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The Liberal Democrats Are No Friends of Liberty

The Liberal Democrats' intolerance of gender critical campaigners and Christians has rightly landed them in legal hot water and shown that those in charge are no friends of liberty, say David Campanale and Natalie Bird.

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‘I worked every day’: How David Hockney fell in love with France during the Covid lockdown

12 June 2026 at 21:15
British artist David Hockney, who died at the age of 88 on Thursday, fell in love with the French countryside in the last few years of his life. He settled in Normandy in 2019, where he lived during the Covid-19 lockdown and was able to rededicate himself to nature over a year of solitude.

DECRYPTAGE. Danger du CO₂ dans les cuves viticoles : la coopérative des Hauts de Montrouge de Nogaro ouvre la voie contre le gaz tueur

13 June 2026 at 06:25
La prévention des risques dans les chais viticoles franchit un cap à Nogaro (Gers). Lauréate du Trophée de la prévention 2026, la coopérative des Hauts de Montrouge expérimente un système inédit de captation du CO₂,...

Jessie J’s triumphant return puts lucrative Chinese market in spotlight

Other western acts have attempted to crack country’s music scene since singer’s breakout success in 2018

One week after announcing she was “cancer free”, the British pop star Jessie J did what any recovering patient would do and travelled thousands of miles around the world to perform for an audience of more than a billion people.

On 29 May, the singer-songwriter, whose real name is Jessica Cornish, belted out a stage-rattling rendition of Frank Sinatra’s My Way on the stage of Singer, a hugely popular Chinese singing competition similar to The Voice. She also performed her new song, California, briefly adapting the lyrics to change California to Changsha, the Chinese city where Singer is hosted.

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Rosa Salazar: ‘Is my life story true? Of course it is. Is it sensational? Yeah’

13 June 2026 at 06:00

The star of cult blockbuster ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ speaks to Louis Chilton about swapping Hollywood for the West End, her ‘very chaotic upbringing’, and why the Old Vic’s new all-female revival of ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ is doing more than ‘putting lipstick on it’

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Gene Shalit, longtime Today show movie critic, dies at 100

13 June 2026 at 01:25

Beloved movie critic and arts reporter was known for bushy hair and mustache and affection for groan-inducing puns

Gene Shalit, a movie critic and arts reporter for the Today show over four decades who was known for his puffy hair, oversized handlebar mustache and affection for groan-inducing puns, has died. He was 100.

Shalit’s family announced the death Friday to NBC News, saying in a statement that he “passed away peacefully today after 100 years of an amazing life”.

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© Photograph: NBC NewsWire/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

© Photograph: NBC NewsWire/NBCUniversal/Getty Images

Ukrainian boxing champion Usyk visits White House, meets with Trump

13 June 2026 at 01:24
Ukrainian heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk met with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on June 12, according to a post shared by presidential communications adviser Margo Martin on X.

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