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- France and UK told: end dispute or you’ll wreck Cop26 summit
- Scott Morrison contradicts Biden’s comments on whether French were informed about Aukus
- Hindu-Muslim violence crosses border from Bangladesh to India
- Revealed: the towns at risk from far-right extremism
- Forest schools flourish as youngsters log off and learn from nature
- Alec Baldwin breaks silence on Rust shooting: ‘She was my friend’
- How not being able to cuddle my sick baby led to a life-saving invention
- Time running out for LGBTQ+ Afghans hiding from Taliban, warn charities
- Liberty University faces new scrutiny over handling of sexual assault claims
- Donald Trump chops with Atlanta Braves fans before World Series game
- Covid live news: Russia reports record new cases; China rejects US intelligence report on virus origins
- Russians spurn Sputnik jab and head west for vaccines
- China rejects US intelligence report on Covid origins as ‘political and false’
- Succession’s Nicholas Braun: ‘I feel better being honest than hiding’
- I don’t want my first polyamorous relationship to end | Ask Philippa
- Last Night in Soho review – a deliciously twisted journey back to London’s swinging past
- The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney review – a man of his words
- Maya Hawke: ‘My parents didn’t want to have me do bit-parts in their movies’
- ‘She often speaks without thinking’: Nadine Dorries, our new minister for culture wars
- Dare you take the Guardian’s hideously horrible Halloween culture quiz?
- UK police urged to end sexist ‘canteen culture’ to win back public trust
- Master of the Game review: Henry Kissinger as hero, villain … and neither
- The battle over a vast New York park: is this climate resilience or capitalism?
- Gothic becomes Latin America’s go-to genre as writers turn to the dark side
- Victoria reaches 80% vaccination target; Bert Newton to be given state funeral; international border set to reopen – As it happened
- Japan’s governing party set for bloodied victory in weekend election
- Two killed as bullets and teargas used against Sudan protesters – video
| France and UK told: end dispute or you’ll wreck Cop26 summit Posted: 30 Oct 2021 02:30 PM PDT Scientists and experts in despair over fishing row, as prime minister declares summit will be 'world's moment of truth' Leading scientists and environmentalists called on Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron to declare an immediate ceasefire in a bitter Anglo-French row over fishing rights on Saturday as fears grew that the UK's arguments with its EU neighbours could overshadow the crucial Cop26 summit on climate change. On the eve of the UK hosting 120 world leaders at the meeting in Glasgow, the prime minister said the summit would be "the world's moment of truth" and could mark "the beginning of the end of climate change". Speaking at a meeting of G20 leaders in Rome, he added: "The question everyone is asking is whether we seize this moment or let it slip away." Continue reading... |
| Scott Morrison contradicts Biden’s comments on whether French were informed about Aukus Posted: 30 Oct 2021 04:13 PM PDT Australian prime minister defends move to ditch French submarine contract as 'the right decision' at G20 in Rome Scott Morrison has doubled down on Australia's decision to ditch a multi-billion dollar French submarine contract, contradicting Joe Biden's claims about whether Emmanuel Macron was informed about the move. Speaking to reporters at the G20 summit in Rome on Saturday, the prime minister insisted Australia had made "the right decision" by ditching the French submarine contract, even though his management of the fracas has infuriated the French president and prompted an implicit public rebuke from Joe Biden. Continue reading... |
| Hindu-Muslim violence crosses border from Bangladesh to India Posted: 30 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Footage shared on social media blamed for igniting violence between communities that left seven dead, buildings torched and many living in fear It was early morning when Achintya Das, a 55-year-old teacher in the city of Cumilla in Bangladesh, was woken by the ringing of his mobile phone. On the other end of the line was a fearful, stricken voice. Come quickly, the local told him, something very grave had happened. A Qur'an had been found in the shrine they had recently erected for the upcoming Hindu festival of Durga Puja. The Islamic holy book had been placed on a statue of the Hindu god Hanuman. Das, a Hindu who organised the festival in Cumilla, felt dread rise up in him at the news of the desecration of Muslim holy scripture in their shrine. "It didn't even take me a second to understand the gravity of the situation. I rushed there immediately," he said. Continue reading... |
| Revealed: the towns at risk from far-right extremism Posted: 31 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT Harlow joins seaside resorts on charity's list of 52 vulnerable areas in England and Wales It was conceived as an "essay in civilisation", but some have argued that Harlow has on occasion fallen short of this lofty ambition. Now a new analysis heralds fresh woe for the Essex new town – designed in 1947 – by labelling it one of the places in England and Wales most "at risk" from the fallout of the pandemic, which could spill over into support for rightwing extremism. Of 336 councils, researchers identified 52 – including Harlow – where Covid is believed to have caused community tension and could inspire far-right activity. A report out on Monday from the Hope not Hate charitable trust says each of the places suffered a significant downturn in the pandemic, has a history of slow recovery from economic shocks and displays "less liberal than average" attitudes to migration and multiculturalism. Continue reading... |
