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• Silent 999 calls that alert police 'are urban myth'

  17-07-2018 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  Karen Catherall was killed by her 'possessive' partner after making a silent emergency call.
  
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• Labour's ignores Chief Rabbi, Jewish community and MPs to approve new code of conduct on anti-Semitism - Mirror.co.uk

  17-07-2018 21:01 via mirror.co.uk
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  Labour's ignores Chief Rabbi, Jewish community and MPs to approve new code of conduct on anti-Semitism
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  Labour's ruling body has ignored the views of the Chief Rabbi, MPs and members of the Jewish community to approve a new code of conduct on anti-Semitism. The new code states explicitly that “anti-Semitism is racism” and it is “unacceptable”, but stops ...
  Jeremy Corbyn branded 'anti-Semite' by Labour MP Margaret Hodge in House of Commons c
  
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• Ex-UKIP councillor made 999 call after murdering wife

  17-07-2018 20:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Former UKIP councillor Stephen Searle strangled his wife Anne at their home in Stowmarket, Suffolk.
  
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• Vote Leave claims 'unacceptable if true' - BBC News

  17-07-2018 19:33 via bbc.co.uk
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  Vote Leave claims 'unacceptable if true'
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  Vote Leave's former Scottish director has said allegations that it broke electoral law during the EU referendum would be "completely unacceptable" if true. Tom Harris said he was "shocked" and "extremely disappointed" by the Electoral Commission's ...
  The Vote Leave scandal shows that democracy is in desperate need of defendingThe Independent
  Leave campaign 'cheated' to win EU referendum - now North East MP wants Brexit to be scrappedCh
  
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• Reality Check: Do UK MPs work more days than other politicians?

  17-07-2018 18:52 via bbc.co.uk
  Do the UK's MPs work on more days than their equivalents in other countries?
  
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• Have Years & Years revealed who's doing the Bond theme?

  17-07-2018 18:37 via bbc.co.uk
  Keyboard player Mikey Goldsmith lets slip a big secret on BBC Radio 5 live.
  
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• Does Wales hold the key for saving the puffin from extinction?

  17-07-2018 18:07 via bbc.co.uk
  While the bird is dying out in parts of Europe, the population on one Welsh island is thriving.
  
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• Tanyalee Davis 'humiliated' on train over disabled space

  17-07-2018 17:56 via bbc.co.uk
  A comedian was asked to move her mobility scooter out of a disabled space on a train.
  
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• 'I couldn't get on a support waiting list after rape'

  17-07-2018 16:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Fern Champion, who was raped while travelling on a gap year, struggled to get help back in the UK.
  
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• England v India: third ODI – live!

  17-07-2018 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Live updates from the series decider at HeadingleyThe Spin: sign up and get our weekly cricket emailEmail or tweet @DanielHarris your thoughts 2.00pm BST 21st over: India 103-2 (Kohli 42, Karthik 12) Jos Buttler is kicking out a leg every time someone plays a cut, either to stop the ball or flick up an edge to catch - innovation meets reaction. Another quiet over, three singles coming from it, and England will be happier with this little passage. Kohli, though, is looking in fair touch.1.57pm BS
  
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• Tour de France 2018: stage 10 takes race into the Alps – live!

  17-07-2018 14:59 via theguardian.com
  Le Tour heads from Annecy to Le Grand-BornandVan Vleuten retains La Course title after thrilling finishAny comments? You can email John or tweet @John_Ashdown 1.59pm BST So, one down, three to go. It’s a long steady decent to the foot of the Montée du plateau des Glières, around 20km away. @John_Ashdown re: the loose section - having (just about) cycled it last week, and walked over a cobbled section of stage 9 I can confirm if they can get over the cobbles, the gravel will b
  
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• Expectations low for Henrik Stenson heading into the Open

  17-07-2018 14:37 via theguardian.com
  • 2016 champion struggling at Carnoustie with elbow injury
  • Swede staying in a hotel after being burgled at Royal BirkdaleHenrik Stenson is entitled to ask what he has done wrong. Since producing an epic final round to seal the 2016 Open Championship, misfortune has followed the Swede at golf’s oldest major.Twelve months ago, Stenson’s Open rental home was burgled as he played his first round at Royal Birkdale. He has arrived at Carnoustie with an existing problem, namely
  
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• Israeli parliament votes to ban state and army critics from schools

  17-07-2018 14:35 via theguardian.com
  Education minister to decide which people and organisations are barredIsrael’s parliament has passed a law that could see groups critical of the armed forces or the state banned from entering schools and speaking to students.Early on Tuesday, legislators passed the law by 43 votes to 24 in a move that its detractors say will stamp out free speech in the educational system. Continue reading...
  
