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• May facing ministerial resignations over Brexit plan - Telegraph

  21-09-2018 23:44
  Some of British Prime Minister Theresa May's ministers will demand a "Plan B" on her Brexit proposal next week and could quit if she does not change course, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Friday, citing unnamed sources.Ministers will demand an alternative plan to her "Chequers" proposal at a Cabinet meeting on Monday, the Telegraph said https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/09/21/ministers-demand-brexit-plan-b-theresa-may-cabinet-showdown.Pro-Brexit members of May's party on Friday
  
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• Jürgen Klopp wants Liverpool to become ‘ugliest team’ to play against

  21-09-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  • Manager praises side’s ‘greed’ and ‘aggression’ in flying start
  • Xherdan Shaqiri could make first start against SouthamptonJürgen Klopp believes Liverpool’s 100% start to the season has been fuelled by a desire to be the ugliest opponent in the Premier League.Liverpool made it six wins out of six with victory over Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League and can return to the Premier League summit on Saturday with a seventh consecutive tri
  
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• Anthony Joshua dominance under biggest threat yet in Alexander Povetkin title fight | Kevin Mitchell

  21-09-2018 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Four-belt world heavyweight champion knows he must be on his ‘A game’ at Wembley on Saturday against the Russian challengerThe prospect of defeat simultaneously excites and frightens Anthony Joshua, as it does most boxers. But it is different for heavyweights, where uncertainty is built into every punch, and the unbeaten four-belt world champion knows that at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night Alexander Povetkin will provide the biggest threat to his dominance since Wladimir Klitschko
  
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• Rod Rosenstein disputes report he discussed removing Trump under 25th amendment

  21-09-2018 23:10 via theguardian.com
  Memos reveal deputy attorney general spoke to colleagues about making secret tapes of president, according to New York TimesDeputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein deemed “inaccurate” a report that he spoke with colleagues last year about the possibility of removing Donald Trump from office under the 25th amendment and about making secret recordings of the president. Related: Revealed: Russia’s secret plan to help Julian Assange escape from UKContinue reading...
  
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• Owners of Manchester flats face huge bills after forced evacuation

  21-09-2018 23:08 via theguardian.com
  Claim for £16m lodged after fire officers banned people from living in five-storey block Owners of flats in a Manchester complex which was marketed as an “outstanding” investment opportunity are facing huge losses after the fire brigade banned people from living there.The first residents moved into New Lawrence House in 2009 but were forced to move out the week after the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 after serious safety faults were identified. Continue reading...
  
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• Hitler v Lennin: Peru mayoral election is a historical showdown

  21-09-2018 23:01 via theguardian.com
  Hitler Alba is seeking a new term as mayor of the town of Yungar, but faces competition from Lennin Vladimir Rodríguez ValverdeHitler hopes to return to power in a small town in the Andes, despite a threat from a detractor named Lennin.Campaign slogans reading “Hitler returns” and “Hitler with the people” have appeared around the Peruvian town of Yungar, where local politician Hitler Alba is seeking a new term as mayor. Continue reading...
  
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• Manu Tuilagi: ‘I’m feeling better and better ... I know I’ll get there’

  21-09-2018 23:00 via theguardian.com
  The Leicester player’s self-belief is returning after a litany of injuries and Eddie Jones is taking an intense interestEven on the worst of days Manu Tuilagi never completely gave up hope. “Mentally I always think I will get back to where I was, no matter what,” he murmured on Wednesday, reflecting on the multitude of injuries that, latterly, have ruled him out of England contention. “I always think there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. I always try and play un
  
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• Zimbabwe's new finance minister says 'fiscal shock' needed for reform

  21-09-2018 22:50
  Newly appointed Zimbabwean Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube would like to employ a "big bang" economic reform program to the battered economy where unemployment is running above 80 percent, but recognises politics will limit the speed for change.Ncube joined the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa earlier this month.Mnangagwa won a disputed vote on July 30 in the first election in the southern African nation since Robert Mugabe was removed by the army last November after nearly four decades
  
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• Goldman Sachs wants your piggy bank

  21-09-2018 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  The "giant vampire squid" will target the UK savings market next week - but will it be a damp squib?
  
