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• Many eyes will track Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft after Nov. 14 launch - Space.com

  06-11-2022 12:00 via news.google.com
  Many eyes will track Artemis 1's Orion spacecraft after Nov. 14 launch  Space.comThis Week @NASA: Artemis I Moon Mission Update, Lunar Flashlight, CAPSTONE Success  SciTechDaily321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week  Florida TodayNASA Gears Up to Attempt the Launch of Artemis I Moon Mission For the Third Time on November 14  The Weather ChannelNASA’s Massive Artemis I Moon Rocket Arrives at Launch Pad Ahead of Historic Mission&
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: Russian colonel general latest military commander to be replaced in Ukraine, says UK

  06-11-2022 10:27 via theguardian.com
  Ministry of Defence says dismissals are in part ‘likely an attempt to insulate and deflect blame from Russian senior leadership’ over poor performance on battlefield Kyiv authorities have begun planning the evacuation of the city’s 3m residents if the Ukrainian capital suffers a complete blackout, according to the New York Times.The widespread bombardment by Russian forces of critical energy infrastructure across the country is continuing, with 40% of Ukraine’s energy inf
  
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• This is no country for young people. The fate of so many of our children is sealed at birth | Will Hutton

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Shocking new figures reveal the ugly truth that the circumstances of early years, from a baby’s weight to family ties, matter too muchJudge the vitality and health of a society by the way it treats its young. Every kid has a god-given talent that can be grown into something that will allow her or him to give, to contribute, and whose exercise of it will make them feel great – and enrich the rest of us. A teacher to whom I owe a lot used to say that, trusting every student will have a
  
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• ‘These are conditions ripe for political violence’: how close is the US to civil war?

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Nearly half of Americans fear their country will erupt within the next decade. Ahead of the midterm elections this week, three experts analyse the depth of the crisisAmerican political scientist and author of How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them (Viking) Continue reading...
  
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• ‘The response blew us away’: mass relay takes baton from Glasgow to Cop27

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Olympians, presidents and thousands of kids join Running Out of Time to carry climate plea from school pupilsTransporting a baton 4,800 miles in a non-stop relay from Glasgow to Cop27 in Egypt has come with its fair share of challenges.One particularly heart-stopping moment came half a mile out in the Channel when an 18-year-old rower, Maddie Plested, tried to pass the baton to a sailor on a boat. Continue reading...
  
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• The ranting right is winning, from the US to Israel | Simon Tisdall

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  US Democrats and leftwing parties around the world have failed to come up with a compelling narrative to counter the lies and distortions of extremistsUnless polls, pundits and precedents are wildly wrong, Democrats will crash and burn in this week’s US midterm elections. Given the problems he inherited, Joe Biden’s presidency was always likely to end in tears. Expected Republican gains on Tuesday herald a descent into bareknuckle political fisticuffs and legislative gridlock before
  
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• Santa Claus The Serial Killer review – an icky true-crime documentary masquerading as an investigation

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The heartbreaking disappearances of eight men from Toronto’s gay district is turned into a truly unedifying bit of rubbernecking Whisper it, but the true-crime documentary bubble may have burst. There are now objectively more documentaries than there is actual crime, and this is manifesting itself in a peculiar way. In the old days (read: about 18 months ago), the best way to identify a bad true-crime documentary was to look up the crime online. If you could learn more about it from a five
  
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• Novelist As a Vocation by Haruki Murakami review – the secrets behind the literary phenomenon

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The celebrated novelist offers insights into his ways of working, his direct style and the moments that shaped him in this intriguing book on writingOn an April afternoon in 1978, Haruki Murakami was sitting in the stands of Jingu Stadium in Tokyo watching a baseball game when he underwent a life-changing epiphany. It happened just as a player for his local team struck a ball into left field, to the delight of the home crowd. “In that instant,” he writes, “and based on no groun
  
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• Ezra Collective: Where I’m Meant to Be review – brilliant follow-up from the inventive party band

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
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  This sophisticated second album from the five instrumentalists could just see them cross over to the big leagueEzra Collective have long been the London jazz scene’s de facto party band, but their second album is a sophisticated step up. Its 14 tracks ponder their place in the world, and find these five instrumentalists standing on the shoulders of their forefathers: a song called Belonging follows snatches of a phone conversation with the film director Steve McQueen; there&rsqu
  
