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Judges say there should be adegree of tolerance to disruptiona caused by right to protest
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AA says traffic was down at 22 per cent of pre-pandemic levels
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aHypocrite Hancock should goa: Labour and Lib Dems call on Boris Johnson to sack health secretary
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Minister has been hit with barrage of claims from Dominic Cummings and called apoor mana by the Queen
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Health secretary gave adviser role at his department a but there was no public record of appointment
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Labour has called for Matt Hancock to be sacked after he was photographed in a clinch with a female adviser at the Department of Health in breach of Covid safety guidelines.
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Embrace of university friend Gina Coladangelo - captured on camera - follows controversy over her appointment to directoras role
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According to Mr Hancock, asocial distancing rules are very important and people should follow thema
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aFor me to speak about what Iave learnt to be such a controversial issue will inevitably bring my bandmates more trouble,a musician says
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The French electronic innovator brought rockers to the rave and humour to dance music, winning Grammys along the way, but heas temporarily hung up his leather jacket for a maximal, baroque solo album that has little regard for trends. Itas about time pop music was shaken up, he tells Sean Griffiths
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Hancock issues statement after photos emerge of him kissing adviser Gina Coladangelo
- Matt Hancock apologises after photos show him kissing aide
- UK travel rules could change at short notice, warns minister
- UK eases Covid travel rules for tourist spots despite cabinet rift
- Which countries have moved to the UKas green and red travel lists?
- Global coronavirus updates a live
The Labour party chair, Anneliese Dodds, has responded to Matt Hancockas statement and once again called for him to resign or be sacked.
aHe set the rules. He admits he broke them. He has to go,a she said in a tweet.
He set the rules. He admits he broke them. He has to go.
If he wonat resign, the PM should sack him. https://t.co/OaelBn0shV
My colleague Peter Walker has this context on Gina Coladangelo and her controversial appointment to position of aide last year:
In November last year, Labour complained about apparent cronyism after it emerged that Gina Coladangelo, the head of marketing at the Oliver Bonas retail chain and a university friend of Matt Hancock, was first made an unpaid adviser at the DHCS and then a non-executive director, a part-time role paid APS15,000 a year.
Related: Matt Hancock apologises after photos show him kissing aide
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Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food arolling power cutsa, experts warn
The country is facing a summer of food shortages likened to a series of arolling power cutsa because of a loss of 100,000 lorry drivers due to Covid and Brexit, industry chiefs have warned.
In a letter to Boris Johnson they have called for an urgent intervention to allow eastern European drivers back into the country on special visas, similar to those issued to farm pickers, warning that there is a acrisisa in the supply chain.
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As some travel restrictions are eased, Grant Shapps refuses to say he would book foreign holiday now
- UK eases Covid travel rules for tourist spots despite cabinet rift
- Coronavirus a latest updates
- See all our coronavirus coverage
The UK transport secretary has refused to say he would book a foreign holiday for himself and his family yet, even as travel restrictions are eased for several destinations.
Grant Shapps warned anyone looking to travel abroad that the rules could change at short notice after Malta, Madeira and the Balearic islands, among others, were added to the list of countries from which travellers could return without having to quarantine.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:10:11 GMT
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Pharmaceutical industry has ahidden web of policy influencea over dozens of all-party parliamentary groups
Drug companies are giving groups of MPs and peers that campaign on health issues hundreds of thousands of pounds a year in ahiddena funding that could hand them aundue influencea, research has found.
The pharmaceutical industry has built up a ahidden web of policy influencea over dozens of all-party parliamentary groups (APPGs) at Westminster by making hundreds of anon-transparenta payments to them, as part of the industryas wider effort to lobby those in power, researchers claim.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:55:05 GMT
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Grassroots group encourages locals to mark first anniversary of Park Inn Hotel attack
Calls for an inquiry into a series of asylum seeker deaths are intensifying as Glaswegians prepare to mark the first anniversary of the tragic events at the Park Inn Hotel, where a Sudanese man stabbed six people before being shot dead by police.
Pinar Aksu from Refugees for Justice, a grassroots group that formed in response to the events of last June, is helping to organise an act of remembrance at George Square, Glasgow, on Saturday, encouraging locals to bring flowers and candles.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:29:14 GMT
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Supreme court ruling on disruption at ExCel Center in 2017 is hailed as an affirmation of right to protest
Four demonstrators who formed a blockade outside a London arms fair have had their convictions quashed by the supreme court, in what has been hailed as an affirmation of the right to protest.
Nora Ziegler, Henrietta Cullinan, Joanna Frew and Chris Cole were charged with highway obstruction after using alock-ona devices to block an approach road to the ExCel Centre in Docklands, east London, when it hosted the Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair in 2017.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 11:51:11 GMT
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- Biden releases federal funds after 12-storey building collapsed
- Rescue crews hampered overnight by heavy rain and lightning
The death toll in a Miami building collapse rose to four on Friday morning a day after a 12-storey condominium slumped into rubble on the south Florida Atlantic coast.
Related: aThereas just too much at riska: Arizona closes parks to prevent extreme wildfires
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 05:00:17 GMT
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Diagnostic tool being piloted by NHS England shows aimpressive resultsa in spotting tumours in early stages
A simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease emerge in a person is accurate enough to be rolled out as a screening test, according to scientists.
The test, which is also being piloted by NHS England in the autumn, is aimed at people at higher risk of the disease including patients aged 50 or older.
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Agreement reached over recognition of UK licences issued before 2021 and acertificate of exchangea system
French and UK authorities have reached agreement on the recognition of British driving licences in France, removing a major source of post-Brexit concern for thousands of UK nationals who feared being left without a valid licence.
Paris announced late last year that although short-term visitors could continue to use British licences after the Brexit transition period, residents would need to apply to exchange theirs for a French one before 31 December 2021, or take a French test.
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The most commercialised show on British television has signed up nine official partners
Love Island has netted ITV more than APS12m in revenues even before the first episode of the new series of the hit reality show airs on Monday, as sponsors and advertisers rush to attach themselves to the most commercialised show on British television.
With uncertainty over Covid restrictions scuppering holidays abroad for a second successive year, the arrival of the feelgood summer juggernaut could not be more perfectly timed to tap into a viewer and advertising boom.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:08:48 GMT
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Prevalence in England rises from 1 in 520 to 1 in 440 in a week; surge in infections is blow to Israel after successful vaccine rollout
- Balearic officials urge Madrid to tighten Covid controls on UK tourists
- UK Covid travel rules could change at short notice, warns minister
- aWe were never a prioritya: Zimbabwe hotspots face strict lockdown
- Central and eastern Sydney plunged into lockdown after 22 cases
- Almost 600m NHS home Covid tests unaccounted for, auditors reveal
- UK coronavirus updates a live
The Welsh first minister, Mark Drakeford, has said the Delta variant is aspreading freely in communities right across Walesa.
The number of confirmed cases has more than doubled from nearly 500 to around 1,100 in the last week, he said during a press conference in Cardiff, according to PA Media.
Around 1 in 220 people in Scotland are estimated to have had coronavirus last week, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the highest level since February.
The figures for the week to 19 June, reported by PA Media, are a significant rise from the previous week when 1 in 600 were estimated to have Covid-19.
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Regional government welcomes green list status but calls for Spain to set astrict and safea entry rules
Authorities in the Balearic islands a the only Spanish region to be added to the UKas green list for quarantine-free travel a are calling on the central government to tighten controls for holidaymakers arriving from the UK.
