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• FA Cup: Aston Villa stunned by Stevenage as Premier League sides fall - BBC

  08-01-2023 23:21 via news.google.com
  FA Cup: Aston Villa stunned by Stevenage as Premier League sides fall  BBCLeague Two Stevenage knock Aston Villa out of FA Cup with two late goals | BBC Sport  BBC SportUnai Emery rages at Aston Villa stars after FA Cup upset vs Stevenage  The MirrorAston Villa v Stevenage | Key Moments | Third Round | Emirates FA Cup 2022-23  The Emirates FA CupMan City crush Chelsea in FA Cup, Villa upset by Stevenage  Bangkok PostView Full coverage on Google N
  
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• James Webb Space Telescope Looks Back Into the Early Universe, Sees Galaxies Like Our Milky Way - SciTechDaily

  08-01-2023 23:20 via news.google.com
  James Webb Space Telescope Looks Back Into the Early Universe, Sees Galaxies Like Our Milky Way  SciTechDailyNew JWST Image Shows That Grand Spiral Galaxies had Already Formed 11 Billion Years ago  Universe TodayJWST captures galaxy from 11 billion years ago  Geo NewsWebb telescope captures Milky Way-like galaxies from a much younger universe  The Indian ExpressJames Webb Telescope reveals barred galaxies billions of years ago  Fox NewsView Full
  
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• Prince Harry says a lot remains unexplained about Princess Diana's death

  08-01-2023 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  Prince Harry appears to cast doubt on the official account of his mother Princess Diana's death.
  
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• Chelsea’s defeat at Manchester City ‘painful’, admits Graham Potter - The Guardian

  08-01-2023 23:03 via news.google.com
  Chelsea’s defeat at Manchester City ‘painful’, admits Graham Potter  The GuardianChelsea injuries only a partial explanation for Manchester City capitulation  Football365Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang left out of Chelsea squad after blunt message to Graham Potter  The MirrorManchester City 4-0 Chelsea: FA Cup third round – as it happened  The GuardianCascarino says Chelsea can no longer rely on their summer signing  The Chelsea
  
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• Tory MPs receive £15.2m from second jobs since 2019 election - The Guardian

  08-01-2023 22:04 via news.google.com
  Tory MPs receive £15.2m from second jobs since 2019 election  The GuardianWestminster Accounts: MPs earn £17.1m on top of their salaries since the last election - with Tories taking £15.2m  Sky NewsTheresa May leads the way among MPs with earnings of £2.5m  The TimesSinn Féin's John Finucane among the top 20 highest earning MPs outside of Westminster pay, new research reveals  The Irish NewsMPs make £17.1m from outside
  
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• Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned in England - The Guardian

  08-01-2023 22:02 via news.google.com
  Single-use plastic cutlery and plates to be banned in England  The GuardianView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Thousands expected in Cornwall for Europe’s first satellite launch - The Guardian

  08-01-2023 22:01 via news.google.com
  Thousands expected in Cornwall for Europe’s first satellite launch  The GuardianCornwall braced for UK's first ever space launch  Sky NewsVirgin Orbit ready for first U.K. launch  SpaceNewsVirgin Orbit UK Boeing 747 Satellite Launch Viewing Details Revealed  Simple Flying'Bubbling of excitement' as Cornwall prepares for UK's first orbital rocket launch  Sky NewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Rishi Sunak may consider one-off payment to end nurses’ strikes - The Guardian

  08-01-2023 22:00 via news.google.com
  Rishi Sunak may consider one-off payment to end nurses’ strikes  The GuardianPrime Minister open to 'affordable' pay deal with nurses  Channel 4 NewsRishi Sunak Sunak quizzed on nurses' pay and the state of the NHS  BBCNursing union has 'chink of optimism' over Sunak's 'little pay shift'  Evening StandardUnion leaders hail 'chink of optimism' after Rishi Sunak 'shifts' stance on nurses' pay  The TelegraphView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Russian 'strike on Ukraine barracks that killed 600' actually missed target, say people at scene - The Telegraph

