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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>The Guardian</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk</link> <description>Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice</description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</copyright> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 04:03:49 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2024-05-07T04:03:49Z</dc:date> <dc:language>en-gb</dc:language> <dc:rights>Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</dc:rights> <image> <title>The Guardian</title> <url>https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png</url> <link>https://www.theguardian.com</link> </image> <item> <title>Israeli airstrikes on Rafah begin despite mounting ceasefire pressure</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/gaza-ceasefire-hangs-in-balance-as-israel-carries-out-night-airstrikes-on-rafah</link> <description><p>Palestinians in Gaza thrown into confusion by Hamas’s acceptance of a deal, followed by Israel’s sceptical response and bomb attacks</p><p>Rafah’s fate hung in the balance on Monday after Hamas said it had accepted a ceasefire-for-hostage deal but Israel responded sceptically and said it would press on with its campaign on Gaza’s southernmost city, carrying out night airstrikes.</p><p>The more than 1 million Palestinians taking refuge in Rafah were thrown into confusion by the day’s events. Israel issued orders for the evacuation of part of the city earlier on Monday, triggering an exodus of thousands of people.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/gaza-ceasefire-hangs-in-balance-as-israel-carries-out-night-airstrikes-on-rafah">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:16:41 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/gaza-ceasefire-hangs-in-balance-as-israel-carries-out-night-airstrikes-on-rafah</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8387b8d66a7612052c46427da32fc93f922be214/0_113_3240_1944/master/3240.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f80a081337afd78ce292150f42e380e8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8387b8d66a7612052c46427da32fc93f922be214/0_113_3240_1944/master/3240.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4b9c32b9ccf878a664fb0f15f8028f3e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jason Burke in Jerusalem, Malak A Tantesh in Rafah and Julian Borger in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:16:41Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rachel Reeves accuses Tories of ‘gaslighting’ public over economy</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/rachel-reeves-tories-gaslighting-economy-labour</link> <description><p>Shadow chancellor will highlight Labour’s plans to boost economy and say Conservatives are ‘out of touch’</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/theyre-everywhere-labours-wooing-of-city-goes-into-overdrive">‘They’re everywhere’: Labour’s wooing of City goes into overdrive</a></li></ul><p>Rachel Reeves will draw the economic battle lines for the next general election on Tuesday, challenging the government’s claims that the economy is turning a corner when millions are still struggling with the cost of living.</p><p>The shadow chancellor will accuse Rishi Sunak and Jeremy Hunt of “gaslighting” the public with over-optimistic statements about the UK economy that are “out of touch” with most people’s lives.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/rachel-reeves-tories-gaslighting-economy-labour">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rachel-reeves">Rachel Reeves</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/economy">Economic policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 23:14:18 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/rachel-reeves-tories-gaslighting-economy-labour</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6a002e072623e238c59d4b178d082d6836d9a6f6/582_60_2258_1355/master/2258.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dc077a96da17a119811ae8da0f53d2bc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6a002e072623e238c59d4b178d082d6836d9a6f6/582_60_2258_1355/master/2258.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b65aef318a0adc54adc9e412e60aa67f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Pippa Crerar Political editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T23:14:18Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Dresses made out of sand, corsets and power poses: the Met Gala 2024 – in pictures</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/06/met-gala-in-pictures</link> <description><p>The theme was JG Ballard’s 1962 short story, The Garden of Time, which meant references to decay, lots of florals and more than one look that seemed to have nothing to do with anything</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/06/met-gala-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/met-gala-2024">Met Gala 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/met-ball">Met Gala</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion">Fashion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 02:46:44 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/06/met-gala-in-pictures</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2ccef4975f15ff79e106a624ff878cfa16feea0b/0_496_7471_4483/master/7471.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a326d9f9e4bea63ff3bc95c3d2d8b06c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2ccef4975f15ff79e106a624ff878cfa16feea0b/0_496_7471_4483/master/7471.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fe72f5165a0c818ba096b378c43e7b7f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ellie Violet Bramley and Blake Sharp-Wiggins</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T02:46:44Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Russia threatens UK military and orders nuclear drills after ‘provocation’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/russia-to-hold-battlefield-nuclear-drills-after-macron-and-cameron-comments</link> <description><p>Vladimir Putin responds to recent statements from David Cameron and Emmanuel Macron over Ukraine war</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/06/russia-ukraine-war-live-putin-orders-nuclear-weapons-test">Ukraine war – live updates</a></li></ul><p>Russia has threatened to strike British military facilities and ordered its<strong> </strong>military to hold battlefield nuclear weapons drills in a move the Kremlin described as a response to comments from the French president, Emmanuel Macron, on western troops fighting in Ukraine and from the British foreign secretary, David Cameron, on using British-supplied weapons against Russia.</p><p>The Russian defence ministry said in a statement that troops from the southern military district would “practise the issues of preparation and use of non-strategic nuclear weapons … in response to provocative statements and threats by certain western officials against the Russian Federation.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/russia-to-hold-battlefield-nuclear-drills-after-macron-and-cameron-comments">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/vladimir-putin">Vladimir Putin</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/davidcameron">David Cameron</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/emmanuel-macron">Emmanuel Macron</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nuclear-weapons">Nuclear weapons</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/foreignpolicy">Foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/military">Military</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:59:41 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/russia-to-hold-battlefield-nuclear-drills-after-macron-and-cameron-comments</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c0cfae4f7a9e3cd8d1d6b91182900f7d39de7216/0_118_6000_3601/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=abba7246c6855e8d2eadbb1cffc9cfff"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c0cfae4f7a9e3cd8d1d6b91182900f7d39de7216/0_118_6000_3601/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f02f38a7eced12720e0c72aea67a9ffe"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Andrew Roth</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:59:41Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>UK armed forces’ personal data hacked in MoD breach</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/06/uk-military-personnels-data-hacked-in-mod-payroll-breach</link> <description><p>Defence secretary to address MPs after names and bank details of armed forces members targeted by unnamed attacker</p><p>The Ministry of Defence has suffered a significant data breach and the personal information of UK military personnel has been hacked.</p><p>A third-party payroll system used by the MoD, which includes names and bank details of current and past members of the armed forces, was targeted in the attack. A very small number of addresses may also have been accessed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/06/uk-military-personnels-data-hacked-in-mod-payroll-breach">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/hacking">Hacking</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/ministry-of-defence">Ministry of Defence</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/data-computer-security">Data and computer security</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 22:31:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/06/uk-military-personnels-data-hacked-in-mod-payroll-breach</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d38514be5e1dc14a5178b2d8c2afbd2135673d8d/0_0_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=80c990060612989df2e537990f6d3df2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Toby Melville/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d38514be5e1dc14a5178b2d8c2afbd2135673d8d/0_0_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=550c969c21d64425bb6adcff2d0010a2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Toby Melville/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tom Ambrose and agency</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T22:31:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>General election result is not a foregone conclusion, Sunak says</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/general-election-result-not-foregone-conclusion-sunak</link> <description><p>PM ‘absolutely determined to fight’ despite Tories’ disastrous local election results and Labour poll lead</p><p>Rishi Sunak has said the general election result is not a “foregone conclusion” despite <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/03/tories-face-worst-local-election-results-40-years-sunak-sunak">disastrous local election results</a> and the Tories struggling to close the gap with Labour in the polls.</p><p>The prime minister said he was “absolutely determined to fight” in the run-up to polling day to show the government was making a difference to people’s lives on issues including the economy and migration.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/general-election-result-not-foregone-conclusion-sunak">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections-2024">Local elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections">Local elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:13:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/general-election-result-not-foregone-conclusion-sunak</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c6a7713f3bb17d642d65eb02eb9a3c465483cfda/0_134_7328_4397/master/7328.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=51209fba8d93cad4694628c7d932a40b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c6a7713f3bb17d642d65eb02eb9a3c465483cfda/0_134_7328_4397/master/7328.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e4cf7e9175fa3af53c73b9ad0b966190"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Henry Nicholls/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Pippa Crerar Political editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T16:13:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Man found guilty over Bournemouth road rage incident caught on video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/bournemouth-road-rage-incident-guilty</link> <description><p>Peter Abbott hammered on woman’s windscreen and screamed at her after she beeped her horn at him </p><p>A road rage driver who hammered on a woman’s windscreen and screamed at her has been warned he faces jail after being found guilty of threatening behaviour.</p><p>Peter Abbott, 60, unleashed a torrent of abuse at Samantha Isaacs, who was on her own, after she beeped her horn at him after being cut up outside a Tesco petrol station in Bournemouth in August last year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/bournemouth-road-rage-incident-guilty">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/ukcrime">Crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/bournemouth">Bournemouth</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england">England</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:47:51 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/bournemouth-road-rage-incident-guilty</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbda331999130912c1589bd59e0dff02008beea6/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d0e80648ffc11a753e7e23e15af276a8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: BNPS</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cbda331999130912c1589bd59e0dff02008beea6/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8173584da599af8188d51871bb7daf0c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: BNPS</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tom Ambrose</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:47:51Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>UK weather: Met Office warns of heavy rain and thunderstorms</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/uk-weather-met-office-warns-of-heavy-rain-and-thunderstorms</link> <description><p>Downpours may cause flooding and travel disruption across much of the country on bank holiday Monday</p><p>Bank holiday plans for many could be ruined after forecasters warned thunderstorms and heavy downpours could cause flooding and travel disruption across the UK.</p><p>The Met Office issued yellow weather warnings for parts of central and southern Scotland, Wales and parts of England on Monday, warning that spray and sudden flooding could create difficult driving conditions.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/uk-weather-met-office-warns-of-heavy-rain-and-thunderstorms">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/weather">UK weather</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland">Scotland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/wales">Wales</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england">England</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 14:26:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/uk-weather-met-office-warns-of-heavy-rain-and-thunderstorms</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e4967c2d4a74095e8370c7c4d67b4117fff60f0/0_182_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bfe665f386739d151fef747e74b9787f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2e4967c2d4a74095e8370c7c4d67b4117fff60f0/0_182_5472_3283/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aab73c4ae22702ab8c4e639e735cba26"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Geoffrey Swaine/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sammy Gecsoyler</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T14:26:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Special treatment’: Harvey Weinstein in private unit in New York hospital</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/harvey-weinstein-new-york-hospital</link> <description><p>Former mogul, whose New York rape conviction was overturned in April, kept away from other detainees in special medical unit</p><p><em>This story was originally published by the City. Sign up to get the latest <a href="https://nyc.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=73d98c6dfc90032198ec7bdee&amp;id=aa6c8f62b7">New York City news</a> delivered to you each morning</em></p><p>Harvey Weinstein is being kept in a private room inside Bellevue hospital’s intensive care unit on a floor away from all other detainees, the City has learned.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/harvey-weinstein-new-york-hospital">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/harvey-weinstein">Harvey Weinstein</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 22:17:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/harvey-weinstein-new-york-hospital</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3f8c4d3a55aa82e6c1eb88966fd8852825b0aaa1/0_80_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dacd12895a369d27ae272728dbfbaa23"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Dee Delgado/UPI/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3f8c4d3a55aa82e6c1eb88966fd8852825b0aaa1/0_80_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b4791e0c0c0e9df9a62551de4a5db32b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Dee Delgado/UPI/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Reuven Blau of the City</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T22:17:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Savills says UK house prices will rise this year in U-turn on earlier forecast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/07/savills-uk-house-prices-rise-this-year-u-turn-forecast</link> <description><p>Lower mortgage rates prompt property firm to change its outlook from 3% drop to a 2.5% increase</p><p>A decline in mortgage rates has prompted a forecaster to reverse its predictions of a fall in UK house prices in 2024, instead suggesting the average cost of a property could rise by £61,500 over the next five years.</p><p>The property company Savills had <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/nov/08/uk-housing-market-is-past-its-peak-pain-declares-savills">forecast in November</a> that it expected the average price of a home to fall by 3% this year because recent rises in the Bank of England base rate had heightened the affordability pressures on would-be buyers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/07/savills-uk-house-prices-rise-this-year-u-turn-forecast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/houseprices">House prices</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/property">Property</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/mortgage-rates">Mortgage rates</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/housingmarket">Housing market</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/mortgages">Mortgages</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/savills">Savills</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/money">Money</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 23:01:52 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/07/savills-uk-house-prices-rise-this-year-u-turn-forecast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/da9f840f6c3aa8e5e53e1c803e2f6f805cf788e2/0_147_4500_2699/master/4500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=814537169dfec98b1a96a620c22f48d4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/da9f840f6c3aa8e5e53e1c803e2f6f805cf788e2/0_147_4500_2699/master/4500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0013f98e6bdf972825aa3e4da0e5d0db"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Maureen McLean/Rex/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hilary Osborne</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T23:01:52Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Painting of vagina by French artist Gustave Courbet sprayed with ‘MeToo’ graffiti</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/gustave-courbet-vagina-painting-vandalised-metoo-graffiti</link> <description><p>French-Luxembourgish performance artist Deborah de Robertis says she organised the stunt, after which two people were arrested</p><p>Two women have sprayed the words “MeToo” on a 19th-century painting of a woman’s vagina by French artist Gustave Courbet in a stunt by a performance artist, a museum and the artist said.</p><p>“The Origin of the World”, a nude painted from 1866, was protected by a “glass pane” and the police were on site to assess the damage, the Centre Pompidou in the north-eastern city of Metz told AFP on Monday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/gustave-courbet-vagina-painting-vandalised-metoo-graffiti">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/metoo-movement">#MeToo movement</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art">Art</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 03:18:08 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/gustave-courbet-vagina-painting-vandalised-metoo-graffiti</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/88fda0a50bc6ad95cd03e27d393c69a1e6911ad6/0_9_5136_3082/master/5136.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fdaa47a722d787e12bd05db1ad55925d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: François Mori/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/88fda0a50bc6ad95cd03e27d393c69a1e6911ad6/0_9_5136_3082/master/5136.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9c8770d5450ad54f720fae9485df1d35"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: François Mori/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Agence France-Presse</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T03:18:08Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Can Modi finally win over the southern states and reshape India’s electoral map?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/can-modi-finally-win-over-the-southern-states-and-reshape-indias-electoral-map</link> <description><p>Making a breakthrough in Tamil Nadu and Kerala is crucial to the BJP’s ambitions to gain an even larger parliamentary majority – but it won’t be easy</p><p>Under Tamil Nadu’s scorching midday sun, K Annamalai waved at the crowd gathered around his campaign bus. Some people stretched their babies upwards to be touched by him, others threw flower petals and passed gifts through the window. A sea of mobile phones vied for space as people tried to squeeze the candidate into their selfies.</p><p>Here in Coimbatore, an industrial city in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) has been working overtime. Over months, thousands of volunteers and party workers have taken to the streets – backed hundreds of locally-targeted WhatsApp groups and a highly-organised social media campaign across YouTube, Facebook and Instagram – whipping up a frenzy around Annamalai, one of the BJP’s most talked-about candidates.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/can-modi-finally-win-over-the-southern-states-and-reshape-indias-electoral-map">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi">Narendra Modi</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 03:00:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/can-modi-finally-win-over-the-southern-states-and-reshape-indias-electoral-map</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/15665edf6a63dd5afe250f867c2b6183aba8900e/0_10_3033_1820/master/3033.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=da24e12fe7bcf414c4ea1db96c24513b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jagadeesh Nv/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/15665edf6a63dd5afe250f867c2b6183aba8900e/0_10_3033_1820/master/3033.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ebf04a6ed5775d998cfe05de5c36bcf4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jagadeesh Nv/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Coimbatore</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T03:00:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>John Swinney’s unfussy election as leader reflects his esteem within SNP</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-unfussy-election-leader-reflects-esteem-snp</link> <description><p>Party’s return to minority government after a year of upheaval will test his renowned negotiating skills</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-declares-new-chapter-as-he-becomes-snp-leader">John Swinney declares ‘new chapter’ as he becomes SNP leader</a></li></ul><p>Few people understand the internal dynamics and historical loyalties of the Scottish National party better than John Swinney, who joined the party at 15 and quickly rose to become national secretary by his early 20s.</p><p>His <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-declares-new-chapter-as-he-becomes-snp-leader">unfussy election as leader</a> says much about the esteem in which he is held by colleagues across factions and ages – while at 60 Swinney is a generation older than his predecessor, Humza Yousaf, his confirmation was instantly welcomed by Amy Callaghan, one of the party’s youngest MPs, as well as by established Holyrood cabinet secretaries.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-unfussy-election-leader-reflects-esteem-snp">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/john-swinney">John Swinney</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/snp">Scottish National party (SNP)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/scotland">Scottish politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland">Scotland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:52:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-unfussy-election-leader-reflects-esteem-snp</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d0abcc6c47963a209da999bce5f3c3f450cbd0af/0_35_2880_1728/master/2880.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f6a1633ca5ebebf9145f56428168871c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lesley Martin/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d0abcc6c47963a209da999bce5f3c3f450cbd0af/0_35_2880_1728/master/2880.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=40a1357f188d1b267d1277a142d605a0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Lesley Martin/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:52:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tory rebels call time on leadership challenge as Sunak limps on</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/tory-rebels-call-time-on-leadership-challenge-as-sunak-limps-on</link> <description><p>Despite disastrous election results, long-threatened coup lacks numbers to force no-confidence vote</p><p></p><p>After months of plotting to oust Rishi Sunak by some on the right of the Conservative party, the rebellion fizzled out with barely a whimper this weekend despite a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/03/tories-face-worst-local-election-results-40-years-sunak-sunak">disastrous set of local election results</a>.</p><p>Senior Tories had long predicted that bad losses could be enough to push their despondent colleagues over the edge, even those who could see that changing leader yet again before the general election could have dire electoral consequences.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/tory-rebels-call-time-on-leadership-challenge-as-sunak-limps-on">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections">Local elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 19:11:17 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/tory-rebels-call-time-on-leadership-challenge-as-sunak-limps-on</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4dc287d488e7315e29de26743e23eb383f9932bd/37_1712_3187_1912/master/3187.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6359a09e25b7f427f9b73d9a0c6794e5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4dc287d488e7315e29de26743e23eb383f9932bd/37_1712_3187_1912/master/3187.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=375aafd81bdf9810e68ae9d875144c04"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Pippa Crerar Political editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T19:11:17Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Spacey Unmasked review – far more than a did-he-didn’t-he exposé</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/spacey-unmasked-review-far-more-than-a-did-he-didnt-he-expose</link> <description><p>Ten men, including a boxer and an ex-marine, make allegations of sexually inappropriate behaviour against the star who was once box office dynamite. Then this documentary goes even further</p><p>In Kevin Spacey’s written right-of-reply statement at the end of Spacey Unmasked, he reminds the world that every criminal and civil court case accusing him of sexual assault has been resolved in his favour. He has a right to reiterate that fact. Public opinion, however, has long since turned against an actor who was one of the most acclaimed in the world when he won Oscars for The Usual Suspects and American Beauty, but who has been an industry pariah since Netflix fired him from House of Cards in 2017. This new two-part documentary details further allegations of inappropriate behaviour.</p><p>Spacey Unmasked is more, though, than a blizzard of marks on one side of an is-he-isn’t-he ledger. Viewers who are minded to believe what is alleged in these interviews are given a picture not just of whether an A-list actor came to abuse his position, but how.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/spacey-unmasked-review-far-more-than-a-did-he-didnt-he-expose">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/kevinspacey">Kevin Spacey</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:15:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/spacey-unmasked-review-far-more-than-a-did-he-didnt-he-expose</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1b9ec5627d64e82f83d2a8cdbe8639dd830218a0/0_185_3000_1799/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=45cdf19d9f3cd9e233caf380e56700e9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Kramer/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1b9ec5627d64e82f83d2a8cdbe8639dd830218a0/0_185_3000_1799/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=117a4379f471f4a8053f7731e0b2818a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Kramer/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jack Seale</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:15:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Hollywood hysteria: the 60s movies that showed a time of madness</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/06/criterion-channel-hollywood-crack-up</link> <description><p>During a decade of American disillusionment, a series of films, from Seconds to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane, represented a culture cracking up</p><p>In assembling a slate of films, a programming team or other curatorial body will often be made to answer the question of <em>why now</em>, what relevance old art has to the current moment. In the case of the Criterion Channel’s new series <a href="https://www.criterionchannel.com/hollywood-crack-up-the-decade-american-cinema-lost-its-mind">Hollywood Crack-Up: The Decade American Cinema Lost Its Mind</a>, a sampling of arthouse hysteria from across the 60s, the argument all but makes itself. These bursts of celluloid madness come from a not-so-remote time when governmental credibility had hit an all-time low and the culture-war rift yawned wider than ever; when the disillusionment of a mistreated youth generation exploded into student protests against an overseas war colored by unsavory political imperatives; when ascendant minority groups demanded rights and dignity in the face of high-boil prejudice; when a terrified old guard felt that everything they could once take for granted had been upended and replaced by unfamiliar, strange, anti-authoritarian new normals. Calamity was in the air. Surely, somehow, we can find it in ourselves to relate.