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• Spain government says football federation is making ‘a fool’ of country

  19-09-2023 23:52 via theguardian.com
  
  Sports secretary intervenes over call-ups for boycotting playersJenni Hermoso says decision is proof ‘nothing has changed’The Spanish government has heavily criticised the country’s football federation over its handling of the boycott launched by top female players. The governing body was accused of making “a fool” of the country as footage emerged appearing to show a number of the players stony-faced as they boarded a bus for the training camp.The fresh turmoil cam
  
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• Rupert Murdoch thought $787.5m Dominion suit would cost Fox $50m, Michael Wolff book says

  19-09-2023 23:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump tell-all author returns with tale of Fox News strife which also includes prediction Ron DeSantis will be Republican nomineeIn winter 2022, at a hideaway in St Barts, Rupert Murdoch directed “sudden fury” at Donald Trump, who he thought would lose the 2024 Republican presidential primary to Ron DeSantis, but who the media mogul also said was likely to cost him “fifty million dollars”, through a lawsuit regarding Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.The lawsuit
  
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• ‘Proud and excited’: Arteta and Arsenal return to the Champions League

  19-09-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Gunners’ first time in competition since 2016-17 seasonArsenal won and lost to PSV in Europa League last seasonMikel Arteta has spoken of his pride at leading Arsenal into their first Champions League campaign since 2016. Their meeting with PSV Eindhoven at the Emirates Stadium on Wednesday marks a return from the wilderness and is a visible waymarker of the progress they have made since Arteta took over almost four years ago.Although Arteta must reshuffle his attack after Gabriel Martinel
  
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• Manchester City overcome Red Star scare in Champions League opener

  19-09-2023 23:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Who can stop Manchester City retaining the Champions League? This is a question many will ponder and for which Red Star Belgrade had no answer. By the end of this opening group game that is. Because, 45 minutes in, Serbia’s champions of the past six years led and threatened to do what Lyon were the last to do five years ago to the day: defeat Pep Guardiola’s side, in Europe, at their home.Yet City are the masters of refusing to be beaten and so cue two Julián Álvarez st
  
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• Romanian steel: how Theo Dan’s grandfather forged his love for rugby | Gerard Meagher

  19-09-2023 23:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The England hooker has gone from Ampthill in the Championship to the World CupTheo Dan’s rapid rise into the England ranks came thanks to a breakthrough season at Saracens – via a stint at Ampthill – but it was forged in Romanian steel. His grandfather, an engineer from Bucharest, was a keen player in his day and built a set of posts for Dan to learn his trade, locking horns with his cousins for days on end in the long summers of his youth.The 22-year-old speaks Romanian with h
  
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• Sunak planning to drop net zero policies in pre-election challenge to Labour

  19-09-2023 22:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Plans set to be announced on Friday could include delaying ban on sales of new petrol and diesel carsRishi Sunak is planning to row back on some of the government’s net zero policies that impose a direct cost on consumers as the Conservatives attempt to create a dividing line with Labour before the next election.The Guardian understands that the move, expected to be announced in a major speech this Friday, could include delaying a ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars and watering
  
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• Not many keepers could have matched Pope’s San Siro saves, says Eddie Howe

  19-09-2023 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Newcastle keep clean sheet in first Champions League gamePope made six saves in first 20 minutes against MilanEddie Howe acknowledged his debt to Nick Pope after the goalkeeper made a string of outstanding saves to earn Newcastle a precious point in their opening Champions League game against Milan at San Siro.Pope has recently been out of sorts and dropped by England but he timed his return to form to coincide with his side’s first game in Europe’s showpiece competition since 2003.
  
