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• Labour promises rapid housing action after ‘years of Tory paper promises’

  04-11-2023 23:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Angela Rayner says party’s housing recovery plan will enact reforms delayed by Tories since 2019 manifesto commitmentsLabour will deliver more action on housing in the first six months of office than the Conservatives have delivered in the past six years, Angela Rayner has pledged.Downing Street has confirmed the renters reform bill will be in the king’s speech, allowing it to continue its passage through parliament when the next session opens on Tuesday. Continue reading...
  
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• Tory MPs blast ‘out of touch’ Sunak as he woos homeowners in king’s speech

  04-11-2023 23:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Conservatives furious at PM’s ‘naive’ meeting with Musk ahead of last Westminster session before electionTory MPs have accused Rishi Sunak of “offering the electorate dystopia” after an appearance with Elon Musk in which the billionaire warned that artificial intelligence could take everyone’s jobs and leave them searching for meaning in their lives.Many MPs were left baffled by the prime minister’s decision to conduct an interview with the Tesla and X (
  
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• ‘Absolute disgrace’: Mikel Arteta slams VAR after Gordon winner for Newcastle

  04-11-2023 22:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Arsenal head coach calls decision to allow winner ‘embarrassing’Gunners’ 1-0 loss brings unbeaten league record to an endAn incandescent Mikel Arteta labelled Arsenal’s 1-0 defeat at Newcastle “a disgrace” after Anthony Gordon’s winning goal stood despite VAR checks for three possible problems.It was Arsenal’s first Premier League loss of the season but Arteta had no doubt he and his players were the victims of an outrageous miscarriage of justice.
  
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• Albanese arrives in China for landmark visit, says it’s in ‘our national interest’

  04-11-2023 22:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Albanese will meet Chinese president Xi Jinping and premier Li Qiang, on the first visit to China by an Australian prime minister since 2016Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has declared Australia will “cooperate with China where we can, disagree where we must, but ... also engage in our national interest” as the prime minister arrived in the People’s Republic for a lan
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg tears ACL while training for MMA fight early next year

  04-11-2023 21:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Meta CEO undergoes knee surgery after torn ACL in trainingZuckerberg said he was preparing for competitive MMA fightMark Zuckerberg’s latest martial arts sparring session sent him to the operating table.The Meta Platforms CEO and mixed martial arts enthusiast posted on social media on Friday that he tore one of his anterior cruciate ligaments, or ACLs, while training for a fight early next year. Continue reading...
  
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• Clownish populist Infantino is complicit in Saudi Arabia’s colonisation of football | Jonathan Wilson

  04-11-2023 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Gulf state’s land grab for 2034 World Cup is yet another example of cartoonish Fifa overlord putting self-interest before footballCongratulations to Saudi Arabia, host of the 2034 World Cup after Australia, reading the runes having been given a month to prepare a bid for a tournament 11 years away, decided not to get involved. In theory, of course, the Saudi bid still has to be examined and ratified before a formal decision is announced next year, but Gianni Infantino acknowledged that is
  
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• Madonna to headline Glastonbury in 2024, says report

  04-11-2023 20:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Pop legend’s first appearance at festival will also mark its first pair of female headlines acts, with Dua Lipa as openerMadonna will reportedly headline Glastonbury next year, the first time the singer has performed at the iconic festival.Dua Lipa will also headline the event for the first time along with Coldplay, according to the Mail on Sunday, making it the first time that two female artists have headlined in the festival’s history. Continue reading...
  
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• Miovski strike beats Hibs to earn 10-man Aberdeen place in League Cup final

  04-11-2023 20:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Bojan Miovski’s sensational late winner earned 10-man Aberdeen a 1-0 Viaplay Cup semi-final victory over Hibernian at Hampden Park. The Easter Road side edged a scrappy first half and were denied an opener in the 49th minute when VAR ruled attacker Martin Boyle was offside before he had the ball in the Aberdeen net.The Aberdeen defender Jack MacKenzie was sent off by the referee, John Beaton, in the 75th minute for picking up a second yellow card for a silly push on the Hibs defender Lewis
  
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• Harry Kane fires hat-trick as Bayern Munich thrash Borussia Dortmund

  04-11-2023 20:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Harry Kane marked his first appearance in Der Klassiker in stunning fashion with a hat-trick to take his Bundesliga goal total to 15 in 10 games for Bayern Munich as they thrashed Borussia Dortmund 4-0 away on Saturday.Dayot Upamecano headed a fast‑starting Bayern in front after four minutes before the England striker slotted in from close range five minutes later, both goals created by Leroy Sané. Continue reading...
  
