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• Geraint Davies: Suspended MP faces formal complaint over behaviour

  01-06-2023 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Labour suspended Geraint Davies earlier after allegations of sexual misconduct reported by Politico.
  
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• Motorola RAZR+ / RAZR 40 Ultra: Samsung Flip 4 Killer?? - XDA

  01-06-2023 23:37
  
  Motorola RAZR+ / RAZR 40 Ultra: Samsung Flip 4 Killer??  XDAMotorola Razr 40 Ultra Review: First Impressions  TrustedReviewsMotorola Razr 40 and Razr 40 Ultra debut globally with new clamshell foldable designs  Notebookcheck.netWatch Motorola unveil the new Razr 40 clamshell foldables - GSMArena.com news  GSMArena.comMotorola Razr 40 Review: First Impressions  TrustedReviewsView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Hugh Callaghan, one of the Birmingham Six, dies aged 93

  01-06-2023 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mr Callaghan was one of six men from Northern Ireland wrongly jailed over pub bombings in 1974.
  
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• Symptoms of 'most common STI you've never heard of' that could cause cancer - The Mirror

  01-06-2023 23:23
  Symptoms of 'most common STI you've never heard of' that could cause cancer  The MirrorView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Bournemouth beach death swimmers not hit by boat or jet ski

  01-06-2023 21:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police in Bournemouth release more details about the "devastating" deaths of a boy and girl.
  
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• 'Primate AI algorithm' predicts genetic health risks - Financial Times

  01-06-2023 20:00
  
  'Primate AI algorithm' predicts genetic health risks  Financial Times'Game changing' research reveals full genome sequences of hundreds of primates  Bridport and Lyme Regis NewsA global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species  ScienceBiggest ever study of primate genomes has surprises for humanity  Nature.comWhat makes us human? Primate genome study offers some clues  The HinduView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Council orders removal of 'gaudy' Pittenweem witch mural

  01-06-2023 17:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mural by street artist Rogue One appeared on the side of a pub in Pittenweem last Halloween.
  
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• Bosses at ferry fiasco shipyard to receive bonuses

  01-06-2023 15:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  But its chief executive insists that the "gravy train" at the troubled Ferguson yard has come to an end.
  
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• Take your sustainable business to the next level: win your own retail space at one of London’s Westfield centres

  01-06-2023 15:16 via theguardian.com
  
  The Westfield Grand Prix has given more than 50 businesses a huge boost with physical space in sought-after shopping centres. Could you be next?The Westfield Grand Prix is an exciting challenge for entrepreneurs who place sustainability at the core of their output. Whether your business focuses on food, fashion, beauty, home, leisure or services, there are prizes on offer that could change its trajectory in a major way.Over 15 years, this international competition has awarded 50 prizes. Now, it&
  
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• How to make a memorable business pitch: entrepreneurs reveal seven top tips

  01-06-2023 15:15 via theguardian.com
  
  From knowing your figures to speaking from the heart, three business owners share their secrets for winning investors with a knockout presentationMotivational speakers and life coaches love to tell us that if we can dream it, we can do it. But coming up with an initial idea for a product, service or business is only the start of the journey; try as you might, simply manifesting the cash to fund your startup just isn’t going to cut it.What budding tycoons actually need to move them up to th
  
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• Is your online business ready for a physical space? Six ways to tell

  01-06-2023 15:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Westfield’s new competition could land you a trading spot in one of Europe’s best shopping destinations. But are you ready to rise to the challenge?For many businesses, launching exclusively online is a safe option, enabling them to start building with lower overheads, fewer commitments and a chance to test the water. But there often comes a time when a more visible, physical presence is required. The Westfield Grand Prix is giving sustainable businesses that very opportunity –
  
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• ‘You have to fail, to learn’: three entrepreneurs on the value of a business pitch gone wrong

  01-06-2023 15:12 via theguardian.com
  
  While the initial knock-back may sting, the insights you gain from an unsuccessful presentation can propel you to successIt’s a big moment for any entrepreneur. The pitch can make all the difference when it comes to securing investment, getting stocked, gaining customers – or being selected as the winner of the Westfield Grand Prix, where the prize is a free retail space in one of the two London Westfield Centres for up to 12 months, along with a contribution to pay for design and fi
  
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• No suggestion people jumped off Bournemouth pier - police

  01-06-2023 14:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A 12-year-old girl and 17-year-old boy, who died on Wednesday, were not related to each other.
  
