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A record Palestinian-Israeli turnout could decide Netanyahu’s fate Inconclusive results pave an uncertain future for the man who has dominated Israeli politics for decades ✍️ @msrmichaelson bit.ly/4im8Rcm
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Lara Croft comes home Fans dressed as the Tomb Raider heroine descend on Derby to mark the 30th anniversary of her creation in the city ✍️ @SimonParkin bit.ly/4kojiPl
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Politicians banned Palestine Action. Any decision to unban will be theirs too As the group’s challenge to its designation as a terrorist organisation comes before the Supreme Court, two questions are key ✍️ James Harding bit.ly/4sypdn0
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Lanny – stage version of Max Porter’s novel loses its woodland spell Flat dialogue, ordinary moments and a lack of eeriness leave Nancy Medina’s production earthbound ✍️ @matt_barton_ bit.ly/3U6zOJl
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Lanny – stage version of Max Porter’s novel loses its woodland spell Flat dialogue, ordinary moments and a lack of eeriness leave Nancy Medina’s production earthbound ✍️ @matt_barton_ bit.ly/3U6zOJl
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Behind the scenes with the Saracens ‘wine consultant’ Brendan Venter Brendan Venter tries his best to avoid the media, but he let @_JessHayden shadow him for the day. The former Springbok tells her about his mistakes, his philosophies, and how much he loves being a doctor bit.ly/4zkZEbN
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Focus on prevention could be “completely transformative” and save “billions and billions of pounds” - how a new spending category could end up being the most radical thing in the budget - my piece for @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/national…
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Wild Scenes in Whitehall', the turbulent demo 70 years ago which helped deliver a new political movement, the New Left, which repudiated both Stalinism and conventional social democracy. My piece in @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/politics…
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Brendan Venter interview 📰 I spent yesterday shadowing Venter, in team meetings and on the pitch, to understand the man behind the noise. Once he started talking, he couldn’t stop. The piece is in Sunday’s @ObserverUK observer.co.uk/news/sport/ar…
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Abdul El-Sayed: the Muslim doctor out to make Senate history in Michigan In a poisonous race that is testing religious, racial and political divisions, a win for the Democrat could see the party turn to the left ✍️ Edward Helmore bit.ly/4zXXzlU
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The new scent of Guerlain Will the women of Paris embrace the house’s reformulation of its century-old perfume L’Heure Bleue? ✍️@StephenSmithWDS bit.ly/4iQpuOX
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Crypto prices take a tumble after massive $6.3bn Binance cyber hack Exchanges beef up security as latest heist fuels fears that AI is helping criminal groups like North Korea linked TraderTraitors to exploit vulnerabilities ✍️ Barney Macintyre bit.ly/3UuGPDH
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Switch from crisis fire-fighting will save the country billions, says government Ringfenced spending plan that seeks to prevent problems before they occur is hailed as the most radical aspect of Chancellor John Healey’s budget ✍️ @RSylvester1 bit.ly/3WGxGIW
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Richard Dawkins: ‘I thought AI wouldn’t come in my lifetime but it has – with a vengeance’ On a walk around Chipping Norton, the eminent biologist and atheist reflects on artificial intelligence, religion and writing his first novel in his eighties ✍️ Andrew Anthony bit.ly/4kpltlM
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What to read to understand Trump’s America Ahead of the midterms, here are three books that can help make sense of the president and how he wields power ✍️ Megan Nolan bit.ly/48adB0p
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Missing out on the £100 energy giveaway? Cutting bills wasn’t really the point John Healey’s budget pledge has caused neighbourly grumbling because it is based on 1991 council tax bands, but there are more important questions about this support package ✍️ @BenZaranko bit.ly/4zjItqR
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Skein in the game: Cecilia Vicuña’s Living Threads is best at its most ethereal The Chilean poet-artist spins scraps, string and driftwood into haunting relics, yet her latest show never quite hangs together ✍️ @LauraCummingArt observer.co.uk/culture/the-c…
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The trials and triumphs of Zaha Hadid Ten years after her death, the architect’s former London HQ is opening to the public as a centre for her work and legacy. Our critic, who twice commissioned her, recalls a singular talent, and the battles she fought to see her visions realised ✍️ @RowanMoore bit.ly/4A23VAJ
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Puccini’s epic swan song soars at Scottish Opera – and more Fascist symmetry meets Hollywood glamour in David McVicar’s knockout new Turandot ✍️ @FionaMaddocks bit.ly/47N2A4X
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The family home that’s a fortress in the garden of Wales High on a Carmarthenshire hillside, an architect and a garden designer have turned a ruined farmstead into an sheltered home that’s in harmony with the land ✍️ @RowanMoore bit.ly/3W9OVlT
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