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• The west can’t afford to forget about the war in Ukraine | Observer editorial

  04-11-2023 20:17 via theguardian.com
  
  Volodymyr Zelenskiy is in dire need of support as his counteroffensive against Russia stalls and the risk of stalemate loomsRecent events in the Middle East have drawn international political and media attention away from the war in Ukraine at what looks like a critical juncture. This is understandable but nonetheless alarming. The principal beneficiary of this loss of focus is Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, who ordered an illegal, unprovoked full-scale invasion in February last year
  
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• The moment I knew: We shared our first kiss on a seedy couch – then didn’t spend a night apart for 18 months

  04-11-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  In the theatre world, ‘showmances’ aren’t uncommon. But from the beginning Lucy Maunder knew this one was differentGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailDuring my first week of rehearsals for Grease the Musical in 2013 we had a performance at the Sydney Opera House. On one of our breaks I was lazing in the green room with a bag of chips I’d bought from the vending machine when a cast member I had barely met sauntered up and grabbed them right out of my hand. I though
  
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• Let’s abolish leasehold, an antiquated and unfair system | Observer editorial

  04-11-2023 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s simply a money-making scam that allows landowners to exploit those who have bought their own homes‘This system is not business, it is blackmail,” Lloyd George said of leasehold in 1909. More recently, it has been described by Rishi Sunak as “a scam” when he was a junior minister in 2018, and as “feudal” and “archaic” this year by Michael Gove, the housing secretary, and Matthew Pennycook, Labour’s housing spokesperson.Under the lea
  
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• ‘We’ve let people down’: England captain Jos Buttler rues World Cup exit

  04-11-2023 19:35 via theguardian.com
  
  Elimination confirmed after 33-run defeat by Australia‘It certainly feels like a low point. It’s incredibly tough’It was more of the same bitter medicine for England’s cricketers in Ahmedabad, with a 33-run defeat by Australia – and more of the same from Jos Buttler in the aftermath of a sixth loss at this 50-over World Cup as England’s captain again appeared baffled by his ageing team’s chronic under-performance.“I feel like we are having the same
  
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• Emma Hayes: Chelsea manager and ruthless winner who changed WSL forever

  04-11-2023 19:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Emma Hayes will go down as one of Chelsea's greatest managers when she leaves the club at the end of the season - and her role in helping grow the Women's Super League must not be forgotten.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has ‘constant worry’ about family in Iran

  04-11-2023 19:18 via theguardian.com
  
  British-Iranian imprisoned in Iran for six years speaks of slow recovery from captivity and severance from her Iranian familyNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has spoken of her “constant worry” about her family in Iran, saying she cannot return to the country where she was imprisoned for six years.The British-Iranian also revealed how it had been “very hard to adjust” since returning to the UK in March 2022. Continue reading...
  
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• Revealed: plan to brand anyone ‘undermining’ UK as extremist

  04-11-2023 19:10 via theguardian.com
  
  Leaked documents spark furious backlash from groups who fear freedom of expression could be suppressedGovernment officials have drawn up deeply controversial proposals to broaden the definition of extremism to include anyone who “undermines” the country’s institutions and its values, according to documents seen by the Observer.The new definition, prepared by civil servants working for cabinet minister Michael Gove, is fiercely opposed by a cohort of officials who fear legitimat
  
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• Rishi Sunak displays his astonishing incompetence (AI for short) – cartoon

  04-11-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Presented with the evidence of the Covid inquiry, the prime minister looks to the future• You can order your own copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
  
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• Dennis Cooper: ‘I’m saddled with this cult writer thing’

  04-11-2023 19:00 via theguardian.com
  
  As his 1989 classic Closer is republished, the American ‘outlaw’ author discusses discovering 120 Days of Sodom, rereading Rimbaud and the incredible renaissance of independent publishers Continue reading...
  
