Club that helped launch careers of Olympians – and Jason Statham – hopes London mayor will take the plunge on £1.3m repairsAs the story goes, Jason Statham’s impromptu standing back somersault during a real-life pub lock-in with Guy Ritchie was not onl…
UK weather warning as thunderstorms to bring risk of flooding
Met Office issues yellow alert for almost all of England and most of Wales and Northern IrelandAlmost all of England and most of Wales and Northern Ireland are likely to be hit by thunderstorms on Saturday, forecasters have said.The Met Office has issu…
Our art deals with real injustices, some in Palestine: no wonder we faced opposition « Forensic Architecture
Our battle to restore a statement to a Manchester exhibition was really about what can and can’t be said in cultural spacesOn Wednesday, protesters in Manchester reclaimed one of the city’s main cultural institutions. Despite the rain, pro-Palestine ac…
UK imposes sanctions on seven Russians over Navalny poisoning
FCDO says the individuals, said to be FSB members, will be subject to travel bans and asset freezesSanctions have been imposed on seven Russian nationals accused of involvement in the nerve agent poisoning of the key Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, the …
Johnson’s Tories seem to defy reality – but Labour’s ‘realistic’ politics isn’t working | Andy Beckett
Effective politics promises to change who has power, not just manage it more competentlyThe ongoing disaster in Afghanistan is only the latest fiasco to provoke fury at the unseriousness of Boris Johnson’s government. In fact, for the past 20 years Bri…
BBC inquiry dismisses Rupert Murdoch complaints about documentary series
Complaints unit backs makers of Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty, except over section on Tory ‘sleaze’ storiesRupert Murdoch has largely lost a year-long dispute with the BBC after he objected to a documentary series that “implied he posed a threat to liber…
Police unswayed by road-block ruling ahead of London climate protests
Metropolitan police vow to tackle ‘wilful obstruction’ in spite of supreme court’s Ziegler judgmentPolice preparing for a new campaign of Extinction Rebellion (XR) protests in London have said they will not be deterred by a recent supreme court ruling …
Nine in 10 in UK still wearing masks despite end of Covid controls
ONS data suggests some Covid-enforced changes to daily life will remain after pandemic subsidesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAbout nine in 10 people in the UK are still wearing face coverings at least some of the time desp…
‘The hypocrisy is nauseating’: Wes Streeting on state school arts cuts
Shadow child poverty secretary wants all pupils to have access to arts education after decade of Tory cutsWes Streeting can’t claim to be his inner-city comp’s most famous alumni. That claim goes to the Hollywood actor John Boyega who, like the shadow …
SNP and Scottish Greens confirm power-sharing deal in historic moment for Greens
Agreement means Greens will be in power for first time in UK with two ministerial roles for partyThe Scottish National party and the Scottish Greens have confirmed a power-sharing agreement, ushering the Green party into government for the first time i…