Last month Spain began allowing in British travellers without the need to provide a negative Covid test. The move, aimed at wooing back some of the more than 18 million British tourists who visited prior to the pandemic, contrasts with the growing push for tighter restrictions on UK tourists in the EU in light of the rapid spread of the Delta variant.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 07:45:16 GMT
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- Andy Anson: aPeople have right to choose but itas not helpfula
- BOA had said it was on track to ensure all were vaccinated
The British Olympic Association is still trying to convince some athletes to get vaccinated against Covid-19 before the Tokyo Olympics next month, the BOA chief executive, Andy Anson, said.
Related: Mo Farah in agood shapea for last-ditch shot at Olympic qualification
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Televised congressional investigation looks at political decisions that lead to crisis that has killed half a million
A congressional inquiry into Brazilas disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic has found mounting evidence that Jair Bolsonaroas administration committed acrimes against lifea, according to the senior politician leading the investigation.
Launched in April to scrutinize the governmentas handling of a crisis that has killed half a million citizens, the nationally televised investigation is digging into the political decisions that led up to one of the cruelest moments in the countryas history.
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More children playing football than rugby, and streets will be empty as national team take on Denmark
One lad was wearing an FC Barcelona shirt and another a Swansea City top. But the vast majority of the young footballers training on the pristine 3G pitch as a salty breeze whipped in from Carmarthen Bay were in the vivid red of their local semi-pro club, Llanelli Town AFC, or that of the Welsh national shirt.
Eight-year-old Noah paused for a chat and named his favourite players as the Welsh teamas poster boys, Gareth Bale and Aaron Ramsey. aTheyare both brilliant,a he said. aItas great to watch them in the Euros.a
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Young TikTok users are sharing their passion for books with millions a bringing titles they love to life online and reshaping the publishing world, all in under a minute
In August 2020, Kate Wilson, a 16-year-old from Shrewsbury, posted on the social media video platform TikTok a series of quotes from books she had read, athat say I love you, without actually saying I love youa. Set to a melancholy soundtrack, the short video plays out as Wilson, an A-level student, holds up copies of the books with the quotes superimposed over them. aYou have been the last dream of my soul,a from A Tale of Two Cities. aWhatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same,a from Wuthering Heights. aEvery atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own,a from Jane Eyre. It has been viewed more than 1.2m times.
Wilsonas TikTok handle, @kateslibrary, is among the increasingly popular accounts posting on #BookTok, a corner of TikTok devoted to reading, which has clocked up 9.6bn views and counting, and has been described as the last wholesome place on the internet. Here, users a predominantly young women a post short videos inspired by the books they love. Those that do best are fun, snappy takes on literature and the experience of reading. aBooks where the main character was sent to kill someone but they end up falling in love,a from @kateslibrary. aThings that bookworms do,a from @abbysbooks. aWhen you were 12 and your parents caught you crying over a book,a from @emilymiahreads.
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She quit social media, embraced the feral and grieved for her beloved dog. Now rejuvenated, Lorde is back with a nature-inspired new album a though she tells our writer thereas a sinister side to its sunniness
Lorde, in case it wasnat obvious, has made her name on glorification. Ella Yelich-OaConnor was an aristocracy-obsessed 16-year-old when her imperiously cool debut album, 2013as Pure Heroine, elevated suburban New Zealand adolescence to pop echelons in which those kids had never previously seen themselves. In 2017, Melodrama cast post-breakup hedonism in glittering synths, dramatising one fabulous night on the cusp of adulthood as if it were Greek tragedy.
Her forthcoming third album, Solar Power, has humbler origins, especially for a songwriter who likes describing inspiration as adivinea. The loose, sunny instrumentation a inspired as much by Crosby, Stills & Nash as Nelly Furtado a mirrors a shift within the 24-year-old. aWhen I got my dog, all of a sudden youare literally picking up shit, cleaning up vomit and not caring,a she says cheerfully, video-calling from the start of a jet-lag-addled workday in Los Angeles.
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The National Trust is encouraging Abergwesyn commoners to swap sheep for cattle, protecting environmentally crucial peat
Even in midsummer, the hills above the market town of Rhayader in mid Wales should be so soggy that a walk results in unpleasantly damp hiking socks. aIt ought to feel really squelchy here,a said the National Trustas Alan Kearsley-Evans. aTen or 20 years ago youad have been ankle deep. Now your feet stay dry.a
Kearsley-Evans is general manager for a sprawling patch that includes the well known peaks of the Brecon Beacons and beaches of the Gower peninsula, but it is his work trying to help restore the much less familiar peat uplands of Abergwesyn common that he believes may be the most important.
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With festivals looking thin on the ground, why not visit the places that have inspired some of our best songs and greatest bands, including Pulp, the Undertones and a| Cliff Richard
Your desire to be among dramatic Scottish scenery where mist may or may not roll in from the sea will depend on at least some appreciation for Paul McCartney and Wingsa 1977 hit Mull of Kintyre. Naff as its faux-Scots stylings may be, its emotion is pure, romanticising Maccaas back-to-basics rural bolthole, High Park farm a his life-saving sanctuary from Beatlemania.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 09:58:29 GMT
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Iam as wearied by the pandemic as the next person, but anti-maskers donat know what theyare missing
Now that he has left the tender embrace of the select committee, Dominic Cummings has taken to a is the word explaining? a himself to paying subscribers via Substack. In the unlikely event that you are not prepared to part with cash to hear what the hobgoblin of chaos is currently divulging, here is the gist:
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Whether youare off to the Balearics or Bournemouth, hereas how to keep your luggage as light as possible a while still taking everything youall need
I always travel with a roll of bright orange duct tape. If your suitcase lock breaks, duct tape will hold it together. Suitcase cracked? Duct tape to the rescue. Need to label an item as your property? Use duct tape and a Sharpie pen. Small injuries? Secure with duct tape until you can get first aid. Broken sandals? Crank up the style with your luminous duct tape. Believe me, itas better than anything youall find in duty free.
Jimmy Hamilton, retired, Ontario
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The Danish directoras new Oscar-winning film Another Round is about a group of teachers who dedicate themselves to getting drunk. He talks about losing control, patching up his friendship with Lars von Trier and the death of his daughter
Thomas Vinterberg looks back on the past six months with disbelief. aI made a film about four white, middle-aged, semi-fat men teaching their students to drink. I didnat think it would survive.a Instead, Another Round swept the award ceremonies (best foreign language film at the Oscars and Baftas; best film at the European film awards and London film festival), and proved a spectacular box office success in his native Denmark when it opened between Covid restrictions. Vinterberg is a boyish 52-year-old, with an open smile and chestnut hair that has a touch of gel. A priestas cassock hangs from the bookcase behind his chair. It is easy to overlook the cassock but, like Chekhovas gun, it fires in the final act.
Vinterberg admits his film evolved in the making. aThe initial idea was to be provocative. We wanted to celebrate alcohol and drinking. But that idea hit reality. It is a film about the generation divide. I hope it is a film about how we care for one another.a Another Round opens with a title card quoting the Danish philosopher SA,ren Kierkegaard: aWhat is youth? A dream. What is love? The dreamas content.a This thought comes alive as golden youths are seen racing around a lake on an idyllic summeras day, carrying crates of beer that they must finish as a team. It is a summer bacchanal, drawn from real life. aBoth of my oldest daughters took part in the Lake Run,a Vinterberg says. aWhen I described it to American friends, they were shocked. They listened to the rules: the winners are the first to finish the crate. They wanted to know, was I OK with this? How could I tell them, actually, I was kind of proud?a
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 12:00:25 GMT
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The channel has brought groundbreaking diversity to our screens. Itas doubtful a profits-driven owner would do the same
So, yet again the government is considering the privatisation of Channel 4, and this time it sounds like the threat is serious. What would British public service broadcasting gain and lose if this asset was sold off?
