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• The Stones and Brian Jones review – broken hearts, fatherless kids and Nazi regalia

  15-05-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  He gave the Stones edge then drugs got the better of him and they dropped him. In Nick Broomfield’s moving film, he is remembered by the women who knew him intimately but briefly‘Being a Catholic,” says Dawn Molloy, the mother of Brian Jones’s fifth child, “I was very inhibited. He kind of got that out of me – not to be ashamed of my body and what I could do. He was very, very sexy. Yeah. The way he made love was insatiable. He made me feel amazing. He made me
  
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• FBI accused of failures but key report finds no deep-state plot against Trump

  15-05-2023 23:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Agency ‘failed to uphold mission of strict fidelity’, special counsel John Durham concludes in investigation launched by Bill BarrSpecial counsel John Durham found no evidence that the US justice department and the FBI conspired in a deep-state plot to investigate Donald Trump’s ties to Russia in 2016, though the report released on Monday found that the FBI’s handling of key aspects of the case were deficient.The Durham report was sharply critical of how the FBI decided t
  
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• Succession recap: season four, episode eight – nothing is more sadistic than the words ‘Is that even true?’

  15-05-2023 23:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Adult diapers at the ready! It’s election night … and the results are unimaginably disastrous. Will revenge be sweet for Shiv?Spoiler alert: this recap is for people watching Succession season four. Don’t read on unless you’ve watched episode eight.A pressure-cooker episode, largely set in ATN HQ on its first post-Logan election night, saw the quad squad at war. Here are the exit polls for the eighth episode, titled America Decides … Continue reading...
  
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• Curtis Jones double for Liverpool damages Leicester’s survival hopes

  15-05-2023 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Jürgen Klopp had said there are five millions ways to win a game and in a routine victory that ensures Manchester United can feel Liverpool breathing down their necks, Trent Alexander-Arnold exhibited one of the finer ways in which to score a goal.Alexander-Arnold emphatically sealed victory with a stunning free-kick and he could have hardly picked a better moment given Gareth Southgate and his assistant, Steve Holland, were among those in attendance. Continue reading...
  
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• Steeltown Murders review – the hunt for the Saturday Night Strangler could not be more timely TV

  15-05-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This illuminating drama tracks the 30-year failure to find the serial killer of three young women in Wales – and its deep dive into police venality really hits a nerveWhich will we run out of first? Stories about historical police failures/corruption, or audiences with whom such stories will still resonate now that we have moved so far beyond such horrors that they are almost unfathomable?It’s a trick question, of course! The answer is – neither! With every new day’s head
  
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• PFA seeks advice on legal protections for players during pitch invasions

  15-05-2023 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Union aims to establish if players can legally defend themselvesConcern mounts amid increase in cases of fan misbehaviourThe Professional Footballers’ Association has sought legal advice over whether players attacked by supporters can use reasonable force to defend themselves, the Guardian can reveal.It comes amid heightened concerns of further incidents during the English Football League playoff second legs and the final fortnight of the Premier League season, after the Newcastle manager,
  
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• Ben Jennings on Zelenskiy’s visit to Chequers – cartoon

  15-05-2023 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
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• Northampton teacher who stabbed her partner denies killing was ‘revenge’

  15-05-2023 21:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Fiona Beal, 49, denies charge of murdering Nicholas Billingham, 42, and burying his body in their gardenA primary school teacher who stabbed her partner in the neck and buried his body in their back garden has denied the killing was “revenge” for a suspected affair.Fiona Beal, 49, told a court she could not remember moving Nicholas Billingham’s van, using his phone to view online pornography, ordering a wood burner, or changing her council tax status from double to single occup
  
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• Intensive farming is biggest cause of bird decline in Europe, study says

  15-05-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Use of pesticides and fertilisers identified as most significant factor behind loss of 550 million birds from skiesThe use of pesticides and fertilisers in intensive agriculture is the biggest cause of the dwindling number of birds in the UK and the rest of Europe, scientists have said.Compared with a generation ago, 550 million fewer birds fly over the continent, with their decline well documented. But until now the relative importance of various pressures on bird populations was not known. Con
  
