diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/FeedParserBoltTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/FeedParserBoltTest.java index c2677529e..6da0749a0 100644 --- a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/FeedParserBoltTest.java +++ b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/FeedParserBoltTest.java @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ void setupParserBolt() { } private void checkOutput() { - Assertions.assertEquals(170, output.getEmitted(Constants.StatusStreamName).size()); + Assertions.assertEquals(7, output.getEmitted(Constants.StatusStreamName).size()); List fields = output.getEmitted(Constants.StatusStreamName).get(0); Assertions.assertEquals(3, fields.size()); } @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ void testFeedParsing() throws IOException { Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); // specify that it is a Feed file metadata.setValue(FeedParserBolt.isFeedKey, "true"); - parse("http://www.guardian.com/Feed.xml", "guardian.rss", metadata); + parse("https://stormcrawler.apache.org/rss.xml", "stormcrawler.rss", metadata); checkOutput(); } @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ void testFeedParsingNoMT() throws IOException { Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); // set mime-type metadata.setValue("http." + HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/rss+xml"); - parse("http://www.guardian.com/feed.xml", "guardian.rss", metadata); + parse("https://stormcrawler.apache.org/rss.xml", "stormcrawler.rss", metadata); checkOutput(); } @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ void testFeedParsingDetextBytes() throws IOException { bolt.prepare( parserConfig, TestUtil.getMockedTopologyContext(), new OutputCollector(output)); Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); - parse("http://www.guardian.com/feed.xml", "guardian.rss", metadata); + parse("https://stormcrawler.apache.org/rss.xml", "stormcrawler.rss", metadata); checkOutput(); } diff --git a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/SiteMapParserBoltTest.java b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/SiteMapParserBoltTest.java index de8d77784..5fb57b560 100644 --- a/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/SiteMapParserBoltTest.java +++ b/core/src/test/java/org/apache/stormcrawler/bolt/SiteMapParserBoltTest.java @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ void testSitemapIndexParsing() throws IOException { // and its mime-type metadata.setValue(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_TYPE, "application/xml"); parse( - "http://www.tripadvisor.com/sitemap-index.xml", - "tripadvisor.sitemap.index.xml", + "http://stormcrawler.apache.org/sitemap-index.xml", + "stormcrawler.sitemap.index.xml", metadata); for (List fields : output.getEmitted(Constants.StatusStreamName)) { Metadata parsedMetadata = (Metadata) fields.get(1); @@ -85,8 +85,11 @@ void testGzipSitemapParsing() throws IOException { Metadata metadata = new Metadata(); // specify that it is a sitemap file metadata.setValue(SiteMapParserBolt.isSitemapKey, "true"); - parse("https://www.tripadvisor.com/sitemap.xml.gz", "tripadvisor.sitemap.xml.gz", metadata); - Assertions.assertEquals(50001, output.getEmitted(Constants.StatusStreamName).size()); + parse( + "https://stormcrawler.apache.org/sitemap.xml.gz", + "stormcrawler.sitemap.xml.gz", + metadata); + Assertions.assertEquals(7, output.getEmitted(Constants.StatusStreamName).size()); } @Test diff --git a/core/src/test/resources/guardian.rss b/core/src/test/resources/guardian.rss deleted file mode 100644 index 37059d120..000000000 --- a/core/src/test/resources/guardian.rss +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3631 +0,0 @@ - - - - The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/uk - Latest news, sport, business, comment, analysis and reviews from the Guardian, the world's leading liberal voice - en-gb - Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2016 - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:57:09 GMT - 2016-06-08T13:57:09Z - en-gb - Guardian News and Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2016 - - The Guardian - https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png - https://www.theguardian.com - - - Tony Blair accuses Jeremy Corbyn of standing by as Syria is bombed - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/tony-blair-accuses-jeremy-corbyn-of-standing-by-as-syria-is-bombed - <p>Former prime minister says Labour leader is focused on ‘politics of protest’ and is doing nothing for people of Syria</p><p>Tony Blair has launched his strongest attack yet on Jeremy Corbyn, for condemning the war in Iraq but standing by while the Syrian people were barrel-bombed.</p><p>The former Labour leader and prime minister, whose actions in the build-up to the war will be closely scrutinised when the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/06/blair-camp-readies-its-defence-to-chilcot-report">long-awaited Chilcot report is published next month</a>, used an interview with Bloomberg television to accuse Corbyn of focusing on the “politics of protest” at the expense of the “politics of power”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/tony-blair-accuses-jeremy-corbyn-of-standing-by-as-syria-is-bombed">Continue reading...</a> - Tony Blair - Jeremy Corbyn - Iraq war inquiry - Syria - Iraq - Saddam Hussein - Middle East and North Africa - Foreign policy - Labour - Politics - UK news - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:52:41 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/tony-blair-accuses-jeremy-corbyn-of-standing-by-as-syria-is-bombed - - Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA - - - Photograph: Philip Toscano/PA - - Heather Stewart Political editor - 2016-06-08T12:52:41Z - - - Dominic Chappell threatened to kill me, says BHS chief executive - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/bhs-owner-boss-says-dominic-chappell-had-his-fingers-in-the-till - <p>Darren Topp says BHS owner claimed he was ‘ex-SAS’ and owned a gun after being accused of £1.5m theft from company</p><p>The chief executive of BHS has claimed Dominic Chappell threatened to kill him after he confronted the former owner of the company about £1.5m being moved out of the business.</p><p>Darren Topp told MPs that he accused Chappell of theft after discovering that £1.5m had been moved from the company to an entity called BHS Sweden, which was not part of BHS. Topp said he considered calling the police.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/bhs-owner-boss-says-dominic-chappell-had-his-fingers-in-the-till">Continue reading...</a> - Dominic Chappell - BHS - Retail industry - UK news - Business - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:45:43 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/bhs-owner-boss-says-dominic-chappell-had-his-fingers-in-the-till - - Photograph: PA - - - Photograph: PA - - Graham Ruddick - 2016-06-08T12:45:43Z - - - EU referendum: Ministers to use emergency legislation to extend voter registration deadline - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/08/eu-referendum-live-voter-registration-site-crashes-cameron-farage-debate - <p>Live coverage of all the day’s campaign news, as Corbyn and Farron say deadline must be extended to allow more to sign up to vote</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/31/eu-referendum-morning-briefing-sign-up">Sign up to our EU referendum morning briefing</a></li><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/eu-referendum-morning-briefing-what-we-learned-cameron-farage-debate">Read today’s morning briefing</a></li></ul><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2016-06-08T13:49:48.076Z">2.49pm <span class="timezone">BST</span></time> </p><p>The government is going to introduce emergency legislation to ensure people registering to vote today can have their applications accepted, Sky News has reported.</p><p>This is from Sky’s <strong>Kay Burley.</strong></p><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Breaking: Govt to rush through legislation to extend deadline for registering to vote <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/EUref?src=hash">#EUref</a></p><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Statement at 7pm <a href="https://t.co/aZ7BZoe4cz">https://t.co/aZ7BZoe4cz</a></p><p lang="en" dir="ltr">On .<a href="https://twitter.com/joncraig">@joncraig</a> newsbreak on extension for voter registration: statement tonight (just after 7pm). Emergency legislation tomorrow</p><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2016-06-08T12:57:15.943Z">1.57pm <span class="timezone">BST</span></time> </p><p>And here are some more lines from Tony Blair’s interview with Bloomberg. Bloomberg has written it up <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-08/blair-slams-corbyn-for-standing-by-as-syria-is-barrel-bombed">here </a>and<a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-06-08/blair-sees-u-k-rejecting-brexit-as-he-attacks-boris-johnson"> here.</a></p><p>The wall of noise around [Cameron] as he makes decisions is larger and louder than anything before. Twitter and all these things, if you’re not careful, they create the era of the loudmouth. You read this stuff on Twitter -- 140 characters and you’re trying to sum up foreign policy.</p><p>It’s not clear to me what his policies really are. If they are some of the things that have been talked about, obviously you couldn’t agree with them. An actual trade war with China would be devastating for both sides so I can’t believe that’s what he’d actually want to do. If you literally say that no Muslims are going to come into America, that’s not a policy we can go along with. I’ve no idea what a Trump presidency would look like. It’s not clear to me what the common ground would be.</p><p>One of the things I find strange is when people say: ‘Look, I had to agonize over this decision.’ This is not one of those decisions. This is a decision where you should only be for ‘Leave’ if you’re absolutely clear. If you’re not clear, don’t do it ...</p><p>If you’ve been in government and been mayor of London, you know how big this decision is with those consequences,” he said. “If Britain leaves, you’re going to get the beginnings of what will be an economic shock for the country. How can you not think you’re at least going to suffer several years of economic insecurity?</p><p>We’ve now got to the somewhat absurd situation where if someone’s an ‘expert,’ that’s the worst insult you can level. Occasionally, rational evidence is a good thing to work on.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/08/eu-referendum-live-voter-registration-site-crashes-cameron-farage-debate">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - European Union - Europe - Politics - UK news - Nigel Farage - PMQs - David Cameron - Jeremy Corbyn - House of Commons - Tony Blair - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:52:26 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/08/eu-referendum-live-voter-registration-site-crashes-cameron-farage-debate - - Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA - - - Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA - - Claire Phipps and Andrew Sparrow - 2016-06-08T13:52:26Z - - - Hillary Clinton celebrates 'milestone' victory but Sanders refuses to quit - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-california-democratic-nominee - <p>Clinton <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/hillary-clinton-democratic-nominee-acceptance-speech">cements status as presidential nominee</a> with a win in California, but Sanders vows to keep campaign alive all the way to Democratic convention</p><p>Hillary Clinton has cemented her status as the Democratic nominee for president with convincing primary wins in California, New Jersey and New Mexico, calling on supporters of her rival, Bernie Sanders, to unite behind her historic candidacy.</p><p>But on a night when it became clear that Clinton would secure a majority of pledged delegates, Sanders refused to bow out, telling supporters that their fight would continue to the Democratic National Convention in July.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-california-democratic-nominee">Continue reading...</a> - Hillary Clinton - Bernie Sanders - US elections 2016 - US news - US politics - California - Democrats - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:22:56 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-california-democratic-nominee - - Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters - - - Photograph: Lucas Jackson/Reuters - - Paul Lewis in San Francisco, Lauren Gambino in New York and Nicky Woolf in Santa Monica - 2016-06-08T10:22:56Z - - - Leytonstone knife attack: man convicted of attempted murder - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/leytonstone-knife-attack-man-convicted-of-attempted - <p>Muhiddin Mire repeatedly cut the throat of a stranger in a London tube station last year, claiming it was revenge for Syria</p><p>A man with a history of poor mental health who repeatedly cut the throat of a stranger at an east London tube station and claimed he was acting in response to Britain’s involvement in the Syria conflict has been convicted of attempted murder.</p><p>Muhiddin Mire, 30, shouted “This is for my Syrian brothers. I’m going to spill your blood” during the rampage last December, and also attacked or threatened four other travellers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/leytonstone-knife-attack-man-convicted-of-attempted">Continue reading...</a> - Crime - London - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:34:24 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/leytonstone-knife-attack-man-convicted-of-attempted - - Photograph: Duncan Gardham - - - Photograph: Duncan Gardham - - Vikram Dodd and Esther Addley - 2016-06-08T10:34:24Z - - - Buy-to-let landlords win multimillion payout from West Bromwich - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/buy-to-let-landlords-win-multimillion-payout-from-west-bromwich - <p>Court of appeal judges say building society was not entitled to raise tracker interest rates, ending ‘David and Goliath’ legal battle </p><p>Thousands of buy-to-let landlords will share a multimillion-pound payout after winning a “David and Goliath” legal battle against one of Britain’s biggest building societies.</p><p>Court of appeal judges have ruled that the West Bromwich was not legally entitled to vary the landlords’ mortgage interest rates in the absence of a change in the Bank of England base rate, which their home loans track until the end of the term.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/buy-to-let-landlords-win-multimillion-payout-from-west-bromwich">Continue reading...</a> - Consumer affairs - Mortgage rates - Mortgages - Buying to let - Money - West Bromwich building society - Interest rates - Banks and building societies - Property - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:49:10 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/buy-to-let-landlords-win-multimillion-payout-from-west-bromwich - - Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian - - - Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian - - Rupert Jones - 2016-06-08T12:49:10Z - - - Austrian far-right party challenges presidential election results - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/austrias-far-right-freedom-party-challenges-presidential-election-reults - <p>Freedom party claims irregularities in May election – which it narrowly lost – raising prospect of repeat vote in affected regions<br></p><p>Austria’s far-right Freedom party (FPÖ) will contest the outcome of last month’s presidential elections, it has announced.</p><p>In a knife-edge contest that divided the country and captured the attention of the entire continent, the FPÖ candidate, Norbert Hofer, lost to Green-endorsed Alexander Van der Bellen by 30,863 votes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/austrias-far-right-freedom-party-challenges-presidential-election-reults">Continue reading...</a> - Austria - Europe - World news - The far right - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:09:05 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/austrias-far-right-freedom-party-challenges-presidential-election-reults - - Photograph: Christian Bruna/EPA - - - Photograph: Christian Bruna/EPA - - Philip Oltermann in Berlin - 2016-06-08T12:09:05Z - - - IPCC criticises Sussex police over hooding of disabled 11-year-old girl - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/ipcc-criticises-sussex-police-treatment-11-year-old-disabled-girl - <p>Girl, known as Child H, was hooded, handcuffed and detained for total of more than 60 hours over four separate occasions</p><p>Sussex police have been strongly criticised by the force watchdog after an 11-year-old disabled girl was hooded, handcuffed and detained in custody for a total of more than 60 hours.</p><p>The girl, known as Child H, suffers from a rare neurological disorder similar to autism that can cause sudden outbursts of anger.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/ipcc-criticises-sussex-police-treatment-11-year-old-disabled-girl">Continue reading...</a> - Independent Police Complaints Commission - Police - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:41:08 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/ipcc-criticises-sussex-police-treatment-11-year-old-disabled-girl - - Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian - - Josh Halliday - 2016-06-08T06:41:08Z - - - Ex-CIA officer faces extradition to Italy after final appeal rejected - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/ex-cia-officer-sabrina-de-sousa-extradition-italy--appeal-rejected-rendition - <p>Sabrina de Sousa denies involvement in the 2003 kidnapping of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr in Milan</p><p>A former CIA agent says she will be extradited to Italy to serve a prison sentence for her part in the US extraordinary renditions programme after Portugal’s constitutional court rejected her final appeal.</p><p>Sabrina de Sousa told the Associated Press on Wednesday she was waiting to be told when she would be taken to Italy, where she was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/apr/25/former-cia-agent-sabrina-de-sousa-extradition-italy-abu-omar-kidnapping">convicted in absentia</a> and has a four-year sentence to serve.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/ex-cia-officer-sabrina-de-sousa-extradition-italy--appeal-rejected-rendition">Continue reading...</a> - Rendition - CIA - US news - World news - Vatican - Pope Francis - Italy - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:12:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/ex-cia-officer-sabrina-de-sousa-extradition-italy--appeal-rejected-rendition - - Photograph: Nikki Kahn/AP - - - Photograph: Nikki Kahn/AP - - Associated Press in Lisbon - 2016-06-08T11:12:03Z - - - British club reps' fake 'boat to Syria' story fools Mail, Mirror and ITV - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/08/british-club-reps-fake-boat-syria-mail-mirror-itv-ayia-napa - <p>Trio who claimed they went on a night out in Ayia Napa and ended up travelling to Syrian port admit they made it up<br></p><p>Three club reps have managed to trick media organisations worldwide into reporting their claim to have accidentally got on a boat to Syria after a night out in Cyprus. </p><p>The story was originally picked up by the Lad Bible and then the Daily Mirror, before spreading to other reputable news sites including the Mail, Express, ITV, US outlet Time and Australian site News.au.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/08/british-club-reps-fake-boat-syria-mail-mirror-itv-ayia-napa">Continue reading...</a> - Media - Daily Mirror - Mail Online - ITV channel - UK news - Syria - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:05:39 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/08/british-club-reps-fake-boat-syria-mail-mirror-itv-ayia-napa - - Photograph: Daily Mirror - - - Photograph: Daily Mirror - - Jasper Jackson - 2016-06-08T13:05:39Z - - - The best films of 2016 so far - https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jun/08/best-films-of-2016-anomalisa-spotlight-revenant-nice-guys-jungle-book - <p>Hard to believe but 2016 is already half over. It’s time to look back at the films our critics have so far rated the finest</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jun/08/best-films-of-2016-anomalisa-spotlight-revenant-nice-guys-jungle-book">Continue reading...</a> - Film - Culture - Anomalisa - The Assassin - A Bigger Splash - Captain America: Civil War - Deadpool - Dheepan - Everybody Wants Some!! - Hail, Caesar! - The Hateful Eight - High-Rise - The Jungle Book - Love & Friendship - Miles Davis - The Nice Guys - The Revenant - Room - Son of Saul - Spotlight - Zootopia (aka Zootropolis) - Music - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:00:15 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2016/jun/08/best-films-of-2016-anomalisa-spotlight-revenant-nice-guys-jungle-book - - Composite: Various film studio PR images - - - Composite: Various film studio PR images - - Andrew Pulver - 2016-06-08T12:00:15Z - - - How far is too far? The distance workers commute to cities – mapped - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/08/how-far-distance-workers-commute-uk-cities-mapped - <p>Where does a city begin and where does it end? Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield analysed point-to-point commuter data from the ONS in an attempt to build a truer picture of the economic footprint of cities in England and Wales, one which goes beyond simple local authority boundaries. He tweets <a href="http://www.twitter.com/undertheraedar">@undertheradar</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/08/how-far-distance-workers-commute-uk-cities-mapped">Continue reading...</a> - Cities - Commuting - Transport - Transport policy - UK news - Work & careers - London - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:09:52 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/08/how-far-distance-workers-commute-uk-cities-mapped - - Photograph: ONS/Alasdair Rae - - - Photograph: ONS/Alasdair Rae - - Guardian Staff - 2016-06-08T11:09:52Z - - - England memorial row is the real insult to Somme victims | Marina Hyde - https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jun/08/england-memorial-row-somme-victims - A non-visit to Thiepval Memorial by England players has drawn criticism, but using the dead as a plot device in a football story is crass<p>I am very much enjoying the England Euro 2016 squad’s shtick of proudly sneaking a large toy lion into every team photo, which gives them the flavour of 23&nbsp;Minnesotan dentists on a trophy-hunting safari. They seem certain to return triumphantly home with these subjugated beasts, whose heads will presumably end up mounted on the walls of a St George’s Park den that also features the stuffed careers of various managers, and an umbrella stand fashioned from the foot of Steve McClaren.</p><p>Infinitely less enchanting is the confected row about an England players’ delegation’s failure to visit the Thiepval Memorial to the missing Somme dead. Whenever I read a version of this story, which is to say whenever the England football side finds themselves within a 200 mile radius of a battlefield or death camp, I get genuinely misty-eyed and overcome by a single thought: Never again. Never again should any visit by any England side to anywhere vaguely near some bottomless historical horror be telescoped down into a crass dig at their imagined slight toward those that paid the ultimate sacrifice. Why didn’t the players go? Why did only some of them go? Why did they wear tracksuits? OH MY GOD WERE THERE BEATS HEADPHONES ON THE BUS?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jun/08/england-memorial-row-somme-victims">Continue reading...</a> - England - Euro 2016 - Football - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:35:44 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jun/08/england-memorial-row-somme-victims - - Photograph: Alamy - - - Photograph: Alamy - - Marina Hyde - 2016-06-08T10:35:44Z - - - Hillary Clinton puts history front and center on her big night | Jill Abramson - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/hillary-clinton-democratic-nomination-win-history - <p>Clinton faces big challenges ahead – a brutal general election against Trump, the task of winning over young voters – and on Tuesday she showed us she’s ready</p><p><br>Mothers brought their daughters. One father, Matthew Gunn, brought his five-year-old, Madeleine, sporting a Hillary cap and T-shirt that was swimming on her.</p><p>Crammed into a giant greenhouse in the Brooklyn Navy Yard (I almost stepped on Madeleine in the crush), they came to see history being made.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/hillary-clinton-democratic-nomination-win-history">Continue reading...</a> - Hillary Clinton - US elections 2016 - US politics - US news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:36:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/hillary-clinton-democratic-nomination-win-history - - Photograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images - - Jill Abramson - 2016-06-08T12:36:06Z - - - Harry Potter and the cursed previews: the opening of plays has become absurd - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-previews-opening-plays-system-absurd - <p>The West End’s preview practice dates back nearly 50 years. As it stands, the outdated system works against the public interest</p><p>When does <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/07/audiences-queue-for-the-premiere-of-harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child">Harry Potter and the Cursed Child</a> actually open? The first preview of this two-part show took place on Tuesday night: the second part follows on Thursday. Anxious for a scoop, <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-opening-night-of-part-one---li/">the Telegraph</a> and <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-reviews/harry-potter-cursed-child-review-8136339">the Mirror</a> have both published first-night reports with details of the show. But critics will not be invited to give their verdicts until after the official first night on 30 July. This seven-week gap, unprecedented in London though not in <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/broadway">New York</a>, makes nonsense of the whole notion of a “first night” and raises serious questions about the idea of “previews”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-previews-opening-plays-system-absurd">Continue reading...</a> - Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Theatre - Stage - Culture - Harry Potter - JK Rowling - West End - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:32:30 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/harry-potter-and-the-cursed-child-previews-opening-plays-system-absurd - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - Michael Billington - 2016-06-08T12:32:30Z - - - Breaking Bad to House of Cards – Netflix finally reveals its binge scale - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/08/netflix-breaking-bad-house-of-cards-binge-watch - <p>The famously secretive streaming service releases list showing what viewers really binge-watch – with some surprising results<br></p><p>It has <a draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/05/binge-watch-2015-word-of-the-year-collins">become a byword</a> for the way we watch TV and has been <a draggable="true" href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/mar/04/binge-watching-mental-health-effects-research">linked to depression</a> and even <a draggable="true" href="http://www.theguardian.com/global/shortcuts/2016/jun/06/netflix-chill-box-set-mobiles-keep-couples-apart-david-spiegelhalter">blamed for ruining people’s sex lives</a>.</p><p>Now, more details of the way we “binge-watch” TV shows have been released by US on-demand service Netflix, home to Kevin Spacey’s House of Cards and its first UK production, the upcoming £100m royal epic The Crown, starring Claire Foy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/08/netflix-breaking-bad-house-of-cards-binge-watch">Continue reading...</a> - Television - Netflix - Online TV - Digital media - Television & radio - Television industry - Media - Culture - UK news - US news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:00:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/08/netflix-breaking-bad-house-of-cards-binge-watch - - Photograph: MSL Group - - - Photograph: MSL Group - - John Plunkett - 2016-06-08T13:00:03Z - - - Graduate fashion week 25 years later: why it's still relevant - https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/08/graduate-fashion-week-25-years-later-why-its-still-relevant - <p>With a focus on the personal, members of this year’s graduating class are set to continue the convention of challenging work</p><p>To some, the idea of using leopard print to explain apartheid might seem strange, but as superstar designer Christopher Bailey says, the importance of Graduate fashion week has never been been more significant. As the event celebrates its 25th birthday, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/burberrygroup">Burberry</a>’s CEO Bailey – who took home GFW’s first ever prize in 1991 – says: “It provides graduates with vital recognition and, in so doing, it can become the catalyst to start an exciting career path. That was certainly my experience and I have seen it do the same for many others.” </p><p>Yorkshire-born Bailey, who worked for Donna Karan and Gucci before joining Burberry in 2001, was a University of Westminster graduate when he took home the gold at the first staging of the talent showcase. “It’s an incredibly valuable platform,” he says.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/08/graduate-fashion-week-25-years-later-why-its-still-relevant">Continue reading...</a> - Fashion - Fashion weeks - Burberry - Life and style - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:13:15 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/08/graduate-fashion-week-25-years-later-why-its-still-relevant - - Composite: PR Company Handout - - - Composite: PR Company Handout - - Priya Elan - 2016-06-08T11:13:15Z - - - Streep, Depp, Fallon … who's the top Trump impersonator? - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/08/who-is-top-donald-trump-impersonator-meryl-streep-johnny-depp-jimmy-fallon-snl - <p>Did Johnny Depp seal the deal, do the SNL guys nail it, or has Meryl Streep just monstered the mogul and US presidential hopeful?</p><p>Perhaps in years to come it will be a role like Andy Warhol or Richard Nixon, a role steeped in postmodern comedy and irony, a huge vaudeville turn for an actor to show a dark kind of flair. But as Donald J Trump approaches his date with destiny, actors are increasingly drawn to this extraordinary character: the hair, the hands, the hair, the suit, the hair, the voice, the hair, the tie, the hair. So let’s assess in strictly alphabetical order the respective merits of six thespians who have, in recent months, “given” their Trump, with marks out of five given.