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• New Daily Mail editor: we want the least damaging Brexit

  11-08-2018 22:00
  The incoming editor of the Daily Mail has indicated that he will only gradually tone down the strident pro-Brexit agenda espoused by his predecessor when he takes the helm at the powerful rightwing tabloid at the beginning of next month.Geordie Greig has told staff not to expect an immediate change in political coverage when he takes the reins from Paul Dacre, who spent 26 years in charge, for fear of alienating readers and because the wider political situation is so uncertain.Instead the focus
  
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• More than 100 seats that backed Brexit now want to stay in EU

  11-08-2018 22:00
  The constituencies of Leavers Michael Gove and Boris Johnson have changed sides to back remain, polling shows.More than 100 Westminster constituencies that voted to leave the EU have now switched their support to Remain, according to a stark new analysis seen by the Observer.In findings that could have a significant impact on the parliamentary battle of Brexit later this year, the study concludes that most seats in Britain now contain a majority of voters who want to stay in the EU.
  
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• Wolves 2-2 Everton: Premier League – live reaction!

  11-08-2018 20:26 via theguardian.com
  Promoted Wolves twice came from behind to earn a point against 10-man Everton, whose two goals came from the impressive debutant Richarlison7.23pm BST Peep peep! Both sides will be happy enough with a point at the end of an eventful game. They both know it could have been worse: Wolves didn’t play well and were behind twice, while Everton were down to 10 men for 50 minutes. Richarlison scored twice, the second a beautiful finish; Wolves’ goals, from Ruben Neves and Raul Jimenez, were
  
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• US PGA Championship 2018: Woodland leads, Mickelson misses cut: round three – live!

  11-08-2018 20:26 via theguardian.com
  Live updates on conclusion of second round followed by third
  Official live leaderboardYou can email Scott at [email protected]
  Day two: Woodland leads home charge as storms halt play7.26pm BST OK, I shall pass over the baton to my good friend, and a better friend to you than me in these circumstances, Scott Murray. Enjoy.7.25pm BST At the fifth, Tiger gets out his driver, takes a lovely smooth swing and he blams it down the fairway. If anything, Clive, he’s hit that too well, and
  
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• Theft and crash of Seattle airplane prompts FBI investigation

  11-08-2018 20:18 via theguardian.com
  Authorities investigating major security breach that enabled ‘suicidal’ airline employee to take off with empty planeUS authorities are investigating how a “suicidal” airline employee was able to steal a plane from Seattle-Tacoma international airport and fly for around an hour before crashing the aircraft, in a major security breach. Related: Security alert at Seattle's SeaTac airport after plane 'took off without permission'Continue reading...
  
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• Third union boss calls on Labour to adopt full antisemitism definiton

  11-08-2018 20:15 via theguardian.com
  Usdaw chief Paddy Lillis urges Corbyn to use the text from the International Holocaust Remembrance AllianceThe leader of a third major trade union has called on Labour to adopt in full the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of antisemitism.The call from Paddy Lillis, the general secretary of shopworkers’ union Usdaw, comes after similar interventions by Unison and the GMB and intensifies pressure on Jeremy Corbyn to rethink Labour’s antisemitism code of c
  
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• The Oscars are pandering to the populist mood sweeping the globe | Rachel Cooke

  11-08-2018 20:00 via theguardian.com
  I love shark movies as much as the next cinema-goer. But we should also reward high-quality filmMovie sharks were on some people’s minds last week, thanks to the release of the $150m blockbuster, The Meg, in which Jason Statham plays a traumatised oceanic rescue specialist who goes into battle with a 75ft prehistoric megalodon (sample dialogue: “Man v Meg isn’t a fight. It’s a slaughter!”). “What’s your favourite shark in culture?” asked the Radio
  
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• Third of UK’s universal credit claimants hit by deductions from payments

  11-08-2018 19:59
  food bank as demand soars.One in three people on the government’s new welfare system are having their payments cut to cover debts, the Observer can reveal.In a sign of the troubling levels of indebtedness affecting some of the most impoverished communities, official figures show that hundreds of thousands of universal credit payments are being subject to deductions used to pay back arrears in rent, council tax and utility bills.
  
