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iOS 15 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big update
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Apple plans to release software updates for its iPhone, iPad and smartwatch on Monday, which will add new features for compatible devices. Announced at the firm’s developer conference in June, iOS 15, iPadOS 15 and Wa...
‘We didn’t want to do a Grease’: how Everybody’s Talking About Jamie became a film
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Choosing a stage musical to see right now can feel like browsing the cinema listings of the 1980s and 90s. Pretty Woman and Back to the Future are playing across the street from one another in London’s West End, met ...
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie review – superficial charmer with a star turn
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The movie adaptation of the West End musical based on the real-life story of an aspiring teenage drag queen from Sheffield, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie wears its feelgood message of acceptance and empowerment as p...
Take care with claims about unvaccinated case rates
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ITV’s political editor, Robert Peston, wrote a Twitter thread with the headline: “Infections higher among double vaxxed for those [bejaardes] 40 aan 79 than for non-vaxxed.” ITV changed that headline, but Peston was surpris...
Grace Dent on the golden age of soaps: ‘They gave the nation something to gossip about’
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To show how very long ago it was when I was given the “soap column” World of Lather for the Guide, I remember taking the news on a Nokia 5510, then dancing to a CD single of Independent Women, the red-hot new track by...
India’s Ravi Shastri: ‘I have absolutely no regrets about the book launch’
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“There is no shortcut in India,” Ravi Shastri says with a wry smile on a cool September morning in London. All the heat and dust of this summer’s series between England and India, which was as riveting as it was contr...
That way madness lies: why the obsession about diagnosing Robert Schumann?
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Of all the things, one of Robert and Clara Schumann’s grandchildren, Felix, ended up working as a door-to-door lingerie salesman in a New York suburb. On the morning of 25 Oktober 1941, he was found slumped behind the...
‘About damn time’: First Nation gets clean water after 24-year wait
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Residents of a First Nations community in Canada, who were deprived of clean drinking water for nearly a quarter of a century, can now drink from their taps after a water treatment facility became fully operational ea...
It’s not all about populism: grassroots democracy is thriving across Europe
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The past decade has been a bruising one for the health of European democracy. The dramatic authoritarian turns in Hungary and Poland have attracted most attention, but nearly all European governments have chipped away...
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie review – The Full Monty in drag
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This big-hearted musical comedy started life on the stage in 2017 – and 10 years before that as a TV documentary about the true story of gay teenager Jamie Campbell, whose dream was to be a drag queen. The broad chara...
Vertel ons: how do you feel about the UK government’s plan for Covid booster jabs?
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From next week, the NHS will be offering booster jab against Covid-19 to all over-50s and those at high risk of the disease in the UK, as part of the government’s “toolbox” of measures for controlling coronavirus over...
Berry intelligent? Take our quiz to find out how much you know about coffee
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Discover what’s next for Nespresso’s journey to carbon-neutral coffee here
If Johnson is serious about ‘levelling up’, he needs to look at what Labour got right
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No one knows what “levelling up” is, but now Boris Johnson wants 10 more years to do it. A white paper on the grand strategy is promised but, in the meantime, take a good look at this week’s report from Onward – a cen...
Why is Nicki Minaj tweeting about vaccines and some guy’s swollen testicles?
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Michael, Nicki Minaj’s cousin’s friend apparently cancelled his wedding because his testicles were swollen. Why do I know this? I don’t want to know this! Help. Steph, it has truly been a morning. Amidst the pandemoni...
Russian minister complains to US about role of ‘digital giants’ in election
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The Russian foreign ministry has summoned the US ambassador, John Sullivan, to complain about alleged interference by “American digital giants” in Russia’s upcoming parliamentary election. According to a ministry stat...
Number of dog owners thinking about giving up pet surges, charity reports
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The number of people considering giving up their pet dog for adoption has surged since coronavirus restrictions were lifted, a canine welfare charity has said. The Dogs Trust said it had experienced a 35% increase in ...