  08-01-2023 21:59 via news.google.com
  Russian 'strike on Ukraine barracks that killed 600' actually missed target, say people at scene  The TelegraphUkraine denies Russian claim it killed 600 soldiers  BBCUkraine denies Russian claim it killed hundreds of soldiers  Al Jazeera EnglishUkraine war: Why Russia's claim that air strike killed 600 is almost certainly a grotesque untruth  Sky NewsRussia Launches New Strikes On Ukraine As Fighting In East Remains Intense  Radio Free Europe /
  
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• How to watch Prince Harry's 60 Minutes, ITV and GMA interviews in the US - The Telegraph

  08-01-2023 21:32 via news.google.com
  How to watch Prince Harry's 60 Minutes, ITV and GMA interviews in the US  The TelegraphHarry and Meghan are 'unquestionably at 'war with the Monarchy' | Richard Fitzwilliams  GBNewsPrince Harry ITV interview - updates and reaction as Tom Bradby grills the Duke  The MirrorPrince Harry 'has been written out of King Charles' Coronation  Daily MailHarry saw photographs of Diana ‘slumped on the back of the seat’ after crash  The Independen
  
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• Liverpool FC — Jürgen Klopp's verdict on Liverpool 2-2 Wolves - Liverpool FC

  08-01-2023 20:55 via news.google.com
  Liverpool FC — Jürgen Klopp's verdict on Liverpool 2-2 Wolves  Liverpool FCLiverpool 2-2 Wolves: Julen Lopetegui says it is 'impossible' potential winner was ruled out  BBCLiverpool give Klopp a performance he can't have liked to earn a replay he doesn't want  Football365Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers | Key Moments | Third Round | Emirates FA Cup 2022-23  The Emirates FA CupWolves: VAR appears to miss huge penalty shout  Football
  
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• Rangers boss Michael Beale addresses Tom Davies and Todd Cantwell transfer links - Daily Record

  08-01-2023 20:40 via news.google.com
  Rangers boss Michael Beale addresses Tom Davies and Todd Cantwell transfer links  Daily RecordPRESS CONFERENCE | Michael Beale | Dundee Utd 0-2 Rangers  Rangers Football Club (Official)Rangers boss Michael Beale answers questions on Tom Davies and Todd Cantwell links - 'both good players'  The ScotsmanRangers boss Michael Beale outlines John Lundstram contract desire  Ibrox NewsBoss suggests Rangers target ‘not selected’ as talent left out of s
  
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• Primark and Zara slammed for 'unacceptable purchasing practices' uncovered in Scots study - Daily Record

  08-01-2023 18:42 via news.google.com
  Primark and Zara slammed for 'unacceptable purchasing practices' uncovered in Scots study  Daily RecordView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Homes evacuated in Flushing after reports of 'suspicious' device - updates - Cornwall Live

  08-01-2023 17:52 via news.google.com
  Homes evacuated in Flushing after reports of 'suspicious' device - updates  Cornwall LiveFlushing homes evacuated for suspicious package  BBC'Suspicious package' in Cornwall declared a hoax as police leave the scene  Cornwall LiveBomb disposal squad descends on Cornish village as homes evacuated over suspicious package  ExpressView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Rishi Sunak refuses three times to say if he uses private healthcare - The Telegraph

  08-01-2023 17:44 via news.google.com
  Rishi Sunak refuses three times to say if he uses private healthcare  The TelegraphRishi Sunak refuses to say if he uses private GP  BBCPM calls on health leaders to take 'radical action' to tackle NHS crisis  Channel 4 NewsWe all know why Rishi Sunak won’t tell us if he uses private healthcare  The IndependentEditorial: Convening a meeting at No 10 is not a solution to the NHS crisis  The IndependentView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Pregnant Jessie J breaks down in tears, vomits and says, ‘I can’t explain how sick I feel’... - The Sun