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• Dangerous Liaisons review – a classic novel becomes Gossip Girl in powdered wigs

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Yes, the script for this adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos’ book is terrible. Sure, the French accents are ropey. Never mind – park your brain at the door and enjoy the ridePut aside Choderlos de Laclos’ novel. Forget the magisterial 1988 film version starring Glenn Close and John Malkovich. The new eight-part Starz adaptation of Dangerous Liaisons (Prime Video) is billed as the origin story of the marquise de Merteuil and vicomte de Valmont we know and love-hate. You’re
  
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• Crunchy chocolate rewards for hard workers

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  Perfect pieces for people who like their chocolate sweet and nuttyI’ve been stacking wood all weekend. At the last count, five tons of it. This is a good workout and you can see why people, once upon a time, didn’t need gyms. My Fitbit told me I’d done the most activity ever on the day I loaded three tons into the wood shed. Nothing like a bit of outdoor activity to justify a fire and a hot chocolate.My latest find is Willie’s Hot Chocolate, £4.99 great value). It&r
  
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• As a DJ, I know the government must intervene to save the night time industry

  06-11-2022 10:00 via theguardian.com
  The increasing closure of nightclubs threatens jobs, as well as the future of music and the souls of towns and citiesNights out in our favourite club – especially during our formative years – often help create our sense of identity and our place in the world. And become part of our collective memory.I know all this from my long association with the Haçienda in Manchester, a nightclub that closed 23 years ago but was remembered in a one-hour BBC2 documentary. Continue reading..
  
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• Rescue operation under way after plane crashes into Lake Victoria

  06-11-2022 09:44 via theguardian.com
  Fifteen people rescued so far, say local media reports, while it is unclear how many passengers were on flightA plane has crashed into Lake Victoria in Tanzania while attempting to land at an airport in Bukoba, according to reports. The state-owned Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation (TBC) reported on Sunday that 15 people had been rescued so far but it was unknown how many passengers were onboard the Precision Air flight or whether there were any fatalities. Continue reading...
  
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• Britain is on a highway to hell – and the Tories are about to make life even harder | Andrew Rawnsley

  06-11-2022 09:30 via theguardian.com
  Some may believe that things can’t get much worse, but more tax rises and cuts to public spending will soon rid them of that illusionTory MPs are publicly contemptuous of Matt Hancock, but they may soon be privately envious. There are worse fates for a politician than being force-fed kangaroo testicles and ostrich anus in return for a very large cheque. While the disgraced former health secretary is down under consuming exotic genitalia, Conservative MPs are preparing for the ritual humili
  
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• Why ivy is here to help gardeners – and homeowners

  06-11-2022 09:15 via theguardian.com
  It has a reputation for being destructive, but that’s so unfairScrolling through my social media feed recently, I was stopped in my digital tracks by a truly jaw-dropping image. It was a leafy mountainside in Shengshan, China, where what looked like well over 100 houses were entirely wrapped in living green. After being abandoned in the 1990s the fishing village of Houtouwan, 40 miles east of Shanghai, had been swallowed by nature, with Boston ivy covering every possible surface – ro
  
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• ‘Woeful’ DfE blamed as betting firms gain access to children’s data

  06-11-2022 09:01 via theguardian.com
  The department has been found responsible for an ‘unacceptable’ breach of data protection lawsThe Department for Education (DfE) has been found responsible for an “unacceptable” breach of data protection laws over betting firms using children’s information on a student database for age-verification checks.The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said there was “prolonged misuse” of pupil information on a database that holds the details of up to
  
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• Suella Braverman was warned ‘hate speech’ could inspire far right

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Senior lawyers had told home secretary about risks of inflammatory rhetoric long before she referred to asylum seekers as an ‘invasion’ The home secretary, Suella Braverman, who last week caused outrage by referring to asylum seekers entering the UK as an “invasion”, had been warned by government lawyers that inflammatory immigration rhetoric risked inspiring a far-right terror attack.Braverman’s comments came just one day after a man with links to the far right thr
  