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• Zelenskiy accuses Russia of genocide and urges world leaders to attend peace summit

  19-09-2023 22:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian president says all leaders ‘who do not tolerate any aggression’ would be invited to a peace summitVolodymyr Zelenskiy has told the UN general assembly that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine and urged world leaders to attend a peace summit to help stop the invasion and future wars of aggression.Appearing in the assembly chamber in New York for the first time in person, the Ukrainian president used the opportunity to try to galvanise support for his country’s pli
  
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• NHS consultants offer to call off strikes for 12% pay rise in apparent olive branch

  19-09-2023 21:54 via theguardian.com
  
  BMA also offers to take non-pay investments into account to reach agreement – but No 10 insists pay talks will not be reopenedHospital consultants in England have offered to call off their strikes if they receive a pay rise of about 12% this year – double the increase that ministers insist is their final offer.Their proposal, and the disclosure of recent “constructive” conversations with the government, appear to be a conciliatory move by the British Medical Association (
  
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• UK could become an ‘EU lite’ member of bloc, suggests Franco-German report

  19-09-2023 21:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Blue-sky exercise envisages four levels of membership to allow for countries having looser ties to the unionA vision of a future EU with four types of membership – including an “EU lite” for countries such as the UK – has been tabled by a group of academics commissioned by France and Germany to consider future reforms.The proposal comes as the UK’s opposition leader, Keir Starmer, told France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, that he wanted to build an “even
  
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• Diane Abbott accuses Labour of ‘fraudulent’ inquiry into racism comments

  19-09-2023 21:45 via theguardian.com
  
  MP says investigation sparked by a letter to the Observer seen as arguing there is a hierarchy of racism is being run out of party HQDiane Abbott has accused Labour of leading a “fraudulent” investigation into her comments about racism that left her suspended from the party.Abbott, who became the UK’s first black female MP in 1987, has claimed the party’s whips office is no longer conducting a formal investigation. Instead, she claims the internal inquiry is “now ru
  
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• Indigenous burial mounds in Ohio become Unesco world heritage site

  19-09-2023 21:34 via theguardian.com
  
  The network of ceremonial mounds join the Acropolis, Machu Picchu, the Taj Mahal, Stonehenge and the Great Wall of ChinaA network of Native American ceremonial and burial mounds in southern Ohio have been added to the list of world heritage sites of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). The move places what the organization describes as “part cathedral, part cemetery and part astronomical observatory” on the same cultural plane as the Acropoli
  
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• Braverman stopped immigration centre inspections despite safeguarding warnings

  19-09-2023 21:13 via theguardian.com
  
  Inspector reveals home secretary’s decision as Brook House inquiry finds evidence of verbal and physical abuseI warned ministers about our disgraceful UK detention centres. Their solution? Stop the inspections – David NealSuella Braverman halted annual inspections of immigration detention centres such as Brook House last year, shortly after ministers received direct warnings that vulnerable people including torture victims had been left unprotected, the immigration watchdog has discl
  
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• How Oppenheimer became the unlikeliest blockbuster of the year

  19-09-2023 21:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Christopher Nolan’s three-hour historical drama just sped past the $900m mark, becoming the biggest biopic ever, but how did he do it?To bet against Christopher Nolan is to bet against the house – which is to lose like a fool – and yet he still came into summer movie season looking like something of an underdog.In the great Barbenheimer clash of 23, Mattel’s smiley plastic plaything had a handful of built-in advantages: it was a peppy, colorful, feel-good comedy featuring
  
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• Home Office Windrush ‘transformation team’ formally disbanded

  19-09-2023 21:08 via theguardian.com
  
  Campaigners reject justification that ‘significant progress’ has been made towards reform and describe news as insultingThe Home Office team that was tasked with transforming the department after the Windrush scandal has been formally disbanded, triggering disappointment from those affected and dismay from civil servants.The Home Office’s annual report confirmed that the department’s dedicated post-Windrush “transformation” team had been wound down “due
  
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• ‘Why don’t we know more of her? It’s upsetting’: dance genius Bronislava Nijinska

  19-09-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Created 100 years ago, Nijinska’s ballet Les Noces is a feminist masterpiece. Andrea Miller, who has choreographed a new version using Stravinsky’s music and art by Phyllida Barlow, hails a trailblazer‘I was told that British audiences don’t really like experimental work, like they do in Germany or Switzerland,” says American choreographer Andrea Miller. “Which makes me really nervous. I’m more on the expressionist weirdo side.”Miller, 41, is makin
  
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• Children arrive in Belarus after being illegally removed from Ukraine

  19-09-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Almost 50 children from Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia were removed by Belarusian charity, according to BeltaUkrainian children who had been illegally deported to Russia have arrived in Belarus, where state media published photographs showing them waving Belarusian flags and flanked by riot police.The 48 children come from the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, which Moscow claims it has annexed. Continue reading...
  
