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https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2025/nov/29/manchester-city-look-to-bounce-back-in-premier-league-lionesses-in-action-matchday-live

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Manchester City will hope to bounce back when they host Leeds later today after losing back-to-back matches against Newcastle (Premier League) and Bayer Leverkusen (Champions League).

Here is what Pep Guardiola had to say about the defeat in Europe:

Maybe I think higher of them than they think about themselves. It was a good lesson for me, as experienced as I am as a manager it was a good lesson for me for the future.

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Posted by Agence France-Press in Sri Lanka

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Another 130 missing after heavy rains from Cyclone Ditwah while almost 44,000 evacuated to temporary shelters amid rescue operations

Torrential rains and floods triggered by Cyclone Ditwah have killed 123 people across Sri Lanka so far, with another 130 still missing, the Disaster Management Centre (DCM) said on Saturday.

Director general Sampath Kotuwegoda said relief operations were underway with 43,995 people moved to state-run welfare centres after their homes were destroyed in the week-long heavy rains.

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Posted by Agence France-Presse in Padang, Indonesia

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/indonesia-and-thailand-flooding-death-toll-tops-350-as-rescuers-struggle-to-reach-worst-hit-areas

More than 100 still missing on Sumatra island, where authorities to start cloud seeding to reduce rain, as Thailand sees one of worst floods in a decade

The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in south-east Asia climbed past 350 on Saturday as clean-up and search and rescue operations got under way in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.

Heavy monsoon rain overwhelmed swathes of the three countries this week, killing hundreds and leaving thousands stranded, many on rooftops awaiting rescue.

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Posted by Barney Ronay

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/29/if-we-are-witnessing-the-death-spiral-of-the-cult-of-bazball-lets-savour-what-it-created

There have been many good points – challenging orthodoxies and Ben Stokes talking openly about male emotions – and even when it was bad, it was unignorable

The Life Cycle of a Cult
1. The Big Idea. A charismatic leader or leaders propose a new and transcendent idea that promises a panacea for alienated and vulnerable people.

So here we are then. They’re getting ready to storm the compound down in Brisbane. The gunships are circling. Smoke is rising from the out-houses. A lone figure, naked, shivering, the words HIGH RELEASE POINT smeared across his chest in chicken blood, has come staggering through the lines and is being led away under a blanket towards an inconclusive loan stint at Derbyshire.

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Posted by Will Unwin

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/29/manchester-uniteds-academy-reeling-from-staff-churn-and-ratcliffes-brickbats

Troubled times at Carrington as the club proud of producing the next generation of stars is in flux under fresh leadership

The standards of Manchester United’s academy have “really slipped” in recent years, according to Sir Jim Ratcliffe. The club is renowned as one of the world’s best schools for young players, so the words of the man at the top of the football operation will have stung those trying to create the next generation of stars.

The academy is in flux after Nick Cox, its long-time leader, left in September to become technical director at Everton. His replacement, Steve Torpey, joined from Brentford and is an ally of United’s director of football, Jason Wilcox. The pair worked together at Manchester City and the introduction of another former employee from there implies a literal blueprint is being followed.

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Posted by Jacob Steinberg

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/29/chelsea-barcelona-arsenal-premier-league

Enzo Maresca’s young side face league leaders Arsenal on Sunday on a high but have moved on from the emotional swings of old

The worst way for Chelsea to respond to their demolition of Barcelona would be to believe the hype. The problem is that emotions in football swing from one extreme to another, as the people running things at Stamford Bridge have quickly come to appreciate.

They have faced plenty of ridicule for their alternative approach since buying the club from Roman Abramovich three years ago, so perhaps they are entitled to be a little sceptical now that Chelsea are being praised for their transfer strategy and talked up as potential title challengers before hosting Arsenal on Sunday.

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Wrote half of quota the day before Thanksgiving; good stuff, I'm happy with it, but it was one of those sessions where I hit an obvious stopping point and pushing past it would have resulted in words-for-words's-sake that I probably would've had to cut later. And then Turkey-day was good but tiring (an expected no-writing day). All of which ate into my lead and left me a lot closer to the target line than I expected to be at this point.

Today... started out crap, writing-wise: too many other things in my head, and my mood tanked. But the housemate brought home cheap Chinese for dinner, and we watched a couple eps of Murder In Suburbia, which despite the lack of gunfights and explosions had just the snark and cynicism I needed. And then I sat down to write.

Slowly.

Really slowly.

Okay, a little less slowly.

And then....

30,082 words!

Yes, I have met the thirty30K challenge, and kicked its ass!

The book is still not done (argh), but it is getting close. Three and a half post-it notes left to cover. Will I make it before the end of November? I doubt it. But I will get it done soon, dammit. And I did my 30K.

Woohoo!!!

