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The Guardian - World News

2026-03-05 02:00:54 (2 hours ago)

On the trail of Peaky Blinders, Black Sabbath and the perfect pint – an alternative guide to Birmingham

As the Peaky Blinders film is released this week, we follow in the footsteps of the Shelbys, make a heavy metal pilgrimage and find the city’s best places to eat, drink and dance

The runaway success of the TV crime drama Peaky Blinders has been credited with boosting tourism to Birmingham and the West Midlands since it first aired in 2013, even though much of the series was actually shot farther north, in Merseyside, Yorkshire and Manchester. The release this week of the Peaky Blinders movie The Immortal Man (much of which was filmed in and around Birmingham this time) will undoubtedly generate a new wave of interest, particularly in the Black Country Living Museum in nearby Dudley, whose authentic recreations of streets, houses and industrial workshops appear in key scenes in the TV show and the film – most notably as the location for Charlie Strong’s yard (pictured below).

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-05 02:00:54 (2 hours ago)

Tales of the Suburbs by John Grindrod review – an entertaining alternative history of queer Britain

From London’s commuter belt to the country village gay club, these portraits of LGBTQ+ life are filled with humour, compassion and observational flair

Generations of readers have loved Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City novels. His chronicle of queer life began in 1976 in the eclectic glamour of San Francisco’s Barbary Lane, where queer people learned who they were and how to live their lives. But even Maupin relocated in the end. The most recent instalment, Mona of the Manor, saw one of its key characters move to the Cotswolds to navigate a very different kind of village.

The social historian John Grindrod nods to Maupin in this fantastically entertaining alternative history of queer life in Britain, which departs from the usual tales of city-based freedom and discovery to tell the stories of people who grew up in the suburbs. “The suburbs” resist easy definition, and Grindrod handles this lightly. Sometimes they’re marked out by social class, sometimes by geography, each facet blurring into the other. His locations range from London’s commuter belt to hamlets, farms and towns, from the edges of Portsmouth and Hull to pockets of Glasgow and Wilmslow and a tiny village in Lincolnshire, where a gay builder is protected from homophobic abuse in the pub by the local darts team.

The Guardian - World News

2026-03-05 02:00:53 (2 hours ago)

Breaking Social review – Rutger Bregman leads an irresistible rallying cry for global activism

Fredrik Gertten travels the world meeting activists who have had enough of corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality – while Bregman’s nuggets of wisdom are a joy

Bicycling Dutch historian Rutger Bregman does not identify as an optimist. He says that optimism makes people lazy, complacent that history is going in the right direction. Instead he describes himself as a “possibilist”, a believer in the possibility that things can be different. Bregman is interviewed in this film about corruption, kleptocracy and structural inequality. The director is documentary-maker Fredrik Gertten who travels the world meeting activists who have had enough.

First, the cold hard facts. Journalist and corruption expert Sarah Chayes, a former adviser to the Obama administration, does an impressive job summarising her analysis of global kleptocracy. In Malta, the son of the murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed after exposing corruption at the highest levels of government, investigates the new scandal of “golden passports”. The film’s main focus is activism in Chile and the US. Amazon workers in New York unionise (and have a good laugh at their boss Jeff Bezos’s trip to space). In Chile, feminists march and climate activists go into battle against mining companies responsible for drought.

Fox News - Video

2026-03-05 01:53:56 (2 hours ago)

Hannity - Wednesday, March 4

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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-03-05 01:49:56 (2 hours ago)

China economic growth target set below 5% for the first time at key meeting

The National People's Congress set a GDP target of 4.5 to 5 percent for 2026 as China grapples with economic slowdown.

Times of Israel - World News

2026-03-05 01:48:18 (2 hours ago)

Iran threatens to hit Dimona nuclear site if Israel and US try to topple regime

US says working on plans to secure Strait of Hormuz to prevent Iran from restricting 'free flow of energy' through vital waterway; Washington mulling role in postwar Iran

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RT News - Top Stories

2026-03-05 01:45:04 (2 hours ago)

India denies its ports are being used by US Navy

India has called a report suggesting that US naval ships are refueling in the South Asian country as “fake and false”
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Al Jazeera - Top Stories

2026-03-05 01:44:21 (2 hours ago)

Iran targets Kurdish groups in Iraq, begins wave of attacks on Israel

Iranian Kurdish armed groups have reportedly consulted with the US in recent days about whether to attack Iran.

New York Times - World News

2026-03-05 01:40:01 (2 hours ago)

In a Riskier Era, China Bets on Technology to Resist U.S. Pressure

China announced a 7 percent increase in military spending and a five-year plan to try to reduce its military and industry’s reliance on Western technology.

BBC News - Health

2026-03-05 01:39:53 (2 hours ago)

Death of boy after surgery is referred to coroner

Nine-year-old Jack Moate died in 2015, weeks after an operation carried out by a now-suspended surgeon.

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-03-05 01:37:26 (2 hours ago)

Nest sites await return of history-making ospreys

Male osprey 022 and female CJ7 have nested at Careys Secret Garden near Wareham, Dorset, since 2022.

BBC News - Science & Environment

2026-03-05 01:33:38 (2 hours ago)

Neighbours angry at parking ban to speed up buses

The restrictions to parking have been made to help speed up bus journeys along the road.