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No sector remains untouched' after global outage linked to botched update to security software called CrowdStrike. Plus: the rise of the sporting dad bod Don't already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up hereGood morning.Businesses including banks, airlines, telecoms companies, TV and radio broadcasters, and supermarkets have been taken offline by a Microsoft outage linked to the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. Experts are calling the outage an unprecedented global crisis".What happened? A botched update to CrowdStrike security software - a well-regarded malware and endpoint protection tool used by entities around the world - caused Windows machines to boot and crash on an infinite loop, explained Ilkka Turunen, of the software supply chain management firm Sonatype.What has the outage affected? Flights on US airlines including American, Delta and United have been grounded while airports in Germany and Spain have also been reporting issues. Grocery stores in Australia have gone offline. Emergency 911 lines in Alaska went down, as did TV and radio broadcasters in the UK.What have CrowdStrike and Microsoft said? CrowdStrike ran a recorded phone message on Friday saying it was aware of reports of crashes on Windows". The situation is developing: follow the Guardian's liveblog for the latest news.What did Trump say about the assassination attempt on him? Trump said his speech may be the last time he spoke of the attempt on his life because it was too difficult for him, and that he had been saved by the grace of God. I had God on my side, I felt that," he said. Trump went on to kiss the helmet and embrace the uniform of Corey Comperatore, a former fire chief who was killed as he shielded his family during the shooting.How did the speech go down? The adoring crowd, many wearing bandages over their ears in solidarity with the injury Trump sustained, chanted: Fight! Fight! Fight!" And punched their own fists in the air in unison - echoing Trump's immediate response to the attack.What were some of Trump's policy messages? He promised, once again, to carry out the largest deportation of immigrants in US history, and although other convention speakers largely avoided questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election, Trump accused Democrats of having used Covid to cheat". Continue reading...

Doubts about 2020 and fears of another stolen' election persist - while Trump has beseeched attendees to protect the vote'Don't fuck us," Lara Logan, the former CBS News anchor turned to me and said. If you use the word conspiracy theorist in your story, I'm going to haunt you when I die."It was the third day of the Republican national convention and Logan was standing in the atrium of a hotel that was once the old Pabst Brewery in Milwaukee. She was there to moderate a presentation by Jim Hoft, the founder of the far-right website Gateway Pundit, and his twin brother, Joe, who is also a contributor to the site. Continue reading...

Speakers at Republican national convention are GOP's most diverse ever as it cynically rebrands as party of racial unityThe first day of the Republican national convention featured an unexpected guest speaker on the schedule: Amber Rose, a model, reality star and former girlfriend of Kanye West.The truth is the media has lied to us about Donald Trump," she said during her five-minute address to the audience. I believed the leftwing propaganda that Donald Trump was a racist ... Trump and his supporters don't care if you're Black, white, gay or straight. It's all love." Continue reading...

Workplace tea-spilling' is seen as unethical, says a new study. Tell that to the buzzing network that keeps my town on the railsWord about town is that gossips are more trusted to help organise social events but less likely to be consulted for their ethics. By word", I mean a workplace study from the University of Leeds business school", and about town" means reported in the Times".Gossips unethical? For shame! The insights of this particular study I shall personally table for moral judgment at the next convergence of my neighbourhood girl gang. Gossip, friends, is both a moral mission and our pleasure on the fortnightly-or-so mornings we - 30s to 50s, a rainbow of sexualities and various household compositions - convene at the local cafe, eat toast and information-share.Van Badham is a Guardian Australia columnist Continue reading...

A Republican falls victim to Emily Maitlis, the mayor of Paris dips her toe in the Seine, and a yearning for summer rainTo the Republican national convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, where a longstanding tradition of British journalists interviewing Americans in a style euphemistically known as irreverent" continues to deliver results. Continue reading...

The X owner, who will fully endorse' Trump, could set a new precedent for social media leadersMinutes after Donald Trump announced that he had selected JD Vance as his running mate, Elon Musk rushed to endorse the two Republican candidates to his 190 million followers on the social network that he owns. The tech billionaire proclaimed on X, formerly Twitter, that the ticket resounds with victory".Since the assassination attempt on Trump this past weekend, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX has thrown his support behind the Republican party and positioned himself as the herald of Silicon Valley's shift rightward. He wrote on X the day of Trump's near-fatal shooting: I fully endorse President Trump and hope for his rapid recovery" and called on others in the industry to join him. Musk, in contention for the title of the world's richest man, will reportedly pledge $45m per month to a pro-Trump political action committee backed by other wealthy tech elites. Continue reading...