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/08/who-is-top-donald-trump-impersonator-meryl-streep-johnny-depp-jimmy-fallon-snl">Continue reading...</a> - Film - Meryl Streep - Johnny Depp - Comedy - Donald Trump - Saturday Night Live - Comedy - US television - Television & radio - US news - Culture - Television - US theater - Stage - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:01:33 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/08/who-is-top-donald-trump-impersonator-meryl-streep-johnny-depp-jimmy-fallon-snl - - Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters - - - Photograph: Carlo Allegri/Reuters - - Peter Bradshaw - 2016-06-08T09:01:33Z - - - Why flip-flops are the new dad jeans - https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/07/flip-flops-new-dads-jeans-sandal-summer-sports-obsessed-2016-pool-slide-shoe - The sandal that ruled summer from 4,000BC to 2015 is finally over – in sports-obsessed 2016, the functional pool slide is the shoe to be seen in<br /><p>I was going to write about the Ten Style Rules You Need to Know This Summer, but then I realised that there is only one that really matters. Swapping your white work shirt for a blue one and showing your shoulders instead of your legs is good-to-know, but hardly deal-breaking. There is just one diktat that you need to pay attention to. It is this: no flip-flops.</p><p>The flip-flop is the new dad jeans. It’s a red flag that unwittingly marks out your look as past its sell-by date. You might as well go out with your midi skirt caught in your knickers. Are you getting the picture yet?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/07/flip-flops-new-dads-jeans-sandal-summer-sports-obsessed-2016-pool-slide-shoe">Continue reading...</a> - Fashion - Women's shoes - Life and style - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:25:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/07/flip-flops-new-dads-jeans-sandal-summer-sports-obsessed-2016-pool-slide-shoe - - Composite: Rex/Getty - - - Composite: Rex/Getty - - Jess Cartner-Morley - 2016-06-07T18:25:03Z - - - Titanic review – the best piece of musical staging in London - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/titanic-review-charing-cross-theatre-london-thom-southerland - <p><strong>Charing Cross theatre, London<br></strong>Thom Southerland opens his Charing Cross tenure with his brilliantly staged revival set aboard the doomed liner</p><p>The disaster-musical seems an unlikely genre, but this show by Maury Yeston (music and lyrics) and Peter Stone (story and book) overcame the doubters in 1997 to enjoy a two-year Broadway run. <a href="http://www.thomsoutherland.co.uk/">Thom Southerland</a>’s chamber revival, which won a host of awards <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2013/aug/01/titanic-review">at Southwark Playhouse in 2013</a>, opens his artistic directorship of this underground theatre with immense verve and, indeed, offers the best piece of musical staging you will find in London.</p><p> What is striking about the show is its unashamedly political nature. While celebrating the Titanic as “a floating city” that encompasses human aspirations, it makes clear that it was a symbol of a rigid class structure: when the ship hits an iceberg, it is the nobs who initially hesitate about obeying orders before ensuring their place on the life-boats.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/titanic-review-charing-cross-theatre-london-thom-southerland">Continue reading...</a> - Musicals - Theatre - Stage - Culture - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:56:09 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/titanic-review-charing-cross-theatre-london-thom-southerland - - Photograph: Scott Rylander - - - Photograph: Scott Rylander - - Michael Billington - 2016-06-08T10:56:09Z - - - Bilderberg: still powerful but perhaps a bit more anxious this year - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/bilderberg-conference-dresden-charlie-skelton-bilderblog - <p>The spectre of Brexit looms large as the financial, industrial and high-tech establishment gathers in Dresden</p><p>Prime ministers, finance ministers, leading entrepreneurs and a former spy chief are among the attendees at this year’s influential Bilderberg conference, but one regular guest, George Osborne, will be absent.</p><p>The <a href="http://bilderbergmeetings.org/participants.html">guest list for the conference</a>, which begins on Thursday in Dresden, was released on Tuesday and includes a large number of senior politicians and policymakers, dozens of bank bosses and high-finance billionaires who will gather inside the newly erected security fence around the Hotel Taschenbergpalais.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/bilderberg-conference-dresden-charlie-skelton-bilderblog">Continue reading...</a> - Bilderberg - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:33:38 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/bilderberg-conference-dresden-charlie-skelton-bilderblog - - Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images - - Charlie Skelton - 2016-06-07T19:33:38Z - - - 'Horrid colonials destroy world heritage thing': we reveal the lies of Big Coral | First Dog on the Moon - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/horrid-colonials-destroy-world-heritage-thing-we-reveal-the-lies-of-big-coral - <p>The Australian government has appointed Ian the Climate Denialist Potato to explain to the world what is really happening to the Great Barrier Reef</p><ul><li><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jun/16/-sp-first-dog-on-the-moon-subscribe-by-email">Sign up here to get an email</a> whenever First Dog cartoons are published<br></li><li><a href="http://firstshoponthemoon.com/">Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop</a> if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints</li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/horrid-colonials-destroy-world-heritage-thing-we-reveal-the-lies-of-big-coral">Continue reading...</a> - Great Barrier Reef - Australia news - Environment - World news - Australian politics - Fossil fuels - Marine life - Oceans - Wildlife - Coral - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 00:27:27 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/horrid-colonials-destroy-world-heritage-thing-we-reveal-the-lies-of-big-coral - - Illustration: First Dog on the Moon - - - Illustration: First Dog on the Moon - - First Dog on the Moon - 2016-06-08T00:27:27Z - - - Take it with a pinch of salt – the food marketing myths we’ve swallowed whole - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/07/take-it-with-a-pinch-of-salt-the-food-marketing-myths-weve-swallowed-whole - <p>Who says breakfast is the most important meal of the day? And why does spinach make you strong? It sounds like conventional wisdom, but most of it was cooked up by ad men</p><p>What came first, the chicken-is-healthy study or the eggs-are-unhealthy study? Nutritional advice is notoriously nebulous, and food groups regularly alternate between demonisation and deification. Fat makes you fat; fat makes you thin; carbs are basically crack; carbs are back. Corporate agendas are behind much of this confusion. But, more worryingly, they’re also behind many of the food “facts” we take for granted. Much conventional health wisdom is actually commercialised wisdom: the result of canny marketing campaigns or industry-funded studies. Even if you think you’re above advertising, immune to the seductions of pseudoscience, you would be surprised how many marketing myths you may have inadvertently swallowed.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/07/take-it-with-a-pinch-of-salt-the-food-marketing-myths-weve-swallowed-whole">Continue reading...</a> - Food & drink - Advertising - Media - Health & wellbeing - Fruit - Breakfast - Coffee - Vegetables - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:34:36 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/07/take-it-with-a-pinch-of-salt-the-food-marketing-myths-weve-swallowed-whole - - Photograph: Fotosearch/Getty Images/Fotosearch RF - - - Photograph: Fotosearch/Getty Images/Fotosearch RF - - Arwa Mahdawi - 2016-06-07T15:34:36Z - - - Rise of the mammals began before dinosaur extinction, research suggests - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/rise-of-the-mammals-began-before-dinosaur-extinction-research-suggests - <p>Study of prehistoric mammal teeth reveals variety of shapes, helping to overturn theory that diversity was kept in check by dominance of dinosaurs</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2015/dec/07/are-mammals-30-million-years-older-than-previously-thought">Mammals</a> experienced a boom in diversity long before the dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago, overturning the notion that their evolution was curbed by the success of the land-based reptiles, scientists have said.</p><p>It has long been thought that dinosaurs kept diversity among mammals in check by dominating food and resources, with early mammals thought to be limited to small, insect-eating creatures. But recent fossil finds have called the idea into question, suggesting that they had a wider range of shapes and sizes than previously thought. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/rise-of-the-mammals-began-before-dinosaur-extinction-research-suggests">Continue reading...</a> - Fossils - Evolution - Science - Biology - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 23:01:01 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/rise-of-the-mammals-began-before-dinosaur-extinction-research-suggests - - Photograph: Nobu Tamura - - - Photograph: Nobu Tamura - - Nicola Davis - 2016-06-07T23:01:01Z - - - Cree language gets 21st-century reboot from First Nation Canadians - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/cree-language-first-nation-canadians-100-days-of-cree - <p>New crowdsourced book 100 Days of Cree features translations of everything from pizzas and saunas to Johnny Cash songs</p><p>With entries ranging from <em>pwâkamo-pahkwêsikan</em>, the Cree word for pizza – “the throw-up bread” in literal English – to <em>môniyâw-matotisân</em>, a sauna or a “white-man sweat”, a crowdsourcing project documenting the vitality and evolution of the most widely spoken indigenous language in Canada is about to be published.</p><p>Neal McLeod, a poet and indigenous studies professor at Trent University, set out to connect with other Cree speakers on Facebook, aiming to gather together classical Cree vocabulary and to “coin and develop” words relating to contemporary life. According to a <a href="http://www12.statcan.ca/census-recensement/2006/as-sa/97-558/p19-eng.cfm">2006 Canadian census</a>, there are <a href="https://books.google.no/books?id=CMEnCwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA8&amp;lpg=PA8&amp;dq=cree+speakers+117000&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=fgX0tSTY0F&amp;sig=Ork6q50eNJY-PllkNhcZjA4VMp8&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjLiaC38JXNAhWBmiwKHYoSAAwQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&amp;q=cree%20speakers%20117000&amp;f=false">around 117,000 Cree speakers</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/cree-language-first-nation-canadians-100-days-of-cree">Continue reading...</a> - Reference and languages - Books - Culture - Canada - Americas - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:49:28 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/cree-language-first-nation-canadians-100-days-of-cree - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - Alison Flood - 2016-06-07T16:49:28Z - - - Fire and ice: the inside story of Iceland’s remarkable rise | Barney Ronay - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/iceland-stunning-rise-euro-2016-gylfi-sigurdsson-lars-lagerback - <p>Iceland travel to Euro 2016 as the smallest nation ever to reach a major tournament – not bad going for a lump of volcanic rock halfway to the Arctic with a population the size of Lewisham. This is the tale of their stunning journey</p><p>In 2009 a group of young Icelandic football coaches travelled to England to study for their Uefa coaching licences. The trip involved a stop at Reading, where the Icelanders were excited to see at first hand the progress of Gylfi Sigurdsson, Iceland’s own 18-year-old creative midfield jewel.</p><p>Sigurdsson had moved to Reading’s academy three years before from the successful youth system at Breidablik, a kind of fun, flatpack Nordic La Masia just outside Reykjavik. It was in England that Sigurdsson would really bloom, becoming in the process a frontiersman for the great Icelandic experiment, that frankly quite bonkers investment in youth football enacted around the turn of the millennium by this spiky lump of mid-Atlantic basalt, and expressed most fully in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jan/30/volcano-iceland-national-football-team" title="">minor miracle of Euro 2016 qualification</a>. A triumph powered, above all, by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/sep/03/holland-iceland-euro-2016-qualifying-match-report" title="">Gylfi’s goals</a> and craft.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/iceland-stunning-rise-euro-2016-gylfi-sigurdsson-lars-lagerback">Continue reading...</a> - Iceland - Euro 2016 - Football - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:00:15 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/iceland-stunning-rise-euro-2016-gylfi-sigurdsson-lars-lagerback - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - Barney Ronay in Reykjavik - 2016-06-08T12:00:15Z - - - Manchester United free to pursue Paul Pogba after City’s interest fades - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/manchester-united-paul-pogba-manchester-city - • United weighing up a formal offer for Juventus midfielder who left in 2012<br />• Manchester City drop interest in Pogba as Pep Guardiola rebuilds team<p>Manchester City have left the way open for Manchester United to pursue Paul Pogba after deciding not to go after the France international as part of a summer of extensive transfer recruitment preparing for Pep Guardiola’s first season in charge.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/eric-bailly-signs-manchester-united-jose-mourinho-defender">Eric Bailly is José Mourinho’s first signing as Manchester United manager</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/manchester-united-paul-pogba-manchester-city">Continue reading...</a> - Manchester United - Manchester City - Transfer window - Football - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:01:14 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/manchester-united-paul-pogba-manchester-city - - Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Tiziana Fabi/AFP/Getty Images - - Daniel Taylor - 2016-06-08T11:01:14Z - - - Alastair Cook says match fixers should be banned for life as Amir returns - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/alastair-cook-match-fixers-life-bans-mohammad-amir-pakistan-test-series - • England captain has no problem facing disgraced Mohammed Amir<br />• ‘He’s served his time. He was punished for what he did’<p>England captain Alastair Cook believes anyone found guilty of match-fixing should be permanently thrown out of cricket, although he would have no issue with facing Pakistan fast bowler Mohammad Amir in the forthcoming Test series.</p><p>Amir is poised to make a controversial return to Tests this summer – having made his comeback for Pakistan in the shorter formats earlier this year – and in a twist, his first match could be the scene of his crime.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/alastair-cook-match-fixers-life-bans-mohammad-amir-pakistan-test-series">Continue reading...</a> - Alastair Cook - England cricket team - Pakistan cricket team - Sport - Cricket - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:18:25 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/alastair-cook-match-fixers-life-bans-mohammad-amir-pakistan-test-series - - Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters - - - Photograph: Andrew Boyers/Reuters - - Press Association - 2016-06-08T13:18:25Z - - - Katherine Grainger and Vicky Thornley set for Rio Olympics heartbreak - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/katherine-grainger-vicky-thornley-set-to-miss-rio-olympics-rowing-great-britain - • Double scull duo missed cut by less than half a second<br />• GB Rowing to name Olympic squad on Thursday<p>Katherine Grainger, who along with the swimmer Rebecca Adlington is Great Britain’s most decorated female Olympian with four medals, could miss out on a record fifth Olympic medal after failing to claim a place in the women’s eight boat for Rio de Janeiro, according to reports.</p><p>Grainger and Vicky Thornley were competing for seats in the eight after their double scull was disbanded after a poor performance at last month’s European Championships in Germany. Each missed the cut by less than half a second.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/katherine-grainger-vicky-thornley-set-to-miss-rio-olympics-rowing-great-britain">Continue reading...</a> - Rowing - Olympic Games 2016 - Olympic Games - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:22:36 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/katherine-grainger-vicky-thornley-set-to-miss-rio-olympics-rowing-great-britain - - Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA - - - Photograph: Andrew Matthews/PA - - Guardian sport - 2016-06-08T10:22:36Z - - - Euro 2016: the Russia, Wales and Slovakia players who will cause England problems - https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2016/jun/08/euro-2016-england-russia-wales-slovakia - <p>Fedor Smolov could be Russia’s secret weapon, Marek Hamsik remains Slovakia’s dangerman and you don’t have to be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/these-football-times/2015/dec/17/marcelo-bielsa-manager-swansea-city">Marcelo Bielsa</a> to spot Wales’ biggest threat</p><p>By <a href="https://twitter.com/martinlaurence7">Martin Laurence</a> for <a href="http://file///Volumes/Downloads/Pictures/Euro2016%20(1).pdf">WhoScored?</a>, part of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/series/guardian-sport-network">Guardian Sport Network</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2016/jun/08/euro-2016-england-russia-wales-slovakia">Continue reading...</a> - Euro 2016 - England - Football - Slovakia - Russia - Wales - Sport - European Championship - Gareth Bale - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:49:39 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/who-scored-blog/2016/jun/08/euro-2016-england-russia-wales-slovakia - - Photograph: Niall Carson/PA - - - Photograph: Niall Carson/PA - - Martin Laurence - 2016-06-08T11:49:39Z - - - George Gregan: ‘Everyone in Australia is excited about Eddie Jones returning’ - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/george-gregan-australia-eddie-jones-england - The former Wallabies scrum-half backs his old coach to transform England and says the tour comes as a perfect time for the hosts<p>George Gregan smiles when asked about Eddie Jones’s reputation as a workaholic and the most demanding of coaches to work for. The 139-cap scrum-half, who spent a decade working under Jones with the Brumbies and Australia, leading the Wallabies at the 2003 World Cup, recalls that the players called the then Australia assistant coach Ewen McKenzie “Moth” – attracted to a flame that never burned out.</p><p>“I think Eddie has mellowed,” says Gregan, now an HSBC rugby ambassador. “It was different when he was younger and he is like green tea compared to how he was then. He is not renowned for sleeping eight hours a night and we used to joke that the only time he slept was after a plane took off: he would be in his number ones with his notebook and laptop out nodding off.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/george-gregan-australia-eddie-jones-england">Continue reading...</a> - England rugby union team - Australia rugby union team - Rugby union - Australia sport - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:57:57 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/george-gregan-australia-eddie-jones-england - - Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images - - - Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images - - Paul Rees - 2016-06-08T10:57:57Z - - - Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko implicated in latest doping allegations - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/russia-sports-minister-vitaly-mutko-doping - • German documentary alleges Mutko helped to cover up doping offence<br />• World athletics task force describes reports as a ‘grave concern’<p>The world athletics task force that holds the fate of Russia’s track and field athletes in its hands ahead of the Rio Olympics has said new doping allegations that implicate the sports minister Vitaly Mutko are a “grave concern” and will be investigated as a “matter of urgency”.</p><p>As the Russian authorities continue to try to prove they are serious about tackling the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/russia-doping-scandal" title="">systemic doping issues</a> outlined by an independent Wada report, a new documentary by the German broadcaster ARD will claim on Wednesday night that Mutko blocked the reporting of a doping offence by a top-flight footballer. It is believed that the positive test in question was never made public. The new revelations could be particularly damaging for Russia because they threaten to drag football into the debate for the first time before the country’s hosting of the 2018 World Cup.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/russia-sports-minister-vitaly-mutko-doping">Continue reading...</a> - Russia doping scandal - Drugs in sport - Wada - Athletics - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 20:11:35 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/russia-sports-minister-vitaly-mutko-doping - - Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters - - - Photograph: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters - - Owen Gibson - 2016-06-07T20:11:35Z - - - England can't win Euro 2016 if there are egos, says Daniel Sturridge - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/daniel-sturridge-england-euro-2016 - <p>The forward insists ‘it’s not about me, it’s about the team’ as he and England’s striker-heavy squad prepare for the start of Euro 2016 in France</p><p>As Daniel Sturridge came across to the touchline at Stade des Bourgognes, leant over the fence around England’s training pitch and started making his case that he could live with being on the fringes of Roy Hodgson’s team, one awkward question had to be asked of a player not always renowned for his lack of ego.</p><p>Sturridge certainly sounded like he meant it when he declared he would accept being out of the side in England’s opening Euro 2016 game against Russia on Saturday and, in black and white, his words typified the kind of attitude Hodgson must want from his squad. There was praise for Marcus Rashford – “a good player” – and an insistence, repeated several times, that he would not rock the boat if there was no way into the starting line-up past Wayne Rooney, Harry Kane and Jamie Vardy.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/daniel-sturridge-england-euro-2016">Continue reading...</a> - Daniel Sturridge - Euro 2016 - England - European Championship - Football - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:30:32 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/daniel-sturridge-england-euro-2016 - - Photograph: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images - - Daniel Taylor in Chantilly - 2016-06-07T21:30:32Z - - - José Mourinho set to make Eric Bailly his first Manchester United signing - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/eric-bailly-sign-manchester-united-villarreal-jose-mourinho - • Villarreal defender undergoes medical before move<br />• Leicester and Arsenal also interested in 22-year-old<p>José Mourinho is on the verge of making his first signing at Old Trafford after the Villarreal defender Eric Bailly underwent a medical at Manchester United.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jun/07/zlatan-ibrahimovic-mourinho-cool-older-coaches-sportswear">Zlatan Ibrahimovic: ‘Mourinho is cool – the older coaches get, the cooler they get’</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/eric-bailly-sign-manchester-united-villarreal-jose-mourinho">Continue reading...</a> - Manchester United - José Mourinho - Villarreal - Football - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:50:22 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/eric-bailly-sign-manchester-united-villarreal-jose-mourinho - - Photograph: Juanjo Martin/EPA - - - Photograph: Juanjo Martin/EPA - - Mark Dobson - 2016-06-07T18:50:22Z - - - Greg Rutherford freezes sperm over Olympics Zika fears - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/greg-rutherford-freezes-sperm-over-olympics-zika-fears - <p>Long jumper’s partner also reveals she and their son will not attend Rio Games amid concerns about disease affecting newborns<br></p><p>The British Olympian Greg Rutherford has frozen a sample of his sperm before attending the Olympic Games in Rio because of his concerns over the Zika virus.</p><p>Rutherford’s partner, Susie Verrill, said the couple, who have a son called Milo, decided to freeze his sperm because they wanted to have more children in the future and were worried about the risks of the disease. Zika infections in pregnant women have been <a href="https://composer.gutools.co.uk/content/linking%20Zika%20infections%20in%20pregnant%20women%20to%20a%20rise%20in%20newborns%20with%20microcephaly,%20or%20an%20unusually%20small%20skul">linked to babies being born with microcephaly</a>, or an unusually small skull, and other severe brain defects.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/greg-rutherford-freezes-sperm-over-olympics-zika-fears">Continue reading...</a> - Greg Rutherford - Olympic Games 2016 - Brazil - Pregnancy - Family - Americas - Health & wellbeing - Life and style - Olympic Games - Parents and parenting - UK news - Sport - Zika virus - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:39:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/greg-rutherford-freezes-sperm-over-olympics-zika-fears - - Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images - - Nadia Khomami - 2016-06-07T16:39:03Z - - - Glen Ella installing family principles among England’s young backs - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/glen-ella-family-principles-england-young-backs-australia-tour-rugby-union - Australian coach with famous brothers and an illustrious career is excited by the talent available to him in the England squad<p>Eddie Jones may be in overall charge but he is only the second most talented Australian currently coaching England’s players. It is possible that, until recently, some of the squad thought Glen Ella was a valley in the Scottish Highlands; soon they will all be wishing they had met their new backline mentor earlier in their careers.</p><p>Because if anyone can broaden the horizons of English back play and transform their attacking mindset it is an individual once described by the former Wallaby coach Bob Dwyer as the most naturally gifted member of the extraordinary Ella family. Given Glen’s twin brother, Mark, ranks among the game’s all-time shimmering stars and captained Australia, that is some call. Dwyer, though, was adamant: “To see him running among opposition players, stepping off his left foot and right foot in turn, was to be reminded of an ice skater.” For such a sharp rugby mind to be honing England’s young players on antipodean soil really is a coup.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/glen-ella-family-principles-england-young-backs-australia-tour-rugby-union">Continue reading...</a> - England rugby union team - Australia rugby union team - Rugby union - Sport - Australia sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:00:31 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/glen-ella-family-principles-england-young-backs-australia-tour-rugby-union - - Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images - - - Photograph: David Rogers/Getty Images - - Robert Kitson in Surfers Paradise - 2016-06-07T21:00:31Z - - - UCI urged to halt Bahraini-bankrolled WorldTour team over rights abuses - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/uci-bahrain-prince-nasser-worldtour-rights-abuses - • Prince Nasser’s involvement would breach code of ethics, groups claim <br />• Bahrain Cycling Team expected next season, including Vincenzo Nibali<p>Human rights groups have written to world cycling’s governing body, urging it to reject an attempt by a member of Bahrain’s ruling royal family to bankroll the Middle East’s first professional WorldTour cycling team.</p><p>Organisations including the Bahrain Institute for Human Rights and Democracy (Bird), and the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights, claim that Prince Nasser bin Hamad al-Khalifa’s involvement in the sport would be in breach of the UCI’s code of ethics and have accused him of using cycling to “whitewash” his past.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/uci-bahrain-prince-nasser-worldtour-rights-abuses">Continue reading...</a> - Cycling - Sport - Bahrain - Middle East and North Africa - World news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:38:00 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/uci-bahrain-prince-nasser-worldtour-rights-abuses - - Photograph: Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images for Challenge Triat - - - Photograph: Charlie Crowhurst/Getty Images for Challenge Triat - - Owen Gibson - 2016-06-07T21:38:00Z - - - Everton land Ronald Koeman after £5m fee is agreed with Southampton - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/everton-manager-ronald-koeman-5m-compensation-southampton - • Dutchman will be joined by two members of coaching staff<br />• Farhad Moshiri promises biggest transfer budget in club’s history<p>Ronald Koeman is expected to be appointed Everton’s new manager within 48 hours after Southampton accepted a compensation package worth around £5m for the Dutch coach and members of his backroom staff.</p><p>Farhad Moshiri, Everton’s major shareholder, identified Koeman as his leading candidate to succeed Roberto Martínez after deciding to end the Catalan’s three-year tenure before the end of last season. The determination to prise Koeman from St Mary’s has led to the British-Iranian billionaire meeting Southampton’s demands after several days of negotiations.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/everton-manager-ronald-koeman-5m-compensation-southampton">Continue reading...