As officer faces charge over death of unarmed man Chris Kaba, home secretary announces review to ensure armed officers ahave the confidence to do their jobsa

The Independentas revelations about HS2 rocked Westminster

Exclusive: It comes as former transport secretary Grant Shapps hints plans for rail line could be changed

Billionaire John Caudwell was the Toriesa largest donor before the last election in 2019

Chris Kaba was killed by a single gunshot in south east London last year

Rishi Sunak is said to be preparing to announce a cut in the levy a or even scrap it altogether

Exercise takes place as Russiaas invasion of Ukraine areminds us all of the need to be able to disperse our aircraft and be more unpredictablea

Exclusive: Labour leader told to akeep an open minda about radical plan to give UK access to single market

Marinya is recovering after losing her leg in a bombing in Kherson in May last year

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

Inflation falling but not swiftly enough to prevent further interest rate rise making life tougher for mortgage holders

Around eight million households are eligible for cost-of-living payments, but people expecting a payment should also watch out for potential scams

Around eight million households are eligible for cost-of-living payments, but people expecting a payment should also watch out for potential scams

Lower Energy Price Cap coming into effect this autumn but stubborn inflation means further interest rate hike likely to continue to place strain on mortgage holders

Lower Energy Price Cap coming into effect this autumn but stubborn inflation means further interest rate hike likely to continue to place strain on mortgage holders

David Cameron, Boris Johnson and the governmentas own infrastructure tsar join outcry against atragedya of cancelling Birmingham to Manchester rail line a first revealed in The Independent

Rishi Sunak has said the breed will be banned by the end of the year after spate of attacks

Rishi Sunak has said the breed will be banned by the end of the year after spate of attacks

Even Nigel Farage seemed swayed by Dance Europaas showstopping routine

The woman has been named as Alison Dodds

Met Police armed officers are aanxiousa after the officer was charged with the murder of Chris Kaba

Home secretary will use trip to United States to claim that aunsustainable pressurea is being placed on the US, UK and Europe by illegal migration

Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy star in the new romcom

Haley Lu Richardson and Ben Hardy star in the new romcom

Screenwritersa union has been striking since May over issues surrounding residual pay and regulation around the use of AI

Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in Las Vegas

Rolling Stones guitarist, 79, also described pop music as arubbisha

Kay co-created and starred in the cult British sitcom from 2001 to 2002

Ukrainians seeking sanctuary in a Swiss monastery experience the sheer complexity of life having lost everything, now refugees in the shadows of a super-rich society. Paddy Dowling reports from Switzerland

Cricketer was involved in an accident while filming last December

Presenter and actor denies claims he raped, sexually assaulted and abused women, as claimed in a joint investigation by The Times and Channel 4

Presenter and actor denies claims he raped, sexually assaulted and abused women, as claimed in a joint investigation by The Times and Channel 4

Comedian is reported to have called Brand a asexual predatora while filming a TV show together in 2018

Comedian is reported to have called Brand a asexual predatora while filming a TV show together in 2018

Brand has strongly denied allegations of rape and sexual assault made by four women in an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and aDispatchesa

Brand has strongly denied allegations of rape and sexual assault made by four women in an investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and aDispatchesa

Bell said Brand was protective of her, but also ahigh maintenancea and insulting at times

Bell said Brand was protective of her, but also ahigh maintenancea and insulting at times

Pair danced a tango to The Human Leagueas aDonat You Want Mea during week one of aStrictlya

Presenter, 78, delivered the ajaw-droppinga routine with partner Kai Widdrington

aYeah, this never goes well does it,a the 1975 frontman tweeted before deactivating his account

aZulua star, 90, also claimed that national service should be reinstated for young men

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Officers in Greater Londonas police force have put down weapons in protest at colleagueas murder charge

The Metropolitan police has called on the SAS to provide counter-terrorism support after firearms officers downed their weapons in protest at the charging of their colleague with murder.

Suella Braverman ordered a review of armed policing to calm a growing rebellion of about 100 officers over the charging on Wednesday of an officer for the murder of 24-year-old Chris Kaba, an unarmed man killed last September by a single shot to the head.

Return of the largest asteroid sample ever to be recovered marks the culmination of a seven-year journey

Sitting isolated in the arid landscape of the Utah desert, its orange and white parachute cast aside, the Osiris-Rex capsule was a picture of stillness. Yet all around, scientists were swinging into action, rushing to recover its precious cargo: 4.6bn-year-old chunks of space rock.

Racing towards the scene were four helicopters bearing scientists, engineers and military safety personnel. Their mission: to recover the capsule as quickly as possible to prevent samples of asteroid Bennu from becoming contaminated by planet Earth.

