Trump tears into 'treacherous charade' of Russian collusion probe

Green party’s former leader and only MP to stand down after saying she ‘struggled’ to spend enough time campaigning on climate crisisAnd here are the best extracts from Caroline Lucas’s interview on the Today programme:Lucas said that she would not be “retiring with my knitting” after leaving the Commons, and that not being an MP would give her more time to focus on climate issues. She said:The thing that really motivates me, what really drives me, is action around the climate and nature emergencies.Over the course of my lifetime alone, populations and some of our most important wildlife have plummeted by over half. The climate crisis is accelerating, warnings we will crash through that 1.5C climate threshold within the next five years. So these are really massive issues.She said climate activists were right to use direct action and she gave qualified support to the Just Stop Oil protests. Asked if she supported direct action by campaigners, she replied:I think there is a role for physical direct action and as you say - I always have done and I’ve done it myself.I think it’s a combination of both, to be honest.I think people who are taking peaceful, direct action, whether or not I agree with every single tactic, they have certainly accelerated the focus on this issue, mobilised huge numbers of people.She said Rishi Sunak’s government was more “dangerous and radical” than the Just Stop Oil protesters because of its energy policies. (See quote in the paragraph above.) Yesterday, Sunak described Just Stop Oil activists as “eco-zealots” who were “essentially leading us into an energy surrender”.She said she wanted to help the Green party get more people elected. Its performance in the local elections was its best ever, she said, and she said the Greens are now the largest party on 10 councils, and in administration in more than 30.The intensity of these constituency commitments, together with the particular responsibilities of being my party’s sole MP, mean that, ironically, I’ve not been able to focus as much as I would like on the existential challenges that drive me – the nature and climate emergencies. I have always been a different kind of politician – as those who witnessed my arrest, court case and acquittal over peaceful protest at the fracking site in Balcombe nearly ten years ago will recall. And the truth is, as these threats to our precious planet become ever more urgent, I have struggled to spend the time I want on these accelerating crises. I have therefore decided not to stand again as your MP at the next election.The reason I came into politics was to change things. Thirteen years ago it’s inconceivable that parliament would have declared a climate emergency. And I’ve put issues like a universal basic income and a legal right to access nature on the political agenda; secured the first parliamentary debate in a generation on drug law reform; and thanks to my work in parliament, a natural history GCSE will soon be on the syllabus. I have said the previously unsayable, only to see it become part of the mainstream, on coal, on the myth that endless economic growth makes us happier, on a green new deal. Continue reading...

Chaos has unravelled on the roads in London again this morning after Just Stop Oil protestors target rush hour traffic.

The Competition and Markets Authority’s provisional findings could lead to the merger involving Hitachi and Thales being blocked.

He has faced court.

‘Sadly strong and intelligent women have for far too long been pitted against one another,’ she wrote.

'Everyone's nervous when they first walk through that door.'

London ColiseumRousing songs but threadbare plot as Earth has been conquered, renamed iPlanet and – inexplicably – can only be saved by a band of rock’n’rollersSome bad news for those fed up with recent speculation over artificial intelligence’s future takeover of planet Earth: the return of this 2002 musical, turbo-powered by Queen’s rock anthems and under-powered by Ben Elton’s book, dramatises the same moral panic.Earth has been conquered and renamed iPlanet. Only a group of badly dressed rock’n’rollers called the Bohemians can save it from the clutches of Killer Queen (Loose Woman Brenda Edwards) – boo – and Khashoggi (Lee Mead) – hiss.At the London Coliseum, until 27 August Continue reading...

Jarrod Bowen has described West Ham winning the Europa Conference League as the "best moment of [his] career."

Former party leader said MP duties meant she had ‘struggled to spend the time I want’ on activism

A man who died of brain cancer was misdiagnosed with anxiety and told to “breathe into a paper bag”.

Expert says esports, such as content creation, coding and podcasting, should be added to the school curriculum - to increase future chances of employment in digital market jobs.

Three men are being questioned by police following break-ins in Wilmslow

Google has released another urgent Chrome warning to millions of users across the world and you'd be wise not to ignore it.

Labour shortage at 97% of centres has led to longer waiting times and delays in treatment, survey suggestsCancer patients face life-threatening hospital delays and the prospect of more gruelling treatment as a result of NHS staff shortages, senior radiologists have warned.A poll of all 60 directors of the UK’s cancer centres by the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) found staff shortages at 97% of the centres were leading to longer waiting times and delays in treatment. Continue reading...

Despite scoring 14 league goals in 16 games since joining Al Nassr, Cristiano Ronaldo was snubbed from the Saudi Pro League team of the season

Scientists say world is burning through ‘carbon budget’ that can be emitted while staying below 1.5CGreenhouse gas emissions have reached an all-time high, threatening to push the world into “unprecedented” levels of global heating, scientists have warned.The world is rapidly running out of “carbon budget”, the amount of carbon dioxide that can be poured into the atmosphere if we are to stay within the vital threshold of 1.5C above pre-industrial temperatures, according to a study published in the journal Earth System Science Data on Thursday. Continue reading...