  08-01-2023 17:11 via news.google.com
  Pregnant Jessie J breaks down in tears, vomits and says, ‘I can’t explain how sick I feel’...  The SunPregnant Jessie J breaks down in tears and vomits in candid footage from her first trimester  Daily MailJessie J seen for first time since pregnancy news as she flaunts blossoming baby bump  OK! magazineJessie J flashes baby bump as she steps out after pregnancy news  Metro.co.ukJessie J was told she'd 'never be pregnant' as she shares me
  
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• Marwell Zoo penguins isolating due to bird flu given all-clear - BBC

  08-01-2023 15:04 via news.google.com
  Marwell Zoo penguins isolating due to bird flu given all-clear  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• 'Mortgage lottery' to test finances of UK's middle earners - Financial Times

  08-01-2023 14:06 via news.google.com
  'Mortgage lottery' to test finances of UK's middle earners  Financial TimesView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• China reopens borders after three years of COVID isolation - Sky News

  08-01-2023 13:45 via news.google.com
  China reopens borders after three years of COVID isolation  Sky NewsChina reopens borders to tourists after three years of Covid closure  BBCFirstFT: Thousands cross Hong Kong-China border  Financial TimesChina reopens borders to tourists after three years of Covid closure - BBC News  BBC NewsQueues start at dawn as China reopens its borders  The TimesView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Government plans to move patients stuck in hospital to care homes - but will not discuss this year's NHS pay - Sky News

  08-01-2023 13:26 via news.google.com
  Government plans to move patients stuck in hospital to care homes - but will not discuss this year's NHS pay  Sky NewsCare providers ask for doubled fees to care for people discharged from hospitals  The GuardianNHS to buy up care beds to clear wards  The TimesExtra £200m for care home places aims to free up NHS hospital beds  Sky NewsEngland rushes to discharge hospital patients to ease bed-blocking crisis  Reuters UKView Full coverage on
  
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• Fiery Destruction Expected: NASA Earth Radiation Budget Satellite To Reenter Atmosphere Today - SciTechDaily

  08-01-2023 12:43 via news.google.com
  Fiery Destruction Expected: NASA Earth Radiation Budget Satellite To Reenter Atmosphere Today  SciTechDailyNasa warns dead 2.5ton ‘space junk’ satellite will crash to earth today – and they don’t know where it will...  The SunNASA's Earth Radiation Budget Satellite to fall to Earth after 38 years in space  Sky NewsOld NASA satellite to fall from sky back to Earth this weekend  UNILAD38-year-old NASA satellite is crashing back to ear
  
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• What the Met Office has to say after reports of heavy snow and -13C temperatures on the way - Wales Online

  08-01-2023 12:37 via news.google.com
  What the Met Office has to say after reports of heavy snow and -13C temperatures on the way  Wales OnlineSnow forecasted for North Wales this month as country braces for -13C Arctic blast  North Wales LiveExact date snow expected to hit Lancashire this month as more rain and gales expected  Lancs LiveNottingham weather forecast as experts predict -13C and snow for some areas of UK  Nottinghamshire LiveKent weather: The exact day snow due to fall in Arctic
  
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• NASA's moon-orbiting space station will be claustrophobic, architect says - Space.com

  08-01-2023 12:00 via news.google.com
  NASA's moon-orbiting space station will be claustrophobic, architect says  Space.com
  
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• Dr Michael Mosley's Fast 800 Keto plan - Daily Mail

  08-01-2023 11:09 via news.google.com
  Dr Michael Mosley's Fast 800 Keto plan  Daily Mail‘Lose weight very fast’ with Michael Mosley’s keto diet that’s ’scientifically based’  ExpressSkip breakfast and you can enjoy one of these delicious feasts while seeing the pounds fall off...  Daily MailIn an exclusive extract from Dr Clare Bailey's new book - how to... Lose weight FAST  Daily MailDR MICHAEL MOSLEY: Why now is the perfect time to try the new Fast 800 Ket
  
