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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Bridget Kendall)
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The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes review – what Putin sees in the past
An indispensable survey of more than 1,000 years of history shows how myth and fact mix dangerously in the tales this crucial country tells about itselfAnyone who has wandered through Russia’s national museums, leafed through books of Russian art or watched some of Eisenstein’s cinematic masterpieces will know that prominent among the country’s iconography are arresting portraits of its princes and tsars.There is the imagined baptism of Grand Prince Vladimir, whose conversion to Christianity in
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories
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All back to the Black Ark! A lifetime of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry – in pictures
When music photographer Dennis Morris met the late reggae legend, who died in December 2021, it was the start of a 40-year friendship involving songs, Sex Pistols … and sorcery• Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry remembered by Neil ‘Mad Professor’ Fraser Continue reading...
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Thomasina Miers)
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Eating meat isn’t a crime against the planet – if it’s done right | Thomasina Miers
George Monbiot criticised ‘chefs and foodies’ like me for focusing on regenerative grazing. But alternative, lab-grown foods, could have terrible consequencesI have huge admiration for George Monbiot, a columnist of this newspaper. His work has highlighted the urgent need to reduce our CO2 emissions and switch to greener energy. He has also shown intensive farming’s role in the dramatic levels of species decline and biodiversity loss. Much of what he writes I wholeheartedly agree with – but when
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Sam Haddad)
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Like a ski resort for bikes: downhill mountain biking in Wales
BikePark Wales offers the UK’s longest beginner trail – 5km – and a great introduction to downhill mountain biking. Our writer and her family try it outThe Vicious Valley trail starts with a terrifying half-metre drop off a wooden boardwalk. Like all the advanced runs at BikePark Wales in the Brecon Beacons national park, it begins with a qualifier, that is a tricky opening feature where you can check whether you’re good enough for the trail and, if not, bail out in favour of an easier alternati
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Adrian Chiles)
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When did everything become ‘awesome’ and ‘amazing’? I blame the Americans
A simple ‘thanks’ doesn’t cut it any more, even if you’ve just been given a tin of cat food“Amazing!” she said, as I handed her a tin of cat food. This was the young woman who looks after my neighbour’s cat when he’s away. I was running an errand. It’s nice to be appreciated, but the routine handing over of a tin of cat food is not, in anyone’s book, amazing. What if I’d bought half a dozen tins of cat food? How much more amazing would that have been? Or a dozen tins, a cat bed, a scratching pos
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Richard Luscombe)
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Monkees’ Micky Dolenz sues FBI over ‘secret dossier’ on band
FBI holds redacted file on 1960s quartet but documents provide few clues as to why band was of interest to federal agentsThe last surviving member of the Monkees is suing the FBI over a “secret dossier” he believes the agency holds on him and his former bandmates.Micky Dolenz, 77, the former frontman for the popular British-American 1960s combo, filed the lawsuit through his attorney, Mark Zaid, a freedom of information specialist and music fan who told Rolling Stone magazine it would be “fun”.
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Anna Tims)
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How could my NatWest current account disappear from the app?
Cards, cheques and direct debits are lost and fees are mountingFour weeks ago, all traces of our joint NatWest current account disappeared from our app, and the balance transferred to our savings account. Our cards, cheques and direct debits were invalidated. We alerted the bank, but all we’ve received since are reprimands for defaulting on payments from the lost account. Late and returned payment fees are mounting up. After visits to our branch, and several letters, we still have no information
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Wilfred Chan)
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The lethal rise of ‘subway surfing’: ‘If someone slips, it’s game over’
The past year has seen a resurgence in a century-old trend: trying to ride on top of New York trains, with horrific resultsThe video quickly went viral in June: a group of people dashing across the roof of a moving New York City J train. Captured from far off, the train can be seen about to cross the Williamsburg Bridge, with its 135-foot drop to the East River – yet the daredevils, dressed in black, leap from car to car.A similar stunt resulted in a far more horrifying clip days less than two w
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Adebayo Abdul Rahman in Lagos. Photographs by Benson Ibeabuchi)
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Jam today: Nigerians turn a profit from the choked traffic of Lagos
The city’s 24 million people can sit in gridlocked streets for more than 30 hours a week. For some, that represents a good way to make a livingJust after 6am, Omowumi Adekanmbi leaves the one-room flat where she lives with her four children. An hour later, she is at work in the gridlocked morning traffic – her customers the frustrated car commuters of Lagos.From a bowl balanced on her head, Adekanmbi deftly hands over cans of fizzy drinks with one hand and collects naira banknotes with the other
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Sep 01, 2022
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The Guardian - Top Stories (Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale and Graeme Virtue)
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TV tonight: Rachel Parris is in the hot seat on Late Night Mash
A new series of the reliably funny satirical news show sees regular guest Parris taking the reins from Nish Kumar. Plus, Ambulance. Here’s what to watch this evening Continue reading...