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- David Amess: MP’s killing declared a terrorist incident
- Netflix fires employee trans activist for allegedly leaking internal documents
- Boris Johnson’s climate credibility at stake in run-up to Cop26 summit
- Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes
- Revealed: Newcastle chairman’s links to Saudi ‘anti-corruption’ drive
- North Carolina Republican condemned over ‘repugnant’ anti-LGBTQ tirade
- ‘Sensational’: skeleton buried in Vesuvius eruption found at Herculaneum
- ‘There was blood everywhere’: UK and Irish survivors on 2015 Bataclan attack
- ‘Holding each others’ hands’: 11 children drown in Indonesia during river cleanup
- US offers payments, relocation to family of Afghans killed in botched drone attack
- Succession actor ‘demanded character took stand against super-rich family’
- Covid live: New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of population in a day; UK investigates testing errors
- How Covid spread fear of globalisation and threatens a new world order
- Desperately seeking Diana: can any actor get to the heart of the people’s princess?
- How did Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin fail to dominate the billionaire space race?
- Blind date: ‘A man on the next table was watching a horror film’
- Living with Huntington’s disease: ‘For our family, the end of days is always close at hand’
- Dining across the divide: ‘I was expecting someone more confrontational, but he was so sweet’
- ‘It spreads like a disease’: how pro-eating-disorder videos reach teens on TikTok
- Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer lay wreaths for MP David Amess – video
- Perfidious Albion: why French faith in Boris Johnson has nosedived
- UK announces extra £29m of humanitarian aid for Ethiopia
- Betty Wood obituary
- NSW hits 80% vaccination target; Victoria’s seven deaths include 15-year-old girl – as it happened
- UN quizzed over role in prison-like island camp for Rohingya refugees
- China’s booming real estate market could spell trouble for the economy | George Magnus
- Why Britons are tolerating sky-high Covid rates – and why this may not last
- Fast-flowing river of lava pours from La Palma volcano in Canary Islands – video
| David Amess: MP’s killing declared a terrorist incident Posted: 15 Oct 2021 04:37 PM PDT Man, 25, in custody as police investigate 'potential motivation linked to Islamist extremism' The killing of the Conservative MP David Amess, who died after being stabbed several times at an open advice surgery for his constituents in Essex, has been declared as a terrorist incident. The death of the 69-year-old veteran backbencher brought heartfelt tributes from all parties. Just five years after the murder of Jo Cox, it also prompted renewed worries about the security risks for MPs in an increasingly rancorous and polarised political era. Continue reading... |
| Netflix fires employee trans activist for allegedly leaking internal documents Posted: 15 Oct 2021 05:39 PM PDT The worker has encouraged trans employees to protest the company's release of the Dave Chapelle show in which he made anti-trans jokes Netflix has fired an employee organizer for allegedly leaking internal documents as the fallout over offensive comments in the new Dave Chappelle stand-up special continues. The streaming platform confirmed to the Guardian on Friday it had fired the employee, whose name has not been released, for sharing "confidential" and "commercially sensitive" information outside the company. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson’s climate credibility at stake in run-up to Cop26 summit Posted: 16 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Campaigners fear net zero strategy is being hamstrung by Rishi Sunak, who refuses to provide adequate funding Boris Johnson faces a significant test of his leadership before the Cop26 climate summit as the chancellor and business secretary are at war over the imminent plan for reaching net zero carbon dioxide emissions. The government is poised to publish its long-awaited net zero strategy on Monday, setting out how the UK will meet its targets to cut CO2 emissions by 78% by 2035 and reach net zero by 2050. This will also include the heat and buildings strategy for insulating draughty homes and phasing out gas boilers, along with a massive expansion of offshore wind, and building electric vehicle charging networks. Continue reading... |