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• Man charged with murder after remains of Phillip Lewis found in Harlow pond - Sky News

  08-01-2023 11:07 via news.google.com
  Man charged with murder after remains of Phillip Lewis found in Harlow pond  Sky NewsMurder charge after remains of Phillip Lewis found in Harlow pond  BBCEssex murder sees police formally charge 52-year-old man | Echo  Southend EchoEssex man charged with murder after human remains found in Oakwood Pond  Essex LiveSuspect, 52, charged with murder of man whose remains were found in a pond next to NHS hospital  Daily MailView Full coverage on Googl
  
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• Prince Harry accused of making Invictus Games a terrorist target with Taliban claims - Evening Standard

  08-01-2023 10:33 via news.google.com
  Prince Harry accused of making Invictus Games a terrorist target with Taliban claims  Evening StandardIf Harry sounds callous about killing, he is. All of us who served were – at least he knows why  The GuardianAfghans call for Prince Harry to be 'put on trial' after 'proudly' admitting to 'killing 25 Taliban'  Sky NewsHarry's new memoir draws anger and protests in Afghanistan  The IndependentHarry Not 'Spare'D: British commentators, citizens critici
  
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• Can batch cooking help cut your shopping bills?

  08-01-2023 10:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Suzanne Mulholland's time saving tips have gathered her a significant following on social media.
  
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• Urgent Microsoft alert leaves millions of Windows users facing a costly decision - Express

  08-01-2023 09:39 via news.google.com
  Urgent Microsoft alert leaves millions of Windows users facing a costly decision  ExpressWhile Windows 7 has a fighting chance, it is game over for Windows 8.1  GhacksGoogle Chrome to STOP working soon! Upgrade to Windows 11 now  HT TechWindows 7 to stop receiving extended security updates on Tuesday  BleepingComputerGoogle Chrome will stop working on Windows PC from next week. Here's why  Economic TimesView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Black women share insight into changing face of policing

  08-01-2023 09:03 via bbc.co.uk
  Three women in Avon and Somerset Police force, past and present, share an intergenerational insight.
  
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• Australia v South Africa: third Test, day five – live

  08-01-2023 08:19 via theguardian.com
  Updates on the three-Test finale at the SCGAny thoughts? Email Angus 64th over: South Africa 157-6 (Jansen 10, Harmer 14) Spin to Harmer for the first time today, Lyon over the wicket floating them in at Jansen’s footmarks outside the off stump. Far less wear on this wicket than usual. But there is one particular patch, and after a few balls he hits it. The ball spins savagely in at Harmer, who inside edges it past short leg! Gets a run, but could so easily have gone to hand. Two short leg
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war: Moscow’s ceasefire ends with no let up in fighting; Ukraine strikes power plants in Donetsk, officials say – live

  08-01-2023 08:15 via theguardian.com
  Russian attacks reported in at least seven Ukraine regions despite Putin’s ceasefire pledge; shelling reportedly damages power plants in Moscow-controlled regionWhat we know on day 319 of the invasionWelcome back to our continuing live coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war – I’m Adam Fulton.Russia bombed regions in eastern Ukraine overnight, local officials said, after Moscow ended its self-declared 36-hour ceasefire and vowed to push on with combat until it was victorious.Russian
  
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• ‘The umbrella of love and kindness carries on’: Actor Rory Kinnear on death, fairness – and playing scrabble with Judi Dench

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  As he takes on his latest role as a northern community hero, Rory Kinnear talks about the traumatic early deaths of his father and sister – and the bittersweet joy of playing Tory MPsIn 2011, a Burnley businessman named Dave Fishwick established a lending company, Burnley Savings and Loans Limited. The 2008 financial crash had deprived the area of opportunity; small businesses were struggling to make ends meet. Fishwick, who grew up poor in Burnley, but who later set up a successful miniva
  
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• The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis review – an inspired fever dream of a book

