News, sport and opinion from the Guardian's UK edition
Headlines
Tuesday
6 August 2019
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Britain in weak negotiating position despite Trump’s warm words, says Larry Summers
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Rhetoric ratchets up as Beijing responds to US claim of being ‘a currency manipulator’
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Boy, 17, arrested on Sunday after six-year-old critically injured by viewing platform fall
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Helicopter and sniffer dogs join search for British teen who disappeared from bedroom at resort on weekend
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Alex Hern on how Google’s use of personal data has potentially helped create a new age of mass surveillance. Plus Lois Beckett on the US mass shootings
Spotlight
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Scotland’s first minister on why the government’s Brexit plans are ‘catastrophic’ and why people in England should move to Scotland
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Her last standup show, about working in a New York sex dungeon, was a fringe hit and is now bound for TV. What next?
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Man who joked about recycling as he tipped fridge over cliff was ordered to collect it and dispose of it correctly
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Trump is a politician perfectly fitted for a media ecosystem that amplifies extreme emotion and allows the loud to drown out the calm
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There are five scenarios in which crashing out of the EU can be prevented, says the academic Vernon Bogdanor
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Instead of expensive and invasive operations, how about we support women for a change, asks the Guardian columnist Suzanne Moore
Letters treat
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Jimmy Anderson will miss next week’s Test at Lord’s as fears grow over his chances of featuring again in the series
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Under new manager Steve Bruce, it is a squad high on quantity but low on outstanding quality. Newcastle could struggle
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Uefa’s calculation of coefficients penalises good teams in weak leagues and takes into account matches played six years ago
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A ‘freak accident’ has forced Carl Frampton to pull out of his scheduled fight against Emmanuel Dominguez in Philadelphia on Saturday
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From the UK
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20 people have refused to leave extended evacuation zone despite repeated warnings
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Highest earners in the country overwhelmingly middle-aged men living in the south-east
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‘SharkCam’ could shed light on sex lives of basking sharks in Sea of the Hebrides
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The technology can also be used to identify poisons as well as to monitor rivers
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Brazil’s president calls for security forces and citizens who shoot alleged offenders to be shielded from prosecution
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Hongkongers stage first press conference to challenge government’s ‘empty rhetoric’ on protests after fresh clashes
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Pyongyang says US-South Korea military drills are ‘flagrant violation’ of efforts to reach peace
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Nearly 200 people evacuated and three taken to hospital after landing in Valencia
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3 out of 5 stars.
Edinburgh review If You're Feeling Sinister – Belle and Sebastian inspire eccentric drama
3 out of 5 stars.Eve Nichol’s play combines songs from the Glasgow band’s well-loved album with an ambiguous narrative -
‘When the song was a global hit, I flew to London every week, while working at a department store in Chicago. My bosses said: “Take another day off! This is great!”’
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2 out of 5 stars.
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Culture Treat
The art of whisky
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It is unlike anything I have ever experienced; like being massaged from the inside
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Our pick of non-London venues present outdoor summer shows in locations from Cornwall’s coastal Minack to Glasgow’s wooded Greenbank Garden
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Documentary
Take part
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Your space to discuss the books you are reading and what you think of them
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Did you celebrate your relationship with your same-sex partner before the law allowed you to do so? If so we would like to hear from you
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We want to hear from BAME people who are attending - or have attended - the festival. What has your experience been like?
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Wherever you are in the world, this week we’d like to see your pictures on the theme ‘shimmer’
Explore
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They’re fearless, defiant, and increasingly angry at the mounting threats in the US to reproductive rights. Here, they reveal why the reasons why they choose to go public
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There has been an ‘explosion’ in cases unearthed by anti-online grooming groups such as Wolf Pack
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After a gunman killed 22 people and wounded dozens of others, many terrified Texans are buying firearms for the first time
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Brian Blomerth’s graphic novel Bicycle Day tells the story of the psychedelic ride made in 1943 by Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann as he researched the drug LSD
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Survivors mark 74th anniversary of atomic bombing of city in second world war with one minute’s silence
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Most of the animals at the Santa Cruz Foundation in San Antonio, Colombia, have been rescued from traffickers and circuses. The multimillion-dollar illegal wildlife trade is the fourth-largest in the country after drugs, guns and human trafficking
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The Guardian’s picture editors select photo highlights from around the world
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Thousands of El Paso residents went to a baseball diamond to pay tribute to the victims of a mass shooting, while hundreds of people gathered to pay their respects to the nine people who were killed in Dayton
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For the ninth consecutive weekend pro-democracy protesters rallied against a controversial extradition bill
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