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• London Irish at risk of Premiership ban after RFU sets deadline for takeover

  15-05-2023 20:39 via theguardian.com
  
  RFU tells club to complete proposed takeover by 30 MayFears of third top-flight team expulsion in eight monthsLondon Irish will be suspended from next season’s Premiership unless the proposed takeover by a US consortium is completed by 30 May or the club provides proof of funding for the entire 2023-24 campaign, the Rugby Football Union has warned.The ultimatum from the RFU comes amid fears the protracted takeover will drag on over the summer and into next season, and heightens the prospec
  
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• Tories preach baby-making and the facts of life – why does it always come back to sex with these oddballs? | John Crace

  15-05-2023 20:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Welcome to the National Conservativism conference, a coming together of ideologies for the ideologically challengedWe’re spoiled. On Saturday we were gifted the Take Control conference of the Conservative Democratic Organisation. A collection of 200 or so weirdos, led by Nadine Dorries and Andrea Jenkyns, whose lives have been devastated by the absence of Boris Johnson. A keening for a flake of his life. A seance, even. Needless to say, Johnson himself couldn’t be bothered to attend
  
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• Former employee of US consulate charged by Russia with espionage

  15-05-2023 20:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Robert Shonov was reportedly detained in Vladivostok, site of his former employment, and is being held in MoscowRussia’s FSB security service has charged a former employee of the US consulate in the far eastern city of Vladivostok with illegal covert collaboration with foreigners.The state news agency Tass reported on Monday that Robert Shonov had been detained in Vladivostok and that “after interrogation, he was charged with committing a crime under Article 275.1 of the Criminal Cod
  
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• The Guardian view on Rishi Sunak’s woes: he’s clearing up a mess he made | Editorial

  15-05-2023 20:22 via theguardian.com
  
  It looks like the prime minister will be as exercised by splits within his own party as by the official oppositionThe length of time a party has been in power can equally make or break a premiership: it is far harder to make a mark coming to office at the end of a long period of dominance. Rishi Sunak is learning that lesson. Since last October he has been righting the listing Conservative ship. However, the losses his party suffered at the hands of opponents in May’s local elections have
  
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• The Guardian view on Turkey’s election results: a step towards autocracy? | Editorial

  15-05-2023 20:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Confounding the polls, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is now on course to extend his rule into a third decadeIn the lead-up to Turkey’s presidential election on Sunday, there seemed to be good grounds to believe that voters were about to turn their back on Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s authoritarian brand of nationalism. His assumption of quasi-monarchical presidential powers in 2018 had succeeded in uniting a perennially divided opposition against him. Polls suggested a close race, but pla
  
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• Briton tells Cyprus court wife begged him to end her cancer pain

  15-05-2023 20:19 via theguardian.com
  
  David Hunter, who denies premeditated murder, tells trial his wife Janice’s life had become unbearableA euthanasia case that has gripped Cyprus for more than a year has entered its final phase as a British pensioner accused of murdering his cancer-stricken wife told how she “begged” him to end the excruciating pain that made her life unbearable.David Hunter had waited a long time to have his day in court and in electrifying evidence before a three-member tribunal in Paphos on M
  
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• Lucy Letby said hospital staffing was ‘completely unsafe’, murder trial told

  15-05-2023 20:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Nurse who denies murdering seven babies and attempting to kill 10 others gives third day of evidenceLucy Letby believed staffing levels on a hospital’s neonatal unit were completely unsafe during what was an “increasingly busy” period, her murder trial has heard.A lot of staff on the unit at the Countess of Chester hospital were drained “physically and emotionally”, Letby said on Monday, her third day of giving evidence at Manchester crown court. Continue reading...
  