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A teenage Bret and his uber-privileged friends cruise around 80s LA while a serial killer stalks the city in a gleefully meta return to form by the author of American PsychoThe shocks come fast in Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in 13 years: The Shards is prefaced by a sweetly sincere – or is it? – thank you note from the notoriously misanthropic author “for your support over the past four decades… I’m more appreciative than you’ll ever know”. The
  
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• The big picture: tea time at a Redcar canteen

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Ian Macdonald spent months in the 80s at an ironworks on the north coast, shortly before its closure, and captured the dignity of a shared way of lifeIan Macdonald took this picture of the canteen women at a blast furnace plant in Redcar, on the north-east coast of England, in 1983. He had been “embedded” at the ironworks for several months, following the shifts of a particular group of men at the plant. He didn’t take so many pictures in the canteen, but this is among his favo
  
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• Natural History Museum under fire for gagging order with Danish oil sponsor

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Wildlife photography contest that was subject to the agreement described environmental impact of oil rigs in positive lightThe Natural History Museum has been denounced for signing a gagging order which prevented it from criticising a Danish oil company that sponsored its wildlife photography competition.The clause was put into a contract with Dong Energy, now known as Orsted, for its sponsorship of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. Continue reading...
  
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• Mortgage payers face squeeze in 2023 after UK interest rate rises

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Wealthy people who own home outright will avoid higher costs and benefit from better return on savingsHomeowners with mortgages will be among the biggest losers from the cost of living crisis in 2023 due to interest rate rises, while the wealthiest UK households will benefit from better returns on savings and investments, according to analysis by a leading thinktank.The Resolution Foundation said the way the government had tackled the spike in inflation this year – relying heavily on the B
  
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• I am a housesitter, and stay in amazing places all over the world for free

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Fancy staying in a mansion or lakeside pad for absolutely nothing? Sign up as a housesitter and the place is yours in return for pet care and plant-watering dutiesMy partner Nick and I spent last Easter at a farmhouse in a Cotswolds village. We read books, enjoyed lunches on the terrace and took long walks along footpaths between the canary-yellow rapeseed fields. With an aga, original art works and an en suite bathroom with claw-foot bath, this limestone mansion would have cost thousands to ren
  
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• Half of NHS trusts providing or planning food banks for staff

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Soaring cost of living forces nurses and health workers to seek help from charities through free meals and voucher schemesMore than half of NHS trusts and health boards are either providing or planning food banks for staff, new research suggests, as the cost of living soars.In a survey that lays bare the catastrophic impact that the rising cost of food, energy and housing is having on health workers, NHS Charities Together and the Observer have found that thousands of NHS staff – including
  
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• Cellphones, cameras, DNA: how police caught Idaho student killings suspect

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  A 28-year-old graduate student faces four counts of murder – but families of the victims await answers to the question of whyFor a student of criminology, Bryan Kohberger appears to have been remarkably indifferent to modern methods of detective work.The accused murderer of four friends at the University of Idaho, who were repeatedly stabbed in their beds with a large knife, was snared by procedures that are the nuts and bolts of police television dramas: cameras tracking his car, cellphon
  
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• Brexit is just one of the three Tory errors that have brought Britain to its knees

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Years of austerity, and then the Truss-Kwarteng fiasco, have compounded the self-inflicted isolation of leaving the EUI did not get where I am today making forecasts about how the economy will perform in a new year. But I do feel it is my duty to emphasise the tangle into which this benighted government has got itself and us, and the connection between the three macroeconomic policy errors that have made us what we are – namely the “sick man of Europe”, with an economic perform
  
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• An art treasure long cherished by Muslims is deemed offensive. But to whom? | Kenan Malik

  08-01-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  An academic spat over a depiction of Muhammad reveals how the language of diversity is eviscerating its very meaningIt is a beautiful painting found in a 14th-century Persian manuscript, the “Compendium of Chronicles”, a history of Islam. It shows the Prophet Muhammad receiving his first Quranic revelations from the angel Gabriel. Christine Gruber, professor of Islamic art at Michigan University, describes it as “a masterpiece of Persian manuscript painting”.Last October,
  