At many elite programs training is seen as impossible if sessions are stopped to care for injured playersClint* says he was suffering from an undiagnosed concussion when he collapsed on the field during preseason training camp for a team in the Power Five, the elite level of college football. It was an incident that foreshadowed the tragic death of Jordan McNair at a University of Maryland practice. Clint was attended to by medical staff and ultimately hospitalized overnight. Meanwhile, the head coach called out, Move the drill!" and sent the team to continue on another side of the field.One of my friends told me they had to carry on with practice and they didn't know if I was dead or not," Clint told us, adding: [Head coach] never checked on my wellbeing before, during, or after." Continue reading...

The Yankees have swung between brilliant and bumbling so far this season. A 64-game sprint will determine who these Bronx Bombers really areIt's one of baseball's biggest questions heading out of the All-Star break: just who are these New York Yankees? Are they the team that shot out of the gate, streaking to 50 wins against just 22 losses? A team that despite missing its reigning AL Cy Young Award winning ace, Gerrit Cole, for most of the season, had one of the best rotations and bullpens in baseball? A club riding a rookie surprise package, Luis Gil, who posted a 2.03 ERA through his first 14 starts, more or less out of nowhere? Are they the team with an offense resembling something out of the Yankee past, with Juan Soto, acquired in a blockbuster deal with San Diego in December, immediately making himself at home, posting MVP numbers as the Bomber offense soared even while Aaron Judge took time to heat up. Judge did eventually hot up, by the way, to levels approaching the heat of the sun, putting up some of the gaudiest first-half numbers in recent memory: 34 home runs, 24 doubles and a Ruthian OPS, but I digress. Are the Yankees a team that finally took the pressure off manager Aaron Boone and general manager Brian Cashman, who under tremendous scrutiny prior to acquiring Soto, had seemingly finally put together a roster capable of doing something the Yanks haven't done since 2009: reach a World Series.Or, is the club's recent form - the Yankees have won just eight of their last 26 games - who they really are. Are they worse than the worst teams in baseball? The Chicago White Sox, Miami Marlins, Oakland A's and Colorado Rockies, who all won more games than the Yankees in that stretch. Are they a team whose offense begins and ends with Soto, Judge and Stanton, their oft-injured DH who has put up 18 homers in limited play. Right now at least, it looks like those dominant Yankees of April and May have succumbed to the suddenly razor thin roster that let them down in June and July. Beyond the big three, there isn't a single New York bat in the lineup with an OPS over .700 - the mark of an average hitter - with the exception of Ben Rice, a little-known rookie who has hit six home runs in 24 games. Let's just say that calling their lineup unbalanced" is kind. Continue reading...

Former president accepts party nomination in Milwaukee with lengthy speech recounting assassination attempt

Donald Trump addresses the party faithful at the Republican national convention in his first speech since an assassination attempt. Still sporting a bandage on his right ear from the attack, the former president struck an unusually conciliatory tone during the speech's opening moments, accepting the Republican presidential nomination for the 5 November election, before pivoting to attacks on the Biden administration and vowing to shut down America's borders

Forget Cristiano Ronaldo's six pack: fans are finding comfort in athletes who look (a little) more like the average personA short while after helping Kansas City to victory at this year's Super Bowl, Travis Kelce repaired to the Bahamas for a little R & R. While he lapped up the sun and surf with his girlfriend, Taylor Swift, the paps zoomed in on the Chiefs star and snapped away. But the thing that stood out most in those pictures wasn't one of the most famous women in the world. It was Kelce's dad bod, either a strike for the body positivity movement or an abomination to sport.Are we reaching the end of the era of idolizing shirtless photos of Cristiano Ronaldo and other sports pin-ups who might appear perfectly at home inside a Howard Schatz coffee table book? Nowadays, it seems, sports fans are hungry for heroes who look a little more like them. Male fans in particular seem to have a soft spot for average sports figures: athletes who are not all lean muscle. Someone with a softly round torso and sympathy for those who might consider lawn care a valid form of exercise. Someone who, when they achieve the impossible, makes you say, He and I aren't so different'. Think Roger Federer in 2009, after marriage and twin daughters, continuing to mesmerize while carrying a slight paunch. Or Kelce in the Bahamas, a bit over his 250lbs playing weight. Continue reading...