| Forest schools flourish as youngsters log off and learn from nature Posted: 31 Oct 2021 12:30 AM PDT After months of home schooling, more and more children are ditching their tech and heading outdoors After more than a year of lockdowns, with limited access to nature, Magdalena Begh was delighted when her six-year-old daughter came home from forest school and informed her she had found three rat skeletons. One of them, Alia told her, was "pretty fresh". "These little observations are very crucial to their learning – it's amazing," says Begh. Since Alia and her sister Hana, nine, started going to the Urban Outdoors Adventures in Nature after-school club in north London in June, they have used clay, learned about insects and made campfires, marmalade and bows and arrows. Continue reading... |
| Alec Baldwin breaks silence on Rust shooting: ‘She was my friend’ Posted: 30 Oct 2021 01:57 PM PDT Actor tells reporter 'this is a one-in-a-trillion episode', in first remarks since fatal shooting of Halyna Hutchins on film set In his first public comments since accidentally fatally shooting the cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of a film, Rust, in New Mexico earlier this month, Alec Baldwin said on Saturday: "She was my friend." The actor spoke to BackGrid, a "global celebrity news agency", in Vermont, where he was photographed having lunch with his wife. Continue reading... |
| How not being able to cuddle my sick baby led to a life-saving invention Posted: 31 Oct 2021 12:15 AM PDT Caitlin Shorricks's design for a special vest to protect her daughter during cancer treatment is now helping families across the country Caitlin Shorricks will never forget the agony of seeing her three-month-old baby, Theía, being treated for cancer last year. She was scared to pick up her daughter for fear of accidentally pulling out the tube running into her main jugular vein: "I was totally terrified. If I wanted to hold her, I had to call a nurse to help." Determined to find a safe way to cuddle her little girl, she teamed up with her aunt Eva Newberry, who used to be a dressmaker, to create a garment for the baby that would keep the line safely tucked away in a pocket. They called it a "Choob Toob'". Continue reading... |
| Time running out for LGBTQ+ Afghans hiding from Taliban, warn charities Posted: 30 Oct 2021 11:45 PM PDT Large numbers linked to previous administration are stranded in Afghanistan, with calls for the UK to broker rapid mass evacuation Calls for the government to speed up the evacuation of gay, lesbian and transgender Afghans intensified on Saturday after the first LGBTQ+ group arrived safely in Britain but left many behind to face an uncertain fate. The group of 29 is "hoped to be the first of many" in the coming months, the Foreign Office said, hours after the Taliban announced LGBTQ+ rights would not be respected. Continue reading... |
| Liberty University faces new scrutiny over handling of sexual assault claims Posted: 30 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT The conservative Christian institution, already rocked by scandal of former president Jerry Falwell, faces claims by dozens of women and questions about its political activity "I feel the Lord moving here," remarks a visitor looking over Liberty University's Disney World-tidy campus toward the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains in Virginia. But other, more temporal matters, none godly, now hang over the once powerful evangelical institution founded in 1971 by the television preacher Jerry Falwell Sr, the Baptist minister who, eight years later, created the Moral Majority that mobilized the Christian right to the services of the Republican party. Continue reading... |
| Donald Trump chops with Atlanta Braves fans before World Series game Posted: 30 Oct 2021 09:01 PM PDT
Only months after calling for a boycott of Major League Baseball, former US president Donald Trump did the tomahawk chop with Atlanta Braves fans at Game 4 of the World Series on Saturday night. Trump stood beside his wife, Melania, as he chopped away with fans before the game between the Atlanta Braves and Houston Astros from a private suite. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 31 Oct 2021 02:30 AM PDT Follow the latest updates on the coronavirus from the UK and around the world Russians are spurning the Sputnik jab and heading west for vaccines to enable them to travel more freely as international regulators delay approval. Although Russia became the first country to register and mass-produce a vaccine at the end of 2020, Sputnik V has struggled to get international approval, effectively barring Russians from travelling to the west, where only those with EU, US or UK-approved vaccinations are able to visit. Continue reading... |
| Russians spurn Sputnik jab and head west for vaccines Posted: 31 Oct 2021 01:30 AM PDT EU and UK travel bans fuel boom in travel to Serbia for authorised Covid vaccinations When Denis Ovchinnikov read the news this summer that his Russian Sputnik V vaccine would not be recognised in Europe, he decided to take matters into his own hands and planned a trip to Belgrade. "I contacted a travel agency that sorted everything out. It was very easy. I made a little holiday out of it too, in between getting the two Pfizer shots," Ovchinnikov, who works at a PR agency in St Petersburg, said. Continue reading... |