</p><p>The 16 fever dreams of delusion, brainwashing, public violence and other forms of deviant psychology – all with expressionistic, delirious aesthetics to match – offer variations on the theme of anxiety, a many-tendriled morass of unease oriented most centrally around the shifting balance of power. John Frankenheimer’s sci-fi classic Seconds (a crucial influence on Mad Men, which stands as a post-facto parallel curriculum to this one) sees the conflict as age-based, through the parable of a working stiff who reinvents himself with a strapping full-body transplant and insinuates himself among the countercultural enclave out west. But like so many white-collar malcontents hitting reset on their lives with a new home and younger wife, the suburban clock-puncher torpedoing his marriage in Faces being another, he finds that the same existential dissatisfactions follow him no matter where he goes. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? charts an equally bleak path forking out from middle-aged malaise, the choice not to divorce curdling into rafter-shaking enmity between a couple that gives human form to the deterioration of Family Values.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/06/criterion-channel-hollywood-crack-up">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 14:44:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/06/criterion-channel-hollywood-crack-up</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7f4b9b12be39f3fb385a4260ed149c2a6242c822/0_155_2863_1717/master/2863.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=13d98b1c70e2baaf608735a342311d48"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7f4b9b12be39f3fb385a4260ed149c2a6242c822/0_155_2863_1717/master/2863.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fa0a84d52a64ca9ef68854b5575f3daa"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Charles Bramesco</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T14:44:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Can I get a little more eco-friendly every day? Four tips for a greener mindset</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/may/06/sustainable-eco-friendly-green-mindset</link> <description><p>Developing a daily practice of sustainability can help ease your anxiety about the future – so I tried it out for a week</p><p>When it comes to climate change, I, like many others, often wonder: does it matter if we adjust our individual behaviors to be more sustainable, or are these efforts insignificant?</p><p>Many <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/10/individuals-climate-crisis-government-planet-priority">experts</a> argue that focusing too granularly on individual responsibility can shift the burden from destructive industry and policy on to regular folk. Eventually, we can burn out on the endless micro-responsibilities and not have juice for the big stuff.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/may/06/sustainable-eco-friendly-green-mindset">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/wellness">Well actually</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:43 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/article/2024/may/06/sustainable-eco-friendly-green-mindset</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6e0ee268216c9774204b62022fab5f23b2ad4ff2/0_133_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d255c447ce0ac588f889fb7feaa42b45"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: SolStock/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6e0ee268216c9774204b62022fab5f23b2ad4ff2/0_133_4000_2400/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=88bcb8d432f0894c745cbaa1edd10cd4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: SolStock/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Adrienne Matei</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T16:00:43Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Gissa job!’ How Bernard Hill created one of TV’s most tragic and unforgettable characters</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/bernard-hill-yosser-hughes-boys-from-the-blackstuff-lord-of-the-rings-titanic</link> <description><p>Playing unhinged head-butting Yosser Hughes in Boys from the Blackstuff made Hill a legend. But, from Titanic to The Lord of the Rings, his entire 50-year career was outstanding </p><p>Some time in 1980, on the first sheet of a script that would eventually run to 221 pages, Alan Bleasdale typed the line: <em>We see Yosser with his three children. He is leaning forward.</em></p><p>When the jobcentre clerk explains he is “afraid” he can’t do anything, the pale-faced, dark-moustached man snaps: “Afraid? Y’ll be terrified in a minute. <em>[Leans in.] </em>Now sort me soddin’ Giro check out before I knock y’into the disability department.<em>”</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/bernard-hill-yosser-hughes-boys-from-the-blackstuff-lord-of-the-rings-titanic">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/drama">Drama</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:22:51 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/bernard-hill-yosser-hughes-boys-from-the-blackstuff-lord-of-the-rings-titanic</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/38e5c2e4376b1f421ae825f349795a775351373b/0_151_1904_1141/master/1904.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1d41bac783884766c731f729437b986c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: BBC/Allstar</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/38e5c2e4376b1f421ae825f349795a775351373b/0_151_1904_1141/master/1904.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7f1c06f2050ea5a6ca3e786d6c175f61"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: BBC/Allstar</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Mark Lawson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:22:51Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The synthetic coffee revolution: are ground date seeds really as delicious as the real thing?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/06/the-synthetic-coffee-revolution-are-ground-date-seeds-really-as-delicious-as-the-real-thing</link> <description><p>Your daily caffeine habit is not good for the planet. Thankfully, researchers are finding alternatives to ground coffee beans</p><p><strong>Name:</strong> Synthetic coffee.</p><p><strong>Age:</strong> Three.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/06/the-synthetic-coffee-revolution-are-ground-date-seeds-really-as-delicious-as-the-real-thing">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/coffee">Coffee</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/research">Research and development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/travelfoodanddrink">Food and drink</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:32:05 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/food/article/2024/may/06/the-synthetic-coffee-revolution-are-ground-date-seeds-really-as-delicious-as-the-real-thing</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9146bf00af65d79eeffcff51d1c89c3d724b2c1/0_201_4013_2409/master/4013.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=359885b97a96ccd6ed40dc0b061aa90a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luisa González/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b9146bf00af65d79eeffcff51d1c89c3d724b2c1/0_201_4013_2409/master/4013.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=09da202110bf7ffcfb85bf5ec22be75f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Luisa González/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:32:05Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I thought it was a speech by Kurt Vonnegut’: Baz Luhrmann on making Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen)</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/06/baz-luhrmann-mary-schmich-everybodys-free-to-wear-sunscreen-kurt-vonnegut-slaughterhouse-five</link> <description><p>‘Some kid had credited a column of life advice in the Chicago Tribune to the writer of Slaughterhouse-Five. It then spread on a new invention called the world wide web. I thought it would make a great spoken word song’</p><p>In 1997, my music supervisor Anton Monsted and I decided to make a charity album with remixes of songs from my films. I was working on a new version of Rozalla’s rave banger Everybody’s Free (To Feel Good) that, for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/10/romeo-and-juliet-review#:~:text=It%20has%20a%20sort%20of,that%20suitable%20for%20school%20parties.">Romeo + Juliet</a>, we had turned into an ecclesiastical song with vocals from Quindon Tarver and King’s College Choir. <br><br>Around this time, a graduation speech apparently by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/11/cats-cradle-kurt-vonnegut-novels-everyone-should-read">Kurt Vonnegut</a> offering life advice was spreading on a new invention called the world wide web. It was what we would now call viral – but it was also a hoax. Some kid had taken a column by a smart, respected columnist called Mary Schmich, who wrote for the Chicago Tribune, and instead credited it to the Slaughterhouse-Five author. <br><br>We thought it would make a great spoken word song. We found a voiceover artist, Lee Perry, to impersonate an imagined Vonnegut and spent a great deal of time getting it right, so that it felt naturally spoken and rhythmic.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/06/baz-luhrmann-mary-schmich-everybodys-free-to-wear-sunscreen-kurt-vonnegut-slaughterhouse-five">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/popandrock">Pop and rock</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/music">Music</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/baz-luhrmann">Baz Luhrmann</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/kurtvonnegut">Kurt Vonnegut</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 14:58:07 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/06/baz-luhrmann-mary-schmich-everybodys-free-to-wear-sunscreen-kurt-vonnegut-slaughterhouse-five</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/038f649a1ee08203d6ac8c111d44b0b963bd6188/0_0_4159_2496/master/4159.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8a26b24dc74e0d6d60140b3886cc10b7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Archive Photos/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/038f649a1ee08203d6ac8c111d44b0b963bd6188/0_0_4159_2496/master/4159.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ca07f1c57e8d4d9ec5bf9f87e9bcdf7a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Archive Photos/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Interviews by Kyle MacNeill</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T14:58:07Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>I bought Trump’s Bible – a blasphemous, sticky nightmare</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-bible-review</link> <description><p>Trump Steaks, Trump Vodka, and various Trump casinos have all failed – but has the ex-president finally found himself a winning product?</p><p>There was a time, not so long ago, that Donald Trump did not seem to be very familiar with the Bible.</p><p>When he first ran for the nomination of the very Christian Republican party, Trump was <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10qbt0LHmvE">unable to name</a> a single Bible verse. Early in his 2016 presidential campaign he referred to the Eucharist as a “<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2015/07/18/politics/trump-has-never-sought-forgiveness/index.html">little cracker</a>”. In a subsequent church visit, as he attempted to prove his religious credentials, he <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/clarification-trump-puts-cash-in-communion-plate/2016/02/01/65f8c67a-c937-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html">put cash in a plate</a> that was meant to hold the communion.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-bible-review">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/the-bible">The Bible</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/christianity">Christianity</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:00:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-bible-review</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/90e5e60818a22615e515c2df6c3502b0024d83bc/1_0_2998_1800/master/2998.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a0ca1dca43dcd238c8c9119a932a9dea"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/90e5e60818a22615e515c2df6c3502b0024d83bc/1_0_2998_1800/master/2998.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3fea81750184926fdf1da2a8d0db1838"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Adam Gabbatt</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T13:00:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘You wouldn’t eat her – she’s one of the family’: meet Jill, Australia’s heaviest oyster</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/07/you-wouldnt-eat-her-shes-one-of-the-family-meet-jill-australias-heaviest-oyster</link> <description><p>Nurtured by Bernie Connell for almost a decade, the mollusc now weighs more than 3kg and is about to enter the record books</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/may/07/australia-news-live-rba-interest-rates-cost-of-living-labor-budget-debt-chalmers-politics-social-media-online-age-verification">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></li><li>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">morning and afternoon news emails</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></li></ul><p>Every so often, oyster farmer Bernie Connell comes across an unusually large specimen. He separates it from the rest of his crop, names it and lowers it back into the Clyde River at Batemans Bay, where he lets “tender love and care and good water” do the rest.</p><p>Now almost 10 years old, Jill – an oyster that caught his eye nine years ago – weighs 3.01kg. That makes Jill Australia’s – and potentially the world’s – heaviest oyster, after it beat Big Boppa, at 2.44kg, and Keithy, 2.4kg, to win the title at Australia’s biggest oyster competition at the Narooma oyster festival on the New South Wales south coast on Saturday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/07/you-wouldnt-eat-her-shes-one-of-the-family-meet-jill-australias-heaviest-oyster">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/australia-news">Australia news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/new-south-wales">New South Wales</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/oysters">Oysters</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/shellfish">Shellfish</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:45 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/may/07/you-wouldnt-eat-her-shes-one-of-the-family-meet-jill-australias-heaviest-oyster</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60eca77bc50871e74c51c10507ff90d024e0ee48/84_90_1916_1150/master/1916.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a603bffe32199344caca729516d29be5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Rogers</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60eca77bc50871e74c51c10507ff90d024e0ee48/84_90_1916_1150/master/1916.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a60e7aafb79b42b3bbc7bab7958abf91"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Rogers</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Daisy Dumas</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:00:45Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>England’s metro mayors make a farce of local democracy. They must be scrapped | Simon Jenkins</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/england-metro-mayors-local-democracy-local-politics-keir-starmer</link> <description><p>They were meant to refresh local politics, not confuse it. Starmer must devolve proper powers to every city and town</p><p>England’s 12 “metro mayors” should be abolished. Metro mayorships are artificial creations whose regional geography rarely reflects any civic identity or pride. Towns and cities should have properly elected mayors, as is common in other democracies. These regional entities were invented by Whitehall in the 2010s, supposedly to order transport and investment. Their boundaries were confused with those of near-meaningless police commissioners. As instruments of local democracy, they are a farce.</p><p>These individuals – distinct from mayors elected for single cities – have served largely as chairs of “combined authorities”. Thus, until 2023 Liverpool had its own local mayor and a second one for its surrounding region. The West of England metro mayor covers Bristol and Bath, but Bristol had its own mayor until the role was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/may/06/bristol-votes-referendum-directly-elected-mayoral-role-marvin-rees">abolished in May of this year</a>. Cambridge shares a mayor with Peterborough. <a href="https://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/explainer/metro-mayors-and-2024-mayoral-elections">According to the Institute for Government</a>, the average turnout to vote in the 2021 metro mayor elections was only 35%. The results of any votes are invariably attributed to events in Downing Street rather than the state of trams or freeports. They are glorified opinion polls.</p><p>Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/england-metro-mayors-local-democracy-local-politics-keir-starmer">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/mayoral-elections">Mayoral elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/localgovernment">Local politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/localgovernment">Local government</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:09:09 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/england-metro-mayors-local-democracy-local-politics-keir-starmer</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/174b53af43e70f2e840b6f4037fa715ec8df6e48/0_239_7084_4251/master/7084.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=066a8f360b6646e69507f281122f3d02"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/174b53af43e70f2e840b6f4037fa715ec8df6e48/0_239_7084_4251/master/7084.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=57d01395ff0634e85d3c0bc88eeee1c9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Simon Jenkins</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:09:09Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Don’t let the sound and fury over Gaza protests drown out what the students are saying | Nesrine Malik</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/gaza-protests-students-columbia-university</link> <description><p>At Columbia University I saw young people who feel they have no choice but to risk their futures</p><p>On a hot day last week, the pavements outside Columbia University were heaving. About 200 protesters were gathered, making a noise that was bigger than their numbers, raising pro-Palestine chants and signs. It was a disparate crowd, diverse across ethnicities and generations. “I’ve lived in this neighbourhood all my life,” said one of them when I asked him why he was there. One smiling elderly lady walked through the crowd offering small bottles of water. A helicopter circled overhead. The police who encircled the crowd were jittery, yelling at passersby to keep moving, and raising the temperature of what was a loud but perfectly orderly and amiable crowd.</p><p>Once inside the campus, I made my way to the reason for protesters, the police and the high security at the university gates: an encampment of students on a patch of lawn at the heart of campus. It had been up for about two weeks at this point, after a series of <a href="https://cuapartheiddivest.org/demands">demands to university administrators</a>, including divestment from “companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid”, were not met.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/gaza-protests-students-columbia-university">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-campus-protests">US campus protests</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 05:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/gaza-protests-students-columbia-university</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fbe8c6d27faaa3005bcdd23a015b94f397e08130/0_367_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=14298cc4e37ef7eab88bd68bb803585c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fbe8c6d27faaa3005bcdd23a015b94f397e08130/0_367_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=032566bec1eecc4edb135763bb5b3853"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Nesrine Malik</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T05:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Ben Jennings on Rishi Sunak’s plan after last week’s elections results – cartoon</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/06/ben-jennings-on-rishi-sunaks-plan-after-last-weeks-elections-results-cartoon</link> <description><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/06/ben-jennings-on-rishi-sunaks-plan-after-last-weeks-elections-results-cartoon">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/byelections">Byelections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections-2024">Local elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections">Local elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/mayoral-elections">Mayoral elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:45:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/may/06/ben-jennings-on-rishi-sunaks-plan-after-last-weeks-elections-results-cartoon</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41088a126ad7006bafd9d8b927ae8e607c2a594f/2_0_3031_1819/master/3031.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4c134a7907ff5ef501dbf11344ef50e0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Ben Jennings/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41088a126ad7006bafd9d8b927ae8e607c2a594f/2_0_3031_1819/master/3031.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=04cc145a0b820f7edb8a9eadcd11650f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Ben Jennings/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ben Jennings</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T16:45:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Police let violent mobs attack UCLA students. This is what lawlessness looks like | Judith Levine</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-mob-attack</link> <description><p>UCLA watched the chaos unfold in the middle of the night and did nothing until it was far too late</p><p>Things had been tense at the University of California, Los Angeles, with some ugly jibes and the occasional shove exchanged between students who support Israel’s war on Gaza and those who have set up encampments to call for a permanent ceasefire and the university’s divestment from companies that arm and otherwise profit from Israel’s occupation and military incursions in the Palestinian territories.</p><p>But what happened in the middle of the night last Tuesday was no scuffle. It was not even one more of the outsized, excessively brutal raids that college administrations have invited the police to inflict on their students.</p><p>Judith Levine is a Brooklyn journalist and essayist, a contributing writer to the Intercept, and the author of five books</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-mob-attack">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-campus-protests">US campus protests</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 20:31:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-mob-attack</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60b786212e99c0d057bac15b3b902fd549707055/0_178_7472_4486/master/7472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fe04bb7fdfc2d877279c327f262634ba"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/60b786212e99c0d057bac15b3b902fd549707055/0_178_7472_4486/master/7472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=432f172a926abc2872be5b9d1c8ca031"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Allison Dinner/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Judith Levine</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T20:31:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home? | Myke Bartlett</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/how-can-we-expect-mothers-to-return-to-work-if-were-so-reluctant-to-allow-fathers-to-stay-home</link> <description><p>As a bloke, I have been met with disbelief and suspicion when I’ve applied for part-time work. Didn’t I realise this was women’s work?</p><p>The job I was applying for was three days a week. It was a backwards step, career-wise, but the hours were attractive. By that I mean that the role’s part-time nature would allow me to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting">continue meeting my KPIs as majority parent</a>.</p><p>I could keep up with all that important driving and shouting that comprises a career as primary caregiver – the constant shuttling from school to ballet to football to dentist and, more generally, the endless forcing of kids to do things that they will really enjoy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/how-can-we-expect-mothers-to-return-to-work-if-were-so-reluctant-to-allow-fathers-to-stay-home">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting">Parents and parenting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/work-life-balance">Work-life balance</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/07/how-can-we-expect-mothers-to-return-to-work-if-were-so-reluctant-to-allow-fathers-to-stay-home</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8bdc5c5b92a29ea6a7f1c4ebf1e7283ad14553b2/0_263_6539_3926/master/6539.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=874321a9c05506e0c2d412c542c62728"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elena Medoks/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8bdc5c5b92a29ea6a7f1c4ebf1e7283ad14553b2/0_263_6539_3926/master/6539.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=797c686f7d34eb7d5bf0192db5708f7c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Elena Medoks/Getty Images/iStockphoto</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Myke Bartlett</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:00:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>American politicians forget: disruption and disorder are the point of protests | Patrick Hubert Gaspard</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/campus-pro-palestinian-protests</link> <description><p>I have trespassed in peaceful protest. I have shut down government offices in civil disobedience. I have made the powerful uncomfortable. That’s the point</p><p><em>“In America, the student movement has been seriously radicalized wherever police and police brutality intervened in essentially nonviolent demonstrations: occupations of administration buildings, sit-ins, et cetera.” – Hannah Arendt, observing Columbia University protests in 1968.</em></p><p>When you’ve been in the midst of a demonstration that devolves into chaos and violence, you find out in a hurry if you’re able to put aside your own terror to still uphold the needs of the many and to maintain the discipline of your values. This has happened to me more than once. That tension has always been a reminder to me that democracy is a choice and that citizenship is a full-contact sport.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/campus-pro-palestinian-protests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-campus-protests">US campus protests</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-universities">US universities</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:00:43 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/campus-pro-palestinian-protests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3611084f4e972448f0ef7e465f1b53f2005062b8/0_139_5352_3211/master/5352.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a8bc6d2f338f0f8136f05efdf8367436"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3611084f4e972448f0ef7e465f1b53f2005062b8/0_139_5352_3211/master/5352.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=10b418ca95812c1a1e4d40f36786dd29"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Caitlin Ochs/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Patrick Gaspard</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T16:00:43Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Have I got this right? Does Kristi Noem really want Joe Biden to start killing dogs too? | Zoe Williams</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/kristi-noem-joe-biden-killing-dogs-too</link> <description><p>Donald Trump’s would-be running mate has already outraged the US by shooting her own pet. This is no time to double down</p><p>When <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trumps-potential-running-mate-kristi-noem-continues-to-defend-shooting-dead-extremely-dangerous-puppy-13127425">Kristi Noem, the South Dakota governor</a> being vetted as a <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/donald-trump-likes-the-concept-of-picking-female-running-mate-for-us-presidential-race-12962700">candidate for Donald Trump’s vice-president</a>, admitted in her memoir to having shot and killed her 14-month-old puppy, I have to admit I thought it was a play. She was just testing the waters: how much could she insult human decency without making a dent in her numbers? As the battle rages on, I’m coming to accept that the benighted wire-haired pointer did, for a short time, exist, and was executed for a real crime: chicken killing. It seems a tiny bit unfair, given the two centuries of wire-haired pointer breeding that have gone into creating exactly this fixation with upland (which is to say, non-waterfowl) bird work. But that’s exactly what you’d expect a liberal to say. Next I’ll be on about the death penalty.