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• Russell Brand is a familiar story | Rebecca Solnit

  19-09-2023 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Can we really be surprised when rich and powerful men are accused of sexual abuse?There’s nothing new but the details about what the Times journalists uncovered about Russell Brand in their investigative report published this weekend. We’ve been through this so many times, the story finally uncovered of a rich or powerful or celebrated man being accused of sexual abuse for years or decades. Russell Brand says all of his relationships were absolutely always consensual.That’s the
  
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• Gove may blame Labour, but Tory-led councils are facing similar difficulties

  19-09-2023 20:50 via theguardian.com
  
  With 26 English local authorities at risk of following Birmingham in next two years, a longer-term view is neededIn Michael Gove’s otherwise sombre speech to parliament on Tuesday announcing a team of commissioners to run the cash-strapped Labour-run Birmingham council, the communities secretary could not resist a swipe at his political opponents.“I think it important for us to recognise that the intervention in Birmingham, and our [previous] interventions in Sandwell and Liverpool,
  
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• Starmer and Macron didn’t talk about Brexit or the booing – no point falling out on a first date | John Crace

  19-09-2023 20:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Parliament is a dead zone, so the Labour leader spent much of the week abroad and Tory MPs put their feet upYou know how it is. You’ve been back at work for just over two weeks after a six-week break and you’re knackered already. Just not match fit. You could do with another break. Well, tough. Get over yourself. Welcome to the real world. No rest till Christmas.Just not in Westminster. A blink after the last recess and we’re into another for the conference season. The Lib Dems
  
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• Why do rape and sexual assault victims find it hard to go straight to police?

  19-09-2023 20:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Victim-blaming culture and a lack of confidence in the police can deter victims from speaking out.
  
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• ‘Chilling’: Ariana Grande, Amanda Gorman and others sign letter against book bans

  19-09-2023 20:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Letter, spearheaded by Reading Rainbow’s LeVar Burton, includes 175 signatories calling on Hollywood to fight bans in US schoolsAriana Grande, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Ruffalo and Amanda Gorman are among the over 175 actors, entertainers, authors, activists and others who have signed an open letter calling on Hollywood to use their influence to oppose book bans.The letter, spearheaded by Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton and published via the political advocacy organization MoveOn Politica
  
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• The complicated rise and fall of Glossier: ‘There were missteps and there were successes’

  19-09-2023 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  A new book about Emily Weiss’s billion-dollar beauty company depicts ‘a really brilliant visionary’ who was also ‘oblivious and out for herself’In the spring of 2019, I sometimes found myself transfixed by the corner of Canal and Lafayette streets in Soho, either marveling at a line of people or in it. This was the New York headquarters of Glossier, the makeup brand of the millennial pink zeitgeist. Founded by Emily Weiss in 2014 with just four products, Glossier wa
  
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• Canada killing adds to suspicions of Indian crackdown on Sikh separatists

  19-09-2023 20:33 via theguardian.com
  
  Khalistani groups who want independence of Punjab accuse India of killings in UK and elsewhereCanada and India make tit-for-tat envoy expulsions over killing of Sikh leaderMonths before Hardeep Singh Nijjar was shot dead in a car park in Canada, three other Indians associated with the Sikh separatist movement had died on foreign soil – in circumstances deemed, at least by some, as suspicious.On Monday, Justin Trudeau alleged there was “credible evidence” that the Indian governm
  
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• The Guardian view on Canada and India: from partnership to public claims of a killing | Editorial

  19-09-2023 20:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Whatever the truth about the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, the row shows that building relationships with New Delhi won’t be easyCanada made waves when it recently announced an inquiry into potential foreign election interference. Its tanking relations with China have been watched closely, not least for how they reflect upon other western countries’ dealings with Beijing. Russia’s activities were also under scrutiny. Fewer people noticed that ministers also cited the potentia
  
