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• King calls for renewed ‘commitment to peace’ in VE Day message

  08-05-2025 23:41 via theguardian.com
  Charles says sacrifice of second world war heroes must not be in vain King Charles called for a renewal of “global commitments to restoring a just peace where there is war, to diplomacy and to the prevention of conflict”, as the UK marked the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe Day.Westminster Abbey was the focal point for national commemorations with a service of thanksgiving weaving poignant reminders of wartime deprivation and loss with the hopes for the future that historic day
  
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• Poker Face season two review – Natasha Lyonne’s fun detective show is painfully close to being a classic

  08-05-2025 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Our crime-solving heroine is utterly charming, it’s stuffed with A-list stars and some episodes are just great. If only the cases were a bit more cleverThis tribute to case-of-the week crime dramas is so nearly a brilliant TV show. Starring Natasha Lyonne (Orange Is the New Black, Russian Doll) as Charlie Cale, a woman with a foolproof ability to tell truth from falsehood, the series follows in the footsteps of classic story-of-the-week crime dramas; each episode features a tranche of exce
  
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• James Foley, director of Fifty Shades sequels and Glengarry Glen Ross, dies aged 71

  08-05-2025 22:10 via theguardian.com
  The film-maker, whose credits also included many Madonna music videos, died of brain cancerDirector James Foley, whose credits included Glengarry Glen Ross and the Fifty Shades sequels, has died aged 71.According to the Hollywood Reporter, his death was confirmed by his representative who said he died “peacefully in his sleep earlier this week following a years-long struggle with brain cancer”. Continue reading...
  
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• King Charles leaves fans in tears at emotional moment before historic VE Day speech - Daily Express

  08-05-2025 22:07 via news.google.com
  King Charles leaves fans in tears at emotional moment before historic VE Day speech  Daily ExpressCandles, wreaths, famous faces: VE Day at 80 in pictures  BBCVE Day and the taboo of victory  The SpectatorVE Day 80 live: King Charles says we should never forget how war changed virtually everyone's lives  BBCKing and Queen attend VE Day 80th anniversary service at Westminster Abbey  Sky News
  
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• Pilot dies after small plane crashes near airfield

  08-05-2025 22:03 via bbc.com
  The 42-year-old passenger of the aircraft is in a critical condition in hospital following the crash near East Fortune airfield.
  
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• Noaa to stop tracking cost of climate crisis-fueled disasters: ‘Major loss’

  08-05-2025 21:59 via theguardian.com
  US agency will no longer update major weather database in latest showing of Trump’s influence on climate resourcesThe National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) will no longer track the cost of climate crisis-fueled weather disasters, including floods, heatwaves, wildfires and more. It is the latest example of changes to the agency and the Trump administration limiting federal government resources on climate change.Noaa falls under the US Department of Commerce and is tasked wi
  
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• Share your views on Pope Leo XIV

  08-05-2025 21:53 via theguardian.com
  We’d like to hear your thoughts about the first clergyman from the US to lead the Roman Catholic churchRobert Francis Prevost, from Chicago, has become the first American pope to lead the Roman Catholic church.The 69-year-old has taken the papal name Pope Leo XIV, a senior cardinal announced from the central balcony of St Peter’s Basilica on Thursday evening. The announcement, which followed white smoke billowing from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel, prompted raucous celebration
  
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• Forgive and forget? Both sides must be accountable after a family fallout

  08-05-2025 21:17 via theguardian.com
  Prince Harry and King Charles will need to put past grievances to one side if they are to move on from their estrangement, experts sayFor most families, fallouts and squabbles are a regular occurrence. But what happens when those rifts deepen to an estrangement, such as appears to have beset the royal family and the Beckhams, and how can relationships be rebuilt?According to the following psychologists and psychotherapists, family reconciliation requires both sides taking accountability for thei
  
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• Ecstatic crowds flood St Peter’s Square to hail election of new pope