</a> - Ronald Koeman - Everton - Southampton - Football - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:24:43 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/everton-manager-ronald-koeman-5m-compensation-southampton - - Photograph: James Marsh/BPI/REX/Shutterstock - - - Photograph: James Marsh/BPI/REX/Shutterstock - - Andy Hunter - 2016-06-07T19:24:43Z - - - Football transfer rumours: Manchester United to sign Roma's Miralem Pjanic? - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/football-transfer-rumours-manchester-united-to-sign-romas-miralem-pjanic - <p>Today’s rumours only have a week to get themselves into shape</p><p>Despite being Wiganised to within an inch of his professional life by Roberto Martínez, who seemed determined to turn him into the star of a bloopers show narrated by Chris Kamara, <strong>John Stones</strong> remains an object of attraction for Chelsea and both<strong> </strong>Manchester clubs. Not put off by the young defender’s erratic performances all season, the three of them all have their beady eyes on Stones, while Everton want him to stay put. Perhaps Everton can disguise Tony Hibbert as Stones and send him off to Stamford Bridge.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-manchester-city-borussia-dortmund-transfer">Manchester City want Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang but will have to pay £55m</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/football-transfer-rumours-manchester-united-to-sign-romas-miralem-pjanic">Continue reading...</a> - Manchester United - Roma - Football - Sport - Everton - Chelsea - Manchester City - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:02:35 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/08/football-transfer-rumours-manchester-united-to-sign-romas-miralem-pjanic - - Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images - - Jacob Steinberg - 2016-06-08T08:02:35Z - - - USA use style and guile to thrash Costa Rica in Copa América - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/copa-america-usa-costa-rica-match-report - <ul><li>USMNT impressive as they beat Los Ticos 4-0 in Chicago</li><li>Relief for Jürgen Klinsmann after <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/soccer/2016/06/07/jurgen-klinsmanns-coaching-position-sunil-gulati/85575114/">doubts had emerged over his future</a></li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2016/jun/07/usa-v-costa-rica-copa-america-live">As it happened: Tom Lutz’s minute-by-minute report</a></li></ul><p>After a tepid loss in their opening Copa América Centenario game put them under threat of elimination, the US needed a riposte against Costa Rica on Tuesday. They delivered a renaissance.</p><p>The same players who <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/04/usa-beaten-colombia-copa-america-jurgen-klinsmann">had disappointed against Colombia last Friday</a> delivered in Chicago. Michael Bradley was a potent midfield puppeteer, setting up a forward line that now worked in unison rather than isolation. The attack had sly ideas and a serrated edge.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/copa-america-usa-costa-rica-match-report">Continue reading...</a> - Copa America 2016 - USA - Copa América - Costa Rica - US sports - Football - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 02:21:28 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/copa-america-usa-costa-rica-match-report - - Photograph: Mike Dinovo/USA Today Sports - - - Photograph: Mike Dinovo/USA Today Sports - - Tom Dart at Soldier Field, Chicago - 2016-06-08T02:21:28Z - - - England thrash Serbia in Euro 2017 qualifying for second time in a week - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/serbia-england-women-euro-2017-football-qualifying-match-report - • Serbia 0-7 England (J Scott 13, White 28, Davison 16 &amp; 41, Damjanovic 53og, Parris 69 &amp; 90)<br />• England guaranteed at least second place in Group 7<p>England Women scored seven goals without reply against Serbia for the second time in four days to ease to victory in their Uefa Euro 2017 qualifier.</p><p>The crushing win ensures Mark Sampson’s side cannot finish lower than second in Group 7. The best six of eight second-placed teams will qualify automatically for the finals, with the remaining two playing off for the final place alongside the hosts, Holland.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/serbia-england-women-euro-2017-football-qualifying-match-report">Continue reading...</a> - England women's football team - Women's football - Football - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:22:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/serbia-england-women-euro-2017-football-qualifying-match-report - - Photograph: Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Srdjan Stevanovic/Getty Images - - Press Association - 2016-06-07T22:22:03Z - - - Wales will not gamble with all three injuries from start against Slovakia - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/wales-slovakia-euro-2016-ledley-robson-kanu-allen-chris-coleman - • Joe Ledley, Hal Robson-Kanu and Joe Allen will not start together<br />• Chris Coleman likely to opt for Allen, who is closest to match fitness<p>Chris Coleman has admitted there is no chance of Joe Allen, Joe Ledley and Hal Robson-Kanu all starting in Wales’s opening Euro 2016 group game against Slovakia on Saturday. The three players have been carrying injuries and the Wales manager said that it would be “reckless” to name the trio in his first XI when they are in a race to prove their fitness.</p><p>It seems almost certain that Allen, who has had a knee problem, will line up against Slovakia, but Ledley and Robson-Kanu may have to start on the bench. Coleman admitted that Ledley, who has not played since breaking a leg on 7&nbsp;May, would be unable to complete 90 minutes.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/wales-slovakia-euro-2016-ledley-robson-kanu-allen-chris-coleman">Continue reading...</a> - Euro 2016 - Wales - Chris Coleman - European Championship - Football - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 21:30:32 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/wales-slovakia-euro-2016-ledley-robson-kanu-allen-chris-coleman - - Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images - - Stuart James in Dinard - 2016-06-07T21:30:32Z - - - How Kimbo Slice and MMA challenge our notions of celebrity and humanity - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/how-kimbo-slice-mma-challenge-celebrity-humanity - <p>The fighter’s sudden death and the Ariel Helwani uproar have showcased the complex and compelling nature of a sport that is becoming difficult to ignore</p><p>Summer 2009: A small group of reporters ascended a hidden flight of stairs in the Mandalay Bay Convention Center. While thousands of people milled around the UFC’s first Fan Expo, we were going up to a small room for a private audience with one of the most unlikely celebrities of our time.</p><p>Kimbo Slice was waiting for us.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/how-kimbo-slice-mma-challenge-celebrity-humanity">Continue reading...</a> - MMA - Sport - US sports - UFC - Ronda Rousey - Conor McGregor - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:38:58 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/07/how-kimbo-slice-mma-challenge-celebrity-humanity - - Photograph: Sipa Press/REX/Shutterstock - - - Photograph: Sipa Press/REX/Shutterstock - - Beau Dure - 2016-06-07T16:38:58Z - - - From Aubameyang to Vilhena: 20 of this summer’s biggest transfer targets - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/aubamayeng-vilhena-20-biggest-transfer-targets-summer - <p>The season may have only just finished but clubs all over Europe are already making plans for next season. Which players could be coming to your team?</p><p>Known as one of the fastest players on earth, last season <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2015/oct/26/pierre-emerick-aubameyang-borussia-dortmund-bundesliga">Aubameyang blossomed into one of the most feared strikers</a> as he racked up 30 goals in all competitions for his club. A blistering start to the season saw him pass 20 before the turn of the year, although a loss of form from a niggling toe injury meant he missed out on the Bundesliga’s top-scorer award to Robert Lewandowski. Both have been linked with moves to Real Madrid for months but Aubameyang was spotted with his father Pierre – a former Gabon defender who won 80 caps - at the Champions League final and appears to be Zinedine Zidane’s main transfer target.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/aubamayeng-vilhena-20-biggest-transfer-targets-summer">Continue reading...</a> - Transfer window - European club football - Sport - Football - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:52:11 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/07/aubamayeng-vilhena-20-biggest-transfer-targets-summer - - Composite: Getty Images/Composite by Jim Powell - - - Composite: Getty Images/Composite by Jim Powell - - Ed Aarons - 2016-06-07T10:52:11Z - - - Sunderland: Labour city putting the wind up the remain campaign - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/sunderland-how-labour-city-became-one-of-the-uks-most-eurosceptic - <p>In the second in a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/nye-bevan-labour-heartland-backing-brexit-south-wales">series of reports</a> on Labour and the EU referendum, Helen Pidd finds immigration is the hot issue</p><p>Taking a cigarette break outside the enormous Nissan factory in Sunderland last week, Martin Winyard was adamant he would be voting to leave the European Union.</p><p> Never mind that his bosses at the car plant had made it clear they would much rather see Britain stay in the EU. The 19-year-old apprentice wanted out. “We’re being taken over by foreigners,” he said. “People from Israel, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria – they all end up living here.”<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/sunderland-how-labour-city-became-one-of-the-uks-most-eurosceptic">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - UK news - European Union - Europe - Foreign policy - Politics - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:00:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/sunderland-how-labour-city-became-one-of-the-uks-most-eurosceptic - - Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian - - Helen Pidd North of England editor - 2016-06-08T13:00:03Z - - - Can we trust opinion polls on the EU referendum? | Andy White - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/trust-opinion-polls-eu-referendum-2015-general-election-pollsters - Every major agency failed to predict the outcome of the 2015 general election, so with current results contradicting each other, pollsters are feeling jittery<p>Among all the accusations of scaremongering, one group of people has good reason to be fearful as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/07/eu-referendum-live-farage-cameron-itv-debate-foreign-criminals" title="">EU referendum</a> day draws near: pollsters.</p><p>Last year’s general election was a pretty traumatic experience for the market research industry. Every major polling agency <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/dec/31/uk-2015-general-election-opinion-polling-systematic-bias" title="">failed to predict</a> the scale of the Conservative party’s lead over Labour.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/trust-opinion-polls-eu-referendum-2015-general-election-pollsters">Continue reading...</a> - Opinion polls - Politics - EU referendum - UK news - European Union - Foreign policy - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:07:53 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/trust-opinion-polls-eu-referendum-2015-general-election-pollsters - - Photograph: Andrew Yates/Reuters - - - Photograph: Andrew Yates/Reuters - - Andy White - 2016-06-08T11:07:53Z - - - EU referendum: star 'experts' line up to warn of Brexit risk in TV ad - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/eu-referendum-star-experts-line-up-to-warn-of-brexit-risk-in-tv-ad - <p>Britain Stronger in Europe advert which airs on Wednesday night features Stephen Hawking and Shami Chakrabarti</p><p>The Apprentice frontman Lord Sugar, the physicist Stephen Hawking and the human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti are among a chorus of experts warning about the risks of leaving the European Union in a <a href="https://youtu.be/69sNgfbU9Gs">television advert</a> being launched on Wednesday.</p><p>With just over a fortnight to go before the 23 June referendum, polls suggest the result is too close to call. Senior figures in the Stronger In campaign are concerned that relentless warnings from politicians, led by David Cameron, that a British exit from the EU would “<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/06/david-cameron-brexit-would-detonate-bomb-under-uk-economy">put a bomb under the economy</a>” have failed to sway voters.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/eu-referendum-star-experts-line-up-to-warn-of-brexit-risk-in-tv-ad">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - European Union - Europe - Foreign policy - Politics - UK news - Alan Sugar - Shami Chakrabarti - Stephen Hawking - Advertising - Media - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:04:08 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/08/eu-referendum-star-experts-line-up-to-warn-of-brexit-risk-in-tv-ad - - Photograph: REX - - - Photograph: REX - - Heather Stewart - 2016-06-08T11:04:08Z - - - What has the EU ever done for my … job? - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/what-has-the-eu-ever-done-for-my-job - <p>The EU has bolstered workers’ rights in areas including paid annual leave, health and safety protection, and working hours</p><p>Anyone in the UK who has enjoyed paid annual leave, health and safety protection at work and parental leave has the EU to thank, to some extent.</p><p>EU employment protection rules have meant UK workers enjoy limits on their working week and rights to time off work for urgent family reasons, whether they are part-time, full-time or agency workers.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/what-has-the-eu-ever-done-for-my-job">Continue reading...</a> - Employee benefits - EU referendum - Work & careers - Money - European Union - Europe - Foreign policy - Politics - UK news - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:00:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/what-has-the-eu-ever-done-for-my-job - - Composite: Guardian Design - - - Composite: Guardian Design - - Katie Allen - 2016-06-08T06:00:06Z - - - No deal, Noel Edmonds. Positive thinking can’t cure cancer | Carl Cederström - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/no-deal-noel-edmonds-positive-thinking-cancer - The TV presenter’s comments on negative energy tap into the damaging mantra of personal responsibility that says we are somehow to blame for our own illnesses<p>It is not easy to capture the absurdity and cruelty of Noel Edmonds’s remark on Tuesday, when he <a href="https://twitter.com/NoelEdmonds/status/740075927036649472" title="">seemed to suggest</a> that cancer can be caused by a bad attitude. But there’s a remarkable scene in the documentary Three Miles North of Molkom that comes close (you can watch it <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NlhIuJ-y8k" title="">here</a>). We follow a group of people attending a new age festival in Sweden. They entertain themselves with yoga, tantric sex, tree hugging and fire walking. They also learn a little-known martial art called yellow bamboo. The idea of this technique is simple. You use psychic energy to defend yourself.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/07/noel-edmonds-in-twitter-row-after-claims-that-electronic-box-tackles-cancer">Noel Edmonds in Twitter row after claims that electronic box 'tackles cancer'</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/no-deal-noel-edmonds-positive-thinking-cancer">Continue reading...</a> - Cancer - Noel Edmonds - Health & wellbeing - Culture - Health - Society - Life and style - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:00:15 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/no-deal-noel-edmonds-positive-thinking-cancer - - Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Dan Chung for the Guardian - - Carl Cederström - 2016-06-08T12:00:15Z - - - This is a brutal and inhumane way to treat staff – and Sports Direct is not alone | Felicity Lawrence - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/inhumane-sports-direct-mike-ashley-workforce - Power relations are so skewed that Mike Ashley and others like him can do almost anything to a casualised workforce<p>Sports Direct’s owner, Mike Ashley, chose a blustering man-of-the-people line when <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/07/sports-direct-agrees-back-pay-deal-with-hmrc-minimum-wage">defending his company’s working practices</a> before MPs on the business, innovation and skills select committee yesterday.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/07/sports-direct-agrees-back-pay-deal-with-hmrc-minimum-wage">Sports Direct's Mike Ashley admits paying staff less than minimum wage</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/inhumane-sports-direct-mike-ashley-workforce">Continue reading...</a> - Zero-hours contracts - Sports Direct International - Business - UK news - House of Commons - Politics - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:00:05 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/inhumane-sports-direct-mike-ashley-workforce - - Illustration: Andrzej Krauze - - - Illustration: Andrzej Krauze - - Felicity Lawrence - 2016-06-08T05:00:05Z - - - Why upbeat UK manufacturing figures have silenced Osborne - https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2016/jun/08/why-upbeat-uk-manufacturing-figures-have-silenced-osborne-increase-production-eu - <p>News that production grew at its fastest pace in four years does not fit the narrative of an economy on edge before the EU vote</p><p>In normal times, George Osborne would have been all over the good news from the manufacturing sector like a rash. The figures from UK industry were better – a lot better – than the City had been expecting and showed the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/british-industrial-production-grows-fastest-pace-four-years-manufacturing">fastest month-on-month increase in almost four years</a>.</p><p>So where was the instant statement from the chancellor praising the strength of the economy and the success of the government’s strategy? Sherlock Holmes would have had the answer. Osborne’s unusual reticence was a classic case of the dog that doesn’t bark.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2016/jun/08/why-upbeat-uk-manufacturing-figures-have-silenced-osborne-increase-production-eu">Continue reading...</a> - Manufacturing data - Office for National Statistics - Business - Economics - UK news - EU referendum - George Osborne - Foreign policy - Politics - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:42:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-blog/2016/jun/08/why-upbeat-uk-manufacturing-figures-have-silenced-osborne-increase-production-eu - - Composite: REX/Getty - - - Composite: REX/Getty - - Larry Elliott - 2016-06-08T11:42:06Z - - - The EU is an outsized behemoth beyond reform – the Green case for Brexit | Jenny Jones - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/eu-reform-green-brexit - This top-down dogmatic project promoting endless industrial development and growth doesn’t fit with the Green vision of a future lived on a more human scale<p>The Green party is massively in favour of staying in the EU, despite seeing its many flaws as an organisation. The majority view of Greens is that its benefits far outweigh the problems. Personally, I disagree and when I stood for internal selection for the European parliament some years ago, I did so while making my doubts very clear.</p><p>Why do I disagree with so many of my colleagues, on this matter? Well, let me start by noting that I agree with the Green party’s assessment that the EU is in need of wholesale reform; I just don’t believe that it is reformable. Even if it is reformable, many of the reforms that others have made or are pushing for make it worse, as has been <a href="https://www.the-newshub.com/uk-politics/why-i-will-spoil-my-ballot-in-the-eu-referendum" title="">argued</a>. So while I agree with the Green party’s quite negative analysis of the EU as it is, I just can’t support the idea that we must stay in to reform it.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/eu-reform-green-brexit">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - Green party - UK news - European Union - Foreign policy - Politics - Europe - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:00:10 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/eu-reform-green-brexit - - Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images - - Jenny Jones - 2016-06-08T09:00:10Z - - - Am I a hipster? You asked Google – here’s the answer | Joel Golby - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/am-i-a-hipster-google - Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queries<p>We all fear it, being a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2014/jun/22/end-of-the-hipster-flat-caps-and-beards">hipster</a>. A malignant diagnosis. Type the words into Google with that punch-sink feeling in your stomach, with your heart racing, sweat beading, with tattoos of anchors spreading up your forearms like a pox: “Am … I … a … hipster?” Once you are, there is no going back. Once hipsterdom embraces you or you embrace it, that’s you done: not one weekend of your life will ever not be spent “just popping in” to vintage stores, and you will never be able to resist <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/jan/31/how-to-cook-perfect-pulled-pork">pulled pork</a> on a pub menu again. Buy a USB record player and accept your fate. Buy a single cactus and display it in an artisan cactus holder. Mine is an enamel mug repurposed to hold a fistful of cactus soil and a single succulent. I paid £8 for this enamel mug. I paid £3 for the succulent itself. And for what? For what?</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/oct/03/hipster-social-phenomenon-commercial-success">The hipster is dead. Long live the hipster</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/am-i-a-hipster-google">Continue reading...</a> - Men's fashion - Tattoos - Men's facial hair - Fashion - Life and style - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:00:07 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/am-i-a-hipster-google - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - Joel Golby - 2016-06-08T07:00:07Z - - - Treating disabled people as asexual is exasperating and offensive | Penny Pepper - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/disabled-people-asexual-sex-lives-you-before-me-sexuality - <p>Our sex lives can be as rich and rewarding as anyone’s – so why, as the movie You Before Me suggests, is disabled sexuality always an ‘issue’ to mainstream media?</p><p>I knew early on that because I was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/oct/13/disability.socialcare" title="">disabled, sex was taboo</a>. This realisation started in my teenage years, when staff in the medical institutions I found myself in bullied their young charges to toughen up, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/feb/21/sex-and-disability-yes-the-two-can-and-should-go-together" title="">insisting we would never have sex</a>. Thank goodness for the older girls with their copies of Cosmo, who shyly explained ways to masturbate, if your hands were a bit weak and stiff – and what was nice to touch if your sensations weren’t so good in the “usual” place. Once I tried sex with someone I adored, I found I liked it.</p><p>Those with a spinal injury can and do have satisfying sexual experience – including my own partner</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/disabled-people-asexual-sex-lives-you-before-me-sexuality">Continue reading...</a> - Sex - Disability - Sexuality - The Theory of Everything - Relationships - Film - Culture - Life and style - Society - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:29:08 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/disabled-people-asexual-sex-lives-you-before-me-sexuality - - Photograph: Alex Bailey/PR - - - Photograph: Alex Bailey/PR - - Penny Pepper - 2016-06-08T07:29:08Z - - - Why can't South Sudan have truth and trials? | Sam Jones - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jun/08/south-sudan-truth-trials-salva-kiir-riek-machar-justice - <p>Salva Kiir and Riek Machar have warned the world against pursuing justice for the manifold war crimes committed under their watch. South Sudan deserves better</p><p>Salva Kiir and Riek Machar’s joint opinion piece published in the New York Times on Tuesday is headlined with a simple plea: “<a draggable="true" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/opinion/south-sudan-needs-truth-not-trials.html">South Sudan Needs Truth, Not Trials</a>”.</p><p>In it, the president and first vice-president of the world’s youngest country, apparently reconciled after a <a draggable="true" href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/28/south-sudan-civil-war-human-suffering-children-displaced-famine">two-year civil war</a> between their followers that has <a draggable="true" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-southsudan-unrest-un-idUSKCN0W503Q">killed at least 50,000 people</a> and been characterised by <a draggable="true" href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2015/oct/28/south-sudan-civil-war-inquiry-details-torture-and-forced-cannibalism">some of the most depraved human rights abuses this century</a>, call on the world to back a truth and reconciliation commission to help staunch South Sudan’s many wounds. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jun/08/south-sudan-truth-trials-salva-kiir-riek-machar-justice">Continue reading...</a> - Global development - South Sudan - Conflict and development - Africa - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:38:49 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2016/jun/08/south-sudan-truth-trials-salva-kiir-riek-machar-justice - - Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Albert Gonzalez Farran/AFP/Getty Images - - Sam Jones - 2016-06-08T12:38:49Z - - - Forcing your child to become a doctor could be your worst parenting decision | Ranjana Srivastava - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/forcing-your-child-to-become-a-doctor-could-be-the-worst-parenting-decision-you-make - <p>A career is medicine is stressful enough for the doctors who see it as a calling. For those who do it because their parents forced them, it could be critical<br></p><p>There I was, almost at the end of the night, having spoken to a few hundred hand-picked, talented high school students about my life as a doctor. Their youth was no barrier to their determination to be the best – I met budding astronauts, focused scientists, concerned environmentalists, and as usual, a horde of kids who dreamed of becoming doctors.</p><p> The students asked penetrating questions about everything from the ethics of million-dollar drugs to whether children compromised one’s career. These were teenagers! With each question, my admiration grew and I briefly dreamed that one day, in my household, there might be such questions to replace, “Have you seen the remote?”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/forcing-your-child-to-become-a-doctor-could-be-the-worst-parenting-decision-you-make">Continue reading...</a> - Medicine - Doctors - Education - Health - Society - Careers - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:09:24 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/forcing-your-child-to-become-a-doctor-could-be-the-worst-parenting-decision-you-make - - Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP - - - Photograph: Gerald Herbert/AP - - Ranjana Srivastava - 2016-06-08T05:09:24Z - - - Decades on from Ian Curtis’s suicide, Manchester is still failing troubled people | Dave Haslam - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/ian-curtis-suicide-manchester-joy-division-mental-health - Little has changed since the death of the Joy Division frontman. In fact, cuts to frontline mental health services are making a chaotic situation even worse<p>In the 1970s in Hulme, an inner-city district of Manchester, poverty and catastrophic housing conditions contributed to poor mental health. Records show that the six doctors serving Hulme prescribed 3m tranquillisers and antidepressants during 1977. The following year, in the shadow of Hulme’s tower blocks, Tony Wilson and several others took over a local venue to run weekly live music nights, which they named <a href="http://sabotagetimes.com/music/the-factory-records-story-part-iii" title="">the Factory</a>. Within a few months, the responsibility for booking acts was taken on by the promoter Alan Wise.</p><p>Wise was a loyal supporter of many local bands, especially Joy Division, whom he booked to perform. After the closure of the Factory, Wilson went on to concentrate on his record label. Wise also continued in the music industry, later managing Nico, who’d had cult status with the Velvet Underground. Then, in May 1980, the Factory family (for that’s what it was) suffered the loss of Joy Division’s frontman, Ian Curtis, who took his own life.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/ian-curtis-suicide-manchester-joy-division-mental-health">Continue reading...</a> - Mental health - Health - Society - UK news - NHS - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:17:26 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/ian-curtis-suicide-manchester-joy-division-mental-health - - Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian - - Dave Haslam - 2016-06-08T11:17:26Z - - - Brexit’s leaders want to smash the system – but they won’t pay the price | Rafael Behr - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/brexit-leaders-smash-system-eu-johnson-gove - Job losses, market mayhem, panic – no side-effect of leaving the EU is too severe for Boris Johnson and Michael Gove<p>Nothing is certain about the turn that events may take if Britain votes to leave the European Union, except that it would be interesting. That is no recommendation. To invert the apocryphal Chinese curse, given Europe’s bloody history, we should hope for boring times.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/06/david-cameron-refererendum-tory-boris-johnson">If David Cameron wins the referendum, he must be ruthless with his Tory foes | Matthew d’Ancona</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/brexit-leaders-smash-system-eu-johnson-gove">Continue reading...