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Music: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, "Learning To Fly"

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Posted by Hollie Richardson, Hannah J Davies, Graeme Virtue, Ali Catterall and Alexi Duggins

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/29/tv-tonight-a-delightful-french-travelogue-with-sandi-toksvig

Along the French Riviera with Sandi, following generations of artists, writers and freethinkers. Plus: Strictly tries to shrug off its troubles with a new, time-pressurised challenge. Here’s what to watch this evening

8.05pm, Channel 4
Lovely Sandi Toksvig is travelling along the French Riviera, following in the footsteps of artists, writers and freethinkers who made the glamorous holiday destination “the beating heart of intellectual life” in the 20th century. After the shock of the first train actually arriving on time in Marseille, Toksvig heads to Sanary-sur-Mer, where Brave New World author Aldous Huxley and German writers Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht spent time. Hollie Richardson

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Posted by Anonymous; as told to Emma Loffhagen

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/29/my-cultural-awakening-thelma-louise

One line from Ridley Scott’s classic movie was the shove I needed to walk out on my husband after years of his controlling behaviour

It was 1991, I was in my early 40s, living in the south of England and trapped in a marriage that had long since curdled into something quietly suffocating. My husband had become controlling, first with money, then with almost everything else: what I wore, who I saw, what I said. It crept up so slowly that I didn’t quite realise what was happening.

We had met as students in the early 1970s, both from working-class, northern families and feeling slightly out of place at a university full of public school accents. We shared politics, music and a sense of being outsiders together. For years, life felt full of promise. When our first child arrived, I gave up my local government job to stay at home. That’s when the balance between us shifted.

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Posted by Sammy Gecsoyler

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/nov/29/looking-for-lando-my-crash-course-at-the-track-where-f1-star-norris-learned-to-drive

It may not be as glamorous as Monaco, but it was on the raceway where a seven-year-old Norris first caught the eye of motor sport trainers

Monaco, Las Vegas, Singapore. The list of pitstops on Lando Norris’ road to the top of Formula One is like a luxury travel agent’s catalogue.

So when I was asked to trace the young man’s journey ahead of a weekend in which he could become the first British champion driver since Lewis Hamilton, my hopes were high.

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Posted by Naoise Dolan

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/29/marriage-women-men-survey-data-girls

Survey data suggests more and more girls can’t imagine getting married, while their male counterparts are keener. That disparity holds a clue

According to recent data, marriages in England and Wales are down by nearly 9% after a post-pandemic spike, while civil partnerships have risen by almost the same percentage. This downward trend is also reflected in the US. The Vatican has piped up in defence of the institution, releasing a 40-page doctrinal note, Una Caro (One Flesh): In Praise of Monogamy: Doctrinal Note on the Value of Marriage as an Exclusive Union and Mutual Belonging. Sworn celibates would not be my personal first port of call when seeking relationship advice, but to each their own – exclusively and indissolubly, if the Catholic church is to be believed.

Among the younger crowd, gendered expectations about marriage are changing, at least according to a survey by the University of Michigan, which found that only 61% of high-school girls want to be married one day, compared to 74% of the boys. Perhaps this is behind the burgeoning genre of opinion pieces in which a rightwing man complains that women don’t want to date him. Often enough, he is an avowed libertarian, leaving it a mystery why he does not simply accept the workings of the free market.

Naoise Dolan is an Irish writer and the author of Exciting Times and The Happy Couple

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Posted by Thomas Eaton

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/nov/29/what-links-marc-almond-chemist-john-farrow-saturday-quiz

From Charon, Styx and Nix to Dr Fink and Bobby Z, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

1 Which famous portrait is claimed to be of Magdalena van Ruijven from Delft?
2 Charon, Styx and Nix are satellites of which body in the solar system?
3 What type of passport was abolished in 1996?
4 Which Commonwealth capital was built by the Knights of St John?
5 Which African-born influencer is the most followed person on TikTok?
6 Whose Book of Household Management was a Victorian bestseller?
7 Which Devon racecourse is the southernmost in Britain?
8 Whose backing band included Wendy & Lisa, Dr Fink and Bobby Z?
What links:
9 Derwent; Dove; Etherow; Goyt; Wye?
10 Luton Town; Oldham Athletic; Preston North End; QPR?
11 Crucifixion; assassination of Abraham Lincoln; signing of Belfast agreement?
12 Ani Mikheeva; Bella Baxter; Evelyn Quan Wang; Tammy Faye Bakker?
13 Lift; drag; thrust; weight?
14 Singer Marc Almond; comedian Thomas Derbyshire; chemist John Farrow?
15 Golden (English); stone (German); royal (French and Spanish)?

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Posted by Natricia Duncan, Chris Osuh and Anthony Lugg in Kingston

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/29/uk-mps-extra-aid-humanitarian-visas-jamaica-hurricane-melissa-dawn-butler

Dawn Butler leads calls for humanitarian visas and fee waivers for vulnerable relatives of UK nationals affected by storm

British MPs have joined campaigners calling for more aid and humanitarian visas for Jamaicans to enter the UK after Hurricane Melissa demolished parts of the country, plunging hundreds of thousands of people into a humanitarian crisis.

The UK has pledged £7.5m emergency funds to Jamaica and other islands affected by the hurricane, but many argue that the country has a moral obligation to do more for former Caribbean colonies.

