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• Shabana Mahmood vows to stick with hardline migration policies after byelection defeat

  27-02-2026 23:30 via theguardian.com
  Home secretary will defy ‘plain wrong’ calls from unions and leftwing MPs that she is alienating Muslim votersShabana Mahmood will press on with hardline immigration policies despite calls for a reversal from unions and left-leaning Labour MPs after the Green party’s byelection victory.Senior Labour sources insisted that the home secretary would continue to roll out changes to asylum policy, dismissing as “plain wrong” claims that it would further alienate Muslim vo
  
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• Bobby J Brown, US actor known for The Wire, dies in barn fire

  27-02-2026 23:15 via theguardian.com
  Brown, 62, third member of hit HBO series to die since December, was trying to jumpstart car at home at time of blazeSign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inboxThe Wire actor Bobby J Brown died recently in a barn fire at his Maryland home, making him the third cast member of the acclaimed HBO show to pass away since December.According to authorities and a statement on social media from his daughter, Reina, the 62-year-old Brown had gone into a barn at his reside
  
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• Departing CBS News producer claims political bias as Paramount poised to buy Warner Bros

  27-02-2026 22:58 via theguardian.com
  Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’A veteran CBS News producer who is leaving the network after 46 years has suggested that political bias is at play at the network in a farewell memo sent to colleagues on Friday afternoon.“We’ve been reading a lot of goodbyes lately and here I am headed out the door. It’s too soon, even after 46 years,” Mary Walsh wrote in the memo, which
  
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• Demna brings sexy back in effort to reinvigorate Gucci

  27-02-2026 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Designer’s first catwalk for the brand in Milan flirts with bad taste with short, tight dresses and a diamante G-string Demna is fashion’s dark lord of apocalyptic streetwear. Gucci is the glossy sex kitten of Milan. Put the two together, and what do you get? Sex appeal that flirts with bad taste.At Demna’s first Gucci catwalk show, staged in Milan on Friday afternoon in front of an audience including Donatella Versace and Paris and Nicky Hilton, dresses were so short and tight
  
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• Pakistan’s patience runs out after badly miscalculating over Taliban

  27-02-2026 19:12 via theguardian.com
  Military reckoned ‘good’ Afghan insurgents were separate from ‘bad’ Pakistani insurgents but distinction has blurredDays after the Taliban swept to power in 2021, Pakistan’s then spymaster appeared in Kabul on what looked to many like a victory lap. Sipping tea in the lobby of the Afghan capital’s fanciest hotel, Lt Gen Faiz Hameed told reporters: “Don’t worry, everything will be OK.”This week it became clear just how badly Pakistan had misca
  
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• Robert Carradine obituary

  27-02-2026 18:58 via theguardian.com
  Hollywood actor for more than five decades best known for 1980s cult film Revenge of the Nerds and the teen comedy series Lizzie McGuireOf the four sons who followed their father, John Carradine, into acting, Keith had the most prestigious career, David netted the largest audience thanks to his early-1970s TV series Kung Fu, and the little-known Bruce amassed a meagre handful of minor credits. The youngest, Robert Carradine, acted continuously without ever becoming a star. He has taken his own l
  
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• The Guardian view on Gorton and Denton: a warning shot across Labour’s bows | Editorial

  27-02-2026 18:55 via theguardian.com
  Hannah Spencer’s win was more than protest. It signalled that Labour’s moral language and coalition are up for grabs in its safest terrainThe Greens have every reason to celebrate their victory in the Gorton and Denton byelection. From a standing start in a Manchester constituency, Zack Polanski’s team tripled his party’s vote to capture a seat that had effectively voted Labour in every election but one since 1906 – the year Labour was born. Labour coming
  
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• The Guardian view on Trump’s war on science: Europe should pick up talent fleeing the US | Editorial

  27-02-2026 18:50 via theguardian.com
  The president’s cuts have defunded and alienated thousands of American scientists. Europe can benefit, if it makes the right offerDonald Trump has spent much of his second term at war with science and scientists. He is cutting staff at institutions such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) by a third, and has cancelled or frozen up to 8,000 federal research grants. This hasn’t just hurt individual research programmes, it has damaged America’s credibility as a reliable p
  
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• The Send system is in crisis – but what should change look like? | Letters

