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www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Revealed: Full extent of boozing, debauchery and rule-breaking inside Boris's No 10

A former Downing Street official who worked throughout the Covid crisis has revealed the true scale of the drunken debauchery under Boris Johnson with No 10 parties so wild that staff passed out on the stairway.Speaking exclusively to The Independent, the whistleblower said the details in the Partygate report were just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the raucous drinking culture and blatant rule-breaking throughout the pandemic.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Brexit has failed - we must now return to the centre of Europe, Lord Heseltine says

Lord Heseltine has called for Britain to recreate our position at the centre of Europe after the failure of Brexit.The Tory grandee accused political leaders of hiding from the damage being caused by the UK leaving the EU.The former deputy prime minister under John Major said the time has come for the British people to be told the truth.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

Indefensible': Michael Gove apologises for Tory HQ Partygate video

Michael Gove has apologised for a new Partygate video that shows Conservative officials dancing and laughing as they broke Covid lockdown rules, deeming their actions terrible and indefensible.The video, obtained by the Mirror newspaper, shows members of staff drinking alcohol at the gathering in London on 14 December 2020, and mocking lockdown rules the public were following at the time.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

Cabinet Office refuses to release Boris Johnson's notebooks over security concerns

A collection of 25 notebooks from Boris Johnson's time in office is being withheld by the government after a security services review found they contained highly sensitive material.It comes after officials advised that only those with the highest level of security clearance should be able to see the sensitive passages, according to the Times.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

By-election dates announced for Boris Johnson and Nigel Adams' constituencies

Rishi Sunak will face a test of his leadership in two by-elections on July 20 caused by Boris Johnson and an ally.The former prime minister quit his Uxbridge and South Ruislip seat to avoid the judgment of the Privileges Committee.The cross-party panel subsequently recommended he should have faced a 90-day suspension for deliberately misleading MPs over partygate and his conduct in attacking the committee.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Tory MPs split over whether or not to approve damning Boris report

1686889832 A damning report by parliaments privileges committee has concluded that Boris Johnson misled parliament and recommended that he should be barred from having a parliamentary security pass in future.The 106-page document, put together by the cross-party group of MPs with a Tory majority, is packed with detail and arguments.
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www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Revealed: Full extent of boozing, debauchery and rule-breaking inside Boris's No 10

A former Downing Street official who worked throughout the Covid crisis has revealed the true scale of the drunken debauchery under Boris Johnson with No 10 parties so wild that staff passed out on the stairway.Speaking exclusively to The Independent, the whistleblower said the details in the Partygate report were just the tip of the iceberg when it came to the raucous drinking culture and blatant rule-breaking throughout the pandemic.
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www.npr.org
11 months ago
Arts

Every superhero has an origin story. So does every superhero's superfan. Here's mine.

A Martinez with then LA City Council member Mike Bonin.The Morning Edition host occasionally brings his super fandom to field interviews and office visits.A Martinez I really, really like The Flash - The Scarlet Speedster.Scarlet because the suit's core color is red, and speedster because that's the superpower, speed.
www.cbc.ca
11 months ago
Toronto

Voter apathy concerns loom over Toronto election days ahead of vote | CBC News

With 102 registered candidates, more than 10 debates featuring the apparent front-runners and around-the-clock news coverage, Toronto's mayoral election has clearly offered plenty to follow.Less clear is whether voters have been paying attention.Concerns about voter apathy are not unique to Toronto but have come into sharp focus after only 29.7 per cent of the city's 1.9 million registered voters cast ballots in the last municipal election.
www.nytimes.com
11 months ago
US news

Man Charged With Killing Mother at Sea in Inheritance Scheme Dies in Jail

A Vermont man died in jail on Thursday morning while awaiting trial on federal charges that he had lured his mother on a fishing trip, killed her and sank the boat in a scheme to inherit his family's estate, the U.S. Marshals Service said.The Marshals Service, which announced the death in a statement, did not say how the man, Nathan Carman, 29, of Vernon, Vt., had died.
Fatherly
11 months ago
Fathers

34 Years Ago, The Most Important '90s Rock Band Quietly Dropped Their Most Pivotal Album

Before Kurt Cobain sang "entertain us!" as a kind of threat in 1991, his immortal band Nirvana dropped an album in the last decade of the '80s, without which, grunge as we know it could have never blown up.On June 15, 1989, Nirvana released Bleach, a debut album that attracted little to nothing in the way of mainstream attention or validation upon its release.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