| China rejects US intelligence report on Covid origins as ‘political and false’ Posted: 31 Oct 2021 12:46 AM PDT Beijing has reacted angrily to the report, which said China was hindering investigations into source of the pandemic Beijing has lashed out against a US intelligence review into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, calling it "political and false" while urging Washington to stop attacking China. The Chinese foreign ministry's retort came on Sunday, days after the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a fuller version of its findings from a 90-day review ordered by president Joe Biden. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Succession’s Nicholas Braun: ‘I feel better being honest than hiding’ Posted: 31 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT He's the reluctant sex symbol who is now partying with the Clintons. But actor Nicholas Braun is only just coming to terms with his life-changing role as Cousin Greg, TV's favourite antihero in Succession. He reveals how he is learning to embrace his newfound fame Nicholas Braun arrived on Long Island by train, and then he took a car to the compound. This was three years ago. Braun had been invited to a weekend-long party at a fancy home owned by friends of the American actor Jeremy Strong, who Braun knew from the set of the Emmy Award-winning television show Succession, in which they both star. At the compound he was patted down by members of the secret service, which startled him at first, and then delighted him. (He later referred to the agents as "my boys".) As guests flashed around, Braun remembers thinking, "How is it I've ended up here, at a party in a locked-down compound that has a federal agency working the door?" And then the Clintons arrived. By this point, Braun had filmed just one series of Succession, the HBO juggernaut, which revolves around and pillories the Roy family, a venomous media dynasty in the mould of the Murdochs. (Perhaps you've heard of it.) Braun plays Greg Hirsch, a distant cousin and Roy family satellite who, as the show progresses, finds himself increasingly surrounded by powerful and prestigious people and the mucky opulence in which they operate, and becomes both seduced and confused by his new surroundings, often to comic effect. Continue reading... |
| I don’t want my first polyamorous relationship to end | Ask Philippa Posted: 30 Oct 2021 10:00 PM PDT You could talk about it – and tell the other two that you won't have secrets that make one of them feel not great The question For 18 months I've been in a relationship with two other men. They'd been a couple for five years already. We made it work and moved in together. We are all in our early 30s. I have never had a relationship longer than a few weeks before this. The attraction was equally sparkling for both of them at the start but, as time went by, I developed more of a sexual connection with 'B', many times being very spontaneous just between the two of us, always with almost a "cheating thrill". We had threesomes as well. Continue reading... |
| Last Night in Soho review – a deliciously twisted journey back to London’s swinging past Posted: 31 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT Slasher fantasy and ghostly magic collide in Edgar Wright's heady thriller about a fashion student who is mysteriously transported into the life of a 60s nightclub singer "It's not what you imagine, London," says Rita Tushingham in this deliciously twisted love letter to Britain's cinematic pop-culture past. Director and co-writer Edgar Wright, whose CV runs from the rural action-comedy Hot Fuzz to the recent dramatic music doc The Sparks Brothers, has cheekily described Last Night in Soho as "Peeping Tom's Midnight Garden", a mashup of seedy Soho nostalgia and melancholy magic. Making superb use of its West End and Fitzrovia locations, and boasting a cast that includes Terence Stamp (cutting a silhouette that weirdly recalls William Hartnell's Doctor Who) and Diana Rigg in her final role, it's a head-spinning fable that twists from finger-snapping retro fun to giallo-esque slasher fantasy as it dances through streets paved not with gold but with glitter, grit and splashes of stabby gore. Thomasin McKenzie, who dazzled in Debra Granik's Leave No Trace, is Eloise Turner, a wide-eyed, 60s-obsessed fashion student with a "gift" that leaves her haunted by Don't Look Now-style visions of her dead mother. Having earned a place at the London College of Fashion, "Ellie" finds herself in a top-floor bedsit from whence she is nightly transported back into the capital's swinging past through the ghostly mirrored-life of wannabe singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy). In her dreams, Ellie (who says the 60s "speak to me") both watches and becomes Sandie, aiming for the stars but falling to the streets as the meat-hook realities of London life hit home. Is Sandie a figment of Ellie's overheated imagination – a wish-fulfilment turned into a nightmare - or has she somehow made a genuine connection across generations? Continue reading... |