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• Banned 21 years ago, yet still the world stands by as chemical attacks go unchecked

  11-08-2018 19:57 via theguardian.com
  Sanctions have been slapped on Russia over the Salisbury attack but atrocities are spiralling out of control elsewhereSweeping US sanctions imposed on Russia last week as punishment for the Salisbury nerve agent attack help maintain the comforting impression of an international community united in its determination to prevent the use of chemical weapons. Airstrikes by US, British and French forces on Syrian regime targets after April’s chlorine gas atrocity in Douma were intended to provid
  
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• Homebase reviewing weedkillers after US cancer lawsuit

  11-08-2018 19:48
  Homebase is reviewing its range of weedkiller products after a man with terminal cancer successfully sued a manufacturer in the US, Sky News can reveal.Monsanto, which makes Roundup and Ranger Pro, has been ordered to pay $289m (£226m) to a dying groundsman who says the product contributed to his cancer.A San Francisco court was told how Dewayne Johnson has a terminal form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma which he claims developed after he worked as a pest control manager at a school.
  
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• Football League: Rodriguez fires West Brom to victory while Aston Villa leave it late

  11-08-2018 19:43 via theguardian.com
  Boro top of Championship after outclassing Birmingham
  Barnsley defeat Bradford in derby, goose at MacclesfieldJay Rodriguez got West Brom’s season up and running with a double in a thrilling 4-3 victory at Norwich. Rodriguez scored twice after Jordan Rhodes claimed his first goal for the hosts having earlier missed a penalty. The on-loan Leicester midfielder Harvey Barnes’s second goal in as many games put the Baggies 3-1 up and although Teemu Pukki’s goal threatened a Norwich
  
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• England v India: second Test, day three – as it happened

  11-08-2018 19:33 via theguardian.com
  Over-by-over report on the action at Lord’sBarney Ronay on Jimmy Anderson, the Elvis of Lord’sAndy Bull: India have invested too much power in KohliEmail Adam with your thoughts | Tweet @collinsadam6.30pm BST Pantomime booing from the Lord’s crowd with play officially called off, the end of a brilliant afternoon for England. Not a flawless day - they did lose four wickets in the first session and Jos Buttler early in the second - but Bairstow and Woakes’ magnificent 189-r
  
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• Melissa Harrison: ‘Fascism grows like a fungus’

  11-08-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  The novelist on the political intrigue of 1930s Suffolk and how a Ladybird book rekindled her interest in the natural worldMelissa Harrison’s writing, whether in her novels, short stories or nonfiction, has always been driven by a profound sense of the importance of nature, of the turning of the seasons, of the way that an environment works upon the people who live within it. Her first novel, Clay (2013) told the story of three very different characters seeking solace in urban wildlife. He
  
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• Boris Johnson is the new Winston Churchill – cartoon

  11-08-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Chris Riddell on the former foreign secretary’s failure to apologise after his burqa comments Continue reading...
  
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• Book clinic: has social media killed travel writing?

  11-08-2018 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Our expert answers with a resolute no, and issues a challenge to the Twitter generationIs travel writing dead in the age of social media?
  Charu Gupta, IndiaSara Wheeler, biographer and author of travel books including Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica, writes:
  Charu, no! Travel writing is all about observational detail, which can’t really be captured in social media. The writer gets a longer run at it in pieces or books – the marathon as opposed to the sprint. If you suggest tha
  
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• Auden had it right: we seek comfort where we can, even amid calamity | Nick Cohen

  11-08-2018 18:59 via theguardian.com
  The weather and the World Cup gave us blessed respite from the Brexit debacleIf you could shade your eyes from the glare, the long, stupid summer of 2018 was a joy to live through. The sun shone for months on end, as if Britain was not leaving the EU but moving to southern Europe. England’s footballers tore up their history of failure and to the astonishment of the nation reached the semi-finals of the World Cup. Consumers with stagnant incomes were inspired by the heatwave to somehow find
  