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• Gaza ‘siege conditions’ unacceptable, says Lammy as Labour toughens line on Israel

  04-11-2023 18:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Shadow foreign secretary toughens line on Israel-Palestine in light of ‘shocking number’ of dead civiliansLabour will work for a Palestinian state | David LammyLabour has warned that the “siege conditions” in place in Gaza are unacceptable and called for an immediate humanitarian pause to the fighting, in the party’s strongest intervention over Israel’s intensifying war against Hamas.David Lammy, the shadow foreign secretary who visited the region last week, s
  
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• Labour will work for a Palestinian state | David Lammy

  04-11-2023 18:44 via theguardian.com
  
  A ceasefire now would embolden Hamas to widen the conflict, says the shadow foreign secretary. But Labour promises real work towards a two-state solutionFifty years ago, at the height of the Yom Kippur war, there was a deep fear that the wars between Israel and Egypt might never end. With devastating losses in the Sinai and whole armies facing encirclement by the Suez Canal, few expected the narrow diplomatic openings to lead to a lasting peace between the foes. Today we face a situation just as
  
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• Former Guinea dictator Moussa Dadis Camara recaptured after armed prison escape

  04-11-2023 18:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Former junta leader back in jail hours after commando raid his lawyer says was an abductionThe former head of Guinea’s 2008 military junta has been recaptured and returned to prison hours after an apparent jailbreak led by a heavily armed commando, the army and his lawyer said.At least two other former officials on trial alongside Moussa Dadis Camara over a 2009 massacre during his presidency were taken in the earlier operation that sparked heavy gunfire in the capital Conakry, a minister
  
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• A lifesize king and a rock god at NEC Cake International – in pictures

  04-11-2023 18:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The world-leading sugar art show at NEC in Birmingham featured life-size sponge versions of Ozzy Osbourne and Charles III Continue reading...
  
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• If chatbots can ace job interviews for us, maybe it’s time to scrap this ordeal | Martha Gill

  04-11-2023 18:30 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s always been an unreliable process, so let’s think again about how to recruit the right peopleIn the evolutionary arms race between interviewer and interviewee, I think it is inevitable that both roles will at some point be played fully by robots. AI is already helping us to filter through CVs – one day, we will be able to leave chatbots entirely to it: everywhere, in pockets of cyberspace, one large language model will be offering another a seat and asking about the last c
  
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• Fury as Braverman depicts homelessness as a ‘lifestyle choice’

  04-11-2023 18:27 via theguardian.com
  
  Senior Conservative says home secretary should not discuss complex issue in such terms and advised her to use ‘wiser’ languageSuella Braverman has been rebuked by a senior Tory campaigner on homelessness after the home secretary provoked outrage by describing rough sleeping as a “lifestyle choice.”Bob Blackman MP, head of the all-party parliamentary group for ending homelessness, said Braverman was wrong to discuss a complex and serious issue in such terms and advised her
  
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• British man in court for extradition proceedings over murder in Italy

  04-11-2023 18:22 via theguardian.com
  
  74-year-old Michael Whitbread was arrested on Wednesday after Michele Faiers found dead in CasoliA 74-year-old man has appeared in court for extradition proceedings in relation to the murder of a 66-year-old woman in Italy.Michael Whitbread was arrested in England on suspicion of murder on Wednesday night after Michele Faiers was found dead at her home near the Italian town of Casoli that morning. Continue reading...
  