| The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present by Paul McCartney review – a man of his words Posted: 31 Oct 2021 12:00 AM PDT From All My Loving to Your Mother Should Know, the former Beatle illuminates a life spent puzzling how to get from the beginning of a song to its end At the beginning of this two-volume book, Paul McCartney says that while he has no intention of writing his autobiography and has never kept a diary, it has been his habit throughout his adult life to turn his life experiences into the words of songs, and so here are 154 of them. With that kind of introduction you'd be forgiven for expecting them in chronological order. Had they been so, most of the hits would be in the first book and a lot of people would hardly open the second. Chronological was obviously a non-starter. Alphabetical it is, then, with each initial letter a fresh lottery. F is particularly solid, featuring Fixing a Hole, The Fool on the Hill, For No One and From Me to You. Unsurprisingly, almost everything under I dates from the Beatles' personal-pronoun period – I Saw Her Standing There, I Wanna Be Your Man, I Want to Hold Your Hand, I'm Down, I'll Follow the Sun and others – while the average reader may be a bit lost in the O section once they get past Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. As much space in this book is devoted to Magneto and Titanium Man as Michelle. This last turns out to have been half-written by a schoolteacher friend, which would guarantee it winding up in court if it were to happen today. Continue reading... |
| Maya Hawke: ‘My parents didn’t want to have me do bit-parts in their movies’ Posted: 31 Oct 2021 02:30 AM PDT The Stranger Things star on viral fame, the challenges of dyslexia, and convincing her actor parents she wanted to follow in their footsteps New York-born Maya Hawke, 23, began her career in modelling before making her screen debut as Jo March in the BBC's 2017 adaptation of Little Women. She was Linda "Flowerchild" Kasabian in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and plays Robin in Netflix hit Stranger Things. Hawke now stars in Mainstream, directed and written by Gia Coppola. She lives in New York and is the daughter of actors Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. Your new film Mainstream is a satire on viral fame. Are people too reliant on their mobile phones nowadays? |
| ‘She often speaks without thinking’: Nadine Dorries, our new minister for culture wars Posted: 31 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT Her appearance on I'm A Celebrity sealed her headline-grabbing reputation. Now all eyes are on the former nurse and novelist as she is appointed the new culture secretary. Her fellow MPs and political insiders have plenty to say There have been 13 culture secretaries in the past 14 years. Most came and went without troubling the attention of even close followers of politics. Who, after all, remembers Matt Hancock's brief stint three years ago? Or what about (or perhaps, who is) Jeremy Wright? Or Baroness Morgan of Cotes? Public indifference, however, is unlikely to be the response to the woman who last month was made secretary of state for digital, culture, media and sport. Nadine Dorries is by almost universal agreement a "character". Whether it's a good or bad character seems to be a secondary issue to the fact that she is forthright and reliably quotable. She's someone who is known for speaking her mind, and then changing it, for her moral stands and political falls, for her down-to-earth charm and long-running feuds. More than anything she is defined in the public imagination by her participation, as a sitting MP, in 2012's I'm A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! Continue reading... |
| Dare you take the Guardian’s hideously horrible Halloween culture quiz? Posted: 31 Oct 2021 01:00 AM PDT 25 questions on literature, film, TV, books and music with a spooky edge – how will you fare? If it is gothic, spooky, scary, haunted or just plain weird, and was in a book, a film, a TV show or some music, you might just be about to get asked about it. How will you fare with these 25 questions about things that go bump in the night? It is just for fun, and there are no prizes, but let us know how you got on – and how you are planning to enjoy this spookiest of evenings – in the comments. The Guardian's hideously horrible Halloween culture quiz If you do think there has been an egregious error in one of the questions or answers, please feel free to email martin.belam@theguardian.com but remember, the quizmaster's word is always final, and you wouldn't want him to put a hex on you. Continue reading... |
| UK police urged to end sexist ‘canteen culture’ to win back public trust Posted: 31 Oct 2021 02:40 AM PDT Head of Police Federation says forces have a behavioural problem that must be consigned to history The head of the organisation representing police officers has said a "canteen culture" of sexism and misogyny in UK police forces has to end in order to win back public trust. John Apter, the chair of the Police Federation of England and Wales, acknowledged forces in the UK had a problem with behaviour where female officers are subjected to "sexist nicknames" and "derogatory remarks", adding it needed to be "consigned to the history books". Continue reading... |
| Master of the Game review: Henry Kissinger as hero, villain … and neither Posted: 30 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Martin Indyk's well-woven biography is sympathetic to the preacher of realpolitik condemned by many as a war criminal As secretary of state, Henry Kissinger nursed the 1973 Arab-Israeli war to a close. The disengagement agreements between Egypt and Israel ultimately yielded a peace treaty. The Syrian border remains tensely quiet. Unlike Vietnam, in the Middle East Kissinger's handiwork holds. The Sunni Arab world has gradually come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state. Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan have diplomatic ties with Jerusalem. Relations with Saudi Arabia are possible. Continue reading... |