Channel 4 was a brilliant creation of the Thatcher government. It is owned by the state but costs the taxpayer nothing, earning its revenues through advertising and some sponsorship. While it is run commercially, it makes no profit, channelling its revenues back into programmes.
When it came into being, nearly 40 years ago, broadcasters made their own programmes. Channel 4 was different. Even Channel 4 News is not actually made by Channel 4; rather, it is commissioned by the channel. As a result, the new station brought into being a raft of independent television companies that have formed a massively successful industry worth billions a year. All the hit programmes the channel has made are owned by the independent TV companies that make them. These companies sell those brands around the world, bringing significant revenue to the UK but not to Channel 4 itself. In a world of TV titans, Channel 4 is a minnow that does not own the rights to its own shows. So, on the face of it, selling it off to a big company that can invest makes some sense.
But while other broadcasters do now commission significant proportions of their programmes from independent companies, Channel 4 remains the only broadcaster that commissions all its programmes, nurturing many smaller regional companies and ones owned by people from diverse backgrounds. Itas difficult to see why any outfit that bought the channel would want to do the same. The government could lay down all sorts of rules to protect the channelas output and the independent sector, but over time I fear a major company would pressurise the government to reduce those undertakings.
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 06:00:18 GMT
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The divisive style of Britainas most dominant incompetent may lose its appeal as his voters feel their incomes shrinking
Until last weekas Chesham and Amersham byelection, politics seemed incredibly easy for Boris Johnsonas Conservatives. However disastrously they governed, the political outcomes a in opinion polls, elections, and control of the national conversation a were consistently favourable. Johnson has arguably been Britainas most dominant incompetent ever.
In our often-sour old democracy, politics is supposed to be difficult, especially for parties in their second decade in office, when disillusionment has usually set in. But the government has seemingly defied this convention, as it has so many others.
One of the keys to its unlikely ascendancy has been a willingness to pick fights. Liberals, lefties, lawyers, remainers, antiracists, Scottish nationalists, the EU, Channel 4, the BBC, even the Oxford students who voted to take down a photo of the Queen a no potential enemy has been too large or too small, it seems, for the government to leave it in peace.
You could say there has been a frankness about this appetite for confrontation. In some ways politics is always about conflict, between interest groups and philosophies as well as parties. Before Johnson, prime ministers such as Tony Blair and David Cameron often sought to play these conflicts down a aWeare all in this together,a as Cameron liked to say a in order to appeal as widely as possible. Yet since 2015 the Conservatives have found that they can win elections with the strong support of only a few large sections of the population, principally older white voters and inhabitants of rural and smalltown England.
Out of this realisation the Johnson governmentas strategy of confrontation has emerged. Overseen by his trusted adviser Munira Mirza a a former member of the abrasive but surprisingly rightwing Revolutionary Communist party, who is now head of the Downing Street policy unit a this strategy claims that the best way to mobilise these groups of sometimes anxious and resentful voters is to tell them that their country and values are being undermined by subversive forces.
As a government source recently told the website Tortoise: aBoris thinks that he and Munira are in the same place on this as the vast majority of the public, and that every time there is another row about statues or Churchill or white privilege, another Labour seat becomes winnable.a If the Conservatives capture the west Yorkshire seat of Batley and Spen from Labour next week, as is widely expected, then the Tory culture warriors will feel further vindicated.
Their aggression seems to bewilder what remains of centrist Britain. From the Tory remainers who lost their seats in the 2019 election to Keir Starmer, with his ineffectual aconstructive oppositiona, our politics is strewn with reasonable people who havenat come to terms yet with its change of tone.
The media have been much happier. Confrontational ministers attract audiences, from Twitter to the Today programme. Meanwhile the rightwing press, which has been picking fights with liberals and lefties for decades, seems delighted to see the Conservatives so wholeheartedly joining in. In their coordination of attack lines, the relationship between the party and these newspapers feels as close as it has ever been.
This aggression also seems to suit the times. Ever since the 2008 financial crisis, much of our politics has been a search for scapegoats, for people to blame for the ending of the relative prosperity and stability of the 90s and 2000s. Attacking the liberal left is a good way of drawing attention away from the real causes of todayas deep environmental and economic crises: Conservative free-market capitalism and the consumer appetites of voters themselves.
And yet there is something a bit too neat and self-satisfied about this Tory strategy. There are no magic potions in politics: the effects of new tactics always wear off after a while. The unexpected loss of the Tory citadel of Chesham and Amersham to the Lib Dems may be a sign that aggression is starting to repel. Voters there preferred Sarah Green, a remainer who emphasised her record of ahelping individuals facing injusticea. After years of polarised, exhausting politics, it would not be a surprise if voters elsewhere also began to find less divisive figures appealing again. The relatively consensual politics of the 90s and 00s was itself partly a reaction against the red-toothed Conservatism of the Thatcher era, with its constant hunger for athe enemy withina.
At the G7 in Cornwall this month, there was another sign that Tory aggression may be reaching its useful limits. Johnsonas plans to use the gathering as an advertisement for aGlobal Britaina were partly ruined by his governmentas argument with the EU over Northern Ireland. Like all rows between Britain and the EU, this may play well with Tory voters. But to see it in only those terms is shortsighted and parochial. Not all politics is national; relations with other countries also matter. If Britain is seen as untrustworthy in trade negotiations, that will affect the economy and ultimately votersa incomes.
Blair sometimes made the mistake as premier of trying to reduce politics to the governmental, to efficient administration. Johnson is making a different but equally large error: trying to reduce politics to the electoral. And as he may discover if the post-Brexit trade deals he promised donat happen, elections can be influenced by external factors. Culture wars and government flag-waving may attract new voters, but they may melt away if a clumsily nationalistic foreign policy makes it harder for them to pay their bills.
By picking fights, the Conservatives also assume that their chosen enemies are weak and will remain so. Yet the balance of forces in a society isnat static. Todayas left-leaning millenials, so derided by the Tories, will become decisive voters in future elections, like generations of young people before them. Unless they drastically change their views, itas hard to see what Conservatism can offer them.
Finally, all the current, outwardly-directed Tory aggression feels like a premonition of a or a way of delaying a the battles likely to come within Conservatism itself: between its northern and southern voters, its free-spending ministers and fiscally cautious ones, its free-marketeers and economic interventionists, its reactionaries and social liberals. In Chesham and Amersham, some of these tensions burst into the open, and the Tory vote disintegrated.
Divisive politics, when itas successful, is about drawing lines: between your party and an electorally sufficient mass of supporters, on the one side, and your enemies on the other. Johnsonas government is doing that well for now. But if lines start being drawn within your own party, politics gets harder. When that happens a and the Toriesa acrimonious history since Thatcher suggests it soon will a Johnsonas days of easy dominance will feel like a distant world.
Andy Beckett is a Guardian columnist
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Some draw strength from excluding others, but that is wrong, and we have seen fine examples of togetherness at the Euros
A European Championship always reflects the way we in Europe shape our lives together. Four things in particular have stood out to me so far in this tournament. On 12 June the continent felt close to a Danish football player. Christian Eriksen had to be resuscitated on the pitch. His teammates, who immediately formed a circle around him, intuitively knew how to stand by him in this stressful situation. It was palpable how much his privacy was worth to them and they protected his dignity in a difficult hour. It was an enormously moving event.
Related: Rainbow stadiums: German football lights up for solidarity a in pictures
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Even before the pandemic nightlife was struggling, but then venues closed their doors for over year
Itas a stark fact: Britainas nightclubs have been closed for about 66 weeks and their owners are facing an ever-worsening crisis.
Since the pandemic hit, and social distancing measures have meant that night life has no longer been viable, MPs have rightly warned that this economic and cultural pillar risked extinction without government support, but they were not heeded.