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• Rob Page: ‘I’ve got friends in England that enjoy watching Wales play’

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘We’re not just going out there to make the numbers up,’ says the manager about his nation’s first World Cup finals since 1958When Rob Page announces his Wales squad for their first World Cup in 64 years on Wednesday, he will return to an old haunt for something of a trip down memory lane. Back to Tylorstown Miners’ Welfare Hall, the last surviving one in the Rhondda valley, which last week was home to a Welsh wrestling extravaganza and last month held a Tom Jones a
  
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• Norway plans sanctuary for ‘spy’ whale Hvaldimir who came in from cold

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Charity aims to establish first open water safe haven in a reserve for whales, including a Russian beluga that went viral on YouTubeWhen a beluga whale started to play with Norwegian fishing boats and interact with tourists in 2019, it became an internet sensation.The sociable creature seemed drawn to humans, and they were drawn to him. But Hvaldimir’s story seems to be a sad one; wearing a tight harness stamped with “equipment of St Petersburg”, the media went crazy, with talk
  
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• ‘Masculinity can be expressed in many ways’: actor Paul Mescal on luck, sex scenes and risk taking

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Just two dizzying years after bringing the nation to a standstill in lockdown lodestone Normal People, Paul Mescal has become an indie film star everyone wants to work with. How did it happen? He talks to Aaron HicklinThe actor Paul Mescal is a lucky man – his words, not mine. In the course of our conversation – mid-morning in London for him, pre-dawn in New York for me – he uses the word “lucky” at least eight times to describe his life and career. He was very luck
  
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• Man on run from fraud charges arrested after officer spots him at Disney World

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Fugitive Quashon Burton apprehended at Florida vacation park by federal agent who was on holiday at the timeOn the run from charges that he scammed his way into nearly $150,000 worth of coronavirus relief loans, Quashon Burton went on vacation last month to Disney World’s Animal Kingdom theme park, where he crossed paths with another most unfortunate tourist for him.That tourist was a federal agent who had been investigating Burton’s case, before going on vacation and taking time out
  
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• Living review – Kazuo Ishiguro elegantly adapts 1950s mortality tale

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood give deeply affecting performances in this melancholy, understated tale of mortality and lost youth based on Kurosawa’s classic film, IkiruSentiment and understatement meet in this beautifully melancholy (end-of-) life drama, based on Akira Kurosawa’s low-key 1952 gem, Ikiru. Elegantly directed by South African film-maker Oliver Hermanus (who helmed the 2019 adaptation of André Carl van der Merwe’s autobiographical Moffie) and boasting deepl
  
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• Inside the Moulin Rouge: BBC series follows British stars of French cabaret

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  A fly-on-the-wall documentary will accompany performers from auditions to the nightclub famous for the can-can danceOnce a hangout for the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and still home to saucy can-can dancers, the Moulin Rouge has long stood for everything French and naughty.But behind all the flouncy skirts, the nightclub has a secret, which is about to be uncovered in a major BBC Two documentary series, announced on Sunday. For while the Moulin Rouge still gives tourists and Parisians a ta
  
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• Fake encounters with Pakistani forces lead to torture and death

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Outcry is growing in Balochistan over the number of people abducted by security officials who often disappear foreverTabish Wasim, 22, a poet, was abducted in front of his ailing father in a private hospital in south-west Pakistan on 9 June 2021.“Three men forcefully came inside the room, they blindfolded Wasim and took him away. Two men were from the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force, wearing the uniform,” his father, Muhammad Shareef, 65, remembered, shortly after he buried him.
  
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• Don’t pretend to be ‘nice’. It doesn’t get you anywhere

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Being polite will only get you so far. Sometimes it’s worth being rudeThis is a column against niceness. Chuck out the nice cup of tea, bin off your biscuits, tell your neighbour exactly what you think of their drive, the project has failed… Hear me out. There were two things this week that got me reconsidering the concept, even as I screamed upstairs telling the children to share their toys. Even as I smiled at strangers and clicked the button to donate to charity and performed all
  
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• Crackdown puts Iran’s loyalties on the line before Qatar World Cup kick-off

