The Guardianadded this to UK NewsFloods Britain hit by torrential rain, flooding and thunderstormsThe Guardian - Press AssociationTorrential rain and thunderstorms have hit parts of the UK overnight as unsettled weather continued to cause disruption across the country. Homes were left without power and roads were flooded in parts
The Guardianadded this to BooksBooks Hit Factories by Karl Whitney review – British cities and the music they producedThe Guardian - John HarrisCities were once full of musicians because of their factory-based hard-working cultures, and populations in dire need of entertainment “To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises
The Guardianadded this to US SportCONCACAF Gold Cup Newcomer Tyler Boyd's brace powers US past Guyana in Gold Cup openerThe Guardian - Associated PressNewcomer Tyler Boyd scored two goals to guide the United States past overmatched Guyana 4-0 to start the Concacaf Gold Cup on Tuesday night, getting the Americans back on track in their first competitive
The Guardianadded this to Donald TrumpFake News 'Lot of fake news back there': Trump launches 2020 campaign – video highlightsThe GuardianUS president Donald Trump has kicked off his bid for the presidency in 2020 with many well-worn attacks on the media, Hillary Clinton and the ‘angry' democrats. An adoring crowd packed the Amway building
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeCoal Coal-loving colonials put Australia on the road to cooked. Now it's time to turn the heat downThe Guardian - Liz ConorThe answers to sustainable, collective prosperity were known before industrialisation In the Anthropocene we humans have become a geological force, a “force of nature” – and a self-defeating one. But crisis
The Guardianadded this to World NewsWorld News Two boys, 14, convicted of girl's murder in IrelandThe Guardian - Rory Carroll Ireland correspondentTwo 14-year-old boys have been found guilty of murdering a 14-year-old girl who was lured to an abandoned house, savagely beaten and sexually assaulted in a case that has shaken Ireland. The battered partially
The Guardianadded this to MoneyPersonal Finance (UK) Harveys left us sitting on the floor waiting for a sofa deliveryThe Guardian - Anna TimsWe ordered two sofas from Harveys nearly five months ago and were told delivery would be in eight weeks. In due course, I got a message asking me to call to arrange for our delivery. Straight afterwards,
The Guardianadded this to TV & RadioChernobyl Feel-bad TV: why are we obsessed with small-screen tragedy?The Guardian - Rebecca NicholsonBefore it had even reached its conclusion, Chernobyl had topped IMDb’s user-voted Best Television Shows of All Time list. It has been critically adored and its success has spurred Sky Studios, who co-produced
The Guardianadded this to US NewsTa-Nehisi Coates Ta-Nehisi Coates set to revisit case for reparations in congressional hearingGuardian US - Victoria Bekiempis and Oliver Laughland in New YorkWhen Ta-Nehisi Coates’s watershed essay The Case for Reparations was published in June 2014, the idea of financial recompense for the descendants of slaves was thrust to the forefront of US public discourse.
The Guardianadded this to TechnologyLyft Female drivers feel abandoned by Uber and Lyft after reporting a sexual assaultThe Guardian - Michael SainatoOne month into driving for Lyft around Atlanta, Alicia Dukes was sexually assaulted by a passenger on 21 April after she drove him to a gas station and back to his apartment. “He first asked me if I had
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeKyle Kashuv Kyle Kashuv may not be attending Harvard, but he’s learning a valuable lessonThe Guardian - Arwa MahdawiThere’s a big difference between 'callous and inflammatory language' and blatantly racist language The leftist outrage mob is at it again: stifling free speech and ruining innocent young lives by holding
The Guardianadded this to Comment is FreeSkirts Masculinity is a trap – which is why more men should wear skirtsThe Guardian - Arwa MahdawiBilly Porter is a singer, actor and man of fashion. He is also a man who isn’t afraid to wear a skirt. Porter wore a tuxedo dress to this year’s Oscars and rocked a very fabulous, very pink, uterus-inspired
The Guardianadded this to UK NewsUK News Man dies after stabbing in north London, bringing toll to five in six daysThe Guardian - Damien GayleThe fifth murder investigation in London in six days is beginning after a victim in a triple stabbing died in hospital. Police and paramedics were called to reports of a fight in Wellbeck Road, Barnet,
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPlay buttonWorld News Wednesday briefing: Keep America Great ('Kag' for short)The Guardian - Warren MurrayHello, Warren Murray bringing you Wednesday’s news hot and hot. Donald Trump has set the stage for the nastiest US presidential race in modern times with a campaign rally in Florida that recycled old and
The Guardianadded this to World NewsNews (Hong Kong) Fears Hong Kong protests could turn violent amid calls to 'escalate action'The Guardian - Verna Yu in Hong KongHong Kong is bracing for fresh rallies on Friday, which many fear could turn violent, as protesters gave city authorities until Thursday to meet their demands on the retraction of the city’s controversial
The Guardianadded this to MusicThe Monkees The Monkees review – nothing left to prove in fun and moving 'final' showThe Guardian - Jane CaroIn 1968 I was an 11-year-old who was obsessed with the Monkees. Their concert at the Sydney Stadium (usually a boxing ring) was the first rock concert I ever attended. Not that I heard much music that
The Guardianadded this to TravelMilan 10 of the best cheap restaurants, cafes and bars in MilanThe Guardian - Will VibertNot long ago, Milan was considered to be Italy’s least exciting food city: home to a breathtaking cathedral and well-heeled fashionistas but with little to offer in the way of creative or authentic food.