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• London still works for stock market listings, says We Soda boss

  01-06-2023 14:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  We Soda could be valued at £6bn when it floats in the UK, in a boost for the London stock market.
  
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• 'Living with bigger boobs made me want to hide'

  01-06-2023 11:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As the number of breast reductions rises, women open up on their experience of having bigger breasts.
  
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• Biggest drop in UK annual house prices since 2009, with market ‘facing strengthening headwinds’ – business live

  01-06-2023 10:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Nationwide reports that UK annual house price growth fell to -3.4% in May, from -2.7% in April, but hopes for a ‘soft landing’Brexit was a “historic economic error” which has hurt the UK economy and helped to drive up inflation, Larry Summers, the former US Treasury secretary has warned.Summers told Radio 4’s Today programme that UK economic policy has been “substantially flawed for some years,” and singles out the exit from the European Union as a facto
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war live: investigation into ‘locked’ shelter in Kyiv; exams cancelled in Belgorod region after shelling

  01-06-2023 10:06 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian media reports that the three people killed in Kyiv overnight tried to get into a locked shelter; state maths exams in Shebekino cancelledRussia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 463 of the invasionWires are also posting new photos from the Russian city of Shebekino in the Belgorod border region, which Russian officials say was shelled for the fourth time this week by Ukrainian forces. Continue reading...
  
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• UK house prices fall at fastest annual pace since 2009, says Nationwide

  01-06-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Building society warns of ‘strengthening headwinds’ with high interest rates continuing for longerBusiness live: latest updatesUK house prices fell at the fastest annual rate in nearly 14 years in May, as Nationwide building society warned that “headwinds” for the housing market were likely to increase in the coming months as high inflation fuels expectations of further interest rate rises.Prices decreased by 3.4% in the 12 months to May compared with 12 months earlier &n
  
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• The Days review – this nuclear disaster drama is no Chernobyl

  01-06-2023 10:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Netflix’s recreation of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster is disappointingly insight free. It’s obsessed with facts to the point where it neglects both character and storyIt feels borderline immoral to criticise The Days, a serenely measured and thorough dramatisation of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its aftermath. The resourcefulness and courage of the men on duty at the power station at the hideous moment when calamity struck, who stayed for a week afterwards working to
  
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• As the Ben Roberts-Smith case proves, it’s time for Australia to abandon our farcical myths of Anzac | Paul Daley

  01-06-2023 09:59 via theguardian.com
  
  Good history – like good journalism and justice – has as its bedrock factBen Roberts-Smith loses defamation caseListen to Guardian Australia’s Ben Roberts-Smith v the media podcastFollow our live blog on the defamation judgment for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastA federal court defamation case finding that Ben Roberts-Smith is, on the balance of probabilities, a cold-blooded battlefield murderer has done more than leav
  
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• Kyiv strikes: three die in early morning attack by Russia

  01-06-2023 09:34 via theguardian.com
  
  Girl and her mother reportedly among the dead from falling debris after short-range missiles interceptedThree people including a child were killed and at least 11 people were injured in an early morning missile attack on Kyiv that hit apartment buildings, two schools and a children’s clinic, according to city authorities.The attack, on what is International Children’s Day in many post-Soviet countries, reportedly involved 10 Iskander short-range missiles, and there was only a few min
  
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• We’re a climate action hub in need of an electricity meter

  01-06-2023 09:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Bulb hasn’t sent a form to the National Grid, and we can’t sign up with any other energy companyI run a community support charity which has spent two years raising £150,000 for a climate action hub. The idea is to run events, workshops and performances on the site, which includes an amphitheatre and field kitchen. Over a year on, planned events and activities are badly affected because we are still waiting for the installation of an electricity meter.Continue reading...
  
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• MasterChef finalist Terri: Why I made Nan's dippy eggs and soldiers

  01-06-2023 09:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A finalist on the TV cookery show says her County Down childhood influenced her MasterChef dishes.
  