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• Hayley Turner finally makes it to the top on Shergar Cup day

  11-08-2018 18:53 via theguardian.com
  • Girls team win competition for second time in four years
  • ‘We’re against the best jockeys around and we’ve beat them’It was fun to ride those three Group One winners but, as it turns out, the greatest moment of fulfillment in the career of Hayley Turner came when, after 11 previous attempts, she finally won the Silver Saddle for top jockey at the Shergar Cup here on Saturday. Lots of riders enjoy taking part in this unusual, amazingly successful competition b
  
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• Fredericton murders in Canada spark calls for gun reform

  11-08-2018 18:53 via theguardian.com
  Police charge a 48-year-old man for murders of two police officers and two civilians Canadian police have charged a man for the deaths of two police officers and two civilians, the latest incident in an eruption of gun violence that has prompted calls for weapons bans.Police in the eastern city of Fredericton, New Brunswick, said on Saturday that Matthew Vincent Raymond, 48, was arrested and charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Continue reading...
  
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• Two men arrested in Deptford arson murder inquiry

  11-08-2018 18:52 via theguardian.com
  Seven-year-old Joel Urhie was killed in a fire at his home in south-east LondonPolice investigating the death of seven-year-old Joel Urhie in a fire in Deptford, south-east London, have arrested two men on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, and arson with intent to endanger life, Scotland Yard has said.A murder inquiry was launched after Joel died in the blaze early on Tuesday morning. Continue reading...
  
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• Two arrested over house fire death of Joel Urhie, 7, in Deptford

  11-08-2018 18:51
  Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a house fire left a seven-year-old boy dead in southeast London.Joel Urhie was found dead by firefighters tackling the blaze in Deptford in the early hours of 7 August.Two men, aged 21 and 29, have been held on suspicion of murder, attempted murder and arson with the intent to endanger life.
  
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• Deptford Fire: Two Men Arrested Over Death Of Seven-Year-Old Joel Urhie

  11-08-2018 18:43
  Police investigating the death of a seven-year-old boy found dead after a
  
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• Farmer Stephen Sandys 'Trampled To Death By His Own Cattle', Say Police

  11-08-2018 18:38
  A farmer found dead in a field on Friday may have been trampled to death by
  
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• Men who ran French campsite hit by flash floods charged

  11-08-2018 18:31 via theguardian.com
  A man is still missing after rising waters caused 119 children to be evacuated from the unauthorised site Two Germans whose group ran an unauthorised campsite in southern France that was hit by flash floods, forcing the emergency evacuation of 119 children, have been charged.The men, who have not yet been named, were handed preliminary charges of involuntary injury aggravated by endangerment and creating a campsite without a permit, Eric Maurel, the Nimes prosecutor, said. Continue reading...
  
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• Conservatives call for constitutional intervention last seen 230 years ago

  11-08-2018 18:25 via theguardian.com
  Lawmakers push for ‘constitutional convention’ to restrict federal government – and it’s not as far fetched as it sounds
  It’s been more than 230 years since America’s last constitutional convention, but there is growing confidence in some conservative circles that the next one is right around the corner – and could spell disaster for entitlement programs like medicare and social security, as well court decisions like Roe v Wade.“I think we’re
  
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• Amazon must clarify 'misleading' one-day delivery claim

  11-08-2018 18:21
  Amazon must clarify that some items on its Prime service are not available for one-day delivery, the advertising regulator has ruled.The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said the online retailer's promotion of a one-day delivery service for Amazon Prime members was "misleading" after around 270 people reported not getting their items by the next day.An Amazon spokesman said: "Amazon Prime offers fantastic benefits to members including one-day delivery on millions of eligible items at no ext
  
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• Youth groups call for social action ‘national service’