</p><p>Digging in, Noem has gone on to say that not only was she right to execute her pointer, but also that Joe Biden has been remiss in pardoning Major and Commander, both German shepherds inveterately hostile to secret service agents. Commander, with a charge sheet of 24 biting incidents, should have been put down ages ago, according to Noem. He is no longer at the White House, though history doesn’t relate his new address. Major, meanwhile, was sent to live with friends in Delaware after a biting incident involving a National Park employee. No excuses for that – public servants ought to be able to go about their duties bite-free – but to have a thing for guys in parks is less bad, I would contend, than having an aversive fear response to armed secret service agents when you’re the dog of the US president. It’s possible, of course, that both dogs have been destroyed – and “gone to live with friends in Delaware” is what they say to Joe Biden when they mean “gone to live on a farm”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/kristi-noem-joe-biden-killing-dogs-too">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/dogs">Dogs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/joebiden">Joe Biden</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-elections-2024">US elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/pets">Pets</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:27:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/kristi-noem-joe-biden-killing-dogs-too</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b2edf7dd0a4e1e01861e8635ac7057522aad879e/0_200_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=16270cc6e8cd93a1dab11ddc72d27ec7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: White House/ZUMA Press Wire Service/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b2edf7dd0a4e1e01861e8635ac7057522aad879e/0_200_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c5290833e813c4e407ed3ae4fd4c7472"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: White House/ZUMA Press Wire Service/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Zoe Williams</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:27:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>I stopped lying to please people – and I’ve never felt more free | Radhika Sanghani</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/why-i-quit-lying-please-people-free-radical-honesty</link> <description><p>Radical honesty isn’t for the faint-hearted, but it’s one of the greatest joys I’ve ever discovered</p><p>I never used to think of myself as a liar. I always saw myself as an honest person. The only time I’d ever veer from the truth was to protect someone’s feelings. But that wasn’t really <em>lying</em>, I would tell myself<em>, </em>it was an act of kindness!</p><p>And then I had a therapy session, where I realised that all of this was actually people-pleasing behaviour and it turned out I was a prolific liar. Not only that, but according to my therapist, by constantly hiding my true feelings to protect those I loved, I was blocking them from ever getting to know the real me and creating true intimacy.</p><p>Radhika Sanghani is a writer and author. Her children’s book The Girl Who Couldn’t Lie is published on 9 May</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/why-i-quit-lying-please-people-free-radical-honesty">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/friendship">Friendship</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/relationships">Relationships</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 09:00:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/why-i-quit-lying-please-people-free-radical-honesty</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/eb2db26a034dfad93f5156d074b871701e3e7fbb/0_314_5700_3420/master/5700.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=22958959fa4176a596941eacc2032bef"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Image Source Limited/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/eb2db26a034dfad93f5156d074b871701e3e7fbb/0_314_5700_3420/master/5700.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=965c598a95a40caded0c3bd9c700082b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Image Source Limited/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Radhika Sanghani</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T09:00:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Guardian view on the local elections: an anti-Tory landslide points to the end of an era | Editorial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-local-elections-an-anti-tory-landslide-points-to-the-end-of-an-era</link> <description><p>The surprise defeat of the West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, confirmed that the tectonic plates are shifting in British politics</p><p>Local elections are not known for producing “Portillo&nbsp;moments”. But the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/04/andy-streets-west-midlands-defeat-shows-the-heavy-baggage-of-brand-tory">defeat</a> of the Conservative&nbsp;West Midlands mayor, Andy Street, announced late on Saturday, undoubtedly encapsulated a sense of tectonic plates inexorably shifting in Labour’s favour. A locally popular and avowedly non-ideological figure,&nbsp;Mr Street had done his best to distance himself&nbsp;from the Tory brand. But there was to be no&nbsp;escape from the determinedly anti‑Conservative mood abroad in the nation. As contest after contest last&nbsp;week illustrated, the country&nbsp;simply wants the Tories out.</p><p>Where does Rishi Sunak go from here? Although any&nbsp;leadership challenge appears to have been shelved, the usual suspects have been quick to demand&nbsp;the usual fixes. The former home secretary Suella&nbsp;Braverman has led calls for a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/05/rishi-sunak-to-face-pressure-to-shift-right-after-disastrous-election-results">rightward</a> lurch, including a pledge to withdraw from the European court of human rights. But chasing those voters&nbsp;now defecting to Reform UK will only help Labour and the Liberal Democrats peel off moderate Conservative supporters in even larger numbers, come&nbsp;the&nbsp;general&nbsp;election.</p><p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters"> letters</a> section, please <a href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">click here</a>.</strong></em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-local-elections-an-anti-tory-landslide-points-to-the-end-of-an-era">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections">Local elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/localgovernment">Local government</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/localgovernment">Local politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/rishi-sunak">Rishi Sunak</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/suella-braverman">Suella Braverman</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/nigel-farage">Nigel Farage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/brexit-party">Reform UK</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/liberaldemocrats">Liberal Democrats</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/green-party">Green party</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:28:03 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-the-local-elections-an-anti-tory-landslide-points-to-the-end-of-an-era</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d4f11ecb429ad19bfb9e606f0f1fb5f443c3e831/0_108_3260_1957/master/3260.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=98ed45040c93393d3f69fefb89902d0b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d4f11ecb429ad19bfb9e606f0f1fb5f443c3e831/0_108_3260_1957/master/3260.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=df94618b4323f9b1ef4dcdcba80013b3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Editorial</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:28:03Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Guardian view on disability benefit reform: the latest proposals are dangerously out of touch | Editorial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-disability-benefit-reform-the-latest-proposals-are-dangerously-out-of-touch</link> <description><p>Threatening to withdraw personal independence payments will only ramp up stress on unwell people</p><p>The best thing that can be said about the latest proposals from ministers to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/people-with-depression-or-anxiety-could-lose-sickness-benefits-pip">reform disability benefits</a> is that they are unlikely ever to come to fruition. A consultation closes in late July, so the work and pensions secretary, Mel Stride, can be expected to announce changes in the autumn. Given the imminence of a general election, however, any new policies on benefits should be viewed as fodder for a manifesto rather than a programme for the current government. They will be driven by desperation to limit what are expected to&nbsp;be heavy losses.</p><p>This is completely the wrong way to approach the technically and politically <a href="https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/events/in-credit/">difficult issue of benefit reform</a>. Millions of disabled people rely on their personal independence payment (Pip) – or disability&nbsp;living allowance, as some equivalent payments are still known. Like carer’s allowance, this is not means-tested, and is meant to help people&nbsp;cope&nbsp;with the additional cost of being ill or disabled. This can include paying for assistive devices,&nbsp;higher transport costs including commuting to work, heating bills or medical items not&nbsp;provided&nbsp;by&nbsp;the NHS.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-disability-benefit-reform-the-latest-proposals-are-dangerously-out-of-touch">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/benefits">Benefits</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/disability">Disability</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/welfare">Welfare</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:27:43 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/06/the-guardian-view-on-disability-benefit-reform-the-latest-proposals-are-dangerously-out-of-touch</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ba5e4d8737384342a3ee47cdeecfc2591e524948/0_0_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cccd4520b5840d8eaf8197d5e06e6877"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ba5e4d8737384342a3ee47cdeecfc2591e524948/0_0_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=eed38ccb62d4a319f115c0fdebadbe71"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Editorial</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:27:43Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Voter ID has a role to play in free and fair elections | Letters</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/voter-id-has-a-role-to-play-in-free-and-fair-elections</link> <description><p>The requirement to present photo ID at polling stations reinforces confidence in our elections, says <strong>Robert Frazer</strong>, but <strong>Maureen McLaughlin</strong> worries about those left without a vote. Plus letters from <strong>Nigel Evans</strong> and <strong>Peter Bottomley </strong></p><p>I cannot agree with Andy Beckett’s condemnation of voter ID (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/03/voter-id-tory-election-conservative-labour">After this week’s squalid experiment, see voter ID for what it is: a Tory scam to steal elections, 3 May</a>). The basic principle of voter ID is not objectionable: we all agree that Europe has much more sophisticated political systems and mature political cultures than Britain, and voter ID laws are commonplace across Europe. France, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Sweden and Italy all require their electors to present identification when voting. Are all&nbsp;these EU members also enemies&nbsp;of democracy?</p><p>Furthermore, it is difficult to square claims that the progressive vote was suppressed with the fact that the Conservative vote collapsed and Labour – and leftwing politics in general – were hugely successful last week. Clearly, the hypothetical fears that the progressive vote would be&nbsp;curtailed were simply not borne out in reality.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/voter-id-has-a-role-to-play-in-free-and-fair-elections">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections">Local elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections-2024">Local elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/uk-civil-liberties">UK civil liberties</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:25:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/voter-id-has-a-role-to-play-in-free-and-fair-elections</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7b53e32dc4501cbdd767726e2cb923763a347fe0/0_135_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b08113867376856c8da3463d2252bffe"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7b53e32dc4501cbdd767726e2cb923763a347fe0/0_135_4500_2700/master/4500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=47dc60fd219d405b40ab05027ac58170"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T16:25:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Demographics tell a different Tory story | Letter</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/demographics-tell-a-different-tory-story</link> <description><p><strong>Peter Taylor </strong>points to a neglected but important feature of elective democracy</p><p>According to Polly Toynbee (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/rishi-sunak-doom-loop-cruel-tories-conservatives">It’s Sunak’s doom loop: the more desperate and cruel the Tories become, the more voters reject them, 30 April</a>), “younger generations are refusing to turn Tory as they age, the way previous cohorts reliably did”. The problem with this statement is that cohorts don’t vote, people do. And the people who have voted Labour tend&nbsp;to be from lower socioeconomic groups whose members die younger.</p><p>For instance, my father, a socialist who spent much of his working life down the pit, died in 1980. He was born on the same day (30&nbsp;April 1920) as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/feb/02/capt-sir-tom-moore-obituary">Captain Tom Moore</a>, famed for raising money during Covid and who died in 2021. The former voted in 11 general elections; the latter had the opportunity to vote in 21 general elections plus a referendum. Demographics are a neglected but important feature of elective democracy. Dying is not a defection&nbsp;to the Tories.<br><strong>Peter Taylor</strong><br><em>Tynemouth, Tyne and Wear</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/demographics-tell-a-different-tory-story">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/socialism">Socialism</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/class-issues">Class issues</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/inequality">Inequality</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:23:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/demographics-tell-a-different-tory-story</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d9d760da46f0f495eea578e07cac05adc85810b9/0_0_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ca8dee9aa1b7f3bd170c36a951ce7384"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d9d760da46f0f495eea578e07cac05adc85810b9/0_0_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=66689f7e45364c955ff208422b18202b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Dylan Martinez/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T16:23:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘We let each other down’: Ten Hag admits Manchester United at new low</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/we-let-each-other-down-ten-hag-admits-manchester-united-at-new-low</link> <description><ul><li>United thrashed 4-0 by Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park</li><li>Dutchman says team ‘underperforming’ and ‘not good enough’ </li></ul><p>Erik ten Hag admitted that Manchester United’s season reached a new nadir after they were thrashed 4-0 by a rampant Crystal Palace.</p><p>Two goals from Michael Olise helped Oliver Glasner’s side record their second-biggest victory ever against United as they followed up their <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/30/manchester-united-crystal-palace-premier-league-match-report">win at Old Trafford in September</a> by completing the double. The result left Ten Hag’s side in eighth place in the league with just three games to play having fallen behind Newcastle and Chelsea in the race for European qualification after their victories at the weekend.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/we-let-each-other-down-ten-hag-admits-manchester-united-at-new-low">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/erik-ten-hag">Erik ten Hag</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchester-united">Manchester United</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/crystalpalace">Crystal Palace</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 22:28:48 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/we-let-each-other-down-ten-hag-admits-manchester-united-at-new-low</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/77a75e6ad27c3a3e1eefe5f9f090ce319c5ffa74/0_15_3420_2052/master/3420.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4a3eb28b76644101dc8285a1c0412ca2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: James Marsh/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/77a75e6ad27c3a3e1eefe5f9f090ce319c5ffa74/0_15_3420_2052/master/3420.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2682eb6f743ada9f4320421aa65541ed"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: James Marsh/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ed Aarons at Selhurst Park</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T22:28:48Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Kyren Wilson holds off Jak Jones to win his first World Snooker Championship</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/kyren-wilson-defeats-jak-jones-to-win-world-snooker-championship</link> <description><ul><li>Wilson beats qualifier 18-14 after nervy wait for final frame</li><li>Englishman claims title four years after being runner-up</li></ul><p>Snooker has a new grandmaster of the baize – but unlike so many of his predecessors, the story of Kyren Wilson has been far from straightforward.</p><p>As the ticker tape rained down over the 32-year-old on Monday evening, and he fulfilled his childhood dream by becoming snooker’s newest world champion, Wilson could have been forgiven for thinking back to the bumps in the road which brought him to this point. The boy who was convinced to take up snooker as a six-year-old by Peter Ebdon has not done it the easy way.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/kyren-wilson-defeats-jak-jones-to-win-world-snooker-championship">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/world-snooker-championship">World Snooker Championship</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/snooker">Snooker</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:21:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/kyren-wilson-defeats-jak-jones-to-win-world-snooker-championship</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/33e07ef5461ea5155e1a448b0a55f40b5038edae/0_148_5088_3054/master/5088.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ec96b1b60cd32b103071ec4f3435e667"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/33e07ef5461ea5155e1a448b0a55f40b5038edae/0_148_5088_3054/master/5088.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c9516eeac4f18254cf91d77c3816e538"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Aaron Bower at the Crucible</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:21:06Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>David Moyes to leave West Ham at end of this season by mutual consent</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/david-moyes-leaving-west-ham-mutual-consent</link> <description><ul><li>Club announce end of manager’s second stint in charge</li><li>Former Wolves coach Julen Lopetegui set to take over</li></ul><p>West Ham are closing in on the appointment of Julen Lopetegui after confirming that David Moyes will leave his post as manager when his contract expires at the end of the&nbsp;season.</p><p>Lopetegui, who has been out of work since leaving Wolves last summer, has agreed a deal in principle to take over after holding multiple rounds of talks with the London Stadium club. The 57-year-old Spaniard was lined up after West Ham decided to shelve plans to hand a new deal to Moyes, who is set to depart after four and a half mostly successful years in east London.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/david-moyes-leaving-west-ham-mutual-consent">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/david-moyes">David Moyes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/westhamunited">West Ham United</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:21:41 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/david-moyes-leaving-west-ham-mutual-consent</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/df92c421a7bb6620c1f5cacdfe6a9bbf721907db/322_92_2623_1574/master/2623.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dc64d2e220a0df00db30e0eeb7cc24c2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adam Davy/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/df92c421a7bb6620c1f5cacdfe6a9bbf721907db/322_92_2623_1574/master/2623.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9f2277625db9771e4d12ca0832bd85e8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adam Davy/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jacob Steinberg</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:21:41Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tom Daley to compete at record fifth Olympics to defend 10m synchro title</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/07/diving-tom-daley-compete-record-fifth-olympics-to-defend-10m-synchro-title</link> <description><ul><li>Daley to become first British diver to compete at five Games</li><li>Olympic medallist came out of retirement for his young son</li></ul><p>Tom Daley will seek to end his extraordinary career with a fifth Olympic medal this summer after being selected for Team GB’s synchronised diving squad for the Paris Games.</p><p>The 29-year-old, who only came out of retirement last July after his five-year-old son Robbie told him: “Papa, I want to see you dive at the Olympics,” will partner Noah Williams as he seeks to defend his 10-metre synchro diving title he won with Matty Lee in Tokyo.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/07/diving-tom-daley-compete-record-fifth-olympics-to-defend-10m-synchro-title">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/tomdaley">Tom Daley</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/olympic-games-2024">Paris Olympic Games 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/diving">Diving</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/olympic-games">Olympic Games</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 23:01:51 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/07/diving-tom-daley-compete-record-fifth-olympics-to-defend-10m-synchro-title</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ed35b69d39d326e11f36ec36eb2b74904909bd42/0_130_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ef8c5b28cae9f9d3bdc21432e21101b8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ed35b69d39d326e11f36ec36eb2b74904909bd42/0_130_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6ead45fcb131efa73dae7660aef6267f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sean Ingle</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T23:01:51Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Ukraine’s former Olympian weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko killed in action</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/ukraines-former-olympian-weightlifter-oleksandr-pielieshenko-killed-in-action</link> <description><ul><li>Pielieshenko, 30, is first Olympian to die in the war in Ukraine</li><li>Two-time European champion joined Ukraine army in 2022</li></ul><p>The first Olympian to die in the war in Ukraine has been announced. The weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko, who finished fourth in the 85kg light-heavyweight category at the Rio Games in 2016, was killed defending his country on Sunday.</p><p>The news was confirmed by the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, who said Pielieshenko died during combat operations.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/ukraines-former-olympian-weightlifter-oleksandr-pielieshenko-killed-in-action">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/weightlifting">Weightlifting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 14:28:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/ukraines-former-olympian-weightlifter-oleksandr-pielieshenko-killed-in-action</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d321bc1a474d1420c54ca7c200c74050dc9dedd0/0_314_4728_2837/master/4728.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=182a0bffaf79abc805641a41db36cb56"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d321bc1a474d1420c54ca7c200c74050dc9dedd0/0_314_4728_2837/master/4728.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6d30c82f733d2cc7aa62470520e44bb9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mike Ehrmann/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sean Ingle</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T14:28:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Time will tell if City Of Troy’s 2,000 Guineas flop was just an aberration | Greg Wood</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/horse-racing-2000-guineas-derby-city-of-troy-aidan-obrien</link> <description><p>There was widespread surprise at the failure of Aidan O’Brien’s colt to live up to his pre-race billing at Newmarket</p><p>Learning to live with regular disappointment is an important part of the process of racing and betting on horses but even so, City Of Troy’s dismal failure to justify odds-on favouritism for the 2,000 Guineas at Newmarket was a horribly deflating experience. On Saturday morning, we dared to hope that last year’s outstanding champion two- year-old might elevate himself into the ranks of the all-time greats this season. By Saturday evening, some were wondering if we will ever see him on a racecourse again.</p><p>It is always possible, of course, that Saturday’s flop was an early-season aberration, and City Of Troy will recapture his juvenile brilliance as the campaign develops.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/horse-racing-2000-guineas-derby-city-of-troy-aidan-obrien">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/horse-racing">Horse racing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/horse-racing-tips">Horse racing tips</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:25:19 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/horse-racing-2000-guineas-derby-city-of-troy-aidan-obrien</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1862143199ac84161ae7c92ee41159626a84c3e8/0_106_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=881d3b2ad52e47532aba5314b0fed4e8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Davies for The Jockey Club/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1862143199ac84161ae7c92ee41159626a84c3e8/0_106_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b2e4c6cf15796ba4b54b7f12c96999d7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Davies for The Jockey Club/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Greg Wood</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:25:19Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Champions Cup organisers considering one-city semi-finals weekend in 2025</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/champions-cup-organisers-considering-one-city-semi-finals-weekend-in-2025</link> <description><ul><li>Matches could be played in Porto, Lisbon or Marseille</li><li>Combined attendance of weekend’s two semi-finals was 115,000</li></ul><p>Champions Cup organisers are exploring the possibility of hosting “destination” semi-finals in the same city in the future with Portugal among the places under consideration.</p><p>In a move that would ape the Top&nbsp;14, which staged both its semi-finals in San Sebastián last season, it is understood that European Professional Club Rugby (EPCR) is assessing whether it would be feasible to do so with its competition.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/champions-cup-organisers-considering-one-city-semi-finals-weekend-in-2025">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/european-rugby-champions-cup">Champions Cup</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/rugby-union">Rugby union</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:00:44 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/champions-cup-organisers-considering-one-city-semi-finals-weekend-in-2025</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/76832d2a315e23117a6b1cb2bffefce3845c4f17/0_223_4176_2506/master/4176.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b40abf681607c668bbcff464a7b61f58"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/76832d2a315e23117a6b1cb2bffefce3845c4f17/0_223_4176_2506/master/4176.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5f2a59b357b4f9b71e5135da17755624"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Gerard Meagher</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:00:44Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Women’s Super League: talking points from the weekend’s action</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/womens-super-league-talking-points-from-the-weekends-action</link> <description><p>Chelsea made hay to reignite their title hope while Manchester City ran out of steam against the Gunners</p><p>Manchester City’s second-half collapse against Arsenal seemed unthinkable at half time. City’s pressing had been relentless, forcing errors from their opponents and denying them room to breathe, let alone move. That pressure dissipated after the interval, however, with City manager Gareth Taylor blaming “a mixture of energy [levels dipping] and a dropping off to protect what you have got”. Maintaining that intensity for 90 minutes against a top rival is never going to be easy, but the issue City had was that they had not put the game to bed when they were on top in the first half and they had no plan B for when their intensity dipped. <strong>Suzanne Wrack</strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/womens-super-league-talking-points-from-the-weekends-action">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/womens-super-league">Women's Super League</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/chelsea-women">Chelsea Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchester-city-women">Manchester City Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/liverpool-women">Liverpool FC Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/tottenham-hotspur-women">Tottenham Hotspur Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/aston-villa-women">Aston Villa Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/womensfootball">Women's football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/west-ham-united-women">West Ham United Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/leicester-city-women">Leicester City Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/brighton---hove-albion-women">Brighton & Hove Albion Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/everton-women">Everton Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/manchester-united-women">Manchester United Women</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 11:33:58 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/article/2024/may/06/womens-super-league-talking-points-from-the-weekends-action</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b464b1bd8d00e9f6aa9c92465931bee0375fdb96/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d42867ecaa4aee93258eadd1011c80d6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Jonny Weeks/Guardian Picture Desk</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b464b1bd8d00e9f6aa9c92465931bee0375fdb96/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=76022829ee99e09b3a7eeb69c3464b61"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Jonny Weeks/Guardian Picture Desk</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Suzanne Wrack, Sarah Rendell, Taha Hashim, Sophie Downey, Emillia Hawkins and Xaymaca Awoyungbo</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T11:33:58Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Poorer nations must be transparent over climate spending, says Cop29 leader</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/06/poorer-nations-transparent-climate-spending-cop29-leader</link> <description><p>Exclusive: Mukhtar Babayev says clear accounting crucial to build trust as developing world seeks trillions in support</p><p>Poor countries must demonstrate clearer accounting and transparency to back up their calls for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/08/developing-countries-climate-crisis-funding-2030-report-nicholas-stern">trillions of dollars of climate finance</a>, the president of global climate negotiations has said.