</a> - Conservatives - EU referendum - UK news - European Union - Foreign policy - Politics - Michael Gove - Boris Johnson - David Cameron - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:00:07 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/brexit-leaders-smash-system-eu-johnson-gove - - Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters - - - Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters - - Rafael Behr - 2016-06-08T06:00:07Z - - - Labour must speak for Europe, before it’s too late | Anne Perkins - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/labour-europe-nigel-farage-david-cameron-eu - <p>Farage and Cameron’s TV debate showed how similar their worldviews are. Who will defend the EU of workers’ rights, green laws and financial prudence?</p><p>The curious thing about <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/eu-referendum-our-panel-nigel-farage-david-cameron-tv-debate">last night’s TV debate</a> featuring Nigel Farage, David Cameron and a polite and well-informed studio audience was that it wasn’t really a debate at all.</p><p>That’s not so much because Cameron wouldn’t be in the room at the same time as Farage; it’s because the two of them agree on pretty well everything except the big one, Europe. And it is not so difficult to imagine Cameron, if he had been a disobliging backbencher rather than prime minister, swapping sides.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/labour-europe-nigel-farage-david-cameron-eu">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - UK news - World news - Europe - European Union - Foreign policy - Politics - Nigel Farage - David Cameron - Jeremy Corbyn - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:39:42 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/labour-europe-nigel-farage-david-cameron-eu - - Photograph: REX Shutterstock/ITV - - - Photograph: REX Shutterstock/ITV - - Anne Perkins - 2016-06-08T09:39:42Z - - - Brexit would fail mental health patients. They must vote on 23 June - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/brexit-would-fail-mental-health-patients-they-must-vote-on-23-june - <p>People with mental illness need the protection of the European court of human rights and the Human Rights Act – and the referendum is the way to secure it</p><p>‘A man without a vote is a man without protection,” said Lyndon Johnson, the 36th US president. This is true, though whether a man (or anybody) who does vote receives protection is up for debate. But it’s never a bad idea to put one’s fists across one’s face when a blow is coming.</p><p>A blow is possibly coming. Not, as David Cameron and his speechwriters would have us believe, in the shape of a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/09/brexit-cause-war-nonsense-david-cameron-history-eu-debate">third world war</a>. (Is there a law for alluding to the third world war to win an argument in the same vein as Godwin’s law when referencing Hitler? There should be.) But Brexit throws up the possibility of losing certain protections. And isn’t it always said, too, that the mark of a society is <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&amp;address=439x799302">the way it treats its most vulnerable citizens</a>?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/brexit-would-fail-mental-health-patients-they-must-vote-on-23-june">Continue reading...</a> - Mental health - NHS - EU referendum - Psychiatry - Politics - Society - European Union - European court of human rights - Health - Human rights - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:30:11 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/08/brexit-would-fail-mental-health-patients-they-must-vote-on-23-june - - Photograph: Alamy - - - Photograph: Alamy - - Hannah Jane Parkinson - 2016-06-08T09:30:11Z - - - Cumbria zoo pleads guilty over death of keeper mauled by tiger - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/cumbria-south-lakes-safari-zoo-pleads-guilty-death-keeper-mauled-tiger-sarah-mcclay - <p>South Lakes Safari Zoo admits health and safety breaches after Sumatran tiger killed Sarah McClay</p><p>A zoo has admitted health and safety breaches over the death of one of its keepers who was mauled by a Sumatran tiger.</p><p>Sarah McClay, 24, was pounced on in the keeper’s corridor of the tiger house at South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton-in-Furness, Cumbria, on 24 May 2013.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/cumbria-south-lakes-safari-zoo-pleads-guilty-death-keeper-mauled-tiger-sarah-mcclay">Continue reading...</a> - Zoos - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:38:40 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/cumbria-south-lakes-safari-zoo-pleads-guilty-death-keeper-mauled-tiger-sarah-mcclay - - Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA - - - Photograph: Danny Lawson/PA - - Press Association - 2016-06-08T11:38:40Z - - - Sir Martin Sorrell at sharp end of investor revolt at WPP AGM - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/sir-martin-sorrell-pay-deal-faces-investor-revolt-at-wpp-agm - <p> More than 30% refuse to back £70m pay deal for advertising company chief</p><p>More than a third of shareholders at the advertising giant WPP have refused to back the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/apr/29/sir-martin-sorrell-70m-in-2015-pay-deal-wpp">£70m pay package handed to its boss, Sir Martin Sorrell</a>.</p><p>Including abstentions, 34.2% of WPP investors failed to support the company’s pay report at the company’s annual general meeting in London, while 65.8% backed it.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/sir-martin-sorrell-pay-deal-faces-investor-revolt-at-wpp-agm">Continue reading...</a> - Executive pay and bonuses - WPP - WPP - Sir Martin Sorrell - Media - Business - Advertising - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:19:59 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/sir-martin-sorrell-pay-deal-faces-investor-revolt-at-wpp-agm - - Photograph: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Mark Runnacles/Getty Images - - Julia Kollewe and Sean Farrell - 2016-06-08T13:19:59Z - - - Suffolk murder suspect used alias after he was given asylum, police say - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/suffolk-murder-suspect-alias-asylum-police-peter-sylvia-stuart - <p>Ali Qazimaj, who used name Marco Costa, is being sought over the murder of Peter Stuart and disappearance of his wife, Sylvia</p><p>The chief suspect in the fatal stabbing of a 75-year-old man in Suffolk used an alias after being granted asylum in the UK, police have revealed.</p><p>Peter Stuart’s body was found in woodland close to his home in Weybread on Friday after he and his wife Sylvia were reported missing. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/suffolk-murder-suspect-alias-asylum-police-peter-sylvia-stuart">Continue reading...</a> - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:34:55 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/suffolk-murder-suspect-alias-asylum-police-peter-sylvia-stuart - - Photograph: Suffolk Police/PA - - - Photograph: Suffolk Police/PA - - Matthew Weaver - 2016-06-08T11:34:55Z - - - EMI collapse cost Guy Hands €200m, court hears - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/emi-collapse-guy-hands-terra-firma-court - <p>Financier says deal for ailing music group damaged his reputation, as he seeks £1.5bn from Citigroup over ill-fated takeover</p><p>The collapse of EMI personally cost the high-profile private equity boss Guy Hands €200m (£156m), a London court has heard.</p><p>Giving evidence <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/07/guy-hands-seeks-15bn-from-citi-after-ill-fated-emi-deal">in his claim for at least £1.5bn against Citigroup,</a> Hands agreed with assertions by the US bank’s lawyer that the takeover of the music company was a disaster for him and his private equity firm, Terra Firma. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/emi-collapse-guy-hands-terra-firma-court">Continue reading...</a> - UK news - Business - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:45:02 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/emi-collapse-guy-hands-terra-firma-court - - Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/REUTERS - - - Photograph: Brendan Mcdermid/REUTERS - - Jill Treanor - 2016-06-08T13:45:02Z - - - UK Border Force detains three people trying to cross Channel in boat - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/uk-border-force-detains-three-people-trying-cross-channel-in-boat - <p>Ferry spotted the three, who are believed to be Iranian, in small boat in strait of Dover and agents took them to immigration officials</p><p>Border Force officers have detained three people as they tried to cross the Channel in a small boat, in the latest example of suspected migrants trying to make their way to Britain by sea. </p><p>A Border Force cutter was dispatched to intercept the trio, who are believed to be Iranian nationals, after they were spotted by a passing ferry in the strait of Dover early on Tuesday morning. Agents took them to Dover for processing by immigration officials. All three were wearing lifejackets. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/uk-border-force-detains-three-people-trying-cross-channel-in-boat">Continue reading...</a> - Immigration and asylum - UK news - Migration - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:44:16 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/uk-border-force-detains-three-people-trying-cross-channel-in-boat - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - Damien Gayle - 2016-06-08T07:44:16Z - - - Melanie Hall murder investigators recover DNA evidence - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/melanie-hall-investigators-recover-dna-evidence - <p>Police say discovery will significantly help inquiry into murder of woman who disappeared 20 years ago </p><p>Police investigating the murder of clerical worker Melanie Hall who disappeared 20 years ago have recovered DNA evidence from where her remains were found.</p><p>Hall, who worked at the Royal United hospital in Bath, Somerset, vanished after a night out at Cadillacs nightclub in the city on 9 June 1996. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/melanie-hall-investigators-recover-dna-evidence">Continue reading...</a> - UK news - Crime - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:52:13 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/melanie-hall-investigators-recover-dna-evidence - - Photograph: Collect/PA - - - Photograph: Collect/PA - - Press Association - 2016-06-08T06:52:13Z - - - Top beauty brands accused of refusing MPs' call for hearing on microplastics - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/08/top-beauty-brands-accused-of-refusing-mps-call-for-hearing-on-microplastics - <p>Companies should come clean on the harm plastic microbeads in their products is causing to marine life, says environment committee chair</p><p>The UK’s biggest beauty brands have been accused by an influential MP of showing contempt for their customers by refusing to appear in parliament to answer questions on the impact that their products are having on the oceans.</p><p>MPs on the environmental audit committee will hear on Wednesday from the UK and European cosmetics trade bodies on the harm caused by plastic ‘microbeads’ in cosmetics, which are mistaken for food by marine life. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/08/top-beauty-brands-accused-of-refusing-mps-call-for-hearing-on-microplastics">Continue reading...</a> - Plastics - Environment - Oceans - Marine life - Wildlife - Beauty - Fashion - Life and style - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:07:53 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/08/top-beauty-brands-accused-of-refusing-mps-call-for-hearing-on-microplastics - - Photograph: Yui Mok/PA - - - Photograph: Yui Mok/PA - - Adam Vaughan - 2016-06-08T12:07:53Z - - - Ben Butler murder trial: jury shown Peppa Pig cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/ben-butler-trial-jury-shown-peppa-pig-cartoon - <p>Defence suggests Ellie Butler may have cracked her skull as a result of falling while watching a Peppa Pig DVD in her bedroom</p><p>Jurors have been warned not to be swayed by “fanciful” suggestions after TV character Peppa Pig was called in the defence of the man accused of murdering six-year-old Ellie Butler.</p><p>Some of the 12 panel members smiled as a four-minute excerpt of the popular children’s cartoon was shown in the Old Bailey trial of Ben Butler.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/ben-butler-trial-jury-shown-peppa-pig-cartoon">Continue reading...</a> - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:33:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/ben-butler-trial-jury-shown-peppa-pig-cartoon - - Photograph: David Crump/REX/Shutterstock - - - Photograph: David Crump/REX/Shutterstock - - Press Association - 2016-06-08T13:33:03Z - - - British industrial production grows at fastest pace in four years - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/british-industrial-production-grows-fastest-pace-four-years-manufacturing - <p>Manufacturing output grew 2.3% in April according to official figures that contrast with other data pointing to slowdown</p><p>British industrial production grew at the fastest pace in almost four years in April, boosted by the pharmaceuticals and energy sectors.</p><p>The official figures, which took the City by surprise and sent the pound higher, are in contrast with other economic data that has pointed to a slowdown in the economy before the EU referendum on 23 June.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/british-industrial-production-grows-fastest-pace-four-years-manufacturing">Continue reading...</a> - Manufacturing sector - Manufacturing data - Business - Economics - Economic growth (GDP) - UK news - Energy industry - Pharmaceuticals industry - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:57:14 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/08/british-industrial-production-grows-fastest-pace-four-years-manufacturing - - Photograph: Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters - - - Photograph: Srdjan Zivulovic/Reuters - - Julia Kollewe - 2016-06-08T09:57:14Z - - - Judo star injured in motorcycle accident wakes from coma - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/judo-star-stephanie-inglis-injured-motorcycle-accident-wakes-from-coma - <p>Commonwealth medallist Stephanie Inglis who came off bike in Vietnam last month reached out for father’s hand</p><p>A British judo star <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/may/13/judo-star-stephanie-inglis-in-coma-motorbike-crash">critically injured in a motorbike accident</a> in Vietnam has woken from her coma and reached for her father’s hand.<br></p><p>Commonwealth medallist Stephanie Inglis, 27, from Inverness, has been in hospital since the crash last month but has now responded to her family for the first time.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/judo-star-stephanie-inglis-injured-motorcycle-accident-wakes-from-coma">Continue reading...</a> - UK news - Scotland - Commonwealth Games - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:24:16 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/judo-star-stephanie-inglis-injured-motorcycle-accident-wakes-from-coma - - Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA - - - Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA - - Press Association - 2016-06-08T08:24:16Z - - - Northern Ireland police federation sets up mental health fund - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/northern-ireland-police-federation-mental-health-fund - <p>Police ‘union’ becomes first in UK to put aside money for officers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder</p><p>The Police Federation of Northern Ireland has become the first policing “union” in the UK to create a fighting fund to help officers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).</p><p>The federation has set aside £1m for rank and file officers who are suffering from PTSD and other psychological illnesses. It includes help for those who are being targeted for terrorist attack.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/northern-ireland-police-federation-mental-health-fund">Continue reading...</a> - Northern Ireland - Police - Police Federation - UK news - Mental health - Health - Society - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:42:28 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/08/northern-ireland-police-federation-mental-health-fund - - Photograph: George Sweeney/REX Shutterstock - - - Photograph: George Sweeney/REX Shutterstock - - Henry McDonald Ireland correspondent - 2016-06-08T10:42:28Z - - - Diesel prices may rise as government considers reversing tax cuts - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/price-of-diesel-fuel-could-rise-government-considers-reversing-tax-cuts - <p>Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin says Gordon Brown made a mistake when he cut duty on low-sulphur diesel in 2001<br></p><p>Diesel car owners could face steeper prices at petrol pumps after the government said it was considering reversing tax cuts brought in by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/gordon-brown">Gordon Brown</a>.</p><p>Transport secretary Patrick McLoughlin said Brown had made a mistake as Labour chancellor when he <a draggable="true" href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/oct/01/uk-government-wrong-to-subsidise-diesel-says-former-minister">cut the duty on low-sulphur diesel by 3p in his 2001 budget</a>. Brown announced the measure ahead of that year’s general election to help meet climate change targets around carbon.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/price-of-diesel-fuel-could-rise-government-considers-reversing-tax-cuts">Continue reading...</a> - Fuel duty - Politics - Petrol prices - Motoring - Money - Tax - Tax and spending - UK news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:55:54 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/price-of-diesel-fuel-could-rise-government-considers-reversing-tax-cuts - - Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images - - Anushka Asthana Political editor - 2016-06-07T18:55:54Z - - - Refugees seeking asylum on religious grounds quizzed on 'Bible trivia' - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/refugees-asylum-religious-grounds-quizzed-on-bible-trivia - <p>‘When is Pentecost?’ among questions put to people fleeing persecution after converting to Christianity, MPs say</p><p>Refugees applying for asylum in the UK on the grounds of conversion to Christianity are being interrogated on “Bible trivia” by immigration officials, according to MPs.</p><p>Questions such as, “What are the 10 commandments?”, “When is Pentecost?” and “How many books are there in the Bible?”, are being put to asylum seekers in an attempt to test claims of religious conversion, says a report published by the all-party parliamentary group for international freedom of religion or belief. Refugees face the rejection of their applications if they do not answer correctly.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/refugees-asylum-religious-grounds-quizzed-on-bible-trivia">Continue reading...</a> - Immigration and asylum - Refugees - UK news - Religion - Christianity - Islam - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:03:53 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/refugees-asylum-religious-grounds-quizzed-on-bible-trivia - - Photograph: David Goldman/AP - - - Photograph: David Goldman/AP - - Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent - 2016-06-07T18:03:53Z - - - Teach children about sexism to stop 'ticking timebomb' of sexual bullying in schools - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/teach-children-about-sexism-to-stop-ticking-timebomb-of-sexual-bullying-in-schools - <p>Experts tell women and equalities select committee that schools need to take action as MPs hear evidence from girls suffering sexual harassment</p><p> Children as young as four should be taught in school about sexism and harassment to tackle the “ticking timebomb” of sexual bullying in classrooms, a Commons select committee has been told.</p><p> Experts working within schools and with young girls who suffer sexual violence and abuse inside and outside the classroom, were unanimous on Tuesday in calling for the mandatory teaching of issues around sexism.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/teach-children-about-sexism-to-stop-ticking-timebomb-of-sexual-bullying-in-schools">Continue reading...</a> - UK news - Schools - Bullying - Pupil behaviour - Society - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:24:41 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/teach-children-about-sexism-to-stop-ticking-timebomb-of-sexual-bullying-in-schools - - Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Jon Super for the Guardian - - Sandra Laville - 2016-06-07T18:24:41Z - - - Who is Mered Medhanie, 'the General'? – video explainer - https://www.theguardian.com/law/video/2016/jun/08/mered-medhanie-general-people-smuggling-video-explainer - <p>Mered Medhanie, AKA ‘The General’, is believed to be the kingpin of a criminal organisation of people smugglers responsible for smuggling thousands of migrants and refugees from the Middle East and Africa to Europe. He has been arrested in Sudan after an investigation set up by Italian authorities assisted by the UK’s National Crime Agency and GCHQ</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/video/2016/jun/08/mered-medhanie-general-people-smuggling-video-explainer">Continue reading...</a> - Human trafficking - Refugees - Libya - World news - UK news - Sudan - Italy - GCHQ - Europe - Eritrea - Syria - Africa - Migration - UK security and counter-terrorism - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:39:44 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/law/video/2016/jun/08/mered-medhanie-general-people-smuggling-video-explainer - - Photograph: Polizia di Stato/PA - - - Photograph: Polizia di Stato/PA - - Adam Sich - 2016-06-08T13:39:44Z - - - Being suspicious of Muslims won't stop terrorism – video - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jun/08/being-suspicious-of-muslims-wont-stop-terrorism-video - <p>We are being turned into a nation of vigilante terrorist hunters, says writer Reni Eddo-Lodge. From the government’s prevent strategy to representations of Islam in the media, the message is that Muslims are guilty until proven innocent. We should stop doing the terrorists’ job for them, she argues, by profiling ‘Muslim-looking-people</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jun/08/being-suspicious-of-muslims-wont-stop-terrorism-video">Continue reading...</a> - Islam - UK security and counter-terrorism - Counter-terrorism policy - Religion - Politics - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:00:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jun/08/being-suspicious-of-muslims-wont-stop-terrorism-video - - Photograph: THE SUN - - - Photograph: THE SUN - - Reni Eddo-Lodge, Leah Green and Bruno Rinvolucri - 2016-06-08T06:00:06Z - - - Euro 2016 venues guide: all you need to know – video - https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2016/jun/07/euro-2016-venues-guide-all-you-need-to-know-video - <p>Euro 2016 returns to France this summer with 10 venues spread across the country. A total of €1.6bn has been spent building four new stadiums and upgrading five others, with only Stade de France, the site of the opening and closing matches, remaining unchanged</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2016/jun/01/euro-2016-the-complete-guide-to-every-squad-and-every-player-in-france">Euro 2016 interactive: our comprehensive team-by-team guide</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2016/jun/07/euro-2016-venues-guide-all-you-need-to-know-video">Continue reading...</a> - Football - Euro 2016 - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:24:42 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2016/jun/07/euro-2016-venues-guide-all-you-need-to-know-video - - Photograph: Guardian - - - Photograph: Guardian - - Anthony Richardson, Chris Scott, Rachel Walker and Ryan Baxter - 2016-06-07T12:24:42Z - - - Ramadan: Muslims to fast during long summer days – video - https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/jun/07/ramadan-muslims-to-fast-during-long-summer-days-video - <p>This year, Ramadan falls at the height of summer in the northern hemisphere for the first time in 33 years. Muslims who join the holy fast will refrain from eating or drinking water for up to 19 hours a day. The timing of Ramadan changes each year, and depends on the lunar cycle. In 2016 it ends on 5 July<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/jun/07/ramadan-muslims-to-fast-during-long-summer-days-video">Continue reading...</a> - Ramadan - Islam - Religion - Sadiq Khan - UK news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:02:33 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/jun/07/ramadan-muslims-to-fast-during-long-summer-days-video - - Photograph: Robin Utrecht/EPA - - - Photograph: Robin Utrecht/EPA - - Fred McConnell - 2016-06-07T11:02:33Z - - - The truth about Tehran, by artist Nazgol Ansarinia: 'It's building a fantasy future' – video - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/video/2016/jun/07/tehran-iran-artist-nazgol-ansarinia-murals-bureau-beautification - <p>The Tehran municipality’s ‘bureau of beautification’ has painted hundreds of murals across the city, showing blue skies and idealised countryside images – even as the capital bulldozes its traditional buildings. Award-winning artist Nazgol Ansarinia takes us into modern Tehran to show how her work responds to this irony, and to the layers of memory at risk</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/video/2016/jun/07/tehran-iran-artist-nazgol-ansarinia-murals-bureau-beautification">Continue reading...</a> - Cities - Culture - Sculpture - Painting - Art - Art and design - Iran - Middle East and North Africa - World news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 06:30:01 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/video/2016/jun/07/tehran-iran-artist-nazgol-ansarinia-murals-bureau-beautification - - Photograph: Guardian - - - Photograph: Guardian - - Bahman Kiarostami, Chris Michael, Noah Payne-Frank, Dan Susman and Jess Gormley - 2016-06-07T06:30:01Z - - - Could a robot do your job? – video explainer - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2016/jun/06/could-a-robot-do-your-job-video-explainer - <p>Robots and automated systems are getting faster, better and cheaper by the day. A study of US jobs has found that 47% are threatened by automation in the next 20 years. So what can robots already do? What jobs are safe? And what will we do all day if we don’t have any work to do?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2016/jun/06/could-a-robot-do-your-job-video-explainer">Continue reading...</a> - Robots - Technology - Business - Economics - World news - UK news - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 08:01:31 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2016/jun/06/could-a-robot-do-your-job-video-explainer - - Photograph: Getty Images - - - Photograph: Getty Images - - Phil Maynard - 2016-06-06T08:01:31Z - - - Rio 2016: behind the scenes at the Olympic Stadium – video - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2016/jun/06/rio-de-janeiro-2016-olympics-stadium-nilton-santos-video - <p>US discus thrower and Olympic gold medalist Stephanie Brown Trafton is among the first athletes to take a look at and compete in the Nílton Santos Olympic Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro. Popularly known as ‘Engenhão’, the venue will host the athletics events and one of the stages for the football tournament in August. Trafton takes the Guardian US backstage during a test event for the 2016 Games</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2016/jun/06/rio-de-janeiro-2016-olympics-stadium-nilton-santos-video">Continue reading...</a> - Olympic Games 2016 - Olympics - Sport - Rio de Janeiro - US sports - Olympic Games - Athletics - Brazil - World news - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:00:15 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2016/jun/06/rio-de-janeiro-2016-olympics-stadium-nilton-santos-video - - Photograph: Guardian - - - Photograph: Guardian - - Ana Athayde - 2016-06-06T11:00:15Z - - - Plastic fiver: £5 note switched to polymer from paper – video - https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2016/jun/02/plastic-fiver-5-pound-note-switched-to-polymer-from-paper-video - <p>The Bank of England’s first plastic banknote, the new <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk/winston-churchill">Winston Churchill</a> fiver, is unveiled on Thursday. It forms part of the Bank’s switch to polymer banknotes, which will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/dec/18/bank-england-plastic-pound-notes-winston-churchill-fiver">end 320 years of paper money</a>. Manufactured from a transparent plastic film and coated with an ink layer,<a href="http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/polymer/Pages/why_polymer.aspx"> polymer banknotes</a> are seen as cleaner, more durable and more secure than paper</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jun/02/winston-churchill-fiver-five-pound-note-ends-paper-money-trail">Winston Churchill plastic £5 note ends trail of paper money</a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2016/jun/02/plastic-fiver-5-pound-note-switched-to-polymer-from-paper-video">Continue reading...</a> - Currencies - Sterling - Bank of England - Business - UK news - Winston Churchill - Money - Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:18:46 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2016/jun/02/plastic-fiver-5-pound-note-switched-to-polymer-from-paper-video - - Photograph: Bank of England - - - Photograph: Bank of England - - Guardian Staff - 2016-06-02T11:18:46Z - - - Political polls are bad for democracy: here's why – video - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jun/01/political-polls-bad-for-democracy-heres-why-video - <p>Most of us have never taken part in a poll about politics, says Guardian US data editor Mona Chalabi, but we will happily believe the results and even let them affect how we decide to vote. Instead, she argues, the media should be helping people come to a decision by reporting on the issues that matter</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jun/01/political-polls-bad-for-democracy-heres-why-video">Continue reading...