  11-08-2018 18:18 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister urged to launch full-time civic duty scheme for those under 30Theresa May is facing calls to imbue a new generation with a sense of civic duty with a programme that would see the young pitch in to help struggling students, care homes, charities and hospitals.Almost 60 years since national service was brought to an end, a group of 18 charities, businesses and youth organisations has proposed a new programme of voluntary “full-time social action” for those under 30 as a
  
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• Woman arrested with daughter in Dubai over drinking wine is released

  11-08-2018 18:17 via theguardian.com
  Human rights group warns case of Ellie Holman, who accepted alcohol offered by Emirates, is symptomatic of confused UAE lawsA woman who was detained in Dubai with her four-year-old daughter after drinking a complimentary glass of wine on a flight from London has expressed her relief after she was cleared by authorities and allowed to return home.Ellie Holman, a dentist originally from Sweden who lives in Sevenoaks, Kent, with her husband and three children, had been facing a year in detention wh
  
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• N’Golo Kanté rare strike sparks Chelsea victory at Huddersfield

  11-08-2018 18:14 via theguardian.com
  That will do for starters. Chelsea were far from perfect, even shaky at times during the first half, but they improved as the game progressed and made off with maximum points from their first league match under Maurizio Sarri. N’Golo Kanté, Jorginho and Pedro scored and the visitors could have added more goals but Huddersfield had their moments, too, and there were times when Sarri seemed to chew particularly hard on the item he had in his mouth throughout the match, which looked su
  
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• Homebase to review sale of Monsanto weedkiller after US cancer verdict

  11-08-2018 18:08 via theguardian.com
  Roundup was ruled by a Californian jury to have caused Dewayne Johnson’s lymphomaOne of the UK’s largest DIY retailers is reviewing the sale of Roundup weedkiller products amid mounting concerns about their use, after a US jury found that the herbicide had caused a terminally ill man’s cancer. The manufacturer of the weedkiller, Monsanto, has insisted that British consumers are safe to continue using Roundup products, which are widely sold at DIY stores and used by British farm
  
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• Vince Cable says ‘centre of gravity’ shifting to second Brexit vote

  11-08-2018 18:04 via theguardian.com
  Lib Dem leader points to recent YouGov poll showing support for a People’s Vote on final dealThe “centre of gravity” on Brexit is shifting towards a second referendum on the final deal, the Liberal Democrat leader has said. Vince Cable was speaking as thousands of opponents of Brexit in the south-west of England took part in the first of a series of regional days of action planned by the People’s Vote campaign across the country. Joining Conservative and Labour MPs and a
  
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• A garden alive with art: all-natural insect sculptures – in pictures

  11-08-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Inspired by the art of ikebana – a traditional style of Japanese flower arranging – Montreal-based artist Raku Inoue hand-crafts bugs using materials from his garden. He transforms his garden waste, including sticks, seeds and petals, to create his Natura Insects series. “I think about the main shape of the insect,” he says, “and try to find something to satisfy that. It’s very much like a puzzle.” As the year progresses, his creative options change. &ld
  
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• European Championships’ tale of two cities has been novel attraction | Mark Woods

  11-08-2018 17:28 via theguardian.com
  The inaugural event in Berlin and Glasgow has proved to be a success, particularly on televisionThe inaugural European Championships – this hotchpotch, hybrid conglomerate of several sports bundled into one sporting feast – concludes on Sunday in Berlin and Glasgow and the many satellite Scottish sites that have been roped in, in the cause of spreading the wealth. It is a gamble on the ancient mantra that from unity comes strength and from glittery packaging come attracted&
  
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• Mother Held In Dubai For Drinking Glass Of Wine On Emirates Flight Will Be Home Tomorrow

  11-08-2018 17:15
  Ellie Holman, the dentist held in Dubai for three days with her four-year-old
  
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• Mother Ellie Holman Held In Dubai For Drinking Glass Of Wine On Flight Will Be Home Tomorrow