Exclusive: Major donor questioning aability to continue supporta for party amid doubt over Birmingham to Manchester leg

A prominent Conservative donor has threatened to stop supporting the party if Rishi Sunak scraps the Birmingham to Manchester leg of HS2, as ministers consider pulling the plug on the multibillion-pound project.

Fears that phase 2 of the high-speed rail line could be junked were compounded on Sunday when Grant Shapps, the defence secretary, said it would be acrazya not to review the plan in light of soaring costs.

• Pool C: Wales 40-6 Australia
• Wales score three tries and Anscombe scores 23 points

Australian rugby has had its bleak days and nights but nothing remotely as bad as this. If congratulations are clearly due to Warren Gatlandas Wales for inflicting a record all-time defeat on the Wallabies, this was Eddie Jonesas absolute worst nightmare. His squad are now staring at an embarrassingly early exit from the tournament, having never previously failed to qualify for the knockout stages at a World Cup.

When Jones was rehired in January at vast expense, having lost his job with England, it was not supposed to end like this. If defeat to Fiji was bad this was infinitely worse, with his side barely firing a shot. If the 63-year-oldas appointment was supposed to breathe fresh life into the Wallaby squad, it is increasingly having the opposite effect.

Governing body suppressed personal apology from judge in question following incident 18 months ago

Gymnastics Ireland suppressed a personal apology letter to young gymnast whose treatment at a medal ceremony sparked international outrage, and have refused to acknowledge or tackle systemic racism in the sport, her family say.

Video of the event in March 2022 shows a judge handing out participation medals to a line of young gymnasts, but ignoring the only black girl. A photographer, coach and other officials look on without intervening. There is an audience hundreds strong in the stands.

Police confirm arrest of 31-year-old, after a mother left a family assessment centre with two infants on Tuesday

A woman has been arrested after two children missing for five days from a centre for vulnerable mothers and children in London were found asafe and wella in Essex, police have said.

Jamie-Leigh Kelly, 31, left a family assessment centre in north-west London on Tuesday with her three-year-old daughter and newborn baby boy.

Manufacturers expect levy agreed in Brexit deal to hand chunk of market to global firms, including China

Car giants including Renault, BMW and Mercedes-Benz have called on EU leaders to aact nowa and delay plans for a 10% tariff on electric car exports from Europe.

Renaultas chief, Luca de Meo, led the calls, saying that if the EU did not take action then policymakers would simply be ahanding a chunk of the market to global manufacturersa including Chinese companies, which are making significant inroads.

Emmanuel Macron says he will consult coup leaders on withdrawal after two months of defying their expulsion order

France will withdraw its ambassador from Niger followed by the French military contingent in the next months, Emmanuel Macron has said in the aftermath of the coup in the west African country that ousted the pro-Paris president.

The French presidentas announcement appeared to end two months of defiance in which Parisas ambassador had been kept in place in Niamey despite coup leaders ordering him to leave.

Militant pensioner says a majority want a traditional feature but project leaders call row an attack on democracy

Ilkley is an affluent, leafy town, one point of Yorkshireas aGolden Trianglea where average house prices top APS560,000. Last year it was named the best place to live in the UK, and its tree-lined streets hark back to the days when it was a spa town where wealthy Victorians took the waters, Charles Darwin among them.

Now the peace and quiet of this favourite municipality of the middle-classes is being rocked by a row between the, often older, traditionalists in the town and a charitable body of volunteers who were hoping to give it just a flick of a modern makeover. The fight centres on the proposed design of a fountain, to be built at the heart of the town at the junction of its two wide shopping avenues.

A Washington Post-ABC poll showed results that diverge from most other surveys, and even the pollers made a caveat

A new Washington Post-ABC poll showing Joe Biden trailing his presidential predecessor Donald Trump by 10 percentage points was excoriated by leading political pollster Larry Sabato.

Noting that the pollsters themselves cautioned that their survey was an outlier, Sabato a the director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia a called the decision to release it aridiculousa.

The late singer gave the track to the producers of The Woman in the Wall, a powerful BBC series about Irelandas Magdalene laundries

Hers was once the lone voice of protest singing out against the abuses of the Catholic church in Ireland a a brave stand that made her an outcast in the entertainment industry until many of her claims were proved true.

Now, just a few months after her death, and in a powerful testament to her legacy, SinA(c)ad OaConnor will be heard singing The Magdalene Song a a tune she gave to the makers of the TV drama The Woman in the Wall a at the close of tonightas final episode.

