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• Somewhere Boy review – a beautiful, rare find that is in a world of its own

  16-10-2022 23:55 via theguardian.com
  This very special story about a boy kept cloistered in a remote house is an astute mix of gothic, thriller and family drama. You’ll want to watch the whole series in one goWhat a sad, beautiful, clever, wrenching series Somewhere Boy (Channel 4) is. It is the kind of drama that rewards knowing as little as possible about it, as it unfurls the story slowly and with great care. But the bare bones are that Danny (an excellent Lewis Gribben) has spent most of his life cloistered in a rundown h
  
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• Tip deductions cost UK workers £200m a year, says Labour

  16-10-2022 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Angela Rayner to set out plans to ensure tips are paid in full, along with collective workplace grievance rightsHospitality and leisure sector workers are missing out on about £200m in tips every year according to Labour figures, with the party pledging to “stamp out” unfair deductions for good.Angela Rayner, Labour’s deputy leader, will set out plans this week to ensure employers allocate all tips, gratuities and service charge payments to workers in full, without any de
  
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• Jamie Wallis accuses fellow Tory MPs of exploiting trans issues during contest for PM

  16-10-2022 22:57 via theguardian.com
  Trans MP says senior Tories sought ‘cheap political points’ and tells Liz Truss to resign for bringing them into governmentJamie Wallis, a Conservative MP who came out as transgender earlier this year, has accused fellow Tory MPs of exploiting and weaponising trans issues “in order to score cheap political points” during the recent leadership contest.The MP for Bridgend in Wales, who has written a letter to Liz Truss calling on her to resign as prime minister, described t
  
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• NFL wrap: Brady curses out teammates in loss to Steelers; Jets shock Packers

  16-10-2022 22:47 via theguardian.com
  Mitch Trubisky leads struggling Steelers to Tampa winJets off to best start since 2015 after shocking Green BayBills get revenge on Chiefs in battle of AFC heavyweightsMitch Trubisky came on for an injured Kenny Pickett to throw a six-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter and the Pittsburgh Steelers’ maligned defense made it stand up in a stunning 20-18 win over Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday.The Steelers (2-4) snapped a four-game losing streak by relying on a largely
  
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• ‘Delay was worth it’: Mikel Arteta hails Arsenal’s fight and VAR after power cut

  16-10-2022 22:00 via theguardian.com
  VAR overturned Gabriel red card and Leeds penalty late on‘It’s always hectic at Leeds’ says Arteta after 40-minute delayMikel Arteta had cause to both curse and applaud VAR on Sunday as the technology proved central to a dramatic, controversy packed, afternoon at Leeds where the excellent Bukayo Saka scored the only goal to ensure Arsenal remain top of the Premier League.A brief power cut at Elland Road coinciding with the scheduled 2pm kick‑off prompted an electricity su
  
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• Ben Jennings on Liz Truss’s precarious hold on power – cartoon

  16-10-2022 21:00 via theguardian.com
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• RFU and Bill Sweeney ready to explore ‘nuclear’ option of central contracts

  16-10-2022 20:38 via theguardian.com
  Sweeney: ‘I think everything is on the table to be discussed’RFU chief also looking at 10-team Premiership from 2024The Rugby Football Union is ready to explore the “nuclear” option of introducing central contracts for England players as powerbrokers seek a solution to the financial crisis with the chief executive, Bill Sweeney, insisting “everything is on the table”.The plight of Worcester and Wasps has accelerated plans for the RFU and the Premiership clubs
  
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• Vaccines to treat cancer possible by 2030, say BioNTech founders

  16-10-2022 20:01 via theguardian.com
  Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci say mRNA Covid vaccine technology could be repurposed to help destroy cancer cellsVaccines that target cancer could be available before the end of the decade, according to the husband and wife team behind one of the most successful Covid vaccines of the pandemic.Uğur Şahin and Özlem Türeci, who co-founded BioNTech, the German firm that partnered with Pfizer to manufacture a revolutionary mRNA Covid vaccine, said they had made br
  
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• OFM Awards 2022: Outstanding Achievement – London’s Community Kitchen

  16-10-2022 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Across London, Taz Khan and his team feed 14,000 people a week, as well as running a cookery school and a cafe. And there’s more in the pipeline…Observer Food Monthly Awards 2022 – all the winnersLondon’s Community Kitchen, which helps to feed an extraordinary 14,000 people a week, began, in 2014, with a simple observation: Mumtaz “Taz” Khan noticed his seven-year-old son had started asking for double the amount of food in his packed school lunch every day. W
  
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• Academy Museum gala 2022 red carpet – in pictures

  16-10-2022 19:52 via theguardian.com
  A selection of the fashion on show at the gala of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles Continue reading...
  