  27-02-2026 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Guardian readers respond to the government’s education white paper setting out changes to provision for children with special educational needs and disabilitiesI am a special educational needs and disabilities (Send) coordinator in a mainstream primary school, a governor at a special school, and have two children with education, health and care plans (EHCPs) who attend special schools. I have read the Send reform white paper, and like it (Send support for schoolchildren in England to be gi
  
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• Phil Noble’s photograph of Andrew exposes the mundanity of monarchy | Letters

  27-02-2026 18:17 via theguardian.com
  The picture was akin to Joan Miró’s sculpture Sa majesté le roi, writes Dr Lalith Chandrakantha, while Peter Lowthian praises the snapper for his talentsFay Bound-Alberti’s analysis of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor as a “ghost behind glass” (From handsome prince to a ghost behind glass, Andrew’s face tells the story of his downfall, 20 February) finds a striking, if unintended, visual precedent in the work of Joan Miró. In 1974, the Catalan artist
  
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• How to keep free entry to UK museums and galleries | Letters

  27-02-2026 18:16 via theguardian.com
  Nick Merriman supports free entry for all, while Hugh R Craig and Peter Fordham suggest small charges for international visitorsI believe that national museums should be free for all. Your report (Is the UK’s golden era of free museum entry coming to an end?, 21 February) quoted me from a Daily Telegraph article that selectively used parts of a much longer interview. I said in principle that people would be willing to pay; however, I then outlined all the reasons this would not work financ
  
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• A rounded response on boulders’ origins | Brief letters

  27-02-2026 18:12 via theguardian.com
  Stone lifting | A good result | Gorton and Denton lessons | Metres v millionsI must disagree with Prof Gray (Letters, 20 February) as to the origin of the rounded shapes of the boulders used in the ancient sport of stone lifting in Ireland. They are unlikely to be glacial erratics. Blocks frozen in glacial ice generally retain their initial angular shape and are not abraded. In contrast, rock fragments carried by rivers or located along marine coasts may be rolled and dragged by currents, formin
  
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• ‘Violent bully’ who broke partner’s neck and left her paralysed jailed for 16 years

  27-02-2026 18:11 via theguardian.com
  Robert Easom violently assaulted Trudi Burgess, from Chorley, when she threatened to leave himA “violent and controlling bully” who broke his partner’s neck, leaving her paralysed and her life “destroyed”, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.Robert Easom, a landscape gardener, violently assaulted Trudi Burgess, a schoolteacher and former singer, when she threatened to leave him after enduring eight years of coercive, controlling behaviour.In the UK, call the na
  
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• Excruciating but worth it: how a decades-old cult dating book helped me find love

  27-02-2026 18:00 via theguardian.com
  Years of singlehood, dating apps and humiliating set-ups left me skeptical. But Calling in ‘the One’ – surprisingly – workedIn January 2023, a friend recommended I read a dating self-help book with her. “I think we need to read this,” she said. “My friend did it and that’s how she met her husband.”But when the book arrived, I discovered it wasn’t a recommendation so much as an enlistment. Continue reading...
  
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• Gross green, chartreuse or phlegm? Hannah Spencer’s waistcoat is political and TikTok winner

  27-02-2026 17:26 via theguardian.com
  Newly elected Gorton and Denton MP taps into colour meme of the moment with statement waistcoatUK politics live – latest updatesOf course the Green candidate wore green, though the correct term – the 2026 TikTok one – is “gross green”.Coined by New York magazine, and seen all over the high street as well as on the cover of Caro Claire Burke’s forthcoming satirical novel Yesteryear, it’s actually chartreuse. But where’s the fun in calling it that? A
  
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• Premier League action and a crucial derby for Rangers and Celtic – follow with us

  27-02-2026 17:20 via theguardian.com
  Here’s how to follow along with our coverage – the finest writing and up-to-the-minute reports Continue reading...
  
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• RPO/Edusei/Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha review – the makings of a classic Strauss

  27-02-2026 17:17 via theguardian.com
  Cadogan Hall, London
  South African soprano Rangwanasha proved she is the real deal in a performance of Strauss’s Four Last Songs that’s let down by the RPO’s oddly pinched, poorly tuned backing‘We’re here for her,” the man next to me says, pointing to Masabane Cecilia Rangwanasha’s name on the programme. He’s not alone. The South African soprano – winner of the song prize at 2021’s Cardiff Singer of the World and more recently the Salzb
  
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• Spencer’s victory speech an object lesson in grace while Reform’s man rages | John Crace