Human rights lawyers are working with Ukraineas public prosecutor to prepare dossier to submit to the international criminal court

Human rights lawyers working with Ukraineas public prosecutor are preparing a war crimes dossier to submit to the international criminal court (ICC) accusing Russia of deliberately causing starvation during the 18-month-long conflict.

The aim is to document instances where the Russian invaders used hunger as a weapon of war, providing evidence for the ICC to launch the first prosecution of its kind that could indict the Russian president, Vladimir Putin.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy gives awards to Polish volunteers but does not meet officials amid strained relations with Warsaw

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Cameraman Hamza Yassin takes us to his Scottish village home for adorable meetings with locals a and magnificent encounters with eagles and ospreys. Itas joyful, escapist TV

Whoever booked Hamza Yassin for Strictly Come Dancing last year should get a cash bonus. His victory, achieved via public voting after he finished last on the judgesa scoring in the final, confirmed that Britain felt a warm privilege in having been introduced to an unassuming wildlife cameraman who was nearly unknown before he stepped on to the dancefloor. Pure of heart and unlimited in his enthusiasm, Hamza is a pearl.

One of the perks of winning Strictly is the unspoken understanding that the winner can front a BBC documentary in their area of expertise a few months later, and here is Hamza: Strictly Birds of Prey, his guide to Britainas most impressive raptors. Camera and tripod over his shoulder, binoculars around his neck, Yassin is on a quest to show that his home country is full of places where spotters of winged predators can find joy.

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Knives, arrows, guns, nakednessa| the performance art pioneeras blockbuster 50-year retrospective underlines her bravery, yet sells it short with off-key re-enactments by stand-ins

Will you make it through the door of the Royal Academy, where two young people currently face each other, naked, like a pair of human gateposts? Not if you are too tactful (or too portly), afraid of grazing their bare bodies with a sharp buckle or zip. But there is a secret bypass into the next gallery that allows you to watch footage of the original and more startling performance of this artwork, in any case, and avoid the keyed-up RA queues.

Imponderabilia was first staged in 1977 by the Serbian performance artist Marina AbramoviA (born 1946) and her German partner Ulay. A television monitor shows mortified visitors in overcoats pushing rapidly between the eye-to-eye artists. Whatas lost today is not just the potential for shock or social embarrassment but the intense emotional connection between AbramoviA and Ulay. The stand-ins hired for this lavish retrospective resemble, by contrast, detached and slightly fragile models.

Vendors and diners at the World Halal food festival agree the industry is booming with good reason

aI donat think thereas anything political or any other motivations to serving halal food. Simply put, why wouldnat you want everyone eating your food?a said Tristan Clough, the co-founder of the fried chicken restaurant Coqfighter. He was one of the several dozen food vendors at the World Halal food festival being held at the London Stadium in Stratford on Saturday.

The event is being held 10 years on from the first halal-centric food festival that was launched in the capital. In the years since, the availability and acceptance of halal food has increased hugely. Finding halal meat in a supermarket is almost a given and the types of cuisines that are available to halal consumers continues to broaden. There are also signs that non-Muslims are seeking out halal food, especially meat, while some of the fastest growing food chains in the UK are Muslim-owned.

Pottery has always played a crucial role in Nigel Slateras cooking, both for the way it elevates a meal and also for the calm sense of fragility it brings to a room. Here, he reveals some of his favourite pieces a and the rising pottery stars to look out for

In the mid-1960s, my parents abandoned their dark blue Willow Pattern tableware, inspired by a Japanese fairytale, for the more minimal Sienna by Midwinter, a graphic design by Jessie Tait made by William Robinson in Stoke-on-Trent. Considering the design of bare, black twigs and stripes of buff and orange as if we had traded in our staid family saloon for a fast sports car.

After years of trying to find my food among the Chinoiserie trees, birds and cherries of the classic Willow Pattern, I could now actually see my dinner in all its meat-and-two-veg glory. Production of Sienna stopped in 1987 when the company became insolvent, but the design continues to get cameo parts in 1960as television dramas as the prop stylistsa go-to tableware of the era. What I took away from this was that food looks better, more comfortable, on the right china.

Publishing stories like this in England and Wales is fraught with risk a for media groups and accusers

It came as little surprise that the darker corners of the internet were ablaze with conspiracy theories this week, after Russell Brand used his YouTube channel to call the allegations of sexual assault and rape against him a acoordinated attacka and a aserious and concerted agendaa to control his voice.

But even among more mainstream voices, questions were raised about the timing. Toby Young, a former editor at the Spectator, asked if there was a amore innocenta reason why the Times, the Sunday Times and Channel 4 Dispatches had awaited this long to produce their findingsa, while the British business magnate Alan Sugar tweeted that it was astrangea that multiple people had come forward at the same time.