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• Haitians in shock after death of singer Mikaben in Paris

  16-10-2022 19:48 via theguardian.com
  The 41-year-old, hailed as ‘one of the most talented artists of his generation’, collapsed on stageHaitians paid tribute on Sunday to the singer Mikaben, whose sudden death during a concert in Paris left his country reeling.The 41-year-old recording artist, whose real name is Michael Benjamin, suffered a suspected heart attack or cardiac arrest during a performance on Saturday, shocking fans who saw him collapse as he made his way off stage. Continue reading...
  
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• Liz Truss may be safe until Halloween but nightmare is far from over

  16-10-2022 19:45 via theguardian.com
  PM will gather her cabinet for a rare Monday meeting to try to convince them she still holds levers of power When Liz Truss gathers her cabinet in Downing Street for a rare Monday meeting to shore up support and talk them through her radically changed plans for the Halloween budget, she will be trying to convince them she still has a grip on power.Sacking Kwasi Kwarteng as chancellor and bringing in Jeremy Hunt – who quickly buried key elements of her economic strategy, with tax rises and
  
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• Mohamed Salah strikes as Liverpool beat Manchester City after VAR reprieve

  16-10-2022 19:44 via theguardian.com
  Mohamed Salah had seen his number go up before he brought up that of Manchester City. With passions raging and City threatening to wrest a high-end encounter their way, Jürgen Klopp went for a triple substitution.There were 72 minutes on the clock but why was Salah’s No 11 up on the board? Salah had been Liverpool’s most dangerous player. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on central bankers: don’t put them in charge of the crisis | Editorial

  16-10-2022 19:30 via theguardian.com
  The UN is right to warn that governments risk a worldwide recession precipitated by excessive rate risesGenerals are often criticised for fighting the last war. What about central bankers who seem unable to grasp the lessons of the last emergency, still less to anticipate the next one? By putting central banks in charge of the response to the current crisis, governments risk a worldwide recession precipitated by excessive rate rises.That was the warning from the United Nations Conference on Trad
  
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• The Guardian view on Damien Hirst’s NFTs: posing a burning question | Editorial

  16-10-2022 19:25 via theguardian.com
  The artist is not alone in looking to cash in on content-free art. Only time will separate the stunts from the lasting innovationsQuestions about the nature and value of art are not new: a century has passed since Marcel Duchamp turned a urinal upside down, signed it R Mutt and presented it as Fountain to the Society of Independent Artists, in response to its promise that it would accept any work of art so long as the artist paid the application fee.New times need new questions, and one was flam
  
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• Whistleblower Trump Media executive says firm violated federal securities laws

  16-10-2022 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Will Wilkerson, co-founder of Trump’s media company, also alleges that ex-president pressured executives to give shares to MelaniaThe co-founder of Donald Trump’s beleaguered social media company has turned whistleblower, alleging the firm violated federal securities laws and that the former president pressured executives to hand over lucrative shares to his wife.Will Wilkerson, a former Trump Media and Technology Group executive, has told the US government’s financial watchdog
  
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• Dune subreddit group bans AI-generated art for being ‘low effort’

  16-10-2022 19:19 via theguardian.com
  Moderators of community devoted to sci-fi films and novels made decision after being flooded with automatically generated contentIn the world of Frank Herbert’s Dune, the “Butlerian Jihad” led to the destruction of “thinking machines” across the known universe, and the birth of a civilisation that focused on enhancing human intellect.In the online community on the subreddit of r/Dune, the birth of AI art has led to a similar, albeit smaller, war on technology. Conti
  
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• Three arrests made after man’s body discovered in Essex woodland

  16-10-2022 19:14 via theguardian.com
  Body believed to be that of a man in his 40s who had gone missing from a north London address alongside a woman in her 30sThree arrests have been made after the discovery of a man’s body in woodland in Essex, as police investigate whether two people were taken against their will.The body is believed to be that of a man in his 40s, who had gone missing from an address in north London alongside a woman in her 30s who has since been found physically unharmed. Continue reading...
  