| Vienna museums open adult-only OnlyFans account to display nudes Posted: 16 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Tourist board in Austrian capital rails against censorship of art on social media platforms More than a century after the artists of the Vienna Secession declared "to every age its art; to art its freedom", the Austrian capital has found a new site for artistic expression free from censorship: the adults-only platform OnlyFans. Vienna's tourism board has started an account on OnlyFans – the only social network that permits depictions of nudity – in protest against platforms' ongoing censorship of its art museums and galleries. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: Newcastle chairman’s links to Saudi ‘anti-corruption’ drive Posted: 16 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Court documents shed new light on Yasir al-Rumayyan's relationship with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Yasir al-Rumayyan, the new non-executive chairman of Newcastle United, was involved in a controversial "anti-corruption" campaign in Saudi Arabia that included the transfer of assets on behalf of the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman. Details of Rumayyan's role – including the transfer of a charter jet company to the Public Investment Fund (PIF), where he serves as governor – are contained in court documents that shed light on his relationship with Prince Mohammed. Continue reading... |
| North Carolina Republican condemned over ‘repugnant’ anti-LGBTQ tirade Posted: 16 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Democrats and gay rights groups groups call out Mark Robinson for 'dangerous' remarks but lieutenant governor remains defiant A top Republican politician in North Carolina is facing a wave of outrage and backlash, including calls for resignation, from elected officials and various human rights groups over his recent discriminatory comments that likened gay and transgender people to "filth". Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson, the state's highest Republican in an executive office position, made the remarks at Asbury Baptist church in Seagrove, North Carolina, in June. Right Wing Watch, a project of the advocacy group People For the American Way, posted the video on social media last week. Continue reading... |
| ‘Sensational’: skeleton buried in Vesuvius eruption found at Herculaneum Posted: 15 Oct 2021 12:33 PM PDT Archaeologists find remains of fugitive during first dig at site near Pompeii in almost three decades The partially mutilated remains of a man buried by the AD79 eruption of Mount Vesuvius at Herculaneum, the ancient Roman town close to Pompeii, have been discovered in what Italy's culture minister described as a "sensational" find. Archaeologists said the man, believed to have been aged between 40 and 45, was killed just steps away from the sea as he tried to flee the eruption. Continue reading... |
| ‘There was blood everywhere’: UK and Irish survivors on 2015 Bataclan attack Posted: 15 Oct 2021 11:44 AM PDT Witnesses to atrocity in Paris music venue that killed 90 tell court of playing dead and trying to help the wounded British and Irish survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack on the Bataclan concert hall in Paris have told a court how they played dead on the ground in a river of blood to avoid being shot, or crawled across the floor between bodies as gunmen murdered concertgoers one by one. English-speaking witnesses travelled to Paris on Friday to testify at France's biggest ever criminal trial over the attacks claimed by Islamic State on 13 November 2015, which killed 130 people and injured more than 400 in synchronised suicide bombings and mass shootings across the French capital. Continue reading... |
| ‘Holding each others’ hands’: 11 children drown in Indonesia during river cleanup Posted: 15 Oct 2021 10:28 PM PDT Ten students were rescued after a group fell into the water, with officials saying there was no flash flooding Eleven students drowned and 10 others were rescued during a school outing for a river cleanup in Indonesia's West Java province. Local officials said 150 students from an Islamic high school were participating in the cleanup on Friday along the banks of the Cileueur river when 21 of them slipped into the water. Continue reading... |