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• After this World Cup victory, can France finally throw off racism? | Myriam François

  17-07-2018 14:33 via theguardian.com
  The diversity of the national team raises hopes – as does a win in court for an olive farmer who has given help to migrants
  Liberté, egalité, Mbappé! After France’s World Cup victory on Sunday, the French slogan was rewritten to celebrate a winning goal by a 19-year-old player from the Paris suburbs who is donating his World Cup fee to charity because, he says, it is such an honour to play for his national team.Much has been made in the wake of the moment of nati
  
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• Annemiek van Vleuten retains La Course title after thrilling finish

  17-07-2018 14:30 via theguardian.com
  • Dutch rider pips compatriot Anna van der Breggen by 1sec
  • Van Vleuten: ‘I had something, somewhere left’The Giro Rosa champion Annemiek van Vleuten overcame her fatigue from winning the Italian stage race last weekend to win the fifth edition of La Course, the women’s race organised by the Tour de France, in Le Grand Bornand.In what was the most exciting edition of La Course to date, the Dutch rider chased down Olympic champion and compatriot Anna van der Breggen,
  
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• NHS spending to strain public finances for next 50 years, OBR warns

  17-07-2018 14:25 via theguardian.com
  Extra health funding for an ageing population will add to deficit, Treasury forecast saysExtra health funding and a population that is ageing faster than previously expected will add to the burden of spending over the next 50 years, according to the Treasury’s independent forecaster.The £20bn boost to the health budget by 2021-22 promised by Theresa May, coupled with falling immigration – which will cut the number of young and working age people – will increase the public
  
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• End of the Pier review – Les Dennis plays a washed-up standup in Blackpool comedy

  17-07-2018 14:17 via theguardian.com
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  The politics of comedy is examined through the prism of faltering father and son comedians played by Les Dennis and Blake Harrison‘I realised why I never liked jokes,” says a character in Danny Robins’s new play, channelling comedian-of-the-moment Hannah Gadsby. “It’s because they’re almost always based on a lie.” So should standups make people laugh, or tell their truth? And what if the standup in question – a TV superstar, lo
  
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• Flaw in tank gun barrel caused two soldiers' deaths, coroner finds

  17-07-2018 14:04 via theguardian.com
  Corporals Darren Neilson and Matthew Hatfield died after blast at Welsh live-firing rangeTwo soldiers fatally wounded after an explosion and fire on their tank at an Army live-firing range in Wales died after a design flaw went undetected on their armoured vehicle’s gun barrel, a senior coroner has concluded.Corporals Matthew Hatfield and Darren Neilson, both of the Royal Tank Regiment (RTR), succumbed to grave injuries after an incident on their Challenger 2 at the Castlemartin ranges, Pe
  
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• Pancho Lewis: ‘We refused to accept that the West End had to be Tory’ | Patrick Butler

  17-07-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Labour’s first ever Mayfair councillor is helping residents fight developers. He says local politicians can learn from his victoryThe Monopoly board game has enshrined Mayfair as the most gilded neighbourhood in London: home to oligarchs, bankers and Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, and host to swanky townhouses, glitzy hotels and luxury shops. It now also has, for the first time, a Labour councillor. Related: Ghost towers: half of new-build luxury London flats fail to sellContinue reading...
  
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• Kylie Jenner has fuelled the myth of early success – but the odds are stacked against the young | Arwa Mahdawi

  17-07-2018 14:00 via theguardian.com
  While the 20-year-old may soon be worth $1bn thanks to her cosmetics empire, the fetishisation of youthful entrepreneurs masks the lack of opportunity for most millennialsAs the world edges ever closer to apocalypse, it is important to take time out from the unrelenting hellscape that is the news to celebrate the occasional feelgood story. So, please have your handkerchiefs at the ready for the moving tale of a young woman who, against all odds, stared down adversity and achieved the sort of suc
  
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• Italian court orders retrial of two men who raped woman

  17-07-2018 13:59 via theguardian.com
  Court says aggravating circumstances cannot be applied to three-year sentence because victim drank alcohol Italy’s top court has ordered the retrial of two men who raped a young woman after ruling that the victim had voluntarily got drunk before the attack and so an earlier penalty against the men could not be increased.The decision was blasted by women’s associations and politicians as a “huge step back” for women in Italy. “The position by the court is extremely s
  
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• Bitmoji: the emoji avatar app taking on Apple and Facebook

  17-07-2018 13:52 via theguardian.com
  The co-founder of the most downloaded iOS app of 2017 welcomes competition from big techIt might not be marked in your diary, but 17 July is World Emoji Day. Why? Because, if you’re on an Apple or Google platform, that’s the date the calendar emojishows.To mark the occasion, Apple replaced all of its executive headshots with cartoony “memoji”, a new feature coming in iOS 12 for iPhone X users, which lets them create custom avatars and ping them over to friends and family.
  