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  England’s first opponents must juggle political as well as sporting expectations with splits in their campThe biggest question for Iran before the World Cup is not how the team will perform against England, the USA and Wales but how the players will behave in Qatar against a domestic backdrop of protests, violent reaction from the regime and calls for the country to be thrown out of the tournament.Hints can be found in recent domestic games. On Wednesday one of Iran’s biggest clubs,
  
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• Britons turn to credit cards and loans to cover basics as cost of living crisis bites

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Higher interest rates will plunge borrowers into debt as they seek to plug gap between income and outgoings, charities warnGrowing numbers of households are likely to turn to credit cards and loans “to plug the gap between their income and outgoings”, as winter sets in and energy bills increase, a leading debt charity has warned.Higher mortgage payments and rent increases, as well as the rising cost of food and energy bills, could also force householders who have never been in debt b
  
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• Boris Johnson ‘quit PM race over risk to £10m earnings’, sources say

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  If the ex-PM had lost the leadership contest, his value stood to drop by half, according to the entertainment industryBoris Johnson would have forfeited earnings of at least £10m a year from speeches and sales of his memoirs if he had fought a leadership battle against Rishi Sunak and lost, according to informed sources in the entertainment industry, who believe financial considerations played a part in his decision to pull out.Since he resigned in July, Johnson is known to have been in ta
  
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• Better late than never: Lopetegui’s winding route back into Wolves’ arms

  06-11-2022 09:00 via theguardian.com
  Manager was poised to take Molineux job in 2016 before Spain came calling and there have been tears and triumphs sinceJulen Lopetegui is late. Six years since he first started working for Wolves, he has finally turned up – officially becoming manager 295 games after he was first supposed to, and five more games since he was last supposed to. There will be two more before he sits on the bench, his role formally beginning on 14 November. Three hundred matches have already passed and Lopetegu
  
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• By all means cry God for Harry, England and St George. Just don’t puff out your chest too far | Tim Adams

  06-11-2022 08:30 via theguardian.com
  A new production ofHenry V has been calleda ‘woke King Harry’ –but Englishness hasalways been complexAt the Vote Leave HQ on the night of the Brexit vote, Daniel Hannan leapt on to a table at 4.30am to quote from Shakespeare. There was little surprise which passage he chose: Henry V’s St Crispin’s Day speech given on the eve of Agincourt. “Gentlemen in England now a-bed/Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,” Hannan roared, swapping out the
  
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• Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story by Bono review – from Boy to Mandela

  06-11-2022 08:01 via theguardian.com
  In his long but fascinating memoir, the self-confessed ‘speechifying’ U2 frontman isn’t shy of exploring the roots of his pomposity, faith and ‘white saviour’ activismSurrender begins with the U2 singer and activist nearly dying and ends with him being born. Both episodes are floridly written, a kind of poetic grandiloquence that tempers a default long-windedness throughout these 40 chapters (the “songs” of the title).But you don’t come to the 500+
  
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• These companies claim to support abortion rights. They are backing anti-abortion Republicans

  06-11-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  An analysis of major companies’ donations, including Meta and Amazon, reveals donations to candidates calling for banning the procedure The pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly was one of the most vocal opponents of a sweeping anti-abortion law that passed in its home state of Indiana, last August, saying that the measure would make it hard to attract talent and would force it to look outside the state for growth.But in the weeks and months that followed, Lilly continued to financially support
  
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• The big picture: men in burqas in search of a better life

  06-11-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Turkish photographer Olgaç Bozalp’s playful images examine how migration alters our view of the worldOlgaç Bozalp grew up in Konya, a city in central Turkey. Twice a year in his teens he would make the journey to Istanbul, 12 hours on the bus, just to experience a sense of freedom. “My personality didn’t necessarily fit into a small-town mentality,” he says of those years. As soon as he could he moved, first to Cyprus to study theatre and then settled in Lon
  
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• Sealed borders are a fantasy and talk of invasion is toxic. There is an alternative | Kenan Malik

  06-11-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  There is no perfect solution to immigration but one thing is clear: don’t dehumaniseOn one thing, Suella Braverman is right. The system is broken. But about almost everything else, she is grievously wrong, especially about the reasons for it being so. The cause of the brokenness is not a surge of migrants and asylum seekers, still less an “invasion”, but the result of a policy that, both deliberately and accidentally, has turned a manageable situation into a crisis.For all the
  