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• The Guardian view on Keir Starmer in the Élysée: an EU reconnaissance mission | Editorial

  19-09-2023 20:12 via theguardian.com
  
  The Labour leader’s meeting with Emmanuel Macron was a first tentative step in the long haul of restoring better relations with EuropeIf it’s Tuesday, it must be Paris. In the past few days, a whirlwind foreign tour has given Sir Keir Starmer the chance to pose as Britain’s prime minister in waiting, ahead in the polls and probably heading towards Downing Street next year. A visit last Thursday to The Hague, where he held talks with Europol officials, was followed by a weekend
  
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• The Guardian shortlisted for Society of Editors Media Freedom awards

  19-09-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Nominations include for national news media of the year and commentator of the yearThe Guardian has received several nominations for the Society of Editors’ Media Freedom awards, including for national news media of the year.The awards aim to commend “excellence in public interest and campaigning journalism” across platforms including national and regional print media, broadcast, digital and magazine journalism. Continue reading...
  
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• South Africa go big and bold with reboot of forward heavy bench against Ireland

  19-09-2023 19:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Springboks opt for 7-1 split in favour of forwards in reserveEtzebeth fit to play for South Africa with Libbok starting at 10The influential Eben Etzebeth is fit to face Ireland this weekend and has been included in a power-laden South Africa side for the pivotal Pool B match at the Stade de France on Saturday. The Springboks have also opted to roll out a forward-dominated bench with just one backline specialist among their replacements.Etzebeth missed South Africa’s game against Romania w
  
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• FC Hollywood make Kane the star in perfect script for Manchester United

  19-09-2023 19:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Ten Hag will be reminded of what could have been when he faces Bayern Munich’s record signing in Champions LeagueIt was a day of frayed nerves and emotion, Harry Kane forced to wait in and around Stansted Airport, to borrow from the football vernacular. His move to Bayern Munich seemingly was in jeopardy at the very last.Told by Tottenham to stay away from the training ground – an edict of staggeringly bad optics – Kane knew there would be no face-to-face goodbyes with the peop
  
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• Marina Abramović’s RA retrospective is terrifying and vital

  19-09-2023 19:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Show documents vast legacy of brave artist who has turned her life into a relentless performance Here is Marina Abramović asking to be treated as an object, her audience provided with a hammer, a saw, chains, a whip and other frightening implements to do what they want with her.And here she is wearing a doctor’s white coat as she tells us a story “about how we, in Balkans, kill the rats …”, as she embarks on a blood-curdling video lecture as part of her 1997 Balkan
  
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• BBC to investigate if Russell Brand used its taxis to collect 16-year-old girlfriend

  19-09-2023 19:32 via theguardian.com
  
  Full inquiry under way at broadcaster into comedian’s time there as it removes all his shows from catchup serviceThe BBC has pledged to investigate whether Russell Brand used the broadcaster’s taxis to pick up a 16-year-old girl from school, as it removed all of the comedian’s shows from its catchup services.Brand has been accused of using cars paid for by his then employers at the BBC to drive his young girlfriend around London. Continue reading...
  
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• Watchdog criticises payment of Boris Johnson’s £265,000 Partygate legal bill

  19-09-2023 19:30 via theguardian.com
  
  NAO says Cabinet Office failed to follow proper processes when taxpayers’ money was used to fund legal billsThe Cabinet Office failed to follow proper processes when it allowed taxpayers’ money to be used to fund Boris Johnson’s Partygate legal bills, the UK’s public spending watchdog has said.The government’s justifications for the £265,000 spend were also deemed to be “borderline” and not “wholly persuasive” by the National Audit Offi
  
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• Corporation creep: why London’s Bond Street became Burberry Street - and caused outrage

  19-09-2023 19:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Transport for London’s one-week deal with the fashion house is part of a wider trend towards our public spaces being branded and privatisedBlink (quite slowly) and you maybe missed it, because by tonight Bond Street will have reclaimed its rightful name, having spent London fashion week as Burberry Street. The iconic tube sign was renamed and retinted in a discombobulating, non-tube blue, and, by and large, people hated it.This may have come as a surprise to Transport for London, who did t
  