  27-02-2026 17:09 via theguardian.com
  Matt Goodwin claimed cheating in Gorton and Denton, Angeliki Stogia fled, Keir was tin-eared and Kemi brought the comedyIt could have been a flash of arrogance. Hubris for the ages. On Thursday morning, when most pundits were still calling the Gorton and Denton byelection a three-way fight that was impossible to call, the Green party sent a note to journalists. Come to the first press conference of Hannah Spencer MP tomorrow. And while you’re about it, stay on to join her for her first con
  
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• The Hallé Presents … Jonny Greenwood review – everything in its right place, almost

  27-02-2026 16:57 via theguardian.com
  Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
  The Radiohead guitarist joined the orchestra for the premiere of his rather formless Violin Concerto – but other repertoire was gripping, and showed off a world-class string sectionAmid the sea of musicians clad in concert black, his baggy white trousers inevitably stood out. And for an orchestra that has been a fixture of the classical mainstream for well over 150 years, the choreography was awkward: lengthy resets between pieces, a second half that threatened
  
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• Bruno Mars: The Romantic review – you’re better off listening to the songs he’s blatantly imitating

  27-02-2026 16:52 via theguardian.com
  (Atlantic)
  Harking back to Oye Como Va, Move On Up and other 20th-century classics, Mars’s homages are beautifully performed but bereft of new ideasIt is 10 years since Bruno Mars last released a solo album. An eternity in pop music, and yet you’d struggle to describe the follow-up to the umpteen-platinum 24K Magic as eagerly awaited: not for reasons of snark, but simply because the world has hardly been starved of Bruno Mars in the intervening decade.With Anderson .Paak, he co-pilot
  
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• Having romped into third place in Gorton and Denton, Labour is celebrating its success with a word salad | Marina Hyde

  27-02-2026 16:43 via theguardian.com
  Got battered at the polls? No problem. Just act like voters want more of what you’re selling – not considerably lessAs David Lammy put it on Thursday in a dispatch from Gorton and Denton: “Only Labour can stop Reform.” And listen, stopping them by taking third place and haemorrhaging half your support from a general election that took place 19 months ago in an area where you haven’t lost an election for almost 100 years is definitely an intriguing way to do it.Only
  
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• Tell us what Pokémon means to you

  27-02-2026 16:37 via theguardian.com
  As Pokémon turns 30, we would like to hear what the franchise means to youIt is 30 years since the game Pocket Monsters was released for the Nintendo Game Boy in Japan. Many more video games, trading cards, toys, an animated series and films followed as the franchise became a worldwide hit. With this in mind, we would like to hear what Pokémon means to you after three decades.If you’re having trouble using the form click here. Read terms of service here and privacy policy her
  
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• The best eye creams in the UK to banish bags, puffiness and fine lines – tested

  27-02-2026 16:11 via theguardian.com
  Smooth, brighten and rejuvenate your undereyes with these hard-working buys for every budget• The best mascaras for longer, fuller and fluttery lashes‘The eyes are the window to the soul,” as the saying goes. Yet as well as communicating what we’re thinking and feeling, they can also reveal clues about our age, lifestyle and health – presented as some of the most common eye concerns, including puffiness, dark circles, fine lines and wrinkles.The good news is that tod
  
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• Top Gs Like Me review – dark comedy sees Andrew Tate-style influencer tackling wrestlers, health gurus and sexual assault

  27-02-2026 16:05 via theguardian.com
  Royal & Derngate, Northampton
  Emerging playwright Samson Hawkins takes on toxic influencers in an exuberantly directed drama with echoes of TV’s AdolescenceThe audience enters through a graffitied tunnel at one corner of the foyer. Inside, the auditorium is a life-size skate-park. It is a feat of set design by Rebecca Brower and tremendously atmospheric. The play is a blast of freshness, too. Written by local emerging talent Samson Hawkins, it is a dark comedy about toxic masculinity a
  
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• ‘Watching my six year old deadlift 35kg was pretty cool’: meet the children who work out

  27-02-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  A growing number of parents are letting their young children train with weights. But is it a good – or safe – idea? We ask the experts to weigh inMost parents remember the first time their baby smiled or when they took their first steps. Eve Stevenson recalls different milestones. “Watching my daughter, Madison, deadlift 35kg at the age of six was pretty cool,” she says, grinning with pride from her living room in south-west London.As a personal trainer (PT) and former Br
  
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• Hiding in plain sight: everyone from Meghan to the Beckhams wants a funnel neck

  27-02-2026 16:00 via theguardian.com
  Popped collar worn by Duchess of Sussex and Rama Duwaji is rising in popularity, with searches at John Lewis up 1,000%Shoppers are avidly searching for jackets that cover half your face – so much that searches are up 1,000% year on year at John Lewis.The funnel-neck jacket is boxy, generously cut and comes with a permanently popped collar, between 9cm and 14cm high running from clavicle to nose; high enough to cover your mouth, low enough to see out – just. Continue reading...
  