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• Tanzania's president orders arrests as ferry death toll climbs

  21-09-2018 21:19 via theguardian.com
  John Magufuli says ship, which capsized killing at least 131 people, ‘was overloaded’Tanzania’s president John Magufuli has ordered the arrest of the managers of a ferry that capsized in Lake Victoria, after the death toll climbed above 130 and rescue workers pressed on with the search for scores more still missing.Initial estimates suggested that the MV Nyerere was carrying as many as 300 people when it capsized near the dock on the island Ukara. The precise number was unknown
  
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• All About Eve: Gillian Anderson and Lily James to star in stage version of 1950 film

  21-09-2018 21:09
  X-Files actress Gillian Anderson and Cinderella star Lily James are to feature in the stage adaptation of 1950 hit movie All About Eve.The new London theatre production of the Joseph L Mankiewicz film, which starred Bette Davis and Anne Baxter, is being directed by Ivo van Hove.Other stars in the cast include W1A star Monica Dolan, Benidorm actress Sheila Reid and Apple Tree Yard's Rhashan Stone.
  
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• Salisbury poisoning suspects Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov 'were held in Netherlands'

  21-09-2018 20:49
  Two men suspected of poisoning an ex-Russian spy were detained briefly in the Netherlands earlier this year, according to research by investigators Bellingcat.An unnamed security official was quoted by Bellingcat as saying that Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov were released without being charged.Petrov and Boshirov have been named by Britain as the prime suspects behind the attempt to kill Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia with the Soviet-designed nerve agent novichok.
  
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• Ben Jennings on Theresa May and the Tory conference – cartoon

  21-09-2018 20:34 via theguardian.com
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• #WhyIDidntReport: sexual assault victims react to Trump's attack on Ford

  21-09-2018 20:27
  In a scene that felt particularly Gileadean, Trump was interviewed by his late-night confidant and biggest cheerleader Sean Hannity in front of a braying audience of adoring supporters on Fox News on Thursday night.Hannity began the interview, in places inaudible because of how loud the crowd was cheering, by joshing “wave to the fake news media” and pointing at the press pool.In front of his mob, Trump cast aspersions on Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused the supreme c
  
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• Theresa May demands respect from EU over Brexit as pound falls

  21-09-2018 20:09
  Theresa May has accused the European Union of not treating the UK with respect in a deliberately combative address that prompted a sharp fall in the pound amid fears that it made a no deal Brexit more likely.Twenty-four hours after her Salzburg humiliation, the prime minister gave a hastily arranged televised Downing Street statement in an effort to reassert herself.The UK expects the same.
  
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• Liam McIlvanney wins Scottish crime fiction award named after his father

  21-09-2018 20:05 via theguardian.com
  Prize renamed in 2016 to honour the late ‘godfather of tartan noir’ William McIlvanney goes to his son for The Quaker, based on the Bible John murdersTwo years after the award for the best Scottish crime novel was renamed in honour of the “godfather of tartan noir” William McIlvanney, his son and fellow crime writer Liam McIlvanney has landed the prize.William McIlvanney, who died in 2015, was the author of the acclaimed DI Jack Laidlaw series, set in Glasgow. In 2016, th
  
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• Where is our rights guarantee, Britons living in EU ask May

  21-09-2018 19:47
  Theresa May said she would protect the rights of EU citizens living in the UK in the event of a no-deal Brexit.Campaigners for the rights of Britons in the EU have described Theresa May’s failure to mention them in her statement on the Brexit negotiations as “disgraceful” and called on the UK and the EU to both guarantee their entitlements after Britain leaves.Speaking on Friday, the prime minister told EU citizens living in the UK that “even in the event of no deal, your
  
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• Doctors win battle with drug giants over cheaper eye medicine

  21-09-2018 19:38
  Drug giants Novartis , Bayerand Rocheon Friday lost a bid to stop British doctors from recommending a cheaper drug option for people with an eye disease that causes blindness, the High Court in London ruled.A drug industry group said the decision was “extraordinary" and was bad news for future regulatory cooperation between Britain and the European Union after Britain's exit from the bloc next year.The companies had sought to block doctors from 12 health groups in the north of England from
  
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• EU's Tusk says a compromise with Britain is still possible

  21-09-2018 19:32
  European Council President Donald Tusk said he was convinced that the European Union and Britain could still find a compromise over the country's exit from the 28-country bloc.Tusk's comments came after British Premier Theresa May earlier on Friday said that negotiations had reached an impasse and called on the bloc to come up with its own proposal a day after EU leaders criticised her offer.
  
