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From go-karting tracks to bowling alleys, ships are appealing to more than just the older generation

Take the stress out of travelling with Priority Passas many perks

Ministers have decided to postpone the introduction of the EES indefinitely and apply a staged approach

Hot food preparation was shut down following an inspection

If youare looking for a tropical paradise thatas as vibrant as it is idyllic, full of natural wonders and stunning beaches, you canat beat this well-loved Caribbean destination

The British territory with a population of less than 16,000 was allotted control of the .ai internet address in the 1990s

The developers said they would rebuild the construction in line with Arthur Conan Doyleas design

More than a decade after her first visit, Maya Oppenheim returns to Albania as the country is on the rise as a travel spot a discovering raw beauty, rich culture and off-the-beaten-path allure thatas hard to resist

City councillors want to stop tourists who acome for a short time only to get drunka

Tense standoff between pilot and copilot broken by cabin crew member

Exclusive: Airline insists airport ground staff confirmed Stephen Jackson had ainvalid documentationa

The mother-of-five said she was trying to keep her children safe

The plans feature more seating areas and new shops, bars and restaurants

Exclusive: Stephen Jackson protested that his passport was valid but was overruled by a supervisor working for Britainas biggest budget airline at Manchester airport

Inflight meals and coffee went airbourne on Friday

aIam probably not allowed to say this,a said the aHolby Citya star

Paytas appeared on a recent episode of aThe Officea staras podcast, aSoul Booma

A new documentary, aI Cut Off His Penis: The Truth Behind The Headlines,a revists the infamous 1993 case

Kitty and Jose Menendez were killed by their sons, Erik and Lyle, in August 1989

aThe Notebooka author posited: aYou can use real sugar, but why throw sugar in if you can use Splenda?a

The wedding guest noted the groomas mother was crying over how the guests were treated

The Matlock family has raised more than $47,000 in donations to fly Guy and Adrien back to the US

aJust dump him and move on,a one person urged a Reddit user, after hearing about her experience with her boyfriend

The actor is hoping that the amilk cleansea will help solve her gut issues

Prince William revealed his and Catherineas crucial parenting motto during a community football visit.

The Victoriaas Secret Fashion Show will be held in New York City on October 15, 2024

aI hold my hands up,a said pastry chef Ravneet Gill

The aWickeda Stanley cups hit Target stores in the US on October 13

Lowriding is an aspect of Latino history in which people show their pride, honor family and uplift culture

Actor said his mother was left upset at the rumours

What are the dangers of doom scrolling? And how can we prevent our children from doing it?

The coupleas royal reception is set to be sparsely attended by officials

Popular TV personality died aged 67, earlier this year

Contest started by visual artist 10 years ago to remind everyone that taking a break to do nothing is important

Chef also revealed his secrets for the perfect roast potato

aHer face went red and she said I shouldnat have said that the pronunciation was wrong in front of the kid,a the Reddit user explained

Some germs are able to withstand boiling temperatures

The live streamer filmed himself during the hurricane for the chance to win $70,000

Hundreds of miners travelled to Mexico in 1824 to work in Real del Monte, extracting silver, copper, zinc, gold and mercury

Dancer described incident as aa real learning momenta for husband Marius Iepure

The 15th-century explorer was a Sephardic Jew from western Europe, Spanish DNA experts reveal

Tomas and Garfield were first romantically linked in March 2024

The Godfather star, 84, recently published his memoir Sonny Boy

Fashionista and former aWhat Not to Weara presenter Trinny Woodall has revealed sheas worn the same top for four months. Helen Coffey asks: is it boring to always dress the same, or a blissful break from decision fatigue?

St Johnas joins Manhattan University, Seton Hall University, and Niagra University in the move to eliminate Columbus Day from the official school calendar

Willisas family first revealed in March 2023 that he had been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia

The pair first posed together at Balenciagaas show during Paris Fashion Week on September 30

The mystery phone was confirmed to be an LG Shine

No 10 rejects claims the prime minister was given tickets as a athank-youa for taxpayer-funded police escort

Taxi driverA UrfanA Sharif, 42,A is on trial at theA Old BaileyA accused of his 10-year-old daughteras murder alongsideA Saraas stepmother Beinash Batool, 30, and uncle, Faisal Malik, 29

Hundreds of Afghan special forces soldiers are set to be relocated to Britain in a victory for The Independentas campaign

Liz Trussas think tank Popcon asked the two Tory leadership finalists 12 questions - but only one of them answered

Fingerprints allegedly belonging to 10-year-oldas father Urfan Sharif found on one of bags, second day of trial hears

It comes just hours after Lord Cameron revealed earlier Tory plans to sanction two Israeli ministers

One expert has called Labouras rumoured plan a astraightforward breacha of its manifesto

The second reading of the House of Lords Bill takes place on Tuesday

Police discovered the schoolgirlas blood on a cricket bat and bruises on her body matched a metal pole found in an outhouse, the court heard

Exclusive: In a dramatic intervention, the former governor of the Bank of England tells the chancellor she must be ruthlessly honest with the public

Residents in the Wiltshire city tell Andy Gregory their memories from the days and weeks after alleged Russian chemical attack unfolded in their midst, aleaving a clouda over the peaceful city

Warning: This video contains scenes viewers may find distressing.

Lucy Letbyas assessor says she found the then-student to be aquite colda and lacking the empathy to pass her final year placement

Parts of the UK are preparing for heavy rain this week causing travel disruption and flooding

Domestic abuse often goes beyond visible bruises, and can also take the forms of financial control, tech abuse, coercive behavior, and emotional manipulation.