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Rock, jazz, Afrofuturisma| the British singer-songwriter is transformed on this record inspired by Chicagoas archive of Black art

Corinne Bailey Raeas most popular songs on Spotify are coffee-shop staples such as Put Your Records On and Like a Star. Nothing to wake the neighbours. By contrast, this is a scream through the letterbox. Bailey Rae originally planned Black Rainbows as a side project, a freewheeling meditation on the history of Black experience she discovered at the Stony Island Arts Bank archive in Chicago. Now itas her best work yet. Although just 45 minutes long, its audacious mix of rock, electronica, jazz and Afrofuturism forms an epic soundtrack narrating journeys to freedom.

Itas not perfect. The first two songs are a sluggish entry point to the Bailey Rae renaissance, before the album explodes with post-punky Erasure, its transgressive fury a pure catharsis mediated through her distorted voice. Next, a smart sequencing of mostly great songs, including the astonishing He Will Follow You With His Eyes, a coquettish, jazzy number that transmutes into something wild and magical as she blankly intones lines such as amy black hair kinking, my black skin gleaminga while the song disintegrates around her. Even better is closer Before the Throne of the Invisible God, on which, metamorphosis complete, she becomes an east Pennine Alice Coltrane. An extraordinary album.

Anitta, Lauryn Hill and Charlize Theron were some of the A-listers welcoming a Central Park crowd for the philanthropically minded music event

aYou all look really good wet!a said Charlize Theron as she took to the stage at the New York City leg of the Global Citizen festival and gazed out on to a drenched crowd flaunting an array of colorful ponchos. aThanks for coming out in the rain, I know itas hard but we love seeing your beautiful faces out there.a

For a concert meant to raise awareness of climate change (among the litany of other ills facing Mother Earth and its people), the unforgiving torrential rain that took hold of Central Park throughout the length of the five-hour concert, which featured the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lauryn Hill and BTS member Jungkook, almost seemed appropriate, if it werenat so uncomfortable.

Designer revisits his lifelong interest in science, with iridescent silks and undulating 3D layers

Giorgio Armani may be the worldas most recognisable designer, but as the 89-year-old wrote in his autobiography, his childhood ambition was to be a physician.

While that particular goal eluded him, at his fashion show in Milan on Sunday afternoon he revisited his lifelong interest in science, citing his inspiration for his new collection as avibrationsa.

Wallabies appeared to give up the ghost against Wales with coachas second spell in charge now an inglorious failure

A penny for the thoughts of Dave Rennie. The former Australia head coach, who was unceremoniously ditched to make room for the Eddie Jones circus, has largely kept his counsel ever since but his views on precisely what to make of this desperately low ebb that the Wallabies have reached would be mandatory listening.

The manner in which Rennie was pushed aside never sat well and you cannot help but see this as comeuppance for Rugby Australia. The second coming of Jones has been an inglorious failure and it will only deepen the wounds for the 63-year-old that it was his old sparring partner Warren Gatland to hammer home the extent of it. By the end of this humiliation, the Wallabies had long since thrown in the towel, Wales playing out a glorified training session.

Free-flowing rugby on show in the demolition of Chile leaves Englandas coach with a tricky decision before the Samoa test

In a town once known as athe casino of the foresta, where Ian Fleming would come to write his James Bond novels and find time for the odd game of cards, Steve Borthwick has much to ponder as England head into their World Cup rest week. Namely: to stick or twist.

The squad has largely dispersed for a few days with England not due to resume training until Thursday a their next match against Samoa is not until 7 October a so Borthwick has plenty of thinking time. Summer has turned to autumn in Le Touquet and the population is dwindling so a few long walks may be in order because Englandas performance in the 71-0 win over Chile has provided him with food for thought.

• Pool B: Scotland 45-17 Tonga
• Scotsa quarter-final hopes still alive as Tonga pick up red card

It could certainly be said that Scotland were dealt a bad hand when you consider the Pool B draw combined with its scheduling. But itas all about controlling the controllables, so coaches say, and the possibility remains that Gregor Townsendas men will play their unforgiving cards remarkably well.

This sunny and largely satisfying victory against game opponents means another bonus-point win, against Romania in Lille next Saturday, sets up a decisive clash against Ireland in Paris on 7 October.