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• John Major dismisses The Crown as a ‘barrel load of nonsense’

  16-10-2022 18:46 via theguardian.com
  Former PM angered by fictitious storyline in which Charles seeks his help in getting the Queen to abdicateAs Netflix prepares to release its fifth season of big budget royal drama The Crown it has rejected criticism of the latest season after former prime minster Sir John Major described it as a “barrel load of nonsense”.Major’s comments were made after concerns arose that a storyline in the hit programme could damage King Charles’s reputation. Continue reading...
  
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• Jeremy Hunt can’t undo the damage already done to Britain | Letters

  16-10-2022 18:38 via theguardian.com
  The country needs a brutally honest reckoning, not just a minor economic adjustment, says Colin Montgomery. Plus letters from Rev Julian Blakemore, Peter Leney, Nick Bennett-Britton and Sam DoncasterJeremy Hunt insists that the prime minister is still the one in charge; that the end destination of her agenda is the right one, and that this whole volte-face is simply a matter of changing how we get there. His euphemism is no doubt intended as an emollient to his troubled party as much as the mark
  
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• Dangers posed by fracking and oil drilling | Letter

  16-10-2022 18:36 via theguardian.com
  Prof Paul Ekins and Prof Peter Newell debunk the claims by the climate minister, Graham Stuart We write as environmental and social scientists in response to the extraordinary claims by the climate minister, Graham Stuart, that fracking and oil drilling are “good for the environment” and the economy (12 October). The reality is quite different. First, Mr Stuart’s claim about the supposed lower carbon intensity of UK oil and gas extraction pales into insignificance compared with
  
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• Real Madrid’s Benzema and Valverde set up deserved win over Barcelona

  16-10-2022 18:32 via theguardian.com
  Just when Barcelona thought there was a little life left in this game and in them too, Rodrygo slipped in the knife. With Barça 2-1 down and heading into the final minute chasing an equaliser that had seemed so implausible for so long, Xavi Hernández’s team were caught again, complicit in their own demise as they had been all afternoon.First‑half goals from Karim Benzema and Fede Valverde seemed to have ended this early, Madrid easing to victory, until a Ferran Torres l
  
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• Grey gap year: the over-60s with a taste for travel on a budget

  16-10-2022 18:28 via theguardian.com
  Boomers are eschewing the traditional cruise holiday in favour of exploring the world with a backpack or in a camper vanDavid and Viv Boardman have just arrived in Germany after a long bus-ride between Lille and Dusseldorf. They’re in the middle of a five-month stint backpacking around Europe, America and Australia, deciding where to go a week in advance, and they’ll return home when their money runs out. They haven’t recently finished school or university – they’re
  
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• Republican Adam Kinzinger: election deniers won’t ‘go away organically’

  16-10-2022 18:26 via theguardian.com
  January 6 committee member speaks days after panel voted to subpoena Trump and says ex-president ‘required by law to come in’Election deniers are not “going to go away organically”, and if they are ever to vanish, US voters must signal “that truth matters” beginning with the upcoming midterms, according to a Republican member of the congressional committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.Adam Kinzinger’s latest remarks on the baseless i
  
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• Jake Maizen’s hat-trick helps Italy stun Scotland in Rugby League World Cup

  16-10-2022 18:26 via theguardian.com
  Rugby League World Cup Pool B: Scotland 4-28 ItalyPool C: New Zealand 34-12 Lebanon, Jamaica 2-48 IrelandJake Maizen scored the first hat‑trick of the Rugby League World Cup as Italy, playing a first international game for three years, produced a magnificent team display to keepalive their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages with a 28-4 win over Scotland.Italy’s last fixture was a qualifier for this very tournament in November 2019, with the Covid-19 pandemic affecting the ab
  
