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Aston Villa upheaval is a risk but Emery can release v2.0 and reap rewards | Jonathan Wilson
Aston Villa are undertaking a major overhaul after their most successful season since winning the European Cup in 1982, having lifted the Europa League and finished fourth in the Premier League. Jonathan Wilson argues that the changes bring clear risk, particularly after several important players and staff departed, but could allow Unai Emery to build…
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Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe
Dutch data regulator Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens has fined Uber €824.9 million (£/US$ equivalent reported as about $966 million) for allegedly automatically deactivating European drivers’ accounts without human review between 2018 and 2022. The regulator said this may have unlawfully deprived drivers of income under GDPR rules governing significant automated decisions. The case began after 171 French…
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This European country has slashed the number of asylum applications by a third, so why can’t we? The man whose policies dramatically cut them reveals how he did it… and how we could too
Denmark has cut its asylum applications by a third in recent years through hardline immigration policies, and the politician behind the strategy says the UK could achieve similar results by making itself less attractive to asylum seekers. Rasmus Stoklund, Denmark’s former immigration and integration minister, told the Daily Mail that strict eligibility checks, rapid decision-making…
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All the ways Putin could attack Britain from cyber chaos to full-scale drone strikes after ambassador warned London of ‘consequences’ for helping Ukraine
The Daily Mail sets out the range of retaliatory measures Vladimir Putin could allegedly use against Britain, after Russia’s ambassador in London reportedly warned of “consequences” for the UK’s continued support of Ukraine. The piece frames these as potential responses to Britain’s military and diplomatic backing of Kyiv, spanning options from covert cyber disruption to…
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A Visit to The Last Supper in Milan, and Italy’s Still Italy
One’s a magnificent wreck, the other’s more convoluted than ever.
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Your Expired Visa Card Could Be ‘Zombified’ to Make Contactless Payments
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have revealed that expired Visa cards can be “zombified” to make fraudulent contactless payments, exploiting a flaw in how Visa handles card expiry checks during transaction authentication. This matters because it undermines the common assumption that an expired card is worthless to a thief, meaning discarded cards left…
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‘Embryonic’: lost novel by French film-maker Éric Rohmer is republished
An English translation of Élisabeth, a 1946 novel written by French New Wave director Éric Rohmer under a pseudonym years before he turned to film-making, has been republished and is receiving enthusiastic reviews. Critics and scholars are hailing it as both a lost modernist work in its own right and a revealing precursor to the…
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Sandra Wollner’s ‘Everytime’ Wins Best Film in Sarajevo, Ana Urushadze Crowned Best Director
Sandra Wollner’s film “Everytime” has won the top prize for best narrative feature at the 32nd Sarajevo Film Festival, taking the Honorary Heart award and 16,000 Euros. The Austrian director’s film, starring Birgit Minichmayr, follows a mother and her two remaining children as they travel to Tenerife to cope with the death of their eldest…
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The blueprint for Burnham’s plan to ‘rewire Britain’ could be found 700 miles away
Andy Burnham’s early weeks as prime minister have centred on a plan to radically decentralise power away from Westminster, an approach he has termed “Manchesterism”. The former Greater Manchester mayor wants to shift decision-making and funding to local communities, giving city-region mayors a share of income tax revenue and pursuing public control of essential services,…
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‘Black community-only’ days and bans for non-German speakers: How swimming pools have become Germany’s new cultural battlegrounds
German swimming pools have become a flashpoint in wider debates over integration and multiculturalism, with reports of some venues introducing “Black community-only” swimming sessions alongside separate rules barring visitors who cannot speak German. The developments have stirred controversy, with critics arguing that such measures amount to segregation or exclusion, while supporters frame them as responses…