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Exclusive: Greens to ditch "normal" childbirth policy The party understands that the caesarean-reduction policy must go

Good. Hopefully this signals a broader shift towards seriousness.

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Oh yeah, you can’t be putting a 77 MPH anything right there, that’s your first problem. The second is that you did it to Shohei Ohtani.

quite apart from Kemi Badenoch's dismal performance on BBC Breakfast, minimising the work of the RAF, she spoke of Labour 'not being built' for conflict because they came into power to do things like 'breakfast clubs' in such a disparaging way, like feeding kids is a joke ambition

Note that the electoral side is that important given how awful this proposal is but... I am sure the sight of sobbing children being handcuffed and dragged onto planes will boost the Government's standing with the progressive voters we're losing.

Fuck. This.

like Jesus dude

I like this Japan-Taiwan game because I can properly admire how ridiculous Shohei Ohtani is

Oh my God I absolutely have to get to this

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Leslie Odom Jr’s coming to the West End production of Hamilton?!?!

This is pretty disgraceful.

Erm... maybe the Greens want to look into *why* he left Corbyn's office before celebrating this too much.

Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.

"Feminism" [Times]

A tale in four parts.

What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.

How Arteta’s corner kings became the Premier League’s pantomime villains Daily Mail6 Mar 2026OLIVER HOLT Chief Sports Writer GETTY IMAGES Winning ugly: Gabriel scores from a corner against Aston Villa and (right) Arteta makes no apologies A STRANGE kind of rage is consuming English football. It is a collective fume, an impotent fury simmering around the fact Arsenal are leading the Premier League and heading for their first title in 22 years and that, at the moment, it appears no-one is good enough to stop them. Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler, whose team lost 1-0 to Arsenal in a scrappy, badtempered game at the Amex on Wednesday, became the latest to say he would much rather Arsenal played a different way. Presumably, by that he means he would rather Arsenal played in a way that would allow Brighton to beat them. Mean old Arsenal, having the temerity to beat teams like Brighton when they could just hand them the three points by playing differently. Maybe Hurzeler and every other Arsenal critic would rather the Gunners played like the late-era Arsene Wenger sides, that were lampooned for being beautifully weak and not having the ‘cojones’ to mix it with the best teams. Opponents preferred that Arsenal to this one. It has all got, quite frankly, rather weird. During Arsenal’s gritty and scrappy victory on the south coast, former Crystal Palace boss Alan Pardew suggested on TALKSPORT that if Arsenal won the league, there would have to be an asterisk next to their name for winning ugly. There is a clue there to the wider antipathy towards Arsenal in the media and the country. They do not have a lot of former players fighting their corner. Think of the most prominent pundits on our televisions and not many are from an Arsenal background. Most are from teams who considered Arsenal their enemy. ‘Let’s face it,’ one former Arsenal player told me yesterday. ‘Pardew and Arsene Wenger were practically judo partners on the touchline. They had plenty of run-ins.

Oliver Holt with another Daily Mail column defending Arsenal. That's about 3 in the last month or so

This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje

Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".

Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.

Ryan grim inadvertently outing himself as a hardcore antisemite to try and claim Platner isn’t one is VERY funny

Wait so some Nazis decided Platner’s wife is a secret Jew and Ryan Grim took this to mean she’s a for real Jew and now he’s doing “would a Nazi bang a Jew” discourse? Do I have this right?

Ballistic attacks down 90% from what? There were zero ballistic attacks from Iran this time last week.

The whole "The Dems would be a center-right party in Europe!" line is so old and moldy that having it in your apartment would open you to eviction. This was true in like 1998, maybe, but the past 28 years have seen America move significantly to the left while Europe stagnated.

Those first few responses got a chuckle out of me.

Have to admire Igor Tudor for really speedrunning the “Tottenham manager gets broken by Tottenham” process

Really top TV directing at Spurs v Palace tonight, just someone living their best life.

There's something really despicable about Trump calling for ordinary Iranians to take the risk of rising up against the regime. He's been so disdainful of the same sentiment in Ukraine. He's never taken a risk for anyone else's benefit. Man wouldn't stand up to serve himself at a buffet.

Liverpool next for Tottenham

It would be great if every Dem could stay on message that every Republican is a piece of shit with no principles other than "Got mine".

i do wish harry kane was still here AND going down with them. he deserves it

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if arsenal finally do it and spurs go down, prepare to be absolutely SICK of me

This Spurs game is like my birthday and Christmas rolled into one