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• Britain’s ‘loneliest sheep’ rescued after two years at foot of cliff

  04-11-2023 18:22 via theguardian.com
  
  The ‘over-fat’ ewe, named Fiona, was hauled up from her solitary spot on a remote Scottish beach by farmersA ewe that was hailed Britain’s loneliest sheep has been rescued by a group of farmers from a remote shingle beach in the Scottish Highlands.The sheep, called Fiona and wearing a huge fleece, had been stranded at the foot of cliffs on the Cromarty Firth for at least two years, with an animal welfare charity having deemed rescue attempts “incredibly complex”. Co
  
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• Barbarians rugby player charged with sexual assault

  04-11-2023 18:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Api Ratuniyarawa, 37, from West Northamptonshire, charged hours before game against WalesA rugby player has appeared in court charged with sexual assault, hours before he was due to play for the Barbarians against Wales in Cardiff.Api Ratuniyarawa, a 37-year-old Fiji international from West Northamptonshire, had been due to be on the Barbarians bench for the match at the Principality Stadium, and Wales international Aaron Shingler was called up to replace him. Continue reading...
  
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• Clutter-free images to calm the mind – in pictures

  04-11-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  For nearly a decade, the photographer Marcus Cederberg has been on the lookout for interesting details in the buildings around him: geometric shapes, striking windows, vibrant colour palettes. ‘Sometimes, it frustrates my family and friends when I suddenly stop the car and run out to take a shot,’ he says. In the editing room, he singles out these details to create dreamlike, minimalist images depicting his native Sweden as well as his travels in places such as Dubai, Spain, the US a
  
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• Brexit, lack of cash, politics: has the UK cycling revolution run out of road?

  04-11-2023 18:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Bike sales boomed during the pandemic, but now cycle shops are going bust, sales of ebikes are sluggish and there’s a downturn in ‘active travel’When Alice Clews-Smith and her partner, Kitty, moved to London, they didn’t see many options for pursuing their shared passion for cycling.“I think it’s fair to say that the industry and the cycling scene were very male dominated,” she said. “There was a lack of space for women, trans-femme, non-binary peo
  
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• Zelenskiy denies he is under pressure to enter peace talks with Russia

  04-11-2023 17:03 via theguardian.com
  
  Ukrainian president rejects war at ‘stalemate’ and points to similar lulls in 2022 before Kharkiv was liberatedRussia-Ukraine war – live updatesThe Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has rejected the idea western countries are putting pressure on Kyiv to enter peace talks with Russia.It came after NBC reported US and European officials had spoken to the Ukrainian government about what possible peace negotiations with Russia might entail to end the war. Continue reading..
  
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• When Britain most needed a decent leader, we had a derelict at the helm | Andrew Rawnsley

  04-11-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Covid inquiry testimony is an eviscerating indictment of Boris Johnson and a stain on the reputation of his enablersIf a government looks bad from the outside, it will be twice as rotten on the inside. I’ve found this a reliable rule of thumb over the years, but it underestimates the breathtaking depths of the dreadfulness of the reign of Boris Johnson. That looked ghastly from the outside, but was many times more grotesque on the inside.Before the public inquiry into the handling of t
  
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• ‘It’s scarily good’: vintage clothing market is flooded with fakes

  04-11-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Counterfeit clothes have become a profitable industry – and it’s much more difficult for bona fide retailers to stem the tideWhen the coveted 1990s graphic T-shirt arrived, the material, cut and stitches looked genuine. Yet Frank Carson, owner of Leisure Centre, a secondhand shop based in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, was suspicious.In the end it came down to the care tag. One letter that was a “c” should have been an “o”. “That was the only way you
  
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• AI is not the problem, prime minister – but the corporations that control it are | John Naughton

  04-11-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Despite Rishi Sunak’s summit and Joe Biden’s executive order on the safetyof AI, it’s the tech giants that really need reining inEarlier last week, just around the time when the driver of Rishi Sunak’s armoured Jaguar might have been thinking about typing “Bletchley Park” into the limousine’s satnav, Joe Biden was in the White House putting his signature on a new executive order “on the safe, secure, and trustworthy development and use of artificia
  
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• ‘A game-changer’: the 9,000 acre project reclaiming the Fens for nature

  04-11-2023 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The Great Fen scheme in Cambridgeshire will attract rare wildlife and play a vital role in restoring the UK equivalent of the rainforest – and it has just taken a great step forwardLooking north from Woodwalton Fen nature reserve, in Cambridgeshire, visitors get an uninterrupted view of Britain’s flattest landscape. An entire hemisphere of sky hangs over a network of carefully drained fields that stretch to the horizon without a hill or mound in sight. Potatoes and other root crops g
  
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• MP Bob Stewart to surrender Tory whip after racial abuse conviction

  04-11-2023 16:40 via theguardian.com
  
  Member for Beckenham to surrender whip while he appeals against conviction, government sources sayBob Stewart has surrendered the Tory whip while he appeals against his conviction for a racially aggravated public order offence, a government source has said.Stewart, the MP for Beckenham, was found guilty at Westminster magistrates court on Friday of racially abusing an activist by telling him to “go back to Bahrain” during a confrontation in central London. Continue reading...
  