• aWe pulled it back today and weare still fighting to the enda
• Ange Postecoglou praises Sonas display at the Emirates

James Maddison said Tottenhamas 2-2 draw at Arsenal was evidence that the club are fast shedding their old aSpursya tag under Ange Postecoglou. The playmaker was outstanding in the north London derby, setting up two equalisers for Son Heung-min to earn a deserved point, and declared talk of a soft centre is a thing of the past.

aFans and neutrals talk about Tottenham, they often say asoft, weak, bottle it, Spursy, all that rubbisha,a he said, referring to a term deployed by rivals fans about their supposed propensity to flop when success is in sight. aI think the last couple of weeks shows we might be going in a slightly different direction.

• Carlota Ciganda wins final singles match to secure 14-14 tie
• aDoes it get any better than this? This is a dream come truea

Suzann Pettersen hailed the alegendsa of her European Solheim Cup team after the trophy was retained on a hugely dramatic day in AndalucAa. Carlota Ciganda, a Spaniard, holed the putt which ensured a 14-14 tie with the US and the lifting of the cup by Europe for a record-breaking third time in a row.

aDoes it get any better than this? This is a dream come true,a Pettersen said. aWe had a massive challenge ahead of us. We have created history yet again in the Solheim Cup. These girls are legends.a

• Blues 14th in Premier League and failed to score in three games
• aPlayers, when they are young, need to learn and make mistakesa

Mauricio Pochettino told Chelsea to grow up after his young side continued their miserable start to the season by losing Malo Gusto to a red card and falling to a 1-0 defeat to Aston Villa at Stamford Bridge.

Chelsea, who lie 14th in the table despite spending APS1bn on signings since last yearas takeover by Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, looked short of nous as they lost at home for the second consecutive game. Gustoas red card was avoidable and Pochettino was unhappy with Nicolas Jackson, who picked up his fifth booking of the season after trying to stop Villa from taking a free-kick.

• Final: Southern Vipers, 203-5, bt the Blaze, 200-8, by 5 wkts
• Vipersa Emily Windsor scores unbeaten 57

Southern Vipers beat the Blaze by five wickets in the final of the Rachael Heyhoe Flint Trophy at Northampton on Sunday, chasing down their target of 201 with an unbeaten 57 from Emily Windsor.

The run chase was not without nerves: the Blazeas 19-year-old leg-spinner Josie Groves took three wickets in eight balls straight after the drinks break to reduce the Vipers to 109 for five, including having Georgia Elwiss caught behind immediately after bringing up her 50.

• Management team and coaching staff allowed to return home
• Englandas next match is against Samoa on 7 October

England players have been instructed to stay in France during their aresta week at the World Cup despite the fact that members of the management team and coaching staff have been allowed to return home this week.

After all-but securing their place in the quarter-finals with a bonus point win against Chile on Saturday, England have a 14-day break until their final pool match against Samoa on 7 October. As a result, the players have been given Monday and Tuesday off and, although they are not restricted to staying at Englandas official base camp in Le Touquet, they will remain in France.

As Newcastleas players and staff stood in a line applauding the supporters serenading them in the lower bank of the Bramall Lane Stand after a record-breaking away win, the clock on the scoreboard looking back at them was still ticking away. It was a good job then that, by that point, Sheffield Unitedas players had long since traipsed down the tunnel, such was Newcastleas overwhelming appetite to put on a show, persistently pushing to cut a little bit deeper.

It was in effect game over inside 35 minutes, by which point Eddie Howeas side were three goals to the good, but Newcastle were relentless, bloodthirsty and ended up bludgeoning the hosts to the tune of eight goals to nil, for their biggest away league win. Stuart McCall, the Sheffield United assistant manager, could not bear to look as Alexander Isak got in on the act, covering his face as the substitute wheeled away in celebration after adding a history-making eighth, the first time there have been eight different scorers in a Premier League match.

• Red Bull collect constructorsa title with six races still to go
• Dutchman can win driversa championship in Doha sprint race

Given that the 2023 Formula One season has definitively belonged to Max Verstappen, how fitting it was that he single-handedly closed out the constructorsa championship for his Red Bull team with a commanding victory at the Japanese Grand Prix.

Moreover he is now driversa champion elect, the title all but claimed at Suzuka, only the formality of closing it out in Qatar remains.

• Ethiopian clocks 2hr 11 min 53sec in Berlin, fastest by 2min 11sec
• Assefaas Adidas trainers aenhanced by unique technologya

On the stillest of Berlin mornings, a tsunami of a performance.

It came from Ethiopiaas Tigist Assefa, who over 26.2 astonishing miles redefined what many thought was possible in the womenas marathon as she blew the world record to smithereens in a time of 2hr 11min 53sec. The fact the 26-year-old Ethiopian shattered the previous best, set by Brigid Kosgei in 2019, by 2min 11sec was remarkable enough. Yet the way she powered home through the Brandenburg Gate suggested she could go even quicker still.