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She sang of innocence and experience, but was muffled when she went off script. At her explosive court appearance this week, Britney has reclaimed her voice
The saying goes that pop stars are forever frozen in time at the age they became famous. Despite the lasting iconography of the schoolgirl outfit she wore in the video for her debut single, 1998as a| Baby One More Time, this has somehow never felt true of Britney Spears, whose first four albums painted a convincing picture of evolving girlhood.
She was naive and lovestruck on her 1999 debut, and gained power and self-awareness on 2000as Oops! a| I Did It Again. Released in 2001, Britney was the first album that Spears, then 19, co-wrote: it juxtaposed her sexuality (Iam a Slave 4 U) with her frustration at being treated like a child (Iam Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman). Two years later, In the Zone revelled in eroticism and experimentation, reflected in a more adventurous sound.
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The cityas historic waterfront is at risk of being overshadowed by banal flats and offices. National government must step in
Britain could next month become only the second country in the world to have a monument stripped of world heritage status by Unesco. That monument is Liverpoolas magnificent waterfront. And, as if to brush off this shame, Boris Johnson and his government intend to put another site in danger too, at Stonehenge. Does anyone care?
Stonehenge is merely the symbol of a minor but total collapse in British government. For some 50 years, local and central authorities have feuded over how to add two lanes to the A303 where it passes within sight of the stones. Hour-long traffic jams along the route are said to build up at weekends. Now the transport secretary, Grant Shapps, clearly drunk on money, wants to blow a staggering APS1.7bn on a two-mile tunnel near the site. This would deprive drivers of even a glimpse of the stones as they pass, all to sanitise a particular view from them for some paying visitors. Given the risk of damage to ancient sites and artefacts, I am not sure that would be of great solace to Unesco, and it is insane expenditure.
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- Buildup to Saturdayas first knockout stage matches
- Elis James: Wales dream of more fridge magnet moments
- Feel free to email John or tweet him here
Italyas pint-sized forward, their pocket battleship, their tyro, Lorenzo Insigne, has been speaking ahead of the Austria match tomorrow. Full credit offered to Roberto Mancini, who got them to the finals, instead of that nasty Gian Piero Ventura, who lost the World Cup 2018 play-off to Sweden.
Itas something that makes us proud, especially considering what they thought of us before the tournament started Itas the first time that Iave played in such an important event at this level, in such an important role. In the past other coaches have used formations that were less compatible with my style of play, although I have always made myself available. Now Mancini is using a system of play that is more suited to me and to other playersa characteristics.
Life under Julian Nagelsmann at Bayern Munich will start with a match against old enemy Borussia Dortmund.
The Bundesliga matchdays for 2021/22 are set a1i, #FCBayern #MiaSanMia #packmas pic.twitter.com/YKdiRiW969
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The England winger has scored the teamas only goals of Euro 2020 and is entitled to wonder why he is not appreciated more
The reluctance in certain quarters to admit that Raheem Sterling is one of Englandas most important players is a strange phenomenon. An odd idea has taken hold, centred around Sterling owing his place to unjustifiable favouritism, providing further evidence of Gareth Southgateas unimaginative streak, and there are times when it feels as though it will not take much for supporters to turn on the winger.
The anti-Sterling vibes are never far from growing in intensity. His disappointing form for Manchester City last season ensured there were plenty of calls for Southgate to drop him before Euro 2020 and there was a telling reaction from a section of the crowd when Sterling let a simple pass run out for a throw-in when England were level with Croatia during their opening game. The error drew an audible sigh of impatience, the kind that eventually spills over into open dissent, and it was exacerbated by the cheers that soon followed when Jack Grealish started warming up.
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- aIave had to leave my phone outside my room,a says striker
- Morata says his wife and children have been shouted at on street
Spainas Alvaro Morata has said he has received vicious abuse on social media during Euro 2020 and that his wife and children have been shouted at on the streets of Seville.
The striker has been the centre of attention since before the tournament began after being booed by Spain fans in a friendly with Portugal. He then missed big chances in the 0-0 draw with Sweden and 1-1 draw with Poland and had a penalty saved in Spainas 5-0 win against Slovakia on Wednesday.
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Some fans were unhappy at the way the goalkeeper left Milan but he has not conceded in 874 minutes for the national team
As Italy cruised to their 11th consecutive victory under Roberto Mancini, a rare note of disapproval was heard from the stands. The whistles in the 89th minute of Sundayas win over Wales at the Stadio Olimpico were not aimed at the manager or even his team, but instead at their 22-year-old goalkeeper.
Gianluigi Donnarumma was heading for the dugout, exiting the game to be replaced by Salvatore Sirigu. Mancini, who cites never playing in a World Cup among his greatest career regrets, wanted to make sure that his backup keeper got at least a few minutes on the pitch at what might be his last international tournament.
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- Defending womenas champion joins list of absentees
- Wild card Jack Draper faces No 1 seed Novak Djokovic
Simona Halep, the defending Wimbledon womenas champion, has withdrawn from the championships just before the draw because of a calf injury. The world No 3 joins Naomi Osaka, Rafael Nadal and Dominic Thiem in missing the tournament.
The 29-year-old Romanian, who defeated Serena Williams in the final two years ago, tore her left calf muscle in May and was also forced to miss the French Open.
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After surviving the pandemic, the all-female driving championship returns with eight races hosted at F1 events
When the champagne flowed for the drivers at the finale of the inaugural W Series season in 2019 the championship itself was, appropriately, positively fizzing at its own success.
That first season was revelatory. After six races concluded with a finale at Brands Hatch where Britainas Jamie Chadwick took the title, it had provoked huge interest and made a genuine difference to the competitors, proving the principles on which the all-female championship was founded were sound.
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No one heard his voice describing the world heavyweight title fight 100 years ago but radio enthusiast Andrew White changed the future of sport, radio and television
aCarpentier is out a| Jack Dempsey is still the heavyweight champion of the world.a
It was Saturday 2 July 1921, a boiling summer afternoon in a field on the outskirts of Jersey City, and a raucous crowd of more than 80,000 had just witnessed what had been billed as the fight of the century.
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CMA will decide whether consumer law was broken by not taking sufficient action to protect shoppers
Amazon and Google are to be investigated by the UK competition watchdog over concerns the tech companies have not done enough to tackle the widespread problem of fake reviews on their websites.
The Competition and Markets Authority, which began looking at the issue of fake reviews on major platforms two years ago, will now consider whether Amazon and Google have broken consumer law by not taking sufficient action to protect shoppers from fake reviews.
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Problems usually only seen in winter are surfacing after easing of social contact rules
A&E units are treating a sudden surge in young children suffering from infections usually only seen in winter after the rules on social contact were relaxed, doctors have revealed.
Anxious parents are bringing in preschool age children who have a high temperature and difficulty breathing, increasing demand on emergency departments that are already aoverwhelmeda.
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Motion submitted to ruling body says clergy should be addressed as vicar or bishop rather than Reverend
The Church of England is being urged to abolish the title of Reverend as part of efforts to tackle a culture of deference.
Instead of titles such as Reverend, Right Reverend, Very Reverend, Most Reverend or Venerable, clergy should be addressed using the names of their roles, such as vicar, rector, bishop or archbishop, says a motion submitted to the C of Eas ruling body next month.
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Move by Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, which wants to take over Morrisons, follows shareholder opposition
The private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is to increase its offer for UDG Healthcare to APS2.7bn after major shareholders in the Dublin-based company opposed the first bid.
CD&R, which is also seeking to take over the UK supermarket chain Morrisons, is aconsidering a new and final offera valuing the business at APS10.80 a share, London-listed UDG said in a statement to the stock market.
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From a leadership fiasco to the asausage warsa, the Democratic Unionist partyas stance on Brexit has forced it to contend with a new a perhaps even existential a set of problems. What will they mean for the regionas future?
