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• Two men in masked raid on Mark Cavendish still at large, court hears

  04-01-2023 19:34 via theguardian.com
  Trial of Romario Henry and Oludewa Okorosobo on charges of robbing star cyclist told full gang not yet apprehendedTwo of the suspects wanted for a knifepoint raid at the home of the Olympic silver medallist Mark Cavendish have not been tracked down by police, a court heard.The cyclist and his wife, Peta, were robbed by a masked gang, while one of their children was hidden under bed covers, Chelmsford crown court was told earlier in the trial. Continue reading...
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: head of Ukraine military intelligence tells Kremlin to expect strikes ‘deeper and deeper’ into Russia

  04-01-2023 19:34 via theguardian.com
  Kyrylo Budanov says he expects fighting to be ‘hottest’ in March, with a Ukraine counter attack in the springRussia-Ukraine war at a glanceThe city administration in Kyiv has said that 160 million passengers used the city’s subway in 2022, compared with 319 million passengers the previous year. It also said that about 5.200 people used the network for shelter on New Year’s Eve. In a statement posted to Telegram, the city authority said:On new year’s eve, during the
  
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• McCarthy falls short in fourth round of voting as Republicans deadlocked over House speaker – live

  04-01-2023 19:33 via theguardian.com
  Republican House leader loses bid for speaker once again despite support from TrumpSign up to receive First Thing – our daily briefing by emailUS Capitol police officer Michael Fanone, who testified to the January 6 committee, visited McCarthy’s office today to highlight McCarthy’s failure to secure his House speaker vote.While posing outside of McCarthy’s office, Fanone said he visited McCarthy to “rub it in”, referring to McCarthy’s election failure. C
  
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• The Guardian view on Sunak’s agenda: trapped by a legacy of failure | Editorial

  04-01-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  The prime minister cannot be honest about Britain’s problems without repudiating 12 years of Tory ruleTo govern in difficult times, a prime minister needs a candid account of problems matched with credible solutions. Rishi Sunak provided neither in what had been billed as a significant policy speech on Wednesday. He referred fleetingly to Covid and the war in Ukraine as causes of the present difficulties, but there was no critical analysis of the way Britain has been governed in recent yea
  
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• Labour dismisses Rishi Sunak’s five new pledges as mostly ‘so easy it would be difficult not to achieve them’ – UK politics live

  04-01-2023 19:27 via theguardian.com
  Prime minister urges public to judge him on whether he delivers on new pledges but Labour says most ‘were happening anyway’Lucy Powell, the shadow culture secretary, has issued a statement welcoming the government’s proposal to abandon the privatisation of Channel (without actually putting it in those terms). She says the government should never have floated the plan in the first place, and that it has been a “total distraction” for the broadcaster. She says:The Con
  
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• The Guardian view on Catholicism after Benedict: winds of change blow from below | Editorial

  04-01-2023 19:25 via theguardian.com
  The world’s biggest Christian church needs to revive the open, progressive spirit of Vatican IIThe funeral of Benedict XVI, which takes place on Thursday in St Peter’s Square, will not, of course, be followed by the drama and intrigue of a papal conclave to elect a new pontiff. Having become the first pope to resign his office for 600 years, taking on the new title of pope emeritus, Benedict moved to the sidelines of the Roman Catholic church’s public life. For the most part, h
  
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• Geordie Greig appointed editor of the Independent

  04-01-2023 19:24 via theguardian.com
  Former Daily Mail boss reunited with Lord Lebedev as news outlet faces tough financial challengesThe former Daily Mail editor Geordie Greig has been appointed editor-in-chief of the Independent, as the news outlet faces tough financial challenges and deals with a round of redundancies.Greig has been given the task of growing the Independent’s audience in the US after the company recently made about 30 staff redundant, including several of its UK political reporters. Continue reading...
  