</a> - Opinion polls - Politics - Data journalism - US elections 2016 - US news - World news - Media - Donald Trump - Hillary Clinton - Bernie Sanders - EU referendum - Wed, 01 Jun 2016 06:00:15 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/video/2016/jun/01/political-polls-bad-for-democracy-heres-why-video - - Photograph: Guardian - - - Photograph: Guardian - - Mona Chalabi, Leah Green, Bruno Rinvolucri, Laurence Mathieu-Léger and Chris Whitworth - 2016-06-01T06:00:15Z - - - Losing our accents: are Britons all starting to sound the same? – video - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/jun/01/north-v-south-great-british-accent-dialect-war-video - <p>Do you call a small sliver of wood stuck under the skin a spill, or a spelk, or do you, like an increasing number of people, call it a splinter? In the 1950s people all over Britain had local names for lots things. And they pronounced them in all sorts of ways. <a href="http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/do-you-say-splinter-spool-spile-or-spell-english-dialects-app-tries-to-guess-your-regional-accent">In 2016, however, things have changed dramatically</a> and everyone is starting to sound alike – and southern accents are taking over<br></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2016/may/30/regional-dialects-dying-out-app-cambridge-university">Regional dialects are dying out – it’s enough to get you blarting </a></li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/jun/01/north-v-south-great-british-accent-dialect-war-video">Continue reading...</a> - UK news - Culture - Language - University of Cambridge - Education - North-south divide - Society - Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:36:01 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/jun/01/north-v-south-great-british-accent-dialect-war-video - - Photograph: Underwood Archives/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Underwood Archives/Getty Images - - Guardian Staff - 2016-06-01T10:36:01Z - - - Fear, money and racism: what’s our problem with diversity on screen? – video - https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/may/26/fear-money-and-racism-whats-our-problem-with-diversity-on-screen-video - <p>The lack of diversity in film and television dominated the debate during awards season. But away from the Oscars, the UK picture is also bleak: the film Bafta acting nominees have been almost exclusively white for two years running. Leah Green looks beyond the headlines to see why diversity remains such a problem in the UK film and TV industries</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/may/26/fear-money-and-racism-whats-our-problem-with-diversity-on-screen-video">Continue reading...</a> - Film industry - Race issues - Film - Television - Television & radio - Television industry - Culture - Media - World news - Thu, 26 May 2016 06:56:04 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2016/may/26/fear-money-and-racism-whats-our-problem-with-diversity-on-screen-video - - Photograph: Guardian - - - Photograph: Guardian - - Leah Green, Tom Silverstone, Jess Gormley, Noah Payne-Frank and Benjamin Gerstein - 2016-05-26T06:56:04Z - - - EU referendum: Brexit for non-Brits – video explainer - https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2016/may/31/eu-referendum-brexit-for-non-brits-video-explainer - <p>On 23 June Britain will decide by a referendum whether it will remain in the European Union or if it will leave – the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/may/31/what-happens-next-if-britain-votes-to-leave-the-eu">so-called Brexit option</a>. The opinion polls show the race is a close one as the national debate gets louder and louder. But what does it all mean?</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/31/what-has-the-eu-ever-done-for-my-town">What has the EU ever done for my … town?</a></p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/31/stephen-hawking-donald-trump-popularity-inexplicable-and-brexit-spells-disaster">Brexit spells disaster, says professor Stephen Hawking</a></p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/may/31/eu-referendum-live-leave-johnson-gove-remain-business-poll">EU referendum – live updates from the campaigns</a></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2016/may/31/eu-referendum-brexit-for-non-brits-video-explainer">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - European Union - UK news - Politics - Foreign policy - Europe - World news - Tue, 31 May 2016 08:02:39 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2016/may/31/eu-referendum-brexit-for-non-brits-video-explainer - - Composite: Agency - - - Composite: Agency - - Jon Henley, Phil Maynard, James Armstrong, Pascal Wyse and Mustafa Khalili - 2016-05-31T08:02:39Z - - - Alleged people smuggling kingpin is extradited to Italy - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/jun/08/alleged-people-smuggling-kingpin-is-extradited-to-italy - <p>Eritrean Medhanie Yehdego Mered caught in Sudan, but experts say arrest is unlikely to have huge impact in stopping smuggling</p><p>An Eritrean smuggler who claimed to have played a role in sending at least 13,000 people to Europe has been arrested after a year-long manhunt, in what has been presented as the most significant breakthrough yet in Europe’s fight against Africa-based people smugglers.</p><p>Medhanie Yehdego Mered, 35, was extradited to Italy at midnight on Wednesday after being arrested in Khartoum by Sudanese officials – a year after first being named by Italian prosecutors as a key player in a north African smuggling ring.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/jun/08/alleged-people-smuggling-kingpin-is-extradited-to-italy">Continue reading...</a> - Human trafficking - Migration - Europe - Africa - Sudan - Italy - Middle East and North Africa - World news - Global development - Migration and development - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:52:32 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2016/jun/08/alleged-people-smuggling-kingpin-is-extradited-to-italy - - Photograph: Giovanni Isolino/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Giovanni Isolino/AFP/Getty Images - - Lorenzo Tondo in Palermo and Patrick Kingsley - 2016-06-08T13:52:32Z - - - British climber Aiden Webb missing in Vietnam jungle after calling for help - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/british-climber-aiden-webb-missing-vietnam-jungle-calling-help - <p> Family of 22-year-old Briton says Webb is lost, injured, cold and wet in the jungle</p><p>The family of a 22-year-old British man who has been missing in the Vietnamese jungle for five days have appealed for travellers in the area to help with the search.</p><p>Aiden Webb, from Norwich, was solo climbing Fansipan<strong>,</strong> the highest mountain in the country at more than 10,000 ft, when he fell, injured himself and lost his way. He remained in contact with his girlfriend, who was in a nearby town, until Saturday morning when his phone went dead.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/british-climber-aiden-webb-missing-vietnam-jungle-calling-help">Continue reading...</a> - Vietnam - UK news - Asia Pacific - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:29:14 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/british-climber-aiden-webb-missing-vietnam-jungle-calling-help - - Photograph: facebook - - - Photograph: facebook - - Oliver Holmes in Bangkok - 2016-06-08T06:29:14Z - - - Four students reported dead after police fire on protest in Papua New Guinea - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/four-students-reported-dead-after-police-fire-on-protest-in-papua-new-guinea - <p>Despite reports of deaths after clashes at a university in Port Moresby, embattled prime minister Peter O’Neill says students were only injured </p><p>Police in Papua New Guinea have reportedly killed four people after “firing directly” into a crowd of student protesters in its capital, Port Moresby, as long-running anti-corruption protests descended into violence.</p><p>Opposition MPs told parliament that four students had been killed and seven injured in the incident on Wednesday, but the government insisted the demonstrators were only injured and that police fired only warning shots.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/four-students-reported-dead-after-police-fire-on-protest-in-papua-new-guinea">Continue reading...</a> - Papua New Guinea - Asia Pacific - Protest - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:32:38 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/four-students-reported-dead-after-police-fire-on-protest-in-papua-new-guinea - - Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters - - - Photograph: Reuters Tv/Reuters - - Ben Doherty - 2016-06-08T07:32:38Z - - - Russian court frees radical performance artist Petr Pavlensky - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/russian-court-frees-radical-performance-artist-petr-pavlensky - <p>Judge hands down unexpectedly lenient sentence to performer who set fire to Moscow’s security service HQ</p><p>A Moscow court has freed Russia’s most notorious performance artist, who was jailed for setting fire to the headquarters of Russia’s security services last year. </p><p>The court <a href="https://zona.media/online/2016/08/06/pavlensky-prigovor">fined</a> Petr Pavlensky just 500,000 roubles (£5,319) for damaging the cultural site and ordered him to pay a further 481,000 roubles to compensate for the cost of repairs.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/russian-court-frees-radical-performance-artist-petr-pavlensky">Continue reading...</a> - Russia - Europe - World news - Performance art - Culture - Art and design - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:33:16 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/russian-court-frees-radical-performance-artist-petr-pavlensky - - Photograph: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS - - - Photograph: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS - - Peter Hobson for The Moscow Times, part of the New East network - 2016-06-08T11:33:16Z - - - Ex-Pablo Escobar enforcer who killed 300 seeks new career as YouTube star - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/pablo-escobar-popeye-enforcer-youtube-channel - <p>John Jairo Velásquez, who ordered the deaths of thousands in Colombia, has upset victims’ relatives, though he says his channel aims to discourage crime</p><p>During his time as Pablo Escobar’s most feared enforcer, the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/27/pablo-escobar-hitman-released-prison-popeye">man known as Popeye</a> killed around 300 people, ordered the murder of thousands more, and masterminded some 200 car bombs during the Medellín cartel’s war against its rivals and the Colombian state.</p><p>Now, after more than two decades in prison, John Jairo Velásquez is attempting to recast himself as a YouTube star. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/pablo-escobar-popeye-enforcer-youtube-channel">Continue reading...</a> - Colombia - YouTube - Americas - Technology - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:00:10 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/pablo-escobar-popeye-enforcer-youtube-channel - - Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Raul Arboleda/AFP/Getty Images - - Sibylla Brodzinsky in Bogotá - 2016-06-08T09:00:10Z - - - Detroit man who confessed to quadruple homicide at age 14 to be freed - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/davontae-sanford-detroit-quadruple-homicide-overturned - <p>Hitman had claimed killings only weeks after sentencing of Davontae Sanford in 2007, as evidence shows former police officer’s testimony was inconsistent</p><p>A Detroit man who pleaded guilty to a quadruple homicide at 14 is expected to walk free from prison on Wednesday, years after a professional hitman claimed responsibility for the killings.</p><p>Davontae Sanford, now 23, has been incarcerated since 2007 for the fatal shootings of four people at a Detroit drug den. For seven years, lawyers and advocates have been <a href="https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/14/two-confessions#.6wv6Epwl5">claiming his innocence</a>, pointing to not just the subsequent confession by another man but also crucial flaws made by Sanford’s original lawyer, and questionable evidence that pointed to the teen’s vulnerability. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/davontae-sanford-detroit-quadruple-homicide-overturned">Continue reading...</a> - Detroit - US crime - US news - US justice system - Michigan - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:52:55 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/davontae-sanford-detroit-quadruple-homicide-overturned - - Photograph: Carlos Osorio/AP - - - Photograph: Carlos Osorio/AP - - Ryan Felton - 2016-06-08T12:52:55Z - - - 10 dead in airstrikes on rebel-held parts of Aleppo, say activists - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/casualties-reported-airstrikes-rebel-held-districts-aleppo - <p>Children said to be among those killed, with many others injured in attacks that reportedly included strike near hospital</p><p>Airstrikes on rebel-held districts of Syria’s contested city of Aleppo, including one that struck near a hospital, have killed at least 10 people and left many others wounded, Syrian opposition activists say.</p><p>The northern city, Syria’s largest, has seen an increase in violence in the last two days, with government forces pounding rebel-held eastern parts with airstrikes while rebels shell western, government-held areas.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/casualties-reported-airstrikes-rebel-held-districts-aleppo">Continue reading...</a> - Syria - Middle East and North Africa - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:27:34 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/casualties-reported-airstrikes-rebel-held-districts-aleppo - - Photograph: Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters - - - Photograph: Abdalrhman Ismail/Reuters - - Associated Press in Beirut - 2016-06-08T11:27:34Z - - - Lancôme shuts Hong Kong stores after cancelled gig sparks protests - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/lancome-shuts-hong-kong-stores-cancelled-denise-ho-gig-protests - <p>Brand has been accused of bowing to China after it scrapped concert featuring pro-democracy cantopop singer Denise Ho</p><p>Lancôme, the face-cream company owned by the French cosmetics giant L’Oréal, shut its main stores in Hong Kong on Wednesday as protesters accused it of bowing to China by cancelling a promotional concert featuring a pro-democracy singer.</p><p>Carrying yellow umbrellas, a symbol of Hong Kong’s democracy movement, and colourful banners in Chinese, English and French, dozens of protesters packed tightly inside Times Square’s plush Lane Crawford store in Causeway Bay and shouted: “L’Oreal! No self-censorship.” </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/lancome-shuts-hong-kong-stores-cancelled-denise-ho-gig-protests">Continue reading...</a> - Hong Kong - Asia Pacific - World news - China - L'Oréal - Business - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:57:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/lancome-shuts-hong-kong-stores-cancelled-denise-ho-gig-protests - - Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP - - - Photograph: Vincent Yu/AP - - Staff and agencies - 2016-06-08T08:57:03Z - - - UN panel calls for Eritrea to be referred to Hague court - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/un-commission-eritrea-international-criminal-court-hague - <p>Commission says Eritrea guilty of widespread, systematic campaign of abuses amounting to crimes against humanity</p><p>Eritrea’s widespread human rights abuses should be referred to the international criminal court as crimes against humanity, a United Nations commission of inquiry has said.</p><pThe commission said the Eritrean government had made no progress on the most critical rights violations that it had first documented in an inquiry a year ago.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/un-commission-eritrea-international-criminal-court-hague">Continue reading...</a> - Eritrea - Africa - World news - International criminal court - International criminal justice - Human rights - Law - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:09:11 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/un-commission-eritrea-international-criminal-court-hague - - Photograph: Peter Martell/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Peter Martell/AFP/Getty Images - - Associated Press in Geneva - 2016-06-08T13:09:11Z - - - World's first passenger drone cleared for testing in Nevada - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/worlds-first-passenger-drone-testing-ehang-nevada - <p>China’s Ehang will begin the testing process this year to prove the drone’s airworthiness </p><p>The world’s first passenger drone capable of autonomously carrying a person in the air for 23 minutes has been given clearance for testing in Nevada.<br tabindex="-1"></p><p>Chinese firm Ehang, which unveiled the electric Ehang 184 passenger drone <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/07/first-passenger-drone-makes-world-debut">at CES in Las Vegas</a> in January, <a href="http://www.ehang.com/news/146.html">has partnered</a> with the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (Goed) to put the drone through testing and regulatory approval.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/worlds-first-passenger-drone-testing-ehang-nevada">Continue reading...</a> - Drones (non-military) - Robots - Technology - Nevada - US news - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:17:49 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/worlds-first-passenger-drone-testing-ehang-nevada - - Photograph: John Locher/AP - - - Photograph: John Locher/AP - - Samuel Gibbs - 2016-06-08T09:17:49Z - - - Astronaut who flew five shuttle missions charged with murder - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/astronaut-who-flew-five-shuttle-missions-on-charge-over-car-crash - <p>‘Alcohol a factor’ as decorated pilot and commander James Halsell Jr is arrested after his car rear-ended another on Alabama highway, killing two young girls</p><p>Astronaut James Halsell Jr seemed the very definition of someone with the right stuff – an Air Force Academy graduate and decorated test pilot, he flew on five space shuttle missions, either as commander or pilot. Nasa even turned to him for leadership as it was picking up the pieces after the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/01/columbia-space-shuttle-anniversary-nasa">Columbia disaster</a> in 2003.</p><p>Now, a decade after his retirement from the space agency, the 59-year-old Halsell’s life has taken a shocking turn: he is charged with murder after an early morning car crash killed two young sisters on a lonely stretch of highway in Alabama.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/astronaut-who-flew-five-shuttle-missions-on-charge-over-car-crash">Continue reading...</a> - Alabama - US news - Nasa - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:57:54 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/astronaut-who-flew-five-shuttle-missions-on-charge-over-car-crash - - Photograph: Reuters - - - Photograph: Reuters - - Associated Press - 2016-06-08T03:57:54Z - - - Hoax bomb threat forces EgyptAir plane to make emergency landing - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/hoax-bomb-threat-egyptair-emergency-landing-uzbekistan - <p>China-bound flight diverted to Uzbekistan and 118 passengers evacuated after call claiming there was a bomb on board</p><p>An EgyptAir passenger plane en route from Cairo to Beijing has been forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan after receiving a security threat that the airline said turned out to be a hoax. </p><p>All 118 passengers and 17 crew members on board the Airbus plane were evacuated in Urgench, western Uzbekistan, on Wednesday after the threat was made three hours into the flight, EgyptAir said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/hoax-bomb-threat-egyptair-emergency-landing-uzbekistan">Continue reading...</a> - Egypt - Uzbekistan - Air transport - Africa - Middle East and North Africa - South and Central Asia - China - Asia Pacific - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:06:55 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/hoax-bomb-threat-egyptair-emergency-landing-uzbekistan - - Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP - - - Photograph: Christophe Ena/AP - - Reuters - 2016-06-08T08:06:55Z - - - UN envoys condemn Rodrigo Duterte for incitement to kill journalists - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/un-diplomats-condemns-rodrigo-duterte-for-incitement-to-kill-journalists - <p>Special rapporteurs say Philippines president-elect’s declaration that ‘son of a bitch’ reporters are not exempt from assassination is ‘unbecoming of any leader’</p><p>A United Nations envoy has described Rodrigo Duterte as “irresponsible” and “unbecoming”, weeks before the president-elect of the Philippines is due to take office.</p><p>Cristof Heyns, a UN special rapporteur, was responding to Duterte’s <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/31/philippine-president-elect-says-corrupt-journalists-will-be-killed">comments</a> in a press conference that “corrupt” journalists were the legitimate targets of assassination. “Most of those killed, to be frank, have done something. You won’t be killed if you don’t do anything wrong,” Duterte was reported as saying.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/un-diplomats-condemns-rodrigo-duterte-for-incitement-to-kill-journalists">Continue reading...</a> - Philippines - Asia Pacific - World news - United Nations - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:19:09 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/un-diplomats-condemns-rodrigo-duterte-for-incitement-to-kill-journalists - - Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP - - - Photograph: Bullit Marquez/AP - - Oliver Holmes in Bangkok - 2016-06-08T05:19:09Z - - - Man feared dead after falling into Yellowstone hot spring - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/man-feared-dead-after-falling-into-yellowstone-hot-spring - <p>Rangers are searching for the man who fell into a thermal spring, where temperatures can reach 200F</p><p>A man is feared to have died after falling into a hot spring in Yellowstone National Park. </p><p>A visitor to the park on Tuesday reported seeing a man in his early 20s walk off the boardwalk in the Norris Geyser Basin area and fall into the thermal spring about 225 yards away.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/man-feared-dead-after-falling-into-yellowstone-hot-spring">Continue reading...</a> - US news - Wyoming - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 04:30:27 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/man-feared-dead-after-falling-into-yellowstone-hot-spring - - Photograph: Beth Harpaz/AP - - - Photograph: Beth Harpaz/AP - - Staff and agencies - 2016-06-08T04:30:27Z - - - Four in 10 American women now classified as obese - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/four-in-10-american-women-classified-obese-epidemic - <p>US reaches ‘scary’ milestone in obesity epidemic as government warnings fail to reverse dangerous weight gain</p><p>More than four in 10 American women are now classified as obese in an alarming new milestone for the nation. </p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/obesity">Obesity </a>rates for men and women in the US had been roughly the same for about a decade. But in recent years, women have surged ahead and now just over 40% of women are obese, compared to 35% of men.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/four-in-10-american-women-classified-obese-epidemic">Continue reading...</a> - US news - World news - Obesity - Society - Health - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 04:07:02 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/08/four-in-10-american-women-classified-obese-epidemic - - Photograph: McCrickard/REX Shutterstock - - - Photograph: McCrickard/REX Shutterstock - - Associated Press - 2016-06-08T04:07:02Z - - - University league tables 2017 - https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2016/may/23/university-league-tables-2017 - <p>Find a course at a UK university</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2016/may/23/university-league-tables-2017">Continue reading...</a> - University guide - Education - Students - Mon, 23 May 2016 10:00:11 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/education/ng-interactive/2016/may/23/university-league-tables-2017 - - Illustration: Adam Avery - - - Illustration: Adam Avery - - Guardian Staff - 2016-05-23T10:00:11Z - - - FoodSaver vacuum sealer review – a vampiric machine with sadistic hunger - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/08/foodsaver-vacuum-sealer-kitchen-gadgets-review-vampiric-office-machine-sadistic-hunger - <p>A handy device if you intend to store your meat for years on end – or want to feel as if you’re doing office work in your kitchen</p><p>The FoodSaver Automated Vacuum Sealer (<a href="http://www.lakeland.co.uk/16733/Automated-Foodsaver-Vacuum-Sealer-V3840">£149.99, Lakeland</a>) is an air compressor and heat sealing bar. Air passed through a thermoplastic bag creates an extraction vacuum around its contents, before the bag is welded airtight.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/08/foodsaver-vacuum-sealer-kitchen-gadgets-review-vampiric-office-machine-sadistic-hunger">Continue reading...</a> - Food & drink - Life and style - Gadgets - Technology - Homes - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:07:01 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/08/foodsaver-vacuum-sealer-kitchen-gadgets-review-vampiric-office-machine-sadistic-hunger - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - Rhik Samadder - 2016-06-08T12:07:01Z - - - Why British offices are the worst in the world - https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2016/jun/08/why-british-offices-worst-in-world-study - A study of 17 countries has found British office workers suffer the most for their salaries – and it’s all to do with cold and ugly open-plan design<p><strong>Name:</strong> The British office.</p><p><strong>Age: </strong>Almost 300 years old.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2016/jun/08/why-british-offices-worst-in-world-study">Continue reading...</a> - Work & careers - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:28:36 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2016/jun/08/why-british-offices-worst-in-world-study - - Photograph: ACE STOCK LIMITED / Alamy/Alamy - - - Photograph: ACE STOCK LIMITED / Alamy/Alamy - - Guardian Staff - 2016-06-08T12:28:36Z - - - No Body review – radiant choreography of light and sound - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/no-body-review-sadlers-wells-london-nitin-sawhney - <p><strong>Sadler’s Wells, London</strong><br>Nitin Sawhney, Michael Hulls and Lucy Carter have created virtuosic sensory experiences that capture the spirit of dance without using dancers</p><p>Modern dance productions at the <a href="http://www.sadlerswells.com/">Wells</a> are often ferociously high-end collaborations, with composers, artists, designers and directors as significant as choreographers. So there’s a smart and illuminating logic to this latest event, in which the non-dance people take over, creating their own choreography of light, sound and imagery in a series of installations that are scattered throughout the building.</p><p>No Body begins on the stage, with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2015/oct/26/dancing-with-light-russell-maliphant-and-michael-hulls-in-pictures">Michael Hulls</a>’ Lightspace, a work of trippy and sometimes overwhelming beauty. It opens quietly as we wander through hanging light bulbs, dimly flickering like chandeliers in a ghostly ballroom. But as Hulls ramps up the technology, the light invades our bodies, raking over us in great white beams or creating sense-disorienting illusions – walls of light as solid as marble, lethal blades that dissolve into luminous air. Visually, the piece is a marvel – and for anyone who has previously observed Hulls’ lighting from the audience, the magic lies in experiencing something of what it feels like to perform in it.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/no-body-review-sadlers-wells-london-nitin-sawhney">Continue reading...</a> - Dance - Stage - Culture - Music - Nitin Sawhney - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:42:32 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/jun/08/no-body-review-sadlers-wells-london-nitin-sawhney - - Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian - - Guardian Staff - 2016-06-08T13:42:32Z - - - Wednesday’s best TV: Rescue Dog to Super Dog, Power Monkeys - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/08/wednesdays-best-tv-rescue-dog-to-super-dog-power-monkeys - <p>A new initiative retrains abandoned pooches as companions for those with disabilities. Plus: the EU referendum satire written just hours before transmission</p><p>More than 100,000 dogs are abandoned each year, leaving legions of pooches at rescue centres. Luckily, help is at hand as a new initiative aims to retrain rescue dogs as companions for people with disabilities. This new series follows six such cases. Tonight, it’s Emily, who has narcolepsy and needs assistance at night, and Alan, whose anxiety over his Tourette syndrome has led to a solitary existence. <em tabindex="-1">Mark Gibbings-Jones</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/08/wednesdays-best-tv-rescue-dog-to-super-dog-power-monkeys">Continue reading...</a> - Television - Television & radio - Culture - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:09:05 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/jun/08/wednesdays-best-tv-rescue-dog-to-super-dog-power-monkeys - - Photograph: Mark Johnson/Channel 4 picture publicity - - - Photograph: Mark Johnson/Channel 4 picture publicity - - Mark Gibbings-Jones, Ben Arnold, Andrew Mueller, Phil Harrison, Jonathan Wright, David Stubbs, Paul Howlett - 2016-06-08T05:09:05Z - - - The Go-Betweens – 10 of the best - https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jun/08/the-go-betweens-10-of-the-best - <p>From shambolic cult pop to FM-friendly accessibility, these tracks display Grant McLennan’s melodic genius and Robert Forster’s lyrical brilliance</p><p>The earliest <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/go-betweens">Go-Betweens</a> recordings reveal the band’s simpler, shambolic pop aesthetic rather than the sophisticated sound for which they became renowned. The 1978 single Lee Remick was a bouncy, light-hearted love letter to the actor that’s as poppy as it is punk, but offered an early showcase for the Go-Betweens’ knack for melody. Lee Remick, alongside the primitive brilliance of other early recordings Karen and Eight Pictures, was written in the space of a month, not long after the Go-Betweens formed. The band consisted of two 19-year-olds, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2003/apr/21/artsfeatures.popandrock">Robert Forster and co-founder Grant McLennan</a>, who were joined by a drummer they knew. Nervous, depressed and distrustful, this was when the Go-Betweens focused their attention on what <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/22/robert-forster-i-wouldnt-be-able-to-make-sense-of-madonna-or-drake">Forster</a> described as “feelings in the bedroom, Brisbane, driving my car and anything from overheard conversations” rather than attempting to address universal themes. The group were still unformed in many ways, but Lee Remick’s addictive pop sensibility makes it an enduring cult classic that sounds as joyously youthful today as it ever did. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jun/08/the-go-betweens-10-of-the-best">Continue reading...</a> - The Go-Betweens - Music - Pop and rock - Indie - Culture - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:55:54 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/jun/08/the-go-betweens-10-of-the-best - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - Hayley Scott - 2016-06-08T09:55:54Z - - - I have a great credit rating – but I can’t buy a smartphone on contract - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/credit-rating-smartphone-contract-carphone-warehouse - <p>The sale wouldn’t go through and Carphone Warehouse couldn’t tell me why</p><p><strong>I recently went to purchase my first smartphone on contract at a Carphone Warehouse store. But I&nbsp;was informed that the sale could not proceed because of a problem with my credit rating. I opened an Experian account and found I had a credit rating of 995 out of 999. Neither Experian nor Carphone Warehouse would explain why I had been refused. I returned to the same Carphone Warehouse and attempted to purchase again. The exact same thing happened. Citizens Advice got nowhere either. </strong><em>FC, Edinburgh</em></p><p>Carphone Warehouse says the contract you were refused was with your chosen network provider, not with itself, and that due to data protection, the former is not allowed to tell the shop why. Carphone Warehouse collects data from the customer and acts as an intermediary between the customer and the network, which runs its own credit checks. So you need to get in touch with the provider to find out what the problem is, although Experian has offered a clue.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/credit-rating-smartphone-contract-carphone-warehouse">Continue reading...</a> - Mobile phones - Consumer rights - Consumer affairs - Money - Carphone Warehouse - Business - Rating agencies - Financial sector - Experian - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:03:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/08/credit-rating-smartphone-contract-carphone-warehouse - - Photograph: Dinendra Haria/REX/Shutterstock - - - Photograph: Dinendra Haria/REX/Shutterstock - - Anna Tims - 2016-06-08T13:03:03Z - - - The month in memes: Dat Boi and a big-screen bow for Slender Man - https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jun/08/the-month-in-memes-viral-comedy-june-2016 - <p>How best to greet a unicycling frog? Our regular column examines the unruly rules of internet etiquette</p><p>As the American writer EB White famously put it: “Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog – few people are interested and the frog dies of it.” In tribute, the first proverbial amphibian to be dismembered for nobody’s benefit this month is, in fact, a literal one. The Dat Boi meme, which has enjoyed a rapid rise to internet ubiquity in recent weeks, is a graphic of a frog on a unicycle accompanied simply by the call “Here come Dat Boi!!!!!!” and the response “O shit waddup!”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jun/08/the-month-in-memes-viral-comedy-june-2016">Continue reading...</a> - Culture - Comedy - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:07:53 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/jun/08/the-month-in-memes-viral-comedy-june-2016 - - Photograph: Publicity image - - - Photograph: Publicity image - - Rachel Aroesti - 2016-06-08T09:07:53Z - - - Top 10 books about guilt - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/08/top-10-books-about-guilt - <p>From Dante’s Inferno to We Need to Talk About Kevin, guilt comes in many varieties, and drives innumerable plots. Here are some of the best</p><p>Guilt cowers red-faced at the edge of the party, wringing its hands. Enter the novelist who desires nothing more than to dance with it all night long. Guilt may be a curse, but it’s the kind of curse that fires a narrative.<br></p><p>Fictional guilt is as tenacious as Dante’s demons, as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUOoDUUlA34">indelible as Duncan’s blood</a>. It manifests itself in spectres and tormented dreams, driving the afflicted to seek its erasure via the confessional, the bottle or the noose.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/08/top-10-books-about-guilt">Continue reading...</a> - Fiction - Books - Dante Alighieri - Culture - Lionel Shriver - Patricia Highsmith - Crime fiction - Philip Roth - Eimear McBride - Toni Morrison - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:41:08 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/08/top-10-books-about-guilt - - Photograph: Nicole Rivelli photography/Imagenet - - - Photograph: Nicole Rivelli photography/Imagenet - - Annemarie Neary - 2016-06-08T12:41:08Z - - - The jumping shark: great white pictured completely out of the water - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/08/the-jumping-shark-great-white-pictured-completely-out-of-the-water - <p>Nathan McLaren, an electrician, captured the moment a 3.3m long shark breached out of the water behind a surfer on the east coast of Australia</p><p>A once-in-a-lifetime photograph has caught the moment a great white shark breached its entire body out of the water behind an oblivious surfer.</p><p>The photograph was taken by Nathan McLaren on Tuesday as he watched surfers off Swansea Heads, just south of Newcastle in New South Wales.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/08/the-jumping-shark-great-white-pictured-completely-out-of-the-water">Continue reading...</a> - Sharks - Australia news - Marine life - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:04:20 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/08/the-jumping-shark-great-white-pictured-completely-out-of-the-water - - Photograph: Nathan McLaren/Caters News Agency - - - Photograph: Nathan McLaren/Caters News Agency - - Staff and agencies - 2016-06-08T08:04:20Z - - - Persian poet biopic and Spider-Man reboot face whitewashing rows - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/08/jalal-al-din-rumi-poet-biopic-and-spider-man-reboot-whitewashing-row - <p>Writer’s wish for Leonardo DiCaprio to play Jalal al-Din Rumi leads to petition, while superhero reboot reportedly casts white actor to play a Korean American </p><p>A biopic of 13th-century Persian poet <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/30/rumi-masnavi-muslim-poetry">Jalal al-Din Rumi</a> and the upcoming Spider-Man reboot are both in the middle of a new whitewashing row.</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/06/jalaluddin-al-rumi-film-muslim-stereotypes-gladiator-david-franzoni">Rumi film will challenge Muslim stereotypes, says Gladiator writer</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/08/jalal-al-din-rumi-poet-biopic-and-spider-man-reboot-whitewashing-row">Continue reading...</a> - Film - Culture - Marvel - Leonardo DiCaprio - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:09:07 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/08/jalal-al-din-rumi-poet-biopic-and-spider-man-reboot-whitewashing-row - - Composite: Alamy/AFP/Getty Images - - - Composite: Alamy/AFP/Getty Images - - Benjamin Lee - 2016-06-08T10:09:07Z - - - Lexus software update fail shows crashing future for cars - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/lexus-navigation-entertainment-software-update-bug - <p>Is our automotive future destined to be filled with software bugs, blue screens of death and dead systems as updates brick our cars?</p><p>Toyota’s Lexus rolled out an update for some of its cars, including RX350, which <a href="https://twitter.com/Lexus/status/740347452344127488">broke the vehicles’ navigation and entertainment systems</a> leaving them stuck in a boot loop.<br></p><p>Lexus confirmed that the software updates are routinely pushed out via satellite to cars and that a faulty application may be to blame.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/lexus-navigation-entertainment-software-update-bug">Continue reading...</a> - Software - Motoring - Computing - Technology - Lexus - Toyota - Automotive industry - Business - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:01:20 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/lexus-navigation-entertainment-software-update-bug - - Photograph: Alamy - - - Photograph: Alamy - - HAL 90210 - 2016-06-08T10:01:20Z - - - China’s memory manipulators | Ian Johnson - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/chinas-memory-manipulators - <p>The country’s rulers do not just suppress history, they recreate it to serve the present. They know that, in a communist state, change often starts when the past is challenged</p><p>When I first went to China in 1984, my fellow foreign classmates and I at Peking University used to play a game with an old guidebook. Called Nagel’s Encyclopaedia Guide: China, it was first published in 1968 in Switzerland and featured descriptions of important cultural sites visited by French diplomats and scholars. The key for us was that they had gathered the information in the 1950s and the early 1960s. In other words, this was just before Mao unleashed the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/11/the-cultural-revolution-50-years-on-all-you-need-to-know-about-chinas-political-convulsion" title="">Cultural Revolution</a>, which destroyed tens of thousands of places of worship and historic sites across China. We would look a place up in Beijing and set off on our bikes to see what was left.</p><p>I remember one trip to find the Five Pagoda Temple, which was built in the late 15th century and featured five small pagodas on top of a massive stone platform. Nagel’s said most had been destroyed in the turmoil of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but that the five pagodas were still there. Our 1980s maps of Beijing showed nothing, but Nagel’s intrigued us. Did it still exist?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/chinas-memory-manipulators">Continue reading...</a> - China - Asia Pacific - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:00:05 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/chinas-memory-manipulators - - Photograph: AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: AFP/Getty Images - - Ian Johnson - 2016-06-08T05:00:05Z - - - Martha Spurrier, head of Liberty: ‘Human rights will be the fight of our generation’ | Anna Isaac - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/08/martha-spurrier-head-liberty-human-rights-act-fight - As she takes up her new job at the civil rights organisation, Liberty’s 30-year-old director says halting the repeal of the Human Rights Act is her top priority<p>Cases of the utmost seriousness, often involving mental health and prisoners’ rights, have characterised the career of barrister Martha Spurrier, the new director of <a href="https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/" title="">civil rights organisation Liberty</a>. The 30-year-old has been appointed to the highest profile role in UK human rights campaigning, and her to-do list is already taking shape. Her top priority? Defending the Human Rights Act from plans to have it repealed.</p><p>“Looming large is the repeal of the <a href="https://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/human-rights/what-are-human-rights/human-rights-act" title="">Human Rights Act</a>,” says Spurrier. “That will be the fight of our generation. I hope that we will win that fight. I think that it’s winnable, but the threat is a very real one.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/08/martha-spurrier-head-liberty-human-rights-act-fight">Continue reading...</a> - Human rights - Equality - Society - Human Rights Act - Law - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:00:08 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/08/martha-spurrier-head-liberty-human-rights-act-fight - - Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian - - - Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian - - Anna Isaac - 2016-06-08T07:00:08Z - - - Euro 2016: the complete guide to every squad and every player in France - https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2016/jun/01/euro-2016-the-complete-guide-to-every-squad-and-every-player-in-france - <p>Profiles of all 24 teams and 552 players at Euro 2016, including caps, goals, hobbies, tattoos, music taste and, once the tournament starts, ratings for every individual performance</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2016/jun/01/euro-2016-the-complete-guide-to-every-squad-and-every-player-in-france">Continue reading...</a> - Football - Sport - Euro 2016 - France - Switzerland - Romania - Albania - England - Wales - Slovakia - Russia - Germany - Northern Ireland - Ukraine - Poland - Croatia - Czech Republic - Spain - Turkey - Belgium - Sweden - Republic of Ireland - Italy - Austria - Hungary - Portugal - Iceland - Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:06:50 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2016/jun/01/euro-2016-the-complete-guide-to-every-squad-and-every-player-in-france - - Photograph: StockFinland/Getty Images and Rex - - - Photograph: StockFinland/Getty Images and Rex - - Daan Louter Marcus Christenson Jim Powell Chris Fenn - 2016-06-01T10:06:50Z - - - How should we treat science’s growing pains? - https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/jun/08/how-should-we-treat-sciences-growing-pains - <p><strong>Jerome Ravetz</strong> has been one of the UK’s foremost philosophers of science for more than 50 years. Here, he reflects on the troubles facing contemporary science. He argues that the roots of science’s crisis have been ignored for too long. Quality control has failed to keep pace with the growth of science. </p><p>As noted already in the Guardian’s science pages, there is no lack of initiatives to tackle science’s crisis in all its aspects, from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2015/aug/28/reproducibility-project-psychology-research-hopeless-case-or-pioneering-field">reproducibility</a> to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2015/jul/09/the-metric-tide-responsible-indicators-research">abuse of metrics</a>, to the problems of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/feb/07/scienctific-research-peer-review-reproducing-data">peer review</a>. This gives good grounds for hope that the crisis will eventually be resolved, and that it will not become a general crisis of trust in science. Should that occur, and ‘science’ ceases to be a key cultural symbol of both truth and probity, along with material beneficence, then the consequences could be far-reaching. To that end, we should consider what lies behind the malpractices whose exposure has triggered the crisis over the last decade.</p><p>It is clear that a combination of circumstances can go far to explain what has gone wrong. Systems of controls and rewards that had evolved under earlier conditions have in many ways become counterproductive, producing perverse incentives that become increasingly difficult for scientists to withstand. Our present problems can be explained partly by the transformation from the ‘little science’ of the past to the <a href="http://www.andreasaltelli.eu/file/repository/Weinberg_Big_Science.pdf">‘big science’</a> or ‘industrialised science’ of the present. But this explanation raises a problem: if the corrupting pressures are the result of the structural conditions of contemporary science, can they be nullified in the absence of a significant change in those conditions?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/jun/08/how-should-we-treat-sciences-growing-pains">Continue reading...</a> - Science - Science policy - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:02:26 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/jun/08/how-should-we-treat-sciences-growing-pains - - Photograph: Alamy - - - Photograph: Alamy - - Jerome Ravetz - 2016-06-08T12:02:26Z - - - 'I want to rescue my dad': children's heartbreak for the lawyers China has taken away - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/childs-heartbreak-li-heping-human-rights-lawyer-china-superhero - <p>Li Heping’s six-year-old daughter Li Jiamei dresses as a superhero, hoping to free her human rights lawyer father from prison</p><p>With a superhero’s green and blue cape cascading down her back, Li Jiamei skipped into her Beijing nursery wielding a pink plastic sword.<br></p><p>When classmates asked the Chinese schoolgirl who she had come to the Halloween fancy dress party as, she had an immediate reply.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/childs-heartbreak-li-heping-human-rights-lawyer-china-superhero">Continue reading...</a> - China - Human rights - Asia Pacific - World news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 01:58:43 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/childs-heartbreak-li-heping-human-rights-lawyer-china-superhero - - Photograph: Supplied - - - Photograph: Supplied - - Tom Phillips in Beijing - 2016-06-08T01:58:43Z - - - Edinburgh festival 2016: what to see and where to go - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2016/jun/08/edinburgh-festival-2016-what-to-see-and-where-to-go - <p>The fringe programme is out today – so here’s a venue-by-venue look at some of this year’s highlights across the Edinburgh festival. Let us know what’s caught your eye</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2016/jun/08/edinburgh-festival-2016-what-to-see-and-where-to-go">Continue reading...</a> - Edinburgh festival 2016 - Theatre - Festivals - Fringe theatre - Circus - Culture - Stage - Cabaret - Spoken word - Immersive theatre - Edinburgh festival - Dance - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:00:07 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2016/jun/08/edinburgh-festival-2016-what-to-see-and-where-to-go - - Composite: PR/Alamy/Murdo MacLeod - - - Composite: PR/Alamy/Murdo MacLeod - - Lyn Gardner - 2016-06-08T06:00:07Z - - - Anish Kapoor on Wagner: 'He was antisemitic and I'm Jewish. Who cares?' - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/anish-kapoor-on-wagner-he-was-antisemitic-and-im-jewish-who-cares - <p>As his set designs for ENO’s Tristan and Isolde are unveiled, Anish Kapoor talks about the flak they’ve caused him, his new record-breaking slide – and how he got his own back on the Frenchman who sued him</p><p>Anish Kapoor has been getting quite a bit of flak for designing the sets for a new production of Tristan and Isolde, Wagner’s great opera about two passionately deranged lovers. “<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/richard-wagner">Wagner</a> was antisemitic and I’m Jewish,” he says. “And many of my Jewish relatives and friends say: ‘How can you?’ Honestly, in the end, one somehow has to put that aside.”</p><p>How can he? Well, Kapoor can because, in part, the dead German bigot had a similar artistic temperament to the Indian-born British artist. “I take the view that there are emotional states that Wagner touches that nobody else touches. In the end, who cares if the artist is a nice person?”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/anish-kapoor-on-wagner-he-was-antisemitic-and-im-jewish-who-cares">Continue reading...</a> - Opera - Classical music - Culture - Music - English National Opera (ENO) - Anish Kapoor - Art and design - Richard Wagner - Design - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:00:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/anish-kapoor-on-wagner-he-was-antisemitic-and-im-jewish-who-cares - - Photograph: Catherine Ashmore/catherine ashmore - - - Photograph: Catherine Ashmore/catherine ashmore - - Stuart Jeffries - 2016-06-08T06:00:06Z - - - Running with criminals: the prison that helps inmates rehabilitate a mile at a time - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/08/oregon-state-penitentiary-salem-running-club-inmates - <p>The running program at Oregon state penitentiary in Salem dates to the 1970s with none other than Steve Prefontaine, and prisoners’ interactions with runners from the outside are critical to their social rehabilitation</p><p>Each spring, Steve Connelly will spend a three-day weekend running 27 miles – one for every year that his former girlfriend has been gone.</p><p>The act is repentance, in a way, since he’s the one who killed her.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/08/oregon-state-penitentiary-salem-running-club-inmates">Continue reading...</a> - Running - Oregon - US prisons - US crime - US news - Life and style - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:45:13 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/08/oregon-state-penitentiary-salem-running-club-inmates - - Photograph: Rafeal Mora-Contrera - - - Photograph: Rafeal Mora-Contrera - - Emily Gillespie in Salem, Oregon - 2016-06-08T10:45:13Z - - - Government plans threaten projects offering safe homes to young adults - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/08/government-housing-benefit-cuts-threaten-safe-homes-young-adults - Housing schemes such as ‘preparatory flats’ that guide lone youngsters on to the renting ladder may be at risk due to further housing benefit cuts<p>Shrinking council housing, benefit cuts and rising private rents have made it more difficult for disadvantaged young people to find somewhere to live. Between <a href="http://www.youthandpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/rugg-quilgars-young-people-and-housing1.pdf" title="">2008 and 2013, the proportion of 16- to 24-year-old renters in social housing managed by councils or housing associations dropped by 23%</a> – the greatest drop of any measured age group. And the average time youths spent in homeless accommodation nearly doubled, to 16 months last year, signalling new hurdles along the path to secure housing.</p><p>Many single young people are shut out of social housing because they do not qualify as “priority homeless” so they turn to the private rented sector, where the prohibitive cost of an upfront deposit and the insecure nature of their tenancy are major obstacles. Now <a href="http://www.crisis.org.uk/pages/sharing-solutions-schemes.html" title="">housing organisations from Plymouth to Gateshead are springing up across England</a> to guide young adults into safe and affordable rooms and shared tenancies.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/08/government-housing-benefit-cuts-threaten-safe-homes-young-adults">Continue reading...</a> - Social housing - Housing - Housing benefit - Young people - Benefits - Social exclusion - Communities - Society - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:30:07 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/08/government-housing-benefit-cuts-threaten-safe-homes-young-adults - - Photograph: Alamy - - - Photograph: Alamy - - Lizzie Presser - 2016-06-08T06:30:07Z - - - EU migration policy suggests Europe prefers strongmen over reality - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/eu-migration-policy-europe-prefers-strongmen-over-reality-migration - <p>Cuddly language cannot hide preferred EU method of dealing with migration: gratify those who cause it in the first place</p><p>There is nothing especially seismic about the latest version of the EU’s migration policy, which was unveiled on Tuesday afternoon. The central premise is the same one that Europe has long employed: asking the developing world to deal with migration, so it doesn’t have to.</p><p>In a carrot-and-stick approach, Europe is offering aid, trade and expertise to countries bearing the brunt of migration flows in the Middle East and north Africa. Those that fail to comply will not get the aid or the trade. “There are consequences,” <a href="http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_IP-16-2072_en.htm">one EU memo ominously reads</a>, “for those that refuse.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/eu-migration-policy-europe-prefers-strongmen-over-reality-migration">Continue reading...</a> - Migration - European Union - Refugees - World news - Europe - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 05:00:05 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/eu-migration-policy-europe-prefers-strongmen-over-reality-migration - - Photograph: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters - - - Photograph: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters - - Patrick Kingsley Migration correspondent - 2016-06-08T05:00:05Z - - - Manchester's second coming – but are developers destroying its industrial soul? - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/08/manchester-second-coming-heritage-developers-destroying-industrial-soul - <p>Manchester’s skyline is changing drastically as its economy booms. Something has to be done about the housing and office-space shortages, but critics say new developments are sacrificing historic buildings at the heart of the city’s identity</p><p>Heading north through the inner-city neighbourhood of Ancoats, an informal collection of urbanism doctorates, architects and curious residents begin the third <a href="http://www.meetup.com/Manchester-Urban-Exploration-Meetup/">Manchester Urbanists</a> “exploration walk”. Three cobbled streets in, they observe red-brick industrial housing as it is being torn down in Cotton Street. </p><p>Photographs taken, the group continues through a neighbourhood that boomed and bellowed in the new world of industry at the end of the 17th century, was <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/feb/04/manchester-morrissey-the-smiths">almost totally abandoned by the 1980s</a>, but is now growing in popularity again among young renters.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/08/manchester-second-coming-heritage-developers-destroying-industrial-soul">Continue reading...</a> - Cities - Gentrification - Architecture - Heritage - Manchester - Greater Manchester - UK news - Culture - Art and design - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:30:07 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jun/08/manchester-second-coming-heritage-developers-destroying-industrial-soul - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - - Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo - - Alec Herron - 2016-06-08T06:30:07Z - - - Serpentine pavilion 2016: Bjarke Ingels' pyramid for the Minecraft generation - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/07/serpentine-pavilion-2016-bjarke-ingels-minecraft-generation - <p>Is it a wall? Is it a cave? Actually, this year’s pavilion started life as shelves – but it has gawp-factor by the bucketload. And for those who like follies, there are four satellite summer houses to explore too</p><p>A teetering stack of fibreglass blocks has landed in Kensington Gardens, rising above the <a href="http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/">Serpentine Gallery</a> in a stepped wall, before billowing out to form a cave-like space within. “We’ve taken the most fundamental element of architecture,” says Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, designer of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/feb/24/bjarke-ingels-serpentine-pavilion-2016-first-look-design">this summer’s Serpentine pavilion</a>, which opens on Friday, “and unzipped it.”</p><p>From one side, it looks like a wall that has enjoyed a good lunch. The blocks stretch outwards in a swollen bulge, like a snake devouring its gallery-going prey. From the other, it looks caught in a stiff breeze, a pixelated curtain rippling in the wind.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/07/serpentine-pavilion-2016-bjarke-ingels-minecraft-generation">Continue reading...</a> - Serpentine pavilion - Architecture - Art and design - Design - Culture - Art - Exhibitions - London - UK news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:39:02 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jun/07/serpentine-pavilion-2016-bjarke-ingels-minecraft-generation - - Photograph: Iwan Baan - - - Photograph: Iwan Baan - - Oliver Wainwright - 2016-06-07T15:39:02Z - - - Anarchy in the Stans? Punk culture under threat in Tajikistan - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/anarchy-in-the-stans-punk-culture-under-threat-in-tajikistan - <p>Battling an economic crisis and a deeply conservative government, young ‘monsters of rock’ are in danger of dying out. <a href="https://iwpr.net/global-voices/its-hard-be-punk-tajikistan">IWPR</a> reports</p><p>People stare when Mahina walks along the streets of Dushanbe. Dressed in denim and black leather accessorised with facial piercings, her punk look is a rare sight in the Tajik capital. </p><p>“Our style is very unusual, even a bit frightening for our country,” she says. “Many passersby tell us they have no idea where this alien culture has come from.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/anarchy-in-the-stans-punk-culture-under-threat-in-tajikistan">Continue reading...</a> - Tajikistan - South and Central Asia - World news - Punk - Music - Culture - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:00:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/08/anarchy-in-the-stans-punk-culture-under-threat-in-tajikistan - - Photograph: IWPR - - - Photograph: IWPR - - IWPR Central Asia, part of the New East network - 2016-06-08T06:00:06Z - - - Is it time for eSports gamers to be recognised as athletes? - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/esports-pro-video-gamers-recognised-athletes - <p>Visa issues are keeping many of the world’s best gamers from competing at top events – because eSports is not considered a ‘legitimate sport’ by US immigration</p><p>The competitive gaming community is eagerly anticipating a White House response to a petition asking eSports to be formally recognized as athletics. The petition specifically asked the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to recognize competitors as athletes in order for them to be eligible for P-1 visas, allowing them to compete for money at major tournaments. The petition surpassed the 100,000 signature threshold in under one month, warranting an official comment from the White House.</p><p>It was filed in response to the deportation of Sweden’s William “Leffen” Hjelte, who is currently ranked as the third best Super Smash Bros Melee player in the world. Visa issues have kept Hjelte from major tournaments since last October.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/esports-pro-video-gamers-recognised-athletes">Continue reading...