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• Under the ‘we pay, you entertain’ deal, Harry is now the hardest working royal | Martha Gill

  08-01-2023 07:30 via theguardian.com
  His salacious revelations won’t bring an end to the monarchy. We enjoy watching the soap opera too much for thatIt’s as if royal watchers have been fed on scraps all their lives – the breaking of the colour of a pair of tights protocol here, the “body language that suggested tension” there – and the Duke of Sussex has laid before them a banquet. His book Spare, leaked to the press, serves up course after course. Hardly had we digested the first revelation - a
  
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• Andrew Tate isn’t feminism’s inadvertent bastard child. He’s sexism’s last gasp | Martha Gill

  08-01-2023 07:30 via theguardian.com
  Equality has spawned a masculinity crisis, goes the theory. But a glance around the world’s patriarchies proves otherwiseIs feminism ultimately to blame for the rise of Andrew Tate, the “trillionaire” guru and self-identified misogynist who once claimed women should “bear responsibility” for being sexually assaulted and who last week was arrested in Romania on charges of people trafficking? Is it western strides in equality that have pushed young men to join his 4 m
  
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• 'I stopped drinking and never really went back'

  08-01-2023 07:23 via bbc.co.uk
  With Dry January under way, more people are choosing to reduce alcohol consumption year round.
  
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• China road accident kills 19 people as holiday travel rush begins

  08-01-2023 07:05 via theguardian.com
  Local media report the accident took place when a truck hit a funeral procession in China’s eastern Jiangxi provinceNineteen people were killed and 20 injured in a road traffic accident in eastern China’s Jiangxi province on Sunday, state media reported.The injured had been sent to the hospital, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing local authorities. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory right warns Sunak: this is calm before storm over small boats and Brexit

  08-01-2023 07:01 via theguardian.com
  As the PM tries to move on from ‘perma-crisis’, agitated former ministers promise big trouble aheadSenior Tories are warning Rishi Sunak that he is enjoying the “calm before the storm”, with his own MPs already plotting to tackle him over immigration and a beleaguered plan to secure “Brexit freedoms”.The prime minister spent Saturday attempting to show his commitment to easing the crisis in the NHS – one of the five pledges he made in his new year’
  
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• TV tonight: intimate insights aplenty as Prince Harry reveals all

  08-01-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  Just before his memoir lands, the Duke of Sussex will bare all on ITV tonight. Plus: a major documentary about Phil Spector, and the brilliant Happy Valley continues Continue reading...
  
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• The time to die should be of our choosing | Letters

  08-01-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  However difficult it is to legally protect assisted dying, we should still tryIt is good to read Sonia Sodha’s piece on assisted dying (“Assisted dying seems humane, but can we protect the vulnerable from the malign?”, Comment), especially in the light of the recent announcement that MPs on the health and social care committee are to open an inquiry into assisted dying this year. However, I do not agree with her conclusion, which seems to be that, as it’s difficult to pro
  
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• The Observer view on averting the west’s collision course with Iran | Observer editorial

  08-01-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The regime’s lawlessness combined with its Russia-leaning policies should prompt an urgent rethink by the UK and alliesA ceremony in Tehran last week marking the third anniversary of the assassination in Iraq by a US drone of Qassem Suleimani, a senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), conveyed a defiant message to the west. “We have not and will not forget the blood of martyr Suleimani. The Americans must know that revenge is certain and the murderers will h
  
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• Sunday with Akon: ‘I’ve got a bowling alley in my basement’

  08-01-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  The singer on junk food, quietness and perfect peaceSunday morning? These last few years I never know where I’ll wake up. Recent Sundays have been in Australia, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and London, too. Wherever I am, Sunday is often a day off. I spend most of my time under the comforter in a hotel room, watching Netflix and drinking peppermint tea.And at home? Sleep, mostly. And hanging out with the kids in Atlanta. There’s always a schedule if they’re around: movies, sports, bowling&
  
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