Partygate report: key findings of Commons privileges committee

The House of Commons privileges committee has found that Boris Johnson repeatedly misled MPs when he told them he knew nothing about lockdown-breaking social gatherings in and around Downing Street.These are the main points of what is a highly damning and hugely detailed report.Key findings on wrongdoing Johnson was found to have committed five serious offences: 1. Deliberately misleading the Commons 2. Deliberately misleading the privileges committee 3. Breaching confidence (by leaking part of the report in advance) 4. Impugning the committee, and thus parliamentary processes 5. Complicity in a campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the committee.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Braverman backs coronation policing and calls for swifter response to protests

Suella Braverman has backed police over the handling of the coronation and insisted they had the right powers to crack down on Just Stop Oil protests.The Metropolitan Police has been criticised over the arrests of six anti-monarchy protesters and three charity volunteers who were all later released without charge.
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Los Angeles Times
11 months ago
Los Angeles

Man accused of trying to drive teen off cliff near Lake Tahoe after sexually assaulting her

(Washoe County Sheriff's Office)

A 23-year-old Nevada man was arrested Tuesday on charges of attempted murder and sexual assault after trying to drive his car off a cliff near Lake Tahoe with a teenager in the passenger seat, according to the Washoe County Sheriff's Office.Alexander Difoggio-Wasson was driving the teenager - whom he is accused of sexually assaulting immediately before the crash - on State Route 431 near Sky Tavern Ski Resort in Reno on May 27 when he allegedly drove off the highway toward a cliff, the Sheriff's Office said.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

Suella Braverman faces legal action after forcing through anti-protest powers

Human rights campaigners have begun legal action against the home secretary, Suella Braverman, after she forced draconian new police powers through parliament in a move described by the House of Lords as a constitutional outrage.Liberty wrote to Braverman on Wednesday, saying her move to empower police to curtail or restrict protests that caused more than minor disruption was unlawful.
Dezeen
11 months ago
Design

Daytrip imbues Victorian terrace in Highbury with "gallery-like minimalism"

Curving, organic forms are juxtaposed with clean-lined minimalism in this home that interiors studio Daytrip has completed in north London.Daytrip worked with architecture firm Studio 30 to extend the ground floor of the Victorian terrace house to the rear and side to increase the available space while excavating down to boost the ceiling height and give the space more gravitas.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

CCTV shows moments before police sergeant was fatally shot inside station

CCTV recounting the moments before a custody officer was fatally shot in a police station has been released.The footage was shown to a jury on Thursday as part of an ongoing murder trial into Sergeant Matt Ratana's death at Croydon custody centre in the early hours of 25 September, 2020. Louis De Zoysa - who denies murder - is accused of shooting the sergeant with an antique revolver that was concealed in a holster as he was being detained at the centre.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

CCTV footage showing moments before custody sergeant was fatally shot released

Chilling footage showing the moments before a Metropolitan Police officer was fatally shot inside a custody block has been released as the alleged killer's trial continues.CCTV footage showing the death of Sergeant Matt Ratana at Croydon custody centre was shown to the jury in full at Northampton Crown Court on Wednesday and Thursday.
Insider
1 year ago
New York Mets

A man at a Mets game accused of acting disorderly claimed he was forced to strip naked and sign a contract to get his clothes back: suit

A man claimed an NYPD officer made him strip naked in a cell at a Mets game in 2022.An April lawsuit also claimed that an employee forced him to sign an agreement for his clothes.The man claimed he still experiences emotional distress from the experience, per the lawsuit.A man claimed a New York City Police Department officer working security at a Mets game pulled him away from a baseball game last year and forced him to strip naked, per a lawsuit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in late April.
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Ars Technica
11 months ago
OMG science

Inside the battle to build a $1.2 billion fish barricade

A new fish barrier is being built at the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River, at a cost of $1.2 billion, to help protect endangered salmon and steelhead trout from the hydroelectric turbines.
The project includes the installation of a specially designed fish ladder and an innovative system of underwater cameras and sensors to monitor fish movement and ensure that fish are safely passed through the turbines. [ more ]
www.npr.org
11 months ago
Europe news

Inquiry finds Boris Johnson deliberately misled Parliament over 'partygate'

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is shown leaving 10 Downing Street to attend the weekly Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament, in London, on May 25, 2022.Matt Dunham/AP LONDON In a scathing report, Boris Johnson's colleagues in Parliament concluded Thursday that the former British prime minister repeatedly and deliberately lied to them about breaking COVID lockdown rules, and recommended the harshest possible punishment.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
France news