The force said it had been in contact with the BBC and received a report against Mr Al Fayed which is alleged to have occurred at an address in Oxted

Johnson claimed Cameron threatened to af***a him up forevera if he supported Leave in the 2016 referendum

Taylor Swift given a motorbike convoy on the way to Wembley stadium for her sell-out Eras tour in the summer

aKing Conkera denies accusations of using steel dummy in final of world competition

Defence secretary says army personnel will drop below 70,000 next year - lowest since 1793

The prime minister has warned the Budget is likely to be apainfula

aLuckily, I wear this magical amulet that keeps me safe from all of the various signals out there,a claims Brand

Passages in the former Tory PMas memoir aUnleasheda have been disputed since it was released a including his claim he was asked to give Prince Harry a amanly pep talka

Generous readers and donors have raised an incredible APS150,000 of the APS300,000 target so far a but more is needed to complete the project

Alba Party leader died aged 69 after suffering heart attack in North Macedonia on Saturday

The coupleas royal reception is set to be sparsely attended by officials

aPeople throw so much away when they could easily mend,a the King said

Mother of nerve agent victim says fact her young child was not also killed is "solace" for family

The inquiry is calling for an independent statutory regulator to be set up for funeral directors in England to safeguard the dead

Danielle Obe said her pain over her experiences offered aan opportunity to change hearts and mindsa

Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already warned of adifficult decisionsa a but what measures and policies would you like to see introduced in Labouras first autumn statement?

Sir Keir Starmer has set out the Labour governmentas position on the slavery reparations ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting this month

Many experts expect tax rises to be on the cards

The new trial aims to gather evidence of the effects of the drug tirzepatide a sold by pharmaceutical company Lily under brand name Mounjaro

Former TV presenter paid tribute in a emotional social media post

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Rebekah Morris had been walking her dog in Littlethorpe, Leicestershire when she died in 2022A

Dawn Burgess died in theA NovichokA nerve agent poisonings inA SalisburyA in 2018

The Metropolitan Police is believed to have asked for legal advice about the motorcycle escort amid fears officers could be held responsible for any accidents

Labour prime minister has promised to fix BritainasA damaged relationship with the European Union

Covid hospital cases from new variant XEC have surged across Britain at an aalarminga rate

Rachel Reeves cut the winter allowance for the majority of recipients after inheriting aa APS22bn black holea in the public finances

The aMonstersa actor did indeed bare it all while shooting the Netflix showas famous shower scene

Sean aDiddya Combs was arrested in September after a grand jury indicted him on federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering

Angellica Bell worked as a presenter on CBBC from 2000 until 2006

Noel Fielding destroyed a Great British Bake Off contestantas dish as chaos broke out in the kitchen tent.

Artist also tells The Louis Theroux Podcast that she likes apomp and ceremonya of the royal family

Authorities say the random shooting occurred while the musician was out walking his dog

A new documentary, aI Cut Off His Penis: The Truth Behind The Headlines,a revists the infamous 1993 case

Van Halen wanted to emulate Queenas tributes to their late singer Freddie Mercury

Eddie Van Halen died at the age of 65 in 2020

aThose are people who, if they came to your house, youad slip out the back door,a said the aTaxi Drivera writer of the filmas stars

Hathaway performed a surprise rendition of Queenas aSomebody to Lovea at a Broadway for Harris fundraiser event

Can you tell who his Oscar-winning father is?

aTime to say goodbyea is the most fitting Trump campaign song thatas ever songeda joked one person

Tinsel Town is out and Silicon Valley is in, says Barry Diller

Movie has made history with its low reception

King of Pop apparently feared he would die in the same way as Lisa Marieas father, Elvis Presley

Pop singer shared some news about her record-breaking Eras Tour

Popular TV personality died aged 67, earlier this year

In his highly anticipated new memoir aSonny Boya, the star of aThe Godfathera and aScarfacea looks back on his ascent to the top of Hollywoodas A-list a and the self-sabotage and family trauma that nearly derailed it. Martin Chilton dives in

New social media activity comes as Stevie Nicks performs on aSaturday Night Livea for the first time in 41 years

Danielle Obe said her pain over her experiences offered aan opportunity to change hearts and mindsa

aI donat think I would really change anything other than maybe with Losta said Ian Somerhalder when reflecting on his time on the show

Elisabeth Finch wowed Hollywood with her extraordinary stories about overcoming a rare form of bone cancer. Then the truth came out

aIave only recently found about this,a actor said of 40-year-old claim

James Morganas colleague claimed the theatre veteran ayelleda at him

aFor some reason, Michael Mann kept that out of the film,a actor divulged

Nyongao played Bosemanas love interest in the record-breaking Marvel movie

Reality star was one of two celebrity winners of Channel 4as gruelling contest

aYou know I still got it,a said the actor

Creator and star OaCarroll has apologised and said that the remark he made, during rehearsals, abackfireda

Roan recently criticized the Democratic party for failing apeople like me and you. And more so Palestine. And more so every marginalized community in the worlda

The actor and musician made the comments during a concert in Serbia

Oasis recently came under fire after fans reported sky-high ticket prices due to Ticketmasteras adynamic pricinga system

From the ambulances called to a Cineworld in Bolton to the infamous castration scene cut for inciting panic attacks, Adam White gathers 13 notorious films that truly tested the endurance of their viewers

aHopefully this will be the end of it,a Katya Jones said

Olivia Rodrigo took an unfortunate tumble during the Australia leg of her Guts World Tour (14th Oct).

Jeremy Strong said that he had to arediscovered playa after years of portraying Kendall Roy

Christopher Reeve"s children have opened up on how they"ve been looking out for each other since making a new film about their father"s life and legacy.