When the Democratic Unionist party decided to support Brexit, many warned that the decision could have profound consequences for Northern Irelandas position within the UK. Five years on, new customs arrangements and an Irish Sea border mean trade flows with the Republic of Ireland are growing a even as imports from Great Britain are slowing. And some on the unionist side fear that bit by bit, the argument for a united Ireland is gaining ground.
Now the region has found itself in the grip of a so-called asausage wara over chilled processed meats. At the same time, the DUP is about to install its third leader in a month, a crisis at the top that has exacerbated fears that the party could face electoral annihilation. Anushka Asthana speaks to the Guardianas Ireland correspondent, Rory Carroll, and the Brexit correspondent, Lisa OaCarroll, about a seismic moment for Northern Ireland a and what a political crisis for Stormontas leading unionist party could mean for the regionas future.
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Bloc to explore sanctions instead, as gathering also holds aemotionala debate over Hungaryas LGBT laws
A Franco-German plan to restart talks with Vladimir Putin has been rejected at a fractious EU summit that resulted in a decision to explore economic sanctions against Russia instead.
The two-day gathering in Brussels also included an aemotionala debate over LGBT rights in Hungary, as EU leaders confronted Viktor OrbA!n over a law that will ban gay people from being shown in educational and entertainment content for minors.
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Flagship scheme dismisses claims herd is left to go hungry, saying animals have enough food to survive
Exmoor ponies have become hot property for rewilding projects across Europe, which use them as selective grazers to tend meadows and promote biodiversity. The scientists and conservationists behind the trials prefer to use animals as similar as possible to those which roamed the land before humans arrived.
However, pony groups in Britain claim that in one project in Denmark the animals are being left alone in fenced fields without sufficient grazing in the winter. They also claim there has been some evidence of ponies left with untreated wounds.
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Former vice-president says he did his duty and takes aim at effort to overturn Biden victory, without mentioning Trump by name
Former vice-president Mike Pence used a speech late on Thursday to go much further than he has before in public to rebuke Donald Trumpas efforts to overturn the Republican defeat in the 2020 presidential election, while adding he will aalways be prouda of playing his part to certify Joe Bidenas victory.
Related: Miami condo collapse: death toll rises to four and nearly 100 unaccounted for
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In her first public statement, the star said her upbeat social media persona had given millions of fans the wrong impression
Britney Spears wrote to her fans on Instagram on Thursday saying she was sorry for apretending like Iave been OK the past two yearsa, her first public statement since her disturbing courtroom testimony on her aabusivea conservatorship.
In her post on Thursday afternoon, she said she had not spoken out sooner because aI was embarrassed to share what happened to mea.
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South Moravia governor voices shock at level of destruction as footage shows houses destroyed
A tornado and hailstones the size of tennis balls has hit the Czech Republicas south-east, rescuers said, razing houses and causing an as yet unknown number of fatalities.
Video footage from the region on social networks showed destroyed buildings and cars, shorn tree stumps and several fires with thick black smoke.
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Khan accused of being a arape apologista after saying rise in attacks is down to women wearing avery few clothesa
Pakistanas prime minister, Imran Khan, is facing backlash after he blamed victims of rape for wearing avery few clothesa.
The former cricket captain was questioned by the Axios journalist Jonathan Swan about the ongoing arape epidemica in Pakistan and responded by saying: aIf a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an impact on the man unless they are robots. Itas common sense.a
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Eric Nelson, Chauvinas defence attorney, has argued for only probation, while prosecutors urged a 30-year prison sentence
The former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd will face sentencing on Friday two months after he was convicted in a trial watched by millions around the world.
Derek Chauvin faces a maximum of 40 years in prison after he placed Floyd in a fatal knee-to-neck restraint for nine minutes and 29 seconds and was found guilty on all three counts of second- and third-degree murder as well as manslaughter.
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- CBI says retail sales jumped in June, while UK consumer confidence stagnates
- Global shares touch near-record high as Biden strikes deal on $953bn US infrastructure bill
The Bank of England kept monetary policy unchanged yesterday, arguing that inflation is transitory and a premature tightening could undermine the recovery. But that was not a view shared by everyone. Andy Haldane, the BoEas chief economist who leaves this month, voted again to reduce the Bankas target for bond purchases, citing the arapidly improving economic outlook, and rising cost and price pressuresa.
In this podcast, INGas senior editor Rebecca Byrne asks developed markets economist James Smith where he stands in the debate and what policymakers are likely to do next.
According to the CBI survey, grocers and shops selling furniture and carpets, hardware and DIY, reported that sales remained above seasonal norms.
Department stores also fared better, with sales now average for the time of year, while clothing stores said sales remained poor for the time of year, but this was to a much lesser extent than last month.
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Researchers say temperatures, already the highest in the past 20,000 years, could increase by up to 10F by 2100
Yellowstone, established in 1872, is famous around the globe for good reason: itas the oldest national park in the United States and one of the most popular.
But a new report issued this week shows how Yellowstoneas near pristine environment, with attractions like the Old Faithful geyser and herds of bison, is under threat from global heating.
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From lockdown parenting to the Muppets, true crime to Jackie Weaver interviewing celebrities, Guardian readers share their picks
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The reality show struck gold by appealing to viewersa worst instincts. Now it wants to protect contestantsa wellbeing. Can it do both?
Love Island is finally back a and this year itas fair trade and cruelty-free. The ITV dating show returns to our screens on Monday after a hiatus occasioned by the coronavirus pandemic, and producers are promising that this yearas run will be the most ethical ever. Some doubted the show would ever return after the tragic suicides of presenter Caroline Flack and former contestants Sophie Gradon and Mike Thalassitis.
The bikini-clad babes and shirtless hunks entering this yearas villa will have undergone stringent checks to assess whether they are emotionally and mentally resilient enough to take part in the show, while infographics aired on-screen will remind viewers to athink before they posta about the stars on social media in the hope of discouraging trolling. During filming there will be a welfare team on set, while contestants will also be offered comprehensive psychological support on exiting the villa, in addition to social media and financial management training.
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The gang are back for another bout of deafening and magnificently silly, gravity-defying action, leaving plot logic in the dust and driving their cars into space
After nine films, the gigantic steroidal humungousness of the Fast and Furious franchise has finally rolled over me like a tank. This deafening fantasia of internal and external combustion delivers outrageous action spectacle magnificently divorced from the rules of narrative or gravity. There is one shot of a car driving up the far side of a rope bridge that has been cut and whose loose rope-fronds are collapsing behind the car into the abyss. I think we can include Isaac Newton among the people who are getting their asses kicked here.
Related: Vroom or bust: is Fast & Furious the ultimate franchise of our times?
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Immersed in religion in his early years, the Birmingham-based R&B star is now questioning his faith, and exploring black male identity
When the Birmingham-born Sipho was 11 years old, he entered his schoolas talent contest with a bunch of friends. They performed a cover of Green Dayas Wake Me Up When September Ends. Unfortunately, they didnat win. aIt was the corniest thing ever,a he recalls. aBut I was actually really passionate about the whole thing.a
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This week weave got a noisy Britpop flashback, a sad-girl-summer ballad, and a stone-cold TikTok banger
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The author and journalist on his two unopened copies of Stephen Hawkingas great work and not getting on with Hilary Mantelas Cromwell trilogy
The book I am currently reading
I am working steadily through the Chips Channon diaries, edited by Simon Heffer. Channon was a superb social and political diarist: bitchy, observant, self-aware, charming and frequently repellent.