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• Living with hyperphantasia: ‘I remember the clothes people wore the day we met, the things they said word-for-word’

  27-02-2026 15:00 via theguardian.com
  It’s hard to know what people can see in their own mind’s eye. But for Maddie Thomas there was no doubt: she had especially vivid mental imageryGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailI close my eyes and picture a boat making its way towards the mainland. Lit only by moonlight, a silhouette walks towards a post box and mails three letters, one by one. Then, the familiar tune of ABBA’s Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) starts to play, and the musical begins.Sometime
  
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• New Green MP says 'we can win anywhere' as Starmer vows to 'keep fighting' after by-election loss - BBC

  27-02-2026 14:49 via news.google.com
  New Green MP says 'we can win anywhere' as Starmer vows to 'keep fighting' after by-election loss  BBCKeir Starmer vows to fight on despite Gorton and Denton by-election defeat to Greens  BBC‘We defeated the parties of billionaire donors’: Hannah Spencer’s victory speech  The GuardianFrom plumber to Parliament, the Green Party's new MP  BBCWe are in a new era of multi-party politics.  Sky News
  
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• A Thing of Beauty review – Imogen Stubbs electrifies as grilled Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl

  27-02-2026 14:38 via theguardian.com
  Tabard theatre, London
  The actor shines as Hitler’s favourite film director, who flirts and finagles her way through a fictional interview with an alcoholic, philandering journalist hiding his own shameSince Peter Morgan’s Frost/Nixon 20 years ago, pieces about celebrated TV interviews have trended – James Graham’s Best Of Enemies, Doug Wright’s Goodnight, Oscar and two TV dramas about Emily Maitlis and the sweat-less then Prince Andrew. A play about Michael Parkins
  
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• Lynx could return to Scotland – but can rewilders win over wary Highlanders?

  27-02-2026 14:32 via theguardian.com
  With most Scots supportive of reintroducing the wild cat, charities are focusing on those whose jobs could be affectedCould lynx, the elusive wild cat driven to extinction in Britain more than 1,000 years ago, become the new Loch Ness monster? “Whether Nessie’s there or not, she draws tourists,” said Margaret Luckwell, a resident of Moray, Scotland. “It would be the same with lynx. I’d love to see a lynx in the wild.”Luckwell’s view is a majority one amo
  
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• A Spider-Man Universe without Spider-Man is completely pointless. Why won’t Sony sling him in?

  27-02-2026 14:03 via theguardian.com
  Six movies in, the series about characters linked to the web-slinger is looking ever ropier. More are on the way – but with no sign of the obvious way refresh the franchiseThe old adage goes that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. The news this week that Sony is planning to reboot its once much-vaunted, now completely risible “Spider-Man Universe”, shows there must be a few Hollywood executives who still belie
  
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• Cocktail of the week: Nora’s baklava old fashioned - recipe | The good mixer

  27-02-2026 14:01 via theguardian.com
  Honey and cinnamon bring a warming, Istanbul-inspired spin to a classicThe scent of honey and warm pastry that spills out of the late-night baklava shops on Taksim Square in Istanbul is the inspiration for this twist on the classic old fashioned. The honey, cinnamon and walnut slip in perfectly without overpowering proceedings.Andrea Ena, bar manager, Nora, London E22 Continue reading...
  
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• ‘I’m fully prepared for our dystopian future!’ Holliday Grainger on AI, firearms training and The Capture

  27-02-2026 14:00 via theguardian.com
  As the actor’s hi-tech conspiracy thriller returns for a third series, she spills the beans on her worst stunt injury – and why the police are now ‘dressing like the cops on the telly’You’ll never wheel your suitcase through an airport in the same way again. Hit techno-conspiracy drama The Capture makes its long-awaited comeback with a chilling, thrilling opening sequence at Heathrow Terminal 5. When a hostile Russian asset lands in the UK, he hacks CCTV camera
  
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• Champions League last 16 draw: Man City draw Real Madrid as Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs and Newcastle learn fate - Sky Sports