</p><p>Mukhtar Babayev, the ecology minister of Azerbaijan, who will lead the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/12/newly-elected-leaders-climate-obligations-cop29-chief-un-summit-mukhtar-babayev">Cop29</a> UN climate summit in November, urged governments in developing countries to draw up reports showing their progress on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, and their spending on the climate crisis.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/06/poorer-nations-transparent-climate-spending-cop29-leader">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/cop29">Cop29</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/climate-finance">Climate finance</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/global-climate-talks">Global climate talks</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:01:04 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/06/poorer-nations-transparent-climate-spending-cop29-leader</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1c9c943a5854a49b2d898a5736ff880412697e0f/0_217_4527_2716/master/4527.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d84a79173dfd8fe60401f779fab3e6aa"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Grigory Dukor/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1c9c943a5854a49b2d898a5736ff880412697e0f/0_217_4527_2716/master/4527.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8f3099e4092c87299605f06eb82e27a0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Grigory Dukor/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Fiona Harvey in Baku</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:01:04Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Weather tracker: torrential rainstorms cause death and destruction in Brazil</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/06/weather-tracker-torrential-rainstorms-cause-death-and-destruction-in-brazil</link> <description><p>This part of South America is no stranger to major rainfall, but last week’s storms were particularly devastating</p><p>Torrential rainstorms in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have caused the worst flooding the country has seen in 80 years, many deaths and the displacement of thousands of families. Central parts of the state were hit the hardest after the storms began last Monday, with unofficial weather stations in the area recording 50-100cm (20-40in) of rain over the past week.</p><p>Widespread floods and landslides have caused major damage to homes and infrastructure, most alarmingly triggering the partial collapse of a small hydroelectric dam on Thursday, which sent a 2-metre-high wave through the surrounding area. At least 57 deaths have been reported and 24,000 people have been displaced, alongside an estimated 500,000 being without power and clean water.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/06/weather-tracker-torrential-rainstorms-cause-death-and-destruction-in-brazil">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/brazil">Brazil</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/extreme-weather">Extreme weather</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 07:32:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/06/weather-tracker-torrential-rainstorms-cause-death-and-destruction-in-brazil</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41b96be908b579d1ad3536097c00af84a4bb8ad2/78_0_3780_2268/master/3780.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=349b321f6f9ea8cee4a366354abd7429"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Renan Mattos/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/41b96be908b579d1ad3536097c00af84a4bb8ad2/78_0_3780_2268/master/3780.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=945b08fe0ea887b9932fda73a110cd4e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Renan Mattos/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lauren Herdman (Metdesk)</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T07:32:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Cop29 summit to call for peace between warring states, says host Azerbaijan</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/05/cop29-summit-to-call-for-peace-between-warring-states-says-host-azerbaijan</link> <description><p>Organisers of this year’s environmental conference hope cooperation on green issues could help ease global tensions </p><p>This year’s <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/mar/12/newly-elected-leaders-climate-obligations-cop29-chief-un-summit-mukhtar-babayev">Cop29 UN climate summit</a> will be the first “Cop of peace”, focusing on the prevention of future climate-fuelled conflicts and using international cooperation on green issues to help heal existing tensions, according to plans being drawn up by organisers.</p><p>Nations may be asked to observe a “Cop truce”, suspending hostilities for the fortnight-long duration of the conference, modelled on the <a href="https://olympics.com/ioc/olympic-truce">Olympic truce</a>, which is observed by most governments during the summer and winter Olympic Games.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/05/cop29-summit-to-call-for-peace-between-warring-states-says-host-azerbaijan">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/cop29">Cop29</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/armenia">Armenia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/unitednations">United Nations</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 06:00:05 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/05/cop29-summit-to-call-for-peace-between-warring-states-says-host-azerbaijan</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d5c1c2b8dc9ddee57ae60f587e701df2c766082/0_156_4668_2801/master/4668.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=40f33c6c2ba112bc265163fdf180fd28"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aziz Karimov/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8d5c1c2b8dc9ddee57ae60f587e701df2c766082/0_156_4668_2801/master/4668.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3492b094638cd01977abf3f297ceed52"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Aziz Karimov/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Fiona Harvey in Baku</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T06:00:05Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Bumblebee nests are overheating to fatal levels, study finds</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/04/bumblebees-overheating-threat-global-heating-temperatures-aoe</link> <description><p>More frequent heatwaves mean bees are unable to thermoregulate their hives – further endangering a species already in decline</p><p>Bumblebee nests may be overheating, killing off broods and placing one of the Earth’s critical pollinators in decline as temperatures rise, new research has found.</p><p>Around the world, many species of <em>Bombus</em>, or bumblebee, have suffered population declines due to global heating, the research said. Bumblebee colonies are known for their ability to thermoregulate: in hot conditions, worker bees gather to beat their wings and fan the hive, cooling it down. But as the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/global-heating-human-climate-niche">climate crisis pushes average temperatures up</a> and generates heatwaves, bumblebees will struggle to keep their homes habitable.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/04/bumblebees-overheating-threat-global-heating-temperatures-aoe">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bees">Bees</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/insects">Insects</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/endangeredspecies">Endangered species</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/endangered-habitats">Endangered habitats</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 07:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/04/bumblebees-overheating-threat-global-heating-temperatures-aoe</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7e16ec386a4d990584d0e947dd75d3bf4b830f1d/0_197_3015_1809/master/3015.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2865aa5fff2e5d2e5e256f4c9f546f2e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7e16ec386a4d990584d0e947dd75d3bf4b830f1d/0_197_3015_1809/master/3015.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=724de0b6c5f8b68fc230d1ae899bf06b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rebecca Cole/Alamy</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sophie Kevany</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-04T07:00:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Black mothers twice as likely as white mothers to be hospitalised with perinatal mental illness</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/black-mothers-twice-likely-white-hospitalised-perinatal-mental-illness</link> <description><p>Exclusive: Analysis of NHS England figures highlights structural inequalities and cultural attitudes to mental health, expert says</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/stark-disparities-black-mothers-more-risk-perinatal-mental-illness-england">‘Stark disparities’: why black mothers are more at risk of perinatal mental illness in England</a></li></ul><p>Black mothers are over twice as likely to be admitted to hospital with perinatal mental illnesses than their white counterparts, a Guardian analysis of NHS figures shows, with the racial disparity being described as “horrifying”.</p><p>There were 777 admissions to NHS England hospitals of people with a primary diagnosis for puerperal mental disorders – occurring in the six weeks after childbirth – between 2020 and 2023. Of these, black women made up 12%, despite accounting for only 5% of deliveries in the same period. They were also more than twice as likely to be admitted to hospital than their white counterparts, according to the analysis.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/black-mothers-twice-likely-white-hospitalised-perinatal-mental-illness">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/race">Race</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/womens-health">Women's health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/inequality">Inequality</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england">England</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/parents-and-parenting">Parents and parenting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:15:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/black-mothers-twice-likely-white-hospitalised-perinatal-mental-illness</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f3a70609b32f86c3e348b4dcb7a8f587837f39b/0_0_5121_3072/master/5121.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c8c46c8d2a7c208a8d89ccc2f6e64c3f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ariel Skelley/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f3a70609b32f86c3e348b4dcb7a8f587837f39b/0_0_5121_3072/master/5121.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=758612f727397f09d6d843c998dc15e2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ariel Skelley/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tobi Thomas Health and inequalities correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T13:15:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>John Swinney declares ‘new chapter’ as he becomes SNP leader</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-declares-new-chapter-as-he-becomes-snp-leader</link> <description><p>Swinney says party has been having a ‘tough, rough time’ as he laments impact of recent infighting and chaos</p><p>John Swinney declared “a new chapter in our party’s history” as he became leader of the Scottish National party on Monday, but said recent infighting and chaos had left the public “worried about where we are as a party”.</p><p>Speaking to senior SNP politicians and activists at an event at the University of Glasgow, Swinney said his decision to stand for the role of leader – after Humza Yousaf <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/humza-yousaf-steps-down-as-scottish-first-minister-snp">announced his intention to step down</a> a week ago – was “not born out of long-held ambition but rather a profound sense of duty to my party and my country”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-declares-new-chapter-as-he-becomes-snp-leader">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/john-swinney">John Swinney</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/snp">Scottish National party (SNP)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/scotland">Scottish politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/humza-yousaf">Humza Yousaf</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland">Scotland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:04:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/06/john-swinney-declares-new-chapter-as-he-becomes-snp-leader</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/72fff652a95ee676f6e30d57c2c058d5089669ab/123_533_2848_1709/master/2848.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ef64355beec5ac59f05fdc16f12c5e8f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stuart Wallace/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/72fff652a95ee676f6e30d57c2c058d5089669ab/123_533_2848_1709/master/2848.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6a37c0d5ff23380f35daf67bd52a7aba"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stuart Wallace/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:04:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>About 2,000 homes in Hastings on fifth day with no water supply</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/homes-hastings-fifth-day-with-no-water-supply</link> <description><p>Most of 32,500 properties back online after mains pipe burst but hundreds to go without for another night</p><p>About 2,000 homes in Hastings are into their fifth day without water and will probably have to wait until at least Tuesday for their taps to be flowing again.</p><p>On Thursday, 32,500 properties in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/04/burst-water-main-leaves-properties-without-water-in-east-sussex-st-leonards-hastings-southern-water">left without water</a> after a mains pipe burst. On Monday Southern Water said about 25,500 of the homes affected had had their water supply restored.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/homes-hastings-fifth-day-with-no-water-supply">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/east-sussex">East Sussex</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england">England</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/water-industry">Water industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/utilities">Utilities</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:41:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/homes-hastings-fifth-day-with-no-water-supply</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dc51a692543c12feb6bbe5620853e52005c1e59e/29_0_1881_1129/master/1881.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2a6bd564e139c2a2ea0b528e0ea58d57"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Southern Water</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/dc51a692543c12feb6bbe5620853e52005c1e59e/29_0_1881_1129/master/1881.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9f00a19e98c21dab16a283c35193b57b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Southern Water</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sammy Gecsoyler</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:41:38Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Single-sex toilets to be required in non-residential buildings in England</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/gender-specific-toilets-to-be-required-in-non-residential-buildings-in-england</link> <description><p>Ministers say move will combat growing concerns about ‘privacy and dignity’ in gender-neutral facilities</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/how-the-single-sex-toilet-law-in-england-will-work">How the single-sex toilet law in England will work</a></li></ul><p>New restaurants, offices and hospitals in England will be required to have separate male and female toilets, in a move ministers say will combat growing concerns about “privacy and dignity” in gender-neutral facilities.</p><p>The law will mean newly built non-residential buildings require separate facilities, and cannot solely have “universal” lavatories.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/gender-specific-toilets-to-be-required-in-non-residential-buildings-in-england">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/transgender">Transgender</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 23:08:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/gender-specific-toilets-to-be-required-in-non-residential-buildings-in-england</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9a362b849b524f7ef7183c7f17912d3dd14515aa/0_296_4500_2699/master/4500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b12a05e0b217794a7ac438b392a74355"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9a362b849b524f7ef7183c7f17912d3dd14515aa/0_296_4500_2699/master/4500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d3246b3dc3f9e61d4c910dd652caf68d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Maureen McLean/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Mabel Banfield-Nwachi</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T23:08:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>CoppaFeel! breast cancer charity founder Kris Hallenga dies aged 38</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/coppafeel-breast-cancer-charity-founder-kris-hallenga-dies</link> <description><p>Campaigner resolved to set up awareness charity after being told she had stage 4 cancer when she was 23</p><p>Kris Hallenga, the founder of the charity <a href="https://coppafeel.org/">CoppaFeel!</a>, which raises awareness of the importance of young women checking their breasts for early signs of cancer, has died aged 38 after being diagnosed with the disease 15 years ago.</p><p>The campaigner, from Cornwall, was 23 when she was given the news she had stage 4 cancer that had spread to her spine.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/coppafeel-breast-cancer-charity-founder-kris-hallenga-dies">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/breast-cancer">Breast cancer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/cancer">Cancer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/charities">Charities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/voluntarysector">Voluntary sector</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:24:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/coppafeel-breast-cancer-charity-founder-kris-hallenga-dies</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a57019ea1da4e3bd2df433e193a67344411e5d4c/0_547_7886_4732/master/7886.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=48c0dd7cb2fc4fc9663dc3b6805a735b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jenna Foxton/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a57019ea1da4e3bd2df433e193a67344411e5d4c/0_547_7886_4732/master/7886.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=15da538e263a2308ea3cac11d335aef0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jenna Foxton/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Caroline Davies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:24:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Students stage pro-Palestine occupations at five more UK universities</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/students-stage-pro-palestine-occupations-at-five-more-uk-universities</link> <description><p>The protesters in encampments at Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Soas are demanding institutions end ties to Israel</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/06/israel-gaza-hamas-ceasefire-updates">Israel-Gaza war – live updates</a></li></ul><p>Students at five UK universities have become the latest protesters to stage occupations to pressure their institutions into divesting funds from and ending partnerships with Israel.</p><p>Students set up encampments at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) and at Oxford, Cambridge, Liverpool and Edinburgh universities. They are the latest in a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/05/uk-student-campus-pro-palestine-protests">global student uprising</a> that is expected to build over the coming week across European campuses after starting at universities in the US, where hundreds of students and staff <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/02/university-protests-arrests-ucla-dartmouth">have been arrested for their involvement</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/students-stage-pro-palestine-occupations-at-five-more-uk-universities">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/universities">Universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/higher-education">Higher 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</media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/56e93b7efae9d1cb77d6ba36d5beee582791530f/0_218_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=686864697b4e7c05e06d3f58dc24f93d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rachel Hall and Neha Gohil</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:42:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>M25 weekend closure: drivers told to stick to diversion to avoid London Ulez charges</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/m25-weekend-closure-drivers-told-to-stick-to-diversion-to-avoid-london-ulez-charges</link> <description><p>Motorway will be shut both ways between junctions nine and 10 from 9pm on Friday until 6am on Monday</p><p>Drivers tempted to bypass the official diversion for this weekend’s M25 motorway closure have been warned of potential <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/23/ulez-london-what-is-it-how-much-does-it-cost-and-why-is-it-so-controversial">ultra-low emission zone (Ulez)</a> charges if they stray off course.</p><p>The London orbital motorway is having its <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/15/m25-five-mile-closure-drivers-warned-to-steer-clear-over-weekend">second ever planned closure</a>, with a busy stretch in the south-west closed in both directions for works, potentially bringing long delays and congestion for thousands of drivers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/m25-weekend-closure-drivers-told-to-stick-to-diversion-to-avoid-london-ulez-charges">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/infrastructure">Infrastructure</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/low-emission-zones">Low emission zones</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/road-transport">Road transport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/transport">Transport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/travel">Travel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/london">London</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:44:58 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/m25-weekend-closure-drivers-told-to-stick-to-diversion-to-avoid-london-ulez-charges</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5f13e300241b7a7eb3940987b536c59003b8d592/55_246_2910_1747/master/2910.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=75b413a474817ee2e43db9a90dca6d03"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yui Mok/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5f13e300241b7a7eb3940987b536c59003b8d592/55_246_2910_1747/master/2910.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ff2633774c0a846b2adfbff0d2f1b64a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yui Mok/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:44:58Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Heineken to pump £39m into reopening and revamping UK pubs</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/heineken-reopening-revamping-star-pubs-uk</link> <description><p>Firm aims to upgrade 612 outlets and reopen 62 this year amid signs of rising consumer confidence</p><p>Heineken is to spend £39m on reopening about 60 UK pubs and sprucing up “tired” locals in suburban areas in an effort to attract more consumers working from home.</p><p>The firm, which has 2,400 pubs through its Star pubs and bars arm, plans to reopen 62 long-term-closed venues this year and upgrade 612 outlets, with 94 of these earmarked for makeovers of about £200,000.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/heineken-reopening-revamping-star-pubs-uk">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/fooddrinks">Food & drink industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/travelleisure">Travel & leisure</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/pubs">Pubs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:45:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/heineken-reopening-revamping-star-pubs-uk</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a2f96ac3727064ccad8d84e82c6d5091040b1b94/33_0_3428_2058/master/3428.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a483fe774d6389da832e3b77c3e1cafc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a2f96ac3727064ccad8d84e82c6d5091040b1b94/33_0_3428_2058/master/3428.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5bde1362130409ceeb13a8fc4e5d3100"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Nguyen Huy Kham/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jane Croft</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:45:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Coroner issues warning over year-round ambulance delays in England</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/coroner-issues-warning-over-year-round-ambulance-delays-in-england</link> <description><p>Wiltshire coroner writes to health secretary after inquest of man who died after waiting more than 5 hours for ambulance </p><p>A senior coroner has issued an official warning about the “significant disruption” being caused to ambulance services as vehicles wait for hours to transfer patients into hospital, highlighting that the problem now happens all year round rather than only in winter.</p><p>David Ridley, the senior coroner for Wiltshire and Swindon, has written to the UK health secretary, Victoria Atkins, spelling out that delays in England are being caused because of a lack of community care packages for hospital patients well enough to be discharged.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/coroner-issues-warning-over-year-round-ambulance-delays-in-england">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/england">England</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/social-care">Social care</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/hospitals">Hospitals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/emergency-services">Emergency services</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/victoria-atkins">Victoria Atkins</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:09:54 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/coroner-issues-warning-over-year-round-ambulance-delays-in-england</guid> <media:content type="image/jpeg" width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3dbb2d0ec6abfdc84d30a10e518d6108a3e529cf/0_134_384_230/master/384.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d418f4337b6becbd9c702fa7045fe0b0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: family handout</media:credit> <media:description>Richard Carpenter, 71, who waited 5hr 34min even though he had just had major heart surgery and the target for reaching him was 18 minutes.</media:description> </media:content> <media:content type="image/jpeg" width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3dbb2d0ec6abfdc84d30a10e518d6108a3e529cf/0_134_384_230/master/384.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4fd310dc7158ef1bdc1cb5589517e4fb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: family handout</media:credit> <media:description>Richard Carpenter, 71, who waited 5hr 34min even though he had just had major heart surgery and the target for reaching him was 18 minutes.</media:description> </media:content> <dc:creator>Steven Morris</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:09:54Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rail strikes restart as Aslef train drivers embark on new action</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/rail-strikes-restart-as-aslef-train-drivers-embark-on-new-action</link> <description><p>Union to roll out 24-hour strikes across England’s train operators for three days this week and six-day overtime ban from Monday</p><p>Rail passengers face a week of disruption as train drivers embark on another round of industrial action on Monday, despite tentative attempts by the industry to restart talks.</p><p>Drivers in the Aslef union <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/apr/22/aslef-drivers-train-strikes-early-may-c2c-thameslink-southeastern-lner">will strike</a> for 24 hours at each of England’s national train operators over the course of three days from Tuesday until Thursday, while an overtime ban will apply nationwide from Monday until Saturday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/rail-strikes-restart-as-aslef-train-drivers-embark-on-new-action">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/rail-strikes">Rail strikes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/rail-industry">Rail industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/rail-transport">Rail transport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/industrial-action">Industrial action</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/transport">Transport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/tradeunions">Trade unions</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:31 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/rail-strikes-restart-as-aslef-train-drivers-embark-on-new-action</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b23c2fbb08ba28761a6582bca303bbf4b3226a1b/0_236_7092_4257/master/7092.