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Недавно я с удивлением обнаружил, что таксофоны до сих пор существуют и используются по назначению. Казалось бы, эпоха этих аппаратов давно закончилась: последние карточные таксофоны демонтировали, отключили от сети или оставили ржаветь где-нибудь на улице в качестве арт-объектов. Теперь они разве что пугают зумеров и вызывают приступы ностальгии у бумеров, которым достаточно увидеть телефонную будку, чтобы вспомнить «Плачет девушка в автомате».

Other voter concerns have prevailed but return of Congress likely to see renewed focus on late sex offender’s activities

As US voters head to the polls for crucial and fraught midterm elections, some survivors’ advocates in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation have expressed concern that the scandal could recede into the background.

Political experts believe, however, the Epstein issue is not going away permanently and that many voters can balance day-to-day concerns such as affordability and AI with the scandal involving the late financier and accused sex trafficker whose social circle was widespread among America’s elite.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 4,588 cases across the country, more than double the tally in 2025

Federal health authorities reported an additional 178 cases of measles in the US this week, as the vaccine-preventable illness continues to sicken people across at least 43 outbreaks.

The new data reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) comes as experts criticize the agency for lack of transparency, and as health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr takes steps to further upend US vaccine infrastructure.

Election Day is almost here — but even after the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, the election won’t really be over. The vote count will take days or even weeks in some states. President Donald Trump seems certain to raise objections to results he doesn’t like — he’s already getting started in Alaska — and he has threatened to marshal the forces of the federal government in his efforts.

It’s an anxious moment for American voters: Will we have a free and fair election — or not? Luckily, says Eliza Sweren-Becker, deputy director in the Brennan Center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program, there is still one thing that every American 18 and older can do to make sure their voice is heard: vote.

“I think that is the intent. It’s to create a lack of confidence. It’s to discourage voters from participating,” Sweren-Becker told Vox’s Astead Herndon on America, Actually. “But the only way that that campaign to undermine our confidence and to sow distrust actually works is if voters stay home. The way to defeat that attempt to shake voters’ trust in democracy is just to participate.”

Sweren-Becker spoke with Astead about what states could do to speed up their vote counts and ensure everyone has a chance to cast their ballot, the need to restore the Voting Rights Act, and the long-term impact of Trump’s election denialism.

Below is an excerpt of their conversation, edited for length and clarity. There’s much more in the full show, so listen to America, Actually wherever you get your podcasts or watch it on Vox’s YouTube channel.

Let’s start with Election Day. More than a dozen states count late-arriving ballots. President Donald Trump has used the shifting vote counts as pretense to further his own election interference claims.

How prepared should folks be for a long wait in November for results? And how that could impact confidence in the results?

You’re absolutely right that we may get results out of states or in certain races in the days following Election Day. Voters should not expect to have the final result on Election Day.

And when you hear reporting on the news that somebody’s ahead or somebody’s behind, remember: They haven’t counted all the votes yet.

The critical thing is we need to count every vote, and every person’s vote needs to be counted.

So while it is true that some states allow ballots to arrive after Election Day, they all have to be cast by Election Day. The Supreme Court just this year said that it’s totally appropriate for states to set their own ballot receipt deadlines. We have to be patient, as an American electorate, to get the proper results to count every ballot and make sure all the voices are heard.

But isn’t it kinda wild that we can’t get results on election night? I saw Donald Trump cite the Brazilian presidential election, and while I know he’s doing that from a self-interested place, I did think for a second: Why does it take so long for us to put these results together?

I could totally understand why people would prefer the results faster. And candidly, could states do better at preparing and counting faster? Sure. But they have limited resources. They are working their butts off to prepare for the election with the staff that they have, and then they work tremendously hard to count properly, accurately, as fast as they can.

Could states change their policies to allow them, in some places, to pre-process ballots, to allow them to get to results faster? Sure. I’m not saying states shouldn’t change their policies to create more efficiency here. But given the rules of the road that we have, we need to make sure that every properly cast ballot is counted.

If I’m someone who is concerned about election security and free and fair elections, what should I be looking out for?

So, for example, I have heard that there is some anxiety about mail voting.

If you want to cast a mail ballot, just know that you probably have a bunch of options in your state as to how you can cast it. You can certainly rely on the mail and have USPS deliver that ballot, but of course, we know occasionally mail gets delayed. Your state may have ballot drop boxes. You may have ballot drop-off at election officials’ offices, or even at polling places.

Find out your options.

Yes, definitely find out your options. Voters should also check their voter registration status. Make sure it’s up to date with their current address. Of course, if you’re not registered to vote and you still have time in your state to register, please do register.

Everyone should participate. Our democracy works best the more of us that can participate. If your registration date has not passed, don’t forget to register to vote. Vote with your friends, vote with your community, vote with your family. Voting should be joyful. It’s a civic experience that I think is really fun.