  27-02-2026 13:47 via news.google.com
  Champions League last 16 draw: Man City draw Real Madrid as Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Spurs and Newcastle learn fate  Sky SportsRound of 16 draw  UEFA.comArsenal 'clear favourites' to win Champions League after favourable draw  London Evening StandardBayer Leverkusen drawn in Champions League last 16  Arsenal.comChelsea to face holders PSG in Champions League's last 16  BBC
  
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• North Korea’s ‘most beloved’ child: what the key congress revealed about Kim Jong-un’s succession plans - The Guardian

  27-02-2026 13:02 via news.google.com
  North Korea’s ‘most beloved’ child: what the key congress revealed about Kim Jong-un’s succession plans  The GuardianHow Kim Jong-un groomed his daughter to be his successor  The TelegraphNorth Korea leader Kim's daughter appears at military parade, state media footage shows  ReutersExclusive: Kim Jong-un’s Daughter: Name Change, Missile Director Role  조선일보Kim Jong Un Hands Keys To Atomic Weapons To
  
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• Switching energy deal can save £200 as price cap falls, say experts - The Guardian

  27-02-2026 12:51 via news.google.com
  Switching energy deal can save £200 as price cap falls, say experts  The GuardianFaisal Islam: Is Reeves right in saying we're turning a corner?  BBCYour energy bill from April: what’s changing  GOV.UKEnergy price cap to fall in April but threat of war hangs over outlook  Sky NewsBritish energy bills to fall as price cap cut by 7%  Financial Times
  
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• Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra?

  27-02-2026 12:00 via theguardian.com
  The Egyptian queen has fascinated me from childhood, but following the archives led only to ancient gossip and Roman propaganda. Fiction was the way to liberate her from misogynist mythWitch, whore, villain – there are few women who have been as vilified through history as Cleopatra VII. The disdain of ancient sources that sought to dismiss her as exotic and seductive has corrupted her legacy. But I take pleasure in knowing that her name has permeated through time with far more recognition
  
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• My parents had a favourite child. It wasn’t me - The Telegraph

  27-02-2026 12:00 via news.google.com
  My parents had a favourite child. It wasn’t me  The Telegraph
  
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• Newcastle news: Eddie Howe urges Anthony Gordon to stay 'fully focused' amid Arsenal talk - BBC

  27-02-2026 11:42 via news.google.com
  Newcastle news: Eddie Howe urges Anthony Gordon to stay 'fully focused' amid Arsenal talk  BBCAnthony Gordon: Arsenal target £75m summer move for Newcastle forward - Paper talk and football transfer gossip  Sky SportsAnthony Gordon told to put Arsenal transfer rumour 'out of your brain'  ESPNArsenal lead Liverpool and Man Utd in Anthony Gordon transfer chase as they target £75million deal for Newcastle star  The SunTransfer Notebook: Newcastle
  
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• ‘It’s good music, not a guilty pleasure’: how Bruno Mars embraced cheese to become pop’s most popular star

  27-02-2026 11:40 via theguardian.com
  He gets more streams than Taylor Swift or Bad Bunny, thanks to a shamelessly corny and cannily timeless style. Close collaborators and industry experts explain his secretSixteen years since his sugary debut Just the Way You Are became a megahit, Bruno Mars is the most-streamed musician in the world. Last year, the Hawaiian-born 40-year-old became the first (and still only) artist to reach 150m monthly listeners on Spotify, and his staying power shows little sign of waning: Mars now has more list
  
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• Arne Slot press conference: Salah form, Alisson importance, West Ham and Ngumoha - Liverpool FC

  27-02-2026 11:37 via news.google.com
  Arne Slot press conference: Salah form, Alisson importance, West Ham and Ngumoha  Liverpool FCArne Slot insists he is not concerned by Mohamed Salah’s Liverpool form  The IndependentLiverpool's Arne Slot backs Mohamed Salah to end drought: 'He always scores in the end'  ESPNMohamad Salah can adapt to new Liverpool role as future star waits in the wings  Liverpool EchoMohamed Salah warned he risks damaging Liverpool legacy with alarming drop off 
  
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• Soham murderer Ian Huntley in serious condition after makeshift weapon attack - BBC

  27-02-2026 11:20 via news.google.com
  Soham murderer Ian Huntley in serious condition after makeshift weapon attack  BBCView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Speed Dates is no feeble full-motion video game – it’s a bold art film | Dominik Diamond