  08-05-2025 21:15 via theguardian.com
  Cheers, tears and prayers as Leo XIV appears on basilica balcony to give first blessingRobert Francis Prevost becomes the first American popeNoah from Los Angeles had listened carefully to the first words spoken by Pope Leo XIV from the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica, but his lack of Italian meant he understood none of it.“Wait, you mean he’s American? Really? Wow, that’s exciting,” he said with some surprise on his way out of St Peter’s Square. As he absorbed
  
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• What will the new pope be like? He’s chosen to be called Leo: that’s no accident | Catherine Pepinster

  08-05-2025 21:12 via theguardian.com
  Popes who take that name tend to be progressive reformers. If Trump and JD Vance think they have an ally in the Vatican, I think notCatherine Pepinster is a former editor of The TabletShare your views on Pope Leo XIVWhat’s in a name? When it comes to a pope – everything. The white smoke from the Sistine Chapel earlier this evening told the world that a new pope to succeed Francis had been elected – and for the first time the pontiff is from the US.But if Donald Trump and his Ca
  
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• Flattery gets Starmer somewhere as The Donald stays awake to toot tariff deal | John Crace

  08-05-2025 21:05 via theguardian.com
  Sycophancy stops Trump from dozing off as PM and co hail victory – or at least getting what they could getThree days ago, Donald Trump promised an announcement that would be very possibly the greatest announcement in the whole history of announcements. Come Thursday morning, he said the US and the UK had reached a full and comprehensive trade deal.I guess a lot depends on what you mean by the words “greatest announcement” and “full and comprehensive”. As details of
  
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• Clown in a Cornfield review – perky yet run-of-the-mill slasher fare

  08-05-2025 21:04 via theguardian.com
  An adaptation of the 2020 YA horror sees an evil clown pick off local youths and while there are a handful of interesting ideas, this is pretty standard late night fodderOne would be forgiven for assuming there was a lot more to early summer slasher Clown in a Cornfield other than, well, a clown in a cornfield. Because ever since an inevitable premiere at SXSW in March, an impressively maintained buzz has followed – special drive-in screenings, an ambitiously wide release, the bullish posi
  
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• Stockholm rejects ‘bizarre’ US letter urging city to scrap diversity initiatives

  08-05-2025 20:49 via theguardian.com
  City official says it will not comply with request seeking to impose Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity measuresA city official in Stockholm has said the municipality has no plans to comply after one of its offices received a letter seeking to impose Donald Trump’s rollback of diversity measures, in what is believed to be the first such missive sent to a foreign government.“It’s so bizarre,” said Jan Valeskog, Stockholm’s vice-mayor for planning. “It&r
  
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• Ben Jennings on Israel’s plans for a new offensive in Gaza – cartoon

  08-05-2025 20:16 via theguardian.com
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• Britain hasn’t agreed a trade deal with the US – it’s ended a hostage negotiation | Gaby Hinsliff

  08-05-2025 20:12 via theguardian.com
  There will be relief for carmakers but not much else to celebrate: Trump’s whims still hang over the UK – and the world – economyHang out the bunting and let the church bells ring. A VE Day trade deal with Donald Trump is done, and in the car plants of the West Midlands as much as in the backrooms of No 10, there will be understandable relief that, for now at least, America’s phoney war on them is over.It’s true that the easing of arbitrary tariffs on cars, steel an
  
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• Weekly quiz: Which star showed off her baby bump at the Met Gala?

  08-05-2025 20:06 via bbc.com
  How much attention did you pay to what has been going on in the world over the past seven days?
  
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• Scientists find ‘mutant’ gene behind foul-smelling species of wild ginger

  08-05-2025 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Small genetic changes in enzyme that prevents bad breath in humans lead to sulphurous scent in some asarumWith a smell of rotting flesh the flowers of certain species of wild ginger are unlikely to be used in a wedding bouquet – although they are irresistible to carrion-loving flies. Now researchers say they have worked out how the sulphurous scent is produced.Scientists say the odour is down to small changes in an enzyme that prevents bad breath in humans. Continue reading...
  
