‘You just have to keep trying’: the people helping Birmingham’s rough sleepers
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Fine, I admit it – I am a ‘dry texter’. It beats emojis or verbal diarrhoea | Emma Beddington
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All of my family keep it brief. Most messages are just ‘k’. So when an expression of affection fina…
Between the streets: shades of New York – in pictures
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Kissing couples and snoozing subway kids feature in a major retrospective of street photographer Ri…
Thousands pay tribute to Olivia Newton-John at Australian memorial service
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Elton John, Hugh Jackman, Dolly Parton, Pink, Sir Barry Gibb and Mariah Carey sent video condolence…
‘Tourism can offer us hope’: Bosnia and Herzegovina’s staggering scenery and beautiful towns
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With its wild horses, varied activities and rich history, the small Balkan country embraces a brigh…
‘Nobody has answers’: Ohio residents fearful of health risks near train site
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Locals who live near the site of the toxic train derailment describe ‘burning eyes and throat’ as e…
‘A one-woman job’: early 20th century Scotland – in pictures
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A new exhibition gathers together the work of 14 photographers who cast a female eye over the ritua…
Concrete in Life photo competition – in pictures
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The fourth edition of the Global Cement and Concrete Association’s competition drew 14,000 global e…
Would you travel thousands of miles to see an obese cat? | Arwa Mahdawi
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Visitors to the Polish city of Szczecin rate a portly pussy called Gacek more highly than the local…
Who’s laughing now? The Dalit comedians punching up against India’s caste system
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Once the butt of others’ standup routines, comics from the lowest social strata are turning the tab…
Fresh take on Shakespeare explores antisemitism via 1930s Cable Street
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The Merchant of Venice 1936 among four plays to feature at RSC’s reopened Swan theatre this summer …
Colonialism by Nigel Biggar review – a flawed defence of empire
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A reappraisal of colonialism by an Oxford professor strains credulity and ill serves his aim of def…
Shock and wild celebration: exit of Sturgeon upends Scottish politics
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With no obvious successor to the first minister and a waning appetite for independence, Labour sens…
Unconscious bias training is ‘nonsense’, says outgoing race relations chair
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Civil rights stalwart Colin Prescod says term risks avoiding real conversation about racism and sys…
Fleishman Is in Trouble to Liaison: the seven best shows to stream this week
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Jesse Eisenberg and Claire Danes star in a forensically acute drama about midlife, while Eva Green …
LensCulture’s art photography awards 2023 – in pictures
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Mutilated prints, poetic metaphors, collages, straightforward documentary, staged portraiture – the…
UK rehearsing economic fallout scenarios if China invades Taiwan
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Exclusive: Whitehall officials planning strategy to tackle disruption to global supply chains in th…
Dancing cats, peeping owls and a field of fire: Sony World photography national winners – in pictures
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Drunken festivalgoers, hot springs and Japanese photo booths all feature in this year’s list of nat…
The Tories have revealed their battle plan for a new kind of class war | Owen Jones
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The promotion of Lee Anderson reveals a lot about who is and who isn’t considered working class in …
Two Sisters by Blake Morrison review – siblings fatally wounded by childhood
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Having written about his father and then his mother, the poet and writer now turns to his sisters i…
Prue and Danny’s Death Road Trip: this might be the best assisted dying debate ever
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Ignore the clunky title, this documentary – which sees the Tory MP and his famous TV chef mother sp…
She cooks, cleans and cares … so why is a woman in Uganda worth only 20% of divorce assets? | Primah Kwagala
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In a potentially precedent-setting case, a Kampala appeal court has penalised a divorcing wife for …
Women Talking review – ensemble drama forefronts female experience of violence
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This important film tells the story of a community battered by rape and patriarchal ideas, as a mai…
I couldn’t sleep. I cried at night. But I had to help the women devastated by the floods in Pakistan | Abida Channa
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When the rains came last autumn, I was among the millions made homeless in Sindh province. Here is …
Twitter probably fumbled the Hunter Biden story. But don’t expect a sane investigation | Margaret Sullivan
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Why I’m not hopeful that the Republican-led House investigation will stay grounded in reality You…
‘Loud, dirty and simple’: Leicester’s punk collective for older women
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‘We write our own music and we’ve got a lot to say about everything we’re angry about. I’ve been en…
This Other Eden by Paul Harding review – a novel that impresses time and again
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In Harding’s new book – a tale of racism on an isolated island off the coast of Maine – the Pulitze…
‘They used our hijabs to gag us’: Iran protesters tell of rapes, beatings and torture by police
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As human rights organisations report an escalation in the brutal treatment of detainees, we speak t…
Bright sparks: could bioelectricity make us smarter and healthier?
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Electricity is involved in every aspect of life. But could the new science of bioelectricity help c…
‘Can you spell lynching?’: lawyer’s shocking note in Texas execution case
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Appeals court submission exposes racial toxicity in case of Black man John Balentine, sentenced to …
You season four: Penn Badgley’s soapy murderfest pulls off an incredible trick
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The drama relocates to London, and ends up being a wild ride through bluffs, double-bluffs and its …
Tiny notebook by ‘first Shakespeare geek’ to go on show in Stratford
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Crammed with minuscule writing, manuscript is seen as earliest ‘proper reader’s response’ to first …
Inside Villa Somalia: 72 hours with the president promising to rebuild his broken country
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Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says Somalia’s factions can find peace, political Islam need not be violent a…
Saint Omer review – witchcraft and baby killing in extraordinary real-life courtroom drama
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Alice Diop’s unnerving fiction feature is based on the true case of a Senegalese immigrant accused …
Man dies after being stabbed in Bristol city centre
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Man in his 30s was found injured in Castle Park on Tuesday afternoon and later died in hospital A …