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Keir Starmer plans to 'appoint dozens of peers to level playing field'

LABOUR is planning to appoint dozens of peers to the House of Lords to help push Keir Starmer’s legislative agenda if elected at the next General…

The National (Scotland)

Why are British five-year-olds 7cm shorter than western peers?

Five-year-olds in Britain are on average up to seven centimetres shorter than their equivalents in other wealthy nations, The Times reported. The average five-year-old boy in the UK is 112.5cm tall, against 119.6cm in the Netherlands. The average girl is 111.7cm tall, while her Dutch counterpart stands at 118.4cm. Professor…

The Week

Los Angeles health officials warn about fentanyl-tainted pills in Mexican drug stores

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles County public health officials on Tuesday issued an alert warning Angelenos that some pharmacies in Mexico have been selling counterfeit medications containing fentanyl and other narcotics.

Los Angeles Times

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LeBron James' youngest son is transferring, and helping transform his new school

LOS ANGELES — Campbell Hall's Garver Gym is, by all accounts, an intimate community space. Quaint. There's a small cavern for a student section and a few rows of bleachers that roll out, seating about 450.

Los Angeles Times

US is rejecting asylum seekers at much higher rates under new Biden policy

A new Biden administration policy has dramatically lowered the percentage of migrants at the southern border who enter the United States and are allowed to apply for asylum, according to numbers revealed in court documents obtained by The Times. Without these new limits to asylum, border crossings could overwhelm local…

Los Angeles Times

Family of Keenan Anderson files wrongful death suit against LAPD

LOS ANGELES — The family of Keenan Anderson has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, alleging that police officers used excessive force when they piled on top of the 31-year-old teacher at a busy Venice intersection and Tasered him after a minor traffic collision this year.

Los Angeles Times

Prince William gives first interview since becoming Prince of Wales, and uses it to follow in Princess Diana’s footsteps

The Prince of Wales is sharing the same vision and goals of his late mother

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Prince of Wales reveals ambition to end homelessness in UK

In an interview with The Times, William said that he will launch a ‘really big project’ to tackle the issue.

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson’s notebooks ‘raised national security concerns’

Officials have advised that sensitive passages in Mr Johnson’s diaries should only be viewed by those with the highest security clearance

The Independent UK

Not everything is bigger in Texas: Rangers are lone MLB team without a Pride Night

LOS ANGELES — The Angels had their Pride Night last week. The Dodgers are holding theirs Friday night.

Los Angeles Times

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2023 review

Every year since 1769, the Royal Academy has hosted a Summer Exhibition, a “cave-of-wonders-cum-candy-shop-cum-car-boot-sale of works by known academicians and keen members of the public”, said Laura Freeman in The Times. And, as the saying goes, “it is what it is”. This latest iteration, stewarded by watercolourist David Remfry, features…

The Week

Silvio Berlusconi’s death triggers real-life Succession drama

The death of Silvio Berlusconi this week brought an abrupt and unexpected end to predictions of a Hollywood-esque comeback for the media tycoon-turned-political leader.

The Week

Groundhog Day review: a simply sublime return to The Old Vic

Stephen Sondheim once thought about turning the 1993 film “Groundhog Day” into a stage musical. He gave up on the idea, saying: “It cannot be improved. It’s perfect the way it is.” And he may have been right about that, said Clive Davis in The Times – but this “glorious…

The Week

Report: Loyal PGA Tour Players To Be Compensated For Rejecting LIV Golf

The Times reports that the Saudi investors in the game will financially compensate the PGA Tour players who turned down LIV Golf

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The Independent UK

Boris Johnson and ‘entitled’ Tory Etonians have damaged Britain, admits former Eton master: ‘I failed’

Educator says school failed to remove ‘sense of privilege’ from star pupils

The Independent UK

Boris Johnson ‘pushed Sunak to knight father Stanley’ in crunch meeting with PM

PM said to have argued it was ‘customary’ to hand honours to family members

The Independent UK

A 45-room chateau and a ‘pregnancy deadline’: Inside the unconventional marriage of Dick and Angel Strawbridge

The couple have documented the renovation of their sprawling French home on Channel 4’s Escape to the Chateau since 2016

The Week

‘Lost’ Tudor book ‘hiding in plain sight’

Thomas Cromwell’s Book of Hours was “thought to be a lost relic of Henry VIII’s court”, said The Times, but “it transpires that it’s been hiding in plain sight for 363 years”. The book, which was immortalised in one of the most famous portraits from Tudor England, has been sitting…

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Evening Standard

Jack Whitehall says he has a ‘nepo-dad’: ‘He’s cut me loose!’

The comedian, who is expecting his first child with girlfriend Roxy Horner, said his dad has yet to offer him any parenting advice

The Independent UK

Ministers urged to close ‘gulf’ between electric vehicles and charge points

The Times said that industry figures showed that across the UK there were 36 electric cars on the road for every standard public charger last year

The Independent UK

Government WhatsApps about ‘frothy’ coffee orders, not major decisions, former health minister claims

The existence of three key group chats comes ahead of the first hearings of the official inquiry into the government’s handling of the pandemic

The Week

Quiz of The Week: 28 May - 2 June

The Conservative Party has found itself embroiled in yet another controversy this week as Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces accusations of a “cover-up” as he sought to block the Covid inquiry’s request for Boris Johnson’s unredacted WhatsApp messages and notebooks.

The Week

Luton Town’s extraordinary ‘resurrection’

Agony and ecstasy; despair and jubilation. No period in the sporting calendar brings with it such a dramatic clash of emotions as the end of the football season. And where despair is concerned, few clubs could have felt it as abjectly this weekend as Leicester City, said James Gheerbrant in…

The Week

‘Russian spy’ whale reappears

A whale that was accused of being a Russian spy in 2019 has reappeared, said The Times. The beluga whale was first spotted in Norway in 2019, and spent more than three years moving down the top half of the Norwegian coastline before moving on to Sweden in recent months.…

The Independent UK

A 45-room chateau and a ‘pregnancy deadline’: Inside the unconventional marriage of Dick and Angel Strawbridge

The couple have documented the renovation of their sprawling French home on Channel 4’s Escape to the Chateau since 2016

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