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• The Guardian view on Labour and immigration debate: time to change the frame | Editorial

  08-05-2025 19:42 via theguardian.com
  The way to win an argument with Reform is to bring economic reality and positive stories of migrant contribution back into the pictureBritish political debate around immigration has long been framed around three axiomatic beliefs: too many foreigners are coming, the explanation for that is incompetence by previous governments and the numbers can be brought down without economic cost.Those assumptions are sure to be expressed in a government white paper due to be published later this month. The d
  
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• The Guardian view on drought warnings: risks to the food supply need confronting | Editorial

  08-05-2025 19:41 via theguardian.com
  Lack of rain and floods both threaten crops. Ministers should heed the experts’ warningsIt is so ingrained in British culture to celebrate sunshine that unless you are a farmer or gardener, it is unusual to complain about the lack of rain. But alarms are being sounded by environmentalists and farmers after a very dry spring followed a winter during which parts of the country, including Northern Ireland, had only 70% of average rainfall.Some crops are already failing, and worse will follow
  
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• Netherlands museum rethinks lending works to US amid Trump arts cuts

  08-05-2025 19:37 via theguardian.com
  Mauritshuis in The Hague says guarantees would be needed of artworks’ safety amid uncertainty caused by US funding cutsA leading museum in the Netherlands has said it is reconsidering lending works from its collection to museums in the US amid the uncertainty wreaked by Donald Trump’s funding cuts and ideological impositions.Martine Gosselink, the director of the Mauritshuis museum in The Hague, whose collection includes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring and Rembrandt’s
  
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• Living near a golf course ‘doubles risk of Parkinson’s’ - The Telegraph

  08-05-2025 19:09 via news.google.com
  Living near a golf course ‘doubles risk of Parkinson’s’  The TelegraphResidential Proximity to Golf Courses Linked to Parkinson’s Disease  MedscapeIntriguing detail in where you live that could raise risk of Parkinson's by 126 per cent  Daily MailRisk of Neurologic Disorder Rises for People Who Live Near Golf Courses  MedPage TodayProminent role of PM10 in the link between air pollution and incident Parkinson’s Disease &n
  
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• British Gas owner suffers shareholder rebellion over CEO pay packet

  08-05-2025 18:54 via theguardian.com
  Nearly 40% of Centrica investors vote against board’s pay plans as energy bill payers struggle with record debtsThe owner of British Gas has suffered a shareholder rebellion after handing its chief executive a multimillion pound pay packet while energy bill payers struggle with record levels of debt.Nearly 40% of Centrica’s shareholders voted against the board’s pay plans at the energy company’s annual investor meeting in Manchester on Thursday, after rising criticism of
  
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• Canada medical mystery takes twist as study finds no evidence of brain illness

  08-05-2025 18:44 via theguardian.com
  Researchers link suspected cases in New Brunswick to known diseases, suggesting ‘misdiagnosis and misinformation’A new peer-reviewed scientific study has found no evidence of a mystery brain disease in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, suggesting instead a troubling combination of “misdiagnosis and misinformation”.The research comes as the Maritime province prepares its own assessment of more than 220 suspected cases in the hope of giving families some answers to a
  
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• New film claims to identify Israeli killer of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

  08-05-2025 18:37 via theguardian.com
  In Who Killed Shireen?, IDF soldier Alon Scagio is named as shooter of thePalestinian-American in Jenin in 2022A new US-made documentary has produced evidence pointing to the identity of an Israeli soldier who shot dead the Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in 2022.The documentary, Who Killed Shireen?, concludes that a member of the Duvdevan Israeli special forces unit shot Abu Akleh while she was reporting for Al Jazeera in Jenin, on the West Bank. Continue reading...
  
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• Four in 10 universities in England face financial challenges

  08-05-2025 18:16 via bbc.com
  A drop in international student numbers has driven the worsening financial position, a report says.
  