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Ex-president's retelling of attempted assassination at Republican national convention turns him into a figure that transcends politics

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Giorgia Meloni is trampling what few rights the LGBTQ+ community has - so many just feel grateful to be tolerated'I was chatting online the other day with a female friend who is undergoing IVF in Italy to have a child with her girlfriend. IVF for lesbian couples is not approved by law in Italy; instead, doctors have the power to decide whether to approve the treatment on a case-by-case basis.My friend was enthusiastic about her gynaecologist, because, as she told me, despite being utterly against same-sex parenting, she is helping us do it without objecting". That conversation left me with a bitter taste and, above all, confirmed how desensitised queer Italians have become to the daily discrimination they face.Viola Di Grado is an Italian novelist and literary translator. Her latest novel is Blue HungerDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

The former president ended the Republican convention with lengthy remarks that sounded much the same as usual

The pernicious, oppressive era of arresting people for holding signs or merely walking down the street must come to an endHow do you know when protest tactics are working? When governments ban them. The oppressive laws introduced by the previous government - the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Public Order Act 2023 - are a tick list of effective political engagement. Everything from locking on and digging tunnels to actions on roads, at airports, oil refineries or newspapers, even marching down a street, has been criminalised. Why? Because these methods work. If they didn't, the government wouldn't have bothered.The Conservatives justified their draconian measures with the claim that they prevented disruption to the public". But had they cared about disruption, they would have done all they could to prevent climate breakdown. Nothing is more disruptive than the flickering and eventual collapse of Earth systems. If you believe a few people sitting in the street is a major impediment to traffic, take a look at what a sea surge, a flash flood, a windstorm or a rail-buckling, road-melting, bridge-jamming heat event can do to transport infrastructure.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

Unpacking false claims made by former president and other speakers as he formally accepted Republican nomination

New charges filed against Anthony Odiong after eight accusers came forward alleging unwelcome sexual conductDays after being jailed in Florida on counts of possessing child abuse imagery, a Roman Catholic priest with ties to south-east Louisiana and Texas has been charged with two counts of sexual assault.Police in Waco, Texas, announced the new charges against Anthony Odiong late on Thursday in a statement. It said a total of eight victims had come forward alleging Odiong, 55, tried to use his influence as a priest to pursue sexual contact they either did not welcome or to which they could not consent. Continue reading...

Strategists view Republican convention address as time to pivot' ex-president's image, while critics remain skeptical

Former wrestler Hulk Hogan took the stage at the Republican national convention on Thursday, giving a speech riddled with wrestling metaphors. 'You know something, I've seen some great tag teams in my time. Hulk Hogan and oh yeah, the 'Macho Man' Randy Savage. But you know something, I see the greatest tag team of my life standing upon us, getting ready to straighten this country out for all the real Americans,' Hogan saidSubscribe to Guardian Australia on YouTube

Former House speaker has reportedly told colleagues president could be persuaded to leave race soonJoe Biden has reportedly become more open in recent days to hearing arguments that he should step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate, and former House speaker Nancy Pelosi has reportedly told Democratic colleagues that he could be convinced to leave the race soon.The Washington Post reported that Pelosi has taken a prominent role in passing messages from House Democrats to the White House, relaying concerns that Biden is incapable of beating Donald Trump in November, and has said she thinks Biden is close to making a decision to end his campaign. Continue reading...

The former president will speak from the Republican national convention in Milwaukee on Thursday night

The Michigan city's residents ask where is the humanity?' as war in Gaza rages on. Some won't vote this fall in protestAbu Bilal sits quietly on a stool in Oriental Fashion, a clothing store he owns on Dearborn's Warren Avenue, listening to the radio. It's hard to ascertain whether his tone when talking about the war in Gaza is one of near-complete defeatism or seething anger.Ninety people were killed today; hundreds were injured," he says, referencing an Israeli airstrike that killed dozens of Palestinian civilians in Khan Younis on Saturday. Continue reading...