| US offers payments, relocation to family of Afghans killed in botched drone attack Posted: 15 Oct 2021 08:44 PM PDT Pentagon says it is also working to relocate any of those relatives to the US, almost two months after Kabul strike The Pentagon has offered unspecified condolence payments to the family of 10 civilians who were killed in a botched US drone attack in Afghanistan in August during the final days before American troops withdrew from the country. The US defence department said it made a commitment that included offering "ex-gratia condolence payments", in addition to working with the US state department in support of the family members who were interested in relocation to the United States. Continue reading... |
| Succession actor ‘demanded character took stand against super-rich family’ Posted: 16 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Activist James Cromwell, 81, who plays Ewan Roy, says his role was rewritten to reflect his politics Actor James Cromwell says he demanded his character on Succession take a moral stand against his unscrupulous, ultra-rich family – and hopes the hit show does not normalise the abuses of power and privilege as The Apprentice did for Donald Trump. The 81-year-old actor, best known for his roles in The Green Mile, Babe and LA Confidential, as well as the TV series Six Feet Under and ER, plays Ewan Roy, the older brother of Brian Cox's media mogul Logan Roy. Ewan is largely estranged from his fractured family on political grounds, though he retains a fortune worth $250m (£180m). Continue reading... |
| Covid live: New Zealand vaccinates 2.5% of population in a day; UK investigates testing errors Posted: 16 Oct 2021 02:19 AM PDT Record number of Covid jabs administered by healthcare workers; questions over company linked to suspected wrong PCR results Russia reported a record high 1,002 coronavirus deaths on Saturday, Reuters reports. It is the first time the number has passed the 1,000-mark since the beginning of the pandemic, pushing the national death toll to 222,315. New Covid-19 cases confirmed in the past 24 hours also hit record high at 33,208, the Russian coronavirus task force said, bringing the official total case tally to 7,958,384. Immensa Health Clinic is under scrutiny after the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) found at least 43,000 people may have been wrongly given a negative Covid test result, leading to the suspension of operations at its privately run laboratory in Wolverhampton. It followed an investigation into reports of people receiving negative PCR test results after previously testing positive on a lateral flow device, many of them in the south-west and Wales. Continue reading... |
| How Covid spread fear of globalisation and threatens a new world order Posted: 15 Oct 2021 04:39 PM PDT From China backtracking on coal to Britain's 'chicken king' calling for a rethink of food production, the virus has accelerated nationalist impulses towards autarky When Xi Jinping promised the world's movers and shakers in January 2017 that China would champion globalisation, it looked as if the baton of global economic leadership was being picked up seamlessly by Beijing as Donald Trump prepared to usher in an era of American isolationism. Almost five years later a new world order has emerged, but it is not the one China's president and others gathered in Davos that day seemed to have in mind. Continue reading... |
| Desperately seeking Diana: can any actor get to the heart of the people’s princess? Posted: 16 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT The princess is now a constant presence on our screens, from a camp musical to The Crown. Such a blank canvas is a dream for directors and a nightmare for actors, writes Hadley Freeman The first imitation I ever saw of Diana, Princess of Wales was in my bedroom when I was five. It was a Diana Bride doll, ordered by my mother from a catalogue, although with her rictus smile and huge helmet of hair she looked more like Nancy Reagan. The details didn't matter: she had the vague outlines of princess – big glittery jewels, big glittery eyes – so I could project whatever I wanted on to her, and I did; I played with her so much I snapped off her right foot. This is a true story, but if the metaphor within it feels too heavy-handed, then I would advise you to keep clear of the many films and TV shows about Diana, none of which shy away from the obvious metaphorical nudge and shove. In his eulogy for his sister at her funeral in 1997, Earl Spencer described her as "the most hunted person of the modern age". Screenwriters since have taken that description and run pell-mell with it: in the last season of The Crown, she was a beautiful stag; in Spencer – the new film by Pablo Larraín, starring Kristen Stewart as Diana – she is a pheasant, "beautiful but not very bright", as she sighs sadly. Both the stag and pheasant are, of course, hunted by the evil Windsors, because that has been the narrative around Diana ever since her death, even though not even the Daily Express still believes they actually killed her. Continue reading... |