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• Fay Weldon: the fearless glass ceiling cracker who loved being outrageous

  04-01-2023 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Writer Jenny Colgan remembers the author of The Life and Loves of a She Devil, who has died aged 91, a supreme operator who understood how to have a successful literary career• Fay Weldon obituary
  I have worked with a lot of writers on the festival circuit, most of them delightful – but I have never seen such an adoring literary audience as I did when I was on stage with Fay Weldon. These were second-generation feminists, working mothers, divorcees, and they absolutely loved her for p
  
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• Tesla stock has only plunged to a less ludicrous level as competitors catch up | Nils Pratley

  04-01-2023 19:20 via theguardian.com
  Elon Musk’s misadventure with Twitter is not the main factor in the dramatic decline in valueOnly part of the plunge in Tesla’s stock market value can be pinned on Elon Musk’s misadventure with Twitter. Yes, selling a few tens of billions of dollars-worth of Tesla stock – far more than he signalled at the outset – to fund the purchase was bound to dampen the mood among investors in the back seat. And, yes, the distraction factor is serious; Tesla’s non-executi
  
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• Meta dealt blow by EU ruling that could result in data use ‘opt-in’

  04-01-2023 19:16 via theguardian.com
  Irish regulator fines Facebook owner €390m after EU rejects argument for use of data to drive personalised adsThe business model of Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta empire has been dealt a blow following a ruling that its legal justification for targeting users with personalised ads broke EU data laws.Campaigners said the move could force the Facebook and Instagram owner to ask users to “opt in” to having their data used for targeted ads. Continue reading...
  
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• Management of five firms linked to Pegasus maker NSO is moved to London

  04-01-2023 19:06 via theguardian.com
  Move could stoke controversy for spyware company amid calls for UK sanctionsThe management of several companies linked to NSO Group, the spyware company that was blacklisted by the Biden administration, has moved to London.NSO, which sells Pegasus, one of the world’s most sophisticated hacking tools, is based in Israel, but several of the companies that manage some of the group’s operations – including one that NSO has said manages invoices and payments from NSO’s custome
  
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• Wilko secures £40m funding from Hilco as it faces cash squeeze

  04-01-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  Discount retailer also rejigs leadership team, replacing relative of founder as chairThe discount retailer Wilko has borrowed £40m from restructuring specialist Hilco and rejigged its leadership team as it faces a cash squeeze after falling to a loss and struggling to pay suppliers.Lisa Wilkinson, a member of the family which controls the 400-plus store chain, is stepping down as chair to be replaced by the former Bensons for Beds chair Chris Howell. Another former Bensons executive, Mark
  
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• M3gan review – girlbot horror offers entertaining spin on teenage growing pains

  04-01-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  Cheekily enjoyable chiller where a devastated girl seems saved by an eerily self-possessed robot companion – but all is not as it seemsNot a robot so much as a hi-tech Frankenstein’s monster, stitched together with bits of Robocop and Terminator, but cheekily enjoyable just the same. This is a sci-fi chiller co-written by horror experts Akela Cooper and James Wan and directed by Gerard Johnstone. M3gan, or Model 3 Generative Android, is an eerily self-possessed blond tweenage girlbot
  
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• Record warm winter in parts of Europe forces closure of ski slopes

  04-01-2023 18:27 via theguardian.com
  Resorts open hiking trails and lifts for mountain bikes amid unseasonably high temperatures and lack of snowEurope’s record-breaking warm winter weather has closed ski slopes and forced resorts to open summer trails or shut altogether, as grass and mud replace seasonal snow from Chamonix in France to Innsbruck in Austria.Eight countries across the continent have recorded their warmest January day ever, with temperatures in parts of Switzerland and southern Germany exceeding 20C and 90 moni
  
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• Amnesty urges Ronaldo to speak out over human rights in Saudi Arabia

  04-01-2023 18:07 via theguardian.com
  Ronaldo has joined Al Nassr for reported £177m a yearAmnesty says signing follows pattern of sportswashingCristiano Ronaldo’s praise for Saudi Arabia – calling his new hosts an “amazing country” – on arrival at his new club Al Nassr has prompted Amnesty International to call on the former Manchester United player to use his celebrity to highlight the kingdom’s “appalling” human rights record.The 37-year-old arrived in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday
  
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• Coinbase reaches $100m settlement with New York regulators

  04-01-2023 18:03 via theguardian.com
  Agreement caps regulator’s investigation into cryptocurrency’s compliance with requirements to prevent money laundering US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reached a $100m settlement with New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), the exchange and the regulator said in statements on Wednesday.The settlement, which includes a $50m penalty, caps the regulator’s investigation into the firm’s compliance with requirements to prevent money laundering. Co
  