  27-02-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  With original dialogue in Turkish, this shuffling of potential partners in a sequence of meaningless encounters ranks with the finest auteur moviesI spent Valentine’s Day not with my wife but with 18 Turkish women. No, wait, I can explain. It’s a new game called Speed Dates – Winter Edition, which I only chanced upon when I searched “Winter Games” on Xbox Live hoping for some Olympics fare. And boy, did I find it!The game is in Turkish, with English subtitles. It al
  
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• Ben Markovits: ‘I used to think any book concerned with people falling in love can’t be very good’

  27-02-2026 11:00 via theguardian.com
  The British-American author on arguing about Jane Austen, the joys of Jerome K Jerome, and revising his opinion of Philip RothMy earliest reading memoryI used to read Donald Sobol’s Encyclopedia Brown stories with my mother. It’s a classic American kids’ series about a boy detective and his brilliant sidekick, Sally, who protects him as they tackle their arch enemy, Bugs Meany, a kind of high school bully version of Professor Moriarty. We’d sit in the kitchen to
  
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• Ghosts feature film begins filming next month - BBC

  27-02-2026 10:45 via news.google.com
  Ghosts feature film begins filming next month  BBCGhosts TV sitcom brought back to life as a feature film  BBCBBC sitcom Ghosts to return to after three years for feature film as Rivals star joins cast  The IndependentGhosts: The Possession Of Button House Movie Is Happening — Filming Starts Next Month  empireonline.comGhosts star hints at show comeback in cryptic post as fans cry ‘something is happening’  The Sun
  
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• Gregg Wallace drops personal data claim against BBC - BBC

  27-02-2026 09:50 via news.google.com
  Gregg Wallace drops personal data claim against BBC  BBCEx-MasterChef host Gregg Wallace drops legal claim against BBC  Sky NewsGregg Wallace drops damages claim against the BBC over ‘distress and harassment’  The IndependentGregg Wallace discontinues High Court claim against BBC, corporation says  Eastern Daily PressGregg Wallace drops claim against BBC  The Telegraph
  
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• Tomeka Reid: Dance! Skip! Hop! review – an early contender for jazz album of the year

  27-02-2026 09:30 via theguardian.com
  (Out of Your Head)
  The cellist reunites with guitarist Mary Halvorson, bassist Jason Roebke and drummer Tomas Fujiwara for five stunning tracks that are boundary-pushing yet populistUS cellist and composer Tomeka Reid and her frequent guitar soulmate Mary Halvorson have collected so many compliments for their jazzily genre-loose innovations over the past decade and a half, that they don’t need to waste a moment proving anything to anybody. These two fearless musicians have played alongside
  
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• BBC Radio 2 in the Park 2026 to take place in City Park, Stirling, Scotland - BBC

  27-02-2026 09:19 via news.google.com
  BBC Radio 2 in the Park 2026 to take place in City Park, Stirling, Scotland  BBCMajor three-day music festival announced for Scots city this summer  The Scottish SunRadio 2 in the Park heading to Stirling this summer  Belfast TelegraphRadio 2 in the Park heads to Stirling in Scotland for 2026  RadioTodayBBC Radio 2 in the Park music festival coming to Scotland in first since 2018  Stirling News
  
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• FTSE 100 Live: Index eyes 11,000, buoyed by Rightmove, mining stocks - Proactive Investors

  27-02-2026 08:15 via news.google.com
  FTSE 100 Live: Index eyes 11,000, buoyed by Rightmove, mining stocks  Proactive InvestorsFTSE 100 Live: Stocks Notch Records Boosted by Billions in Share Buybacks  BloombergHSBC Shares Surge, Lifts FTSE 100 Higher as Results Impress  Yahoo Finance UKFTSE 100 Live 27 February: Index nears 11,000, British Airways owner posts record profit  London Evening StandardUK's FTSE 100 finishes at record high on Rolls-Royce, LSEG boost  Reuters
  
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• Fashion’s greatest challenges ‘inequality and AI’, say Prada designers

  27-02-2026 08:00 via theguardian.com
  Speaking at Milan fashion week, Miuccia Prada and Raf Simons presented a more concentrated, but relatable, showMiuccia Prada and Raf Simons, the co-designers of Prada, said backstage at Milan fashion week that fashion’s greatest challenges were inequality and artificial intelligence.An interesting perspective, since Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire owner of Meta, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, sat next to Lorenzo Bertelli, Prada’s husband, in the front row. Continue reading...
  
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