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• Piers Morgan knew his journalists were using voicemails for stories, court told

  15-05-2023 19:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Royal biographer says he heard former Mirror editor being told information about Kylie Minogue story came from voicemailsWhat Morgan knew about phone hacking – in his own wordsPiers Morgan knew his journalists were using private voicemails as the basis of their stories, the royal biographer Omid Scobie has told Prince Harry’s phone-hacking trial.Scobie, who co-wrote a sympathetic book about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, told the high court he was doing work experience at the Daily
  
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• Campaigners welcome Kate Winslet plea about online safety and children

  15-05-2023 19:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor urged ‘people in power’ to criminalise harmful digital content when she accepted Bafta award Online safety campaigners have welcomed Kate Winslet’s call on “people in power” to criminalise harmful digital content during her Bafta acceptance speech, as the UK parliament debates legislation to rein in social media platforms.The actor won the television award on Sunday for her portrayal of a mother whose teenage daughter suffers from mental health problems as a r
  
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• EU approves Microsoft’s takeover of Activision Blizzard

  15-05-2023 19:28 via theguardian.com
  
  But UK regulator the CMA, which blocked the deal, hits back over European decision on acquisition of Call of Duty makerThe EU has approved Microsoft’s $69bn (£55bn) acquisition of the Call of Duty creator Activision Blizzard, in a move that drew immediate pushback from its UK counterpart, which has already blocked the gaming mega-deal.The EU accepted Microsoft’s concessions on cloud gaming, the same problem that led the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to block the trans
  
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• ‘If you go down, I’m going down too’: the music stars protesting US anti-drag laws

  15-05-2023 19:24 via theguardian.com
  
  As anti-drag legislation continues to affect states across the US, stars such as Lizzo and Orville Peck have been using their stages to fight back“The energy was honestly like nothing I’ve ever experienced,” recalls the drag performer Britney Banks of her recent surprise appearance at a Lizzo concert at Knoxville, Tennessee’s Thompson-Boling arena. “The roof could have come off.”Banks is referring to the moment she and a group of fellow performers were invited
  
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• Former Met PC ‘missed chance’ to investigate Wayne Couzens

  15-05-2023 19:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Former PC accused of failing to properly investigate two instances of flashing before murder of Sarah EverardA Metropolitan police officer allegedly “did not bother” to properly investigate Wayne Couzens over two incidents of flashing hours before he kidnapped, raped and murdered Sarah Everard.Former PC Samantha Lee is accused of conducting an “extremely poor” investigation after Couzens exposed himself to female staff at a drive-through McDonald’s in Kent on 14 and
  
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• School caterers in England and Wales ‘facing a precipice’ as costs rise

  15-05-2023 19:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Survey finds caterers changing their menus and cutting back on choice because of supply issuesSome schools are substituting lentils and beans for meat while others are cutting pupils’ portion sizes because of rising costs, food shortages and problematic supply chains, according to caterers, who say they are “facing a precipice”.In a survey by LACA – the School Food People, which represents caterers in England and Wales, 77% of respondents said they had changed their menus
  
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• Turkey election goes to runoff after Erdoğan takes first-round lead

  15-05-2023 19:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Neither the president nor his rival Kılıçdaroğlu secured more than 50% of vote in closely fought national pollTurkey’s presidential election is going to a runoff after Recep Tayyip Erdoğan comfortably outperformed his chief rival, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, but just failed to clear the 50% vote threshold needed to avoid a second round.The 69-year-old conservative incumbent confounded pollsters’ predictions and his secular rival to win the fir
  
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• GMC to investigate ‘stalker’ doctor who shared patient’s records

  15-05-2023 19:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: consultant at Addenbrooke’s improperly accessed health history of woman who dated her ex-boyfriendThe UK medical regulator has launched an investigation into a “stalker” doctor who accessed intimate details of the health history of a woman who had begun dating the doctor’s ex-boyfriend.The General Medical Council (GMC) is investigating whether the doctor – a consultant at Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge – breached their professional, ethic
  
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• ‘I’ll wear it with pride’: Geraint Thomas in pink jersey as Covid hits Giro d’Italia

  15-05-2023 18:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Previous leader Remco Evenepoel tested positive for Covid-19‘It’s not the way you want to take the lead’ admits Ineos riderGeraint Thomas will wear the race leader’s jersey on Tuesday in the 10th stage of the Giro d’Italia following the withdrawal, late on Sunday night, of Remco Evenepoel following a positive test for Covid-19.The 23-year-old Belgian had been the outstanding favourite to claim overall victory in Rome on 28 May, but after a weary performance on Sunda
  