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• Rees-Mogg’s plans to axe all EU laws will cripple Whitehall, says leading Brexiter

  06-11-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  MP Theresa Villiers says proposal to axe thousands of laws is unworkable and unnecessaryOne of the Tory party’s leading Brexit supporters has raised concerns about plans to scrap 2,400 EU laws by the end of next year – as fears grow that the policy will overwhelm the civil service and bring government to a virtual standstill.Former environment secretary Theresa Villiers, who backed Brexit in 2016, told the Observer that the proposals would take up vast amounts of civil service time a
  
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• Ministers have no idea how many beaches in England shut due to sewage

  06-11-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Government admits information not kept on closures, as annual report also reveals no progress been made on river water qualityThe government has no idea how many beaches in England have been shut due to sewage pollution this year, ministers have admitted.This summer, scores of beaches across the country were forced to close in high season after raw sewage was dumped into the sea near the coast. Surfers Against Sewage found that in August alone, at least 90 beaches across the country had been sul
  
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• ‘I’m changing and I don’t think society helps at all’: Christine and the Queens’ journey to becoming Redcar

  06-11-2022 08:00 via theguardian.com
  The French pop star has endured the death of his mother, record industry resistance and a backlash after adopting male pronouns. In an emotional interview, he talks about the struggle to understand himself and the music he makesThere are some musicians who seem made for, and by, their work, who make music that lives through them, from their toes to the tip of their quivering quiff. Redcar, formerly known as Chris, also known as Christine and the Queens, and born Héloïse Letissier (a
  
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• Sunday with Lauren Hemp: ‘I might do a curry, with sauce from a jar’

  06-11-2022 07:45 via theguardian.com
  The Manchester City and England striker on vacuum cleaning, shopping, Netflix, taking a stroll down the canal for coffee and her Lego typewriterUp early or lie-in? I like a lie-in, so I’m up as late as possible. If we’re away training and have to be down for breakfast before 9am, I’ll turn up at 8.50.Sunday breakfast? I like an omelette but I’m not great at making them, so when I was away with England I’d always ask the chef. He said it’s all in the pan, so I
  
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• The Observer view on Britain’s urgent need to commit to nuclear power | Observer editorial

  06-11-2022 07:30 via theguardian.com
  The government denied wavering over the future of Sizewell C, but it needs to come up with an energy plan – and quicklyFor a moment last week, our cash-strapped government seemed ready to abandon a project that many experts believe is central to our plans of achieving energy independence and net zero emissions. According to the BBC, the Treasury had indicated the proposed new nuclear reactor Sizewell C was on a list of major construction projects that were under review for possible cancell
  
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• Sri Lankan cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka charged with alleged sexual assault in Sydney

  06-11-2022 07:16 via theguardian.com
  Gunathilaka, in New South Wales for the T20 World Cup, met woman, 29, online before raping her on Wednesday night, police allegeGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastSri Lankan international cricketer Danushka Gunathilaka has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a woman in Sydney’s eastern suburbs hours after the pair met for their first date.New South Wales police said the cricketer, who is in Australia for the T20 World Cup, and the 29-year-o
  
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• November is a time for maintenance and taking stock

  06-11-2022 07:15 via theguardian.com
  Start with the weeding and pruning… then make your plans for next seasonSo November, the coming of winter. A month of pruning and the last planting. The final opportunity for sowing broad beans, such as aquadulce, garlic cloves and onion sets. Rhubarb is good to go, too. Grow green manures in open space.It’s a month of maintenance before the winter rains. There may be gales in some places; the first frosts. It’s time to remove perennial weeds and add any ready organic matter.
  