The book that changed my life
Friedrich Nietzscheas Will to Power. A terrible book, cobbled together from the contents of the great philosopheras rubbish bin by his ghastly sister after he had gone mad, to justify her Nazi views. But it set me off in search of the antisemitic, vegetarian, German colony Elisabeth Nietzsche had founded in Paraguay, and resulted in my first book.
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- Biden releases federal funds after 12-storey building collapsed
- Rescue crews hampered overnight by heavy rain and lightning
The death toll in a Miami building collapse rose to four on Friday morning a day after a 12-storey condominium slumped into rubble on the south Florida Atlantic coast.
Related: aThereas just too much at riska: Arizona closes parks to prevent extreme wildfires
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Former vice-president says he did his duty and takes aim at effort to overturn Biden victory, without mentioning Trump by name
Former vice-president Mike Pence used a speech late on Thursday to go much further than he has before in public to rebuke Donald Trumpas efforts to overturn the Republican defeat in the 2020 presidential election, while adding he will aalways be prouda of playing his part to certify Joe Bidenas victory.
Related: Miami condo collapse: death toll rises to four and nearly 100 unaccounted for
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City leaders hope big news could bring a tourism surge as the town grapples with the pandemic economy
On the eve of the release of the Pentagonas highly anticipated report on unidentified aerial phenomena, life here in one of the worldas UFO hotspots was exceedingly normal.
Downtownas alien souvenir shops and the International UFO Museum welcomed a steady stream of visitors escaping their pandemic malaise on Thursday as coronavirus restrictions continued to loosen in New Mexico.
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Researchers say temperatures, already the highest in the past 20,000 years, could increase by up to 10F by 2100
Yellowstone, established in 1872, is famous around the globe for good reason: itas the oldest national park in the United States and one of the most popular.
But a new report issued this week shows how Yellowstoneas near pristine environment, with attractions like the Old Faithful geyser and herds of bison, is under threat from global heating.
Continue reading...Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 06:00:18 GMT
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Eric Nelson, Chauvinas defence attorney, has argued for only probation, while prosecutors urged a 30-year prison sentence
The former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd will face sentencing on Friday two months after he was convicted in a trial watched by millions around the world.
Derek Chauvin faces a maximum of 40 years in prison after he placed Floyd in a fatal knee-to-neck restraint for nine minutes and 29 seconds and was found guilty on all three counts of second- and third-degree murder as well as manslaughter.
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The pop staras dramatic testimony has fueled calls for the court to end the arrangement immediately, but it could take years
Britney Spears could remain stuck in her conservatorship for months or years, experts say, despite her detailed and disturbing testimony describing the legal arrangement as aabusivea and harmful.
In the 39-year-old singeras first public testimony on the court agreement that has governed her life for 13 years, Spears alleged Wednesday that the conservatorship had stripped her of most basic autonomy and at times forced her to take medications and perform against her will. She said it had given her father, Jamie Spears, authority over the most intimate details of her life.
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Military victories combined with new alliances and shifts in strategy reinforce militantsa position across much of continent
Islamic Stateas affiliates in Africa are set for major expansion after a series of significant victories, new alliances and shifts in strategy reinforced their position across much of the continent.
Following recent gains in Nigeria, the Sahel, in Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Isis propaganda published by the groupas leadership in its heartland in the Middle East is increasingly stressing sub-Saharan Africa as a new front which may compensate the group for significant setbacks elsewhere.
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Coconino and Kaibab national forests have become a tinder box due to high temperatures and low precipitation
Escaping to the high country over the Fourth of July holiday is a cherished Arizona tradition. Desert dwellers tired of triple digit temperatures pitch their tents in forest service campgrounds, where night-time lows are often 40F (22C) cooler than in Phoenix. aNot this yeara though, says Brady Smith, public information officer for the Coconino national forest.
As of Wednesday, the Coconino and Kaibab national forests aboth high elevation recreation meccas a were completely and indefinitely closed in an attempt to protect the public and the environment from extreme wildfire danger.
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Bloc to explore sanctions instead, as gathering also holds aemotionala debate over Hungaryas LGBT laws
A Franco-German plan to restart talks with Vladimir Putin has been rejected at a fractious EU summit that resulted in a decision to explore economic sanctions against Russia instead.
The two-day gathering in Brussels also included an aemotionala debate over LGBT rights in Hungary, as EU leaders confronted Viktor OrbA!n over a law that will ban gay people from being shown in educational and entertainment content for minors.
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Prevalence in England rises from 1 in 520 to 1 in 440 in a week; surge in infections is blow to Israel after successful vaccine rollout
- Balearic officials urge Madrid to tighten Covid controls on UK tourists
- UK Covid travel rules could change at short notice, warns minister
- aWe were never a prioritya: Zimbabwe hotspots face strict lockdown
- Central and eastern Sydney plunged into lockdown after 22 cases
- Almost 600m NHS home Covid tests unaccounted for, auditors reveal
- UK coronavirus updates a live
The Guardianas Steven Morris reports:
Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford has said the Delta variant is spreading afreely in communities right across Wales.a
Tanzaniaas president, Samia Suluhu Hassan, has urged people not to ignore the pandemic, warning: aThere are signs of the third wave in our country.a
Hassan said in a speech to Catholic bishops in Dar es Salaam that athis pandemic is here and we should not ignore ita, reports Reuters.
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Televised congressional investigation looks at political decisions that lead to crisis that has killed half a million
A congressional inquiry into Brazilas disastrous response to the coronavirus pandemic has found mounting evidence that Jair Bolsonaroas administration committed acrimes against lifea, according to the senior politician leading the investigation.
Launched in April to scrutinize the governmentas handling of a crisis that has killed half a million citizens, the nationally televised investigation is digging into the political decisions that led up to one of the cruelest moments in the countryas history.
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The stay-at-home orders for four NSW local government areas left Sydney residents with many unanswered questions
- NSW Covid restrictions; NSW exposure sites and cases map
- Covid travel restrictions in Australia
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The Australian Medical Association has called for Sydneyas lockdown to be extended across the entire city, as new stay-at-home rules announced by the New South Wales government sparked uncertainty among residents and businesses on Friday.
As the Bondi outbreak grew to 65 cases, the NSW premier, Gladys Berejiklian, announced on Friday that four local government areas (LGAs) a Woollahra, Randwick, Waverley and the City of Sydney a would enter a week-long lockdown.
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She quit social media, embraced the feral and grieved for her beloved dog. Now rejuvenated, Lorde is back with a nature-inspired new album a though she tells our writer thereas a sinister side to its sunniness
Lorde, in case it wasnat obvious, has made her name on glorification. Ella Yelich-OaConnor was an aristocracy-obsessed 16-year-old when her imperiously cool debut album, 2013as Pure Heroine, elevated suburban New Zealand adolescence to pop echelons in which those kids had never previously seen themselves. In 2017, Melodrama cast post-breakup hedonism in glittering synths, dramatising one fabulous night on the cusp of adulthood as if it were Greek tragedy.
Her forthcoming third album, Solar Power, has humbler origins, especially for a songwriter who likes describing inspiration as adivinea. The loose, sunny instrumentation a inspired as much by Crosby, Stills & Nash as Nelly Furtado a mirrors a shift within the 24-year-old. aWhen I got my dog, all of a sudden youare literally picking up shit, cleaning up vomit and not caring,a she says cheerfully, video-calling from the start of a jet-lag-addled workday in Los Angeles.
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I learned first-hand about longing through decades of celibacy a but why do we do it, and how can we stop?
I was a 35-year-old virgin when I realized I was addicted to longing. I got off on the high of anticipating sex I knew I wasnat going to have, and then masochistically wallowed when letdown inevitably followed.
My crushes were the popular guys in high school, the elusive seat-mate on an airplane ride, and the soldiers shipped overseas. I binge-watched When Harry Met Sally and planned weekend trips to far-flung destinations hoping to rekindle an old flame or attract the eye of a romantic interest Iad spent hours stalking on Facebook.