Islamic philosophy offers many teachings that can help people struggling with their mental health

• Making sense of it is a column about spirituality and how it can be used to navigate everyday life

As an Islamic faith leader and a qualified counsellor, people regularly come to me for guidance on all sorts of topics, not just spiritual. Members of my community know that my commitment to them stretches to all parts of their lives, and feel comfortable confiding in me their struggles beyond the realm of Islam.

Thankfully my faith gives me a guide not only for them but for me.

With more and more people prepping for Armageddon, the answers to this question are revealing a whether itas Babybels, cash, crossbows or toilet paper

The author Lauren Groff has become a prepper. aI think everyone should have a go bag right now,a she told National Public Radio (NPR) in the US. aI think every household should have enough food to last through at least two weeks. This is just logical at this point.a

Groff lives in Florida, where dangerously extreme weather has become a fact of life a weare lucky enough to be spared that in the UK, at least for now. But as a semi-professional catastrophist a one apocalyptic sandwich board short of full doom-monger status a am I missing a trick? Should I have a go bag and what should go in it? Online recommendations include water a one of my least favourite fluids a cereal bars, first aid supplies, spare clothes, medication and paperwork. Practical, but short on bells and whistles (actually, they do recommend taking a whistle).

Ed Davey should go big on Europe, the economy and the environment at the party conference this week

aC/ Max von Thun was a political adviser to the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019

After more than a decade of disastrous government under the Conservatives, Britain is ready for change. Yet while the Tories are imploding, and despite the lack of much enthusiasm for Keir Starmeras Labour party, the Liberal Democrats, whose annual party conference is underway in Bournemouth, have so far failed to capitalise.

Labour is unwilling to embrace the bold policies needed to get the UK out of its deepening rut. The closer the country gets to an election, the more eager the party has been to abandon the progressive measures it was previously committed to, from raising taxes for the wealthy and tech giants, to investing heavily in green infrastructure and abolishing the Conservativesa cruel welfare policies. And despite the growing backlash against Brexit and the huge damage it has caused, Starmer a who once campaigned for a second referendum in Jeremy Corbynas cabinet a now refuses to consider rejoining the single market and customs union.

When framing the shortlist for the 2023 bird of the year, we opted for familiar Aussie birds that hold a special place in our hearts

• The Australian bird of the year poll launches today, 25 September 2023

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Those of us who work at Birdlife Australia get asked a lot of questions about birds. Usually, itas to ID a mystery back yard bird. (Nine times out of 10 itas a butcherbird!) Occasionally we get thrown a much curlier question such as aIs a cassowary a bird?a, aDo birds have penises?a or aWhatas your favourite bird?a.

The answers are: ayesa, afemales donat, but neither do males of most species a they have a cloaca, which is a topic for another daya. And the last question is almost impossible to answer. How can you possibly choose?

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A liberal elite out of touch with the conservative instincts of the British people. A political realignment defined by an electorate more culturally conservative but economically leftwing. A working class hostile to liberal norms, especially on immigration.

It is a picture of contemporary politics that many have come to embrace, assiduously promoted as it is by a range of academics and commentators, from conservatives to apostliberalsa. It shapes policies of left and right, from Labouras debates about how to win back the ared walla seats to Rishi Sunakas desperate attempts to turn astop the boatsa into a wedge issue.

aWhat are you going to do about the Sun?a It was the first question Neil Kinnock asked, when a bunch of eager young political advisers setting up a now long-forgotten campaign for Britain to join the single currency begged his advice. By then an EU commissioner, Kinnock had never forgotten the paperas devastating 1992 front page asking the last person left in Britain to turn out the lights if Labour won. But for decades now, his question has haunted the liberal left.

The Murdoch press has earned a fearsome reputation among progressives as a kind of giant toad squatting in the road, blocking the way to everything from higher taxes to gay rights and, above all, closer relations with Europe. Few did more to pave the way for Brexit than the immigrant-bashing, Brussels-baiting Sun, whose once cheeky Euroscepticism had descended by 2015 to the nadir of a Katie Hopkins column describing migrants drowning at sea as cockroaches. aShow me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in the water a| I still donat care,a she wrote. Across the Atlantic, Rupert Murdochas Fox News channel offered a similarly shrill platform for the angry, increasingly paranoid voices who would propel Donald Trump to power. Though he eventually came to regret enabling Trump, when the 92-year-old Murdoch finally relinquished the reins of his empire to his son Lachlan last week, it was with one last defiant populist attack on the aelitesa supposedly setting the political narrative.

