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‘He keeps coming back for more’: Matt Hancock’s rapid return to the fray
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Considering how many parties they are alleged to have held, Boris Johnson and his government have recently seemed to be very short of friends. A national shortage of Downing Street defenders reached its nadir on 8 Dec...
‘The weather keeps playing tricks’: living on the frontline of global heating
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Throughout the 2021 United Nations climate change conference, the Guardian will be publishing the stories of the people whose lives have been upended – sometimes devastated – by the climate breakdown. I knew farming ...
A lucrative border-industrial complex keeps the US border in constant ‘crisis’
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I’ll never forget Giovanni’s blistered feet as an EMT attended to him on the Mexico side of the US-Mexican border in Sasabe, a remote desert town. On the back of one foot, his skin had been rubbed away and the tender,...
Antarctica’s ‘Doomsday Glacier’ keeps scientists at bay with iceberg and sea ice
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Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is. A large iceberg has broken off the deteriora...
Boon for blooms as UK’s dry spring keeps plant diseases at bay
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Plant diseases are at their lowest levels in the UK for years because of a cold, dry spring, meaning it could be a bumper year for apples, and popular blooms such as iris are likely to be spectacular. The Royal Hortic...
Bournemouth’s Solanke keeps rivals and marathon man on their toes
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‘I think I’ve found my feet this season,” says Dominic Solanke, discussing his emergence at Bournemouth, and he could not pick a more apt turn of phrase given also on the video call is a season-ticket holder who is ru...
Bruised review – Halle Berry’s MMA fighter keeps her eye on the prize
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Halle Berry leaves it pretty late to turn on the energy for her directing debut – until the final round, in fact. But this fight movie, in which Berry herself plays a burned-out MMA fighter struggling to make a comeba...
Buffalo shooting: how white replacement theory keeps inspiring mass murder
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On Saturday, 18-year-old Payton Gendron parked his car in front of the entrance to a Tops Supermarket in a Black neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. Exiting the car wearing metal armor and holding an assault rifle, he ...
Bump season two review – the smart, satisfying show that keeps growing on you
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Bump isn’t the kind of production one is likely to describe as kitchen sink drama, or vérité, or any other cerebral-sounding words – it is too accessible and unassuming. And yet this very enjoyable and intelligently m...
Chelsea stay top after Ben Chilwell’s superb strike keeps Brentford at bay
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It was no exaggeration to describe it as a siege. Chelsea had led through Ben Chilwell’s lovely finish on the stroke of half-time but it was Brentford who asked all the questions – with increasing urgency – as a pulsa...
Chet Hanks keeps calling for a white boy summer – and he really needs to stop
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First there was hot girl summer, then there was Christian girl autumn, now we’ve been cursed with white boy summer. If you found that sentence completely incomprehensible then allow me to congratulate you on being a m...
Compass Group profits slump as Covid keeps office canteens closed
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Sales and profits have slumped at the catering firm Compass Group as the pandemic kept canteens closed at factories, offices and schools. Operating profit fell to £290m in the six months to the end of March, down 65% ...
Durham University keeps college head in post despite alleged intimidating conduct
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A leading British university has been accused of turning a blind eye to bullying after a college principal was allowed to remain in post despite complaints of intimidating behaviour towards colleagues. Prof Adekunle A...
Édouard Mendy keeps Leeds at bay to extend Chelsea’s unbeaten run
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Thomas Tuchel was hired for his winning habit more than his drawing tendency but, a dozen games into his reign, the German has already overseen stalemates in January, February and March. The term feels inappropriate i...
Fabinho keeps up his Liverpool scoring streak to keep Burnley bottom
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In a year when Jürgen Klopp has spent £50m on a forward, Liverpool seem to have gained a prolific scorer. Not Luis Díaz – or not yet, anyway – but Fabinho. Klopp’s title hopes may be faint but they could have been ext...
February sucks. This local reporter keeps going viral for breaking that news
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April may be the cruelest month, but February straight up sucks. This is the “news” that was broken by local reporter Kevin Killeen of St Louis’s KMOX, in a 2016 video segment declaring February “an honest month” beca...