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• Thai election may be turning point as taboo over monarchy fades

  15-05-2023 18:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaign to reform laws that shield royal family is now part of mainstream but making it happen will be difficultThai opposition parties start alliance talksJust a few years ago, talking publicly about the status or role of Thailand’s monarchy was taboo. But on Sunday night, a political party that had campaigned for reform of strict laws that shield the royal family from criticism came out on top in a general election, winning the most votes and seats, according to an unofficial count.Napo
  
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• How Barcelona won La Liga: the story behind success for a new era | Sid Lowe

  15-05-2023 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  This is a different Barça. It is, as Xavi insists, a team in construction, but it is one whose success has brought stabilityIn the end, no one could catch Barcelona, not even the Espanyol fans who chased them off the pitch and down the tunnel – although they got closer than anybody else. The banner at the RCDE Stadium on Sunday had declared “we are Espanyol and this is our life”, yet it wasn’t one they chose, still less one they liked. They had never seen their tea
  
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• ‘Erdoğan is too nationalistic’: readers on their vote in Turkey’s election

  15-05-2023 18:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Many Kılıçdaroğlu supporters said they wanted to force end to Erdoğan’s presidency; some readers still back the incumbentTurkey will go to the polls again in a fortnight after neither of the leading candidates managed to secure 50% of the vote in the country’s presidential elections on Sunday.Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the Justice and Development party (AKP) received 49.51% of the vote, the head of the country’s election council said, while his riva
  
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• Company directors jailed after wall collapse killed five workers in Birmingham

  15-05-2023 18:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Two directors of scrap metal recycling plant were jailed for nine months after collapse of 45-tonne wall crushed five menTwo company directors have been jailed for nine months after five workers died when a wall collapsed at a scrap metal recycling plant in Birmingham.Wayne Hawkeswood and Graham Woodhouse were in charge of the site when the 45-tonne wall collapsed in July 2016 in the Nechells area of the city, and were each found guilty of four health and safety offences. Continue reading...
  
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• True equality is an idea the Tories just don’t get | Letters

  15-05-2023 18:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Justine Greening’s proposed solution to the government’s unpopularity at the recent local elections does not impress Henry Thompson, Philip Smith and Ben KenyonJustine Greening’s oft-proposed bromide to solve problems of public finances, growth and productivity through the removal of inequality of opportunity is no more than a soft-soap UK variant of the American dream (What’s the big idea that could win the Conservatives the next election? Social mobility, 12 May). In th
  
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• Did you solve it? Succession

  15-05-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The answers to today’s puzzlesEarlier today I set you these six puzzles about succession with a lower case ‘s’. Here they are again with solutions.1. Nob job Continue reading...
  
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• Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me review – sympathetic retelling of a tragic life

  15-05-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Ursula Macfarlane’s documentary recounts the sad story of the smalltown girl turned Playboy model who ended up a victim of the celeb industry and addictionThe strange, sad story of Anna Nicole Smith is retold in this Netflix documentary by Ursula Macfarlane, who made Untouchable, about Harvey Weinstein. Smith was the former Playboy centrefold and Guess Jeans model who wound up dead of a drug overdose in 2007 at the age of 39, soon after her 20-year-old son had tragically died the same way.
  
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• A just and democratic society that benefits all: that’s what Palestinians are fighting for | Mustafa Barghouti

  15-05-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  We can’t change the past. On the 75th anniversary of the Nakba, we strive for a single state where all citizens have equal rightsFor us Palestinians, 15 May marks the 75th anniversary of the Nakba (the “catastrophe” of 1948), during which about 70% of the Palestinian population was forcibly displaced and more than 500 communities were wiped out completely, in addition to the massacres committed by Zionist militias.The Nakba of 1948 marked the destruction of the indigenous Pales
  
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• We’re witnessing the end of our right to protest | Letters

  15-05-2023 17:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Paul Phillips on how protest used to be policed, Louise Christian on the history of suppression, John Barnett on diminishing freedoms, and Elizabeth Morley on why her parents would turn in their graves These are worrying times (The coronation arrests are just the start. Police can do what they want to us now, 12 May). When I policed protest, across 30 years of service (1986-2016), in a variety of roles that included holding a riot shield myself, the police were simply there to protect life and p
  