As the aLeave the World Behinda author releases his second novel, aEntitlementa, he reveals the book that first obsessed him, which writers make up his aown private universitya, and why he loves reading in the summer

aThereas not a woman in this country that wants any man telling her whatas going on with her innards,a said Goldberg

Exclusive: overhaul of system that imposed draconian penalties for innocent and minor errors in benefit claims is expected

Draconian penalties levied on unpaid carers who unwittingly rack up aoverpaymentsa running into thousands of pounds after falling foul of benefit rules are to be overhauled, the Guardian understands.

The move comes six months after a Guardian investigation revealed tens of thousands of vulnerable unpaid carers were being ordered to repay hefty overpayments a and even threatened with criminal prosecution a over minor breaches of earnings rules.

• Former Chelsea coach out of work since leaving Bayern
• German will be the menas teamas third foreign manager

Thomas Tuchel has agreed to become Englandas manager after talks with the Football Association Aaccelerated on Tuesday. The 51-year-old will be the third foreign manager of the menas team and the first from Germany.

The FA has had Tuchel on its shortlist for finding Gareth ASouthgateas permanent successor since the beginning of the process, a list that also included Manchester Cityas Pep Guardiola and the interim manager, Lee Carsley, among others.

US state department confirms reports that secretary of state and defense secretary warned Israel

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Israeli military strikes killed at least 40 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip as Israeli forces tightened their squeeze around Jabalia in the north of the enclave on Tuesday, amid fierce battles with Hamas-led fighters.

Palestinian health officials said at least 11 people were killed by Israeli fire near Al-Falouja in Jabalia, the largest of Gazaas eight historic refugee camps, while 10 others were killed in Bani Suhaila in eastern Khan Younis in the south when an Israeli missile struck a house.

Chancelloras words will be interpreted as signal she will not give in to ministers over cuts she imposes in budget

Rachel Reeves has told the cabinet that the UK still faces a APS100bn black hole in the public finances over the next five years amid concerns that ministers are yet to grasp the full scale of the fiscal deficit ahead.

At a meeting of the political cabinet, the chancellor said the APS22bn gap this year a which the government has blamed on their poor economic inheritance from the Tories a would be a recurring cost each year of this parliament.

Spy says he accessed details of legal advice Starmer gave campaigners in McLibel case

An undercover police officer has admitted that he spied on Keir Starmer while he was a radical barrister, a public inquiry has heard.

The police spy has said that he accessed confidential details of the legal advice that Starmer was giving to two environmentalist campaigners in the well-known McLibel case in the early 1990s.

The 10-year-old was found beaten to death in her home in Woking in August last year

The 10-year-old schoolgirl Sara Sharif was made to wear a hijab to conceal her injuries and was homeschooled in the months before she was beaten to death, a court has heard.

Sara asuffered dreadfullya and was burned with an iron, bitten and had a plastic bag taped over head before she was found dead at her family home in Woking, Surrey on 10 August last year.

In often-combative conversation with Bloomberg editor in Chicago, Trump says atariffa is his favorite word

Donald Trump doubled down on his promise to levy tariffs on all imports in a bid to boost American manufacturing, a proposal that economists say would probably mean higher prices for consumers while angering US allies.

aTo me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is atariffsa,a Trump said in an often-combative conversation with John Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, at the Economic Club of Chicago on Tuesday. aItas my favorite word.a

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• Eve De Haan made allegations in Guardian article
• 49-year-old from Staines arrested and released on bail

A 49-year-old man has been arrested in connection with an alleged sexual assault on the Tottenham season ticket holder Eve De Haan.

Writing in the Guardian, De Haan described how a travelling Brentford fan had elbowed her in the face, sexually assaulted and verbally abused her on an overground train after Spursa 3-1 defeat of Brentford at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. De Haan wrote that she reported her claims to staff at Seven Sisters station.

The 3,800-seat Bradford Live to be part of city of culture 2025 activities but NEC Group backed out of deal to run it

Bradford councilas leadership has seen off a vote of no confidence amid growing criticism over its handling of Bradford Live, a APS50.5m publicly funded venue that has been completed with no operator in place to run it.

The 3,800-seat Bradford Live building was due to open in November but performances were cancelled when NEC Group, which runs a number of large venues in and around Birmingham, pulled out of the deal.

Court sees videos prosecution says show Martyn Blake got wrong key parts of claim fatal shot was fired in self-defence

The Metropolitan police officer who shot dead Chris Kaba in south London with a asupersonica bullet to the head denied making false or exaggerated claims to justify opening fire.

Martyn Blake, 40, denies murder. His evidence continued into a second day on Tuesday as he was questioned by the prosecutor Tom Little KC.

Ex-president swayed to songs such as YMCA and Ave Maria during Pennsylvania event after two attendees fainted

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Opposition outrage over Donald Trumpas rabble-rousing demagoguery turned to bewilderment after the Republican nominee spent 40 minutes swaying to his favourite songs at a rally near Philadelphia, prompting Kamala Harris to express apparent concern for his mental state.

aHope heas okay,a Harris, the US vice-president and Democratic nominee, posted on social media, accompanying footage of a performance that many observers agreed was bizarre, even by Trumpas standards.

The PM is surrounded by Blairites, from Pat McFadden and Liz Kendall to Jacqui Smith and Jonathan Powell

• Alan Milburn to be given lead role in Labouras health ministry

In the run-up to the general election, Keir Starmer was regularly compared to Tony Blair. When the parallels were highlighted by the left, they were often intended as insults. When they came from the Labour right, particularly after the landslide result, they were compliments.

Starmer has mirrored Blair so far in his ruthlessness towards his own party, his efforts to build relationships with business and his pursuit of public service reform. But he is also more cautious, less seduced by glitz and more to the soft-left in his own views.