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• Iran says four dead in Evin prison fire as relatives gather outside

  16-10-2022 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Family members and protesters demand answers over blaze that state media reports left 61 injured Family members and protesters gathered outside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran on Sunday after a fire engulfed some of the building the night before, leading to the deaths of at least four prisoners and injuring a further 61.The official death toll was released by Iranian state news agencies, which said the four died from smoke inhalation. Ten of the injured were hospitalised. Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I tweeted and life went nuts’: OFM Awards 2022 Food Hero – Jack Monroe

  16-10-2022 18:00 via theguardian.com
  The campaigner, whose work on explaining the cost of living crisis helped win the votes of OFM readers, recalls her hectic yearObserver Food Monthly Awards 2022 – all the winnersIn the middle of 2020, Jack Monroe suffered what she describes as “a proper breakdown”. Lockdown had set in, she’d lost a huge amount of work due to event cancellations and the abuse she was receiving online was becoming too much to bear. “It sent me into the darkest space that I’ve ev
  
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• ‘Everyone struggled’: life in UK’s unregulated supported housing

  16-10-2022 17:44 via theguardian.com
  With criminals suspected of cashing in on such accommodation, one ex-tenant says they are a ‘money grab’UK crime gangs rake in millions through supported housing, say policeWhen Mark*, 32, first moved into supported accommodation in Birmingham, other tenants would steal his plates and cutlery from the kitchen, and people would knock on his door daily asking for drugs.“There was no support. Someone would come in but they did nothing. They didn’t go into your cupboard and s
  
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• UK investors brace for another week of market turbulence

  16-10-2022 17:42 via theguardian.com
  Analysts expect more financial jitters after Bank of England ends intervention, while new chancellor tries to project calmCity investors are bracing for a week of renewed choppy trading in UK financial markets as Liz Truss’s government attempts to regain control and the Bank of England steps back from its emergency intervention.Before markets reopen for the first time since the Bank halted its multibillion-pound support programme on Friday, analysts said renewed turbulence on Monday despit
  
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• Crime gangs raking in millions through supported housing, say police

  16-10-2022 17:30 via theguardian.com
  Charities warn criminals cashing in on unregulated accommodation for vulnerable people exempt from housing benefit caps‘Everyone struggled’: life in UK’s unregulated supported housingOrganised crime groups are taking millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money through unregulated supported accommodation for vulnerable people, police have revealed.Criminals have been cashing in on the recent boom in “exempt accommodation”, designed to support vulnerable people such
  
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• Austere drama about Austrian empress wins top prize at London film festival

  16-10-2022 17:30 via theguardian.com
  Corsage, directed by Marie Kreutzer, hailed as ‘mesmerising’ imagining of a year in life of Elisabeth in 1877An austere drama imagining a year in the home life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria has won top prize at the London film festival.Corsage, directed by Marie Kreutzer, is a fresh take on one woman’s emancipation from the role that is expected of her. It follows Elisabeth, played by Vicky Krieps, as she prepares to turn 40 in 1877.Continue reading...
  
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• Ireland’s gangland trial of century set to begin in Dublin

  16-10-2022 17:25 via theguardian.com
  Crime boss Gerry ‘the Monk’ Hutch to be tried for a 2016 murder that fuelled a lethal feud with a rival gangArmed police, members of the underworld and a fascinated public are expected to converge on a Dublin courthouse this week for what has been dubbed Ireland’s gangland trial of the century.Gerry “the Monk” Hutch, 58, a prominent crime boss, is to be tried for a 2016 murder that fuelled a lethal feud between rival gangs that still simmers six years later. Continu
  
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• Sweden Democrats suspend official for insulting comments about Anne Frank

  16-10-2022 17:17 via theguardian.com
  Far-right party says online post by Rebecka Fallenkvist about Jewish diarist was ‘insensitive’A Sweden Democrats official has been suspended by the far-right party for making degrading comments about Anne Frank.In an Instagram posting that has now been deleted, Rebecka Fallenkvist called the Jewish teenage diarist “immoral”, among other things, according to Swedish media. Continue reading...
  