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Biden says precedence established in Trump's classified documents case should prevail in his own tax and gun casesPresident Joe Biden's son Hunter asked a federal judge on Thursday to dismiss tax and gun cases against him, citing a ruling in Florida this week that threw out a separate prosecution of Donald Trump.The requests in federal court in Delaware and California underscore the potential ramifications of US district judge Aileen Cannon's dismissal on Monday of the classified documents case against the former president and the possibility that it could unsettle the legal landscape surrounding the justice department's special counsels. Continue reading...

Rory McIlroy's Open hopes were left in tatters after a 78 as Dan Brown birdied the last to take a surprise lead on 6-underAdam Scott came so close to lifting the Claret Jug in 2012. It wasn't to be, and those closing four bogeys at Lytham will have left a scar. He had the Scottish Open snatched from under his nose last week by Bob MacIntyre, too. But there's little that vexes the genial Aussie too much, and here he his holing out from one of the deep bunkers guarding 1. An opening birdie, and while there are 71 holes still to play, we're allowed to dream. It's free.-1: Song (2), Kinoshita (2), Scott (1) Continue reading...

For about $80 you can have a pail-full of food pouches with a 25-year shelf life to help cope with disasters of all sortsThe growing threat of climate change and the increase in unpredictable natural disasters that comes with it is leading survival-minded shoppers to a bucket of possible salvation from Costco.The big box warehouse club retailer is selling the Readywise Emergency Food Bucket" for around $80 to its US customers. Continue reading...

The seemingly overnight shift to a caring and loving', pro-unity nominee is reminiscent of Biden's approach

After Bernie Sanders and AOC threw Biden a lifeline, he turned his focus to supreme court reform and medical debtJoe Biden, who so far has defied calls to quit the presidential race from Democrats worried about his ability to beat Donald Trump, this week rolled out a catalogue of left-leaning campaign promises aimed at working-class and middle-class Americans. His renewed emphasis on core progressive priorities comes after leading Washington progressives, Senator Bernie Sanders and congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez threw their weight behind his beleaguered candidacy.The moves reframe Biden's campaign to focus on a suite of issues from US supreme court reform to ending medical debt. They come as Biden is reportedly more open to calls for him to step aside, but still has not left the race. Continue reading...

Analysts play down concerns and maintain confidence in AI boom after index's worst day since December 2022The tech-heavy Nasdaq stock index has deepened its losses after this week's interventions by US presidential candidates, but analysts played down market jitters over chipmakers, saying the artificial intelligence boom would continue to support demand.New York's Nasdaq composite index staged a brief recovery on opening on Thursday but was down more than 1% at midday eastern time, after posting its worst day since December 2022 on Wednesday. Continue reading...

Corey Comperatore, 50, was a volunteer firefighter and father who died shielding his family from shootingHundreds of people who gathered to remember the former fire chief fatally shot at a weekend rally for former president Donald Trump were urged to find unity" as the area in rural Pennsylvania sought to recover from the assassination attempt.Wednesday's public event was the first of two to memorialize and celebrate Corey Comperatore's life. The second, a visitation for friends, was planned for Thursday at Laube Hall in Freeport. Continue reading...

Sebastian Hotz, aka El Hotzo, was dropped from his radio show and provoked anger from Elon Musk after now-deleted posts on XA 28-year-old German comedian has got into trouble with Donald Trump supporters and then Elon Musk after sending a series of tweets appearing to welcome the assassination attempt on the former US president.Sebastian Hotz, who posts and performs as El Hotzo, lost his job with a public broadcaster this week for a series of tweets on X, Musk's social media platform, after Trump narrowly escaped death, saying that the attempt had been like the last bus - unfortunately, just missed". Continue reading...

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Reagon used her stirring alto and lyrics to fight racism, and was a music scholar and professor emeritus of historyBernice Johnson Reagon, an American civil rights activist who used her stirring alto and lyrics to fight racism, died on Tuesday at age 81, her daughter said on Wednesday.As a scholar, singer, composer, organizer and activist, Dr Reagon spent over half a century speaking out against racism and systemic inequities in the US and globally," said daughter Toshi Reagon, who like her mother is a musician and activist, in announcing her death on Facebook. Continue reading...