Paul Hudson, the Briton in charge of the French drug firm, is a big believer in the potential of AI to transform healthcare

Paul Hudson, the Briton who leads the French drug firm Sanofi, is aimmenselya proud to have carried the torch at the recent Paralympics opening ceremony along with fellow employees, as the firm was one of the sponsors of both sets of Paris games.

aIt was more emotional for people carrying the torch than they realised, perhaps even than I realised,a Hudson says, recalling how the Paralympics grew out of the Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire, a spinal injuries centre where German-born neurologist Prof Sir Ludwig Guttmann organised the first competition for wheelchair athletes in 1948.

Rachel Reeves has hinted she plans to put up the tax in the budget but some businesses have voiced concerns

The chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has dropped heavy hints that she plans to increase employer national insurance contributions (NICs) in her budget at the end of the month, and on Tuesday Keir Starmer twice refused to rule this out. But what exactly is the tax and would increasing it break the Labour partyas election manifesto promises?

She won comedyas top award, reinvented the romcom and now hosts Junior Taskmaster. So why does the New Zealand comic need Buddhist podcasts to get through the day?

Rose Matafeo is bad at endings. So bad that, after stepping away from standup in 2018, the New Zealand-born comic is now back with a new show, On and On and On. The return was prompted by some significant endings in her life: bereavement, breakups, her TV show Starstruck, her 20s. aI was surprised with how bad I was at all types of ending,a she says. aThe show is me coming to terms with that. Things end: itas not the end of the world.a

Since Matafeoas 2018 show Horndog earned her the Edinburgh comedy award, there hasnat been much time for standup. She starred in the film Baby Done, appeared on Taskmaster, was appointed host of Junior Taskmaster and made three series of Starstruck with her co-writer Alice Snedden.

This documentary on the phenomenon of penicide paints a terrible picture a but it could have been far bolder

There is a much bolder programme struggling to get out of I Cut Off His Penis: The Truth Behind the Headlines. By and large, it sticks to the traditional format of the behind-the-headlines genre, which is to recap the famous examples of whatever phenomenon is under discussion then add the context, the information that came out later and/or at trial and the distortions and omissions made by the media at the time.

Here, we have Lorena Bobbitt, who notoriously dis-membered her husband, John, with a kitchen knife in 1993, and, as she fled the scene, threw the severed appendage out of her car window into a field. She called 911, told them what she had done and where they could find the organ, which was then reattached to John in a nine-hour operation. What came out at her trial, and which she has spoken about in a handful of programmes since and as part of her activist work around domestic violence, were accounts of years of abuse a including rape and beatings, denied by John, who was acquitted of rape a that she says she suffered during her marriage. She was acquitted of assault by reason of temporary insanity, served a mandated 45 days in a psychiatric hospital, which she says now was a welcome refuge from the media attention, then rebuilt her life without him.

Robert Jenrickas aslightly clearer visiona for the Conservatives is not wowing anyone while Kemi Badenoch is being kept out of sight to stop her upsetting anyone else

Itas been a round-the-clock job. If youare wondering why you havenat seen Kevin Hollinrake, Laura Trott and Chris Philp in the same room recently, itas because they have all been otherwise engaged. Each tasked with a gruelling, daily eight-hour shift to make sure that Kemi Badenoch remains silent. The doors are all locked and her phone and laptop have been removed. KemiKaze must be protected. And the person she needs protection from is herself.

The plan is for Kemi to do and say as little as possible. Because itas far easier to let Robert Jenrick do all the talking. Honest Bob has done the morning radio programmes, heas done the Laura Kuenssberg show and everything has gone exactly how Team Kemi would have wished. The more Tory members get to see of Honest Bob, the less there is of him to like.

Docuseries details stranger-than-fiction truth behind Greyas Anatomy writer Elisabeth Finchas extensive deceptions

Sometimes, truth really is stranger than fiction a even when the fiction is the overwrought drama and bizarre medical mysteries of Greyas Anatomy. For seven years, Elisabeth Finch, a TV writer with credits on True Blood and The Vampire Diaries, helped craft the credulity-straining and tear-jerking plotlines on the long-running ABC medical soap, with a particular knack for bringing the show into the social media zeitgeist via personal experience. aFinchie,a as she was known in the writersa room, penned episodes on chondrosarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer she developed in 2012 (and wrote about in essays for Elle, among others); about needing an abortion during cancer treatment (also outlined in a video for NowThis); about sexual assault, which she said happened to her on the Vampire Diaries set (another essay, for the Hollywood Reporter, during the height of #MeToo).

Finchas penchant for spinning personal trauma into television gold brought industry acclaim, social media clout and a close personal relationship with Greyas creator Shonda Rhimes a and, seemingly, ever more tragedy. In 2018, Finch abruptly left work to attend to a friend killed in the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh; according to Jewish tradition, she told her colleagues and social media followers, she helped clean his remains off the floor. A year later, she disappeared from work again to pull the plug on her brotheras life support after his suicide attempt a a final act of abusive vindictiveness, she said. And then, in May 2022, the biggest shock of all: a two-part investigation by Vanity Fair journalist Evgenia Peretz that undid all of Finchas stories. The articles, now adapted into the Peacock docuseries Anatomy of Lies, portrayed Finch as a prolific fabulist mining othersa kindness for attention, sympathy and clout. aShe befriended people who are very empathetic, and preyed upon that empathy,a Peretz told the Guardian.

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Bill Nighy, James Norton and Thomasin McKenzie form the unlikely trio who doggedly, quietly and courageously made the discovery that would change lives around the world

There is sympathy, warmth and directness a though perhaps not much in the way of explicit joy a in this intensely English true story that made headlines and changed lives around the world.