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• Mason Mount double and Arrizabalaga heroics ensure Chelsea sink Aston Villa

  16-10-2022 17:08 via theguardian.com
  The last thing Steven Gerrard needed was to encounter a goalkeeper who chose this occasion to produce the best performance of his Premier League career. Kepa Arrizabalaga has not had too many afternoons such as this over the past four years but he denied Aston Villa with an outstanding exhibition of his art.Two first-half saves from Jacob Ramsey and Danny Ings took the breath away. Those were far from his only interventions and they meant Graham Potter, whose side put in the worst performance of
  
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• Waitrose to bring back free hot drinks for loyalty card members

  16-10-2022 17:06 via theguardian.com
  Deal returns amid declining sales at supermarket, as shoppers turn to cheaper rivals during cost of living crisisWaitrose is to restore the free coffee offer it controversially removed from its loyalty card members, in an attempt to halt the supermarket’s waning fortunes as customers tighten their belts.The chain halted the offer during the early months of the pandemic but, after a trial earlier this year, is restoring the benefit for its myWaitrose cardholders across its stores next month
  
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• Italy: Berlusconi calls Meloni ‘patronising’ and ‘bossy’ as relations fray

  16-10-2022 17:04 via theguardian.com
  Three-time former PM’s outburst comes as their parties scramble to form a coalition governmentSilvio Berlusconi has described Giorgia Meloni, who is poised to become Italy’s prime minister, as “patronising” and “bossy” as the fragile dynamic between the pair unravels as they scramble to form a government.Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, which has neo-fascist roots, won the biggest share of the vote in general elections on 25 September, helping to secure
  
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• The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer review – the sleuth is out there

  16-10-2022 17:00 via theguardian.com
  The much-loved comic proves adept at noirish fiction in a debut whose surrealist humour sets it apartGary Thorn is in the middle of investigating a serious criminal case in south London involving police corruption, domestic violence, possibly even murder, when he stops in the street to speak to a passing squirrel. He tells the squirrel what he’s planning to do next and the creature, as ventriloquised by Gary, tries to talk him out of it. “I would think around that decision a bit deep
  
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• Joyce Sims, R&B singer-songwriter, dies aged 63

  16-10-2022 16:47 via theguardian.com
  Sims shot to fame in the late 1980s when her single Come Into My Life reached the top 10 in the US and the UKTributes have been paid to the R&B singer-songwriter Joyce Sims, who has died at the age of 63.Sims shot to fame in the late 1980s when her single Come Into My Life reached the top 10 in the US and the UK. Continue reading...
  
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• China congress and a zombie walk: best photographs of the weekend

  16-10-2022 16:42 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Pernille Harder scores twice to give Chelsea Women victory at Everton

  16-10-2022 16:33 via theguardian.com
  Two goals from Pernille Harder and a late strike from Niamh Charles secured Chelsea a 3-1 win in a tight contest with Everton.There were touching scenes as the teams warmed up, with Chelsea players wearing shirts bearing the words “get well soon Emma” across the back in support of their absent manager, who is recovering from an emergency hysterectomy following her ongoing battle with endometriosis. Later, the men’s team also wore the message before their Premier League match ag
  
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• 'It feels like this week or next': this latest U-turn has only ramped up plots to depose Liz Truss | Katy Balls

  16-10-2022 16:33 via theguardian.com
  Now Trussonomics is dead, even the prime minister’s supporters are wondering: what’s the point of her government?For a party that has developed a reputation for regicide over the past few years, Conservative MPs still have a habit of delaying the inevitable. Theresa May limped on for nearly two years after her authority was destroyed by the loss of the Tory majority. There was a slow ebbing of power – and various failed plots – before she was eventually forced to say she&
  
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• ‘I write what they tell me to’: Iran’s crackdown on journalists intensifies

  16-10-2022 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Independent media and human rights groups report arrests and physical assault as authorities try to suppress news of protestsAs nationwide protests enter their fourth week in Iran, the government is increasing its crackdown on activists and journalists. On 22 September Niloofar Hamedi, an Iranian journalist, was arrested after posting a picture she took of the parents of Mahsa Amini hugging each other in a Tehran hospital on the day of their daughter’s death. Amini, 22, died in police cust
  