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=027dd072c2e11e81e8d3561333ce8a37"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b23c2fbb08ba28761a6582bca303bbf4b3226a1b/0_236_7092_4257/master/7092.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9e36674da12d9d7d2a9b02bc155c5b16"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tolga Akmen/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T04:00:31Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>EU restates readiness to launch trade war with China over cheap imports</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/eu-restates-readiness-to-launch-trade-war-with-china-over-cheap-imports</link> <description><p>Bloc ‘will not waver’ from making tough decisions to protect economy and security, says Ursula von der Leyen</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/06/europe-live-china-xi-jinping-paris-trade-ukraine-emmanuel-macron-ursula-von-der-leyen">Europe live – latest updates</a></li></ul><p>The EU has restated its readiness to launch a trade war with China over imports of cheap electric cars, steel and cheap solar and wind technology, with Ursula von der Leyen saying the bloc will “not waver” from protecting industries and jobs after a meeting with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, on his multi-day tour of Europe.</p><p>The European Commission chief said she was “convinced that if the competition is fair” from China, then Europe “will have thriving durable economies”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/eu-restates-readiness-to-launch-trade-war-with-china-over-cheap-imports">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/eu">European Union</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ursula-von-der-leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/xi-jinping">Xi Jinping</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/internationaltrade">International trade</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics">Economics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/global-economy">Global economy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 17:57:12 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/eu-restates-readiness-to-launch-trade-war-with-china-over-cheap-imports</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7e726fff3e001428d0a71a37e3a9eb3e727bff77/0_91_5771_3462/master/5771.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=57acbb0a3d97f0b414a02905b228fc30"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Blondet Eliot/Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7e726fff3e001428d0a71a37e3a9eb3e727bff77/0_91_5771_3462/master/5771.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a3ce27ab0ee5ce4e592021b06192b369"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Blondet Eliot/Abaca/Rex/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels and Kim Willsher in Paris</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:57:12Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Ukraine war briefing: US and most EU countries to boycott Putin swearing-in ceremony</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/ukraine-war-briefing-us-and-most-eu-countries-to-boycott-putin-swearing-in-ceremony</link> <description><p>US spokesperson says no envoy will attend because Russian president’s election was not ‘free and fair’. What we know on day 804</p><p><strong>The US and most EU nations will boycott a Kremlin ceremony to swear in Vladimir Putin for a new six-year term as president on Tuesday, but France and some other EU states were expected to send an envoy despite a plea by Kyiv.</strong> “No, we will not have a representative at his inauguration,” Matthew Miller, a US state department spokesperson, said. “We certainly did not consider that election free and fair but he is the president of Russia and he is going to continue in that capacity.”</p><p><strong>Russia <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/russia-to-hold-battlefield-nuclear-drills-after-macron-and-cameron-comments">threatened to strike British military facilities</a> and ordered its military to hold battlefield nuclear weapons drills in a move the Kremlin described as a response to comments from the French president, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/emmanuel-macron">Emmanuel Macron</a>, and from the British foreign secretary, David Cameron</strong>. Macron has said he would “not rule out” the possibility of sending troops to Ukraine and Cameron said it was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/02/david-cameron-commits-3bn-a-year-in-aid-to-ukraine-for-as-long-as-necessary">up to Kyiv how it used British weapons, including against targets inside of Russia.</a></p><p><strong>French president Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/eu-restates-readiness-to-launch-trade-war-with-china-over-cheap-imports">pressed Chinese leader Xi Jinping</a> at a summit in Paris on Monday to use Beijing’s influence to halt the Russian war against Ukraine</strong>. Europe is concerned that while officially neutral over the Ukraine conflict, China is essentially backing Russia, which is using Chinese machine tools in arms production. “More effort is needed to curtail delivery of dual use goods to Russia that find their way to the battlefield,” von der Leyen said after talks, adding that “this does affect EU-China relations”.</p><p><strong>Russian forces have taken control of the settlements of Soloviove in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region and Kotliarivka farther north in the Kharkiv region, the defence ministry said on Monday</strong>. Ukraine’s military made no mention of either locality in its evening General Staff report.</p><p><strong>The Ukrainian weightlifter Oleksandr Pielieshenko, who finished fourth in the 85kg light-heavyweight category at the Rio Olympic Games in 2016, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/ukraines-former-olympian-weightlifter-oleksandr-pielieshenko-killed-in-action">has been killed</a> defending his country</strong>. The news was confirmed by the National Olympic Committee of Ukraine, who said Pielieshenko died during combat operations on Sunday. He had joined up in the first few days of the Russian invasion in 2022.</p><p><strong>A Russian journalist who has worked for both state-funded and independent media was detained Monday and faces charges of justifying terrorism through posts on the Telegram messaging app, her lawyer said</strong>. Nadezhda Kevorkova is expected to appear in court on Tuesday, her lawyer Kaloy Akhilgov said on Telegram. If convicted, she could be sentenced to up to five years in prison. Akhilgov said the charges involve two posts, one in 2018 and the other in 2021.</p><p><strong>An American soldier <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/us-soldier-russia-detained">was detained in Russia</a> last week on charges of “criminal misconduct,” the US army said Monday</strong>. The soldier – whose name was not released – adds to the number of Americans held in Russia at a time of deep tensions with Washington over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.</p><p><strong>Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has written columns as a contributor for The Washington Post from his prison cell in Russia, won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary</strong>. The Russian politician, author and historian has been imprisoned in Russia since April 2022. He was convicted of treason last year for denouncing the war in Ukraine.</p><p><strong>Poland’s government said Monday it was financing the operation of 20,000 Starlink internet devices in Ukraine – an essential network for the country’s military communications as it fights off Russia’s invasion</strong>. Starlink, owned by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is a network of satellites in low Earth orbit that can provide internet to remote locations, or areas that have had normal communications infrastructure disabled.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/ukraine-war-briefing-us-and-most-eu-countries-to-boycott-putin-swearing-in-ceremony">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 00:02:38 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/ukraine-war-briefing-us-and-most-eu-countries-to-boycott-putin-swearing-in-ceremony</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fcbb8a67487a761e83e5bdf8f902b5f3aa8e0062/0_118_8192_4918/master/8192.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=517c9e16bf27778b370ad5200b3e4745"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yevhen Titov/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fcbb8a67487a761e83e5bdf8f902b5f3aa8e0062/0_118_8192_4918/master/8192.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=86f34a88303612c1ea7454d1af18d1a7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yevhen Titov/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T00:02:38Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>UCLA creates campus safety role amid condemnation of response to mob attack</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-attack-campus-safety</link> <description><p>University and police denounced as masked group marched on campus and attacked pro-Palestinian demonstrators last week</p><p>The University of California, Los Angeles, said that it would create a new office dedicated to campus safety following mounting criticism of authorities’ slow response to a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/ucla-campus-violence-protests">brutal attack</a> on pro-Palestinian protesters by a mob of “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/violence-erupts-ucla-university-campus-clashes-rival-gaza-protest-groups">instigators</a>”.</p><p>The school’s chancellor, Gene Block, said on Sunday that urgent changes were needed to “better protect our community moving forward” and announced that a new office of campus safety would oversee the university police department and the UCLA office of emergency management, “effective immediately”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-attack-campus-safety">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-campus-protests">US campus protests</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-universities">US universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/los-angeles">Los Angeles</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 00:11:44 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/ucla-protester-attack-campus-safety</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3409282ae1b889a0aef7102a087c1b62844b3ba7/0_380_5682_3408/master/5682.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=13282503c9554b3342ad89cda55dc82a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3409282ae1b889a0aef7102a087c1b62844b3ba7/0_380_5682_3408/master/5682.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c77bae91bae3c90abe756b02fd234ce6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Étienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Dani Anguiano</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T00:11:44Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Ghent students occupy university building in climate and Gaza protest</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/ghent-students-occupy-university-building-in-climate-and-gaza-protest</link> <description><p>More than 200 expected to join protest calling for climate action and to cut ties with Israeli institutions</p><ul><li><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/may/06/israel-gaza-hamas-ceasefire-updates">Israel-Gaza war – live updates</a></strong></li></ul><p>More than 100 students have occupied Ghent University in the first European protest to fuse demands about Gaza and the climate crisis.</p><p>Ghent’s centrepiece UFO building was peacefully taken over by students calling for concrete action to meet the university’s 2030 climate plans, and asking the university to cut ties with institutions connected to the Israeli military.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/ghent-students-occupy-university-building-in-climate-and-gaza-protest">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/belgium">Belgium</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/activism">Environmental activism</category> <category 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url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f22f0b54c964c3a877ea17c712ba4a972bdb30a7/304_302_2777_1666/master/2777.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9825f32e3a0c0bc9dd3ebf9c22be1783"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Arthur Neslen</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T17:17:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>US soldier detained in Russia and accused of theft, officials say</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/us-soldier-russia-detained</link> <description><p>Officials say Staff Sgt Gordon Black, 34, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to Texas</p><p>An American soldier has been arrested in Russia and accused of stealing, according to two US officials.</p><p>US officials said the soldier, Staff Sgt Gordon Black, 34, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to Fort Cavazos in Texas. Instead, officials said, he traveled to Russia.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/us-soldier-russia-detained">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-military">US military</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-foreign-policy">US foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 22:02:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/us-soldier-russia-detained</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b87c159cc3b00b9aef010a06232a01a3d000526d/122_236_5244_3147/master/5244.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f8101671c6ed8bb0be863b37f1adb28b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Michał Fludra/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b87c159cc3b00b9aef010a06232a01a3d000526d/122_236_5244_3147/master/5244.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=738e066d6f939a9bc0569f91628317ab"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Michał Fludra/NurPhoto/Rex/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Associated Press in Washington</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T22:02:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Scientists claim to have found another distinct genetic form of Alzheimer’s</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/scientists-genetic-form-of-alzheimers-two-copies-gene-variant</link> <description><p>Study suggests almost everyone with two copies of genetic variant ApoE4 goes on to develop disease</p><p>Having two copies of a gene variant known to predispose people to Alzheimer’s could in fact represent a distinct genetic form of the disease, researchers have said.</p><p>The variant, known as ApoE4, has long been known to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, with two copies conferring greater risk than one.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/scientists-genetic-form-of-alzheimers-two-copies-gene-variant">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/alzheimers">Alzheimer's</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/genetics">Genetics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/medical-research">Medical research</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/health">Health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/biology">Biology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:42 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/may/06/scientists-genetic-form-of-alzheimers-two-copies-gene-variant</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5cba6010ad99dc9eebd4c0a3dc421a70a690aa64/0_172_5149_3090/master/5149.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=077b22c97364feb7f6da30c1e684562f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5cba6010ad99dc9eebd4c0a3dc421a70a690aa64/0_172_5149_3090/master/5149.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a430804fddbc7be1fa5c99d8f4c2a30e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Nicola Davis Science correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:00:42Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Colorado cracks down on funeral homes after discoveries of rotting bodies</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/colorado-funeral-homes</link> <description><p>Lawmakers pass bill to regulate industry after 190 decomposing bodies found in bug-infested facility and another found in hearse</p><p>After the discovery of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/15/colorado-funeral-home-owners-charged-covid-fraud">nearly 200 decaying bodies</a> in a Colorado funeral home in October, lawmakers saw the need to tighten the state’s lax funeral home oversight and on Monday passed a bill that – in combination with a second bill that passed last week – would help to regulate the industry.</p><p>A series of cases that include sold ashes and fake body parts have devastated hundreds of already grieving families and shed a glaring spotlight on the state’s funeral home regulations, some of the weakest in the US. The bill passed on Monday will head to Governor Jared Polis’s desk after the state house considers a minor change by the senate.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/colorado-funeral-homes">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/colorado">Colorado</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:34:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/colorado-funeral-homes</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cad9ab7349d13a5040b4e5916951cee0c6ec2989/262_0_6929_4160/master/6929.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7c43019084aa3bb8b44b934375957e97"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jerilee Bennett/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cad9ab7349d13a5040b4e5916951cee0c6ec2989/262_0_6929_4160/master/6929.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=557d2a791a76fe96257de180224b5023"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jerilee Bennett/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff and agencies</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:34:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Accused Canadian serial murderer admits killing four Indigenous women</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/canada-serial-killer-indigenous-women-landfill</link> <description><p>Jeremy Skibicki, charged with four counts of first-degree murder, is believed to have left bodies of at least two victims in a landfill</p><p>An <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/indigenous-women-landfill-canada">accused serial killer</a> in Canada, who police believed disposed of his victims by dumping some of them in landfills, has admitted to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/01/canadian-indigenous-women-murder">killing four Indigenous women</a>, with his lawyers arguing a mental disorder meant he was not criminally responsible for the crimes.</p><p>Jeremy Skibicki is charged with four counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Rebecca Contois, Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and an unidentified woman, who was named Mashkode Bizhiki’ikwe (Buffalo Woman) by Indigenous leaders. He has pleaded not guilty to all of the charges and had been due to stand trial this week.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/canada-serial-killer-indigenous-women-landfill">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/canada">Canada</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/indigenous-peoples">Indigenous peoples</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-crime">US crime</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/americas">Americas</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 19:22:25 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/canada-serial-killer-indigenous-women-landfill</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad58b157915075b3b7a34399fe2d0e6515955d95/0_105_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dcd9953da394f3b0306b643d779ee60b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: John Woods/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad58b157915075b3b7a34399fe2d0e6515955d95/0_105_5184_3110/master/5184.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=87561e3a939e11010543598514907ca7"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: John Woods/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Leyland Cecco in Toronto</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T19:22:25Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>New York attorney general sues facilities promoting ‘abortion pill reversal’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/new-york-attorney-general-anti-abortion-pill-lawsuit-letitia-james</link> <description><p>Heartbeat International, affiliated with more than 2,000 facilities, aims to convince people to continue their pregnancies</p><p>The organization behind an international network of anti-abortion facilities is misleading people with claims that abortions can be “reversed”, a lawsuit filed on Monday by Letitia James, the New York attorney general, alleges.</p><p>The organization, Heartbeat International, is affiliated with more than 2,000 facilities that aim to convince people to continue their pregnancies. In recent years, many such centers, which are often Christian and sometimes known as crisis pregnancy centers, have started to promote a controversial practice known as “abortion pill reversal”, which claims that people can halt a medication abortion midway through.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/new-york-attorney-general-anti-abortion-pill-lawsuit-letitia-james">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/abortion">Abortion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/roe-v-wade">Roe v Wade</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/letitia-james">Letitia James</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:51:06 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/new-york-attorney-general-anti-abortion-pill-lawsuit-letitia-james</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/071f3f41eed1311b656bda633ec8574b43dd3788/0_64_6400_3839/master/6400.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c0c524cc0be79530cf7b1e843fa3c122"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/071f3f41eed1311b656bda633ec8574b43dd3788/0_64_6400_3839/master/6400.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c259da269928f4ffeed2e132d8cd221a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Carter Sherman</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:51:06Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Judge threatens Trump with jail time for gag order violations in hush-money trial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-hush-money-trial-day-12</link> <description><p>Judge holds Trump in criminal contempt for the 10th time in response to former president’s comments on the jury</p><p>The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money trial on Monday held him in criminal contempt for the 10th time and warned he could face jail for continued violations of a gag order.</p><p>Juan Merchan’s admonition to Trump came in response to the Republican presidential frontrunner’s repeated commentary on trial witnesses and jurors, which flouts the judge’s order barring him from speaking about those who are testifying at the high-profile proceedings and panelists weighing his fate.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-hush-money-trial-day-12">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-trump-trials">Donald Trump trials</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/law-us">Law (US)</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 16:55:45 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-hush-money-trial-day-12</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca34ebb4cee637d56998798ea14eeaaefbef0eee/0_102_4810_2886/master/4810.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f6214718dbdfcffd031a22748be75d23"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Foley/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ca34ebb4cee637d56998798ea14eeaaefbef0eee/0_102_4810_2886/master/4810.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=16877fa16a52081f49ff1abb7f43f86b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Peter Foley/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Victoria Bekiempis</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T16:55:45Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Pulitzer 2024 winners include Jayne Anne Phillips, ProPublica, AP and New York Times</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/06/pulitzer-prize-winners-journalism</link> <description><p>Winning books include Night Watch and King: A Life, while journalism winners focused on coverage of the Israel-Gaza war</p><p>This year’s Pulitzer winners include the New York Times and ProPublica as well as authors including Jayne Anne Phillips and Jonathan Eig.</p><p>The Pulitzers honored the best in journalism from 2023 in 15 categories, as well as eight arts categories focused on books, music and theater. The public service winner receives a gold medal. All other winners receive $15,000.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/06/pulitzer-prize-winners-journalism">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/awards-and-prizes">Awards and prizes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/pulitzerprize">Pulitzer prize</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:10:55 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/culture/article/2024/may/06/pulitzer-prize-winners-journalism</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4358e3dba37006b956e85b6523f8c2daa34864c1/0_0_3600_2160/master/3600.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c810fb8a00fa76ccfb8503b9abb34f9d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eric Gay/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4358e3dba37006b956e85b6523f8c2daa34864c1/0_0_3600_2160/master/3600.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7e929dc512176905c9491e9547cd23df"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Eric Gay/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Benjamin Lee</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:10:55Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Doctor Who first look review – Ncuti Gatwa will make this show far more fun than it’s been for years</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/doctor-who-first-look-review-ncuti-gatwa-will-make-this-show-far-more-fun-than-its-been-for-years</link> <description><p>This is it! The Fifteenth Doctor is here – and he’s a dazzling, all-singing, all-dancing delight. If only Russell T Davies didn’t spend so much time spoon-feeding new fans</p><p>Christmas specials don’t count. Intermediate trilogies where David Tennant is the Fourteenth-and-a-Half Doctor or whatever don’t count. The new era of Doctor Who, with Russell T Davies back as the showrunner and Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, only really begins here, with the new season proper. The first double bill, comprising Space Babies and The Devil’s Chord, points to a stellar future for Who as a youthfully chaotic playground of the imagination, far more fancy of foot and light of outlook than it has been for years. It only takes baby steps, for now, towards that new destination, but we can see it.</p><p>Gatwa establishes himself as a cracking Doctor immediately. What an obviously perfect piece of casting he is: commandingly hench in his colourful costumes, and naturally able to express the dazzling extremes the Doctor has to embody. He glowers, and the end of the world descends; a nanosecond later, he grins and we’re having the most fun in the universe. He’s delightful, but he’s also consciously more delighted than some of his predecessors, skipping and dancing and, on a few occasions here, doing a sideways gallop when he enters a room, like Kramer from Seinfeld with springs on his heels.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/doctor-who-first-look-review-ncuti-gatwa-will-make-this-show-far-more-fun-than-its-been-for-years">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/doctor-who">Doctor Who</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/fantasy-tv">Fantasy TV</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/ncuti-gatwa">Ncuti Gatwa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/russelltdavies">Russell T Davies</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:00:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/doctor-who-first-look-review-ncuti-gatwa-will-make-this-show-far-more-fun-than-its-been-for-years</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e9ab490a3f652bbbc64ee39d88b8613c66dcd9b/263_339_3922_2355/master/3922.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0ff7242bfb21061ae4423765972d3074"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: James Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4e9ab490a3f652bbbc64ee39d88b8613c66dcd9b/263_339_3922_2355/master/3922.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f52259dbe67d51a488e29309218426dc"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: James Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jack Seale</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T13:00:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘A wild cocktail of emotion, politics and desire’: the history of breasts in art</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/06/breasts-iconography-art-venice-madonna</link> <description><p>From lactating Madonnas to disembodied orbs, a new exhibition surveys the depictions of breasts and asks – what about the women who own them?</p><p>Breasts have been a focus in the culture wars of the last 50-odd years. Second-wave feminists casting off their bras in the 1970s come to mind, and then ongoing judgment-filled debates around breastfeeding, and the even more fraught, and recent, hostilities around trans healthcare. Recent celebrations of female sensuality manifested in things like #freethenip, hot girl summer, widening conversations around sexual pleasure, and the body positivity movement all take breasts as a key motif, too.</p><p>But for all the girlies freeing their nips on Instagram, it’s much rarer to see them free on the street. We keep them under wraps and rarely articulate why they seem to be so contentious. The potency of breasts as symbols of things as disparate but overlapping as gender, eroticism and motherhood makes them the nexus of a wild cocktail of emotions, politics and desires.