Screenwriters Jack Thorne, Emma Gordon and Rachel Mason, and director Ben Taylor, dramatise the heartache and strain and triumph that led to the first ever birth of what the press with a mixture of hostility and awe called aa test-tube babya a that is, a baby conceived through in vitro fertilisation a on 25 July 1978: a little girl called Louise Brown (middle name Joy).

Nipples are a ahardwired erogenous zonea and they can be stimulated for pleasure and experiencing an orgasm

My friend Alex had her first nipple orgasm in her mid-20s.

aIt felt like I had an electric wire connecting my left boob to my clit,a she says.

Why do Britainas guitar heroes become household names a yet its piano and organ players donat? Letas end this injustice, writes Elton John, as he pays tribute to all those thrilling showmen eternally confined to the wings

On the club circuit in the 1960s, there was an unwritten rule about keyboards. The stages in most clubs were tiny, so whichever band was headlining got their choice of keyboard on stage first. If you were the support act a if, say, you were Reg Dwight, the keyboard player in a hard-working but minor band called Bluesology a you had to use whatever instrument the headliner used, because there was no room to set up your own gear.

My nightmare, which regularly came true, was arriving at the venue to find a Hammond organ on stage. The Hammond was an enormous, intimidating thing, like a chest of drawers with a keyboard attached. It had foot pedals and drawbars that changed its tone, and a huge speaker with a fan in front of it called a Leslie cabinet, which gave you a vibrato effect. I didnat know how to work any of it. It felt like being at the controls of a spacecraft: a spacecraft that I had absolutely no idea how to fly.

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Name: Temuas aStylish Pig Pattern Shirta.

Age: It seemed to spring fully formed from a nightmare on to the internet last weekend, but the image was created to sell air fryers in 2017.

The Saturday night staple is no longer just a dance show a itas a battlefield, where political fights and culture wars are waged

Within two years a maybe one a the pre-eminent mode of political discourse in our society will be things that did or didnat happen on Strictly Come Dancing. This imperial phase for our culture was actually all predicted by Edmund Burke in a sealed section of A Vindication of Natural Society, viewable only by those with a pure heart and the sophisticated conviction that ballroom has always been war by other means. I think Burke also foresaw Gregg Wallace, whom weall come to in a sec.

As you may know, the top-rated BBC Saturday night show has once again been fitted with its arowa suffix. The latest incident to rock Strictly, in the parlance of these things, concerns pro dancer Katya Jones and Wynne Evans, the guy who plays the opera singer Gio Compario from the Go.Compare adverts. And if you gave in to even a twitch of a smile at the thought of contemporary sexual politics being litigated via those proxies, then you should be immediately reclassified into that least escapable modern category: Part of the Problem. As for the problem a is it very bad to have spent two days scrutinising the footage, watching the row mushroom, studying the two separate apology videos for something the pair insist was a joke, and still be distinctly unclear on what did or didnat happen? If so, I can only apologise.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

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One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it

Over the past year, Israel has launched attacks on multiple countries and occupied territories: the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Iran.

Yet countries and territories aside, Israel has also targeted one specific organization with a series of unprecedented rhetorical and violent attacks.

Israelas prime minister, while standing on stage at the UN general assembly, denounced the body as acontemptiblea, a ahouse of darknessa and a aswamp of antisemitic bilea.

Israelas outgoing ambassador to the UN shredded a copy of the UN charter with a miniature paper shredder while also standing at the podium of the general assembly, and later said the UN headquarters in New York ashould be closed and wiped off the face of the Eartha.

Israelas foreign minister falsely accused the UN secretary general of not having condemned Iranas attacks on Israel, declared him apersona non grata in Israela and announced that he had abanned him from entering the countrya.

The Israeli government actively obstructed a UN-mandated commission of inquiry trying to collect evidence on the 7 October attacks.

Israelas parliament is in the process of designating a longstanding UN agency, Unrwa, as a aterrorist organizationa.

The Israeli military has bombed UN schools, warehouses and refugee camps in Gaza for 12 consecutive months, and killed a record 228 UN employees in the process. aBy far the highest number of our personnel killed in a single conflict or natural disaster since the creation of the United Nations,a to quote the UN secretary general.

The Israeli military is now also attacking UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. According to the UN, afive UN aBlue Helmetsa serving with UNIFIL in Lebanon have been injured as Israeli forces inflicted damage on UN positions close to the aBlue Linea.a

Mehdi Hasan is the CEO and editor-in-chief of the new media company Zeteo

Labouras investment summit promoted the idea of a trade-off between regulation and growth. We know where that ends

There is a profound yet simple question about investment in our economy that all politicians should be forced to face: who benefits? At this weekas International Investment Summit in London, Keir Starmer offered a worrying answer. He is pledging to arip outa bureaucracya and to make his deregulatory agenda a across-government prioritya. He proceeded to lead a back-slapping discussion with Googleas former boss Eric Schmidt, who joshed that Starmer should appoint a aminister for anti-regulationa.

He also sent a warning shot across the bows of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), whose mission is to protect the British public against scams and abuses by monopolists and other nasty global forces. aWe will make sure that every regulator in the country, especially our economic and competition regulators, take growth as seriously as this room does.a Taking sides with the monopolists in the room a and against his own regulator. Itas not a good sign.

Nicholas Shaxson is co-founder of the Balanced Economy Project, an anti-monopoly NGO

The latest survey shows the presidential candidates are neck and neck. But a trip around my neighbourhood suggests good news for Harris and possibly for giant meteors

Polls! What are they good for? Absolutely nothing, except for driving yourself bonkers. Oh look: Donald Trump is up by two points. Wait, it looks like Kamala Harris is up by five points. Yikes, now Trump is up by one-nineteenth of a point. Now, according to a much discussed NBC News poll that came out on Sunday, Trump and Harris are neck and neck.