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A water quality crisis has been hiding in the ritzy Hamptons, but the pandemic pushed it over the edge. Will clean-up efforts be too little too late?
Growing up in Southampton, Bryan McGowin spent his summers swimming in a beautiful local pond. Now in his 40s, McGowin wonat let his kids into the water.
aIf you drink that now, you will get sick,a said McGowin. Across the New York coastal community better known as the Hamptons, residents face perilously declining water quality, which has shut down recreation in many freshwater ponds.
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- Buildup to Saturdayas first knockout stage matches
- Elis James: Wales dream of more fridge magnet moments
- Feel free to email David or you can tweet him here
The blog baton passes now to David Tindall.
Italyas pint-sized forward, their pocket battleship, their tyro, Lorenzo Insigne, has been speaking ahead of the Austria match tomorrow. Full credit offered to Roberto Mancini, who got them to the finals, instead of that nasty Gian Piero Ventura, who lost the World Cup 2018 play-off to Sweden.
Itas something that makes us proud, especially considering what they thought of us before the tournament started Itas the first time that Iave played in such an important event at this level, in such an important role. In the past other coaches have used formations that were less compatible with my style of play, although I have always made myself available. Now Mancini is using a system of play that is more suited to me and to other playersa characteristics.
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Two escapes in West Virginia and one in California force emergency services to think on the hoof
Three US cities have been tackling the same bovine problem this week, when separate groups of cattle broke free of their respective chains a a slaughterhouse, a cattle-hauling truck, and a farm with a broken fence a and caused a commotion on roads, railways and a recreation area.
The escapes were inconspicuous at first. On Monday, three loose cattle roamed the streets of Bluefield, West Virginia, after escaping through a broken fence. Trains had to be stopped as authorities tried to coax the animals off the tracks.
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Rightwing politicians and media outlets are attacking a strawman version of antiracism. A disappointing number of liberals and leftists have bought into it
There is a specter haunting America a the specter of critical race theory. That, at least, is the impression you would get from rightwing media. Fox News has mentioned the term close to 1,300 times since March a including almost 250 times last week alone.
Related: Americaas top general defends study of critical race theory by military
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She sang of innocence and experience, but was muffled when she went off script. At her explosive court appearance this week, Britney has reclaimed her voice
The saying goes that pop stars are forever frozen in time at the age they became famous. Despite the lasting iconography of the schoolgirl outfit she wore in the video for her debut single, 1998as a| Baby One More Time, this has somehow never felt true of Britney Spears, whose first four albums painted a convincing picture of evolving girlhood.
She was naive and lovestruck on her 1999 debut, and gained power and self-awareness on 2000as Oops! a| I Did It Again. Released in 2001, Britney was the first album that Spears, then 19, co-wrote: it juxtaposed her sexuality (Iam a Slave 4 U) with her frustration at being treated like a child (Iam Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman). Two years later, In the Zone revelled in eroticism and experimentation, reflected in a more adventurous sound.
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Some see promise in the fact the coalition includes an Arab party. In reality, peace with the Palestinians is further away than ever
In his speech to the Knesset as incoming prime minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett had very little to say about his countryas biggest challenge, making peace with the Palestinians. It was as though by giving them only the briefest of mentions, the Palestinians, the nation that has lived under Israeli occupation for the past 54 years, would be obliterated out of existence. Instead he said he would astrengthen the building of communities across the land of Israela, a statement clearly intended to include settlements in the occupied West Bank. Yet this was not the only violation of international law that appeared in the speech. In a clear rejection of the Oslo accords signed between Israel and the PLO in 1993 and 1995, he brazenly promised to aensure Israelas national interests in Area Ca. This comprises some 60% of the area of the West Bank occupied by Israel in 1967, which according to those accords was to be handed back to the Palestinians.
Many commentators found hope in the fact that the new coalition includes an Arab party. Yet to the dismay of most liberal Palestinians in Israel, the United Arab List is a conservative religious party that opposes individual freedoms, including womenas and LGBTQ+ rights. By joining the coalition government this party has been willing to forgo the struggle for Palestinian national rights in return for winning some civic benefits for the Palestinians in Israel, such as better policing of Arab towns.
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- Lehkonenas overtime winner lifts Montreal to 3-2 win in Game 6
- Canadiens back in final for record 35th time but first since 1993
Phillip Danault was patting rookie Cole Caufield on the back for playing a big role in helping the Canadiensa remarkable playoff run, while familiar chants of aOle, Olea and sounds of horn-honking could be heard from a large celebrating crowd outside the Bell Centre walls
Suddenly, Montreal is partying like itas 1993: the last time the Canadiens reached the Stanley Cup Final.
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- Clippers prevail 106-92 over top-seeded Phooenix in Game 3
- George leads with 27 as LA pull away in dominant third quarter
Paul George scored 27 points and the Los Angeles Clippers pulled away in a dominant third quarter, beating newly returned Chris Paul and the Phoenix Suns 106-92 on Thursday night in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals.
The Clippers cut their series deficit to 2-1, ending the Sunsa franchise-record playoff winning streak at nine games.
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From a leadership fiasco to the asausage warsa, the Democratic Unionist partyas stance on Brexit has forced it to contend with a new a perhaps even existential a set of problems. What will they mean for the regionas future?
When the Democratic Unionist party decided to support Brexit, many warned that the decision could have profound consequences for Northern Irelandas position within the UK. Five years on, new customs arrangements and an Irish Sea border mean trade flows with the Republic of Ireland are growing a even as imports from Great Britain are slowing. And some on the unionist side fear that bit by bit, the argument for a united Ireland is gaining ground.
Now the region has found itself in the grip of a so-called asausage wara over chilled processed meats. At the same time, the DUP is about to install its third leader in a month, a crisis at the top that has exacerbated fears that the party could face electoral annihilation. Anushka Asthana speaks to the Guardianas Ireland correspondent, Rory Carroll, and the Brexit correspondent, Lisa OaCarroll, about a seismic moment for Northern Ireland a and what a political crisis for Stormontas leading unionist party could mean for the regionas future.
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Jane Fonda gives a commanding performance in a film that avoids cliche and embraces a more nuanced view of sex work
Thereas a version of Klute that sounds exactly like one of the generic sexy thrillers that popped up on video in the wake of Basic Instinct in the late 1990s. A high-priced call girl stalked by a killer. A private investigator drawn helplessly into her web. A whodunnit plot that ends with a violent climactic reveal. Shannon Tweed probably starred in that movie, and the aunrateda version would have flown off the shelves at suburban video stores.
Related: Jane Fonda: aI"m very rarely afraid. Maybe emotional intimacy scares mea
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The gang are back for another bout of deafening and magnificently silly, gravity-defying action, leaving plot logic in the dust and driving their cars into space
After nine films, the gigantic steroidal humungousness of the Fast and Furious franchise has finally rolled over me like a tank. This deafening fantasia of internal and external combustion delivers outrageous action spectacle magnificently divorced from the rules of narrative or gravity. There is one shot of a car driving up the far side of a rope bridge that has been cut and whose loose rope-fronds are collapsing behind the car into the abyss. I think we can include Isaac Newton among the people who are getting their asses kicked here.
Related: Vroom or bust: is Fast & Furious the ultimate franchise of our times?