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• Why studying economics is so important | Letters

  08-05-2025 18:06 via theguardian.com
  David Redshaw and Andrew Webb respond to an article by the bank of England’s Clare LombardelliClare Lombardelli is right about the problems of economics teaching (‘It’s pretty bad’: Bank of England top official on the lack of female economics students, 5 May), and it’s illustrated right there in her article – the idea that a quarter-point cut in the Bank of England base rate is going to make much difference in the present volatile Trumpist world.The obsession
  
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• Reform’s success shows how little Labour has offered voters | Letters

  08-05-2025 18:06 via theguardian.com
  Readers respond to an article by Polly Toynbee on what the Labour party needs to do after its local election lossesPolly Toynbee is right that there will be far worse to come for Labour if it carries on down its road of making the poorest yet poorer (The lesson for Labour? Until it can improve local lives and stop fearing Farage, more losses are coming, 6 May). She says: “They will be challenged by Reform UK in towns such as Barnsley.” Barnsley is the 38th most deprived local authori
  
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• A cocktail that’s too much of a good thing | Letters

  08-05-2025 18:05 via theguardian.com
  The Glasgow variant of the Brompton proved alarmingly effective, writes Peter Waterson. Plus letters from John Garforth and Brian SandallRegarding the Brompton cocktail, a mixture of heroin and cocaine that was used for severe pain in terminally ill patients (Letters, 6 May), the Glasgow recipe was heroin, cocaine, gin, Largactil and honey. It could be alarmingly effective. Many years ago, my late partner, faced with a patient in intractable pain, issued a prescription for the cocktail.In the mi
  
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• Leave them hanging on the telephone | Brief letters

  08-05-2025 18:04 via theguardian.com
  Cold callers | Children reading | Push on with mowing | Not so quick crossword | Biscuit breakRegarding dealing with cold callers (Adrian Chiles, 7 May), it’s irritating I know, but if you don’t mind your phone being inaccessible for a few minutes, why not say: “Hang on, I’ll go and get him/her”, and then leave your phone until the caller rings off? At least you will have wasted some of their day.
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  Perrancoombe, Cornwall• Re fostering a love o
  
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• English universities’ income falls for third consecutive year

  08-05-2025 18:02 via theguardian.com
  Office for Students says declining international student numbers will lead to more cuts on campusUniversities in England have experienced a fall in income for the third year in a row, according to the higher education regulator, as it warned that declining international student numbers would translate into more cuts on campuses.The Office for Students’ (OfS) annual financial health check found that many universities were trying to repair budget deficits by slashing building and maintenance
  
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• ‘They’re not selling fashion – they’re selling a dream’: the latest celebrity clan in clothes

  08-05-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Are the Crawford-Gerbers the new Kardashians – or a family selling a modern take on the American dream?First came the Kardashians. Then the Beckham clan. Now the Crawford-Gerbers are positioning themselves as the next family superpower in fashion.Last week, Cindy Crawford, her husband, Rande Gerber, and their two children, Kaia and Presley, announced a “first-of-its-kind partnership” with the Californian sportswear and lifestyle brand Vuori. Kicking things off with a campaign,
  
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• ‘An optimal state of consciousness’: is flow the secret to happiness?

  08-05-2025 18:00 via theguardian.com
  It can happen when doing ‘just about anything’ – experts share how to get ‘in the zone’, and what can pull you outWhat is the secret to happiness? In a 2004 Ted Talk, psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi boldly claimed to have the answer: flow.Flow is the experience of being completely absorbed in a particular task. Sometimes we call it being “in the zone”. Csikszentmihalyi described it in his Ted Talk as an “effortless, spontaneous feeling”
  
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• Pogacar’s absence from Giro d’Italia may offer breath of fresh air for competition

  08-05-2025 17:56 via theguardian.com
  Dominance of last year’s champion can become predictable and this event could be volatile with more opportunities for the pelotonThe 2025 Giro d’Italia may lack the star power of the Tour de France, but it is likely to make up for it with dynamic and unpredictable racing when it gets under way in Tirana on Friday.Tadej Pogacar, Jonas Vingegaard and Remco Evenepoel, the top three riders in last year’s Tour de France, are not racing, but the Giro will, as ever, throw up plen
  
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• Woman found not guilty of having illegal abortion in UK lockdown

  08-05-2025 17:54 via bbc.com
  Nicola Packer took abortion medicine at home when she was about 26 weeks pregnant, her trial heard.
  