Research suggesting that not going on about our emotions is a valid treatment for depression feels like a backwards step for this therapist

A study out this week will probably have the therapeutic community in a spin. According to this report, talking about our emotions may not be good for us. More than that, apparently stoicism a deploying the traditional stiff upper lip a yielded better results than talking therapies when it came to acuringa depression.

Iam a therapist, and this made me think deeply. First, the study was conducted on a very small sample of people, so I wondered how relevant it could be. However, itas also true that it almost shocked me to think that maybe not talking about our emotions was healthier than talking about them.

Headteachers need more support if they are to persuade reluctant pupils to come back

Pretty much everyone with a stake in schools is worried about the current high rate of absenteeism: politicians, school leaders, academic researchers and many parents. The pattern has been clear for a while. The proportion of pupils classified as persistently absent (missing more than one in 10 lessons) has more than doubled in England since the pandemic. From 10.9% in 2018-19, it rose to 22.3% in 2022-23. Data in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales is collected separately because education is devolved, but indicates a similar trend. This weekas report from the research agency Public First, probing attitudes through discussions with focus groups, called the situation a afull-blown national crisisa.

The concern is justified. As the teacher and writer Lola Okolosie observed recently, school is aan anchor to societya. As well as providing lessons, school is where children learn to be with other people. Since the pupils most likely to be absent include those on free school meals and with special educational needs, low attendance is a form of social exclusion.

Progress has been made. But as the wounds of Brexit heal, literature has a key role to play in building a new entente cordiale

It is a running joke in the anglophone literary world that noon on the day that the Nobel prize for literature is announced is an annual moment of collective shame. News of the first Belarusian laureate in 2015 was greeted, according to one writer, by the sound of 10,000 reporters Googling Svetlana Alexievich a though, as Ms Alexievich is herself a distinguished journalist, reporters were on this occasion relatively well placed.

When the French novelist JMG Le ClA(c)zio took the medal seven years earlier, there was no such luck: his novels were nowhere to be found. His most recent translator, Alison Anderson, reported that it had taken multiple rejections on both sides of the Atlantic before his bestseller, Onitsha, was picked up by an American university press. It took a year after the win for Penguin to scramble two of his works into print in the UK as modern classics.

The prime ministeras decision to postpone key climate targets is a cynical betrayal of what really matters, writes Bel Greenwood. Plus letters from Milo Sanders, Jeremy Wight, Charles Wilhelm, Alan Gray and Lillian Adams

I never thought I would fear the summer, but now I do. This year I am grateful that we had a cool, wet summer. But next year? I will never be able to happily anticipate the season again. Instead, I will dread its heat a although not as much as those in unliveable places where lives are being destroyed by fire and floods. That is why Rishi Sunakas dog-whistle weakening of already pitifully inadequate action on the climate emergency is despicable and deadly (Rishi Sunak announces U-turn on key green targets, 20 September).

I am one of those this policy change is designed to appeal to. The cost of living hits me hard and I live month to month. Thereas no way I can replace my ageing hybrid with an electric car. A heat pump is an impossible dream even if I didnat live in private rented accommodation. But this pretence of caring about people like me is a cynical betrayal of what really matters. If Sunak really wanted to make our lives better then he would act faster on net zero and give us a true green new deal.
Bel Greenwood
Norwich

Labels are misunderstood and do little to diminish stigma, writes Chris Bennett

Regarding Matilda Boseleyas article (ADHD has become an identity, not just a disorder. We need a new way to talk about it, 20 September), as someone who has had epilepsy for more than 60 years, I can understand the frustration that someone with ADHD (or indeed any condition) may feel about how people stigmatise their condition.

However, I do not believe that referring to oneself as an ADHD person rather than someone with ADHD is helpful. I, personally, object to being called an epileptic, because my epilepsy does not define me as a person. If Matilda feels that it is right or helpful to identify herself with her condition, then that is her choice. Personally, however, I donat think that anyone personifying themselves in terms of their condition does much to reduce stigma. In my experience, when we use such defining labels, the uninitiated will always tend to think and fear the worst. At best, labels that are misunderstood will increase fear and apprehension and do little to diminish stigma.

Attempt to show Labour as aanti-motorista at forefront of Conservative pre-election campaign

After a week in which Rishi Sunak rowed back on the UKas climate commitments and delayed a ban on petrol cars, it seems he is making a pitch to drivers a key part of his pre-election campaign. Here are the wedge issues the Tories are expected to deploy against Labour to paint them as aanti-motorista:

Sam Woods, head of the Bankas financial stability watchdog, says lenders have only shown they can survive aslow burna changes to temperatures

aC/ Sam Woods interview: aItas the most intense period since the financial crisisa

The climate crisis has pushed the Bank of England to consider stringent new tests for lenders to see how they would cope in an aextremea catastrophe that plunges aWestminster under watera and sparks a rapid change in government policies.