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• Ben Roberts-Smith committed war crimes in my country – his targets are the forgotten victims of Australia's Afghan war | Shadi Khan Saif

  01-06-2023 09:03 via theguardian.com
  
  The judge in Roberts-Smith’s defamation case found he committed murder. Will Australia remember the names of those Afghans whose deaths sat at the centre of testimony?With a federal court judge finding Ben Roberts-Smith – the country’s most decorated soldier – either murdered or was complicit in and responsible for the murder of unarmed civilians while serving in the Australian military in Afghanistan, Australia must now turn its attention to the real victims of this conf
  
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• Swimming now has a wave of diversity to drown out Little Mermaid protests | Michael Gunning

  01-06-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As a gay man and a person of colour, I faced horrible stereotyping but new film is helping pave a different wayDisney has always been at the heart of breaking down barriers in society and swims against the tide in its diverse casting and smashes the patriarchal system out of the water. As Disney celebrates its 100th year, I can’t help but reflect on what Disney has taught me; that anything is possible.Disney might be fiction, but our youth of today look up to the characters as role models
  
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• ‘I felt extreme confusion: was I one or two people?’: Katie Cuddon’s sculptural explorations of motherhood

  01-06-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Fired up by the experience of raising a child in the pandemic, the sculptor discusses her latest works exploring the ‘incredibly physical’ relationship between mother and babyThe “mother” has retreated with her child to an old kitchen chair. Her body has become a vessel, pink as new skin, comforting as a hot-water bottle. Yet something is a little off. She doesn’t exactly nestle the rolled-up blanket that is her “baby”. Although tied by a harness strap,
  
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• Elizabeth Holmes’ big con deserved prison time – so why do I feel sorry for her? | Emma Brockes

  01-06-2023 09:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Seeing the former founder of Theranos turn herself in should have offered the thrill of schadenfreude. Instead I felt sympathyIt is an image that, for any number of vilified public figures, is supposed to offer the audience a measure of closure: a version of the perp walk to the front door of the jail. On Tuesday, Elizabeth Holmes, erstwhile founder of the blood testing startup, Theranos, self-presented to a federal prison in Texas to begin her 11-year sentence for fraud. So much about Holmes ha
  
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• Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 463 of the invasion

  01-06-2023 08:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Three people including child killed in early morning missile attack on Kyiv; eight wounded in shelling of Belgorod region in RussiaSee all our coverage of the war in Ukraine Continue reading...
  
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• Orwell by DJ Taylor review – a very English socialist

  01-06-2023 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  George Orwell’s voice comes alive again in a biography drawing on newly discovered lettersThough he worked for the BBC for two and a half years and often spoke on air, no recording of George Orwell’s voice has been found. Many friends and memoirists have described it, and his struggles to make himself audible (all the more so after a sniper’s bullet went through his throat in Spain), but their accounts vary: was his voice high-pitched or husky, old Etonian or a Cockney drawl? D
  
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• Africa will be transformed by the potential of AI and data – if we can get investment | Mahamudu Bawumia

  01-06-2023 08:30 via theguardian.com
  
  As tech changes the world, Ghana has the young experts to unlock the next industrial revolution, says the vice-presidentAs we see the artificial intelligence furore sweep across continents, one thing is clear: Africans have a goldmine at our fingertips. A rapidly growing population of 1.4 billion people, 70% under the age of 30, combined with huge growth in AI investments, creates a potent recipe for Africa. We will not sit back and wait for the rest of the world to reap our rewards.Africa and t
  
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• US and China are on a collision course that could risk conflict | Nouriel Roubini

  01-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  G7 sought deterrence without escalating new cold war but Beijing responded with rageAfter the May G7 summit in Hiroshima, the US president, Joe Biden, claimed that he expected a “thaw” in relations with China. Yet, despite some recent official bilateral meetings – with the US secretary of the Treasury, Janet Yellen, expressing hopes for a visit to China soon – relations remain icy.In fact, far from thawing, the new cold war is getting colder, and the G7 summit itself magn
  
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• Non-EU workers outnumber EU ones in various UK sectors in post-Brexit shift

  01-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Exclusive: Analysis shows shift towards non-EU and British workers in sectors which once relied on EU workforceThere are now more non-EU than EU workers in a number of sectors that were previously reliant on European citizens, demonstrating the Brexit effect and the impact of international events on immigration patterns.Guardian analysis shows that the number of non-EU workers surpassed their EU counterparts for the first time in 2022, at an average of 2.7 million against 2.5 million workers las
  