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• ‘My father said he’d blow my brains out’: Richard E Grant tells of grief and trauma

  06-11-2022 07:06 via theguardian.com
  The actor, whose wife died last year, talks to Desert Island Discs about his relationship with his parents growing up in AfricaFive days after marking the anniversary of his wedding to his late wife, a grieving Richard E Grant will talk candidly about surviving an upsetting childhood in Eswatini (then called Swaziland) before finding sanctuary in his 38-year marriage.The Oscar-nominated film star, who appears as the guest on Desert Island Discs on Sunday morning, met his wife – the renowne
  
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• The Observer view on a dangerous moment for American democracy | Observer editorial

  06-11-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  A Republican midterm landslide is the last thing a divided, angry America needsFrom one perspective, the historical significance of this Tuesday’s US midterm elections should not be overstated. Anticipated Republican gains, and a consequent loss of Democratic control of Congress, would, if they materialise, be nothing out of the ordinary. The party in power usually performs poorly at the midpoint of the election cycle, especially if the sitting president is unpopular – and Joe Biden,
  
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• The Nice terrorism trial helps victims like me | Letters

  06-11-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  A correspondent who escaped the 2016 attack asks: what does justice look like for the 86 people who died?I read with interest Robert McLiam Wilson’s article on how the Nice attack is remembered in France (“In a deserted courtroom, the grim details of the Nice atrocity go mostly unnoticed”, Comment). He raises the question of what a trial can achieve when the guilty party died at the scene of his crime. It’s a question I’ve been asking myself ever since I escaped the
  
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• Roasta Preston, Preston: ‘Takes you far beyond comfort food’ – restaurant review

  06-11-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  This cheerful Cantonese diner is a delight, and the menu is worth exploring in depthRoasta Preston, 43 Plungington Road, Preston PR1 7EP (01772 827 958). Most dishes £8-£12, sharing platters £12-£30. UnlicensedThe late, great foreign correspondent Nicholas Tomalin famously once said that, to achieve success in journalism, you needed “rat-like cunning, a plausible manner and a little literary ability”. Restaurant critics need a few other qualities: a rapacious
  
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• My husband wants to be a woman. But will he be happier? | Ask Philippa

  06-11-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  I wonder whether the fear is more for yourself. Focus on what you want rather than the choices he is makingThe question My husband and I have been together for more than 20 years. We jog along together, but there had always been an underlying unease. Sex was initially a bit tentative, but then became something to be avoided. We now have separate rooms and live in different areas of the house. He finds sharing anything personal very difficult – even to the point of not sharing with me detai
  
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• How wild was the wild west in 1965?

  06-11-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  In Dodge City, there hadn’t been a fatal shootout in 10 yearsWhile most people are more used to getting the hell out of Dodge, Patrick O’Donovan went the other way for the Observer Magazine, looking to explore the wild west (‘In Search of Dodge City’, 3 October 1965).The wild west was a ‘beautiful, false and most potent legend’ impossible to define geographically, said O’Donovan, but ‘if one has to be arbitrary about it, the wild west is the Centra
  
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• Fairtrade that offer more than just good intentions | David Williams

  06-11-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  High quality ‘ethical’ wines, prompted by the Co-op introducing the UK’s most expensive Fairtrade wine
  Taste the Difference Fairtrade South African Chenin Blanc, Wellington, South Africa 2022 (£8, Sainsbury’s) It’s now 30 years since the Fairtrade Foundation was launched in the UK, and 25 years since Fairtrade International emerged as an umbrella organisation for Fairtrade initiatives around the world – time enough for opinions to harden on the question
  
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• ‘A car goes by with a loudspeaker telling us to leave Kherson. We stay’

  06-11-2022 07:00 via theguardian.com
  One of the few civilians left in the city describes his daily struggle to survive under Russian occupation and keep the dream of liberation aliveRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesMore than eight months after Kherson’s capture by Russian soldiers, the city is heavy and gloomy. Everything is frozen, hidden. After 3pm, there are no people on the streets. In the morning they go out to buy groceries and then they sit at home.Kherson is being robbed by the Russians. Everything is tak
  
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• Iranians defy crackdown with fresh protests, as president dismisses US vow to ‘free Iran’

  06-11-2022 06:34 via theguardian.com
  Ebrahim Raisi declares streets ‘safe and sound’ while shopkeepers strike and student demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death reach 50th dayIranian students protested and shopkeepers went on strike despite a widening crackdown, according to reports on social media, as demonstrations that flared over Mahsa Amini’s death continued for a 50th day.Saturday’s protests came as President Ebrahim Raisi said Iran’s cities were “safe and sound” after ea
  
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