Born To Be Wild

Gareth Southgate has made a string of huge decisions in naming England’s 33-player training squad for Euro 2024, with Marcus Rashford and Jordan Henderson the most eye-catching omissions. Adam Wharton and Curtis Jones have been surprisingly selected over Henderson in midfield, Ivan Toney has been included in attack and Ben Chilwell has been left out… Continue reading England’s Euro 2024 squad: Rashford and Henderson out, Wharton and Jones in | England

Lai Ching-te’s first day as president of Taiwan has been marked by large protests against the opposition over a controversial bill in parliament, foreshadowing a difficult first term for the leader, who lacks a legislative majority. Thousands of Taiwanese citizens gathered outside the legislative yuan on Tuesday to protest against attempts by the opposition parties… Continue reading Lai Ching-te’s first day as Taiwan president marked by protests | Taiwan

Manchester City: predicted 1st, finished 1st What we predicted: As the favourites to be champions again, for a record fourth successive season, attrition may be a greater foe than Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool or Newcastle. Rodri will step up as a new leader; Jack Grealish is the team’s folk hero and Kalvin Phillips is one… Continue reading Were our Premier League pre-season predictions accurate? Not exactly | Premier League

A majority of people in Scotland say they do not believe in any religion – the first time secular attitudes have overtaken religious identity. Data from the latest Scottish census, carried out in 2022, shows 51% of the population reported they belonged to no religion – a sharp increase on the 36.7% in 2011. The… Continue reading Majority of people in Scotland do not believe in any religion, census shows | Scotland

Donald Trump has shared a video on his Truth Social account referencing a “unified reich” if Trump wins the presidential election in November. The video, posted on Monday, remained up despite the reference being pointed out by media outlets. Trump’s campaign claimed a staffer did not see the word “reich” before the video was posted… Continue reading Donald Trump shares video on Truth Social with ‘unified reich’ reference | Donald Trump

If you had a PC in the 2010s, you probably owned a copy of Purble Place. The gaudy kids’ game came with every copy of Windows Vista and 7. It was a simple, three-title package: Purble Pairs was a basic tile memory game; Purble Shop had the player design a mystery character using logic and… Continue reading Purble Place: the mystery behind gen Z’s favourite forgotten video game | Games

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Trump campaign blames ‘random account’, staffer error, for ‘unified reich’ video In a statement to the Associated Press, Donald Trump’s campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed the posting of a video that included the word “unified reich” on a third party,… Continue reading Biden campaign accuses Trump of ‘echoing Nazi Germany’ with video referencing creation of ‘unified reich’ – live | Donald Trump

Get thee to a nunnery! Apparently it’s the hottest place to be. While we still very much live in a sex-saturated world, voluntary celibacy is having something of a moment. Evidence of this is everywhere. TikTok, for example, is full of videos of young people extolling the virtues of abstaining from sex. Meanwhile, a new… Continue reading Sex-positive feminism had its moment – and now it has been replaced by voluntary celibacy | Arwa Mahdawi

Michelle Terry, the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, has called the backlash to her casting as Richard III “disproportionate” and said much of the anger aimed towards her in recent months has been misogynistic. The Globe faced widespread criticism when it was announced that Terry, an Olivier award-winning actor and writer, would play Shakespeare’s “deformd,… Continue reading ‘The level of hate was dangerous’: Michelle Terry on the backlash to her casting as Richard III | Michelle Terry