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• Rees-Mogg accused of grabbing absolute power over UK energy industry

  16-10-2022 15:09 via theguardian.com
  Suppliers raise concerns that energy prices bill contains proposals for ministers to overrule independent regulator, Ofgem The business secretary, Jacob Rees-Mogg, has been accused of launching a “power grab” as new legislation proposes to hand sweeping control over the energy industry to the government.The government last week introduced the energy prices bill to parliament to formalise the energy price guarantee, Liz Truss’s flagship policy to reduce household bills by limiti
  
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• I felt at peace in my local Turkish baths. How sad that yet another is closing | Emma Beddington

  16-10-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  In my 20s I was at a low ebb – I had lost my hair and was suffering from an eating disorder. But a few hours in this calm space did something quite profound for meCarlisle council has just voted to close the city’s Edwardian municipal Turkish baths “temporarily”, pending a possible refurbishment and reopening. If they do reopen, it will not be in their current form: £7.10 entry, cheap enough to be a regular weekly event for many residents. The best-case scenario is
  
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• ‘I cooked it!’: meet the schools where pupils grow, pick and cook their own lunch

  16-10-2022 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Chefs in Schools charity aims to intrigue, excite and thereby educate children about food production and healthy eatingSix-year-old Zuriel stood in the school lunch queue and looked at the vegetable noodles, steaming on the counter. “I don’t want to eat that,” he murmured. “There are things in it I’ve never tasted before.”Seven-year-old Ali, standing nearby, overheard. Bursting with pride and eager to reassure, he exclaimed: “But I cooked it this morning
  
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• The floundering of GB News and Talk TV reveals a dark truth about the mainstream media | Nesrine Malik

  16-10-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  The only reason fringe channels are failing to flourish in Britain’s rightwing media swamp is because it is already full
  It couldn’t have happened to a nicer channel. GB News, it appears, has lost half its value since it launched last year. Shareholder Discovery sold its stake in the channel in August, with accounts lodged after the sale showing that its 25% share of the company, bought initially for £20m, was offloaded for just £8m. One of the buyers, Vote Leave backer S
  
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• OFM Awards 2022: Best Restaurant – Roots, York

  16-10-2022 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Lockdown taught chef Tommy Banks to let go and trust his team at the restaurant voted by OFM readers as this year’s favouriteOFM Awards 2022: Best Restaurant – runners upOFM Awards 2022 – all the winnersOne day, we will be able to talk about restaurants without referring to the upheaval of 2020, but not yet. Roots in York, the OFM readers’ Best Restaurant for 2022, has flourished post-pandemic but it’s a very different restaurant to the one that opened in 2018. That
  
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• Ghislaine Maxwell says she feels bad for ‘dear friend’ Prince Andrew

  16-10-2022 13:58 via theguardian.com
  Comments will be embarrassing for royal who has tried to distance himself from disgraced socialiteGhislaine Maxwell has spoken from a US prison cell about how she feels “so bad” for her “dear friend” Prince Andrew.In her first lengthy interview since her conviction on sex-trafficking charges last year, Maxwell said she still cared about the Duke of York, who has been stripped of royal duties over his relationship with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Continue r
  
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• Archbishop of Canterbury criticises tax cuts for the rich

  16-10-2022 13:55 via theguardian.com
  Justin Welby ‘deeply sceptical about trickle-down theory’ and can see no moral case for budgets that disproportionately affect poorThe archbishop of Canterbury has delivered a critique of tax cuts for the wealthy, saying he is “deeply sceptical” of trickle-down economics and could see “no moral case” for a government setting budgets that disproportionately affect the poor.In an interview with the Guardian while on his tour of Australia, Justin Welby said that
  
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• An other-worldly art project: the artists furnishing a Martian house

  16-10-2022 13:52 via theguardian.com
  Bristol project aims to give glimpse of what life in colony on Mars may be like using recycled materialsThere is a “Martian guitar” manufactured out of recycled pieces of wood and metal with an amp fashioned from a coffee pot. A surprisingly comfortable chair, plus rug and curtains, have been created out of the sort of parachute material a Mars landing craft may have used. The bedding in the sleeping pods has been decorated with dyes from plants, while a “mist shower” has
  
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