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• Trump’s Turnberry trip shows golf to be most presidential thing about him | Andy Bull

  17-07-2018 13:50 via theguardian.com
  The US president’s love of the game keeps up the rich relationship between the Oval Office and 18 holes of escapismOnce Chequers was done with, and Windsor out of the way, Donald Trump turned to the more pressing presidential business of addressing a golf ball. Trump spent last weekend at his resort in Turnberry, “for two days of meetings, calls and hopefully, some golf”. According to a source quoted on Politico, this section of the trip was arranged to entice the pre
  
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• If we are at a Brexit stalemate, we need a new parliament | Gaby Hinsliff

  17-07-2018 13:49 via theguardian.com
  Politicians need to agree to one of three options, or Labour’s gamble is close to paying off“Decent people, hopeful of a better country, conned by a bunch of chancers, tricksters, charlatans and cowards.”Whatever the outcome of a police investigation into Vote Leave – which was formally accused by the Electoral Commission yesterday of dodging EU referendum spending limits by channelling cash to a campaign run by a 23-year-old fashion student – it’s hard to dis
  
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• Energy price cap is likely to go ahead after last-minute deal

  17-07-2018 13:44 via theguardian.com
  Cap will come into effect this winter unless one of the big six firms issues legal challengeThe government has reached a compromise with Labour over the legislation underpinning the new energy price cap, quashing fears the flagship policy would be delayed. The House of Lords amendment would have introduced a permanent relative price cap – a limit on the gap between energy firms’ most expensive and cheapest tariffs – after the absolute cap ends. Continue reading...
  
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• Republicans have decided to follow Trump off a cliff of treachery

  17-07-2018 13:20 via theguardian.com
  ‘America First’ is now ‘Russia First’; the GOP favors a dictator over a heroic US marine. We are through the looking glassWill Republicans punish Trump for Helsinki?For more than a generation, conventional wisdom has portrayed Republicans as the sole defenders of the American flag, the great stewards of patriotism, the gun-toting, tough-talking party of law and order. This myth has been pushed relentlessly on talk radio, on Fox News, and through every facet of rightwing m
  
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• Dozens of fleeing Syrians turned away from Israeli border

  17-07-2018 13:12 via theguardian.com
  Civilians seek passage to Golan Heights to escape bombing by pro-Assad forcesDozens of Syrian civilians have approached the border fence with Israel, apparently seeking safe passage to the Golan Heights, but were sent back by an Israeli border guard.Reuters first reported the pleas of civilians stranded near the border, which was later confirmed by Syrian humanitarian workers in the area of Quneitra. Continue reading...
  
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• Talk of a second Brexit referendum is merely a distraction | David Henig

  17-07-2018 13:04 via theguardian.com
  It’s time now for honesty from politicians: we can’t have everything we want from Brexit – the EU is a bigger playerJust over a week ago the Chequers declaration led to headlines such as “Theresa May has pulled off a deal with her cabinet – and no one has resigned” and “Theresa May wins agreement for new UK Brexit offer”. Though to be fair the latter headline was followed by the line: “How long it lasts is another question.” As it turne
  
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• May faces defeat as Labour backs customs union amendment

  17-07-2018 13:04 via theguardian.com
  Amendment would force UK to join customs union if no agreement on trade is reachedTheresa May faces a damaging Commons defeat, as Labour confirmed it would back an amendment tabled by rebel Tory MPs seeking to ensure Britain remains in a customs union after Brexit. Related: OBR casts doubt on May's claim 'Brexit dividend' will fund NHS £20bn spending boost - Politics liveContinue reading...
  
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• World Cup 2018 player ratings: marks for every single performance in Russia

  17-07-2018 13:00 via theguardian.com
  After every game in Russia we asked our readers to rate the players and here are the verdicts, per game as well as average rating for the tournamentThe Russia World Cup came to a close with the France v Croatia final at the Luzhniki. There were 63 games before that and after every game we asked our readers to rate every player’s performance.Here we publish all of them, one by one, and by team in alphabetical order. The players are listed in order of their average rating (in bold and follow
  
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• Nigel Slater’s grilled chicken with miso recipe

  17-07-2018 13:00 via theguardian.com
  A simple and satisfying light dish for a warm summer’s eveningTake a couple of whole chicken legs and remove the bones. (See below for guidance.) Mix together 4 tbsp of white miso paste, 2 tbsp of maple syrup or honey, 2 tsp of sesame oil and 3 tbsp of groundnut oil. Push the meat down into the marinade, cover and set aside in a cool place for a good 20 minutes, longer if you can. Continue reading...
  