The Guardianadded this to TV & RadioHarry Dean Stanton TV Tonight: Sadness, rage and relief in the exquisite final episode of MumThe Guardian - Jack Seale, Mike Bradley, Hannah J Davies and Paul HowlettThe magnificent final series ends exactly as any fan would like, with relief and new tenderness in the aftermath of Cathy (Lesley Manville) and Michael (Peter Mullan) going public with their love. The
The Guardianadded this to World NewsBasra Iraq rocket attack: two injured in Basra compound housing foreign oil companiesThe Guardian - ReutersA rocket has landed in the compound housing the headquarters of several global oil companies, including US giant ExxonMobil, in Iraq’s southern city of Basra, wounding two local workers, police said. rocket
The Guardianadded this to MoneyPersonal Finance (UK) UK's problem debtors to get 60-day 'breathing space'The Guardian - Rupert JonesPeople struggling with serious debt are to benefit from a new two-month “breathing space” during which they cannot be hassled by debt collectors and bailiffs, the government has said. During the 60-day
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesEnvironment Two-thirds of Britons want faster action on climate, poll findsThe Guardian - Sandra LavilleNearly 70% of British people want urgent political action to tackle climate change and protect the natural environment, according to research by a coalition of green charities. Theresa May, in one of last
The Guardianadded this to FilmAvengers: Endgame Sexists assemble! Someone has 'defeminised' Avengers: EndgameThe Guardian - Stuart HeritageLike me, you probably hated Avengers: Endgame because it contained too many components that you ideologically oppose. Like women, for instance. And homosexuality. And feelings. And women. God, women, So
The Guardianadded this to LifestyleLifestyle (UK) Stonewall: a journey into the night that unleashed gay liberationThe Guardian - Ed Pilkington in New YorkThey’d had enough of hiding in the shadows of trees and living a lie. Of the hate. Stonewall was a rebellion … It was the release of fear. The celebration of personhood. Gay is OK, gay is good. Tommy Had
The Guardianadded this to TechnologyTechnology ‘I feel like a target’: US trade war worries tech workers of Chinese descentThe Guardian - Julia Carrie WongTechnology workers of Chinese descent say that they are experiencing backlash due to the US-China trade war and fears over Huawei, according to a survey commissioned by the Guardian through Blind, an allowing
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesPlay buttonProud Boys Raucous crowds, Proud Boys and a baby blimp: Trump's 2020 campaign beginsGuardian US - Richard Luscombe in OrlandoIt was a day on which Donald Trump was looking for lightning to strike twice. And for thousands of his faithful supporters who had waited for hours outside Orlando’s Amway Center on one of the stormiest
The Guardianadded this to LifestyleLifestyle (UK) How Stonewall felt – to someone who was thereThe Guardian - Edmund WhiteI was at the Stonewall Riots 50 years ago, the beginning of the current gay rights movement. Not because I was a radical. Quite the contrary. As a middle-class white 29-year-old who’d been in therapy years
The Guardianadded this to BusinessNorth Sea UK firms will face 'deliberate disruption' to hit zero carbon goalThe Guardian - Jillian AmbroseUK companies must brace for the government to deliberately disrupt or phase out business areas that are unfit for a net zero-carbon economy, according to a report. The UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC)
The Guardianadded this to MediaMedia Industry March of the under 10s – generation growing up as protestersThe Guardian - Robert Booth Social affairs correspondentPolitical protest, spotting fake news and taking control of new technology comes naturally to the UK’s under 10s, the so-called Alpha generation and the first cohort born into the fully-fledged social
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesBrexit Cambridge slips to lowest-ever place in world university tableThe Guardian - Rachel Hall and Richard AdamsUK’s downward trend continues as two-thirds of its ranked universities tumble Brexit and the financial squeeze affecting universities appear to be taking a toll on Britain’s universities, with many seeing
The Guardianadded this to Top StoriesBooks How to make salad dressing in prison: the hit survival guide written by an inmateThe Guardian - Sian CainI'm trying to stop reoffending because once someone's humanity is gone, it's a void to be filled with drugs and violence You can go because you are homeless, because you are a squatter, and for not paying