Dutch neighbour charged with fatally shooting British girl, 11, in France

A man has appeared in court in France charged with shooting dead an 11-year-old British girl who was playing in the garden of her family home.The suspect, Dirk Raats, 70, a Dutch national originally from Antwerp in Belgium, has been officially put under investigation for the murder of Solaine Thornton and the attempted murder of her parents, Adrian and Rachel Thornton.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Man serving life for Rikki Neave murder to challenge conviction at appeal court

A man serving a life sentence for the murder of six-year-old Rikki Neave nearly 30 years ago will challenge his conviction at the Court of Appeal.Rikki's murder in 1994 was among the most high-profile cold cases on police files, until DNA was identified on the victim's clothes following a re-examination of the case two decades later.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
France news

Belgian man charged with fatally shooting British girl, 11, in France

A man has appeared in court in France charged with shooting dead an 11-year-old British girl who was playing in the garden of her family home.The suspect, Dirk Raats, 70, originally from Antwerp in Belgium, has been officially put under investigation for the murder of Solaine Thornton and the attempted murder of her parents, Adrian and Rachel Thornton.
time.com
11 months ago
US politics

Boris Johnson Quits as U.K. Lawmaker Over 'Partygate' Report

LONDON Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson shocked Britain on Friday by quitting as a lawmaker after being told he will be sanctioned for misleading Parliament.He quit with a ferocious tirade at his political opponentsand at his successor, Rishi Sunakthat could blast open tensions within the governing Conservative Party.
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Ralph Ammer
11 months ago
UX design

The perfect drawing tool - Ralph Ammer

Investing in quality drawing tools can help to improve the quality of your artwork by providing precision and control.
Technology advancements have provided more options in terms of drawing tools, such as digital pens and tablets, allowing for more flexibility and convenience.
Consider the range of materials you will use when selecting a drawing tool, such as paper, canvas, and other surfaces, to ensure you have the right tool for the job. [ more ]
Sun Sentinel
11 months ago
Miami

'I was hitting the hornet's nest': Jailbird protester tells why he blocked Trump's motorcade

MIAMI - It was, perhaps, a day of karma for Domenic Santana, whose very public arrest was captured by news cameras outside Miami's federal courthouse on Tuesday and replayed on TV screens across the world."I just got out of jail," Santana, 61, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Wednesday after his daughter posted his $2,000 bond.
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www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
UK politics

The Guardian view of Rishi Sunak's economics: the morons are back in charge | Editorial

Under Liz Truss's mercifully short-lived premiership, the yield on British government bonds surged last September a penalty described as a moron risk premium that markets imposed on her reckless plan for a tax giveaway to the rich.Now it appears that the morons are back: yields on gilts have exceeded the levels they reached last year, and are higher than at any point since the 2008 global financial crisis.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Boris Johnson hosted friend at Chequers while Covid restrictions in place'

Boris and Carrie Johnson hosted a close friend at Chequers while some coronavirus restrictions were still in place, it has been reported.The former prime minister and his then-pregnant wife are said to have invited corporate events organiser Dixie Maloney to the Buckinghamshire country mansion on 7 May 2021.
BBC News
11 months ago
UK politics

Cabinet Office defends Johnson's 245,000 Partygate legal bill

By Joshua Nevett & Paul Seddon

The Cabinet Office has defended its decision to use public money to foot the £245,000 bill for Boris Johnson's lawyers during MPs' Partygate inquiry.MPs are investigating whether the former prime minister misled them over lockdown parties in Downing Street.
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coderslegacy.com
11 months ago
Python

Cython vs CPython Comparing the Speed Difference

In this Cython vs CPython Article, we will be conducting a speed comparison using 10 different benchmarks, covering diverse scenarios and edge cases.Python is a popular programming language known for its simplicity and readability.However, it is an interpreted language, which can sometimes result in slower execution speeds compared to compiled languages like C. To address this limitation, developers have introduced Cython, an optimizing static compiler for Python.
www.npr.org
11 months ago
Faith

How to hold onto a sense of wonder

Katherine May's new book examines the idea of awakening wonder in an "anxious age."Alexa Loy Dent I didn't know what was under the train tracks, but that was the point.The track was elevated on top of a small bluff that ran parallel to West Yellowstone Highway, a road that ran right through my hometown of Idaho Falls in eastern Idaho.
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www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Jury shown CCTV of moment police officer shot dead in cell by man in handcuffs'