South LA has the highest levels of gun violence in the county - local organizations want to address how that affects kidsOne night in April last year, Dolores Munoz was jolted awake by a barrage of bullets ricocheting off her home. The rounds crashed through her living room window and tore through the bedroom wall of her 15-year-old daughter, who was spending the night at her cousin's house.Instinctively, Munoz ran to check on her five other children who were in the home with her. Thankfully, none of them were harmed. Thank God my daughter wasn't here," Munoz, 35, said through a translator days later, as her children sat quietly in the living room. Bullet holes in the wall had recently been patched and the shattered front window had been covered up with plywood. If she was home, she could have been killed." Continue reading...

Police detain 21-year-old carrying backpack including AK-47 pistol, loaded rifle magazine, flashlight and black gloves

Secret Service official says it is an insult' to imply women unqualified to be agents based on genderThe US Secret Service decried as an insult" rightwing attacks on the performance of female agents during the failed assassination attempt against Donald Trump, and claims the presence of such agents and a woman as agency director are the result of diversity policies.It is an insult to the women of our agency to imply that they are unqualified based on gender," Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service communications chief, told NBC News. Continue reading...

The work of Justin Hardiman documents the lives of Black southern farmers, long sidelined in mainstream narrativesOn a hot afternoon in June, four people stood in the lobby of Travelers Hotel off Third Street in Clarksdale, Mississippi, each taking in the images that lined its walls. The photographs are part of Soil, an exhibition depicting Black farmers in the Mississippi Delta.The town's art and culture district, where Travelers Hotel is located, serves as a living monument to the region's history - with signs, murals and banners every few feet that immortalize famous current and former residents, such as Early Wright, the first Black disc jockey in Mississippi, and the musicians Leo Welch and Kingfish" Ingram. If Mississippi is known as the birthplace of America's music, Clarksdale is the home of the blues. Continue reading...

Toxic response to prayer from pro-Trump Harmeet Dhillon, leading figure on Republican national committeeA toxic, racist, far-right response to Harmeet Dhillon's Monday-night Sikh prayer at the Republican national convention is just one sign of the difficulties Donald Trump and Republicans have in selling a more diverse version of Trumpism to the party's base.Social media posts following Dhillon's prayer indicated that some far-right Trumpists had been polarized by the sight of a non-Christian form of religious devotion on the convention stage in Milwaukee. Continue reading...

Pressure rising once again for Biden to step aside in election race after president tested positive for Covid and cancelled events to self-isolate at his home in Delaware. Plus: the power of proprioception

I'm not one for competitive sport but if the Games added the long lunch mixed doubles I'd be in with a shoutIn a few days the Paris Olympics will begin. This should be a moment of true joy and excitement but, honestly, I'm not feeling it. This is because I find the whole sporting shebang terribly unrelatable. It's about people who can jump high, throw things a long way or run fast. I can do none of these things; I haven't run anywhere since that unfortunate incident during cross-country in 1980. The Olympics weren't always like this. From 1912 to 1948, they included cultural contests in things such as painting, music, literature and town planning. That's more inclusive but I'm still not sure I'd thrive. I'm not up to planning a whole town under competition conditions.What's needed, so that people like me can get involved, is a food aspect. I am of course aware there are already a bunch of competitions that style themselves as culinary Olympiads, but those mostly involve intense, young people in chefs whites fashioning the Wreck of the Hesperus out of pulled sugar and aspic, or a fully functioning submarine entirely out of chocolate. That's about as relatable as a bout of acrobatic gymnastics to the theme from Succession. Continue reading...