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• UK's Windrush scheme begins refusing people deemed ineligible for citizenship

  21-09-2018 19:31 via theguardian.com
  Applicants ruled out because of criminal convictions or lack of documentationA specialist taskforce set up to help people who believe they are victims of the Windrush scandal is to start the process of refusing cases deemed to be ineligible for documentation or citizenship.The Windrush taskforce was created after it emerged that long-term residents of Britain had been wrongly targeted by Theresa May’s hostile environment policy to tackle illegal immigration and were being told to prove the
  
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• UK's Windrush scheme begins refusing people ineligible for citizenship

  21-09-2018 19:31
  ‘All refusals have followed careful and deliberate consideration.No decision has been taken lightly’, says the home secretary, Sajid Javid.A specialist taskforce set up to help people who believe they are victims of the Windrush scandal is to start the process of refusing cases deemed to be ineligible for documentation or citizenship.
  
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• UK's Windrush scheme begins refusing people deemed ineligible for citizenship

  21-09-2018 19:31
  ‘All refusals have followed careful and deliberate consideration.No decision has been taken lightly’, says the home secretary, Sajid Javid.A specialist taskforce set up to help people who believe they are victims of the Windrush scandal is to start the process of refusing cases deemed to be ineligible for documentation or citizenship.
  
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• Theresa May branded 'uncompromising' by EU after demanding 'respect' from Brussels

  21-09-2018 19:29
  Theresa May has demanded "respect" from the EU after the bloc's leaders rejected her Brexit strategy - prompting claims from Brussels she is being "uncompromising".Amid the fallout from an acrimonious EU summit in Salzburg, Austria, the prime minister used a surprise statement in Downing Street to issue an ultimatum to the bloc to accept her Chequers plan or come up with counterpropsals.The prime minister's address on Friday came 24 hours after the EU firmly stated her Chequers proposal for the
  
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• French handbag maker Longchamp to invest in China to revive sales

  21-09-2018 19:24
  Longchamp, one of France's leading handbag makers, is increasing its presence in China and the United States to boost its sales, its CEO said, betting on celebrity tie-ups and its online platforms to revive sluggish growth.Founded in 1948, Longchamp, best known for its folding Pliage handbags, is one of the last remaining independent family-owned leather goods makers in France with a global presence.At a time when some top-of-the-range luxury brands, such as LVMH'sLouis Vuitton and Hermes , are
  
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• Contaminated Blood Scandal: ‘It Was Avoidable – Now Historic Inquiry Must Uncover The Truth’

  21-09-2018 19:10
  On this day 32 years ago Tony Farrugia's father died an agonising death from
  
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• Russian model denies Salisbury poisoning scare was hoax

  21-09-2018 19:08 via theguardian.com
  Anna Shapiro says she really did fear her husband was victim of foul playA woman at the centre of a bizarre fresh nerve agent scare in Salisbury has denied that it was an elaborate hoax.Russian-born model Anna Shapiro claimed on Friday that she really did fear her husband, Alex King, had been poisoned at an Italian restaurant in Salisbury. Continue reading...
  
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• Is money-laundering scandal at Danske Bank the largest in history?

  21-09-2018 19:06 via theguardian.com
  Scale of fiasco highlights need for stricter regulation and cross-border force in EuropeThe Russian-speaking caller refused to give a name but the threat was explicit: “Do you really feel you can walk home safely at night?”It was 2013 and officers at the Estonian branch of Danske Bank were beginning to realise they had taken on some very unpleasant customers. After a tipoff, a member of staff had travelled to Moscow and started asking questions. The team was trying to trace the ident
  
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• British spies 'hacked into Belgian telecoms firm on ministers' orders'

  21-09-2018 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Report by Belgian prosecutors believed to support allegations made by Edward SnowdenBritish spies are likely to have hacked into Belgium’s biggest telecommunications operator for at least a two-year period on the instruction of UK ministers, a confidential report submitted by Belgian prosecutors is said to have concluded.The finding would support an allegation made by the whistleblower Edward Snowden five years ago when he leaked 20 slides exposing the targets of hacking by the British int
  
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• British spies hacked into Belgacom on ministers' orders, claims report

  21-09-2018 19:03
  The British spies are said to have targeted the computers of Belgacom employees working in security and maintenance with faked LinkedIn messages.British spies are likely to have hacked into Belgium’s biggest telecommunications operator for at least a two-year period on the instruction of UK ministers, a confidential report submitted by Belgian prosecutors is said to have concluded.The finding would support an allegation made by the whistleblower Edward Snowden five years ago when he leaked
  
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• British spies 'hacked into Belgian telecoms firm on ministers' orders'