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• Having a child has been both the most transformative and mundane experience of my life | Rebecca Varcoe

  08-05-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Parenthood has opened the door to a new kind of love – one not necessarily more sacred or pure than the love for my friends, parents and husbandGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailTwo years ago I fell pregnant and within five weeks I was diagnosed with hyperemesis gravidarum, a medical condition that causes extreme nausea and vomiting. It lasted my entire pregnancy and that year was (almost) the worst of my life. Now, I keep being told the relief of no longer being sick is the main
  
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• The Last of Us mushroom coffee? Kevin Costner baked beans? TV merch to melt your mind

  08-05-2025 16:50 via theguardian.com
  The tinned pulses based on cowboy drama Yellowstone might have been recalled on safety grounds, but fear not: you can always eat a tube of biscuits bearing Martin Clunes’ face…First the bad news: this week the United States Food and Drug Administration recalled 4,515 cases of Yellowstone Brown Sugar Molasses Baked Beans after discovering that it did not disclose the presence of soy, an allergen that can have severe to fatal effects on sensitive consumers, in its ingredients. Shopper
  
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• ‘Utterly traumatised’: anger at ordeal of UK woman accused of illegal abortion

  08-05-2025 16:31 via theguardian.com
  Calls for law change after ‘cruel and unnecessary investigation’ into Nicola Packer that CPS brought to trialWhen Nicola Packer took a pregnancy test in November 2020, as the country was in lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, she did not even believe she was pregnant.Aged 41 at the time, she thought it more likely that she was perimenopausal, but had been feeling under the weather and when her friend – with whom the pregnancy had been conceived – suggested she took
  
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• Average water bills likely to hit £2,000 a year by 2050, says Ofwat

  08-05-2025 16:18 via theguardian.com
  Customers in line to pick up cost of vital investment and river cleanups, regulator tells inquiryThe average household water bill in England and Wales is likely to reach £2,000 a year by 2050 if supplies are to be maintained, the industry regulator has said.In its submission to the government-commissioned water inquiry, led by Sir Jon Cunliffe, Ofwat said “significant investment” was needed to secure enough water and avoid the country running out, and that this would cause cost
  
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• The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff audiobook review – a fugitive’s fight for survival

  08-05-2025 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Actor January LaVoy narrates the visceral story of a girl on the run in a winter wilderness, in early 17th-century VirginiaAt the start of The Vaster Wilds, we meet a servant girl, “bony and childish small”, on the run from a disease-ridden English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia. The reason for her flight is not immediately disclosed, though her fingernails are tellingly bloody. Armed with a knife, a thick cloak stolen from her mistress and leather boots taken from a dead child, s
  
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• Ready or not, here she comes: Lauryn Hill’s 20 best songs – ranked!

  08-05-2025 15:03 via theguardian.com
  Ahead of her 50th birthday this month, we rate the best tracks of the multi-hyphenate talent who, with Fugees and as a solo artist, blended soul, hip-hop and reggae with raw emotion and charismaThe closest their debut album Blunted on Reality came to a crossover hit, Nappy Heads is almost unrecognisable as the work of Fugees, who went on to sell millions of records. But it’s an of-its-era joy nonetheless, with a boom-bap rhythm and horns sampled from jazzy 70s funk. Continue reading...
  
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• The new pope, VE Day tributes and airstrikes: photos of the day – Thursday

  08-05-2025 14:40 via theguardian.com
  The Guardian’s picture editors select photographs from around the world Continue reading...
  
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• Forever review – an absolutely adorable TV take on Judy Blume’s banned teen sex classic

  08-05-2025 14:35 via theguardian.com
  The 1975 novel might be barred from US schools and libraries, but it gets a hugely important telling here. It’s powerful, sweet – and with a cast as excellent as Heartstopper’sA couple of years ago, Judy Blume noted that book banning was not only undergoing a resurgence in the US, but was at that point “much worse” than she had noticed during the 1980s. Blume is one to know: her 1975 novel Forever..., about teenage sex and desire, continues to be banned by school di
  
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• ‘It’s so gloomy’: some of UK’s top broadcasters admit to avoiding news