</a> - Games - Technology - Culture - US sports - Sport - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:00:12 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jun/08/esports-pro-video-gamers-recognised-athletes - - Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images - - Basim Usmani - 2016-06-08T10:00:12Z - - - Killer breakthrough – the day DNA evidence first nailed a murderer - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/killer-dna-evidence-genetic-profiling-criminal-investigation - <p>It’s 30 years since DNA fingerprinting was first used in a police investigation. The technique has since put millions of criminals behind bars – and it all began when one scientist stumbled on the idea in a failed experiment</p><p>Thirty years ago this summer, at 4.30 one Thursday afternoon, a 15-year-old schoolgirl called Dawn Ashworth set off from a friend’s house in the village of Narborough, Leicestershire, and began to walk home. Dawn lived in the nearby village of Enderby, a few minutes’ walk away, and chose to take a short-cut along a footpath known locally as Ten Pound Lane. And then she vanished. It was not until two days later that Dawn’s body was found in the corner of a nearby field, covered in twigs, branches and torn-up nettles. The pathologist established that she had put up a considerable struggle before being raped and strangled.</p><p>The hunt for Dawn’s killer was unlike any previous murder investigation, however: it was conducted with the help of a new science. The technique known as DNA fingerprinting was employed in a criminal investigation for the first time. Not only did this revolutionary technique lead, indirectly, to the killer being caught; it also prevented a grave miscarriage of justice. And it was employed in a manner that would, today, be likely to face resistance from some members of the public.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/killer-dna-evidence-genetic-profiling-criminal-investigation">Continue reading...</a> - Crime - DNA database - Genetics - Science - UK news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:25:24 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/killer-dna-evidence-genetic-profiling-criminal-investigation - - Composite: PA - - - Composite: PA - - Ian Cobain - 2016-06-07T14:25:24Z - - - End of Watch by Stephen King review – a gory climax to the Mercedes trilogy - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/08/end-of-watch-by-stephen-king-review - <p>King ramps up the paranormal carnage for the finale, but it’s the detective work that makes this story shine</p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/end-of-watch-by-stephen-king-extract">Exclusive extract: End of Watch by Stephen King</a></li></ul><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/stephenking">Stephen King</a> has dreamed up considerably more than his fair share of supernaturally powered bogeymen, whether it’s the demonic Randall Flagg in <em>The Stand</em> or the sewer-dwelling clown Pennywise in <em>It</em>. Brady Hartsfield, the antihero of his current trilogy, seemed to have a more prosaic, if decidedly disturbing, background.</p><p>King first introduced us to Brady – computer whizz, mummy’s boy and keeper of some very dark childhood secrets – in <em>Mister Mercedes</em>. Desperate for notoriety, he drove a Mercedes-Benz into a crowd of hundreds of job-seekers, killing eight and injuring 15. He wasn’t caught at the time, and drew retired detective Bill Hodges into a cat-and-mouse game.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/08/end-of-watch-by-stephen-king-review">Continue reading...</a> - Horror - Books - Culture - Fiction - Crime fiction - Stephen King - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:30:07 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/08/end-of-watch-by-stephen-king-review - - Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Eric Feferberg/AFP/Getty Images - - Alison Flood - 2016-06-08T06:30:07Z - - - Dynasty and demagogues: what the US election shares with African democracy - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/us-election-trump-clinton-africa-democracy - <p>As a former Africa correspondent, David Smith has seen first-hand the trials and triumphs of the continent’s elections – and their parallels in the US</p><p>It’s election season in a vast country riven by racial tension, religious extremism, rampant inequality, crumbling infrastructure and gun violence that claims 91 lives a day, and no one is expecting a smooth ride. A fiery populist who incites political violence is up against the wife of a president looking to restore their dynasty. Analysts fear that a close contest could result in a repeat of the bitterly disputed poll 16 years ago.</p><p>This is the United States of America, which still bears the scars of a brutal civil war and <a href="http://timelines.latimes.com/us-presidential-assassinations-and-attempts/">four presidential assassinations</a>, as an Africa correspondent might see it. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/vuvuzela-pistorius-mugabe-africa-correspondent-david-smith-nelson-mandela">I did that job for six years</a> and reported on elections in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zimbabwe, along with a post-election civil war in Ivory Coast. Now based in Washington and travelling in the US, I have witnessed the rodeo of the Democratic and Republican primaries and got a look at how America compares.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/us-election-trump-clinton-africa-democracy">Continue reading...</a> - US elections 2016 - Africa - US news - US politics - World news - Barack Obama - Donald Trump - Hillary Clinton - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 18:00:27 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/us-election-trump-clinton-africa-democracy - - Photograph: Stephen Lam/Reuters - - - Photograph: Stephen Lam/Reuters - - David Smith in Washington - 2016-06-07T18:00:27Z - - - The Great Barrier Reef: a catastrophe laid bare - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/07/the-great-barrier-reef-a-catastrophe-laid-bare - <p>Australia’s natural wonder is in mortal danger. Bleaching caused by climate change has killed almost a quarter of its coral this year and many scientists believe it could be too late for the rest. Using exclusive photographs and new data, a Guardian special report investigates how the reef has been devastated – and what can be done to save it</p><p>It was the smell that really got to diver Richard Vevers. The smell of death on the reef.</p><p>“I can’t even tell you how bad I smelt after the dive – the smell of millions of rotting animals.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/07/the-great-barrier-reef-a-catastrophe-laid-bare">Continue reading...</a> - Great Barrier Reef - Climate change - Climate change - Coral - Environment - Science - Australia news - Australian politics - World news - Queensland - Marine life - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 23:54:43 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jun/07/the-great-barrier-reef-a-catastrophe-laid-bare - - Photograph: the Ocean Agency - - - Photograph: the Ocean Agency - - Michael Slezak - 2016-06-06T23:54:43Z - - - HS2: the zombie train that refuses to die | Simon Jenkins - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/hs2-the-zombie-train-that-refuses-to-die - It is the most extravagant infrastructure project in British history – but nobody can say why we need it. How did HS2 ever get so far?<p>Some time this summer, a piledriver should break ground outside Euston station in London. It will mark the start of the most extravagant infrastructure project in Britain’s history: High Speed 2, a railway line running 335 miles from London to Birmingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Leeds. The line is budgeted at £55bn, although late last year its cost was widely reported to be closer to £70bn.</p><p>The bill that will enable construction to begin passed through the House of Commons in March and is currently before the House of Lords. It is 444 pages long, with a gargantuan accompanying environmental report of 50,000 pages. Yet in the six years since HS2 was formally proposed, countless alarms have been raised about the project’s spiralling costs and diminishing benefits. Its fervent supporters have wheeled out increasingly tenuous justifications for its construction, but the zombie train refuses to die. Indeed, as the claims for its necessity have become weaker and weaker, its backers only become more adamant that it is a matter of supreme national importance that the project goes ahead.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/hs2-the-zombie-train-that-refuses-to-die">Continue reading...</a> - HS2 - Rail transport - UK news - Politics - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 05:00:14 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/hs2-the-zombie-train-that-refuses-to-die - - Illustration: Sara Ramsbottom - - - Illustration: Sara Ramsbottom - - Simon Jenkins - 2016-06-07T05:00:14Z - - - The 'Windsor Hum': where is the noise plaguing a city of 210,000 coming from? - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/windsor-hum-canada-zug-island-united-states - <p>The low rumbling that’s been reverberating in the Canadian city’s ears for six years is getting louder – and more debilitating. The source may be on an American industrial island but muffling the sound has not been an easy task </p><p>It’s been compared to a subwoofer blasting Barry White’s greatest hits or an idling diesel truck.</p><p>Others say the low, rumbling noise that has stalked residents in the Canadian city of Windsor for years sounds like Star Trek’s Enterprise gearing up for warp speed. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/windsor-hum-canada-zug-island-united-states">Continue reading...</a> - Canada - US news - Steel industry - Americas - World news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:00:04 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/windsor-hum-canada-zug-island-united-states - - Photograph: Alamy - - - Photograph: Alamy - - Ashifa Kassam in Toronto - 2016-06-07T10:00:04Z - - - How to get bums on seats at London's first naked restaurant - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/07/naked-restaurant-bunyadi-bums-on-seats-london - <p>What’s the protocol if you’re serving up food to customers in the buff? It’s really not that different from normal – just make sure your soups are cold</p><p>We may be used to the idea of the Naked Chef (thanks, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/oliver">Jamie Oliver</a>), but London’s latest high-concept pop-up restaurant goes further. A lot further. This week sees the opening of The Bunyadi, <a href="http://thebunyadi.com/">the city’s first “naked restaurant”</a>, which promises an experience that is “free from the trappings of modern life”. With that in mind, there are no clothes, no mobile phones and no food preparation that requires electrical appliances (all cooking is done with fire), while the food is free of modern preservatives and the furniture is hand-carved. The staff will be (mainly) clothes-free, and guests can dine nude (they will change into a gown and can then disrobe if they wish). So, how do you run a place with a naked clientele? We asked its founder.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/07/naked-restaurant-bunyadi-bums-on-seats-london">Continue reading...</a> - Restaurants - Food & drink - Life and style - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:18:26 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jun/07/naked-restaurant-bunyadi-bums-on-seats-london - - Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: William West/AFP/Getty Images - - Alexi Duggins - 2016-06-07T10:18:26Z - - - 'Women are realistic, men idealistic': Studio Ghibli on why a director's gender matters - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/06/studio-ghibli-yonebayashi-interview-miyazaki - <p>When Hayao Miyazaki left Japan’s legendary studio, Hiromasa Yonebayashi took the reins. He speaks about the shadow cast by his predecessor, animation in the age of Pixar and how men and women approach fantasy differently </p><p>When <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/hayaomiyazaki">Hayao Miyazaki</a> announced his retirement from Japan’s greatest animation studio in 2013, his young protege <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2011/jul/07/first-sight-hiromasa-yonebayashi">Hiromasa Yonebayashi</a> wasn’t worried. The master had already retired five times before. “He was always saying, ‘Oh this could be the last film.’” Yonebayashi shrugs. “He’s still in the office.”</p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/07/studio-ghibli-match-the-screenshot-to-the-movie-quiz">Match the Studio Ghibli screenshot to the movie – quiz</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/06/studio-ghibli-yonebayashi-interview-miyazaki">Continue reading...</a> - Animation - Hayao Miyazaki - Film - Culture - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 17:12:04 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/06/studio-ghibli-yonebayashi-interview-miyazaki - - Photograph: Studio Ghibli films/YouTube - - - Photograph: Studio Ghibli films/YouTube - - Chris Michael - 2016-06-06T17:12:04Z - - - Introducing the Freelance Cricket Club: a new podcast by writers with spare time - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/freelance-cricket-club-podcast - <p>In this episode <a href="https://twitter.com/willis_macp">Will Macpherson</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/vitu_e">Vish Ehantharajah</a> analyse the England v Sri Lanka series and interview Middlesex women’s captain <a href="https://twitter.com/izzywestbury?lang=en">Isabelle Westbury</a></p><p>By <a href="https://twitter.com/willis_macp">Will</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/vitu_e">Vish</a>, for <a href="https://soundcloud.com/freelancecc-podcast">Freelance Cricket Club</a>, part of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/series/guardian-sport-network">Guardian Sport Network</a></p><p>Cricket just never sleeps. This week alone, England’s men have their third Test against Sri Lanka (they are 8-0 up in the Super Series, don’t you know?); England women have a new captain; Australia, South Africa and West Indies are playing ODIs in the Caribbean; and, in the country game, that relentless part of the season when they play every day has kicked in.</p><p>Thus here’s a lot to talk about on this episode of the <a href="https://twitter.com/FreelanceCC">Freelance Cricket Club</a> podcast, <a href="https://twitter.com/willis_macp">Will Macpherson</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/vitu_e">Vish Ehantharajah</a> called in the services of a pair of two guests.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/freelance-cricket-club-podcast">Continue reading...</a> - Cricket - Sport - England cricket team - Sri Lanka cricket team - England women's cricket team - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:35:58 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jun/08/freelance-cricket-club-podcast - - Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Gareth Copley/Getty Images - - Will Macpherson and Vithushan Ehantharajah - 2016-06-08T12:35:58Z - - - Has the glass ceiling for women finally been shattered by Hillary Clinton? – live - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/live/2016/jun/08/has-hillary-clintons-victory-finally-shattered-the-glass-ceiling-for-women-live - <p>What does this milestone moment mean for women worldwide? Join us to discuss below the line today from 12pm to 2pm (BST) </p><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2016-06-08T13:01:57.813Z">2.01pm <span class="timezone">BST</span></time> </p><p>Comments on our live blog will be closing shortly - thanks to all our contributors and commenters for taking part in such an interesting debate.</p><p><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/live/2016/jun/08/has-hillary-clintons-victory-finally-shattered-the-glass-ceiling-for-women-live?page=with:block-5757fdbfe4b0ac64556241c1#block-5757fdbfe4b0ac64556241c1">A quick glance at our poll</a> shows 75% think Clinton’s victory does not constitute the breaking of the glass ceiling for women - a percentage that reflects the views coming in via our form and below the line. It feels like Clinton has plenty to do in terms of reaching out to Bernie Sanders supporters in particular.</p><p class="block-time published-time"> <time datetime="2016-06-08T12:57:07.891Z">1.57pm <span class="timezone">BST</span></time> </p><p>A few more comments from below the line from our readers.</p><p>I think, much like Obama's presidency has seemed to provide time and space for systemic issues of race discrimination to be highlighted and talked about openly and repeatedly, a woman in the White House would bring to the surface existing concerns around structural, ingrained sexism. Whether or not America has ways to address these problems around both race and gender is less clear.</p><p>She is a brilliant woman and the US will be in more capable hands than with Trump. But it is tough to see this as a watershed moment for a few reasons.</p><p>1. The taboo of women leaders is long past. Merkel is titan and Scotland's main parties are run by women. Clinton isn't making history so much as she is a beneficiary. Perhaps she should be doffing her cap to the likes of Thatcher. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/live/2016/jun/08/has-hillary-clintons-victory-finally-shattered-the-glass-ceiling-for-women-live">Continue reading...</a> - Gender - Women - Hillary Clinton - US news - Life and style - World news - US politics - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:05:53 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/live/2016/jun/08/has-hillary-clintons-victory-finally-shattered-the-glass-ceiling-for-women-live - - Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP - - - Photograph: Julio Cortez/AP - - Sarah Marsh , James Walsh and Guardian readers - 2016-06-08T13:05:53Z - - - Brexit or Bremain? Readers share the one argument that made up their mind | Guardian readers and Sarah Marsh - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/brexit-or-bremain-readers-eu-referendum - <p>To stay or not to stay, that is the question. Here, people talk about the big issue that has swayed them on which way to vote in the EU referendum later this month</p><p>There’s now less than a month to go before the <a href="https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/politics/eu-referendum">EU referendum</a>, but<strong> </strong>have you made up your mind on how to vote?<br></p><p>It’s understandable if you’re still struggling to decide, given all the spurious facts and political in-fighting. But for many of us, one overriding fact or issue will have emerged that might ultimately determine our vote.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/brexit-or-bremain-readers-eu-referendum">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - Foreign policy - Politics - European Union - Europe - UK news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 16:29:24 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/brexit-or-bremain-readers-eu-referendum - - Photograph: Alamy - - - Photograph: Alamy - - Guardian readers and Sarah Marsh - 2016-06-07T16:29:24Z - - - The moment I felt excluded because of my disability – share your stories - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/jun/08/the-moment-i-felt-excluded-because-of-my-disability-share-your-stories - <p>Disabled people are the world’s largest minority, but continue to be physically and socially marginalised from mainstream society. Share your stories of discrimination</p><p>More than <a href="https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/2014%20disabilities_program_low.pdf">one billion people</a> live with disabilities across the world, but they have been marginalised, excluded from mainstream society, and in many places denied their basic human rights for far too long. People with disabilities are <a href="http://www.add.org.uk/facts-about-disability">more likely to live in poverty</a>, they are nearly three times more likely to report being denied health care, and disabled children make up a disproportionately high number of the 60 million children currently out of school.</p><p>While the new sustainable development goals launched in 2015 have promised to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/ng-interactive/2016/feb/04/sustainable-development-goals-marginalised-people-leave-no-one-behind">leave no one behind</a> – thereby including disability rights in the development framework for the first time – people with disabilities won’t have their rights realised until attitudes change and the mainstream stops excluding people.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/jun/08/the-moment-i-felt-excluded-because-of-my-disability-share-your-stories">Continue reading...</a> - Global development professionals network - Disability - Sustainable development goals - Society - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:55:56 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development-professionals-network/2016/jun/08/the-moment-i-felt-excluded-because-of-my-disability-share-your-stories - - Photograph: David Mercado/Reuters - - - Photograph: David Mercado/Reuters - - Naomi Larsson - 2016-06-08T11:55:56Z - - - How do you cope with insomnia? Tell us your story | Sarah Marsh - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/how-do-you-cope-with-insomnia-sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall - <p>The former Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has spoken out about her chronic insomnia. How do you cope with being unable to nod off?</p><p>If you have found yourself lying awake at 3am, unable to sleep, then you will empathise with the actor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/07/kim-cattrall-battle-chronic-insomnia-sex-and-the-city">Kim Cattrall, who has spoken of her struggle with chronic insomnia</a>. </p><p>The former Sex and the City star told the new issue of Radio Times that her sleep difficulties became so bad that she was forced out of a starring role on the London stage, after spending 48 hours awake.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/how-do-you-cope-with-insomnia-sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall">Continue reading...</a> - Sleep - Life and style - Health & wellbeing - Health - Society - UK news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:35:08 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/how-do-you-cope-with-insomnia-sex-and-the-city-kim-cattrall - - Photograph: Sebastien Nogier/EPA - - - Photograph: Sebastien Nogier/EPA - - Sarah Marsh - 2016-06-07T15:35:08Z - - - ‘My shoes were not sexy enough’ – your dress code discrimination stories - https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/jun/07/dress-code-discrimination-stories-workplace - <p>Readers share their experiences of sexist dress codes at work. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/may/12/wearing-heels-at-work-share-stories-of-dress-code-discrimination">Read more of their stories</a> on GuardianWitness</p><p>Every morning employees are inspected and people are told off for not wearing enough makeup or having messy hair. I’m a toy salesperson but at my workplace women are expected to wear heels, skirt, shirt, full makeup, and have tidy hair and nails. Our shift is typically eight hours long, entertaining children, on your feet, having to smile and be energetic. Of course, everyone changes their shoes on their breaks.<br><em>Anna, 25, toy salesperson</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/jun/07/dress-code-discrimination-stories-workplace">Continue reading...</a> - Diversity - Guardian Careers - Work & careers - Women in Leadership - Life and style - Discrimination at work - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:50:21 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/jun/07/dress-code-discrimination-stories-workplace - - Photograph: Simion Marian / Alamy/Alamy - - - Photograph: Simion Marian / Alamy/Alamy - - Guardian readers - 2016-06-07T10:50:21Z - - - 'This is divide and rule politics': readers on the EU referendum - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/this-is-divide-and-rule-politics-readers-on-the-eu-referendum - <p>Here are some of the issues Guardian readers are talking about on Tuesday. Join the conversation in our latest <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/07/eu-referendum-live-farage-cameron-itv-debate-foreign-criminals">live blog</a></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2016/jun/07/how-would-brexit-affect-you-eu-referendum-video-explainer">How would Brexit affect you? – video explainer</a> </li></ul><p>We’re following the referendum from the point of view of our readers in a daily roundup of some of the most talked about – and most resonant – coverage. Here, you can read about several key conversations we’re highlighting today – with your views on <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/cameron-accuses-eu-leave-campaigners-six-lies-brexit">David Cameron’s latest speech</a>, apathy among young voters and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/nye-bevan-labour-heartland-backing-brexit-south-wales">Labour voters turning to Ukip in Wales</a> among them. Click on the links at the end of each to get involved, or head over to our <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2016/jun/07/eu-referendum-live-farage-cameron-itv-debate-foreign-criminals">EU referendum live blog</a> to follow the news and discussion as it happens. <br></p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/07/eu-referendum-reporting-topics-eddie-mair-bbc-radio-4">Eddie Mair says media not covering EU referendum topics people want</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/this-is-divide-and-rule-politics-readers-on-the-eu-referendum">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - European Union - UK news - Politics - David Cameron - Voter apathy - Labour - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:02:11 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/07/this-is-divide-and-rule-politics-readers-on-the-eu-referendum - - Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images - - Guardian readers and Matthew Holmes - 2016-06-07T14:02:11Z - - - Tips, links and suggestions: what are you reading this week? - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jun/06/tips-links-and-suggestions-han-kang-julian-barnes - <p>Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them<br></p><ul><li>Are you on Instagram? Then you can be featured here by tagging your books-related posts with <strong>#GuardianBooks</strong></li><li>Scroll down for our favourite literary links</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/series/tips-links-and-suggestions-books">Read more Tips, links and suggestions blogs</a></li></ul><p>Welcome to this week’s blog. Here’s a roundup of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/may/30/tips-links-and-suggestions-what-are-you-reading-this-week">your comments and photos from last week</a>, including reads on vegetarianism, friendship, love, America’s economic collapse and Germany’s war guilt. </p><p><a href="https://profile.theguardian.com/user/id/3690773">fingerlakeswanderer</a> was moved by <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jan/24/the-vegetarian-by-han-kang-review-family-fallout">The Vegetarian</a> by Han Kang:</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jun/06/tips-links-and-suggestions-han-kang-julian-barnes">Continue reading...</a> - Books - Culture - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 15:00:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/jun/06/tips-links-and-suggestions-han-kang-julian-barnes - - Photograph: Instagram - - - Photograph: Instagram - - Guardian readers and Marta Bausells - 2016-06-06T15:00:03Z - - - Does Hillary Clinton have your vote? - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/does-hillary-clinton-have-your-vote - <p>Clinton has become the first woman in history to lead a major party bid for the White House. We want to hear readers’ views about this</p><p>Hillary Clinton looks set to be the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/06/hillary-clinton-clinches-democratic-presidential-nomination-ap-count">Democratic presidential nominee</a> after “a burst of last-minute support from superdelegates”, according to the AP. It’s likely that Clinton will become the first woman in history to lead a major party bid for the White House.</p><p>The predicted victory came on Monday, before voting was due to commence in primaries in California and five other states. However, the legitimacy of the announcement was questioned by Clinton rival <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/bernie-sanders">Bernie Sanders</a>. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/does-hillary-clinton-have-your-vote">Continue reading...</a> - Hillary Clinton - US news - World news - Politics - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 09:54:58 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jun/07/does-hillary-clinton-have-your-vote - - Photograph: Jonathan Alcorn/AFP/Getty Images - - - Photograph: Jonathan Alcorn/AFP/Getty Images - - Sarah Marsh - 2016-06-07T09:54:58Z - - - How to talk to someone with anxiety | Guardian readers and Sarah Marsh - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/how-to-talk-to-someone-with-anxiety - <p>On average one in four people will be affected by anxiety. Those who have experienced it explain what you can say and do to help <br></p><p>We live surrounded by anxiety. New research published in the journal <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/brb3.497">Brain and Behaviour found that</a> in 2013 there were an estimated <a href="http://jop.sagepub.com/content/27/9/761">8.2m cases</a> of anxiety in the UK. Women are nearly twice as likely to experience anxiety as men. So how can you help a loved one who experiences it? </p><p>We recently <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/20/how-not-to-talk-to-someone-with-anxiety">ran a piece asking people who live with anxiety to tell us what <em>not</em> to say to them. </a>This time we asked what people <em>should</em> say or do to make their condition more bearable.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/how-to-talk-to-someone-with-anxiety">Continue reading...</a> - Anxiety - Mental health - Health - Society - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:05:25 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/how-to-talk-to-someone-with-anxiety - - Photograph: Doug Houghton Collection/Alamy - - - Photograph: Doug Houghton Collection/Alamy - - Guardian readers and Sarah Marsh - 2016-06-07T11:05:25Z - - - How do I … vote in the EU referendum? - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/05/how-do-i-vote-in-the-eu-referendum - <p>Here’s what you need to know about casting your ballot to remain in or leave the European Union, including how to register</p><p>If you want to have your say on the future of Britain’s role in the EU, you need to be on the electoral register, which means registering to vote. You must make sure you register in the place where you intend to vote – usually using your permanent home address.</p><p>Registering online takes minutes in the majority of cases, especially if you have your national insurance number to hand. If you have more than one home – and this is particularly relevant for students – you must decide where you will be on 23 June, and use this address when you register.