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This was a training game - England & Tuchel now need to get serious

England have one more game to prepare for their World Cup campaign - and they must use it wisely, writes Phil McNulty.

Liberal elites sneer at Britain's glorious history... no wonder they want to put BUMBLEBEES on our banknotes rather than Churchill, writes Oxford history professor LAWRENCE GOLDMAN

This question arises because, in his justification last week for removing depictions of famous Britons from our banknotes, Sir Andrew said we, the public, had voted for this.

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Fall in official Ebola numbers appears to be good news but it's not that simple

There are now 380 confirmed cases of Ebola in DR Congo, far lower than initial estimates of suspected cases, writes Fergus Walsh.

Trump has become DC’s developer-in-chief

The White House says Trump is beautifying the capital, but, writes Brendan Rascius, Democrats and other critics claim he’s skirting standard approval processes and squandering taxpayer funds on self-indulgent boondoggles

My life as a slave for Opus Dei: How two sisters endured eight years of hell trapped in secretive Catholic 'cult' from The Da Vinci Code

Sitting in the living room of their homes near Dublin, Sheila & Margaret Joyce revealed their Opus Dei nightmare… but there was one memory that stopped me in my tracks, writes JORDANA SEAL.

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‘I’d rather read a book’: Tarantino criticises ‘flavourless sausage factory’ Hollywood

Pulp Fiction director writes in Sight and Sound that ‘since the pandemic … it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death’ Quentin Tarantino has criticised contemporary Hollywood, calling it “a flavourless sausage factory”. Writing in Sight and Sound magazine, Tarantino said that “since the pandemic … it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I don’t pick to death”. He added: “Flaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain stupid shit usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavourless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood.” Continue reading...

Trump’s DC follies: From 250-ft arch to UFC rig towering over White House, he’s remaking capital in his image

How Iran’s ‘bazaar style’ negotiation tactic is stalling deal discussions to its benefit

The Iranian penchant for what Tehran’s foreign minister calls ‘continuous and tireless’ bargaining appears to be wearing down Donald Trump, writes Maira Butt

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Dominion by Addie E Citchens review – Women’s prize-shortlisted portrait of patriarchy’s horrors

The violence of male entitlement is embodied in the charismatic son of a Mississippi pastor, in a sharp portrait of cruelty and inheritance ‘To woman he gave a womb, and to man he gave dominion’, that’s what I teach my boys,” the Rev Sabre Winfrey Jr tells his wife, Priscilla, midway through Addie E Citchens’s formidable Women’s prize-shortlisted debut novel, Dominion. In Citchens’s hands, that dominion is exercised not only through violence, but through charisma, piety and the banality of male entitlement. Set in the fictional town of Dominion, Mississippi, at the turn of the millennium, the novel follows the Winfreys, a prominent Black church family whose putative grandeur conceals a deep and hereditary decay. Sabre leads the largest congregation in the state from the pulpit of Seven Seals Baptist church, dispensing wisdom through sermons and local radio broadcasts, exuding the oily confidence of a man convinced that God speaks exclusively in his register. The longsuffering Priscilla writes those sermons, raises their five sons and silently maintains the machinery of his authority without ever receiving credit for it. Continue reading...

QUENTIN LETTS: Will Labour win over voters with a manifesto opposed to hot buttered crumpets and clotted cream - courtesy of a man who increasingly resembles a spluttering lunatic?

Put down that loaded sausage and raise your hands in the air, writes QUENTIN LETTS. Climate fanatic Ed Miliband may soon be after our meat and dairy addiction.

I know why Henry Nowak was treated as a criminal as he lay dying, while the man who stabbed him was coddled. I've been saying the same thing for 20 years - this is what we must do: PETER HITCHENS

The police were always one of the top targets of the slow-motion British Revolution that has swept through this country since the 1980s, writes PETER HITCHENS. Didn't notice? You weren't meant to.

Trump’s IRS deal to avoid tax investigations could be in big trouble

A federal judge could sanction everyone involved over allegations of ‘serious misconduct’ in the president’s lawsuit against himself, Alex Woodward writes

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Henry Nowak's death raises more questions about UK policing and race

Police face accusations of two-tier policing as they work to stamp out racial bias, our senior UK correspondent writes.

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England in serious debt after Ashes and repayment must start now

England have invested in Brendon McCullum once again but now it is time for his team to start paying back the faith, writes Stephan Shemilt.

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‘The story of Hong Kong is the sound of it’: the cross-cultural joy of the city’s Cantopop music

Emma-Lee Moss, AKA singer-songwriter Emmy the Great, has written a memoir rooted in her love of Hong Kong’s east-meets-west pop. She picks her favourite tracks Emma-Lee Moss, a singer-songwriter who released four albums as Emmy the Great, was born in Hong Kong to an English father and Hongkonger mother. She lived there until she was 11, when her family moved to England, one of many who left Hong Kong before its transfer of sovereignty from the UK to China in 1997. Even as a child, Moss understood the significance of the handover, which returned Hong Kong to Chinese control after 156 years as a British colony. “Thanks to our British passports, we would avoid the greatest schism our city had ever known – and its consequences, which were unwritten,” Moss writes in her memoir, My Cantopop Nights. Later, as a touring musician, Moss played gigs in Hong Kong, where she reconnected with her childhood love of Cantopop – predominantly Hong Kong music that blended Chinese and western pop sensibilities. In 2017, she moved back there to write her fourth album. That year, which marked 20 years since the handover, saw thousands of pro-democracy protesters on the streets after activists including Joshua Wong, Nathan Law and Alex Chow were imprisoned. Amid the unrest, Moss sought to capture Hong Kong’s sound and spirit through her music. Continue reading...

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Ambivalence by Brian Dillon review – an odd man out

The critic’s memoir’s is a portrait in determination to go against the grain and ‘pursue a life in words and ideas’ Brian Dillon lost his parents early, his mother when he was 16, his father at 21. He writes of them in passing here, as he did in his first book, In the Dark Room, but with little overt display of grief. Narrated in the third person, with young Dillon a removed he rather than an emotionally manipulative I, this isn’t a weepy orphanhood memoir. It describes instead his awkward Dublin education, as he struggles to carve out an identity for himself and to accommodate his passion for avant garde music and literature within academe. He grows up surrounded by the books acquired by his father, who left school early and went to university late. He reads them avidly and adds to them with library borrowings and purchases of his own. But, to begin with, his greater attachment is to music magazines and to David Bowie, whose excitingly ambivalent sexuality echoes his own. His father speaks of duty – to homework, weekly mass and getting a decent job. But his commitment is to jouissance, if only he can find it. Continue reading...

Republicans balk at Trump’s attempt to appoint a MAGA enforcer to lead National Intelligence

Trump’s cold reception comes after the GOP killed his ‘slush fund’ and angered plenty in the Senate Republican conference, Eric Garcia writes

The week hope died for Gus Lamont: Police despair, wild theories - and the second case no one is talking about. I've covered it from the start - and I've never been more certain how this ends

I've followed every step of the Gus Lamont investigation - and what's happening now points to a deeply sad ending, writes senior reporter Karleigh Smith.

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