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3+ week, 5+ day ago (412+ words) Hard to recreate "higher calling" of England job, he says Southgate trying to "make a difference" in other areas Sir Gareth Southgate says he is not looking for a return to football management, saying it would be hard to recreate the "higher calling" he found as England"s manager. Southgate indicated he intends to focus on working with young people and helping to counter the "negative narrative" he says is found in the country. In an interview on BBC Radio 4"s Today programme, Southgate was asked how he responded to being linked with vacant management roles in the Premier League and elsewhere. "I"ve had one of the most incredible jobs in football which also had a higher purpose because it was my country," he replied. "That"s going to be very hard to replicate. Having had 37 years in football…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago (413+ words) Plucked from obscurity, James Cartlidge messed up his maths while his opposite number had forgotten his politics 101 And right now, Jimmy C will be more than pleased if all this stays that way. That he slips beneath every radar. Because right now he has locked himself inside a cupboard and is refusing to come out. Two shrinks have been brought in from the Priory to try to get him to come out quietly. "It's OK," they can be heard saying. "It's safe now. Everyone has gone away. Who are you again?" With Keir Starmer away in Brazil at Cop30, Kemi Badenoch had used the opportunity to go to Aberdeen to make the case for fossil fuels " it's almost as if she comes pre-programmed to be misguided on everything " so this week's PMQs was left in the less than capable hands of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago (425+ words) The use of AI in the surprise game-of-the-year contender has sparked a heated cultural and ethical debate, and raised existential questions for artists, writers and voice actors Available on: PC, Nintendo Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Estimated playtime: three to four hours Nintendo has released the first image from the forthcoming Legend of Zelda movie, starring Bo Bragason and Benjamin Evan Ainsworth, pictured here lounging in a meadow. In it, Link looks very Ocarina of Time; I am reassured that Princess Zelda is holding a bow, which hopefully indicates she'll be a part of the action rather than a damsel in distress. The nominations for December's Game awards are out, led by Ghost of Y'tei, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Death Stranding 2. (The Guardian has been a voting outlet for the awardspreviously, but is not this year.) As we reported last week, the annual…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago (234+ words) The fragility of France's cordon sanitaire against Le Pen is part of a worrying wider pattern, as centrist parties seek to revive their fortunes In France, a regularly mobilised "republican front" has seen centre-right voters combine with those on the left to stop Ms Le Pen achieving something similar. But as the conservative Les R'publicains party (LR) searches for a way to revive its flagging fortunes, the cordon sanitaire is looking thin and frayed. Mr Wauquiez and other influential colleagues argue that the chief political threat facing France comes from the supposed extremism of the left. This self-serving line is relentlessly hammered home by the vast multimedia empire belonging to Vincent Bollor', the billionaire entrepreneur. Elsewhere, there is evidence of a similar direction of travel. During negotiations to form the next Dutch government, the centre-right VVD party has declared itself…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago (558+ words) Prison governors in England summoned to an urgent meeting with ministers as deputy PM comes under scrutiny The overnight Guardian version of the story is here. Here is a round-up of the latest developments on this story this morning. The Ministry of Justice has said that Lammy did not tell MPs about the accidental release of the Algerian offender in the Commons yesterday because he did not have full information about it. In a statement released last night, an MoJ spokersperson said: The crisis in the prison system this government inherited is such that basic information about individual cases can take unacceptably long to reach ministers. On entering the house, facts were still emerging about the case and the DPM had not been accurately informed of key details including the offender's immigration status. No media story about the individual case…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago (480+ words) Lib Dem MP says way figures were compiled on "non-British-sounding" surnames in court was "frankly racist" GB News has been accused of risking inflaming tensions over crime committed by migrants after presenting unscientific research that counted the number of defendants with "foreign-sounding names. Ofcom, the UK"s media regulator, has received complaints about a segment on the rightwing news channel last week that drew a link between "non-British names and those in court charged with sex offences. The segment was presented by Martin Daubney, sitting in for Nigel Farage on the Reform UK leader"s show on Monday last week. Daubney, a former Brexit party member of the European parliament, introduced what he described as "genuinely shocking research. It was based on counting the number of "non-British-sounding surnames at nine crown courts over a six-week period. He said there was…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago (415+ words) Climate Action Tracker report finds pledges made in past year have not cut the forecast for global heating Away from the official Cop30 negotiations, members of the Amazon's indigenous communities were gathering in Bel'm's university yesterday for the inauguration of a parallel People's Summit. Pictures filed by news agencies showed people dancing, singing and mingling at the event, on the grounds of the Federal University of Para, just a couple of miles from the conference centre where the UN climate summit is taking place. This year's climate conference is the first being held in the Amazon rainforest, a symbolic choice by the host country, Brazil, in part to ensure that Indigenous peoples have a larger presence. But some have nonetheless felt excluded from proceedings, frustrations which contributed to a fracas on Tuesday night when protesters tried to force their way in…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago (1565+ words) After nine weeks of inquiry evidence, a picture has emerged of systemic breakdown and poor information sharing Of all the professionals who studied Axel Rudakubana before his murderous attack in Southport last summer, the notes of a rookie police officer in 2019 may be the most prescient. The actions of Rudakubana, then aged 13, showed "potential for huge escalation, wrote PC Alex McNamee after spending just 20 minutes with the teenager when he admitted taking a knife to school to attack a bully. The risk, he wrote, was "high. Yet by July 2024, six days before his knife rampage, Rudakubana had been discharged from mental health services after five years with a perfunctory report that concluded: "Poses risk to others " None. The failures that left Rudakubana, then 17, able to murder three young girls " Bebe King, six, Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, and Elsie Dot…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago (1128+ words) When Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine posted complaints about their local primary school, they never expected six uniformed police officers to turn up at their door Before it catapulted a small school community in London's commuter belt into the centre of a global news story, the year-four class WhatsApp group at Cowley Hill school in Borehamwood was unremarkable " a place of snide comments, reminders about non-uniform day and flustered messages about being late for the school run. "It was mum gossip, you know?" said one member, Sarah. "A bit juicy, but it wasn't anything nasty." In its own " thoroughly improbable " way, it raised a question that might feel familiar to many whose phones get overtaken by the school group chat: what's the difference between a concerned parent, a busybody and someone who should face the full force of the law?...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago (526+ words) Exclusive: Member of homeland security group says anti-terrorism Prevent scheme risks being overwhelmed by Palestine advocates The anti-terrorism Prevent programme risks being overwhelmed because of the government's ban on Palestine Action and could lead to people being wrongly criminalised, a member of the Home Office's homeland security group has warned. The official said there was already confusion among counter-terrorism police, officials and in schools and hospitals as a result of the proscription of the direct action group, which makes being a member of " or showing support for " it a criminal offence under the Terrorism Act. They expressed concern about people involved in Palestine advocacy but not supportive of Palestine Action being wrongly labelled as extremist and people who have expressed support for Palestine Action being referred to Prevent when they do not pose any threat. A legal challenge to the…...