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Posted by Gareth Roberts

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2025/nov/29/petes-eats-north-wales-famous-climbers-cafe-reopens-snowdonia-eryri

This Eryri refuge for hillwalkers and climbers has been reborn, breathing new life into the once-struggling mountain village of Llanberis

Pete’s Eats, the famous climbers’ cafe in the heart of Eryri (Snowdonia), reopened this summer after almost three years of being shuttered. The newly minted version is a swish affair, with a copper-topped bar, distressed wood panels, local craft beers, tacos and a handsome crew of young locals in branded T-shirts. A lot of money has clearly been spent on the refurb, and it seems to be at the forefront of a new wave of developments in the historic village of Llanberis.

When Pete Norton and his wife Victoria opened a cafe here in 1978, they envisioned a refuge for climbers, hillwalkers and anyone else who was hungry after a day out on the hills of Eryri. Rain-lashed visitors stumbling in from a long hike could look forward to pint mugs of tea poured from a metal teapot the size of a rhino’s skull, huge plates of steaming chilli and vegetable curry on brown rice, an all-day breakfast or mountainous chip butties.

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Posted by Sarah Dempster

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/nov/29/sandi-toksvig-great-riviera-rail-trip-almost-nothing-on-tv-is-as-joyful-as-her-effortlessly-entertaining-pootle

Few sights are as cheering as the tiny Dane scurrying down a continental alleyway, like a Womble chased out of a boulangerie. This Côte d’Azur travelogue is marvellous fun

A tiny figure is beckoning to us from across a blazing stretch of beach. We approach, tentatively. Who is this squinting gesticulator? Closer inspection reveals a hat (sensible) and a suitcase (brown). The heart leaps. Could it be Paddington? Close. It’s Sandi Toksvig. “And this,” she says, as the camera swoops over her shoulder to reveal a gasp-inducing sweep of Mediterranean coastline, “is my Great Riviera Rail Trip”. A montage of coming attractions sets out our guide’s stall. Here is Toksvig eating bouillabaisse in a bib; Toksvig bobbing, seal-like, in an infinity pool; Toksvig pounding up a set of steps, her fringe bouncing like a blond trampette in the breeze. The idea? “I want to explore the region’s rich past and vibrant present,” she says. “A simple rail trip of just over one hundred miles” allows her to take in the artists, writers and “freethinkers” who helped transform the Riviera from a fluttering ribbon of snoozy fishing villages into “one of the world’s dream destinations”.

So, it’s all aboard the Toksvig express for the first of a four-part choo-choo along the Côte d’Azur.

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Posted by Gwilym Mumford

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/nov/28/dont-panic-revisiting-the-millenniums-wildest-cultural-predictions

In this week’s newsletter: The turn-of-the-2000s produced a frenzy of cultural crystal-ball gazing. Two decades on those bold forecasts reveal as much about us as they do about the era itself

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I love revisiting articles from around the turn of the millennium, a fascinatingly febrile period when everyone – but journalists especially – briefly lost the run of themselves. It seems strange now to think that the ticking over of a clock from 23:59 to 00:00 would prompt such big feelings, of excitement, terror, of end-of-days abandon, but it really did (I can remember feeling them myself as a teenager, especially the end-of-days-abandon bit.)

Of course, some of that feeling came from the ticking over of the clock itself: the fears over the Y2K bug might seem quite silly today, but its potential ramifications – planes falling out of the sky, power grids failing, entire life savings being deleted in a stroke – would have sent anyone a bit loopy. There’s a very good podcast, Surviving Y2K, about some of the people who responded particularly drastically to the bug’s threat, including a bloke who planned to sit out the apocalypse by farming and eating hamsters.

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Posted by Shane Hickey and Rupert Jones

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/nov/29/beat-the-budget-a-five-point-action-plan-to-help-you-manage-your-cash

From Isas to salary sacrifice and inheritance to property tax, here’s how to best navigate the chancellor’s changes

After much anticipation, the chancellor delivered her second budget this week, unveiling a series of changes that could affect how you spend and save your money.

Here are some suggestions to consider what might lessen the impact on your finances.

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Posted by Tom McIlroy Political editor

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/29/australian-prime-minister-anthony-albanese-marries-jodie-haydon-wedding-canberra

The PM becomes the first Australian leader to celebrate a wedding while in office with a private ceremony followed by a reception at his official residence, the Lodge

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The Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has married his partner, Jodie Haydon, in Canberra, making him the first Australian leader to tie the knot in office.

The ceremony took place on Saturday afternoon at Albanese’s official residence, the Lodge, witnessed by a small group of close family and friends, including Albanese’s son, Nathan, and Haydon’s parents, Bill and Pauline.

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Posted by Gwyn Topham Transport correspondent

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/29/avanti-axed-7am-manchester-london-train-will-run-without-passengers

Exclusive: Rail regulator pulls Avanti service from timetable from mid-December but it is needed for staff travel

The good news for rail travel between Manchester and London is that a morning train will continue to link England’s biggest cities in under two hours. The bad news: passengers will no longer be able to get onboard.

The rail regulator has axed one of Britain’s fastest and most lucrative intercity services, the 7am Avanti West Coast from Manchester Piccadilly to London Euston, as part of a timetable shake-up that will take effect in mid-December.

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