As the US election draws closer, I have developed a severe case of poll-tigue. Can we just give the damn things a rest already? As we all know, polling is an inexact science at the best of times. More importantly, pretty much all the results of recent Trump-Harris polls have been within the margin of error. The fact that this new poll shows Harris tied with Trump (within the margin of error) while a poll in September showed that Harris was leading Trump (also within the margin of error) might signal that the Harris honeymoon is officially over, but ultimately, itas not that big a deal. You can scrutinise the numbers ad infinitum, but when it comes down to it, the truth is that nobody knows what is going to happen in November other than itas (probably) going to be very close. Polls are basically astrology for political nerds at this point.

The far-right activistas Manifesto briefly topped the websiteas chart. It is gone now, but the comments make for worrying reading

Itas always tempting to self-soothe when the far right is on the march. Tommy Robinsonas new book, Manifesto: Free Speech, Real Democracy, Peaceful Disobedience, briefly topped Amazonas bestseller chart last week a above Boris Johnsonas memoir, but also above Richard Osman, the fastest-selling hardback fiction author in British history, and Sally Rooney. Oh well, I thought. Maybe the book itself is not that bad? Maybe heas turned over a new leaf?

It is that bad: I will not read it, because I will not buy it, because the day I put APS24.99 or any fraction thereof into the pocket of Stephen Yaxley-Lennon is the day Iave parted company with the material world. But hereas how it is described in the blurb: aFor decades the political class have openly planned to replace the indigenous people of Europe and in Manifesto we focus on how they are doing this in the UK.a

Zoe Williams is a Guardian columnist

Labour is right not to be squeamish about independent healthcare firms, but Wes Streeting seems wise enough to prioritise public benefit

Our critically injured public services beg for help, but the totem signifying the state of the nation will always be the NHS. The monthly waiting time reports on ambulances, the state of A&E, the wait for cancer or GP appointments: all take the nationas pulse.

The latest figures showed a twitch of improvement. Can a government only 100 days old claim any credit? Alastair McLellan, the editor of the Health Service Journal, suggests it probably can, as health trusts accelerate activity. But, he says, the APS3.2bn elective recovery fund that pays for weekend and evening operations is running dry. Hospitals say they could do more, but only with cash for staff overtime.

In 1996, I witnessed the horror as the Israeli army fired on UN positions. Now history is repeating itself

• Tom Clonan is an independent senator in the Irish parliament and a retired Irish army officer

The Irish armed forces have participated in UN peacekeeping missions for over 60 years. Since 1958, Ireland has sent troops to global conflicts on almost every continent. We have had a peacekeeping battalion with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) in south Lebanon on a continuous basis since 1978. The relationship is so deep-rooted that in the Irish area of operations, close to the border with Israel, there are local Lebanese people who speak English with broad Irish accents.

As Israel intensifies its current ground assault in Lebanon, 380 Irish troops have found themselves in direct confrontation with the might of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). At UN position 6-52, near the border village of Maroun al-Ras, a platoon of 33 Irish troops was surrounded and isolated from UN headquarters by an IDF unit. Israeli troops have attempted to intimidate and threaten the young Irish men and women at 6-52 by positioning Merkava battle tanks on the perimeter of the post, with their 120mm main armaments aimed directly at them. A neighbouring Irish/Polish platoon at position 6-50 has witnessed Israeli forces destroying the small town of Yaroun during fierce fighting with Hezbollah.

Tom Clonan is an independent senator in the Irish parliament and a retired army officer

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Countries that espouse their commitment to the rules-based international order must challenge attempts to weaken the organisation

The United Nations is supposed to be above the fray a�a�forum for and facilitator of peaceful resolutions or, at the least, the minimisation of harms. Yet for the last year, Israel has treated it as an inconvenience at best and adversary at worst.

UN peacekeepers are literally in the path of its offensive in Lebanon and are refusing to leave as it has urged. The Israel Defense Forces forcibly entered a base�and have repeatedly fired on their positions, injuring five. Nearly 230 aid workers for Unrwa, which supports Palestinians, have been killed in Gaza. Earlier�this month, Israel declared the UNas secretaryageneral, AntA3nio Guterres, persona non grata. In May, its outgoing ambassador to the UN shredded a copy of the�charter.

These remarkable fish need clean rivers to breed in. Their decline highlights the collapse of environmental regulation

The collapse in the number of wild salmon in England and Wales is deeply dismaying. These fish are widely regarded as wonders of the natural world because of their extraordinary life cycle. This takes them thousands of miles out into the North Atlantic Ocean, before they return to our rivers a swimming and leaping upstream a to spawn.

Climate change and failures of marine conservation have contributed to the decline in numbers across their entire range, which extends from Russia to Portugal. But in Britain, the poor state of rivers is another obstacle to the speciesa survival. As well as a warning of the global threat to biodiversity, their dwindling numbers are a reminder of the price paid for the repeated breaking of environmental law.

Caroline Fiedler, Timothy Jokl and Andrew Winter Done on the rise of the far-right Austrian Freedom party and its implications for the country

Owen Jones rightly identifies the Austrian Freedom party (FPA) as having an unashamedly dangerous Nazi pedigree (On the streets of Vienna, I saw Austriansa rage at the march of the far right a but also their helplessness, 8 October). When it first joined a coalition with the AVP in 2000, the majority of Austrians were mortified and took to the streets. The new ministers had to use a tunnel to avoid the wrath of the protesters.

It seems the Overton window has lurched quite a bit to the right since then, and the Freedom party has become salonfA$?hig (respectable). This time no one was ashamed to admit who they would be voting for, and thus their victory came as no surprise, except to me and many others here. Why? Because these were not typical far-right extremists choosing the FPA. Weirdly, those new voters did not seem informed (or to care) about the more sinister aspects of this partyas platform.