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• Podcast: We need to talk about … the power of positive news coverage

  17-07-2018 12:59 via theguardian.com
  This episode of our regular podcast focuses on the impact of the modern news cycle on our health and wellbeing, and whether a greater focus on positive, hopeful, solution-based stories could help to mitigate thisWhat are the effects of negative news on our mental health and sense of empowerment? How does it effect our trust in the media? Why historically has negative news become so prevalent at the expense of positive, solutions-focused, constructive news and could a more balanced picture of the
  
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• How Trump’s wildlife board is rebranding trophy hunting as good for animals

  17-07-2018 12:58 via theguardian.com
  As hunters hold immense clout in the Trump administration and most of the council’s members are advocates of the sport, critics worry the board will protect their hobby, not the animals Donald Trump has called big-game trophy hunting a “horror show”, despite his own sons’ participation in elephant and leopard hunts, and in 2017 he formed an advisory board to steer US policy on the issue. Continue reading...
  
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• Zika and health cuts blamed for rise in baby death rates in Brazil

  17-07-2018 12:57 via theguardian.com
  Increase is a blow for country once lauded for improvements in child health, as figures worsen for first time since 1990The number of children dying in their first year of life has risen in Brazil for the first time since 1990.It’s a worrying setback for a country once seen as a model of poverty reduction. Continue reading...
  
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• Annemiek van Vleuten pips Van der Breggen to win La Course 2018 – live!

  17-07-2018 12:44 via theguardian.com
  Wiggins stirs pot with warning of leadership battle at SkyDeignan will lead Trek’s new women’s cycling teamAnd feel free to email John or tweet him @John_Ashdown 11.44am BST Oh my word! What a finale! 11.43am BST Van der Breggen gets out of the saddle with 500m to go and Van Vleuten sees the writing on the wall. Continue reading...
  
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• Life in the shadow of Guatemala's Volcano of Fire - video

  17-07-2018 12:36 via theguardian.com
  On 3 June, the Fuego volcano in Guatemala erupted, killing at least 113 people and leaving 332 missing. Thousands of victims have been displaced and are still living in temporary shelters. Questions are being asked about what the government’s disaster prevention agency is doing to help victims. The Guardian journalist Iman Amrani found out how people were coping, and what lessons need to be learned from the disasterContinue reading...
  
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• UK wages growth slips, as Bank of England governor warns on no deal Brexit - business live

  17-07-2018 12:35 via theguardian.com
  Unemployment remains at 4.2% and wage growth slips back to 2.5%; Mark Carney tells MPs that no deal Brexit would have big economic consequences 11.35am BST Here’s our story on the day’s UK data:The rate of pay growth for British workers has fallen to the lowest level in six months, despite record numbers of people in work across the country, official figures show.Heaping renewed pressure on the Bank of England to delay raising interest rates from as early as August, the latest snapsh
  
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• Hong Kong moves to impose unprecedented ban on separatist party

  17-07-2018 12:31 via theguardian.com
  Hong Kong National Party must explain why it should not be barred, in escalation of push to silence dissent against ChinaHong Kong is taking unprecedented steps to ban a pro-independence party, in the government’s strongest action yet against the movement pushing for separation from China.Police on Tuesday delivered documents to Hong Kong National Party founder, Andy Chan Ho-tin, detailing their recommendations to the city’s secretary of security that the group halt operations.Contin
  
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• David Squires on … France's World Cup win and a final look at Russia 2018

  17-07-2018 12:30 via theguardian.com
  Our cartoonist on Les Bleus’ triumph in Moscow and the controversy, drama and farce that surrounded itView all of David’s cartoons here Continue reading...
  