| The battle over a vast New York park: is this climate resilience or capitalism? Posted: 31 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT The city's plan to rebuild Manhattan's East River Park on higher ground has incited a dispute over 'green gentrification' A strip of land that borders New York's East River has become the latest environmental justice battle as the city prepares to start construction on a flood prevention project in one of Manhattan's most economically disadvantaged and diverse communities. East River Park, which covers 57.5 acres and loops around lower Manhattan like a hockey stick, is about the only waterfront green space within walking distance of the Lower East Side's public housing. During Hurricane Sandy, both the park and much of the nearby housing were significantly damaged by historic levels of flooding. Continue reading... |
| Gothic becomes Latin America’s go-to genre as writers turn to the dark side Posted: 31 Oct 2021 02:00 AM PDT The region used to be almost synonymous with magic realism but recent bestselling fiction draws on a legacy of dictatorship, poverty and sinister folklore A young man follows the bloody trail of his CIA father, through Paraguayan torture chambers and the sites of Andean massacres. An Ecuadorian artist fantasizes about running a scalpel through the tongue of her mute twin. In a Buenos Aires cemetery, teenage fans devour a rock star's rotting remains. These grisly scenes – and many more like them – populate the pages of Latin America's recent bestselling fiction. From the Andes to the Amazon and to the urban sprawl of some of the world's biggest cities, a ghoulish shadow has been cast over Latin American literature. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 30 Oct 2021 11:42 PM PDT Victoria announces state funeral for Bert Newton; international border bans set to end on Monday; Scott Morrison defends Aukus deal at G20 in Rome; Victoria records 1,036 Covid cases, NSW reports 177 This blog is now closed
Speers keeps trying to nail down exactly how much the government's plan is going to cost over the next two decades. Taylor admits that the government has only planned how much it is going to spend over the next decade. On the cost of this plan, to be clear for viewers, $20 billion between now and 2030, you are then hoping that everything will be okay? Businesses will voluntarily take up the new technologies. We won't have to spend any more as taxpayers to get to net zero? David, we are committing between now and 2030, looking 10 years out. Governments often look only four years out. We are looking 10 years out ... What a government does in the late 2040s is a matter for them ... we are not going to bind a government as to what they should spend in the 2040s, that will be up to them. ... What we can control as a government is a pipeline of initiatives and programs that allow us it put us on track to get the cost of these crucial technologies, clean steel, clean aluminium, stored energy, clean hydrogen, soil carbon ... to the point where private sector deployment happens because it's good for those investors, where it's good for those businesses, where indeed it is good for those households. That's the goal and that means you avoid having to pay the very significant cost of having a carbon tax. I understand that's what you're hoping, but just to be clear, what are taxpayers going to have to pay under your plan to get to net zero? Taxpayers are not paying anything, we are not raising taxes. That's the important point here. You are using taxpayers' dollars, right, which could either be used to pay off debtor spend on hospitals or whatever. You are using taxpayers' dollars. $20 billion you mentioned to get to 2030. To get to net zero by 2050, what's the cost to taxpayers? Well, let's be clear about what that $20 billion is. That is money that we have invested through the CSIRO, the climate solutions fund, a range of different sources to bring down the costs of those technologies so they can raise productivity, strengthen the economy and grow the economy. Continue reading... |
| Japan’s governing party set for bloodied victory in weekend election Posted: 29 Oct 2021 11:00 PM PDT Polls show the LDP may struggle to hold on to its sole majority in the 465-seat chamber The party that has governed Japan almost without interruption for nearly seven decades is expected to win Sunday's general election, but the new prime minister, Fumio Kishida, could emerge with his authority damaged. Kishida, who became president of the ruling Liberal Democratic party (LDP) last month, is hoping to capitalise on a dramatic fall in coronavirus cases in Japan in recent weeks and engage voters with promises of a "new capitalism" that will redistribute wealth to the country's struggling middle class. Continue reading... |
| Two killed as bullets and teargas used against Sudan protesters – video Posted: 30 Oct 2021 09:29 AM PDT At least two protesters were killed as hundreds of thousands marched against the military coup in Sudan. The fatalities were reported by Sudan's Doctors Committee after the security forces fired bullets and teargas outside the parliament building in Omdurman. The protests came almost a week after the military detained Sudan's civilian leadership, dissolved the government and declared a state of emergency, drawing a chorus of international condemnation Continue reading... |
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