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• I’ve come to love Chișinău: my home city in Moldova deserves the spotlight

  01-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  European leaders visiting the Moldovan capital for a political summit will see a city rich in cultural influences and wine-making historyWhenever I brought friends from the UK home to Moldova, I always wanted to show them the countryside and its traditions, its beautiful hills, the stone-age settlements at Duruitoarea Veche in the north, and Lake Beleu in the south. I would rather show these off than my home city. But, I have now come to love Chișinău (pronounced Ki-shi-naw).This is pa
  
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• I’d love to laugh like a baby again. But the best I can hope for is a big sneeze | Adrian Chiles

  01-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As adults, we are taught to keep a lid on our emotions. It has left me longing for the days of relentless, unbridled mirthA cute video of a baby laughing its head off has been doing the rounds on Twitter this week. He is sitting in a cardboard box as it’s dragged along by the family dog. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (Rospa) may frown at such a caper, but their concerns wouldn’t bother this bairn, for the lad’s quite helpless with mirth. Naturally, his joy i
  
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• Art of the possible: the best of the free London Gallery Weekend – in pictures

  01-06-2023 08:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Chris Ofili’s latest paintings to some seriously hardcore sculpture, the capital’s finest galleries have united to offer a public art extravaganzaLondon Gallery Weekend, 2-4 June Continue reading...
  
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• ‘It felt like we were in the 90s!’ HomeBass, the white van revving up UK rave culture

  01-06-2023 07:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The father and son DJ duo have become viral sensations for their guerrilla raves. Now working with brands and major labels, can they keep their countercultural spirit alive?In a public square in Dalston, east London, out the back of the kind of bog-standard white van more used to transporting fitted kitchens or cleaning supplies, a crowd of ravers are in a jubilant mood, all sweat-sheen and wide smiles. Inside the van DJs spin tunes characteristic of this itinerant party, dubbed HomeBass: garage
  
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• Eddie Jones’s Wallabies plot Rugby World Cup ‘smash and grab’

  01-06-2023 07:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Australian optimism growing with 100 days to go before kick-offCoach is ‘a wise man, he gets the game’, says Allan AlaalatoaOnce a week, Eddie Jones and his Wallabies inner-circle dial in for a Zoom meeting with one key focus – defying the odds and pinching the Rugby World Cup. Warming to the Wallabies coach’s ‘smash and grab’ theme, belief is growing Australia can win their first Webb Ellis Cup since 1999 and return to the top of the rugby hierarchy.Jones has
  
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• TV tonight: Frankie Boyle and Jenny Eclair battle it out in the Taskmaster finale

  01-06-2023 07:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Boyle serenades a nearly dead dog while Eclair does wonders with water and a dart. Plus: nursing supremo Pat Cullen takes on the government in Strike: Inside the Unions. Here’s what to watch this evening. Continue reading...
  
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• Sex and the City: Samantha Jones was the show’s best character. Here are 10 of her finest moments

  01-06-2023 07:15 via theguardian.com
  
  Missing from And Just Like That’s first season, Kim Cattrall will cameo in season two of the reboot. Yes, it’s just one scene – but she can do a lot with a single lineGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s the news Sex and the City fans never thought we’d never get: Samantha Jones is coming to And Just Like That. Well, sort of.According to Variety, Kim Cattrall will reprise her role in the sequel series to Sex and the City for just one scene in the final ep
  
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• Swimmers brave dangerous tides to collect rock from Uri Geller island

  01-06-2023 07:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Celebrity magician Uri Geller praised the group for taking on the dangerous expedition in the Firth of Forth.
  
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• The best theatre to stream this month: Blues for An Alabama Sky, Macbeth and more

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Our roundup of drama to enjoy at home includes the National Theatre’s Pearl Cleage revival and David Tennant taking on the Scottish king for the first timeLynette Linton’s consummate National Theatre production of Pearl Cleage’s 1930 Harlem drama brought her the best director prize, and saw Giles Terera named best actor, at this year’s Critics’ Circle theatre awards. It’s now streaming on NT at Home – offering a closeup view of some exquisite designs by
  
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• The backlash: how slavery research came under fire

