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Intensity, smiles & Lewandowski – inside Liverpool training under Iraola
Liverpool’s first open training session under new head coach Andoni Iraola in Chicago was marked by high-intensity drills and a positive atmosphere, as the club prepares to face Leeds in its final US pre-season match. The session also suggested that a recent on-field disagreement involving Dominik Szoboszlai, Curtis Jones and Kostas Tsimikas has been resolved,…
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Turn failing water firms into not-for-profit cooperatives, MPs and mayors tell PM
Labour MPs and regional mayors have urged the prime minister to convert failing water companies into locally run, not-for-profit cooperatives rather than nationalising them outright. They argue this would give the public greater control over essential water services, curb shareholder extraction and sewage pollution, while avoiding the additional government debt that nationalisation could place on…
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The tangled financial web at the heart of Reform UK
The article examines the network of donors, advisers and business associates surrounding Reform UK, arguing that scrutiny has exposed increasingly close financial ties at the party’s centre. It focuses on Nigel Farage’s £5m gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne and raises questions about the transparency and origins of funding supporting a party seeking to form…
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Tiger Shroff to Star in Viccky Jain’s VJ Frames Launch Title, Directed by Remo D’Souza, With Abhishek Banerjee, Elvish Yadav Also Set (EXCLUSIVE)
Indian producer and entrepreneur Viccky Jain has launched VJ Frames, a new production company whose first project will be an action franchise directed by Remo D’Souza. Tiger Shroff will lead the cast alongside Abhishek Banerjee and Elvish Yadav, marking Jain’s debut as a film producer and signalling his move from reality television into commercial cinema.…
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MICHAEL GOVE: Burnham’s Labour doesn’t believe in aspiration, just the soft bigotry of low expectations. From education to home ownership, their message to the working class is… know your place
In this opinion column, Michael Gove argues that Andy Burnham’s Labour government lacks ambition for working-class people and promotes what he describes as “low expectations”. He contrasts Burnham’s social-media-focused communication style with William Gladstone’s 1879 speech to Scottish labourers and miners, presenting Gladstone as a politician who treated working people as capable of engaging with…
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ECB official warns climate crisis poses growing threat to ‘core financial stability’
A senior European Central Bank official has warned that the climate crisis and the degradation of nature are becoming major threats to financial stability. Frank Elderson said increasingly frequent disasters, such as the wildfires affecting France and Spain, can damage homes, businesses and economies, while the decline of natural systems creates broader and harder-to-measure risks…
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Michael Biehn’s big “mistake” of turning down Patrick Swayze’s most iconic role of the 1990s
Michael Biehn reportedly passed on the part of Bodhi in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action film Point Break, a role that became one of Patrick Swayze’s best-known performances of the decade. The article presents the decision as a significant missed opportunity because Swayze’s charismatic surfer and bank robber helped make the film an enduring cult favourite.…
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“They liked the Butthole Surfers, they liked Iggy Pop, they liked us… we were keeping good company.” How Beavis and Butt-head’s approval of Thunder Kiss ’65 turned White Zombie into a million-selling band
White Zombie deliberately moved away from their noise rock origins towards a more accessible, danceable metal sound, seeking audiences beyond New York’s underground clubs. Their single Thunder Kiss ’65 became central to that ambition, with exposure from Beavis and Butt-head helping turn the band into a million-selling act and placing them alongside artists they admired.…
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“If he felt the bass parts while he was singing, it could only be a matter of time before it crept down from his head into his fingers”: How Boz Burrell saved King Crimson when Robert Fripp had lost hope
In 1970, Robert Fripp was close to ending King Crimson as the line-up behind the band’s third album, Lizard, fell apart. The arrival of singer Boz Burrell helped keep the group alive, and he later became its bassist despite initially having no experience on the instrument; this unexpected change proved crucial to the next phase…
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FX’s 2-Part Series Is the Perfect Modern Binge After Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
Collider argues that FX’s two-part series The Old Man is a fitting modern companion to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, presenting both as stories about the troubled return home after war. The article says the drama exceeds its apparent action-thriller premise by focusing on loss, displacement and a universal desire for homecoming. The series follows Dan…