  21-09-2018 19:03
  The British spies are said to have targeted the computers of Belgacom employees working in security and maintenance with faked LinkedIn messages.British spies are likely to have hacked into Belgium’s biggest telecommunications operator for at least a two-year period on the instruction of UK ministers, a confidential report submitted by Belgian prosecutors is said to have concluded.The finding would support an allegation made by the whistleblower Edward Snowden five years ago when he leaked
  
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• We now need a people’s vote on Brexit. But don’t assume remain would win | Jonathan Freedland

  21-09-2018 18:56 via theguardian.com
  Theresa May’s Salzburg humiliation and angry statement signalled the failure of Chequers. The biggest battle begins nowThe hills were alive with the sound of humiliation. At Salzburg, Theresa May was hoping she’d hear if not sweet music, then at least enough warm words from European leaders to allow her to say her Chequers plan still lived. Instead, they told her it “would not work”. Stung by that, she took to the Downing Street podium on Friday to deliver an icy death st
  
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• Chequered history: what EU summit fallout means for Brexit camps

  21-09-2018 18:43
  Theresa May came out to defend her Brexit strategy on Friday, demanding respect from the EU as her allies insisted that her post-Brexit proposals were still workable even after their rejection by EU leaders at Thursday’s Salzburg summit.The scenes in Salzburg would have sparked doubt in some.Loyalists who have been sceptical of the plan but ultimately sided with May, such as the environment secretary, Michael Gove, or the international trade secretary, Liam Fox, may start to worry that the
  
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• May has only self to blame for Salzburg sandbagging, Europeans say

  21-09-2018 18:39
  BRUSSELS/SALZBURG (Reuters) - If Theresa May felt ambushed, as British media saw it, at the Salzburg EU summit, she has only herself to blame for irritating continental leaders with her stand on Brexit, EU officials and diplomats said on Friday.Several participants spoke of anger among the leaders at an opinion column May placed in a German newspaper on the first day of the summit that flatly rejected EU negotiator Michel Barnier's plan for avoiding a dangerous new border in Ireland.
  
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• Italian prosecutors arrest ex-Deutsche Bank trader in Euribor probe

  21-09-2018 18:36
  LONDON/MILAN (Reuters) - Britain's Serious Fraud office said on Friday former Deutsche Banktrader Andreas Hauschild was arrested in Italy over alleged manipulation of the Euribor benchmark and Milan prosecutors would need to decide whether to hand him over.Hauschild was among 11 individuals who were charged in Britain in 2015 of rigging the Euribor interest benchmark with conspiracy to defraud.Euribor, the euro interbank offered rate, is the Brussels-based equivalent of London-based benchmark Li
  
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• 'Groomed aged 13 by hundreds of men on Kik'

  21-09-2018 18:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Within seconds of setting up a profile on the mobile messaging app, Taylor (not their real name) was approached.
  
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• 'Unbelievable': campaigners dispute police verdict 'M25 cat killer' is foxes

  21-09-2018 18:30
  London is estimated to have 12 foxes per square kilometre.On the streets of Croydon on Friday morning, the only apparent sign of slaughter was a very dead pigeon, so trodden into the road as to be barely recognisable as animal remains.At one point as many as 15 Scotland Yard officers, plus Martin Clunes, were on the case of the so-called M25 cat killer, suspected in approximately 500 cases of murder and mutilation reported since late 2015.
  
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• What next for Theresa May and Brexit after Salzburg humiliation?

  21-09-2018 18:24
  Theresa May and other European leaders at the EU summit in Salzburg, Austria on 20 September. ‘There is something deeply admirable about the PM’s stubborn refusal to give up,’ writes Joe McCarthy.Your report of the stance of EU officials on Brexit (UK will shift Brexit stance in its ‘darkest hour’ claim EU officials, 18 September) and the pronouncements of Donald Tusk a few days later (May humiliated as European leaders tell her: your Brexit plan won’t work, 2
  
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• Theresa May excels herself in another exercise in futility

  21-09-2018 18:24
  Theresa May chose to make an impromptu statement after the Salzburg conference from inside No 10.Was this the moment Theresa May finally lost all touch with reality?Shortly after midday rumours started to circulate that the prime minister was going to make a statement at 1.45pm.
  