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• New year, not so new Rish giving the people what they want … extra maths! | John Crace

  04-01-2023 18:01 via theguardian.com
  Thanks to the prime minister and the genius idea nobody asked for, people will be able to calculate just how broke they areAs a general rule you are better off keeping quiet if you haven’t got anything much to say. Better to be thought a fool than open your mouth and prove it. Only, most politicians can’t help themselves. They regard any silence as a moral vacuum that needs to be filled. An affront to the natural order of things. Worse still, they believe they are actually improving
  
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• Mental health patient died of heroin overdose due to NHS trust neglect, inquest finds

  04-01-2023 18:01 via theguardian.com
  Desmond Maddix, 36, died after another patient smuggled drug into ward and injected him with lethal doseA patient in a secure mental health unit died after another patient injected him with heroin smuggled in as a result of staff failing to identify the risk he posed, an inquest has ruled.Desmond Maddix, 36, died on 1 July 2017 after another patient smuggled 10 syringes and heroin into the ward and injected him with an overdose. Continue reading...
  
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• Michael Smith fulfils darting destiny and can spearhead a new golden era

  04-01-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  World champion and new world No 1 leads a top 16 that contains just three players over the age of 40There is a saying in Michael Smith’s home town that you should never write off a Saint, owing largely to the success of his beloved St Helens rugby league club. They are one of the sport’s most successful sides but the town has a new hero to celebrate after Smith’s success in the PDC World Darts Championship on Tuesday evening.Smith’s triumph over Michael van Gerwen has cou
  
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• Vietnamese boy trapped in 35-metre concrete pillar dies

  04-01-2023 17:58 via theguardian.com
  Ten-year-old who fell into a narrow open shaft on New Year’s Eve at construction site confirmed dead A 10-year-old Vietnamese boy who fell into the narrow open shaft of a concrete pillar at a construction site on New Year’s Eve has been confirmed dead, state media said on Wednesday.Rescuers spent nearly 100 hours trying to free Ly Hao Nam from the 35-metre-long support pillar driven into the ground, but without success, online newspaper VnExpress cited a local government official as
  
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• As a mathematician, I fear Rishi Sunak’s plan for compulsory maths doesn’t add up | Kit Yates

  04-01-2023 17:48 via theguardian.com
  Forcing students to endure a subject that many find unenjoyable could end up putting some off A-levels altogetherWhen I talk with 17- and 18-year-olds applying to the University of Bath, where I teach, I am often asked whether they should choose to study maths or one of the other A-level subjects they are taking. My answer is almost always the same: they should take maths. This advice is not just a bias of my background, but stems from the fact that mathematics is the language of science. Studyi
  
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• Football is violent. But the brotherhood shown for Damar Hamlin is why we play | RK Russell

  04-01-2023 17:44 via theguardian.com
  We NFL players often will say we are willing to die for this game. But what happens when the price that we insist that we are eager to pay comes up for collection?There is no question that football is one of the most violent sports in the world and that players, including myself, are aware of the risk we take to play the game that we love. Even at the young age of 30, I talk to my former teammates about my surgeries, broken bones and aches from my time in the NFL, as though my battle scars are m
  
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• Colbert on speaker votes: ‘Pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude’

  04-01-2023 17:36 via theguardian.com
  Late-night hosts discuss Kevin McCarthy’s historic failure to be elected speaker of the House and George Santos’s liesStephen Colbert’s first monologue of 2023 coincided with the first day of the new Congress, in which Republicans took over the House and Kevin McCarthy tried and failed three times to become its speaker. “It has been a day of pure uncut Peruvian blue flake Schadenfreude, watching the GOP stab each other in the throat,” the Late Show host said. &ldquo
  
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• Alan Rankine was the maestro of the Associates’ post-punk pop – and an architect of indie

  04-01-2023 17:35 via theguardian.com
  As the multi-instrumentalist musical force behind the Scottish art-pop band, and later as a producer and label boss, Rankine was an adventurous, experimental, inspirational figure
  • Alan Rankine of the Associates dies aged 64It starts with a constellation of synthesiser drones and a piano riff that sounds as if it’s being played on crystal chandeliers, and ends with a sample of smashing cups. In between, the Associates’ Party Fears Two is five and a half sweeping minutes of art-
  
