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'Don't you have friends to go with?': the stigma and joy of a table for one | Emma Gannon
Solo dining is a sign of unhappiness, a new report claims. I’ll tell you why I think that’s nonsense – but please don’t pull up a chair. I once told a colleague that I was going to Amsterdam on a ...
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Yoko Ono is now getting acclaim, but why do rock stars’ female partners get so much abuse? | Barbara Ellen
Ono was blamed for splitting the Beatles and taking John Lennon from his true calling. Let’s hope things are getting easier for women who date famous musicians. More than 50 years after John Lennon ...
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I’ve got the message: security leaks are no laughing matter | Stewart Lee
Is it worth me writing jokes about Trump’s US? It looks like they are targeting even their mildest visa-carrying critics. During the Brexit era, it became obvious many comments under these columns ...
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Striving for efficiency is all very well, but it leaves no time to live | Eva Wiseman
Efficiency slices and barges its way through delicate structures, leaving the most vulnerable flailing. A recent Apple update saw people waking up to their emails summarised for efficiency, thus ...
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Squaring up to death after my cancer diagnosis gave me a deeper appreciation of life | Matt Forde
I’m with Lauren Laverne: surviving the disease can lead to a newfound resilience and love of simply being alive. Lauren Laverne says she loves her life more now that she’s had cancer. I know ...
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AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp
If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better. As much as I have the general vibe of a luddite (strange hobbies, socially maladjusted, ...
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Chris Riddell on King Trump: all that he touches turns to… – cartoon
In the US, everything is going down the pan, while the global economy glistens with growth . You can buy a copy of this cartoon Continue reading...
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When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton
US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary. At international academic conferences recently, one ...
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James Tarkowski should have been sent off against Liverpool, admits PGMOL
Slot welcomes move and says officiating has been ‘OK’ Everton defender booked for challenge on Mac Allister The Premier League referees’ body, Professional Game Match Officials Ltd (PGMOL), has ...
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Carbon monoxide killed son of former Yankees star Brett Gardner, autopsy finds
Miller Gardner was on holiday with family in Costa Rica Fumes may have leaked from adjacent engine room Carbon monoxide poisoning was the cause of death of the teenage son of former New York ...
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Oxlade-Chamberlain bucks trend and enjoys Besiktas boost under Solskjær
Former Liverpool midfielder was frozen out by Turkish club but has seized lifeline given by new manager. Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain is still just 31 years old, which feels very young for a man who ...
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The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a spectacle of struggle and control | Editorial
The US president wields tariffs not as a policy tool but as an instrument of pressure, rewarding loyalty and punishing defiance – even among allies. Donald Trump has probably not read much ...
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Trump’s US doesn’t just think Europe is obsolete – it wants to see it dead | Nathalie Tocci
Whether it is by declaring a trade war or by bullying Greenland, visceral hatred is driving American policy. The “Signalgate” scandal confirmed what Europeans already knew. The Trump ...
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Vance’s posturing in Greenland was not just morally wrong. It was strategically disastrous | Timothy Snyder
Thanks to Trump’s administration, the US could soon have to fight wars to get things that, just a few weeks ago, were there for the asking. No one would allow that he could not see these ...
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The storm-battered chancellor needs her nextdoor neighbour to be a steadfast friend | Andrew Rawnsley
Even if the UK manages to dodge the worst of Donald Trump’s tariffs, we will still suffer from the fallout of a global trade war. After her jaunt to the O2 , Rachel Reeves may be aware that the ...
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A tip for JD Vance: Greenland doesn’t care about your frail human ego | Sarah Ditum
My own trip to Nuuk showed me you can’t just rock up and attempt to bend all that bleak, rugged terrain to your will. In August 2018, I did something that JD Vance and his wife, Usha, can only ...
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The anti-women ‘fertilization president’ who wants to have it both ways | Arwa Mahdawi
Trump’s executive order supposedly expanding IVF access offered nothing concrete beyond a weird nickname for himself. Donald Trump has clearly been spending far too much time with ...
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This op-ed could lead to me being deported from America | Berna León
I could never have imagined that writing a critical piece about the government could put me at risk of deportation. When I moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, less than a year ago, I could never ...
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Changing your clock? Scientists are only just beginning to understand what this does to us | Ruth Ogden
Our research in October showed that ‘falling back’ had a negative impact on women, especially mothers. Do we need to shift the way we think about time?. Twice a year we change the clocks. For many ...
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Around me in Istanbul there is fear on every face – but I see a resilience that refuses to die | Carolin Würfel
Many turbulent years have taught my friends never to make plans. Yet, even after Ekrem İmamoğlu’s arrest, they have hope. Carolin Würfel is a German writer based in Istanbul When I first visited ...