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• Fears over right to protest after woman with sign at climate trial prosecuted

  19-09-2023 19:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Liberty warns decision to prosecute Trudi Warner, 68, for contempt of court after protest outside London court was ‘concerning’Civil liberty campaigners have warned that the prosecution of a woman for holding up a placard about the rights of jurors outside a court is part of the government’s increasing attacks on the right to protest.Liberty said the decision to prosecute Trudi Warner, 68, for contempt of court for sitting outside a London trial holding up a sign was “con
  
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• Prolonged grief disorder more common in Covid lockdown bereaved, study finds

  19-09-2023 19:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Social isolation and loneliness in early bereavement, and lack of social support, are strong contributorsPeople bereaved during the first two waves of the Covid pandemic are three times more likely to have prolonged grief disorder (PGD), which can leave them lonely and in intense emotional pain, research from Cardiff and Bristol universities has revealed.The disorder, also known as complicated grief, can result in persistent longing for the deceased, intense emotional pain including guilt and de
  
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• France accused of attack on press freedom after journalist arrest

  19-09-2023 19:04 via theguardian.com
  
  Ariane Lavrilleux, who reported on leaked documents alleging French intelligence used to target civilians in Egypt, is in custodyFrance has been accused of an unacceptable attack on press freedom after the arrest of an investigative journalist who reported on leaked documents that alleged French intelligence was used to target civilians in Egypt.Police arrived at the home of Ariane Lavrilleux at dawn on Tuesday and took her into custody after searching her property. The news agency AFP reported
  
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• Martin Rowson on problems facing the NHS and the Metropolitan police – cartoon

  19-09-2023 19:03 via theguardian.com
  
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• Zak Crawley leads England’s next generation in ODI series against Ireland

  19-09-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Sam Hain and Tom Hartley among four debutants in squadJoe Root requested to play first ODI on Wednesday to find touchBefore their defence of the 50-over World Cup gets under way in India next month comes a glimpse into the crystal ball for England, with an inexperienced side led by Zak Crawley playing the first of three one-day internationals against Ireland on Wednesday.Joe Root has requested a one-off outing at Headingley in a bid to find his touch before take-off but this is the second string
  
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• How Libya’s floods hit the worst place at the worst time | Letters

  19-09-2023 18:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Prof Janet Hooke describes the dangers of building a city on an alluvial fan and the vulnerability of such locations to extreme weather events. Plus letters from Susan Roaf and David O’BrienMuch of your reporting of the Derna flood disaster (Libyans call for inquiry as fury grows over death toll from catastrophic floods, 14 September) has focused on the state of the dams and the political situation, together with the extreme weather event, but there is another factor that makes the town hi
  
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• Could the dog (and cat) days be over soon? | Letters

  19-09-2023 18:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Readers reflect on the environmental impact of having pets, the validity of research on the subject, and if it’s morally right to ‘own’ another sentient beingRe your article (The case against pets: is it time to give up our cats and dogs?, 13 September), the real question to be asked is whether it can ever be morally right for one sentient being to “own” another at all. As well as closing down the wasteful and exploitative global $320bn pet industry, it’s prob
  
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• Azerbaijan launches ‘anti-terrorist’ attack in disputed Nagorno-Karabakh

  19-09-2023 18:42 via theguardian.com
  
  Bombardment of blockaded region could reopen 2020 war in which land was taken from Armenian populationWhy is there dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh?Azerbaijan has launched attacks against the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, with bombing raids hitting the regional capital of Stepanakert, in an explosive move that threatens to reopen a bloody 2020 war.Azerbaijan’s capital, Baku, said its “anti-terrorist” campaign on the blockaded region, which local Armenians call Artsakh, was &ld
  
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• Scottish gender recognition bill would leave UK law untouched, court told

  19-09-2023 18:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Holyrood lawyer argues UK minister relied on ‘irrelevant considerations’ to justify use of section 35 vetoHolyrood’s gender recognition reform bill would leave UK-wide equality law untouched, and the Westminster government’s reasons for blocking it are “almost entirely unsupported by evidence”, Scotland’s most senior law officer has said.Dorothy Bain, the lord advocate, set out arguments on behalf of Scottish ministers on the first day of their challenge
  
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• UN report urges countries to consider financial reparations for transatlantic slavery

  19-09-2023 18:23 via theguardian.com
  
  UN secretary general says no country has comprehensively accounted for the pastA UN report calling on countries to consider financial reparations for transatlantic slavery has been hailed as a significant step forward by campaigners.The report by the UN secretary general, António Guterres, said no country had comprehensively accounted for the past and addressed the legacy of the mass enslavement of people of African descent for more than 400 years. Continue reading...
  