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• 2025 Rugby League World Cup in doubt after France pull out of staging event

  15-05-2023 17:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Decision made due to funding cuts from French governmentOfficials to consider options at summer board meetingThe 2025 Rugby League World Cup is in serious doubt after the hosts, France, confirmed they would not be able to stage the tournament. France had been preparing to be sole hosts of the event for the first time since they held it in 1972, but have pulled out after funding cuts from the French government.The government had demanded a guarantee concerning the possibility of the tournament ma
  
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• ‘The Velvet Hammer’: who is Twitter’s new CEO and can she fix its problems?

  15-05-2023 17:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Linda Yaccarino is praised for understanding of advertisers – but Elon Musk must cede enough control“I see I have some new followers,” said Linda Yaccarino, adding side-eyes and waving hand emojis to a tongue-in-cheek post responding to the social media explosion that followed her unveiling as Twitter’s new chief executive on Friday.Still weeks away from taking up the role, Yaccarino, a respected media veteran known in advertising circles as the “Velvet Hammer&rdquo
  
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• Greenwashing era is over, say ad agencies, as regulators get tough

  15-05-2023 17:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Insiders welcome stricter rules in the UK and EU over the use of terms such as ‘carbon neutral’ in adverts, and claims concerned with offsettingUK advertising watchdog to crack down on carbon offsetting claimsAcross the advertising industry, agencies are wrestling with their role in greenwashing scandals and their support for clients driving the climate and nature crises.Companies are to face stricter rules from regulators in London and Brussels over what they can tell consumers abou
  
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• What’s fashionable and goes ping? The microwave gets Vogue’s seal of approval

  15-05-2023 17:02 via theguardian.com
  
  You thought that box in the kitchen was only good for reheating coffee? That’s so last seasonName: The microwave.Age: 78. It was invented in 1945 after the US radar engineer Percy Spencer realised the device he was standing next to was melting his chocolate bar. Continue reading...
  
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• An egg: unfertilised, it is one giant cell | Helen Sullivan

  15-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fertilised, it can hold things shaped as differently as: a snake, an auk, a platypus; an emu, a tortoise, a peacockThings I have learned reading about eggs: that chickens have earlobes, and the colour of the earlobes correlates with the colour of the egg: white ear lobe, white egg; red ear lobe, brown egg. What can lay an egg? An orange-peel doris can lay an egg in a tidal pool; a bee hummingbird can lay an egg the size of an aspirin; an auk on a cliff lays a conical egg, which will roll around
  
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• Adverts claiming products are carbon neutral by using offsetting face UK ban

  15-05-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Advertising watchdog to begin stricter enforcement on use of terms such as ‘carbon neutral’ amid concerns over offsetsAdverts that claim products are carbon neutral using offsets are to be banned by the UK’s advertising watchdog unless companies can prove they really work, the Guardian can reveal, as Gucci becomes the latest company to struggle with a high-profile environmental commitment based on offsetting.Amid growing concern that firms are misleading consumers ab
  
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• Germany's change of heart is now pivotal to the war in Ukraine. Here’s why | John Kampfner

  15-05-2023 16:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Olaf Scholz’s about-turn on military aid policy will be transformative – and shows how German attitudes to the war are shiftingUnlike British or French politicians, Olaf Scholz doesn’t do pomp. Nor does he do charm. A man who screws up his eyes when he tries to smile, the German chancellor welcomed Ukraine’s president to Berlin on Sunday with characteristic stiffness.Yet of all Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s meetings with fellow European leaders over the past few days &ndash
  
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• What are Labour’s plans for giving foreign nationals the right to vote?