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So many souvenirs for JD Vance to take home from Greenland: oil, gas, minerals – and that’s just the start | Marina Hyde
The widely reviled veep and his wife may not see much of the island they’d like to annex, but the US military base will be lovely at this time of year. There’s a Gerard Butler movie called ...
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Ange Postecoglou seeks moment of strength to escape spiral at Spurs | Jonathan Liew
Tottenham manager knows the vultures are circling but his mission is driven by honouring the family name. His passport still bears the name “Angelos Postekos”. It was the name legally given to him ...
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European football: Mourinho grabs rival manager’s nose after Turkish Cup defeat
Fenerbahce coach clashed with Galatasaray’s Okan Buruk Stuttgart sink Leipzig to book place in DFB-Pokal final José Mourinho appeared to grab the nose of the opposing manager, Galatasaray’s Okan ...
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‘Is it “woke” to care about the environment?’: how Trump’s cuts are dismantling global conservation work
Hundreds of projects supported by USAID have been thrown into doubt, as fears grow of an increase in crimes such as poaching and trafficking. . When the guns finally fell silent in 1992, little was ...
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Carl Hooper’s life in sport: from West Indies to Australia via county cricket
The West Indies batter on his effortless style, playing with his idols and how leadership brought out the best in him. By Wisden Cricket Monthly . Born in Georgetown, Guyana, Carl Hooper, 58, ...
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Weather tracker: Arctic winter sea ice at record low in 2025, scientists say
Annual peak is lowest on record, covering 5.53m sq miles – about 30,000 sq miles below the previous low in 2017. Winter sea ice in the Arctic has reached a record low in 2025, according to Nasa and ...
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The Florida and Wisconsin election results are a warning for Trump and Republicans | Lloyd Green
Republicans in Florida couldn’t re-create Trump’s November margins, while Musk’s efforts in Wisconsin failed. Donald Trump and the Republicans ought to be wary of a possible blue wave in next ...
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There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan
It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’. On 29 January, the second Trump administration held its first White House ...
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Average person will be 40% poorer if world warms by 4C, new research shows
Experts say previous economic models underestimated impact of global heating – as well as likely ‘cascading supply chain disruptions’. Economic models have systematically underestimated how global ...
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Bloom or bust? Superbloom spectacle eludes California after dry winter
Riot of native wildflowers that enthralled visitors in the past several years have failed to sprout due to too little rain. It’s one of the best known rites of spring in California : extraordinary ...
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‘A tree zoo’: endangered conifers a living legacy of Kent pinetum’s centenary
Bedgebury national pinetum has become a vital ark for rare evergreen trees, which are often unfairly maligned. With the exception of Christmas trees, conifers are not widely cherished. People tend ...
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‘The heat you need at a reasonable price’: how district heating can speed the switch to clean energy
In Sweden, most residential heating and hot water comes from heating networks – helping to pool resources and innovation. District heating is sometimes talked about like some kind of unattainable ...
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Republicans win special elections for two key House seats in Florida
Randy Fine beats Josh Weil in Mike Waltz’s former district, and Jimmy Patronis wins seat vacated by Matt Gaetz. Republicans on Tuesday won special elections for two US House of Representatives ...
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Wisconsin and Florida voters head to polls in test of Trump’s popularity
Conservatives bid to overturn liberal majority on Wisconsin supreme court while Florida votes to replace Mike Waltz . US voters are headed to the polls on Tuesday in Wisconsin and Florida in ...
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Middle East crisis live: Israel orders Rafah evacuation; return to ceasefire between Israel and Hamas essential, says EU
Sweeping order from military covers most of city in southern Gaza; European Union says resumption of negotiations is only way forward. The Israeli military said on Monday that an inquiry had found ...
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Politicians criticise US efforts to make EU firms reverse diversity initiatives
Officials in France and Belgium hit out at ‘American interference’ amid growing transatlantic tensions. Europe live – latest updates Officials in France and Belgium have hit back at American ...
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Columbia alumni rip up diplomas to protest activist Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest
Group of Sipa graduates demonstrate against government’s jailing of graduate student, who spoke up for Palestinians. A handful of alumni from Columbia University’s school of international and ...
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Denmark hits back at ‘tone’ of US vice-president’s criticism over Greenland
‘This is not how you talk to your close allies,’ says Danish foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen. Denmark has hit back against JD Vance’s comments that Copenhagen has not done enough for ...
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Weather tracker: Heavy rain alerts in Queensland as floods cut off towns
Wettest March day for 15 years in some parts of northern Australian state, while storms and hail hit Mediterranean. More heavy rain has hit Queensland, Australia, just weeks after the devastation ...
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US could see return of acid rain due to Trump’s rollbacks, says scientist who discovered it
Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’. The US could be plunged back into an era of toxic acid rain, an environmental ...