<br></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/05/how-do-i-vote-in-the-eu-referendum">Continue reading...</a> - EU referendum - European Union - UK news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 06:31:47 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/05/how-do-i-vote-in-the-eu-referendum - - Composite: Getty Images - - - Composite: Getty Images - - Carmen Fishwick - 2016-06-07T06:31:47Z - - - High wires and high rise: readers' photos on the theme of acrobatic - https://www.theguardian.com/community/gallery/2016/jun/04/high-wires-and-high-rise-readers-photos-on-the-theme-of-acrobatic - <p>For last week’s photography assignment in the Observer New Review we asked you to share your photos on the theme of acrobatic via <a href="https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5746d668e4b038ba175e4583">GuardianWitness</a>. Here’s a selection of our favourites <br></p><ul><li>Share your photos on this week’s theme ‘dusk’ by clicking the button below</li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/community/gallery/2016/jun/04/high-wires-and-high-rise-readers-photos-on-the-theme-of-acrobatic">Continue reading...</a> - Photography - Art and design - Sat, 04 Jun 2016 21:30:21 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/community/gallery/2016/jun/04/high-wires-and-high-rise-readers-photos-on-the-theme-of-acrobatic - - Photograph: Anastasia Shpilko/GuardianWitness - - - Photograph: Anastasia Shpilko/GuardianWitness - - Guardian readers and Matthew Holmes - 2016-06-04T21:30:21Z - - - Art students: send us your end-of-year artwork - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jun/06/art-students-send-us-your-finest-work - <p>In our <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/series/students-express">Students Express</a> series you have the chance to exhibit work and share ideas with readers. </p><ul><li><a href="https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/57519e31e4b0efb1018741d7#contribute">View work submitted so far</a></li></ul><p>As the French artist Edgar Degas once said: “Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.” And what better way to make people see things than to share your art with the Guardian.</p><p><strong><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/education/series/students-express">Students Express</a></strong> is a way for students to send us their work through platforms including GuardianWitness, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. This month, we’re asking you to submit your end-of-year artwork. At the end of June, we’ll compile our favourites into a gallery.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jun/06/art-students-send-us-your-finest-work">Continue reading...</a> - Students - Education - Higher education - Art - Sculpture - Painting - Drawing - Art and design - Art - Mon, 06 Jun 2016 11:59:11 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/jun/06/art-students-send-us-your-finest-work - - Photograph: Alamy/Alamy Stock Photo - - - Photograph: Alamy/Alamy Stock Photo - - Alfie Packham - 2016-06-06T11:59:11Z - - - France ‘84, Holland ’88, Spain ’08: who are the best ever Euros team? - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/05/france-holland-spain-best-ever-euros-team - Brazil’s 1970 side are widely regarded as being the best World Cup side but who deserves that accolade when it comes to the European Championship?<p>What do you get if you cross Total Football with tiki-taka? Ramba Zamba fussball, the name given to the colourful, vibrant style of West Germany in the early 1970s. The positions in their 1-3-3-3 formation were little more than a basis for negotiation. No one demonstrated the fluidity of the team better than Franz Beckenbauer, who was sort of the original John Stones. He had moved back from midfield to create the position of attacking sweeper and was so cool he played international football with a resting heart rate.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/05/france-holland-spain-best-ever-euros-team">Continue reading...</a> - Euro 2016 - European Championship - Football - France - Holland - Spain - Germany - Sport - Sun, 05 Jun 2016 12:09:21 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/jun/05/france-holland-spain-best-ever-euros-team - - Composite: Colorsport/REX/Shutterstock; Bongarts/Getty Images; Getty Images - - - Composite: Colorsport/REX/Shutterstock; Bongarts/Getty Images; Getty Images - - Rob Smyth - 2016-06-05T12:09:21Z - - - Francis Crick portrait unveiled to honour breakthrough DNA work - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/francis-crick-portrait-unveiled-breakthrough-dna-work-robert-ballagh-james-watson - <p>Posthumous painting by artist Robert Ballagh celebrates scientist who, along with James Watson, made pioneering discovery </p><p>A posthumous portrait of the scientist Francis Crick, commissioned by James Watson, with whom he famously discovered the structure of DNA in 1953, has been revealed on Wednesday, the day that would have been his 100th birthday.</p><p>The portrait by the Irish artist Robert Ballagh, who has previously painted Watson, will hang in the Francis Crick Institute, a new science centre named in his honour, when it opens in St Pancras, London, later this year.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/francis-crick-portrait-unveiled-breakthrough-dna-work-robert-ballagh-james-watson">Continue reading...</a> - Science - Genetics - Art - UK news - Art and design - Culture - Painting - Ireland - London - Biology - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:11:54 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/francis-crick-portrait-unveiled-breakthrough-dna-work-robert-ballagh-james-watson - - Photograph: Johansen Krause - - - Photograph: Johansen Krause - - Maev Kennedy - 2016-06-08T11:11:54Z - - - Naked villainy: Ralph Fiennes as Richard III at the Almeida – in pictures - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2016/jun/07/ralph-fiennes-richard-iii-almeida-theatre-miles-aldridge-in-pictures - <p>Ralph Fiennes plays Shakespeare’s scheming king in a striking new production of Richard III, directed by Rupert Goold. Photographer <strong>Miles Aldridge</strong>, who followed the rehearsal process, talks about his dramatic set of backstage images</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2016/jun/07/ralph-fiennes-richard-iii-almeida-theatre-miles-aldridge-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a> - Theatre - Stage - Culture - Art and design - Almeida theatre - Rupert Goold - Ralph Fiennes - William Shakespeare - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 14:30:24 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2016/jun/07/ralph-fiennes-richard-iii-almeida-theatre-miles-aldridge-in-pictures - - Photograph: PR Image - - - Photograph: PR Image - - Miles Aldridge and Matt Fidler - 2016-06-07T14:30:24Z - - - Lisa Fischer on life in the shadows of the Stones and Tina Turner: 'I got used to keeping quiet' - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/lisa-fischer-on-life-in-the-shadows-of-the-stones-and-tina-turner-i-got-used-to-keeping-quiet - <p>The legendary backup singer has supported the world’s biggest stars. But on the final leg of her first solo tour, she reflects on the emotional and physical toll it took</p><p>As anyone who has been to a Rolling Stones concert in the past 26 years will tell you, there is a moment where Mick Jagger, for all his grandiose stage swagger, is briefly, but undeniably, upstaged. </p><p>As the opening chords of Gimme Shelter begin, Lisa Fischer steps out from behind the backing microphones and roars, in vocals that can fill any stadium, some of the most famous lyrics in pop music: “Rape, muuuurder / It’s just a shot away / It’s just a shot away.” Hers is a voice <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iUleCk0Va8&amp;list=RD_iUleCk0Va8#t=140">so big and so spine-tinglingly beautiful </a>that on a nightly basis it does the near impossible: it steals the show from the Rolling Stones. As Jagger himself once said, that duet is “always the high point of the show for me”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/lisa-fischer-on-life-in-the-shadows-of-the-stones-and-tina-turner-i-got-used-to-keeping-quiet">Continue reading...</a> - Music - Culture - The Rolling Stones - Aretha Franklin - Alicia Keys - 20 Feet from Stardom - Film - Australia news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 22:15:33 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/lisa-fischer-on-life-in-the-shadows-of-the-stones-and-tina-turner-i-got-used-to-keeping-quiet - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - Hannah Ellis-Petersen - 2016-06-07T22:15:33Z - - - Sir Tom Kibble obituary - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/sir-tom-kibble-obituary - One of the world’s foremost theoretical physicists<p>Sir Tom Kibble, who has died aged 83, was one of the world’s foremost theoretical physicists and, with the Nobel laureate <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/peterhiggs" title="">Peter Higgs</a>, discoverer of the “Higgs-Kibble mechanism” for giving mass to the fundamental particles of the universe. Kibble’s specific contribution to this breakthrough, half a century ago, underpinned Nobel physics prizes on at least three occasions, although he never attained this singular honour himself. But he had a distinguished career in research that has applications to all scales of size and temperature: from the microscopic constituent particles that seed matter to the large-scale structure of the entire cosmos, and from near the absolute zero of temperature to the searing heat of the hot big-bang.</p><p>He was born in Madras (now Chennai), India, the son of missionaries, Walter and Janet (nee Bannerman). In 1944, Tom went as a boarder to Melville college, Edinburgh. He entered Edinburgh University as an undergraduate in 1951, and remained there until his PhD in 1958. After a year at Caltech (the California Institute of Technology), as a Commonwealth fund fellow, in 1959 he joined the theoretical physics department at Imperial College London, newly formed under <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1996/11/23/world/abdus-salam-is-dead-at-70-physicist-shared-nobel-prize.html" title="">Abdus Salam</a>. Five years later, Kibble would be at the centre of an annus mirabilis in the department.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/sir-tom-kibble-obituary">Continue reading...</a> - Physics - Particle physics - Higgs boson - Research - Science - Higher education - Education - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:02:55 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/08/sir-tom-kibble-obituary - - Photograph: Mike Finn-Casey Imperial College London - - - Photograph: Mike Finn-Casey Imperial College London - - Frank Close - 2016-06-08T12:02:55Z - - - Tom Hiddleston: I doubt I'll play James Bond - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/07/tom-hiddleston-james-bond-007-daniel-craig - <p>Bookies’ favourite to follow Daniel Craig as 007 tells an audience at pop culture conference that ‘he doesn’t think the announcement is coming’</p><p>Tom Hiddleston has said doesn’t believe he will be the next James Bond. The actor is the popular favourite to take over from Daniel Craig, who starred in the last film, Sceptre.</p><p>“I don’t think that announcement is coming,” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gx5z74nJr5U">Hiddleston told a rowdy audience</a> at the Wizard World Comic Con in Philadelphia last weekend. “I am very gratified to hear the enthusiasm. Your guess is as good as mine, to be honest.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/07/tom-hiddleston-james-bond-007-daniel-craig">Continue reading...</a> - Tom Hiddleston - Culture - Film - James Bond - Action and adventure - Sam Mendes - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:22:19 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jun/07/tom-hiddleston-james-bond-007-daniel-craig - - Photograph: Albert L. Ortega/WireImage - - - Photograph: Albert L. Ortega/WireImage - - Henry Barnes and agencies - 2016-06-07T15:22:19Z - - - Were Missy Elliott and Prince planning a duet? - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/were-missy-elliott-and-prince-planning-a-duet - <p>The hip-hop artist says the late musician sent her music for a potential collaboration, but she doesn’t know where it is</p><p>There could be a posthumous <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/prince">Prince</a> and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/12/missy-elliott-wtf-where-they-from-released">Missy Elliott</a> duet in the vaults, if only she could find it. </p><p>In an interview with the CBC’s The Strombo Show in May, Elliott said she once approached Prince for permission to use a lookalike of him in one of her shows. The pair met in Los Angeles, and Prince later sent Elliott music for a potential collaboration. “He had sent me some stuff, music of his and I moved and I could never find that music,” Elliott said. “Yesterday, I was sitting there saying, I have to go to my house, in my storage space, and find this music.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/were-missy-elliott-and-prince-planning-a-duet">Continue reading...</a> - Prince - Music - Culture - Pop and rock - Hip-hop - Rap - Missy Elliott - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 08:24:53 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/were-missy-elliott-and-prince-planning-a-duet - - Photograph: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP - - - Photograph: Matt Sayles/Invision/AP - - Guardian music - 2016-06-08T08:24:53Z - - - Lionel Shriver’s teenage diary: bad spelling and unreturned affections - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/lionel-shriver-teenage-diary-bad-spelling-unreturned-affections - <p>The We Need to Talk About Kevin author is laying bare her adolescent self for Radio 4. Here, she talks about her refusal to go to church and her years-long crush on a boy called Roger</p><p>In my teens, I eyed my adulthood with trepidation, as if stalked by a stranger – one who would seize control as if by demonic possession and regard my fledgling incarnation with contempt. I was terrified of growing up to become the anti-me, maturing into a woman whom I would not recognise, and who wouldn’t recognise her younger self. I doubt I was alone as a teenager in seeing adulthood as a lurking betrayal, an impending death. That may be one reason <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/09/teen-suicide-rates-school-clinics-help-mental-health">teen suicide rates are so high</a>: for many adolescents, growing up presents itself as a form of bereavement anyway, so it seems as if there’s nothing to lose.</p><p>Asked to fill the painfully comic Radio 4 slot <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07dlxmq">My Teenage Diary</a>, I scrambled into my attic recently to dig up the damp, furry-cardboard covers of the journals I began keeping when I was 12. Before rereading them for the first time in 40-some years, I worried that I would be embarrassed. Instead, I was infuriated.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/lionel-shriver-teenage-diary-bad-spelling-unreturned-affections">Continue reading...</a> - Lionel Shriver - Books - Culture - Radio 4 - BBC - Media - Family - Life and style - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 17:07:18 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/lionel-shriver-teenage-diary-bad-spelling-unreturned-affections - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian - - Lionel Shriver - 2016-06-07T17:07:18Z - - - 'An act of solidarity': Anohni treks 100km across Australian desert to protest against uranium mine - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/an-act-of-solidarity-anohni-treks-100km-across-australian-desert-to-protest-uranium-mine - <p>The force behind Antony and the Johnsons joins more than 100 activists and traditional owners in walk through east Pilbara in Western Australia to raise awareness of threat posed by proposed Kintyre mine</p><p>Right now, walking across the remote east Pilbara in the Western Australian desert, is a wagon train of more than 100 artists, activists and traditional owners.</p><p>Along the way, stories are told about the land: where water is sourced, where the animals and the plants are, where traditional burial and hunting grounds may be, and why mining on this land must not go ahead.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/an-act-of-solidarity-anohni-treks-100km-across-australian-desert-to-protest-uranium-mine">Continue reading...</a> - Anohni - Culture - Western Australia - Indigenous Australians - Indigenous peoples - Australia news - Mining - Antony and the Johnsons - Endangered habitats - Endangered species - Environment - Conservation - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 03:19:32 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/08/an-act-of-solidarity-anohni-treks-100km-across-australian-desert-to-protest-uranium-mine - - Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Linda Nylind for the Guardian - - Brigid Delaney - 2016-06-08T03:19:32Z - - - Brian Sewell's art collection is up for grabs – what does it reveal? - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jun/07/brian-sewell-art-critic-buyer-christies-auction-art-collection-critical-judgments-tastes - <p>We know what he didn’t like, but a Christie’s auction of Sewell’s personal hoard of paintings sets his ferocious critical judgments against some muddled tastes</p><p>Brian Sewell, the art critic, was never shy about condemning the tastes of others. Many remember Sewell for his dismissals of contemporary art, but he was equally ready to chastise the National Gallery for what he saw as <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/home/the-key-to-caravaggio-7383994.html">badly conceived exhibitions</a> of the greats. So we knew what he did not like. But what did he love? </p><p> <span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/sep/20/brian-sewells-pungent-views-got-people-arguing-thats-what-matters">Brian Sewell's pungent views got people arguing – that’s what matters</a> </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jun/07/brian-sewell-art-critic-buyer-christies-auction-art-collection-critical-judgments-tastes">Continue reading...</a> - Art and design - Painting - Drawing - Art - Brian Sewell - Culture - Media - Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:29:17 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jun/07/brian-sewell-art-critic-buyer-christies-auction-art-collection-critical-judgments-tastes - - Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images - - - Photograph: David Levenson/Getty Images - - Jonathan Jones - 2016-06-07T13:29:17Z - - - Chuck Klosterman: 'The only TV people watch to unwind still is sports' - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/chuck-klosterman-book-what-if-were-wrong-interview - <p>The critic has written a new book which imagines the way present-day culture will be regarded in the future. Simon Reynolds talks to him about whether TV will go extinct, why Graham Parker fell from favour, and who is today’s Kafka</p><p><strong>Simon Reynolds:</strong> Your new book <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27068734-but-what-if-we-re-wrong">But What If We’re Wrong?</a> is a series of thought experiments that try to “think about the present as if it were the past”. The concept really speaks to me as a fan of science fiction, but also as someone fascinated by discredited knowledge: things like the late 18th-century belief that infantile masturbation was a terrible, health-damaging problem that required drastic preventive measures, or the 19th-century pseudoscience of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/may/12/how-to-spot-a-murderers-brain">phrenology</a>, using skull measurements to assess the character of people, their criminal tendencies … What led you to this subject – the precariousness of human knowledge, the disquieting thought that most of what we feel certain about today will ultimately be disproved and that the future will scorn and deride all our ideas and beliefs? </p><p><strong>Chuck Klosterman: </strong>It happened sort of gradually and yet suddenly. <a href="http://pages.simonandschuster.com/chuckklosterman">Over my last few books</a> I’ve been thinking about the history of thought, but it really came from watching <a href="http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/cosmos-a-spacetime-odyssey/">Fox TV’s reboot of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos series</a>. I particularly enjoyed the animated clips about these hinge points in scientific history, when everybody thought a certain way but then one individual puts forward this new idea and everything shifted after that. Coincidentally I was reading about how <a href="http://trivia-library.com/c/great-art-bad-reviews-herman-melville-moby-dick.htm">Moby-Dick got mixed reviews</a> at the time, Melville ended up leaving the writing profession, and it wasn’t until after world war one that the culture shifted, the book was rediscovered, and it became the Great American Novel. But What If We’re Wrong? really took off from those two things. </p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/chuck-klosterman-book-what-if-were-wrong-interview">Continue reading...</a> - Books - Music - Culture - Television - Television & radio - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 17:59:47 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/07/chuck-klosterman-book-what-if-were-wrong-interview - - Photograph: Jim Spellman/WireImage - - - Photograph: Jim Spellman/WireImage - - Simon Reynolds - 2016-06-07T17:59:47Z - - - Best photographs of the day: the world's happiest children, perhaps - https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/jun/08/best-photographs-of-the-day-the-worlds-happiest-children-perhaps - <p>The Guardian’s picture editors bring you a selection of photo highlights from around the world, including Korean children and a chicken for prime minister</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/jun/08/best-photographs-of-the-day-the-worlds-happiest-children-perhaps">Continue reading...</a> - World news - Photography - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 12:17:59 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/news/gallery/2016/jun/08/best-photographs-of-the-day-the-worlds-happiest-children-perhaps - - Photograph: KCNA/Reuters - - - Photograph: KCNA/Reuters - - Guy Lane - 2016-06-08T12:17:59Z - - - Night workers: how evolution drives the firefly dance – in pictures - https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/jun/08/night-workers-how-evolution-drives-the-firefly-dance-in-pictures - <p>The bewitching displays created by fireflies are powered by the laws of natural selection. Biologist Sara Lewis introduces the insects responsible for these ethereal spectacles and explores why these night-time performers are under threat</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/jun/08/night-workers-how-evolution-drives-the-firefly-dance-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a> - Science and nature - Books - Culture - Photography - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 07:30:08 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2016/jun/08/night-workers-how-evolution-drives-the-firefly-dance-in-pictures - - Photograph: Spencer Black - - - Photograph: Spencer Black - - Sara Lewis - 2016-06-08T07:30:08Z - - - Women's liberation: 20th-century fashion breaks free – in pictures - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/08/fashion-game-changers-reinventing-20th-century-silhouette-cristobal-balenciaga-issey-miyake-rei-kawakubo-womens-liberation-pictures - <p><a href="https://bookshop.theguardian.com/catalog/product/view/id/379173/?utm_source=editoriallink&amp;utm_medium=merch&amp;utm_campaign=article">Fashion Game Changers: Reinventing the 20th-Century Silhouette</a> charts the radical new outlines available to women during the 20th century, from designers such as Cristobál Balenciaga, Issey Miyake and Rei Kawakubo. Hettie Judah, one of the book’s contributors, explains their impact</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/08/fashion-game-changers-reinventing-20th-century-silhouette-cristobal-balenciaga-issey-miyake-rei-kawakubo-womens-liberation-pictures">Continue reading...</a> - Photography - Art and design - Culture - Fashion - Rei Kawakubo - Balenciaga - Comme des Garçons - Dries Van Noten - Life and style - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 06:00:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/08/fashion-game-changers-reinventing-20th-century-silhouette-cristobal-balenciaga-issey-miyake-rei-kawakubo-womens-liberation-pictures - - Photograph: Ronald Stoops - - - Photograph: Ronald Stoops - - Hettie Judah - 2016-06-08T06:00:06Z - - - New ocean map reveals health of seas and value of protecting them – in pictures - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/jun/08/new-ocean-map-reveals-health-of-seas-and-value-of-protecting-them-in-pictures - <p>The <a href="http://oceanwealth.org/resources/atlas-of-ocean-wealth/">Atlas of Ocean Wealth</a>, published ahead of World Oceans Day, brings together data from thousands of sources – from governments to Flickr photos – to provide insight into the economic and social value of our marine life. It is being used to pinpoint areas where even small-scale interventions can make a big difference to benefit local people and improve sustainability</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/jun/08/new-ocean-map-reveals-health-of-seas-and-value-of-protecting-them-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a> - Oceans - Environment - Fishing - Conservation - Marine life - Wildlife - Food - Sustainable development - Environmental sustainability - Global development - United Nations - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 13:00:03 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2016/jun/08/new-ocean-map-reveals-health-of-seas-and-value-of-protecting-them-in-pictures - - Photograph: Tim Calver/for The Nature Conservancy - - - Photograph: Tim Calver/for The Nature Conservancy - - Fiona Harvey, environment correspondent - 2016-06-08T13:00:03Z - - - London Nocturne: an eccentric two-wheeled jamboree in the City - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jun/07/london-nocturne-penny-farthing-boris-bikes-race-cycling-pros-nightfall - <p>Riders on everything from penny farthings to Boris bikes race at the Mr Porter London Nocture in Cheapside, before pros battle it out after nightfall. Photographer <strong>Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi</strong> went to meet the riders</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jun/07/london-nocturne-penny-farthing-boris-bikes-race-cycling-pros-nightfall">Continue reading...</a> - Cycling - Cycling - London - UK news - Sport - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:31:46 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jun/07/london-nocturne-penny-farthing-boris-bikes-race-cycling-pros-nightfall - - Photograph: Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi for the Guardian - - - Photograph: Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi for the Guardian - - Alecsandra Raluca Dragoi and Matt Fidler - 2016-06-07T12:31:46Z - - - Oink! The future of human-pig embryos – cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jun/08/oink-the-future-of-human-pig-embryos-cartoon - <p>Scientists hope gene-editing could open the way to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/05/organ-research-scientists-combine-human-stem-cells-and-pig-dna">growing human organs in pigs</a>. But where might it all lead?</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jun/08/oink-the-future-of-human-pig-embryos-cartoon">Continue reading...</a> - Life and style - Science - Genetics - Biology - Embryos - Organ donation - Health - Society - Stem cells - Medical research - Animal experimentation - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 11:49:06 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2016/jun/08/oink-the-future-of-human-pig-embryos-cartoon - - Illustration: Ian Williams - - - Illustration: Ian Williams - - Ian Williams - 2016-06-08T11:49:06Z - - - Steve Bell on Tony Blair and the Chilcot report – cartoon - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jun/07/steve-bell-on-tony-blair-and-the-chilcot-report-cartoon - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jun/07/steve-bell-on-tony-blair-and-the-chilcot-report-cartoon">Continue reading...</a> - Tony Blair - Iraq war inquiry - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 19:54:19 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2016/jun/07/steve-bell-on-tony-blair-and-the-chilcot-report-cartoon - - Illustration: Steve Bell - - - Illustration: Steve Bell - - Steve Bell - 2016-06-07T19:54:19Z - - - This brutalist world: from Rotterdam's 'vertical city' to Tokyo's capsule tower – in pictures - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/07/brutalist-world-architecture-peter-chadwick-in-pictures - <p>Peter Chadwick’s new book collates some striking examples of this enduringly popular architectural genre – from the infamous to the virtually unknown</p><ul><li><a href="http://uk.phaidon.com/store/architecture/this-brutal-world-9780714871080/">This Brutal World</a> is published by Phaidon</li></ul> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/07/brutalist-world-architecture-peter-chadwick-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a> - Cities - Architecture - Art and design - Books - Culture - Photography - US news - World news - Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:45:26 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2016/jun/07/brutalist-world-architecture-peter-chadwick-in-pictures - - Photograph: Courtesy University of California, San Diego - - - Photograph: Courtesy University of California, San Diego - - Guardian Staff - 2016-06-07T11:45:26Z - - - Eyewitness: Serpentine Gallery, London - https://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2016/jun/08/eyewitness-serpentine-gallery-london - <p>Photographs from the Eyewitness series</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2016/jun/08/eyewitness-serpentine-gallery-london">Continue reading...</a> - Architecture - Serpentine pavilion - UK news - Wed, 08 Jun 2016 09:45:47 GMT - https://www.theguardian.com/world/picture/2016/jun/08/eyewitness-serpentine-gallery-london - - Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian - - - Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian - - David Levene - 2016-06-08T09:45:47Z - - - Homes for car enthusiasts - in pictures - https://www.theguardian.com/money/gallery/2016/jun/08/homes-for-car-enthusiasts-in-pictures - <p>Properties with hi-tech hangars and driveway turntables … and a Chelsea pad with its very own garage</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/gallery/2016/jun/08/homes-for-car-enthusiasts-in-pictures">Continue reading...</a> - 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