His near assassination transformed Trump's theology, giving the decidedly earthly ex-president a powerful spiritual sheenThe attempted assassination of Donald Trump has transformed the theology of Trump. He has long portrayed himself as an innocent lamb falsely accused, the target of slings and arrows to bear the suffering of believers. Now the bullet and the blood of Butler, Pennsylvania, have sanctified him for the faithful and brought forth a new gospel.Earlier this month, the Republican National Committee endorsed the party platform, a document that contained a plank pledging to create a new federal agency to defend Christian nationalism: To protect Religious Liberty, Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and persecution against Christians in America." The document casts Christians as though they are a sect still persecuted by the Romans, about to be dragged into the Colosseum to face ferocious beasts.As we move forward in Uniting our Nation after the horrific events on Saturday, this dismissal of the Lawless Indictment in Florida should be just the first step, followed quickly by the dismissal of ALL the Witch Hunts - The January 6th Hoax in Washington, D.C., the Manhattan D.A.'s Zombie Case, the New York A.G. Scam, Fake Claims about a woman I never met (a decades old photo in a line with her then husband does not count), and the Georgia Perfect" Phone Call charges. The Democrat Justice Department coordinated ALL of these Political Attacks, which are an Election Interference conspiracy against Joe Biden's Political Opponent, ME. Let us come together to END all Weaponization of our Justice System, and Make America Great Again!Sidney Blumenthal, former senior adviser to Bill and Hillary Clinton, has published three books of a projected five-volume political life of Abraham Lincoln: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel and All the Powers of Earth. He is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

When we can't make sense of a dramatic event, fake news pedlars rush to social media to fill the information gapAccusations that the assassination attempt on Saturday was staged have proliferated all over social media. Many on the left are arguing that the attack was meant to garner pity for Trump and ensure a kind of Reichstag fire" scenario so Trump could seize power unilaterally. Many of these focused on the photos of Trump in the immediate aftermath, his fist raised in defiance, as evidence that the entire event was set up to garner sympathy and show the ex-president as unbowed. Meanwhile, on the right, rumours swirled that it was an assassination attempt by President Biden - on Sunday, Alex Jones blasted out an email with a subject line that read in part: Desperate Deep State Will Try to Assassinate Trump Again".None of this is surprising - the United States has a long history of presidential assassination and assassination attempts, and a long love affair with conspiracy theories of all kinds. But the ease with which conspiracists of all political alignments have been able to assimilate Saturday's shocking, unexpected news with their preformed opinions tells us what political conspiracy theories do for people and how they operate. Continue reading...

Judge Cannon acted like part of Trump's defense team. Her dismissal of his documents case is predictable yet disturbingDonald Trump stole thousands of classified documents when he left the White House in 2021, according to prosecutors, and shoved them in unsecured areas around the tacky Florida golf club where he lives. He kept them in basements, bathrooms and ballrooms; they were often unlocked, accessible to anyone who happened to wander by, as dozens or hundreds of people do, every day, at Mar-a-Lago. Trump refused to return the documents when asked; he also lied about what he had.On at least one occasion in 2021, he was recorded showing off one of the classified documents to a visitor, apparently for the sake of his own aggrandizement. It is like highly confidential. Secret," Trump said to the man, who was not authorized to see the information. See, as president, I could have declassified it. Now, I can't, but this is still a secret." Continue reading...

Denzel Washington has been accused of inauthenticity in Gladiator II. But why is upper-class, southern English considered the norm?Whose head could I give you that would satisfy this fury?" asks Denzel Washington's crafty Macrinus in the long-awaited trailer for Ridley Scott's Gladiator II. With its medley of aquatic gladiatorial games and charging battle rhinos, a vengeful Paul Mescal, a wearied Pedro Pascal, imperial Rome's answer to Tweedledum (Joseph Quinn) and Tweedledee (Fred Hechinger), and Connie Nielsen providing an enticing link to the previous film, the trailer looks and sounds epic. So of course some viewers have come out in a fury.A chief complaint appears to be Washington's use of his natural New York accent, with one observer asking: How did Ridley Scott ... allow Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington to do a NY accent in a movie set in Ancient Rome?" Conversely, there seems to be little furore over the English accent of Quinn or Mescal's loose adoption of what appears to be (from the trailer at least) received pronunciation - despite them being equally anachronistic. As it has been pointed out in the Hollywood Reporter, when combined with criticism of the music choice (Jay-Z and Kanye West's No Church in the Wild), it starts to look rather dog whistle-y". Continue reading...

Speaking at the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, JD Vance accepted the GOP's nomination as vice-president and made a speech in which he praised Donald Trump, harkened back to his Ohio upbringing and condemned past leaders for creating a divide across the US. He also said there would be 'no more free rides' for the US's allies in terms of defence spending.