Sam Woods, the boss of the UKas financial stability watchdog, suggested that the City needed to be put through a more rigorous scenario, having so far only proven that banks and insurers could survive aslow burna changes over a span of 30 years.

Politics get in the way as the EUas three largest economies, also its biggest polluters, fall short of cleaning up their act

Germany, France and Italy have pledged to hit net zero emissions around the middle of the century in a bid to stop weather from growing more extreme.

But the EUas three biggest economies a and polluters a are all struggling to meet their goals.

Former Cop26 chair says emissions cuts must be made elsewhere and ministers must show how they plan to achieve this

Alok Sharma, the former Tory cabinet minister who chaired the landmark Cop26 UN summit in Glasgow, has warned Rishi Sunak that he will now have to find other ways to cut emissions if the UK is to meet its international climate obligations, following last weekas dramatic U-turns on green policy.

In his first comments since Sunakas announcement on Wednesday, Sharma told the Observer that arolling back on certain policies will mean we need to find emissions reductions elsewhere, if we are to meet our legally binding near term carbon budgets and our internationally committed 2030 emissions reduction targeta.

Exclusive: More than a dozen civil servants from different departments have moved to party in past 18 months

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Labour is recruiting a growing number of civil servants to bolster its preparations for government, with officials hired from No 10, the Treasury and other government departments.

Having poached Sue Gray, the party has been on a wider hiring spree across Whitehall for roles including covering data science, economic growth and engagement with businesses, the Guardian can reveal.

Academics say late queenas letters and diaries should be preserved in full by the National Archives

Queen Elizabeth IIas personal letters and diaries should be preserved in full in the National Archives, a leading academic has said.

Paul Whybrew, a retired footman and one of the late queenas closest aides, has been appointed to sort through her private papers before they are transferred to the royal archive in Windsor, according to the Mail on Sunday.

Exclusive: Fears findings will represent only white population if too few people of colour take part

A major study into the effects of cannabis on the human brain is at risk of being partially thwarted because too few black users have agreed to take part.

White people have come forward in large numbers offering to get involved in Kingas College Londonas APS2.5m study of how the drug may contribute to paranoia and psychosis in some users but not others. It is hoped the project will pave the way for wider medicinal use and make illegal recreational use safer.

Exclusive: Figures seen by the Guardian show lengthy wait times for diagnostic tests such as ultrasound and CT scans

Some patients in England are waiting up to two-and-a-half years for important diagnostic tests such as ultrasound, MRI and CT scans, according to figures seen by the Guardian.

The longest waits were two-and-a-half years for an MRI scan, almost two years for an ultrasound and a year for a CT scan, responses to freedom of information requests by the Liberal Democrats show.

Exclusive: Party also calls for an investigation into aissuesa with the Cabinet Officeas inquiry sign-off process

Boris Johnson should pay back his taxpayer-funded legal fees for the Partygate inquiry and an investigation into aissuesa with the Cabinet Officeas sign-off process should be launched, Labour has said.

Pat McFadden, the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, said the APS265,000 bill should be looked into after a critical report was published this week by the National Audit Office.

Watchdog thought to be including guidance on its afit and propera test for non-financial misconduct

The City watchdog is proposing to toughen its afit and proper personsa test to crack down on workplace misconduct in an effort to make the finance industry a safer work environment for women.

In a consultation paper to be published on Monday, the Financial Conduct Authority will put forward stricter rules against abusers and regulated firms that may have failed to punish offenders.

The very personal work, owned by Charles I, discovered after being left in storage for years

aA womanas name raises doubts until her work is seen,a wrote the artist Artemisia Gentileschi to a collector of her paintings in 1649, going on to assure him that her canvases awill speak for themselvesa. It took three-and-a-half centuries for the name of Gentileschi to triumphantly step out from the shadows of art history, but it has taken even longer for one of her forgotten paintings to re-emerge from the dark. A remarkable find made in a royal storeroom at Hampton Court, followed by hours of careful conservation effort, has led to the unearthing of Susanna and the Elders, a genuine lost Gentileschi.

aIt really is super-exciting,a Anna Reynolds, the deputy surveyor of the kingas pictures, told the Observer. aYou just could not see the quality of the painting beneath the grime until now, but absolutely it is true and this find has come about as a result of Artemisiaas recently restored reputation. It had been misattributed and left in storage for many years and no one had taken a closer look.a