A jury has been shown CCTV of the moment a gunman under arrest for possessing bullets is alleged to have murdered a Metropolitan Police custody sergeant.Louis De Zoysa, who was still handcuffed when Sergeant Matt Ratana was shot with a revolver in a holding cell, is said by the Crown to have deliberately fired the weapon without warning into the officer's chest.
www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Court sees CCTV footage of custody sergeant being shot dead in police cell

A jury has been shown CCTV footage of the moment a gunman under arrest for possessing bullets is alleged to have murdered a Metropolitan Police custody sergeant, firing three shots in three seconds.Louis De Zoysa, who was still handcuffed when Sergeant Matt Ratana was shot with a revolver in a holding cell, is said by the Crown to have deliberately fired the weapon without warning into the officer's chest.
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www.independent.co.uk
11 months ago
UK news

Met custody sergeant killed with revolver hidden in underarm holster, court told

A police station detainee shot dead a custody sergeant while he was handcuffed, using an antique revolver he had hidden in an underarm holster, a murder trial has heard.Northampton Crown Court was told that Met Police officer Matt Ratana was killed by one of four bullets fired by Louis De Zoysa, in an incident captured on CCTV at a custody block in Croydon, south London.
Pinstripe Alley
11 months ago
New York Yankees

1998 Yankees Diary, June 6: Bernie's big hit beats Marlins

Normally a series against the defending World Series champions would be one to mark on the calendar, but the 1998 Marlins were not your typical reigning champs.They would only win 54 games, the first World Series winner to lose more than 100 games the next season, as the stench of one of the sport's most famous teardowns lingered over Jim Leyland's squad.
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Dezeen
11 months ago
Design

Force Majeure exhibition shines a light on 16 African and diasporic designers

The Central Pavilion at this year's Venice Architecture Biennale brings together 16 architects, including David Adjaye and Diébédo Francis Kéré, who "represent a distilled force majeure of African and diasporic architectural production".Force Majeure is one of six shows that make up The Laboratory of the Future, the 18th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale, which is curated by Lesley Lokko.
www.theguardian.com
11 months ago
Manchester United

FA Cup final further proves how absurd handball laws have become | Jonathan Wilson

As it turned out, it didn't affect the destination of the FA Cup or deny Manchester City a chance at the treble, but it might have done.Manchester United had created very little when suddenly VAR gave them a penalty for something almost nobody appealed.Assuredly, under the laws, as they are now interpreted, the decision was correct.
www.standard.co.uk
1 year ago
London

Nearly a dozen barrels of toxic acid' dumped by side of east London road

A n east London council has launched a hunt for a flytipper who dumped hundreds of litres of toxic acid by the side of the road.Newham Council said 11 barrels of what is thought to be high-strength industrial acid were left on a slip road off Royal Docks Road in Beckton on Thursday.Firefighters said the substance was a potential hazard but was stable.
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www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
World politics

Russia Denounces West Over Drone Strike on Moscow

A day after a drone strike on Moscow, Kremlin officials jumped on the refusal of Ukrainian allies to denounce the attack as proof that Russia's real war was with the West.The Kremlin's spokesman, Dmitri S. Peskov, said Russia would have preferred to hear at least some words of condemnation from Western capitals.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Girls

Teenage Girl in Guyana Is Charged With 19 Counts of Murder in School Dorm Fire

A 15-year-old student accused of deliberately setting a fire in a girl's school dormitory in Guyana that killed 18 of her schoolmates and a 5-year-old boy was charged on Monday as an adult with 19 counts of murder.The defendant appeared virtually at a hearing in a court south of the capital, Georgetown, and she was ordered held in custody pending further court proceedings.
Silver Screen and Roll
1 year ago
LA Lakers

Other NBA executives don't believe LeBron James will actually retire

If LeBron James was looking to bluff anybody around the league with his talk of retirement, it's one that everybody has called.The further removed from his comments, the more everyone seems to believe LeBron was not being serious, whether deliberately or not.In all likelihood, he was simply a very tired person speaking some unfiltered thoughts about how exhausting this season was after a very long seven months.
www.independent.co.uk
1 year ago
UK news

Complaint upheld against MP Liam Byrne over expenses for mayoral campaign

A parliamentary investigation has upheld a complaint against MP Liam Byrne for using expenses on his failed bid to become West Midlands mayor.The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (Ipsa) found there was overwhelming evidence that a staff member for the Labour MP had worked on his campaign during office hours.
RMNB
1 year ago
Washington Capitals