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With its constant soundtrack of country music and political commentary, Altmanas sprawling state-of-the-nation epic reverberates with the troubled zeitgeist of the 70s
aThis isnat Dallas, itas Nashville! SING!a The desperate speaker is rhinestone-suited old-time country singer Haven Hamilton, played by Henry Gibson, in this rereleased state-of-America ensemble classic from 1975, written by Joan Tewkesbury and directed by Robert Altman. The toupee-wearing star has just been shot in the arm by a lone gunman in the crowd at a political rally featuring wholesomely patriotic country music, and the crowd is on the verge of panic. Only soothing tunes will calm them, and eventually a sprightly number called It Donat Worry Me finally gets them singing along, forgetting all about the murder attempt theyave all just witnessed. (Like Scorseseas Taxi Driver, from a year later, this is a movie that is attempting to deal with the trauma of the Kennedy assassination as much as, or more, than the Vietnam war.)
Related: Robert Altmanas 20 best films a ranked!
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Broad Cityas Ilana Glazer makes an impressive dramatic debut in an often incisive yet ultimately messy film about a creepy fertility doctor
Thereas guts, both figuratively and literally, in the ambitious, uneasy new thriller False Positive, a minor A24 production premiering on Hulu in the US, that takes a familiar roadmap and litters it with left turns. Crudely put, itas a Rosemaryas Baby riff for millennials, a sleek update on an ever-effective conceit that reframes the bliss of pregnancy as a terrifying body horror. Roman Polanskias film gave birth to numerous imitators, most of which stuck to the increasingly overused blueprint and thereas something to admire here about what writer-director John Lee and his co-writer and star Ilana Glazer try to do, even if their gamble doesnat entirely pay off.
Related: Good on Paper review a Netflix dating comedy is OK on screen
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The rescue operation at the scene of a collapsed condominium continues, as authorities say one person has died and 99 remain unaccounted for. Plus, how affluent New Yorkers caused a water crisis in the Hamptons
Good morning.
On Thursday evening a large-scale rescue operation was continuing at the site of a collapsed 12-story apartment block in Surfside, a small oceanfront town just north of Miami Beach. Authorities said at least one person was killed, 10 injured and 99 people unaccounted for. Police have launched a homicide inquiry.
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The Beckwourth pack, which set down roots in Plumas county, is only the third to establish itself in the state in the last century
A new gray wolf pack has established itself in northern California, retaking a part of the vast territory that the species used to inhabit.
The fledgling Beckwourth pack has set down roots in Plumas county, near the California-Nevada border, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) reported Wednesday. Its three members include LAS12F, a 2-year-old female wolf born in California, and two others. Wildlife officials are tracking and analyzing the feces of wolves in the region in an effort to identify the lineage of these wolves.
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Commerce secretary says US is making good on G7 pledge to clean up global supply chains
The Biden administration imposed trade bans on five Chinese entities over forced labor allegations in Xinjiang, the White House said on Thursday, citing the G7as recent pledge to clean up the global supply chain.
It banned US imports of a key solar panel material from Chinese-based Hoshine Silicon Industry Co and separately restricted exports of acommodities, software, and technologya to Hoshine, three other Chinese firms and the paramilitary Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), saying they were involved with the forced labor of Uyghurs and other Muslim minority groups in the Chinese province.
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Diagnostic tool being piloted by NHS England shows aimpressive resultsa in spotting tumours in early stages
A simple blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer before any clinical signs or symptoms of the disease emerge in a person is accurate enough to be rolled out as a screening test, according to scientists.
The test, which is also being piloted by NHS England in the autumn, is aimed at people at higher risk of the disease including patients aged 50 or older.
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Health secretary vows to stay on as health secretary despite breaching Covid social distancing rules
Matt Hancock has apologised for breaching social distancing rules but said he would stay on as health secretary after photographs emerged of him kissing a longtime friend who has a job at his department.
Labour and the Liberal Democrats called for him to go after the Sun acquired CCTV photos of Hancock in a aclincha at his office with Gina Coladangelo, who he appointed last year to be a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
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South Moravia governor voices shock at level of destruction as footage shows houses destroyed
A tornado and hailstones the size of tennis balls has hit the Czech Republicas south-east, rescuers said, razing houses and causing an as yet unknown number of fatalities.
Video footage from the region on social networks showed destroyed buildings and cars, shorn tree stumps and several fires with thick black smoke.
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Khan accused of being a arape apologista after saying rise in attacks is down to women wearing avery few clothesa
Pakistanas prime minister, Imran Khan, is facing backlash after he blamed victims of rape for wearing avery few clothesa.
The former cricket captain was questioned by the Axios journalist Jonathan Swan about the ongoing arape epidemica in Pakistan and responded by saying: aIf a woman is wearing very few clothes it will have an impact on the man unless they are robots. Itas common sense.a
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Young TikTok users are sharing their passion for books with millions a bringing titles they love to life online and reshaping the publishing world, all in under a minute
In August 2020, Kate Wilson, a 16-year-old from Shrewsbury, posted on the social media video platform TikTok a series of quotes from books she had read, athat say I love you, without actually saying I love youa. Set to a melancholy soundtrack, the short video plays out as Wilson, an A-level student, holds up copies of the books with the quotes superimposed over them. aYou have been the last dream of my soul,a from A Tale of Two Cities. aWhatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same,a from Wuthering Heights. aEvery atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own,a from Jane Eyre. It has been viewed more than 1.2m times.
Wilsonas TikTok handle, @kateslibrary, is among the increasingly popular accounts posting on #BookTok, a corner of TikTok devoted to reading, which has clocked up 9.6bn views and counting, and has been described as the last wholesome place on the internet. Here, users a predominantly young women a post short videos inspired by the books they love. Those that do best are fun, snappy takes on literature and the experience of reading. aBooks where the main character was sent to kill someone but they end up falling in love,a from @kateslibrary. aThings that bookworms do,a from @abbysbooks. aWhen you were 12 and your parents caught you crying over a book,a from @emilymiahreads.
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No one heard his voice describing the world heavyweight title fight 100 years ago but radio enthusiast Andrew White changed the future of sport, radio and television
aCarpentier is out a| Jack Dempsey is still the heavyweight champion of the world.a
It was Saturday 2 July 1921, a boiling summer afternoon in a field on the outskirts of Jersey City, and a raucous crowd of more than 80,000 had just witnessed what had been billed as the fight of the century.
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Artists from traditional communities and new wave performers to come together online for the countryas first drag conference
Two years ago, in early June 2019, a young man stepped on stage at a small cafe in the south Indian city of Hyderabad to sing Lady Gagaas hit song Born This Way. He had chosen that song for the line adonat be a drag, just be a queena because this would be his first public performance as a drag artist. He had expected no more than a handful of people to turn up for this show with two other drag artists, but as the evening progressed, the cafe filled with more than 500 people. In a conservative city like Hyderabad, that was a huge surprise.
It has been a long journey for Patruni Chidananda Sastry, who began to learn classical Indian dance at the age of five. Now 29 and working as a business analyst, he performs Tranimal a a postmodern drag concept born in Los Angeles in the mid-2000s a and more conventional drag using the avatar of SAS (Suffocated Art Specimen a how he describes himself). On 25 June he is organising the first drag conference in India, as part of Dragvanti , his online initiative to bring together drag artists from across the country.
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On the first day ofPridemonth, the governor of Florida signed a law banning transgender girls from joining girlsa sports teams in schools and colleges. It was just one of 13 anti-trans bills conservative lawmakers in the US passed this year a and one of more than 110 proposed bills, many of which also target access to gender-affirming healthcare. This is byfar the largest number filed in a single year in US history.
Guardian US correspondent, Sam Levin, and ProfJules Gill-Peterson, a historian and expert on trans kids,examine how this legislative attack has escalated and how the presence of trans kids in the US is not a new phenomenon
In the US, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-8255.In the UK and Ireland, Samaritans can be contacted on 116 123 or emailjo@samaritans.orgorjo@samaritans.ie.In Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is 13 11 14. Other international helplines can be found atwww.befrienders.org
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