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• Prosecutors call for France’s former spy chief to stand trial

  04-01-2023 17:23 via theguardian.com
  Bernard Squarcini and 10 others await magistrates’ decision on hearing charges including influence peddling and forgeryFrench prosecutors have called for the former head of the country’s internal intelligence agency to stand trial on charges of influence peddling and forgery.Bernard Squarcini, who was head of the DCRI agency – the French equivalent of MI5 – until 2012, is also accused of complicity in breaches of professional and judicial secrecy. Continue reading...
  
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• BHA revises changes to whip rules after jockeys voice concerns

  04-01-2023 17:20 via theguardian.com
  Riders will still be allowed to use the whip in forehand positionReduction to permitted strikes in a race now introducedJockeys will still be allowed to use the whip in the forehand position under revised changes to riding rules – but the number of times a rider may strike his mount will be further reduced from February.The British Horseracing Authority set out a raft of alterations to the rules in the summer, with jockeys only allowed to use the whip in the backhand position and serious b
  
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• Moscow blames its troops’ use of mobile phones for Makiivka missile strike

  04-01-2023 17:18 via theguardian.com
  Ukrainian shelling that killed 89 recruits aided by mobiles switched on near frontlines, claims Russia defence ministryRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesRussia’s defence ministry on Wednesday blamed the use of mobile phones by its soldiers for a deadly Ukrainian missile strike that killed dozens of conscripts, sparking anger among relatives of the soldiers.Commenting on the deadliest single incident Moscow has acknowledged since the start of the war that it said killed 89 servi
  
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• Football Daily | Frank Lampard’s Everton (at time of writing) and a heroically inept display

  04-01-2023 17:18 via theguardian.com
  Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!When Frank Lampard was announced as the new manager of Frank Lampard’s Everton almost a year ago, he was quick to point out that “you can feel the passion these fans have for their club”. If in the intervening 11 months, Lamps happened to forget just how passionate those fans can be, he was issued with a stark reminder throughout various points of proceedings last night. Perhaps it’s because they’ve had so much prac
  
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• Hunt confirms cut to ‘unsustainably expensive’ business energy support

  04-01-2023 17:13 via theguardian.com
  Chancellor to announce plans to lower level of support for businesses, hospitals, schools and charities from MarchJeremy Hunt has confirmed that he will announce plans to reduce energy support for businesses in the Commons next week, telling industry leaders it was “unsustainably expensive”.The chancellor has told business groups that a package providing support at a “lower level” than current measures would be available to them beyond March, promising to avoid a “c
  
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• The House speaker fiasco shows that Republicans are unable to govern | Andrew Gawthorpe

  04-01-2023 17:10 via theguardian.com
  These games will not end well for the country. The stakes are hugeAfter a new session begins, the first order of business for the House of Representatives is to pick a speaker. For a century this has been a mere formality, with the party in power having enough organization and respect for the country to move swiftly on to other matters. But on Tuesday the Republican party broke this streak of basic competence, failing in three separate ballots to come up with the votes to install Kevin McCarthy,
  
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• Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti released from jail after family post bail

  04-01-2023 17:02 via theguardian.com
  Alidoosti was arrested for support of women’s movement in Iran, including posing on Instagram without hijabThe celebrated Iranian actor Taraneh Alidoosti has been released from prison by the authorities after her friends and family provided bail. Pictures of her outside jail with campaigners holding flowers and without a hijab were shown on Iranian social media.She had been arrested for issuing statements of support for the women’s movement in Iran, including by posing on Instagram w
  
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• Patient plastering and a fine balance – readers’ best photos

  04-01-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Click here to submit a picture for publication in these online galleries and/or on the Guardian letters page Continue reading...
  