| How did Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin fail to dominate the billionaire space race? Posted: 16 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT The company employs the world's top engineers and has access to unlimited money but is plagued by safety concerns and toxic workplace culture The billionaire space race is only a race by name. In actuality, there is SpaceX – and everyone else. Only the company founded by Elon Musk nearly two decades ago has sent a rocket booster into orbit and landed it safely again. Only SpaceX has landed a rocket the size of a 15-storey building on a drone ship in the middle of the ocean. Only SpaceX has carried both Nasa astronauts and private citizens to the International Space Station. Only SpaceX is producing thousands of its own table-sized communication satellites every year. Only SpaceX has the almost weekly launch cadence necessary to single-handedly double the number of operational satellites in orbit in less than two years. Only SpaceX is launching prototypes of the largest and most powerful rocket ever made, a behemoth called Starship that is destined to carry humans to the moon. Continue reading... |
| Blind date: ‘A man on the next table was watching a horror film’ Posted: 15 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Marta, 30, project manager, meets Andrew, 33, broadcast journalist Marta on Andrew What were you hoping for? |
| Living with Huntington’s disease: ‘For our family, the end of days is always close at hand’ Posted: 15 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT Fifteen years ago, writer Charlotte Raven was diagnosed with the incurable neurodegenerative disease – what did it do to her family and her marriage? The day I found out how I was going to die began innocuously enough: the usual blur of nappy changing and tetchy texts to my husband. Life in our recently refurbished London home had settled into a rhythm, with a low-level background of domestic discontent. Arguments about wallpaper had run their course; our cats had made their peace with our one-year-old daughter, Anna; and I was pleased to have married a responsible hedonist who liked babies but never made me feel guilty for finding them boring. That day, my husband, Tom, had gone to work early; a documentary director, he was filming a series about the London Underground. After a sleepless night, I was eating breakfast with Anna when the landline rang. It was my dad's old friend Eric, who had been keeping an eye on him ever since my mum had died four years earlier. We were all worried because Murph (everyone called my dad Murph) had been making some bad decisions, then digging in defiantly. Continue reading... |
| Dining across the divide: ‘I was expecting someone more confrontational, but he was so sweet’ Posted: 15 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT From immigration to environmental activism: can two strangers see eye to eye over lunch? • Click here if you'd like to dine across the divide Shamus, 55, London Occupation CEO of an AI company Continue reading... |
| ‘It spreads like a disease’: how pro-eating-disorder videos reach teens on TikTok Posted: 15 Oct 2021 09:00 PM PDT Although the platform bans content promoting dangerous weight loss, hashtags such as #skinnycheck can still be found Instagram has attracted a firestorm after whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed internal research showing the platform downplayed proof of its toxic effects – including the rise of eating disorders – on children. But such issues are not limited to the Facebook-owned social media company. The Guardian has found a variety of harmful pro-anorexia hashtags remain searchable on the popular video-sharing app TikTok, where corresponding videos have billions of views combined. Continue reading... |
| Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer lay wreaths for MP David Amess – video Posted: 16 Oct 2021 02:27 AM PDT The prime minister and leader of the Labour party visited the church in Leigh-on-Sea where the Conservative MP David Amess was fatally stabbed. Amess had been meeting with constituents when he was attacked in what the police said was a terrorist incident.