  11-08-2018 17:15
  Ellie Holman, the dentist held in Dubai for three days with her four-year-old
  
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• Donald Trump Launches Twitter Blitz After N-Word Allegations

  11-08-2018 17:08
  Donald Trump will have awoken on Saturday morning to a storm of headlines
  
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• Summer’s hot fashion tip: get your rubber gloves on

  11-08-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  They come in purple, orange, black lace and more – but these catwalk stalwarts are not for doing the washing-up inThis season’s It buy is not a bag, and is not weather-appropriate. Rather, it’s a pair of statement summer gloves. Black, or brightly coloured, usually in synthetic rubber or PVC, they have nothing to do with practicality – and everything to do with aesthetics.First seen this year on Vogue’s February cover, where Nicole Kidman sported a pink pair from It
  
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• Lily Cole: Balls review – what Heathcliff's mum did next

  11-08-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Foundling Museum, London
  Lily Cole’s moving short film is a fine addition to the Foundling Museum’s fascinating art collectionTwo girls appear on a split screen, one black, one white. Each is anxiously rocking a baby. One after the other, they are called before a panel of grave-faced men to be questioned about their children. Or rather, to be asked how they came to be pregnant in the first place, whether the conception was forced upon them, and in what circumstances. What will they d
  
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• Harry Kane, the main thing about giving birth is mother and baby's health | Barbara Ellen

  11-08-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  As the England footballer has discovered, how you have a baby is as competitive as footballFor such a feminine arena, it’s ironic how childbirth continues to be mired in needless machismo. Harry Kane, the England footballer, has come under fire for praising his fiancee, Kate Goodland, for giving birth to their second child, Vivienne, saying he was “proud” of her for having a water birth, “with no pain relief”. After heavy criticism, Kane amended this to saying that
  
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• Carl Zimmer: ‘We shouldn’t look to our genes for a quick way to make life better’

  11-08-2018 17:00 via theguardian.com
  The science writer and Harvard professor on intelligence, the promise and dangers of gene editing, and how we get heredity wrongCarl Zimmer is a rarity among professional science writers in being influential among the scientists on whose work he writes and comments – to the extent that he has been appointed as professor adjunct in the department of molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University. Zimmer has just published his 13th book, She Has Her Mother’s La
  
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• The Festival: Inbetweener embarrassment but in tents

  11-08-2018 16:59
  The director of new film The Festival says he is "delighted" by comparisons between it and The Inbetweeners.The comedy stars Joe Thomas - who played Simon in the coming-of-age series - as a university graduate who heads to a festival after getting dumped by his girlfriend.With the trailer revealing his character gets an infected piercing, wears some cringeworthy outfits and is trying to dodge police, it is no surprise there are already comparisons being drawn between it and The Inbetweeners.
  
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• No more Mr Tracksuit: the rise and rise of the House of Ashley

  11-08-2018 16:59 via theguardian.com
  Mike Ashley’s purchase of House of Fraser is part of the controversial Sports Direct mogul’s efforts to shed his image as a bargain sportswear retailer‘My ambition is to transform House of Fraser into the Harrods of the high street,” trumpeted Mike Ashley, sportswear billionaire, as he added the stricken department store to his multibillion-pound retail empire.House of Fraser has been a target for years for the controversial owner of Sports Direct, and he f
  
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• Tantrums and tears: how Peter Sellers turned a pirate film into a shipwreck

  11-08-2018 16:42 via theguardian.com
  The 1973 movie Ghost in the Noonday Sun, with Spike Milligan, never reached the big screen. Now its director, Peter Medak, reveals whyIn 1973, Peter Sellers persuaded his friend Peter Medak to direct a pirate comedy that he had developed with fellow comic genius Spike Milligan – only to then sabotage the production. Sellers’s tantrums and cancelled shoots were among the disasters that took their toll, ensuring that the film was never seen in cinemas.Now Medak has made a feature docum
  
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• Erdoğan calls on Turks to back lira by selling their dollars and euros

  11-08-2018 16:09 via theguardian.com
  Turkey’s currency has plummeted as relations with the US have worsenedThe Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has repeated a call for Turks to sell dollars and euros to support the national currency, which has been in freefall over concerns about the economy and deteriorating ties with the US. On Saturday, Erdoğan urged Turks to help support the lira to win what he described as a “war of independence”. Continue reading...
  