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• A sex worker with an ankle tag – Bruce LaBruce’s best photograph

  04-01-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  ‘I realised he was under house arrest, for breaking and entering. This was during my partying days – it was business as usual back then’I met this hustler in the pre-Grindr era, around 2004, probably in one of the hustler bars in Los Angeles that no longer exist. A likely scenario is that I took him back to where I was staying, at my friend Billy’s place. That’s where the shot was taken. I’m pretty sure Billy was out of town.When the hustler got there, I reali
  
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• ‘It feels terminal’: NHS staff in despair over working at breaking point

  04-01-2023 16:48 via theguardian.com
  Healthcare workers open up about the burdens of understaffing, failing to provide proper care and the NHS’s futureAs the NHS crisis has deepened in recent weeks, frontline staff have posted vivid, troubling accounts on social media of what has been happening in their workplaces. Many have described the NHS, and often themselves too, as “broken”. They have related the difficulty of providing proper care, the impact of acute understaffing and their fears for the NHS’s futur
  
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• Just 224 farmers were paid under post-Brexit farming scheme last year

  04-01-2023 16:46 via theguardian.com
  Exclusive: Leaked figures show tiny fraction of England’s farms received payment under sustainable farming incentiveJust 224 farmers in England were paid under the government’s flagship post-Brexit nature-friendly agriculture scheme last year, the Guardian can reveal.Leaked figures show that a tiny fraction of farms received payment under the sustainable farming incentive (SFI), part of the Conservative government’s plan to replace EU farming subsidies. Continue reading...
  
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• Shock in India as woman, 20, reportedly dragged by car for hour after collision

  04-01-2023 16:44 via theguardian.com
  Police in spotlight after claims they failed to respond to reports car with five men had not stoppedThe death of a 20-year-old woman who was reportedly dragged for almost an hour by a car after a vehicle collision in Delhi has provoked outrage and calls for justice.The woman was driving home from work in the early hours of New Year’s Day when her scooter and a car collided. News reports say the car driver and four passengers, all male, did not stop, dragging her body for miles through the
  
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• Writer Fay Weldon dies aged 91

  04-01-2023 16:31 via theguardian.com
  Author of novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil wrote more than 30 books as well as TV drama• Fay Weldon obituaryFay Weldon, who chronicled the ups and downs of British life in novels, TV dramas, plays and short fiction for more than five decades has died aged 91, her son Dan Weldon has confirmed. Weldon charted lives shaped by class and the sexual revolution in more than 30 novels including The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Splitting and the Booker prize-shortlisted Praxis. T
  
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• Florida: alleged burglars arrested after calling 911 for help moving belongings

  04-01-2023 16:31 via theguardian.com
  Two arrested in Kissimmee after calling for assistance moving items from burglarized house and a ride to the airportSheriffs in Florida arrested two purportedly bumbling burglars after one allegedly called 911, intending to ask police for help moving belongings from a house they broke into, authorities said.The chain of events started to unfold around 1am on Saturday in Kissimmee, about 20 miles from Orlando. A Dollar General discount store was burglarized and “multiple items stolen”
  
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• Euan Blair’s edtech firm Multiverse reports sixth straight year of losses

  04-01-2023 16:27 via theguardian.com
  Company valued last year at £1.4bn says revenues rose almost threefold to £27mEuan Blair’s apprenticeship company, Multiverse, made a pre-tax loss of £14.2m last year – the sixth straight year of losses since the son of the former prime minister set it up in 2016.Despite the losses – including £10.9m in 2021 and just over £5m in 2020 – the company was awarded the coveted tech “unicorn” status when it was valued at £1.4bn in
  
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• Delivery disasters: the parcel left on a sleeping baby – and other postal calamities

  04-01-2023 16:20 via theguardian.com
  A Swedish mother found a 10kg box left on her child’s pram. With drivers often harried and overworked, now is the time for all of us to get organised and nominate a safe spotName: Bad delivery decisions.Age: Ancient. Continue reading...
  
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• Rail strikes: train drivers’ union Aslef dismisses reported 3% pay offer

  04-01-2023 16:11 via theguardian.com
  Union leader Mick Whelan brands reported £2,000 rise just before latest 24-hour strike as ‘tokenism’The train drivers’ union has dismissed as “tokenism” a pay offer reportedly being drawn up by the government before a new strike by its members on Thursday.Mick Whelan, the general secretary of Aslef, said the union had received no offer nor entered fresh talks, but said a possible £2,000 rise reported in the Sun “would not fly”. Continue readi
  
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• What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in December

  04-01-2023 16:08 via theguardian.com
  Critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the commentsIn this series we ask authors, Guardian writers and readers to share what they have been reading recently. This month, recommendations include a Booker-longlisted novel, excellent short stories and heartfelt memoirs. Tell us in the comments what you have been reading.*** Continue reading...
  