The governmentas carbon capture scheme is an expensive distraction, argues Dr Richard Carter, while Kate Macintosh and Edric Brown call for a more far-sighted solution to curb emissions

George Monbiot rightly eviscerates the governmentas foolish plan�to waste nearly APS22bn on the carbon capture and storage (CCS) venture (Labouras carbon-capture scheme will be Starmeras white elephant: a terrible mistake costing billions, 11 October). But he only hints at a worse aspect of the plan: that it is entirely unproven to work on the scale needed to be effective, as many studies have shown.

A study of the health and climate impacts of carbon capture, in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, found that only 10.8% of one such plantas CO2-equivalent emissions and 10.5% of the CO2 removed from the air is captured over 20 years, and only 20 to 31% is captured over 100 years. In addition, the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis finds that aCCS is an expensive and unproven technology that distracts from global decarbonisation efforts while allowing oil and gas industries to conduct business as usual.a

Champions League conqueror is a fiery tactical zealot but narrative has always been that England need a winner

Well, at least we know now why Lee Carsley spent last week addressing the nationas media in the style of a low-comedy adulterous 1950s sales executive explaining in flustered detail exactly why or indeed why not he might or might not be on the verge of finally leaving his wife.

The news that the Football Association has been engaged in advanced discussion with Thomas Tuchel over the vacant England head coach role does explain the riddle-me-this tone of the interim choice while discussing the�immediate future.

Those with pitchforks pointing in the direction of Steve Clarke could barely have enjoyed this. There was no unwanted making of history, no fifth defeat in succession. The run of form extended to one win in 16 games but the attitude displayed by the hosts on Glasgowas south side was of one fully committed to their manager.

Cristiano Ronaldo was denied a 134th international goal. In truth, he never really looked like collecting it. Scotland will take great heart from the small step made here. Not only did they scrap in a form which has made this team so generally successful but had a level of organisation which owes plenty to effective coaching. Clarkeas detractors should take note. Ronaldo left the field in an agitated state.

• Sporting coach has been on the radar of top clubs
• Portuguese is close to incoming direcor of football Viana

Manchester City are strongly considering the Sporting head coach, RAoben Amorim, as their next manager if Pep Guardiola leaves when his contract expires at the end of the season.

Guardiola said last weekend that aanything can happena in terms of his future. The importance of City having a succession plan is clear and the link with Amorim, regarded as one of the best young managers in Europe, is understandable. The 39-year-old is a close ally of Hugo Viana, who will take over from Txiki Begiristain as Cityas director of football next summer.

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• France captain links afake newsa to PSG wages dispute
• Swedish prosecutors have not named Real Madrid star

Swedish prosecutors say a rape investigation had been opened in AStockholm without mentioning Kylian MbappA(c), following media reports that the France captain and Real Madrid player was the suspect.

Citing documents it has seen, the Swedish public broadcaster SVT reported that the French footballer is areasonably suspecteda of rape a the lower level of suspicion under Swedish law.

• Rylands Garth accused of multiple breaches of conduct
• Former prop Will Green says firm abehaved appallinglya

The man leading the multimillion-pound brain injury lawsuit representing hundreds of rugby players is under investigation from the Solicitors Regulation Authority after a former England international claimed in a submission to court that he felt pressured to lie about having�dementia.

In a case this month that has raised questions over how Richard Boardman recruits players to join the lawsuit brought by his firm, Rylands Garth, against World Rugby, the Rugby Football Union and the Welsh Rugby Union, the former Wasps prop Will Green was unsuccessfully sued for legal and medical costs after Arefusing to join the group action.

• West Indies, 144-4, beat England, 141-7, by six wickets
• West Indies will take on New Zealand in semi-final

England made a shock exit from the T20 World Cup on Tuesday evening after a rampant West Indies handed them a six-wicket defeat, chasing down their 142-run target in 18 overs a a margin of victory so substantial that they leapfrogged South Africa on net run rate to top Group B.

The win means West Indies now progress to the semi-final on Friday against New Zealand at Englandas expense, while South Africa will have to face the reigning champions, Australia, in the other semi-final on Thursday.

• Defenderas agent warned him over house parties
• Mendyas KC says he ahas already paid a very high pricea

The former Manchester City footballer Benjamin Mendy thought he could aignore all the rulesa but his behaviour led to him losing his APS500,000-a-month wages, a tribunal was told.

Mendy is claiming at an employment tribunal he is owed APS11.5m in unpaid salary the club withheld after he was charged with sex offences. The France international and World Cup winner was cleared of all charges after two trials.

Natural sinks of forests and peat were key to Finlandas ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2035. But now, the land has started emitting more greenhouse gases than it stores

Read more: Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is natureas carbon sink failing?

Tiina Sanila-Aikio cannot remember a summer this warm. The months of midnight sun around Inari, in Finnish Lapland, have been hot and dry. Conifer needles on the branch-tips are orange when they should be a deep green. The moss on the forest floor, usually swollen with water, has withered.

aI have spoken with many old reindeer herders who have never experienced the heat that weave had this summer. The sun keeps shining and it never rains,a says Sanila-Aikio, former president of the Finnish Sami parliament.

Countries promised to save 30% of land and sea for nature - but as their deadline approaches, only 24 have followed through with a plan

More than 80% of countries have failed to submit plans to meet a UN agreement to halt the destruction of Earthas ecosystems, new analysis has found.

Nearly two years ago, the world struck a once-in-a-decade deal in Montreal, Canada, that included targets to protect 30% of land and sea for nature, reform billions of dollars on environmentally harmful subsidies and slash pesticide usage. Countries committed to submit their plans for meeting the agreement before the biodiversity Cop16 in Cali, Colombia, which begins this month a but only 25 countries have done so.