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  • Read more in this series: Cotton CapitalMore and more institutions are commissioning investigations into their historical links to slavery – but the fallout at one Cambridge college suggeststhese projects are meeting growing resistanceWhen the historian Nicolas Bell-Romero started a job researching Cambridge University’s past links to transatlantic slavery three years ago, he did not expect to be pilloried in the national press by anonymous dons as “a ‘woke activis
  
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• ‘One guy uses us like a larder’: the British shoplifting crisis – as seen from the tills

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In Britain, shop thefts have more than doubled in the past six years, reaching 8m in 2022. We spent a day talking to shopkeepers in Manchester, where raids on the shelves are a regular occurrenceChorlton is one of Manchester’s most aspirational suburbs. Its handsome red-brick semis regularly sell for £700,000 or more. It has a worker-owned, vegetarian cooperative that sells locally grown fruit and vegetables, several reiki studios and an artisanal off-licence where one of the bestsel
  
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• Munstead Wood, prototype of classic English garden, saved for nation

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  National Trust to restore Gertrude Jekyll’s ‘horticultural gem’ at Lutyens-designed home in Surrey before public openingA garden created by the pioneering horticulturist Gertrude Jekyll that was the prototype of the modern English garden has been saved for the nation by the National Trust.Munstead Wood near Godalming, Surrey, Jekyll’s home and garden until her death in 1932, was acquired by the trust through a private sale with support from the government “in order
  
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• Here’s proof fishing bans leave plenty to eat, says study of Mexico marine park

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Scientists compared catch data from four years before and after a moratorium and found minimal impact on commercial fishingBanning fishing in a Mexican marine park did not reduce the fishing catch, according to a new study that says it has dispelled the “myth” spread by fishing companies that protecting marine areas leaves less fish available for people to eat.The before-and-after study looked at whether banning commercial fishing from the Revillagigedo national park, which covers 14
  
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• Foggy future for Arctic shipping as sea ice melts

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  By 2100 increased fogginess caused by global warming could add days to travel in the regionRapid warming in the Arctic has opened up faster shipping channels through the fabled Northwest Passage in recent decades, but a study reveals that the reduction in ice is likely to lead to increased levels of fog, potentially removing the benefits of these high-latitude short cuts.As sea ice melts, more of the underlying warmer water comes into contact with cold air, increasing the chances of water vapour
  
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• Covid inquiry must examine impact of UK’s ‘broken sick pay’ system, says TUC

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Failure to provide proper financial support left millions exposed to pandemic, says union bossThe Covid inquiry must take an unflinching look at how the UK’s lack of decent sick pay left the country “brutally exposed” during the pandemic, the TUC has said.The UK entered the pandemic with the lowest rate of statutory sick pay (SSP) in the OECD, an intergovernmental organisation with 38 member countries, and with millions unable access it, the union body claimed. Continue reading
  
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• Changing Ends review – Alan Carr’s childhood makes for relentlessly funny TV

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  This semi-autobiographical sitcom is a light, self-deprecating slice of hilarity. Its tale of growing up in 1980s Northampton is camp, cheeky and cleverIt would take a hard heart not to fall for Changing Ends. It is a steamroller of a comedy, open, welcoming and beaming with easy charm. Written by Alan Carr and Two Doors Down’s Simon Carlyle, it tells the story of Carr’s early life in Northampton, joining him on the precipice of “big school” in 1986. Carr is not your ever
  
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• Brexit, the environment, energy bills … it’s hard to tell Labour and Tory policies apart | Larry Elliott

  01-06-2023 07:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Cross-party consensus was once called Butskellism. What do we call it when even Rachel Reeves and Jeremy Hunt agree?Back in the 1950s, a term was coined to describe the consensus that had allegedly emerged over the way to run the economy in the postwar world. An amalgam of the names of two chancellors of the exchequer – Rab Butler for the Tories and Hugh Gaitskell for Labour – it became known as Butskellism.Dispute has raged ever since over whether there was any such thing, yet while
  
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• Ben Roberts-Smith loses defamation case, with judge finding former SAS soldier committed war crimes

  01-06-2023 06:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Justice Anthony Besanko found newspapers established substantial or contextual truth of allegations of murders of unarmed civilians in AfghanistanListen to Guardian Australia’s Ben Roberts-Smith v the media podcastFollow our live blog on the defamation judgment for the latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastBen Roberts-Smith VC, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, murdered or was complicit in the murder of multiple unarmed civili
  
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