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/06/breasts-iconography-art-venice-madonna">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art">Art</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/venice-biennale-2024">Venice Biennale 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gender">Gender</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/painting">Painting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/venice-biennale">Venice Biennale</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 09:48:45 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/06/breasts-iconography-art-venice-madonna</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7059a9916ad10d433e1fff7879cc0fba3387583c/144_571_1208_725/master/1208.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=029693847e676f13144df37c1b7f1add"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Todd-White Art Photography/Courtesy private collection/Palazzo Franchetti San Marc</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7059a9916ad10d433e1fff7879cc0fba3387583c/144_571_1208_725/master/1208.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=52829487711ecf9e3cd81442bafba6eb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Todd-White Art Photography/Courtesy private collection/Palazzo Franchetti San Marc</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Eliza Goodpasture</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T09:48:45Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Blue Lights recap: series two, episode four – no, Tommy, no!</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/blue-lights-recap-series-two-episode-four-no-tommy-no</link> <description><p>Gruesome twosome Canning and Shane throw poor wee Tommy to the lions to ‘get results’. But they should know better than to mess with one of this loyal lot</p><p>Canning went off-piste and Tommy paid the price. Here’s all the intel on the Shakespearean-titled fourth episode, The Stamp of Nature …</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/blue-lights-recap-series-two-episode-four-no-tommy-no">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/blue-lights">Blue Lights</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:00:49 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/blue-lights-recap-series-two-episode-four-no-tommy-no</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d40af8e414bdcfb1071484335b0618fc942490d9/193_0_5715_3431/master/5715.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=13502e6c41a6f8434f56f47b46ff813f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Christopher Barr/BBC/Two Cities Television</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d40af8e414bdcfb1071484335b0618fc942490d9/193_0_5715_3431/master/5715.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7ddbed6f8c3ee1d22a6029d29299b9cd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Christopher Barr/BBC/Two Cities Television</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Michael Hogan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:00:49Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>John Oliver on public libraries: ‘Another front in the ongoing culture war’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/john-oliver-libraries</link> <description><p>The Last Week Tonight host looks into attacks on public libraries, from slashed funding to harassment to banning certain book titles</p><p>John Oliver defended public libraries on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight, as the local institutions have “become another front in the ongoing culture war” with attacks on their funding, their staff and their collections.</p><p>The American Library Association documented efforts to censor over 4,240 unique book titles in schools and libraries in 2023, the highest level they have ever recorded, up 92% from the previous year. Library staff have also experienced a huge increase in harassment, with some baselessly accused of pedophilia for allowing certain books to be checked out.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/john-oliver-libraries">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/john-oliver">John Oliver</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/comedy">TV comedy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/comedy">Comedy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/television">Television</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tv-and-radio">Television & radio</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:57:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/article/2024/may/06/john-oliver-libraries</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7ca7464f98d7833937346f7c7c6351a721f08646/259_0_2243_1346/master/2243.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a4c96e30614b5b99bde9e81e3903d0c1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Youtube</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7ca7464f98d7833937346f7c7c6351a721f08646/259_0_2243_1346/master/2243.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e672a35c203c0c9b4de50c8ffbbdec49"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Youtube</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:57:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rosie Holt: That’s Politainment review – Tory targets are a safe seat</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/06/rosie-holt-thats-politainment-review-comedian</link> <description><p><strong>Colchester Arts Centre<br></strong>The comedian’s rightwing alter egos have not yet evolved beyond the two-dimensional in this droll but conventional set</p><p>It’s lovely to be here in Colchester, says <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr/08/rosie-holt-fake-viral-politician-interview">Rosie Holt</a>, “where people still voted Tory on Thursday”. For most comics, that wouldn’t be a boon. But it gives Holt something to work with. She’s here, to begin with, in the blue-blazered, Conservative MP character from her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/jan/15/rosie-holt-the-satirist-whose-tory-mp-video-had-so-many-fooled">hit online videos</a>, a cannon-fodder backbencher contorting herself to hold the party line. The videos, in which Holt MP lies so hard she confuses even herself, are great – but her <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/aug/09/rosie-holt-review-pleasance-courtyard-edinburgh">debut live show</a>, at Edinburgh festival fringe two summers ago, did not represent a wholly successful transition to the stage.</p><p>This one, called That’s Politainment, is better: Holt feels more comfortable in her own, and her characters’, skins. It’s a fairly conventional set, with contributions from her MP alter ego, her rightwing GB News host Harriet Langley-Swindon, and from Holt herself. Neither of the fictional characters has yet evolved beyond the two-dimensional, and – if you’re looking for variety – it’s not ideal that they both send up the same ideological impulses. But there are some droll jokes here, such as when her MP blames Toby Jones for the Post Office scandal, or her semantic gymnastics (“we’ve changed the definition of ‘definition’”) inspired by the government’s decree that Rwanda is a perfectly safe country.</p><p><a href="https://www.rosieholt.co.uk/live-shows.html">Touring until 31 May</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/06/rosie-holt-thats-politainment-review-comedian">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/comedy">Comedy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/stage">Stage</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/comedy">Comedy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 10:53:22 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/may/06/rosie-holt-thats-politainment-review-comedian</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad5190f9d0c86e2e594164c0971ca27bf0c7711f/0_228_1365_819/master/1365.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4cadf286503b508bfe09bef49c2c32d9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ad5190f9d0c86e2e594164c0971ca27bf0c7711f/0_228_1365_819/master/1365.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cc7ab38605d803b73607035a422638bd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alicia Canter/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Brian Logan</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T10:53:22Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>From saving money to being more environmentally friendly: five reasons to buy a refurbished smartphone</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/16/from-saving-money-to-being-more-environmentally-friendly-five-reasons-to-buy-a-refurbished-smartphone</link> <description><p>Buying refurbished tech might feel risky if you’ve never done it before – but we’re here to tell you, it’s the future. Here’s what you need to know ...</p><p>Whether it’s eating less meat, swapping your car for a bike or saying no to single-use plastic, many of us are making lifestyle switches to live more ethically. However, fewer of us are aware of the huge environmental impact of something we use every day – our smartphone – and what we can all do to reduce it. Keen to know more? Here are five reasons why your next smartphone should be refurbished …</p><p><strong>Keep your carbon footprint in check<br></strong>The metal extraction, shipping and production that take place before a smartphone ends up in your hands create carbon emissions – and carbon emissions are the number one cause of the climate crisis. Metal mining and the manufacturing of smartphones, which predominantly take place in the global south, are also very polluting and therefore damaging to delicate ecosystems. Extending the lifespan of a smartphone can help to reduce this impact – the longer a smartphone is in use, the less damage is done to the planet. Obviously it’s not always possible to avoid needing a new phone, so this is why buying a refurbished one – and selling or recycling your old phones – is a more sustainable choice.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/16/from-saving-money-to-being-more-environmentally-friendly-five-reasons-to-buy-a-refurbished-smartphone">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/up-to-good-with-giffgaff">Up to good with giffgaff</category> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:58:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/16/from-saving-money-to-being-more-environmentally-friendly-five-reasons-to-buy-a-refurbished-smartphone</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c4fc941eb13dcf788c1698441851e8eb73f83651/0_166_5624_3374/master/5624.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ab061b889ebd0e1fefe1707c907ed75b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PeopleImages/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c4fc941eb13dcf788c1698441851e8eb73f83651/0_166_5624_3374/master/5624.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f7998c9717082351d8884941f1a9ceb5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PeopleImages/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Elizabeth Bennett</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-16T08:58:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>A call to do good: how three inspiring community projects were supported by giffgaff and its customers</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/18/a-call-to-do-good-how-three-inspiring-community-projects-were-supported-by-giffgaff-and-its-customers</link> <description><p>Thanks to its innovative payback scheme, the giffgaff community has raised more than £1m for good causes since 2010. Here, we spotlight three projects the mobile phone provider has supported so far</p><p>Community projects around the UK are bringing vital relief and support to people and animals in need. There are thousands of community organisations, charities and groups across the country offering their services around the clock, and many of them rely entirely on fundraising and donations.</p><p>Fortunately, there are lots of ways we can all get involved and help out – sometimes with very little effort on our part at all. Enter the mobile phone company giffgaff. One of more than 2,000 UK companies with B Corp status, it has been certified as a company that’s dedicated to being accountable and improving its social and environmental impact – and one of the ways it ensures it’s improving its social impact at grassroots level is through its <a href="https://www.giffgaff.com/payback" rel="nofollow">payback scheme</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/18/a-call-to-do-good-how-three-inspiring-community-projects-were-supported-by-giffgaff-and-its-customers">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/up-to-good-with-giffgaff">Up to good with giffgaff</category> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:07:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/18/a-call-to-do-good-how-three-inspiring-community-projects-were-supported-by-giffgaff-and-its-customers</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4cca2a0901293e041fc5af807365825ac1de2e19/0_85_4200_2520/master/4200.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=24332a8d45826b10f5e6267304588871"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PR</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4cca2a0901293e041fc5af807365825ac1de2e19/0_85_4200_2520/master/4200.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=306be37af574cb2c01a125aee74523ef"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PR</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Cathy Reay</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-18T13:07:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The right call: how to choose a smartphone that’s better for you – and less harmful to the planet</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/16/the-right-call-how-to-choose-a-smartphone-thats-better-for-you-and-less-harmful-to-the-planet</link> <description><p>When it comes to picking a mobile, there are many things that sway customers – from finding the best deal on the phone you want, to having full control of your bills every month. But now, consumers are increasingly looking to make a decision that considers their impact on the planet and society</p><p>Unboxing a new mobile phone always feels like a thrill. But how often does getting a new phone or mobile contract make you feel like you’re doing good?</p><p>As a certified B Corp, mobile network provider <a href="https://www.giffgaff.com/why-giffgaff" rel="nofollow">giffgaff</a> comes with a host of perks that not only benefit you, but also wider society. Intrigued? Here are seven reasons why choosing giffgaff is the right call …</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/16/the-right-call-how-to-choose-a-smartphone-thats-better-for-you-and-less-harmful-to-the-planet">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/up-to-good-with-giffgaff">Up to good with giffgaff</category> <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 08:59:39 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/16/the-right-call-how-to-choose-a-smartphone-thats-better-for-you-and-less-harmful-to-the-planet</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/552157b879f3c137c994309fe444b107cdd29cd7/0_54_1733_1040/master/1733.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fdf297a74a73dce92598075a707bd9f5"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sergio Marcos/Stocksy United</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/552157b879f3c137c994309fe444b107cdd29cd7/0_54_1733_1040/master/1733.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ec510aa3089ba3960664f5d097c002d6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Sergio Marcos/Stocksy United</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Fiona Cowood</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-16T08:59:39Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Certified goodness: what does B Corp status actually mean?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/18/certified-goodness-what-does-b-corp-status-actually-mean</link> <description><p>Phone provider giffgaff has joined the UK’s fast-growing community of B Corps thanks to its responsible practices. Julianne Robertson takes a closer look at this badge of honour and asks: what difference does it make to me and my mobile?</p><p>Did you know that giffgaff is an ancient Scottish word that means “mutual giving”? You thought it was a made-up, catchy brand name, didn’t you? Well, it turns out that the business is giffgaff by name, giffgaff by nature. Now a certified <a href="https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/" rel="nofollow">B Corp</a>, giffgaff is legally accountable for its impact on people and the planet, which is locked into the DNA of the company. In other words, it’s committed to being “up to good”.</p><p>Now you’re nodding sagely. Yes, B Corp. Very cool. But, in fact, maybe you don’t <em>really</em> know what a B Corp is. If that’s the case, you’re in the right place. Here’s everything you need to know …</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/18/certified-goodness-what-does-b-corp-status-actually-mean">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/up-to-good-with-giffgaff">Up to good with giffgaff</category> <pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 13:09:02 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/up-to-good-with-giffgaff/2024/apr/18/certified-goodness-what-does-b-corp-status-actually-mean</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/aa57a9163d268e074c73fb8ca0c4a0820cb741a0/31_0_2812_1688/master/2812.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fc551b64af7f5cd083aa7f74052ac0b1"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PR</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/aa57a9163d268e074c73fb8ca0c4a0820cb741a0/31_0_2812_1688/master/2812.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b9b10424717bbf50145a1837bdc67477"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: PR</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Julianne Robertson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-18T13:09:02Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Layering is where the fun begins’: how to style a summer dress for winter</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/07/fashion-styling-tips-wear-summer-dress-in-winter-layers-colours</link> <description><p>Four stylists explain how to use knits, coats and accessories to transform a favourite frock into an all-seasons garment</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/newsletters/2019/oct/18/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email</a></li></ul><p>A great dress (obviously <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/23/womens-pockets-size-jeans-fashion">one that has pockets</a>) can be effortless in the truest sense of the word. Flattering, comfortable and a self-contained outfit, especially during summer when it’s warm enough to leave the house without a jacket. Now, as the temperature drops in the southern hemisphere, it might seem like the time to relegate summer dresses to the back of your wardrobe. But, with the return of Y2K fashion and the trend towards layering and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2023/dec/16/skirt-or-trousers-you-dont-have-to-choose-if-you-wear-both-at-once">dresses being worn over pants</a>, that doesn’t have to be the case. Here four stylists explain how to build a winter outfit around a summer dress.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/newsletters/2019/oct/18/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/07/fashion-styling-tips-wear-summer-dress-in-winter-layers-colours">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion">Fashion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/australian-lifestyle">Australian lifestyle</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:00:44 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/07/fashion-styling-tips-wear-summer-dress-in-winter-layers-colours</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/74a8ba81e4bcf674ee49fc735bed9dec4b58709a/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=df6d055088b5bbd2ed351d32c78cc797"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Karinda Mutabazi / Rosalind Seehusen / Stuart Walford</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/74a8ba81e4bcf674ee49fc735bed9dec4b58709a/0_0_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ac23e4460956b2baaebfa29e6ada06d8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Karinda Mutabazi / Rosalind Seehusen / Stuart Walford</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Lucianne Tonti</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:00:44Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/06/how-rental-libraries-of-things-have-become-the-new-way-to-save-money</link> <description><p>From baby clothes to popcorn makers, borrowing items rather than buying them is a growing trend</p><p>A year into motherhood and I can confirm two things: babies grow too fast and clothing them is an expensive business.</p><p>My solution has been to rent my daughter Stella’s wardrobe. Warm coats, swimming costumes, sleepsuits, sandals – all can be borrowed for a monthly subscription from any number of services such as Bundlee, Lullaloop and thelittleloop, amongst others.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/06/how-rental-libraries-of-things-have-become-the-new-way-to-save-money">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/saving-money">Saving money</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/consumer-affairs">Consumer affairs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/money">Money</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 08:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/money/article/2024/may/06/how-rental-libraries-of-things-have-become-the-new-way-to-save-money</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f9c91ba674f6aa0402d512ecfb448934b1525159/0_2_1999_1199/master/1999.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=81637aaa04fefbfda21290e645035dc9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Justin Thomas</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f9c91ba674f6aa0402d512ecfb448934b1525159/0_2_1999_1199/master/1999.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e8b7a9061f979bf2eabcfd872fc5cb2d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Justin Thomas</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Laura Whateley</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T08:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>We all want to cut out the bad parts of ourselves. It won’t work, and it won’t make us happier</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/06/we-all-want-to-cut-out-the-bad-parts-of-ourselves-it-wont-work-and-it-wont-make-us-happier</link> <description><p>Trauma, vulnerability, dependency … like it or not, we can’t just wish them away<br></p><p>When I was a little girl, I cried a lot. I used to wish ferociously that I was not such a crybaby. I remember the shame so well. Sitting on my bed on a Sunday evening, hot-cheeked and furious with my tears, holding on to the thought that when I was a grownup, I would never cry. I would be a strong, confident and capable woman, and I would never again feel like a sobbing little girl who doesn’t want to go to school tomorrow and just wants to stay with her mum. I hated that part of myself and I desperately wanted to get rid of it. That is what a better life meant to me back then.</p><p>Since becoming a psychotherapist, I have seen this kind of wish at play in patient after patient – and I’ve continued to see it in myself as a patient in therapy, too. It seems to be a pretty ubiquitous desire, although we are not always aware of it: this wish and even belief that if we just try hard enough, if we can find the magic self-help book or therapist or personal trainer or Instagram filter, we will truly be able to get rid of the parts of ourselves we feel ashamed of, or hate, or don’t want to acknowledge.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/06/we-all-want-to-cut-out-the-bad-parts-of-ourselves-it-wont-work-and-it-wont-make-us-happier">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/psychology">Psychology</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 09:00:34 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/06/we-all-want-to-cut-out-the-bad-parts-of-ourselves-it-wont-work-and-it-wont-make-us-happier</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b40176eebb722c062e546e6a5e5be28ecd245575/2_0_10413_6250/master/10413.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=842ee9bec0474e080f05b550f5821068"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design / Getty images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b40176eebb722c062e546e6a5e5be28ecd245575/2_0_10413_6250/master/10413.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ff37ae709a7e2852626f3925105da4e4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: Guardian Design / Getty images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Moya Sarner</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T09:00:34Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The pet I’ll never forget: Babyleaf, the feral kitten who tamed me</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/06/the-pet-ill-never-forget-babyleaf-the-feral-kitten-who-tamed-me</link> <description><p>She came into my life just when I needed her, and together we worked on our traumas. But it could not last … </p><p>I’d been feeding the stray cat for months before she brought them to our door: a gang of feral and frail-looking kittens. I’d never had a pet before, and, like many people who do not grow up with animals, I perhaps lacked a certain emotional dimension. The arrival of this bunch of spitters and shakers cracked me wide open, and right when I needed it.</p><p>It was 2016, and I was living as a property guardian in a disused care home in east London. I was 23, and I was broke, ambitious and ill. Back then I could be found having routine panic attacks in a PPE-blue ex-NHS bathroom. These days, I know all this to be the ripples of <a href="https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/types-of-mental-health-problems/post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-and-complex-ptsd/complex-ptsd/#:~:text=Complex%20post%2Dtraumatic%20stress%20disorder%20(complex%20PTSD%2C%20sometimes%20abbreviated,or%20distrustful%20towards%20the%20world">complex post-traumatic stress disorder</a>. At the time, however, I just assumed this was what happened to unemployed writers. Enter Kitten Babyleaf and her fluffy kin – seemingly as traumatised, adrift and desperate for security as me.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/06/the-pet-ill-never-forget-babyleaf-the-feral-kitten-who-tamed-me">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/mental-health">Mental health</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/cats">Cats</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/pets">Pets</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/06/the-pet-ill-never-forget-babyleaf-the-feral-kitten-who-tamed-me</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6dc8bf31f77a533209364a7b6baaf819ace5e349/0_47_2313_1388/master/2313.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7b936bcd2f0c57f9ade7b95fbd796e36"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Courtesy of Jonnie Bayfield</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/6dc8bf31f77a533209364a7b6baaf819ace5e349/0_47_2313_1388/master/2313.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ef5f29c6d9764d4bc25eba8097fafb42"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Courtesy of Jonnie Bayfield</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jonnie Bayfield</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T10:00:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Rachel Roddy’s recipe for chestnut pasta with mushrooms and herbs | A kitchen in Rome</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/may/06/rachel-roddy-chestnut-pasta-with-mushrooms-and-herbs-recipe</link> <description><p>Sweet chestnuts make a savoury flour that’s just perfect for this cracking, herby mushroom pasta</p><p>As anyone who has picked up a winking chestnut and rolled it around the palm of their hand knows, sweet chestnuts are heavy things – too heavy to be spread by animals or birds, meaning the chestnut landscape is largely man-made. Throughout history, chestnuts have been planted to provide food (especially in areas that are not suitable for grains), wood and fuel, or as a gift for future generations. In her charming and informative book <a href="https://prospectbooks.co.uk/products-page/current-titles/on-chestnuts-the-trees-and-their-seeds/">On Chestnuts: the Trees and their Seeds</a>, Ria Loohuizen recalls a saying from France: “One plants a peach for oneself, an olive tree for one’s son, a chestnut tree for one’s grandson.”</p><p>Sweet chestnuts are not picked: they fall from the tree when they are ripe, so need to be collected, on mats or by big vacuums. A friend of ours in Abruzzo, where chestnuts have always been of great economic importance, has a friend who built his own collector that consists of a soft wire basket on a stick which he rolls over the ground so the nuts squeeze between the gaps.</p><p>Discover this recipe and many more from your favourite cooks in <a href="https://app.adjust.com/1bgiux9n?creative=Endnotes&amp;fallback=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fhelp%2Finsideguardian%2F2024%2Fapr%2F17%2Fintroducing-the-feast-app&amp;redirect_macos=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fhelp%2Finsideguardian%2F2024%2Fapr%2F17%2Fintroducing-the-feast-app">the new Guardian Feast app</a>, with smart features to make everyday cooking easier and more fun</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/may/06/rachel-roddy-chestnut-pasta-with-mushrooms-and-herbs-recipe">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/pasta">Pasta</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/food">Food</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/italian-food-and-drink">Italian food and drink</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/vegetables">Vegetables</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/starter">Starter</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/food/main-course">Main course</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:36 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/food/2024/may/06/rachel-roddy-chestnut-pasta-with-mushrooms-and-herbs-recipe</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1f307b60d52f4b3806df41ac0f1e428ffc231484/0_1200_2448_1469/master/2448.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c11d450874af01ded900782ef4b81048"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rachel Roddy/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1f307b60d52f4b3806df41ac0f1e428ffc231484/0_1200_2448_1469/master/2448.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=29034ef6c1ad1046738721d1d99f5524"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Rachel Roddy/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Rachel Roddy</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T10:00:36Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Where can I find a great spa day for less than £150?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/06/where-can-i-find-a-great-spa-day-for-less-than-150-pounds</link> <description><p>Got a beauty dilemma? Our expert is here to offer advice. This week, Noor is looking for some serious pampering that won’t break the bank</p><p>I often joke that I could live in a spa, but if I did, it would cost me a small fortune – and in my experience it’s hard to find affordable options that deliver to the level they should.