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• Tim Farron apologises after he and Vince Cable miss Brexit vote

  17-07-2018 12:26 via theguardian.com
  Former leader and current leader of ‘stop-Brexit party’ fail to attend Monday night’s vote on amendmentsFormer Liberal Democrat leader, Tim Farron, has apologised after he and his successor Vince Cable missed the votes on two government-backed amendments tabled by hardline Brexiters which passed with a majority of just three.Cable and Farron, who have positioned the Lib Dems as the stop-Brexit party, were away from the Commons on Monday night during the vote on amendments table
  
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• Tory MP who blocked upskirting bill objects to women's conference

  17-07-2018 12:13 via theguardian.com
  Christopher Chope derided for opposing use of Commons as venue for November event Christopher Chope, the Conservative MP who achieved notoriety last month after blocking the progress of a bill to outlaw upskirting, has now used parliamentary procedure to obstruct a plan to use the Commons for a global women’s conference.The veteran MP for Christchurch brought shouts of “shame” after he objected to the motion, read out in the Commons late on Monday, which would have allowed the
  
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• UK wage growth slides to lowest rate in six months

  17-07-2018 12:11 via theguardian.com
  Workers unable to demand higher pay despite lowest unemployment since 1970sThe rate of pay growth for British workers has fallen to the lowest level in six months, despite record numbers of people in work across the country, official figures show.Heaping renewed pressure on the Bank of England to delay raising interest rates from as early as August, the latest snapshot for the British labour market showed workers are still unable to demand higher pay despite the lowest unemployment levels since
  
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• Royal Mail delivers fewer letters as new law reduces junk mail

  17-07-2018 12:04 via theguardian.com
  Online shopping boosts parcel revenues but GDPR data privacy law deters marketingRoyal Mail has reported a further fall in the number of letters it delivers for businesses, after new data privacy laws reduced the amount of junk mail sent.In a trading update ahead of its annual meeting in Sheffield on Thursday, where it could face a shareholder revolt over executive pay, the FTSE 100 company said revenues for addressed letters fell 7% in the three months to 24 June, with volumes down 6%. Excludin
  
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• Will Republicans punish Trump for his performance with Putin?

  17-07-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  While his comments on election meddling have been called ‘disgraceful’, a reluctance to avoid open conflict remains
  Opinion: Republicans followed Trump off a cliff of treacheryAir Force One departed Helsinki on Monday after a head-spinning week in which the US president attacked the postwar international order and sided with the Russian president Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies about whether Moscow meddled in the US elections. The question that now looms before Repu
  
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• Watch out white, liberal ladies – Reductress has got you in its sights

  17-07-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The feminist website is known for its searing satire of women’s media. Now, with a TV show in the works, the site’s founders reveal their new targetA little over a decade ago, the writer Christopher Hitchens wrote a column for Vanity Fair entitled Why Women Aren’t Funny. It caused a bit of a stir. To imagine it being published today, however, is to blanch at the thought of Hitchens being dragged all the way across cyberspace by feminist Twitter.Among its more salient
  
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• Trump’s wildlife board claims trophy hunting saves endangered animals

  17-07-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  As hunters hold immense clout in the Trump administration and most of the council’s members are advocates of the sport, critics worry the board will protect their hobby, not the animals Donald Trump has called big-game trophy hunting a “horror show”, despite his own sons’ participation in elephant and leopard hunts, and in 2017 he formed an advisory board to steer US policy on the issue. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Things are changing': unveiling Kerry James Marshall's pivotal monument

  17-07-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The record-breaking artist has created a new sculpture that pays tribute to the lawyers who, in 1925, founded the oldest and largest network of black attorneys and judges in AmericaA Monumental Journey, the Kerry James Marshall sculpture that was unveiled on 11 July in Des Moines, Iowa, is a behemoth. Standing 30ft tall, it comprises two tapered cylindrical volumes, minimalist abstractions of west African talking drums rendered in black manganese brick. They’ve been stacked askew, one on t
  
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• ‘It was a toxic circle’: how the food industry is tackling mental health

  17-07-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  For many restaurant workers, kitchen culture makes it impossible to recognize the pain, but new services open the dialogue for seeking helpWhen he was at his most desperate, Jakob Anderson was working himself so hard he couldn’t even think. Every morning and night, the young aspiring chef undertook the almost 90-minute commute from his home in the suburbs of Whitby, Ontario, to the fashionable Italy restaurant in downtown Toronto, where he worked for 12 hours a day. In the evening, clockin
  
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• How to sell grooming products to men? Plaid designs and pine scents | Krista Burton

  17-07-2018 12:00 via theguardian.com
  Straight men’s bathrooms used to look like the sets of horror films. What brave new world is this?
  I have some bad memories. Things I’ve seen, things I can’t forget. I’m OK during the day, but sometimes, in the silent hours after midnight, I wake up gasping, covered in sweat, clutching my chest. I know I can’t be alone; I know other people have seen these things, too. I’m talking, of course, about the bathrooms of the straight men I used to date. Continue read
  
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• The World Cup colour chart – a photographic journey

  17-07-2018 11:36 via theguardian.com
  Looking back at the highs and lows of Russia 2018 via a rainbow of imagery, from Gareth Southgate to France lifting the trophy Continue reading...
  
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