  08-05-2025 14:25 via theguardian.com
  Likes of Lyse Doucet and Jonathan Dimbleby say they have at times turned away from current affairs She is perhaps the UK’s most prominent war correspondent, broadcasting from the world’s toughest regions, interpreting its most intractable and bloody conflicts. Yet, like many others when the news agenda is so tough, even Lyse Doucet has said she finds herself tempted to turn off.“I just want to say as a broadcaster that even though I’m on one side of the microphone and you
  
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• Nicolas Cage: ‘I don’t think a day goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave’

  08-05-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  As psycho-thriller The Surfer is released, the actor answers your questions about eating rats, loving pickled eggs and scaring Terry WoganWhat do you remember of that appearance on Wogan? What was Terry like in real life? Have you still got that leather jacket, and the snakeskin jacket from Wild at Heart? johnnysmooth, EddieChorepost and BigAl65
  I remember Terry Wogan was a very nice man and I enjoyed the interview with him, although I thought I was both obnoxious and somewhat wild. I guess it&r
  
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• Core principles: the return of ‘real’ cider

  08-05-2025 14:00 via theguardian.com
  Much modern cider is mass-produced with the bare minimum fruit content of questionable provenance, but the UK used to be the world leader in fine ciders. Luckily, a new generation of terroir-focussed makers is finally emerging …“When I started out 10 years ago, only three of the makers here were even in business,” says Felix Nash, gesturing to the reams of golden bottles that line the shelves of his shop. I’m at the Fine Cider Company in London Fields, east London, with
  
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• PinkPantheress: Fancy That review – sharp-minded bops hop across pop’s past and present

  08-05-2025 13:15 via theguardian.com
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  Denigrated by some as the epitome of attention-deficit youth, the English pop musician became huge nonetheless – and her latest has an inspiringly free-associative feel
  There’s something telling about the fact that PinkPantheress launched the first single from her second mixtape with a video boasting that it was 2:57 long. “Ion [I don’t] wanna see no more song length jokes,” ran the caption accompanying a brief video of her dancing to Tonight, a track that
  
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• ‘Not much zoology – apart from the rabbit!’ Desmond Morris on his secret surrealist love romp film

  08-05-2025 13:09 via theguardian.com
  The zoologist, now aged 97, is about to unveil Time Flower, his fantasy-fuelled film in which he pursues a woman called Ramona – who gave such a brave performance leaping off the bonnet of a car that he proposed to herIn the opening scene of Time Flower, a surrealist film by the zoologist Desmond Morris, a woman is lying facedown on the ground, clutching the grass with manicured hands and shaking her head. She is about to start running across a Wiltshire moor in elegant black heels, chased
  
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• Three Hens in a Boat review – Jerome K Jerome inspires funny voyage of family reflection

  08-05-2025 13:07 via theguardian.com
  Reading Rep theatre
  Three generations of soon-to-be-weds unload their emotional baggage into the Thames in Camille Ucan’s comedyJerome K Jerome was not kind about Reading in Three Men in a Boat. Sculling along the Thames, his narrator observes how the town “does its best to spoil and sully and make hideous as much of the river as it can reach” yet concedes it is “good-natured enough to keep its ugly face a good deal out of sight”.Reading Rep, which co-produces this
  
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• UK interest rate cut: what does it mean for mortgages and savings?

  08-05-2025 13:03 via theguardian.com
  The Bank of England has voted to cut the cost of borrowing, reducing the base rate to 4.25%. Here’s what it means for youUK interest rates fall to 4.25%Analysis: mood-boosting rate cut is a fillip for Reeves but leaves future uncertainBusiness live – latest updatesThe Bank of England has cut interest rates from 4.5% to 4.25%. It follows two interest rate cuts in the second half of last year, and another one in February this year. Continue reading...
  
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• Palestinians urgently need a leader who represents them – but they’re facing another undemocratic stitch-up | Dana El Kurd

  08-05-2025 12:59 via theguardian.com
  Mahmoud Abbas’s lining up of the next president is part of a long pattern of denying Palestinians political agencySince the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, much has been written about how Palestinians are fragmented and demobilised – how their leadership is missing in action. At the heart of this problem is the Palestinian Authority (PA), which was created in 1994 after the signing of the Oslo accords. The PA, which helps Israel coordinate its highly unpopular “security&rd
  
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