeThe Joseph Harp Correctional Center lies on a rolling stretch of land about 10 miles west of Lexington, Oklahoma. It’s an “open-yard” prison that houses nearly 1,800 inmates. When William Burns Livingston III received a transfer there from the Lawton Correctional Facility, a private medium-security prison twice the size an
  
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• Brexit campaigner Farage says UK, Italy to launch EU's disintegration

  11-06-2016 12:58
  The European Union will start disintegrating after Italians pick the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement candidate as mayor of Rome on June 19 and Britons vote to leave the EU four days later, the leader of the UK Independence Party was quoted as saying. UKIP's Nigel Farage told Italy's Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Saturday that British Prime Minister David Cameron should resign even if the 'Remain' camp won by a narrow margin in a June 23 referendum on EU membership. Bookmake
  
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• Shia shrine near Damascus hit by double bomb attack

  11-06-2016 12:44
  
  At least eight killed as suicide attacker and car bomb target entrance to Sayyida Zeinab shrine south of DamascusA double bomb attack outside a Shia shrine near Syria’s capital has killed at least eight people in the latest in repeated deadly strikes on the revered site, state media said.The official Sana news agency said a suicide bomber and a car bomb struck at the entrance to the Sayyida Zeinab shrine, which is revered by Shia Muslims around the world. Continue reading...
  
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• Clean-up of Marsielle under way after violent clashes between football fans

  11-06-2016 12:31
  
  England fans abroad have been involved in scuffles with police and locals.
  
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• British Tamil 'tortured and detained' during Sri Lanka wedding trip

  11-06-2016 12:23
  
  Velauthapillai Renukaruban travelled to Jaffna to get married and was beaten and imprisoned on false charges, his family sayA British man has been detained and tortured in Sri Lanka after travelling to the south Asian country to get married, his family and human rights lawyers have claimed.Velauthapillai Renukaruban, 36, who lives in Ealing, arrived in the country of his birth on 1 June to marry Thajeepa Vinayagamoorthy, 27. The marriage had been arranged by the couple’s families and they
  
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• Me and my lucky pants: men on the clothes they'll never throw out

  11-06-2016 12:00
  
  From a junk shop bargain to a cosy hoodie, Irvine Welsh, Michael Kiwanuka, Tom Odell and others on the one thing they can’t live withoutMichael Kiwanuka, 29, is a soul singer-songwriter, soon to release the follow-up to his critically acclaimed 2012 debut album, Home Again. He is wearing a vintage Wrangler denim jacket. Continue reading...
  
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• Disraeli by David Cesarani review – the Jewish prime minister and antisemitism

  11-06-2016 12:00
  
  Disraeli climbed the greasy pole by defending the very culture that had shut Jews out – and himself peddled antisemitic ideas in his fictionOne of the defences offered during the recent controversy over antisemitism within the Labour party was an insistence that anti-Jewish racism was always, in fact, a Tory problem. A vivid and illuminating new biography of Benjamin Disraeli – published as part of Yale’s Jewish Lives series and one of the last two works by the much-admired his
  
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