Deputy childrenas ward manager says she had anever seen a response like thata to death of a child

Lucy Letby responded to the death of a newborn baby in a manner that a childrenas nurse said she had anever seena before or since, a public inquiry has been told.

Letby was heard discussing in an aexciteda way the death of two triplet babies in 24 hours in June 2016. Nicola Lightfoot, the deputy childrenas ward manager at the Countess of Chester hospital, said she heard Letby say in an animated way to a colleague immediately after the second death: aYouall never guess what just happened.a

Cost-cutting also includes axing of world affairs programme HARDtalk and BBC Asian Networkas bespoke news service

The BBC has announced its latest round of job cuts, involving a net reduction of 130 roles across news and current affairs departments, as part of a wider cost-cutting drive.

The chief executive of BBC News, Deborah Turness, announced the changes in an email on Tuesday, saying the corporation sought to cut 185 roles and open 55 new ones with the aim of saving APS24m, amounting to 4% of the current news budget.

Source says backstage abrush-bya did not include discussion of VIP protection given to star, a decision made by Scotland Yard

Keir Starmer met Taylor Swift at one of her London concerts days after a decision was taken to grant her a ablue lighta police escort, No 10 sources have confirmed.

The prime minister and his family had a 10-minute meeting with the pop megastar and her mother, Andrea, backstage at Wembley on 20 August, with the conversation covering the Southport murders, which took place at a Swift-themed holiday club.

Unleashed, which covers Johnsonas time as mayor of London, foreign secretary and prime minister, was the bestselling book of the week

Boris Johnsonas memoir, Unleashed, sold 42,528 copies in its opening week after being published on 10 October, making it the bestselling book of last week.

This means Johnson has outsold David Cameronas 2019 memoir, For the Record, which sold 20,792 copies in the week it was published, though Tony Blairas memoir, A Journey, sold 92,060 copies in its opening week. Liz Truss shifted just 2,228 copies of her memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, in its first week on sale earlier this year.

Met Office says up to 80mm of water could fall over six hours in some areas, potentially causing flooding

The Met Office has issued yellow weather warnings for rain that may lead to travel disruption and flooding over the next two days.

The first will stretch from Plymouth and reach as far north as Manchester, covering parts of north-west and south-west England, Wales and the West Midlands.

Interim report finds little evidence of changes in response to case of necrophiliac killer David Fuller

Repeated failures to prevent dead people from being abused in funeral parlours and mortuaries highlight the urgent need for regulation of funeral services in England, an inquiry has found.

Sir Jonathan Michael is chairing the second phase of an inquiry into how the necrophiliac killer David Fuller was able to sexually abuse the bodies of scores of women and girls in hospital mortuaries.

Exclusive: EA warns it lacks budget to tackle Englandas rising number of potential aforever chemicalsa locations

The number of sites identified as potentially having been polluted with banned cancer-causing aforever chemicalsa in England is on the rise, and the Environment Agency (EA) says it does not have the budget to deal with them.

A former RAF airfield in Cambridgeshire and a fire service college in the Cotswolds have joined a chemicals plant in Lancashire and a fire protection equipment supplier in North Yorkshire on the agencyas list of aproblem sitesa for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Adriana Brownlee, 23, reaches summit of Shishapangma three years after setting target at top of Everest

A 23-year-old has become the youngest woman to climb all 14 of the worldas 8,000-metre-plus peaks.

Adriana Brownlee reached the 8,027-metre summit of Shishapangma in Tibet on 9 October, becoming the second British person to complete the gruelling feat. It came three years after Brownlee reached the top of Everest and resolved to climb all 14 of the worldas highest peaks, the Times reported.

Girlas grandmother, Caroline Sturgess, reads statement to inquiry into death of Dawn Sturgess in 2018

The daughter of a woman killed in the Wiltshire novichok poisonings has told an inquiry into her death of her sadness that she never got to say goodbye to her.

In a statement read to the inquiry by Dawn Sturgessas mother, Caroline Sturgess, the girl said: aMe and my mum had a bond that I will never forget. The day I heard she had fallen really ill was heartbreaking to hear.a

Credit rating agency expects English and Welsh companies to challenge regulatoras ruling with CMA watchdog

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Water companies are alaying the groundworka to appeal against Ofwatas decision to rein in how much they can increase customersa bills, according to a leading credit rating agency.

Moodyas said in a report on the water industry that it expected the companies to take the water regulatoras final ruling on bill rises to the competition watchdog for reconsideration if expectations for returns on investment did not improve.

More than 200,000 voters cast ballots on day one of in-person early voting; cancelation would be second after ex-president pulled out of 60 Minutes

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Joe Biden is in his home town of Wilmington, Delaware, this morning, but will in the evening head to nearby Philadelphia for an unspecified political event.

The White House has not yet made public any details of that event, scheduled for 6.45pm, but the president has frequently traveled to Philadelphia during his presidency. Itas an especially good investment of his time right now a Pennsylvania is one of the swing states expected to decide the election, and Democratic turnout in Philadelphia and its suburbs is expected to be crucial to determining if Kamala Harris can win.

Rufo, in his post, refers to six specific paragraphs from Harrisa roughly 200-page book.

CNN reviewed several of the passages highlighted by Rufo and found that Harris and OaC. Hamilton failed to properly attribute language to sources.

Rightwing operatives are getting desperate as they see the bipartisan coalition of support Vice President Harris is building to win this election, as Trump retreats to a conservative echo chamber refusing to face questions about his lies. This is a book thatas been out for 15 years, and the Vice President clearly cited sources and statistics in footnotes and endnotes throughout.

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