</p><p>It’s worth signing up to the newsletters of any spas you’d like to visit; they’ll let you know about special offers, discounts and cheap off-peak slots. Deal websites such as Groupon and Wowcher often have cheap spa day deals, but check the places on Tripadvisor before you buy – in my experience the most disappointing spas are those attached to a health club, golf hotel or airport hotel. I am wary of huge spas that offer lots of deals. I once visited a spa where I ended up queueing for all the facilities, and it was so busy it felt like a nightclub. Smaller hammams and spas might be more relaxing.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/06/where-can-i-find-a-great-spa-day-for-less-than-150-pounds">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/spa">Spa breaks</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 07:00:32 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/06/where-can-i-find-a-great-spa-day-for-less-than-150-pounds</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7e78684aae66db9516eca54d3f877957ef73e556/0_0_2835_1701/master/2835.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bb1677f9a25b23460fa1a93d9c02c8cd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Edith Pritchett/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7e78684aae66db9516eca54d3f877957ef73e556/0_0_2835_1701/master/2835.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2380c170de24574299570e2bf9cadcdb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Edith Pritchett/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Anita Bhagwandas</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T07:00:32Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tell us: are you splurging on luxury goods you can ill afford?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/apr/29/tell-us-are-you-splurging-on-luxury-goods-you-can-ill-afford</link> <description><p>We’d like to hear from people who have been purchasing luxury goods and experiences in recent years, and how they feel about their spending habits</p><p>We’re interested to hear about people’s spending habits in the area of upmarket or luxury goods, services and experiences, and whether they are generally happy with their spending on non-essentials.</p><p>We’d like to know whether you have spent money on expensive non-essential items such as designer clothing, high end housewares, luxury holidays, expensive beauty or wellness treatments, or exclusive dining, for instance, in the past year, and if so, whether you have struggled to afford this.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/apr/29/tell-us-are-you-splurging-on-luxury-goods-you-can-ill-afford">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/luxury-goods-sector">Luxury goods sector</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/travel/luxury-travel">Luxury travel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/consumer-affairs">Consumer affairs</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/money">Money</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/social-media">Social media</category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:35:57 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global/2024/apr/29/tell-us-are-you-splurging-on-luxury-goods-you-can-ill-afford</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/be68a90ad1ee7c160175ce40ed275508ea4ac99b/0_0_4829_2898/master/4829.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5fd1e3f017893451d76da898938b4d09"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alberto Pezzali/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/be68a90ad1ee7c160175ce40ed275508ea4ac99b/0_0_4829_2898/master/4829.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=98ac6c5010d29296933f42b4c375b488"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Alberto Pezzali/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-29T15:35:57Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Share your experience of making your own way to NHS accident and emergency</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/share-your-experience-of-making-your-own-way-to-nhs-accident-and-emergency</link> <description><p>We would like to hear from those who have travelled direct to A&amp;E instead of waiting for an ambulance</p><p>Whether it’s taking a taxi or public transport, we would like to hear your experience of travelling to A&amp;E without an ambulance.</p><p>What was your reason for going and how did you get there? Were you travelling on your own or with family? If you called 999, what happened and were you told how long it would take for an ambulance to arrive?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/share-your-experience-of-making-your-own-way-to-nhs-accident-and-emergency">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/nhs">NHS</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:59:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/30/share-your-experience-of-making-your-own-way-to-nhs-accident-and-emergency</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1029e4e79445cd8dbc6297da19b8c99510705972/0_102_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fbfd2f20a408bc5af0bf7f51547fcc12"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/1029e4e79445cd8dbc6297da19b8c99510705972/0_102_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2d9b077f8d94d94ad6f563981218d56c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Victoria Jones/PA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T11:59:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Students in Europe: share your experience of pro-Palestinian university protests</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/students-in-europe-share-your-experience-of-pro-palestinian-university-protests</link> <description><p>We would like to hear from students in the UK and other countries in Europe attending universities where demonstrations are taking place</p><p>Students at UK <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/uk-students-begin-new-wave-of-protests-against-gaza-war-after-us-arrests">universities are protesting over the war in Gaza</a>, following a wave of demonstrations on US campuses that have been met with police crackdowns.</p><p>With <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/paris-regional-leader-suspends-sciences-po-funding-over-gaza-protests">students at universities including Sciences Po in Paris</a> staging a number of protests over the war, we would like to hear from students at universities in the UK and other countries in Europe where protests are taking place. We would like to hear from those who are participating as well as those who are not – how do you feel about what is happening at your university? What has your experience of it been?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/students-in-europe-share-your-experience-of-pro-palestinian-university-protests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/education/students">Students</category> <pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 16:08:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/may/01/students-in-europe-share-your-experience-of-pro-palestinian-university-protests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8317c5cac7a9b2f12a719b7849075e9f836ae0da/0_448_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5a5f600dc35c1a43c010d3149f14bcee"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8317c5cac7a9b2f12a719b7849075e9f836ae0da/0_448_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=79c24129d17ad0c225ac078dc9df8711"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Gary Calton/The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-01T16:08:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>UK millennials: have you recently moved back in with your parents?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/03/millennials-have-you-recently-moved-back-in-with-your-parents</link> <description><p>We would like to hear from adults in the UK who have recently had to move in with their parents</p><p>We would like to hear from adults in the UK between the ages 28-42 who have recently had to move in with their parents. Why did you make the move? How has the experience been? Tell us all about it below.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/03/millennials-have-you-recently-moved-back-in-with-your-parents">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/family">Family</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 14:08:43 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/03/millennials-have-you-recently-moved-back-in-with-your-parents</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e7057c48dff4886f30444ed6f897bcab6984e947/0_171_5123_3074/master/5123.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=957e19c7810ed83d2d92f22ea18a7c88"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jed Share/Kaoru Share/Getty Images/Tetra images RF</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/e7057c48dff4886f30444ed6f897bcab6984e947/0_171_5123_3074/master/5123.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7a0fc5cbb0fb33e7b90cd0281808da97"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jed Share/Kaoru Share/Getty Images/Tetra images RF</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian community team</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-03T14:08:43Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Trump prosecutors push the paper trial, and judge threatens jail – again | Trump on trial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-on-trial-prosecutors-paper-trail-judge</link> <description><p>After weeks of testimony, Trump’s trial turned to much drier – but arguably more crucial – details on Monday</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/18/sign-up-for-the-trump-on-trial-newsletter">Sign up for our free Trump on Trial newsletter</a></li></ul><p>After weeks of testimony that focused on some of the more salacious, tabloidy aspects of why former president <strong>Donald Trump</strong> wanted to keep his alleged affairs under wraps before the 2016 election, his hush-money trial turned to much drier – but arguably more crucial – testimony on Monday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-on-trial-prosecutors-paper-trail-judge">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donald-trump-trials">Donald Trump trials</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 21:38:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/06/trump-on-trial-prosecutors-paper-trail-judge</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/00013c1eac82a50e089544a286601dfbc2ed9247/0_0_5384_3232/master/5384.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ab3c16f2b94f84524879e8252b491699"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Win McNamee/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/00013c1eac82a50e089544a286601dfbc2ed9247/0_0_5384_3232/master/5384.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=eb3907ef58765b741494e5e06b447cfb"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Win McNamee/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Cameron Joseph</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T21:38:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Tunnels, treehouses and tensegrity towers: landmarks in protest architecture, from UCLA to Hong Kong</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/06/tunnels-treehouses-tensegrity-towers-protest-architecture-ucla-</link> <description><p>How did UK activists outfox 700 police? Why was Hong Kong traffic stopped by ‘mini Stonehenges’? And could an octagonal treehouse and a crow’s nest really have saved a German forest? Our writer enjoys a 200-year history of resistance architecture</p><p>In his 1868 street-fighting manual, <a href="https://blanqui.kingston.ac.uk/texts/instructions-for-an-armed-uprising-1868/">Instructions for an Armed Uprising</a>, the French revolutionary Auguste Blanqui sets out meticulous instructions for how to build a good barricade. Such defences, he wrote, must no longer be thrown together in “a confused and disorderly fashion”, but should be robustly composed of two sturdy rampart walls made of paving stones and plaster. All the aspiring revolutionary needed was a good supply of cobblestones and “a cart filled with sacks of plaster, plus wheelbarrows, handcarts, levers, picks, shovels, mattocks, hammers, cold chisels, trowels, buckets and troughs”. Blanqui advised that all of these things could be “requisitioned from the respective merchants”, whose addresses were handily listed in an accompanying directory.</p><p>The students at UCLA, who were peacefully occupying their campus in protest against Israel’s war on Gaza, might have wished for such supplies when they were <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/01/ucla-campus-violence-protests">attacked by a violent mob of vigilantes</a> last week. Terrifying footage showed masked thugs beating their makeshift encampment with sticks and metal poles, dragging away steel fencing and plywood panels, and tearing apart their tents and gazebos, amid fireworks and clouds of bear spray. The hastily assembled camp stood no chance against the brute force of an organised gang intent on inflicting violence, terror and destruction.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/06/tunnels-treehouses-tensegrity-towers-protest-architecture-ucla-">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture">Architecture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/extinction-rebellion">Extinction Rebellion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/germany">Germany</category> <category 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Mario Tama/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Oliver Wainwright</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T15:31:51Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Xi’s European tour: where is Chinese leader going and what are visit’s aims?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/xi-jinping-european-tour-where-is-china-president-going</link> <description><p>Emmanuel Macron and Viktor Orbán among leaders Xi is meeting, with several key issues on the table</p><p>China’s president, Xi Jinping, has begun a three-country tour of Europe – his first state visit to the continent in five years – at a time when China-EU ties are under strain from trade disputes and Russia’s war on Ukraine.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/xi-jinping-european-tour-where-is-china-president-going">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/xi-jinping">Xi Jinping</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/eu">European Union</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/france">France</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/serbia">Serbia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hungary">Hungary</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ursula-von-der-leyen">Ursula von der Leyen</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/asia-pacific">Asia Pacific</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/emmanuel-macron">Emmanuel Macron</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/viktor-orban">Viktor Orbán</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 13:49:46 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/06/xi-jinping-european-tour-where-is-china-president-going</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c293f6f683c325afcfb1a60ea398d82196f5df55/0_546_8192_4914/master/8192.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8a485a9537f584f77c69397438209b56"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yoan Valat/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c293f6f683c325afcfb1a60ea398d82196f5df55/0_546_8192_4914/master/8192.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8eb1012961c8cc9b1cc0dd8b049c506b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Yoan Valat/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jon Henley Europe correspondent</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T13:49:46Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Female journalists under attack as press freedom falters</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/06/female-journalists-under-attack-as-press-freedom-falters</link> <description><p>Physical and online abuse, detentions, deportations and sexual violence – a global crackdown on women in journalism is intensifying</p><p>Female journalists are at the “epicentre of risk” as attacks on press freedom intensify around the world.</p><p>According to organisations representing women in journalism, the past year has seen an escalation of smear campaigns; racist and gendered attacks; detentions; deportations; censorship; and police violence levelled at female journalists, which is leading to a “chilling” silencing of women’s voices in the media landscape.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/06/female-journalists-under-attack-as-press-freedom-falters">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/press-freedom">Press freedom</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/pressandpublishing">Newspapers & magazines</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/newspapers">Newspapers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/womens-rights-and-gender-equality">Women's rights and gender equality</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:32:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/06/female-journalists-under-attack-as-press-freedom-falters</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c927890ab336139fbc60af3f0bb88ea90263ea93/0_24_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=66f24af73adc604a66862f944a2770cf"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Christina Assi/AFP/Getty</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c927890ab336139fbc60af3f0bb88ea90263ea93/0_24_6720_4032/master/6720.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c59abe753a45c364e81d09d6bd3ead3a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Christina Assi/AFP/Getty</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Annie Kelly</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:32:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I am ready to return whenever they say’: Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/i-am-ready-to-return-whenever-they-say-nasrin-sotoudeh-on-prison-the-hijab-and-violence-in-iran</link> <description><p>Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime</p><p>Iran’s Qarchak jail has been called many things: a torture chamber; the worst women’s prison in the world; unfit for humans. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/iran-arrests-top-rights-lawyer-at-funeral-of-teenage-girl-who-died-after-metro-incident">Nasrin Sotoudeh</a> uses just one word to describe the nine months she spent there: “Hell.”</p><p>Sotoudeh does not speak of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/28/kylie-moore-gilbert-british-australian-academic-moved-to-notorious-iran-prison">the appalling conditions</a> or stench of sewage, the undrinkable water or lack of food, the disease or cruelty of solitary confinement. She simply says: “I am ready to return whenever they say.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/i-am-ready-to-return-whenever-they-say-nasrin-sotoudeh-on-prison-the-hijab-and-violence-in-iran">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nasrin-sotoudeh">Nasrin Sotoudeh</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/womens-rights-and-gender-equality">Women's rights and gender equality</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/i-am-ready-to-return-whenever-they-say-nasrin-sotoudeh-on-prison-the-hijab-and-violence-in-iran</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b296afa18224f6fa7f2a8815856dfef8c21e1e95/0_62_1400_840/master/1400.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9cce7ac3a8a680cc4e2eb00ebacbc8a2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: suplied</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b296afa18224f6fa7f2a8815856dfef8c21e1e95/0_62_1400_840/master/1400.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4ec94d25b620af8a783173b71f01cf7a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: suplied</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Isabel Choat</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T10:00:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘People think it’s just for emo or gothic kids’: the Kenyan metalhead leading a new wave of African rock</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/martin-kanja-lord-spikeheart-kenya-africa-metal-music-debut-solo-album</link> <description><p>Martin Kanja, AKA Lord Spikeheart, covers everything from colonialism to his grandmother in music that mixes African culture with metal. He hopes to help more artists like him break through</p><p>As a teenager, Martin Kanja spent countless late nights listening to heavy metal on a local radio show. The furious riffs, shrieks, growls and distorted sounds drowned out his angst. “What drew me to the music was how it was so ‘physical’ – very present, very now – there was no space for negative thoughts or feelings,” says Kanja, who soon decided he too wanted to be a metal artist.</p><p>In 2010, when he was 19, he left his home town in Kenya’s midwestern city Nakuru for the capital, Nairobi, figuring it was his best bet for a foothold in the underground scene.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/martin-kanja-lord-spikeheart-kenya-africa-metal-music-debut-solo-album">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/kenya">Kenya</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/metal">Metal</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/music">Music</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/africa">Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 07:00:33 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/martin-kanja-lord-spikeheart-kenya-africa-metal-music-debut-solo-album</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fa28cc641a09b02b2fb0c85e8067fe706692e4c5/53_544_4149_2489/master/4149.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=93f89a53f0eb8593344c8970ac8abf01"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: YWS</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/fa28cc641a09b02b2fb0c85e8067fe706692e4c5/53_544_4149_2489/master/4149.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b35e0532d88573e87c70902c679de439"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: YWS</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Caroline Kimeu</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T07:00:33Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>From sporrans to chandeliers: King Charles and Queen Camilla weigh up new royal warrants</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/from-sporrans-to-chandeliers-king-charles-and-queen-camilla-weigh-up-new-royal-warrants</link> <description><p>A year after coronation, firms that were under patronage of Queen Elizabeth II or former Prince of Wales reapply, while others get in on act</p><p>On first glance the list of prestigious brands reads like the wedding gift registry of a wealthy eccentric.</p><p>Moët &amp; Chandon is one of eight acceptable champagnes for the ice bucket on the (Steinway) piano. The fashion stakes are high, too, with the posh trenchcoat purveyor Burberry, the Savile Row tailor Gieves &amp; Hawkes, and Lamont Sporrans for when only Highland dress will do.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/from-sporrans-to-chandeliers-king-charles-and-queen-camilla-weigh-up-new-royal-warrants">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/prince-charles">King Charles III</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/camilla-parker-bowles">Queen Camilla</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/retail">Retail industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/fooddrinks">Food & drink industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/burberrygroup">Burberry group</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/burberry">Burberry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/small-business">Small business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/scotland">Scotland</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion">Fashion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/queen">Queen Elizabeth II</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 14:22:25 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/06/from-sporrans-to-chandeliers-king-charles-and-queen-camilla-weigh-up-new-royal-warrants</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/77e8e16b46eb6e18d840155b3039ef7eb82f63d4/0_0_2560_1536/master/2560.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c2ef97d7cd638b55a8d73bc4f7592a90"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: various</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/77e8e16b46eb6e18d840155b3039ef7eb82f63d4/0_0_2560_1536/master/2560.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ec1578cb3fb61399c01139cf255d797f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: various</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Zoe Wood</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T14:22:25Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I’ve had massive highs and deep lows’: Edward Timpson on winning for the Tories and being sacked by Liz Truss</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/ive-had-massive-highs-and-deep-lows-edward-timpson-on-winning-for-the-tories-and-being-sacked-by-liz-truss</link> <description><p>Sixteen years after he entered parliament, the former minister has had enough. He talks about fighting for children, backing austerity, and his least favourite Conservative PM </p><p></p><p>“I do question whether I’m actually a politician,” Edward Timpson says. “It’s a bit late now, isn’t it?” I say. He laughs. “Yes, it’s a question I should have asked at the start.” Why does he question it? “Because … maybe I didn’t feel I was ruthless enough, not sharp-elbowed enough.”</p><p>However much he is in denial, the Conservative MP is definitely a politician, though not for much longer. He joined parliament in 2008 as member for Crewe and Nantwich after the death of Labour’s Gwyneth Dunwoody, who had represented the area for 34 years, lost his seat by 48 votes after three recounts in 2017, and returned to parliament in 2019 representing the neighbouring seat of Eddisbury. Now a boyish 50, he’s had enough, and is standing down at the next election.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/ive-had-massive-highs-and-deep-lows-edward-timpson-on-winning-for-the-tories-and-being-sacked-by-liz-truss">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/austerity">Austerity</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/ive-had-massive-highs-and-deep-lows-edward-timpson-on-winning-for-the-tories-and-being-sacked-by-liz-truss</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8eb0a8ac8485562f69882d85d8012357a4402297/924_467_5894_3538/master/5894.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e03e1e3917a594e5c05d762f2d5d2618"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/8eb0a8ac8485562f69882d85d8012357a4402297/924_467_5894_3538/master/5894.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=de03d34b91679cc907bc449fb5248cb3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Simon Hattenstone</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T04:00:29Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Former female trainee in Royal Marines says sexual assault was dismissed as ‘high jinks’</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/former-female-trainee-in-royal-marines-says-sexual-assault-was-dismissed-as-high-jinks</link> <description><p>Marines ‘want to protect the chain of command’, she says. ‘They don’t want to protect women’</p><p>When Isabel became a trainee for the Royal Marines band, she thought she was fulfilling a childhood dream. But within a few weeks the 18-year-old found herself subject to what she describes as a sexual assault, an incident that was rapidly dismissed by her commanding officers as “high jinks” – and subsequently felt ostracised to the point where she became suicidal.</p><p>Isabel, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, eventually simply walked off the base, feeling overwhelmed and unable to continue. Though it is about a decade since the original episode and several years since she received compensation, it is only now she feels confident enough to describe what happened.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/former-female-trainee-in-royal-marines-says-sexual-assault-was-dismissed-as-high-jinks">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/royal-navy">Royal Navy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/military">Military</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/rape">Rape and sexual assault</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/sexual-harassment">Sexual harassment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/06/former-female-trainee-in-royal-marines-says-sexual-assault-was-dismissed-as-high-jinks</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/08577ecd1b3c126c9f6230b9b2cd1701bdddb19a/0_302_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b1f37b56fd571524ee8e4d4172fa1ad4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/08577ecd1b3c126c9f6230b9b2cd1701bdddb19a/0_302_8256_4954/master/8256.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b7c34700e3233282a94d3d1aa95e7422"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Adrian Sherratt/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Dan Sabbagh</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T04:00:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>He’s 93, he’s run 52 marathons and he’s in the gym six days a week: can this man teach us how to age well?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/05/hes-93-hes-run-52-marathons-and-hes-in-the-gym-six-days-a-week-can-this-man-teach-us-how-to-age-well</link> <description><p>Known to his friends as the Legend, John Starbrook is living, breathing proof of the power of exercise and enthusiasm. I tried to keep up with him – and barely survived</p><p>I like to think of myself as a strong swimmer. I’m not fast, I can’t dive or tumble turn, but when I get a lane to myself I’ll happily bash out 50 or 60 lengths. Give me a nice big lake, and my idea of heaven is to backstroke into the middle and watch the swallows overhead. I don’t worry that I’ll cramp up or suddenly forget how to float.</p><p>But I’ve never fancied water polo. If you’ve not watched it, it’s a sort of cross between swimming, basketball and wrestling, usually played in a pool that’s so deep you have to tread water or drown. There are two teams, two goals, a large ball and an ungodly amount of throwing, catching and flat-out sprinting. Aquatics GB, the governing body, says <a href="https://www.britishswimming.org/browse-sport/water-polo/about-water-polo/">players can swim two miles in a single game</a>, and need “remarkable stamina” to cope with all the holding and pushing.