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• Football referees in Cyprus go on strike after latest car bomb attack

  19-09-2023 18:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Cyprus FA suspends top-flight matches until further notice‘Our support for referees and their families is unquestionable’Referees in Cyprus have gone on indefinite strike after an apparent arson attack on a car belonging to an official’s mother, the latest incident in a campaign of terror that has run for nearly a decade.The Cyprus Football Association has suspended top-flight games in the country and declared “unquestionable” support for officials, who are demandin
  
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• Now it’s clear: hard work doesn’t make you rich. Surely that’s the death knell for the myth of social mobility | Faiza Shaheen

  19-09-2023 18:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Where you are born in the UK and the wealth of your family are the key factors thatdetermine life outcomes, new figures revealEvery parent wants their child to reach their full potential and flourish: my mum called me Faiza because it means “winner” in Arabic in the hope that success would be inevitable. It’s an emotion that runs deep, and one that politicians across the spectrum are keen to tap into, for ever promising to build an “aspirational” or truly “mer
  
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• Black British fashion celebrated in London show The Missing Thread

  19-09-2023 18:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Somerset House exhibition showcases design legends and new wave of talentBlack designers have long been crucial to the history of UK fashion, with names such as Bruce Oldfield, Ozwald Boateng and Walé Adeyemi redefining British style over the past half century. While recent years have seen a new class of black British designers, including Grace Wales Bonner, Martine Rose and Bianca Saunders, become household names in fashion, there are still generations of artistic talents whose contribut
  
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• Senior Tory Lee Anderson broke MPs’ code by filming on Commons roof

  19-09-2023 17:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Anderson apologises over GB News clip and for sending email about his show from his official addressUK politics live – latest updatesLee Anderson, the Conservative party’s deputy chair, has been found to have broken parliamentary rules by filming a promotional clip for his GB News programme from the roof of the House of Commons.The senior Tory apologised and promised not to do it again after admitting having breached the MPs’ code of conduct by being filmed on the roof terrace
  
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• The ultimate kid-friendly recipe? Alice Zaslavsky’s tray-bake pizza

  19-09-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s hands-on, versatile and tastes as good as it looks. For an easy school holiday cooking project for children of all ages, pizza is perfectMini masterchefs: how to encourage your kids to get in the kitchenAs a teacher in my past life, a food literacy advocate in my current, and a parent now and forever, the school holidays is the best and the worst time to talk about getting kids into the kitchen.The best, because what better opportunity to for them to learn valuable life-skills such as
  
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• ‘Missing half the equation’: scientists criticise Australia over approach to fossil fuels

  19-09-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Prof Lesley Hughes and others say there is ‘cognitive dissonance’ between Labor’s stated commitment to the climate crisis and its policiesThe Australian government is “missing half the equation” in acting on the climate crisis by backing a shift to renewable energy but having no plan to get out of fossil fuels, according to an author of a new scientific review.Prof Lesley Hughes is a leading climate change scientist and member of the independent Climate Council and
  
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• ‘Joni Mitchell watched me sing one of her songs. I was horrified’: Rick Beato, the world’s best-loved music nerd

  19-09-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As energised by Taylor Swift as Schoenberg, Beato has earned millions of fans with his YouTube videos and become the man musicians seek out to discuss their craftOnce a proud dad posting videos of his son’s perfect pitch, now a muso-in-chief interviewing Sting and Keith Jarrett, American YouTube star Rick Beato has established himself as the internet’s pre-eminent musical sage, with improbable view counts, a sellout stage show, and a multigenerational fanbase that includes the stars
  
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