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• As their soldiers fight hand to hand in Gaza, Israelis wonder about the endgame

  04-11-2023 16:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Casualties in Gaza are growing, and so is Israel’s concern about the war’s directionIsrael and Hamas at war – live updatesIn the dark and the cloying heat of a Gaza night, the troops of the 13th Battalion of Israel’s Golani Brigade were attempting to advance in northern Gaza amid the flashes of air and artillery strikes across the Gaza Strip.The ambush, when it happened, caught them by surprise – 30 fighters from an elite Hamas unit emerging from hidden tunnel entra
  
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• Emma Hayes to leave Chelsea at end of season and linked with USWNT job

  04-11-2023 16:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Chelsea announce departure after 6-0 win over Aston VillaHayes a front-runner for the vacant USA head coach positionThe Chelsea Women’s manager, Emma Hayes, will leave the club at the end of the season. While her next move has not yet been announced she is widely considered a frontrunner for the vacant USA head coach role. The surprise news came via the club shortly after Chelsea’s emphatic 6-0 win against Aston Villa in the WSL.Hayes is widely regarded as one of the most influential
  
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• From flagship to flagging: cuts that place Newsnight in jeopardy

  04-11-2023 16:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Faced with falling figures, Kirsty Wark’s departure and new ways we consume news, a show that once set the agenda is in deep troubleThree decades ago, the BBC green room set aside for guests waiting to appear on Newsnight was regularly graced by cabinet ministers, primed and eager to respond to a late-night parliamentary development.The challenge of settling into that hot seat facing Jeremy Paxman was also a rite of passage for an aspiring opposition politician. What’s more, the show
  
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• Fernandes’s late strike gives Manchester United timely win at Fulham

  04-11-2023 16:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Even a clown car sometimes runs in a straight line. Fulham were marginally the better side here, had more of the shots and more of the creativity in the final third, won more of the big challenges, played with more confidence and courage. All of which they contrived to undo in about 15 seconds of pure catastrophe in the final minute of the game, a routine clearing of the lines that they somehow managed to turn into a kind of anarchic performance art.And through it all, lurking on the edge of thi
  
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• Why are Liverpool Street station plans still shrouded in a fog of ‘confidentiality’? | Rowan Moore

  04-11-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Developers claim it’s necessary to perch a 16-storey office block on the listed building to pay for a bigger ticket hall belowThe controversial plans to rebuild much of Liverpool Street station depend on one crucial argument – that they are the only way to significantly improve the experience of using the terminus. In order to reduce crowding on escalators and at ticket barriers, says the consortium that wants to develop it, its cathedral-scaled concourse has to be demolished and rep
  
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• On my radar: Cat Power’s cultural highlights

  04-11-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The indie singer-songwriter on her favourite New York restaurant, Dave Chappelle on top form, and Tracey Emin up closeCharlyn Marie “Chan” Marshall, who goes by the stage name Cat Power, was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1972 and grew up in the south of the US. She started playing music in the late 80s and recorded her first two albums back-to-back in 1994. Known for her tender, thoughtful indie rock, inflected with blues and soul, Marshall has released 11 studio albums, including the
  
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• Continued support for Ukraine will cost the west less than letting Putin win | Phillip Inman

  04-11-2023 16:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Donor fatigue is setting in among western states. But a Russian victory would embolden its leader to sow economic chaosUkraine’s top general has admitted the fightback against Russian aggression has reached a deadlock, and the prospect of “a deep and beautiful breakthrough” is unlikely.A deadlock is exactly what Russian president Vladimir Putin wants, because it allows him to plant the idea of perpetual stalemate in the minds of western leaders who, staring at a difficult econo
  
