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Move follows arrest of almost 500 people at latest pro-Palestinian demonstration in London on SaturdayMinisters are to give police new powers to target repeated protests, aimed particularly at cracking down on demonstrations connected to Gaza, the Home Office has...
Tory conference to open as Badenoch claims voters will back plan for Trump-style deportation force – UK politics live
Delegates gather in Manchester as Tory leader unveils scheme to deport 150,000 people a year from the UKTories pledge to create immigration taskforce modelled on Trump’s IceGood morning. The Conservative party conference is starting in Manchester today – although you...
‘Cheating is encouraged’: nut crackers at Peckham’s Conker Championships go for the fun
South London upstart takes itself far less seriously than the World Championships, but is not risk-freeThe sign queueing up to get my conker seemed a tad dramatic. “You won’t die, but you might lose an eye,” it read, but less than an hour later, in the midst of a...
Street battles, invented languages and gigs in psychiatric hospitals: France’s lost rock revolution of 1968
Bands such as Magma and Art Zoyd provided a soundtrack for the student protests that shook the country. Little remembered now, a new book reveals their decisive influence on later successes such as Air and Daft PunkThe seismic shock that May 1968 had on the French way...