From ‘proactive aggression’ to our ‘predilection’ for polygamy, an engaging study of the traits that have influenced civilisation I blame Yuval Noah Harari. Since the Israeli historian’s bestselling Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind in 2011, there has been a trend for thick tomes proposing to explain our humanity through one or other lens across deep time. Just this year, we have had books about how human history was shaped by epidemic disease (Jonathan Kennedy’s Pathogenesis), or by climate variation (Peter Frankopan’s The Earth Transformed). Now Lewis Dartnell, author of the brilliant The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Our World from Scratch, and the Harari-adjacent Origins: How the Earth Made Us (on how human history was shaped by the planetary environment), offers a new take on the same old same old. Are there any surprising angles left?Despite the relentless news of war and mass murder, for one thing, it is good for someone to remind us – as Sverker Johansson also did in his The Dawn of Language – that we are actually unusually peaceful, for apes. (Even free-loving bonobos are much more physically violent to one another.) In Dartnell’s intriguing opening argument, our prehistoric forebears suppressed reactive aggression in favour of “planned proactive aggression”, used only to punish norm-violators, and so constructed a civilisation built on amazing levels of cooperation and reciprocity. Continue reading...

From You Hurt My Feelings to Platonic, our screens are now full of middle-aged relationships built on little white liesThe premise of You Hurt My Feelings, a new movie by Nicole Holofcener starring Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is deceptively simple: to what degree, when asked for your opinion by a spouse or equivalent, do you tell them the truth? Louis-Dreyfus plays Beth, a writer whose husband, Don (Tobias Menzies), is her primary cheerleader until she overhears him expressing negative opinions about her new book. Anyone who has ever produced anything at all will die at the accuracy of this scene and identify with Beth’s instinct to throw up in the nearest bin. The movie asks if the husband has been right to conceal his true feelings, and if she is right to react as she does.The cleverness of the set-up is in how endlessly applicable it is and how disproportionate the feelings are that these kinds of incidents trigger. Most of us have been on both sides of this equation, struggling to find the right answer when a partner asks: “How do I look in this?”, and also trying to temper our own neediness when asking (pleading) for similar reassurances. As Don discovers, there is often no winning: overpraise may be rejected as rote and therefore worthless, but anything that tips even close to frank criticism risks triggering a rage spiral. Meanwhile, as he points out in defensive frustration, the world is going to hell in a handcart and this is what she freaks out about?Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

A survey by the Publishers Association found reading to be more popular than going to the cinema or browsing social media, coming second only to watching TVMore people plan to escape into books than go to the cinema this summer, new polling from the Publishers Association has found.The survey by the trade body showed that a third (33%) of people think that books offer them the best form of escapism when they’re having a bad day, coming second only to watching television (54%). Continue reading...

The LIV Golf concept was initially criticised by those on the PGA Tour, but after the two circuits agreed a shock merge, the Tour could well adapt some of LIV's biggest features

Lionel Messi's transfer to the MLS will be the biggest transfer in the history of the league, even trumping that of David Beckham to LA Galaxy in 2007

Man United youngster Will Fish enjoyed a season-long loan with Hibernian and he could make a permeant move to Scotland.

Dexter Khan-Barnes died just two months after his mum suffered a blood clot during an emergency caesarean section.

'There was a period where I actually couldn’t.'

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Steph Gibbs, 28, from London, took to her TikTok account to explain how to get away with the brilliant ruse, explaining that she places a click and collect oder with Boots at the airport.

‘I joked I would be recast with Keira Knightley,’ actor said

Kanye West 'hit rock bottom' according to his ex-wife Kim Kardashian, but the rapper's new partner Bianca Censori could be 'the healing ingredient he needs'

Will it prove to be another successful night for the BBC One soap?

Opponents of French President Emmanuel Macron’s retirement reform are pushing for a new bill to repeal it

Following Phillip Schofield's affair revelation, questions about when Cheryl, 39, and Liam Payne, 29, first met are being brought up

To open, or not to open? That is the question

It was a daddy and daughter day out in the hazy city.

Quackers the inflatable duck went out to sea at Westward Ho! beach in Devon.

Quackers the inflatable duck went out to sea at Westward Ho! beach in Devon.

Just Stop Oil eco clowns have taken to the streets of London once again this morning, holding up rush hour traffic as they slow march on main roads in Hammersmith, London.

A handful of grown adults are just being spiteful for the sake of it.

Amanda Holden has spoken out on reports she is locked in a feud with This Morning star Holly Willoughby.

‘We think scalp hair provided a passive mechanism to reduce the amount of heat gained from solar radiation’

The bus and rail group said it expects ‘broadly consistent’ earnings from its trains business in the year to next March.

The bus and rail group said it expects ‘broadly consistent’ earnings from its trains business in the year to next March.

Use these effective tips to help handle the heatwave if you don’t have AC

Campaigners fear it will pose a threat to marine life.

An anonymous British woman has sparked a debate on Mumsnet after asking whether her partner's demands that she does more housework are reasonable.

Jordan Banjo has seen his career go from strength to strength since winning Britain’s Got Talent in 2009 with Diversity, and has since appeared on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! and The Masked Dancer, as well as landing his own radio show on KISS FM

Shaun Tinsley, 28, was jailed after crashing into Paul Loller's vehicle 'like a missile' on the M62 near Warrington

The pair were rumoured to have got back together in April.