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/05/hes-93-hes-run-52-marathons-and-hes-in-the-gym-six-days-a-week-can-this-man-teach-us-how-to-age-well">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/fitness">Fitness</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/health-and-wellbeing">Health & wellbeing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/ageing">Ageing</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/swimming">Swimming</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 13:00:11 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/05/hes-93-hes-run-52-marathons-and-hes-in-the-gym-six-days-a-week-can-this-man-teach-us-how-to-age-well</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/05f92a2b41f1dfe0cd71e515d5b0d5f0601d7a78/184_443_6757_4056/master/6757.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cda3aeef144d172eb24e8c6019fc7cbf"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/05f92a2b41f1dfe0cd71e515d5b0d5f0601d7a78/184_443_6757_4056/master/6757.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=02e8abd78c81514c25a534a32d6fa5f9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Phil Daoust</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T13:00:11Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Disrupt whenever possible’: police clash with protesters blocking bus to Bibby Stockholm – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2024/may/03/disrupt-whenever-possible-police-clash-with-protesters-blocking-bus-to-bibby-stockholm-video</link> <description><p>Hundreds of protesters prevented an attempt to collect asylum seekers from a south London hotel and transfer them to the Bibby Stockholm barge. The Guardian witnessed crowds blocking the bus and the road outside the Best Western hotel in Peckham before police were able to move in and break up the protest. The bus eventually left the area after seven hours, with no asylum seekers onboard</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/london-protesters-block-coach-peckham-asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm">London protesters block transfer of asylum seekers to Bibby Stockholm</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2024/may/03/disrupt-whenever-possible-police-clash-with-protesters-blocking-bus-to-bibby-stockholm-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/bibby-stockholm">Bibby Stockholm</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/rwanda">Rwanda</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office">Home Office</category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 10:39:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2024/may/03/disrupt-whenever-possible-police-clash-with-protesters-blocking-bus-to-bibby-stockholm-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44bf7c3af4aee229ed5bb9fa4c61f2bddab4a75b/0_0_5472_3282/master/5472.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=225a7c7206150b3646480bbf6759dc3c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/44bf7c3af4aee229ed5bb9fa4c61f2bddab4a75b/0_0_5472_3282/master/5472.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0645a29b7de8e300e83df6f69df78436"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Observer</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Adam Sich, Bruno Rinvolucri and Temujin Doran</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-03T10:39:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>'Fed up of politics': the view from Blackpool on byelection day – video</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/02/the-view-from-blackpool-on-election-day-fed-up-of-politics-video</link> <description><p>Ahead of the byelection in Blackpool South, the Guardian takes the temperature in the once prosperous northern coastal town, with many voters expressing complete apathy and disdain for the state of politics. </p><p></p><p>The area is going to the polls because the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/mar/26/dirty-rotten-scoundrel-blackpool-voters-dismayed-by-tory-mp-scott-benton">former Tory MP Scott Benton resigned</a> after being found guilty of breaching standards rules in a lobbying scandal. Labour is hopeful of taking back the seat, which Benton won with a majority of 3,690 in 2019</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/may/02/polls-open-in-england-may-local-elections-tories-braced-for-heavy-losses"><strong>Polls open in England’s local elections with Tories braced for heavy losse</strong></a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/may/02/tories-rishi-sunak-elections-leader-change">Analysis: <strong>Will Tories dump Rishi Sunak if election results worse than expected?</strong></a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/02/the-view-from-blackpool-on-election-day-fed-up-of-politics-video">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/local-elections-2024">Local elections 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/blackpool">Blackpool</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/brexit-party">Reform UK</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/localgovernment">Local government</category> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 06:57:16 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2024/may/02/the-view-from-blackpool-on-election-day-fed-up-of-politics-video</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/73d14a9281cc5c0361ae6d79db1005c4feadc586/0_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4101408cc50ec35acea9afd7bb5ec1e9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/73d14a9281cc5c0361ae6d79db1005c4feadc586/0_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b37dc1c0fcfc7c5316cbdbab8d4f389b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Maeve Shearlaw, Christopher Cherry and Katie Lamborn</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-02T06:57:16Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘The Greens are our enemy’: What is fuelling the far right in Germany?</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/30/the-greens-are-our-enemy-what-is-fuelling-the-far-right-in-germany</link> <description><p>The far right are on the march in Germany and the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany has become the most popular party in several states. Immigration and a sense of being economically left behind have been driving factors in the rise in popularity but the Green party and the federal government’s climate policies have also borne the brunt of public anger. The Guardian travelled to Görlitz, on the German border with Poland, to find out to what extent Germany’s green policies are fuelling the far right</p><p></p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/how-climate-policies-are-becoming-focus-for-far-right-attacks-in-germany">How climate policies are becoming focus for far-right attacks in Germany</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/30/the-greens-are-our-enemy-what-is-fuelling-the-far-right-in-germany">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/germany">Germany</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/far-right">The far right</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/alternative-fur-deutschland-afd">Alternative für Deutschland (AfD)</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/european-elections">European elections</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:42:56 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/30/the-greens-are-our-enemy-what-is-fuelling-the-far-right-in-germany</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5884cccbdd1d656b2c08f209f9ee5a9e554a052c/120_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2ece298d66f786b325546838f2734533"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5884cccbdd1d656b2c08f209f9ee5a9e554a052c/120_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=116bd5dda351b1b32a7e38f1a38cb174"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Ajit Niranjan, Adam Sich, Ken Macfarlane and Temujin Doran</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T11:42:56Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Police raid UCLA pro-Palestinian camp and make arrests – video report</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/02/police-raid-ucla-pro-palestinian-camp-arrests-video-report</link> <description><p>Flashbangs could be heard as police moved in on an encampment of pro-Palestinian demonstrators on the UCLA campus. The overnight law enforcement effort came after officers spent hours threatening arrests over loudspeakers if people did not disperse</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/01/university-protests-pro-palestinian-demonstrators-arrested-latest-news">US campus protests – live updates</a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/02/police-raid-ucla-pro-palestinian-camp-arrests-video-report">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/california">California</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-campus-protests">US campus protests</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-news">US news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/us-universities">US universities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2024 12:53:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2024/may/02/police-raid-ucla-pro-palestinian-camp-arrests-video-report</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5b1e7d5850e01d54ed0e9cd2982545dfe54f3b89/0_368_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ebe7d09cf8325f6063b0bf73d2f09450"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5b1e7d5850e01d54ed0e9cd2982545dfe54f3b89/0_368_5500_3300/master/5500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c1793597e4b8331e28326fec52dbc836"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator /> <dc:date>2024-05-02T12:53:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Who is Arne Slot, Klopp's expected successor at Liverpool? – video report</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2024/apr/29/arne-slot-liverpool-feyenoord-video-report</link> <description><p>Arne Slot caught the eye of Liverpool’s recruitment team with his track record of improving young talent, success on a relatively modest budget, European experience and a style of play that is not a dramatic departure from Jürgen Klopp’s. The Feyenoord coach has earned a reputation for high intensity on the pitch and has led his team to success multiple times. </p><p></p><p>Since joining the Rotterdam club from AZ Alkmaar in 2021, Slot has won the Eredivisie in 2022-23 and the KNVB Cup this season. He also led Feyenoord to the Europa Conference League final in 2022, where they lost to José Mourinho's Roma.</p><p></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/26/arne-slot-liverpool-feyenoord-philosophy"><strong>Arne Slot: the overachiever and ‘good guy’ who can spark a revolution</strong></a></p></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2024/apr/29/arne-slot-liverpool-feyenoord-video-report">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/liverpool">Liverpool</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/feyenoord">Feyenoord</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/jurgen-klopp">Jürgen Klopp</category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 18:18:10 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2024/apr/29/arne-slot-liverpool-feyenoord-video-report</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3ab0109d99957429ff1100c5e393bf96ea82cc6f/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=aaa1ec2503f20e6fca85e082e7292010"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3ab0109d99957429ff1100c5e393bf96ea82cc6f/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e1fa80895753a8c20bb84bef22284023"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sarah Bertram, Henry Rounce and David Verman</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-29T18:18:10Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Why are the world’s cities sinking? - podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/07/why-are-cities-sinking-podcast</link> <description><p>A study has found that more than two dozen US coastal cities are sinking by more than 2mm a year. It’s a similar picture across the world. Nearly half of China’s major cities, as well as places such as Tehran and Jakarta, are facing similar problems. These issues are compounded by sea level rises caused by global heating. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Prof Manoochehr Shirzaei of Virginia Tech University and Prof Robert Nicholls of the University of East Anglia to find out what’s making our cities sink and whether anything can be done to rescue them from the sea</p><p><em>Clips: Global News, CNBC, WRDW</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/07/why-are-cities-sinking-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/science/science">Science</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/sea-level">Sea level</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-crisis">Climate crisis</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/environment">Environment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/oceans">Oceans</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 04:00:05 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2024/may/07/why-are-cities-sinking-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/784ad70a943ca0297ebad3c98ed411af44547678/0_200_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=337cf89560130a0a60036d8282ea319e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kemal Jufri/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/784ad70a943ca0297ebad3c98ed411af44547678/0_200_3000_1800/master/3000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a98db2bdd7f204aae3c00b43a9a38702"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Kemal Jufri/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented and produced by Madeleine Finlay, sound design by Joel Cox, the executive producer was Ellie Bury</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T04:00:05Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Non-doms are threatening to leave. Should they be convinced to stay? - podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/07/non-doms-are-threatening-to-leave-should-they-be-convinced-to-stay-podcast</link> <description><p>Multi-millionaire Bassim Haidar says ending the non-dom tax status is a mistake. He plans to leave the UK and says other non-doms will do the same. Should the government change their mind?</p><p>The chancellor, Jeremy Hunt, announced in his spring budget that the government was going to scrap the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/apr/07/what-is-non-domicile-status-and-who-qualifies-hmrc">“non-domicile” regime</a>, which has allowed the multi-millionaire Bassim Haidar and 68,800 other non-doms to avoid paying UK tax on their overseas income for the past 225 years. It will raise £2.7bn a year.</p><p>The Guardian’s wealth correspondent, <strong>Rupert Neate</strong> tells <strong>Hannah Moore</strong> about interviewing Haidar over his decision to leave the UK because of the end of the non-dom regime. From next year, people can avoid taxes only in the first four years of residency in the UK, compared with the previous 15-year threshold.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/07/non-doms-are-threatening-to-leave-should-they-be-convinced-to-stay-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/taxandspending">Tax and spending</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/money/inheritancetax">Inheritance tax</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/conservatives">Conservatives</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/news/the-super-rich">The super-rich</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 02:00:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/07/non-doms-are-threatening-to-leave-should-they-be-convinced-to-stay-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4c1336be51ebb09d37333663c5f787a4217fe759/0_345_1364_817/master/1364.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5ad01fa02cae0dbb65a3e8812f136d6a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: BH Holdings</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4c1336be51ebb09d37333663c5f787a4217fe759/0_345_1364_817/master/1364.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b738353bc4335cfb61f555493dcf6b65"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: BH Holdings</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Hosted by Hannah Moore with Rupert Neate and Arun Advani, produced by Lucy Hough and Eli Block, sound design by Rudi Zygadlo, executive producer Nicole Jackson</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T02:00:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Haaland destroys Wolves as City and Arsenal keep winning – Football Weekly</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/may/06/manchester-city-arsenal-premier-league-title-race-football-weekly-podcast</link> <description><p><a href="https://twitter.com/maxrushden">Max Rushden</a> is joined by <a href="https://twitter.com/bglendenning">Barry Glendenning</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/barneyronay">Barney Ronay</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/lucyjward_">Lucy Ward</a> as both Arsenal and Manchester City refuse to blink in the Premier League title race</p><p><strong>Rate, review, share on <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/football-weekly-the-guardian/id188674007?mt=2">Apple Podcasts</a>, <a href="https://soundcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly">Soundcloud</a>, <a href="https://audioboom.com/channel/football-weekly">Audioboom</a>, <a href="https://www.mixcloud.com/guardianfootballweekly/">Mixcloud</a>, <a href="https://www.acast.com/footballweekly">Acast</a> and <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/guardianuk/football-weekly">Stitcher</a>, and join the conversation on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GuardianPodcasts/">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/guardianaudio">Twitter</a> and <a href="mailto:footballweekly@theguardian.com">email</a>.</strong></p><p>On the podcast today; Arsenal comfortably beat Bournemouth before Manchester City comfortably beat Wolves, will this be the story until the end of the season?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/may/06/manchester-city-arsenal-premier-league-title-race-football-weekly-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/football/football">Football</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/sport">Sport</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 12:15:52 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/football/audio/2024/may/06/manchester-city-arsenal-premier-league-title-race-football-weekly-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92af45ff0a4b035843e39ee9cf22d29d906047cd/0_224_4289_2573/master/4289.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cb94a61435c68e387e9535d9754ffcb9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92af45ff0a4b035843e39ee9cf22d29d906047cd/0_224_4289_2573/master/4289.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=be54006828fe5aaa20f7d07fe1f8d610"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Blunsden/Action Plus/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Presented by Max Rushden with Barry Glendenning, Barney Ronay, Lucy Ward and Nick Ames. Produced by Joel Grove and our executive producer is Danielle Stephens</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T12:15:52Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How child labour in India makes the paving stones beneath our feet – podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/06/how-child-labour-in-india-makes-the-paving-stones-beneath-our-feet-podcast</link> <description><p>Despite promises of reform, exploitation remains endemic in India’s sandstone industry, with children doing dangerous work for low pay – often to decorate driveways and gardens thousands of miles away. By Romita Saluja</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/06/how-child-labour-in-india-makes-the-paving-stones-beneath-our-feet-podcast">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/child-labour">Child labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/human-trafficking">Human trafficking</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 04:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/06/how-child-labour-in-india-makes-the-paving-stones-beneath-our-feet-podcast</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c2484bc411cfd3bf0183fcdb3266c9af3966a9d0/0_299_4032_2419/master/4032.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c928192f4dc0793bc795e339a2c1aade"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Romita Saluja</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c2484bc411cfd3bf0183fcdb3266c9af3966a9d0/0_299_4032_2419/master/4032.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=db1ab2a58735dd8e0ffbcb113b1baa93"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Romita Saluja</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Written by Romita Saluja and read by Avita Jay. Produced by Nicola Alexandrou. The executive producer was Ellie Bury</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T04:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How do we protect teenagers from sextortion scams? - podcast</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2024/may/06/how-do-we-protect-teenagers-from-sextortion-scams-podcast</link> <description><p>Murray Dowey, a 16-year-old from Dunblane, was targeted by a sextortion scammer in the hours before he took his own life. Now his parents are raising awareness of this increasingly prevalent crime. Libby Brooks reports</p><p>On the evening of 29 December, 16-year-old Murray Dowey was with his family in their home in Dunblane, Scotland. 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The snakes’ catchers also take part in the monitoring of snake species in the region. After the procession, the snakes are released back into nature</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/may/06/snake-catchers-festival-in-italy-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/italy">Italy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/snakes">Snakes</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/animals">Animals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news">Europe</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 06:10:30 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2024/may/06/snake-catchers-festival-in-italy-in-pictures</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/15eefa3fce61e0a545f6ebede362ef2268f5f22b/0_671_5798_3479/master/5798.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=481dd0795d0f9177fc5fbeec1d44759c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/15eefa3fce61e0a545f6ebede362ef2268f5f22b/0_671_5798_3479/master/5798.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=3c79684e849ea97024fcd45d137052c9"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tiziana Fabi/Agence France Presse</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T06:10:30Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Bolster the Cornish giant stars in clifftop pageant – in pictures</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2024/may/05/bolster-the-cornish-giant-stars-in-clifftop-pageant-in-pictures</link> <description><p>The annual event near St Agnes tells the story of how the picturesque village was supposedly saved from a tyrannical giant</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2024/may/05/bolster-the-cornish-giant-stars-in-clifftop-pageant-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/cornwall">Cornwall</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatre">Theatre</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/festivals">Festivals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/puppetry">Puppetry</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 18:44:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2024/may/05/bolster-the-cornish-giant-stars-in-clifftop-pageant-in-pictures</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ed9563744104c7e76d79aae274294ebbdb5af3aa/269_368_6071_3643/master/6071.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=da27c33fb5c3edda885e350392b5539b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ed9563744104c7e76d79aae274294ebbdb5af3aa/269_368_6071_3643/master/6071.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f82ea99f853b2712967c63d572c3a233"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Jonny Weeks/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Jonny Weeks</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T18:44:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The big picture: author Paul Auster in his element</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/05/the-big-picture-paul-auster-olympia-manual-typewriter-arnold-newman</link> <description><p>The celebrated writer, who died last week, is captured by Arnold Newman in his study in 1993 with his trusty Olympia manual typewriter</p><p>Few novelists ever inhabited their vocation with more conviction than <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/may/01/paul-auster-dies-aged-77-death-american-author-new-york-trilogy">Paul Auster</a>, who died last week of lung cancer at the age of 77. This picture, taken in 1993 by Arnold Newman, captured the writer in his element and among the objects that defined him.</p><p>The author of <em>The New York Trilogy</em> is pictured in his basement study in the Brooklyn brownstone house that he shared with his wife, novelist<a href="https://theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/03/siri-hustvedt-i-am-writing-for-my-life-memories-of-the-future-interview"> Siri Hustvedt </a>(she wrote in a room in the attic). The white walls and bare lightbulbs cast the 19th-century workspace in 20th-century light; you are reminded that his contemporary and friend <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/18/don-delillo-i-wondered-what-would-happen-if-power-failed-everywhere">Don DeLillo</a> had, the previous year, described Auster’s fictional method as “building a traditional storytelling architecture with sharply modern interiors”. There is the ever-present authorial cigarette – Auster’s 1995 film <em>Smoke</em> was set in a Brooklyn tobacconist (he belatedly switched to a vape in 2018) – and, centre stage, the Olympia manual typewriter on which he produced every word of his novels and which was itself the subject of a short 2002 book.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/05/the-big-picture-paul-auster-olympia-manual-typewriter-arnold-newman">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/paulauster">Paul Auster</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 06:00:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/may/05/the-big-picture-paul-auster-olympia-manual-typewriter-arnold-newman</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7584976ba5a5df2843b320c8427869dd0e19e6df/0_1715_2220_1332/master/2220.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=6c61fdf8fa9804864bdfcb8bf89b3323"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Arnold Newman/Arnold Newman Collection/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7584976ba5a5df2843b320c8427869dd0e19e6df/0_1715_2220_1332/master/2220.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c50712d47f0d28f4d887ea3d4b3fa8cd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Arnold Newman/Arnold Newman Collection/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tim Adams</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T06:00:01Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Lizzo’s flute, Billy Porter’s wings and Cher’s ‘naked dress’: the Met Gala through the years – in pictures</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/05/lizzos-flute-billy-porters-wings-and-chers-naked-dress-the-met-gala-through-the-years-in-pictures</link> <description><p>As this year’s event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City draws nearer, we look back at some of the biggest, boldest and most iconic looks to ascend its steps</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/gallery/2024/may/05/lizzos-flute-billy-porters-wings-and-chers-naked-dress-the-met-gala-through-the-years-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/fashion">Fashion</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/met-ball">Met Gala</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/lizzo">Lizzo</category> <category 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</media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/2c6e3b1637b07e90601604a6496c4666c861378b/0_393_4143_2484/master/4143.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8fabae4ef6fbe596ca8e2fe507ee7f55"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: David Fisher/REX/Shutterstock</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Nyima Jobe</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T07:00:05Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Is this an image of a sculpture or an invitation to a sexual encounter?’: Esteban Kuriel’s best phone picture</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/04/esteban-kuriel-best-phone-picture</link> <description><p>The photographer on an ambiguous image inspired by Greek, Roman and Egyptian art</p><p>“A former mentor, Elinor Carucci, recommends taking pictures daily as a sort of gym for the photographic mind,” Esteban Kuriel says.</p><p>On this day, Kuriel was staying at St Ermin’s hotel in London and had visited the Sir John Soane’s Museum, which houses a collection of Greek, Roman and Egyptian figurative sculptures. “The fragmented, contorted bodies inspired me, and I returned to my room to make this image. Photographing daily trains my eye, just as one trains their body at the gym, so I must play with what is available. In this case, it was this space and its furniture.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/04/esteban-kuriel-best-phone-picture">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/photography">Photography</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/lifeandstyle">Life and style</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/art">Art</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/mobilephones">Mobile phones</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/smartphones">Smartphones</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/photography">Photography</category> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 09:00:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/may/04/esteban-kuriel-best-phone-picture</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/49bd29bdc40b47331bafd932d186adecc73ed383/0_940_3024_1814/master/3024.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=2ec46e579a738ab1ecd6ef15808dc0ae"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Esteban Kuriel</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/49bd29bdc40b47331bafd932d186adecc73ed383/0_940_3024_1814/master/3024.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=dada2c44b6f9be5088a66ab81a357d1a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Esteban Kuriel</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Grace Holliday</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-04T09:00:37Z</dc:date> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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