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• More than 700,000 people in England and Wales lack central heating, says ONS

  04-01-2023 16:05 via theguardian.com
  Warnings of thousands of excess deaths this winter as official data highlights plight of most vulnerableMore than 700,000 people in England and Wales are living in homes without central heating this winter, one in 10 of whom are elderly and ill, according to figures that lay bare the plight of the most vulnerable.The new official data highlights the extreme end of the conditions being suffered by those who live in 4m homes the government rates as “non-decent” for failing to meet basi
  
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• Climate crisis prompts RHS to plan for sending rhododendrons north

  04-01-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Plants are thought more likely to thrive at Harlow Carr in Yorkshire than at their current home at Wisley in SurreyIn Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier’s unnamed narrator was shocked and bewildered by the over-proud “slaughterhouse red, luscious and fantastic” rhododendrons she encountered at Manderley on the southern coast of England. She might be even more thrilled if she’d seen them in Yorkshire.The climate crisis has prompted the Royal Horticultural Society to plan a move of
  
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• Teacher wins free speech case after wearing Trump-themed hat to school

  04-01-2023 15:52 via theguardian.com
  Eric Dodge wore Make America Great Again baseball cap twice but judge found no ‘tangible disruption’ to Washington schoolA federal appeals court has ruled in favor of a former teacher in Vancouver, Washington, concluding that his wearing a hat supporting Donald Trump to school was protected speech under the first amendment.Documents from the ninth circuit court of appeals show that Eric Dodge, a science teacher, brought the Make America Great Again baseball cap to an Evergreen Public
  
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• A global recession may be looming, but there is a way out of this rut | Larry Elliott

  04-01-2023 15:35 via theguardian.com
  Last century investment, innovation and greater equality led to a huge rise in productivity. Policies to encourage those are vital nowGreat things were expected of the 2020s. After the disappointments of the previous decade, this was to be the time when the global economy powered up and got going again. There would be a flowering of new technologies and a colossal boom. It would be the roaring 20s all over again.It hasn’t worked out like that. Instead, the world faces the grim prospect of
  
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• Ski jumping and night fishing: Wednesday’s best photos

  04-01-2023 15:12 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Cody Fisher: two men to face trial in July for murder of footballer

  04-01-2023 15:10 via theguardian.com
  Defendants aged 21 and 22 ordered to stand trial on 3 July after fatal Boxing Day stabbing at Birmingham nightclubTwo men will go on trial in July for the murder of the 23-year-old footballer Cody Fisher, who was stabbed on the dancefloor of a Birmingham nightclub on Boxing Day.Kami Carpenter, 21, and Remy Gordon, 22, appeared at Birmingham crown court on Wednesday, where Judge Farrer KC ordered a trial to start on 3 July. Continue reading...
  
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• Booze is 10% ethanol, 90% marketing so maybe it's time to try Dry January | Arwa Mahdawi

  04-01-2023 15:05 via theguardian.com
  Celebrity booze sponsorship has gotten ridiculous. Plus, studies show we can’t differentiate the taste of ‘good’ or ‘bad’ alcoholI blame Gwyneth Paltrow, myself. The actor turned entrepreneur may not have been the first celebrity to launch a business empire, but the rise of Goop seems to have coincided with a craze for side hustles among the glitterati. Entertainers aren’t content with just entertaining any more – they’re all business moguls, too.
  
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• David Gold, joint-chairman of West Ham United, dies at age of 86

  04-01-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  Premier League club announce Gold’s death after ‘short illness’David Sullivan says Gold ‘always wanted the best for West Ham’David Gold, who has died at the age of 86 after a short illness, had West Ham in his heart throughout his life. When Gold was a boy he did not have to look far for his boyhood club. West Ham’s former co-owner grew up at 442 Green Street, in a house directly opposite Upton Park, and there was never any chance of him becoming anything othe
  
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