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• Scottish university returns tribal warrior skulls to Taiwanese Indigenous people

  04-11-2023 15:59 via theguardian.com
  
  University of Edinburgh repatriates ancestral remains of Paiwan fighters in ‘milestone of transitional justice for Indigenous peoples’The skulls of four tribal warriors killed nearly 150 years ago have been returned by a Scottish university to a Taiwanese Indigenous community in a move hailed as a “milestone of transitional justice”.The skulls were thought to have been taken as war trophies by Japanese soldiers who invaded southern Taiwan in 1874 and fought the Paiwan peo
  
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• Storm Ciarán leaves seven dead in Italy as torrential rain causes flooding

  04-11-2023 15:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Hundreds forced to evacuate homes and others left without power in Tuscany as storm sweeps across EuropeA seventh person has been found dead and another is still missing more than a day after rivers burst their banks following torrential rain in the central Italian region of Tuscany, the Ansa news agency reported.The body of a 69-year-old man was found in the town of Campi Bisenzio, about 9 miles (15km) north-west of Florence, the news agency said. Officials earlier said six people had died in t
  
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• Take an interstellar tour: what would you see if you could travel around our galaxy?

  04-11-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  An imaginary starship trip beyond the solar system to the edge of the Milky Way offers new perspectives on the wonders of spaceAstronomy and cosmology can feel detached from everyday reality. But what if we could take a 23rd-century starship tour through the Milky Way and experience the cosmos like an Earth-bound tourist visiting exotic destinations? What would we see from our window?Although physicists enjoy speculating about warp drives, or using wormholes to jump between locations, there is n
  
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• Robert Peston: ‘I’m not a conventional broadcaster – people hate my style’

  04-11-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The journalist, 63, on his weird brain, trying to fix everyone’s problems and how interviewing prime ministers has changed over timeI grew up in a culturally and ethnically, but not religious, noisy Jewish household in Crouch End, north London. I was the oldest of three children. I remember my father, who rarely cooked but had to on this occasion because my mum was giving birth, once managed to serve my sister and I fish fingers. They were black on the outside and frozen in the middle. A r
  
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• Jacob Kenedy’s recipes for an Italian feast

  04-11-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Three dishes for a late autumn spread from Bocca di Lupo, which opened 15 years ago – they’ll work just as well on your table at home, tooBocca di Lupo opened in Soho 15 years ago, but the regional Italian cuisines we celebrate there are timeless, narrating a storyline that goes back to the Romans, and even before. Here are three recipes that embody late autumn at both the restaurant and my table at home. Continue reading...
  
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• In a world on fire, Biden struggles to banish the curse of Trump

  04-11-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  From Afghanistan and Ukraine to the Middle East, the US president faces the fallout from his predecessor’s foreign policy blundersIs Joe jinxed? In less than three years as US president, Joe Biden has faced more than his fair share of international crises. America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan blew up in his hands like a cluster bomb. Then came Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine and Europe’s biggest war since 1945. Now, suddenly, the Middle East is in flames.It could
  
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• Don’t think you would try a kabocha squash latte? You already have

  04-11-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Kabocha might be trending, but it has a long cultural history – and is the secret ingredient in that famous Starbucks drinkWhen Jonathan Yang opened a coffee shop in LA’s Chinatown in 2020, he wanted a riff on the seasonal fall latte that spoke to the flavors of his childhood.His thoughts immediately turned to kabocha, a small green squash with orange flesh also known as the “Japanese pumpkin”. Continue reading...
  
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• Brian Eno and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic review – orchestral manoeuvres with the king of ambience

  04-11-2023 15:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Royal Festival Hall, London
  Surrounded by a host of musicians in motion, and in his first ever solo show, Brian Eno’s 2016 album The Ship – about colossal human hubris – becomes an almighty sound installation It’s quite rare – and conceptually curious – to find an artist as innovative and tech-forward as Brian Eno in the company of a large orchestra. The stage tonight is full of what more philistine tech bros might call “legacy” instruments –
  
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