Jamie Benn explains cross-check to Mark Stone's jaw by saying he 'unfortunately' fell and that was his 'landing point'

The Dallas Stars went down three games to none to the Vegas Golden Knights in the Western Conference Finals on Tuesday.A big factor in that third loss was Stars captain Jamie Benn 's first-period major penalty and ejection for cross-checking Vegas forward Mark Stone in the face while Stone was laying on the ice.
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www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Television

Ted Lasso,' Season 3, Episode 11 Recap: Home

Just as last season's eighth episode, Man City, was an exploration of the wounds inflicted by poor fathering, this week's focuses on the healing power of maternal love.It was in that earlier episode that we first learned that Ted's dad had killed himself; this time, he and his mom find at least a modicum of long-belated closure.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Europe news

Bakhmut has exposed an ugly, personal feud between the Russian Defense Ministry and Putin's chef.'

For nearly a year, Russia has waged a vicious battle to capture the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, seeking a gain after months of embarrassing setbacks on the battlefield.Although the city has been essentially razed, seizing it and ending the longest battle of the war would be a political, if Pyrrhic, victory for Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the founder of the Wagner paramilitary group, whose mercenaries have led the assault on Bakhmut.
The IP Law Blog
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Legit or Lawsuit - Fake Drake AI Song

Earlier this month, a new Drake and Weekend collaboration disrupted the Internet.The only problem was it wasn't a Drake and Weekend collaboration after all.The song "Heart on My Sleeve" was written and produced by TikTok user ghostwriter977.The vocals for "Heart on My Sleeve" were generated by artificial intelligence and made to sound like Drake and The Weekend.
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IndieWire
1 year ago
Independent films

How the 'A Spy Among Friends' Score Creates Audible Paranoia for Its Spy Characters

The story of Kim Philby, the high-ranking British intelligence official who turned out to be one of the biggest double agents in U.K. history (and a hero of the Soviet Union, if you take the Russian point of view), is well known at this point.Dozens of books, fiction and nonfiction, have been written about how Philby took in the great and the good of MI6 and the CIA for decades before he finally had to flee across the Iron Curtain in 1963.
Inverse
1 year ago
Gadgets

Beats' Translucent Studio Buds+ Are a Nod to Apple's Most Iconic iMac

The Beats by Dre brand often seem to get the short end of the stick at Apple, but no longer.The new $169 Beats Studio Buds+ Apple is announcing today are the first pair of Beats headphones that genuinely look better than the company's own flagship AirPods Pro thanks to a new "transparent" design that harkens back to the iMac G3 and competitors like Nothing.
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Engadget
1 year ago
San Francisco

San Francisco is reportedly investigating Twitter over possible building code violations | Engadget

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San Francisco authorities have opened a new investigation into Twitter after six former senior employees filed a lawsuit against the company, according to and the San Francisco Chronicle.The plaintiffs are accusing the company of breaking local and federal laws and of violating building codes in its effort to turn some of the rooms in its headquarters into bedrooms for employees.
Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

Africa a "powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century" says Venice curator Lesley Lokko

Venice Architecture Biennale opens this week.In this exclusive interview, curator Lesley Lokko explains why she placed Africa at the heart of the festival for the first time.Named Laboratory of the Future, this year's edition will see various interpretations and exhibits of themes including decolonisation and decarbonisation across the city of Venice.
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Dezeen
1 year ago
Design

Ten architecturally significant museums designed by famous studios

To mark International Museum Day, we've selected 10 museums from the Dezeen archive that were designed by famous architects or are otherwise architecturally significant.Ten museums from across the globe, including a zigzagging museum in Berlin and a tree-canopy-like museum in Budapest, are among the buildings in this roundup to mark International Museum Day on 18 May.
www.theguardian.com
1 year ago
UK politics

Keir Starmer does have a vision and it's not New Labour 2.0 | Martin Kettle

For some, any idea that Keir Starmer and audacity are words that can sit comfortably in the same sentence will seem nonsensical.To many who define themselves as Labour supporters, the most salient characteristic of the opposition leader is not his audacity but its opposite, timidity.In this critique, Starmer's strategy, if he really has one, is to do as little as possible to offend the voters, and wait for the Conservatives to eject themselves from government by their own divisions and incompetence rather than to drive them from it.
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