  15-05-2023 16:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Keir Starmer has said it ‘feels wrong’ to stop people who live and pay tax in the UK from voting, but what is he proposing?Keir Starmer’s plan to extend the right to vote in a general election to foreign nationals has been politically polarising. Many see it is a fundamental democratic right; others have seized on it as a leftwing plot to reverse Brexit.The Conservative party chair, Greg Hands, accused the Labour leader of a plot to “rig the electorate”, while his p
  
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• Why enjoy the sunshine when you could torment yourself in a shopping centre? | Zoe Williams

  15-05-2023 16:42 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s 15 years since I last visited the immense Westfield in Shepherd’s Bush, dreaming of the collapse of capitalism. It’s still standing and I’m still waiting …It was the first beautiful day of 2023 and everyone in the country was in a park, except for me. I was in Westfield’s west London outpost, in Shepherd’s Bush. I’m not allowed to write about the kids any more – I’ve had article eight of the Human Rights Act thrown at me – s
  
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• Ukraine strikes Russian forces in Luhansk before expected counteroffensive

  15-05-2023 16:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Smoke seen rising in eastern city as Moscow says British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles were usedRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesUkraine has carried out further strikes on Russian forces on Monday, apparently targeting Russian command and control centres deep behind enemy lines ahead of its long-awaited counteroffensive, with explosions reported in the occupied city of Luhansk.Smoke was seen rising above a former aviation school in the eastern city, used by the Russian military. Mo
  
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• US TV shows are ending earlier than usual, and that’s a great thing | Stuart Heritage

  15-05-2023 16:15 via theguardian.com
  
  The over-extended bloat of American shows seems to be dying out with dramas like Succession, Barry and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel all bowing out earlyIt used to be so easy to tell the difference between a British TV show and an American one. The British show would have a maximum of 12 episodes, and the American one would have several hundred, and run for about a decade and a half.And this meant that they had to be viewed in a different way. These long American shows – think Grey’s Anat
  
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• The biggest ever space explosion has occurred – what do you mean you don’t care? | Rhiannon Neads

  15-05-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It happened 8 billion lightyears away and was unprecedentedly bright and powerful. And I for one am pretty excited about itSomething pretty huge happened in space recently. Well, that’s not strictly true – to be more accurate, something truly gargantuan happened in space approximately 8 billion years ago, that we are only just finding out about now. Last Friday, scientists revealed the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed: like a supernova, but more than 10 times brighter and more
  
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• ‘I used to do tarot readings but it got too scary’: Sting on making Shape of My Heart

  15-05-2023 15:46 via theguardian.com
  
  ‘I’d see this dark stuff and was apprehensive about telling people. But I remained fascinated. So for this song, I came up with a kind of soldier whose weapons are his cards’The guitarist Dominic Miller and I would get together at my house in Wiltshire every Wednesday. One week, Dom came in with four chords. I said, “I like the sound of that” – and eventually we had the shape of a song. I took it out into the garden on headphones and just walked around thinkin
  
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• Chelsea’s new monsters, bench depth and other Women’s FA Cup final lessons | Suzanne Wrack

  15-05-2023 15:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Turmoil and transition are not preventing Emma Hayes from succeeding and do not write off Sam Kerr dominating the World CupAfter Chelsea had navigated their way past Bayern Munich in 2021 to earn a place in their first Champions League final, Emma Hayes labelled her gutsy side “mentality monsters”. They then lost the final against Barcelona by a humbling 4-0 scoreline. But the “mentality monsters” moniker stuck and has been reaffirmed in three consecutive FA Cup wins and
  
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• UK pledges more weapons for Ukraine as Zelenskiy meets Sunak at Chequers

  15-05-2023 14:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian president says he talked to UK PM about western allies providing a ‘coalition of jets’ for war effortRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesVolodymyr Zelenskiy hinted on an unannounced visit to the UK that Kyiv could soon receive F-16 fighter jets, saying he was hopeful of “very important” decisions soon on the subject with the help of the UK.The Ukrainian president flew in by helicopter on Monday morning for a one-to-one meeting with Rishi Sunak at Chequ
  
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• Erdoğan is in the lead in Turkey’s elections – and democracy is likely to be the loser | Constanze Letsch

  15-05-2023 14:15 via theguardian.com
  
  The opposition had to face down a hostile media and the president’s entrenched power. This disappointment could further skew the second roundIt was a tense and confusing night after election polls closed in Turkey yesterday. The official result is still unclear, but a runoff between the president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and his main challenger, Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, looks increasingly likely. Neither seem to have reached the necessary 50% threshold to win the electi
  
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