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• Cornish pasties: Brexit will stop EU crimping our style

  21-09-2018 18:22
  Preparing traditional Cornish pasties. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images
  
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• RBS and Barclays asked to explain 'addition to litany of IT failures'

  21-09-2018 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Treasury committee head calls for compensation for customers after latest glitchesThe head of the powerful Treasury Committee, Nicky Morgan MP, is demanding answers from RBS and Barclays – and compensation for customers – after technical failures left millions of users locked out of their accounts.Royal Bank of Scotland, NatWest and Ulster Bank customers were unable to access online and mobile accounts between 5am and 10.30am on Friday morning, in the latest blow for confidence in Br
  
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• 3D gun rights activist detained in Taiwan over underage sex claim

  21-09-2018 18:21 via theguardian.com
  US authorities annulled Cody Wilson’s passport as police investigate accusation that he had sex with an underage girlA Texan running a 3D-printed guns company who flew to Taiwan as police investigated an accusation that he had sex with an underage girl was apprehended in Taipei on Friday after US authorities annulled his passport, officials said. Related: Gun rights activist Cody Wilson charged with sexual assault of teenContinue reading...
  
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• Male model George Koh jailed for murdering rival Harry Uzoka in row over girlfriend

  21-09-2018 18:16
  George Koh killed Harry Uzoka, 25, after meeting him to settle a dispute about a woman, accompanied by two friends.Koh, 24, from Camden, north London, claimed he had sex with Mr Uzoka's girlfriend, fellow model Ruby Campbell, and the two male models arranged a meeting to settle their differences.Mr Uzoka had just landed a film role before he was murdered by Koh on 11 January.
  
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• The unexpected delights of working in academia, according to Twitter

  21-09-2018 18:09
  ‘Watching the penny drop, I never get tired of that.’
  
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• Political price of no-deal Brexit would be high - Sturgeon

  21-09-2018 18:08
  Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservatives would pay a high political price for a no-deal Brexit in Scotland, which voted to keep its EU membership, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said.The Conservatives are the second-largest party in Scotland's devolved government behind Sturgeon's Scottish Nationalists (SNP) and also send the second-biggest number of lawmakers to the British parliament, with 13 of the country's 55 seats at Westminster.
  
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• DUP says it would veto any new UK-Northern Ireland barrier

  21-09-2018 18:08
  The head of Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party on Friday vowed to veto any attempt to introduce a new regulatory barrier between the region and the rest of the United Kingdom, and said the European Union's Brexit position was disgraceful."Any new regulatory barrier would be a matter for the Northern Ireland Assembly, where the DUP would veto any attempt to undermine the economic or constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom," said Arlene Foster, whose party British Prime Minister T
  
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• Theresa May's calm anger is a bid to balance humiliation

  21-09-2018 18:07
  If there was any doubt how shaken the prime minister was by the very public snub of her Chequers plan meted out by EU leaders in Salzburg, there is none any more.Indeed her Brexit secretary confirmed today he thought the prime minister had been ambushed.Instead she dug in - firstly on the fact she views her Chequers plan as the only viable option for an economic relationship with the EU that respects the referendum, and secondly on her refusal to countenance any backstop arrangement for the Iris
  
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• Pochettino, respect, and the ‘never kicked a ball in your life’ theory | Barney Ronay

  21-09-2018 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The Tottenham manager betrayed English football’s disdain for the views of those who did not play the sport but when those dry up it will be time to start worryingDeep down, behind the club loyalties, beneath the professional distance, everyone loves Mauricio Pochettino. You can deny it. But search your feelings, you know it to be true. There is just something very likable about Pochettino: the barking laugh, the pouchy dimples, the way he strides around the touchline looking like the worl
  
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• Who Is Brett Kavanaugh?

  21-09-2018 17:54
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• Organ Vida review – a female gaze on squatters, strippers and skivvies

  21-09-2018 17:37 via theguardian.com
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  This year, the photography festival is focused almost exclusively on work by women – who turn their lenses onto a world of pain and protest
  “Photographs taken by women do not only exist as a counterpoint to the male narrative,” writes Charlotte Jansen in her 2017 book Girl on Girl: Art and Photography in the Age of the Female Gaze. Jansen’s words encapsulate the intentions of this year’s Organ Vida Photography Festival, whose organisers cite recent s
  
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• 'I use Snapchat so I can tell everyone I'm a buff ting': kids and their parents talk social media

  21-09-2018 17:29 via theguardian.com
  Should you sign your dad up to Snapchat? Who uses Instagram more: parents or teens? And can you pay your son so he'll accept your friend request? Three parent/child pairs talk about social media and try to share some knowledge across the generations.
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