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• Diane Abbott: ‘The abuse and the attacks have never made me falter’

  27-01-2018 15:00
  The Labour MP, 64, talks about running the country as a civil servant, surviving racism at grammar school and staying away from TwitterI’ve always wanted a place at the table. My earliest memory is being put in my high chair while my parents were eating. I was there thinking: “Why am I not sitting with them?”I don’t know when I first experienced racism. At primary school I was famous for my essays, and I’d read to the point of obsession. In my first week at grammar
  
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• UK tax returns: here’s how to tackle yours now

  27-01-2018 13:28
  Millions of people have not filled in their HMRC forms. Here’s a helping handAs Winston Churchill famously put it, “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”Churchill was actually speaking about the threat posed by the rearmament of Germany, but he could just as easily have been talking about the lengths people go to put off doing their self-assess
  
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• Keys to the backwaters: a coastal Florida road trip

  27-01-2018 11:00
  Away from the overcooked theme parks, there’s a calmer side to the Sunshine State, in tune with the ocean and vast wetlands. Florida author Tim Dorsey takes us on a tour of remote outposts where small town life still flourishes
  To say that Florida has a mixed reputation is like saying my president occasionally utters unusual sentences. We have packs of tourists wandering the mega-theme parks of greater Orlando like flocks of flightless birds; locust swarms of spring breakers funnelling bee
  
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• The secret to surviving an affair (when it’s your fault)

  27-01-2018 10:30
  Accept you can never lie again, don’t be bullied and never blame your partner for your affairAccept you can never lie again, no matter how white the fib. You’ve forfeited all rights to this, forever, and the only circumstances where it’s acceptable to hide the truth now would be if planning a wonderful treat for your deceived partner. Even then, aim for omission rather than actual lying.Make sure there are no further bombshells likely to drop. Keeping emotional secrets from a p
  
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• Meera Sodha’s swede laksa noodle soup recpe | The New Vegan

  27-01-2018 10:30
  Buttery, earthy swedes and sweet caramelised shallots add smoky magic to this aromatic south-east-Asian noodle soupA wise man (OK, Jay Rayner) once said of laksa’s medicinal properties that “it should be available on the NHS by prescription”, and I agree. With its searing chilli, ginger and garlic enveloped by a blanket of noodles and coconut soup, I think laksa is a wonderful antidote to colds and cold weather. I urge any swede-dodgers to think twice about today’s recipe
  
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• Pork belly banh mi, scambled tofu, sweet potato mash | Yotam Ottolenghi’s coriander recipes

  27-01-2018 10:00
  Coriander teases out the flavours of a rich sweet potato mash, a punchy bánh mì and a zingy tofu lime salad How do you switch from loathing something to loving it so much that it’s almost an addiction? I used to have a physical aversion to coriander, and would make my mother swear she hadn’t added any to the soup before I’d even consider eating it. A decade later, I couldn’t get enough of her garlic and coriander mayonnaise, which became a staple at home, bo
  
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• Where to move for good primary schools

  27-01-2018 09:00
  Do you need to start spouting Corinthians or become a Tory to get your tot in?There’s nothing like picking a primary school for your child to reveal the real you. Friends who could barely recite the Lord’s prayer spout Corinthians to get into the local C of E. Closet Tories emerge from beneath socialist hairshirts. Some even move in with their mother-in-law, just to get their tot’s tootsies into a catchment area.But where to look? Ofsted reports? Too obsessed with maths and lit
  
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• The best do-it-all concealer wands | Sali Hughes

  27-01-2018 09:00
  Which do-it-all concealer would I buy if I lost my makeup bag and had no time to faff?On a recent photoshoot, I observed the makeup artist use no fewer than four different concealers to perfect the model’s skin without masking its natural glow. A pink corrector to neutralise grey circles, then a skin-toned formula patted over the top; a thick paste to dot on to blemishes and around the nose, with a creamier version spread like honey over patches of discolouration.It looked perfect, of cour
  
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• Joe Wicks: 'My weakness is Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food so I don't have it in the house'

  27-01-2018 09:00
  The Body Coach, 32, on skateboarding to work, taking friends to Las Vegas and what he won’t have in his houseI don’t have a TV or phone near me in the bedroom. I listen to Mellow Magic radio to get chilled out, and aim for eight hours. If you struggle with sleep, you’ll struggle with exercise and diet. I used to be terrible at getting up, but I’ve trained myself to be a morning person. I’m up at 7am and work out for 20 minutes before eating. Continue reading...
  
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• Which Nobel prize-winning author was once a grouse beater at Balmoral? The Weekend quiz

  27-01-2018 08:00
  From saints’ days to Card Sharks, test your knowledge with the Weekend quiz1 Which Nobel prize-winning author was once a grouse beater at Balmoral?
  2 EUR is a fascist suburb in which city?
  3 Who famously rescued survivors from the shipwrecked Forfarshire?
  4 Which football ground straddles the Anglo-Welsh border?
  5 Notorious in imperial Russia, what was the knout?
  6 How were saints’ days traditionally marked on calendars?
  7 Which country’s name was proposed by Rahmat Ali in 1933
  
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• Fit in my 40s: will trail running make me faster?

  27-01-2018 08:00
  As soon as you are on grass, you are also on mud, twigs, stones and hillocksI never thought I would need to know so much about physics to become a runner. But it turns out that sports science is a real thing, not just a degree people take when they don’t want to leave education but only really like their friends and aerobics.Nick Anderson is a Team GB and England athletics coach. He has agreed to show me how to trail run, ie swap the pavement for the park. “Top runners would do both,
  
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• 20 of the best new UK hotels and hostels for 2018

  27-01-2018 08:00
  From rustic hostels to chic city-centre boltholes, we pick the best newly opened hotels and hostels around the UK, plus several that are set to start welcoming guests this yearDoubles from £150 B&B
  Opens April
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• Purple dinosaurs, brown meteors

  27-01-2018 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Back when my kids were barely larger than garden gnomes, our house was declared a Barney-free zone.It’s not that we banned our kids from sitting in front of the TV ......
  
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• Finding your friends their prince (or princess)

  27-01-2018 07:39 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Friends can be the best dating algorithm around, especially when you’re high-profile and hopping on Tinder might be too public a search.Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, who were set up ...
  
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• Prize crossword No 27,417

  27-01-2018 01:00
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