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| Perfidious Albion: why French faith in Boris Johnson has nosedived Posted: 15 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Emmanuel Macron's government thinks UK wishes to use France to keep Brexit alive in British politics Boris Johnson's foreign policy is 80% driven by short-term domestic political interests that make it impossible to come to stable arrangements with him, senior French sources have concluded. Paris is increasingly convinced the British prime minister is not interested in solving the bilateral problems weighing down the relationship, and instead wants to use France as a running sore to keep Brexit alive in British politics. Continue reading... |
| UK announces extra £29m of humanitarian aid for Ethiopia Posted: 15 Oct 2021 04:01 PM PDT Fears grow over effect of government blockade on worsening food, water and energy situation The UK has announced an extra £29m of humanitarian aid to people affected by the deepening conflict in northern Ethiopia, as the foreign secretary, Liz Truss, reviews what kind of further pressure can be placed on the new Ethiopian government to open up badly needed humanitarian corridors. The UK has provided more than £75m to alleviate the risk of famine – making it the second largest aid donor to Ethiopia – but officials acknowledge the de facto government blockade of Tigray is deepening the crisis. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 15 Oct 2021 12:17 PM PDT My friend and mentor Betty Wood, who has died of cancer aged 76, was a Cambridge academic and a historian of the study of slavery, gender, and religion in the Atlantic world. She was among the first to study enslaved people, and specifically enslaved women, at an elite UK university and was instrumental in building the profile of early American history in the UK. Born in Melton Constable, Norfolk, the daughter of Marjorie (nee Green) and Stanley Wood, a railway guard, she was educated at grammar schools in Fakenham and Scunthorpe and became the first in her family to attend university, studying geography at Keele. Graduating in 1967, the following year she took a master's in social and economic history at the London School of Economics. Continue reading... |
| NSW hits 80% vaccination target; Victoria’s seven deaths include 15-year-old girl – as it happened Posted: 16 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT Southern Tasmania in lockdown with next 48 hours 'critical' and ACT expands travel into regional NSW. This blog is now closed
The NSW numbers are in. The state has reported 319 local Covid-19 cases overnight, and two additional deaths. Continue reading... |
| UN quizzed over role in prison-like island camp for Rohingya refugees Posted: 15 Oct 2021 05:27 AM PDT Rights groups raise concerns over deal to provide services on Bhasan Char, as Bangladesh plans to increase camp's population by 80,000 The UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) is facing questions over whether it is helping to detain Rohingya refugees in prison-like conditions by providing services on a controversial island camp. Over the past year, Bangladesh has relocated almost 20,000 refugees to Bhasan Char, an island formed of silt deposits in the Bay of Bengal thought to be vulnerable to cyclones, which the refugees are unable to leave. Continue reading... |
| China’s booming real estate market could spell trouble for the economy | George Magnus Posted: 15 Oct 2021 08:03 AM PDT Housing activity accounts for 29% of GDP, but Evergrande's debt crisis is sign that things could soon change In China today, the buzz is all about how the government there too has stumbled into an energy crisis with widespread power cuts. Yet this and other supply shocks will eventually pass, while the $300bn (£218bn) of debt enveloping China's second biggest property developer, Evergrande, is of greater significance. It suggests China's long housing boom is over, and bodes badly for the increasingly troubled economy, with implications for the rest of the world too. China's real estate market has been called the most important sector in the world economy. Valued at about $55tn, it is now twice the size of its US equivalent, and four times larger than China's GDP. Taking into account construction and other property-related goods and services, annual housing activity accounts for about 29% of China's GDP, far above the 10%-20% typical of most developed nations. Continue reading... |
| Why Britons are tolerating sky-high Covid rates – and why this may not last Posted: 15 Oct 2021 07:33 AM PDT Analysis: as Covid cases reach 40,000 a day, scientists think normalisation is partly to blame for the lack of public reaction It is one of the conundrums of the current phase of the Covid pandemic: the UK has among the highest number of infections across the world and a death toll that continues to steadily climb, yet the national mood seems sanguine. So is this down to British stoicism, a Keep Calm and Carry on mentality? Not according to experts. They talk of many factors being at play – and warn it may not last. Continue reading... |
| Fast-flowing river of lava pours from La Palma volcano in Canary Islands – video Posted: 15 Oct 2021 06:29 AM PDT Hot lava continues to gush from the Spanish Cumbre Vieja volcano. About 300 more people fled their homes early on Thursday as flows of molten rock threatened to engulf another area in La Palma. Emergency crews gave people living between the towns of Tazacorte and La Laguna a few hours to collect their belongings and pets and go to a meeting point. Nearly 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of land and more than 1,000 homes have been destroyed since the eruption began on 19 September
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