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2026-05-14 03:00:21 (1 week ago)

Labour is being destroyed by dithering: it should either do Brexit properly or rejoin the EU | Larry Elliott

The UK has been suffering since going it alone, but Starmer’s noncommittal approach has made things worse. No wonder voters are angry

Ten years on from the referendum, Brexit still shapes British politics. It has smashed the two-party duopoly and continues to divide the country. Keir Starmer’s struggle to remain prime minister after last week’s drubbing for Labour in elections in England, Scotland and Wales is proof of that.

Voters took politicians at their word after the decision was made to leave the EU. The reason “Take back control” worked as a slogan was that it chimed with the public mood in large parts of Britain.

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2026-05-14 03:00:20 (1 week ago)

You be the judge: should my partner stop leaving the windows and doors open?

Mark is frustrated that Lucinda’s open-door policy allows mosquitoes into their flat. You decide who needs to get a handle on this issue

• Find out how to get a disagreement settled or become a juror

Closing them doesn’t take a huge amount of work; it takes seconds and stops heat and insects getting in

Keeping them open feels more relaxed and homey – plus, it’s better for the cat

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-14 03:00:20 (1 week ago)

Stuffed possums and sunken gold coins: the podcast that explains America in 100 unlikely items

Roman Mars’s pod 99% Invisible is a worldwide hit. Now he has teamed up with the BBC for new series A History of the United States in 100 Objects, an insight into the secret significance of everyday stuff

In 2010, the audio producer Roman Mars launched 99% Invisible, a podcast about the hidden designs and inventions most of us overlook. At the time, he didn’t have high hopes for it. Not only was the subject matter wilfully niche – early topics included building acoustics and the ergonomics of the toothbrush – but the episodes were just four minutes long. Still, listener numbers quickly grew and the episodes got longer. Sixteen years on, 99% Invisible is now a podcasting institution that has amassed more than 660 episodes, investigating everything from political logos to the colour of margarine. “It’s taking something that seems really boring and going, ‘No, no, no, this is interesting,’ and really convincing you of that,” Mars says.

Mars, 51, is talking over video call from a small, foam-panelled studio at his home in Berkeley, northern California, where he records the show. His voice – warm, mellifluous, gently quizzical – is synonymous with a particular American podcasting style that is erudite yet informal. There’s a reason why Mars habitually talks close to the microphone rather than declaiming from a distance. The effect is to make listeners feel as if he’s broadcasting from the inside of their heads.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-14 03:00:20 (1 week ago)

UN members prepare for pivotal vote on landmark ICJ climate justice ruling

If resolution is passed governments will have legal responsibility to cut greenhouse gas emissions

The UN’s willingness to tackle the climate crisis in a fair and legal way will be tested next week during a critical vote of the UN general assembly in New York.

Every member state is being asked to back a series of landmark findings on climate justice from the international court of justice (ICJ) as part of a new political resolution. If passed, it will mean governments recognise they have a legal responsibility to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, including tackling fossil fuels.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-14 03:00:20 (1 week ago)

Why are we getting more, not less, VAR? Football will not kill its golden goose | Jonathan Liew

In generating a constant stream of outrage, debate and engagement, much-reviled tech has become its own spectacle

“Just keep delaying,” Darren England tells the referee, Chris Kavanagh, at West Ham on Sunday afternoon. The title is on the line, possibly relegation too, and as replay after replay queues up on the tape machine, who could blame a humble video assistant for wanting to savour the moment?

To survey it from all the relevant angles, consider all contingencies. To feel the sensation of all that awesome power at his fingertips. They’re calling it the most important VAR review in Premier League history. Stuart Attwell, you’ll never sing that.

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2026-05-14 03:00:19 (1 week ago)

Nemesis review – a ridiculously entertaining cop show packed with stars of The Wire

This Netflix drama about a maverick cop crime-busting high-stakes heists might seem cliched at first – but it gets better and better by the minute. Hi Herc!

Detective Isaiah Stiles (Matthew Law) is extremely committed to his job, but it brings him no satisfaction. The long hours he dedicates to crime-busting with the LAPD have alienated his teenage son and infuriated his wife, Candace (Gabrielle Dennis), to the point where Isaiah is sleeping in the summer house. He is permanently vexed. But he isn’t meant to be happy: he’s a maverick cop.

The maverick-copness of its lead character is the first of many crime-show cliches shamelessly replicated by Nemesis, the first Netflix show from writer Courtney A Kemp, creator of the gangster drama Power and its various spin-offs. Isaiah carries the trauma of an old case where a junior colleague was killed in pursuit of a gang of elite thieves: now, whenever a robbery goes down in Los Angeles – and a big one has just happened, with bags of cash brazenly swiped from a posh party’s high-stakes poker game – Isaiah suspects that his white whale, the man who pulled the trigger years ago, is behind it. To the consternation of colleagues, he has a whiteboard in his office covered in photographs and sticky notes.

The Guardian - World News

2026-05-14 03:00:19 (1 week ago)

‘Give him the pain’: meet Zak Chelli, the supply teacher turned boxing sensation

The light-heavyweight is a substitute teacher by day but on Saturday delivered a blistering lesson to Cuba’s David Morrell

Last Saturday night in Manchester, Zak Chelli, a 28-year-old supply teacher from Fulham, produced one of the sporting upsets of the year when he knocked out Cuba’s esteemed David Morrell in a stoppage as shocking as it was compelling. Chelli had been offered the fight two weeks earlier and despite the limited preparation he proved himself a formidable late replacement.

Morrell was ahead on the scorecards, but he was hurt badly in the ninth round. In the 10th and last, Mr Chelli – as he is known to his pupils – delivered a blistering lesson before Morrell was rescued by the referee.