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• Unicycles, skydives and stand-up: five out-there ideas for a new student hobby

  11-08-2018 16:00
  Do you think you’re as funny as Tina Fey or Jack Whitehall?There’s certainly no other time in your life where you’ll be expected to don fancy dress on such a regular basis.Whether it’s dressing up as something beginning with the letter A or as a fictional character, whatever club or society you’re part of, there’ll be some kind of imposed fancy dress code.
  
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• Mohsin Hamid: ‘It’s important not to live one’s life gazing towards the future’

  11-08-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  The Pakistani novelist, who has lived in the UK and US, has been well placed to write such prescient books as Exit West and The Reluctant Fundamentalist. But what he wants his next novel to do, he says, may be beyond himMohsin Hamid appears to have a preternatural ability to summon up the spirits of his time. He finished writing his latest novel, Exit West, which was published early last year and shortlisted for the Man Booker prize, well before Trump and Brexit brought questions of borders and
  
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• Crumbling stone in the Western Wall exposes Jerusalem’s religious fractures

  11-08-2018 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Erosion is damaging the 2,000-year-old site – but restoration plans have been complicated by its sacred statusIt was an otherwise unremarkable occurrence – a lone stone, possibly weakened by erosion, cracked, slipped and plummeted to earth.But this stone was not unremarkable. It had been placed there centuries ago as part of a long stretch of limestone blocks in Jerusalem called the Western Wall – known also as the Wailing Wall – which includes remnants of the Temple Moun
  
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• Charlottesville on edge on anniversary of deadly white nationalist rallies

  11-08-2018 15:56 via theguardian.com
  More than 1,000 police called in as Virginia city prepares to honor killed counter-protesterMore than 1,000 law enforcement officers are stationed around Charlottesville, Virginia, this weekend, as the city marks a year since violent white supremacist rallies sparked a deadly attack and open fighting in the streets.The racist provocateur who organized last year’s far-right rally has moved on to Washington, DC, where he has received a permit to stage a “white civil rights rally”
  
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• Southampton football fans to be shown CCTV of murdered teen Lucy McHugh's last movements

  11-08-2018 15:46
  The last known movements of a murdered 13-year-old will be played to thousands of football fans as police continue to appeal for information.The body of Lucy McHugh was found in an area of woodland in Southampton on 26 July after she was stabbed to death.The footage will be played to Southampton fans before the side's Premier League opener against Burnley at home on Sunday, in the hope it may lead to information being passed on to police.
  
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• Dele Alli gets Tottenham off to a winning start against Newcastle

  11-08-2018 15:42 via theguardian.com
  In Mauricio Pochettino’s native Argentina interest rates have been held at an emergency 40% since May and the plummeting peso recently led to the government receiving an emergency $50bn International Monetary Fund bailout. It makes the UK’s own travails seem rather tame but Tottenham’s manager has nevertheless said he feels “sorry for the English people” as Brexit looms. Moreover, Pochettino blames the Leave vote for the fall in the pound which prompted a rise in th
  
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• Ciarán Dowd: Don Rodolfo review – spoof swashbuckler is surprisingly seductive

  11-08-2018 15:41 via theguardian.com
  Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
  Character comedy doesn’t come less cutting-edge, but despite his cheesy cliches and nonsense machismo, Dowd has his way with the crowdImagine Zorro struggling with the Spanish accent and with a weakness for fondue, and you’ve a flavour – it should be a cheesy one – of Ciarán Dowd’s buzzy character-comedy show. Don Rodolfo Martini Toyota is a 17th-century swordsman on a mission to avenge his father’s death. His rival is nea
  
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