I try to take my kids with me to vote because it’s exciting. They get stickers. Everyone loves stickers.

It’s half the reason I go.

It’s also a reminder. You get your sticker, other people see you, they know it’s Election Day, maybe they go out to vote.

It’s a way to be part of your community and invest in your community and to choose who you want to be a leader of your community.

What about after Election Day?

Earlier this year, Democrats and Republicans in Congress circulated a letter asking members to commit to recognizing state-certified winners and “oppose any attempt to refuse or delay a seating of a member-elect.” We saw House Speaker Mike Johnson delay the swearing-in of an Arizona representative last year,

That seems to me like maybe a preview of what might be to come. How fearful should we be of these post-election attempts to block members from being seated?

I think those scenarios are highly unlikely. I understand why folks are worried about them, but the reality is, states have their own certification processes, which are laid out in state law and that are mandatory for them to follow. It is not discretionary whether states certify their elections. So once there is a new Congress, we have confidence that they will be seated according to how the voters actually cast their ballots.

I want to end by thinking about Trump’s consistent questioning of the integrity of our election system. If he ultimately doesn’t try to actually steal the election, what is the long-term impact of his relentless focus on it and support for policies like the Save America Act?

Just because we have won in many courts against this administration doesn’t delude me into thinking that this administration is just going to stop in this years-long campaign to sow doubt in our election systems.

I think that is the intent. It’s to create a lack of confidence. It’s to discourage voters from participating. And to some degree, I think the administration has succeeded in creating some confusion about the rules or a lack of confidence. But the only way that that campaign to undermine our confidence and to sow distrust actually works is if voters stay home.

The way to defeat that attempt to shake voters’ trust in democracy is to participate in our democracy and to turn out and to make their voices heard regardless of party, regardless of candidate. To say that we will not be made to fear participation in our democracy, but we are going to continue to seize it and take joy in it and show that we deserve a stronger representative democracy that serves all Americans.

What are things that could happen to inspire trust in our electoral system? Are there reforms that you think might make the public feel a reinvigorated sense of confidence?

There are certainly things that Congress could do to create a national floor of voter access and ensure that someone’s right to vote doesn’t depend on what state they live in. That includes basic reforms like same-day registration, online voter registration, universal access to mail voting that doesn’t require strict satisfaction of certain excuse requirements, which still exists in many states.

I think it’s time for Congress to ban partisan gerrymandering. I also think it’s time to restore the Voting Rights Act, and Congress can enact a statutory right to vote that is meaningfully enforceable so that voters can go to court if their voting rights have been burdened, and they can get a real remedy.

That has been really undermined by the Supreme Court, but Congress can and should respond. They have it within their power. The Constitution gives Congress the power to set rules for elections. They should.

Footage broadcast on Jordanian state television showed three gunmen firing shots at a Greek Orthodox church in the city of Karak on Friday.

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A new James Bond is nigh, to replace the last actor in the 64 year-old movie franchise. What evil forces will the new 007 face? Killer Drones? Killer AI? Killer lettuce?

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The basketball star seems proud to leave the job to his partner. That’s so last century

Nobody can accuse the basketball star LaMelo Ball of being bad at his job. That said, the Minnesota Timberwolves point guard doesn’t seem to be a huge fan of dribbling.

Ball has a nine-month-old son, LaOne, with his partner Ana Montana (real name: Analicia Chaves) and is apparently uninterested in dealing with all the body fluids that come with a baby.

Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist

The process included a gala featuring medical students doing aerial yoga and singing Taylor Swift to donors’ families. In some ways, it was absolutely perfect

When my mother, Erin O’Connell, was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive cancer in late 2022, one of her first thoughts was: “What will I do if I can’t work?”

At the time, she was 62 years old and working as a physical therapist in Portland, Oregon, where she had recently moved to live closer to me and my family. Reluctantly, she filed for short-term disability from her job and paused her training to become a volunteer search and rescue EMT.

Dom Phillips warned that Jair Bolsonaro would make life more dangerous for reporters and the Amazon rainforest, and that his sons were even more extreme

“Bolso shows all signs of fascism, as do his supporters,” the murdered British journalist Dom Phillips told me before his death. “His sons are all more extreme if anything.”

These words were written in 2018 by the Guardian contributor shortly before the election of the far-right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro as president of Brazil – a prospect that Dom viewed with dread.

Рекуперативное торможение асинхронного двигателя — это режим, при котором двигатель работает как генератор, преобразуя кинетическую энергию вращающегося ротора в электрическую. Данный режим характерен для лифтов, ленточных погрузчиков, подъёмных кранов и других устройств где предполагается подъём и спуск груза. Такой режим работы позволяет расходовать энергию при подъёме груза и генерировать при спуске (когда двигатель вращается по инерции). В общем случае энергия возвращается обратно в сеть, в рамках данной модели генерируемая энергия будет использоваться для зарядки аккумулятора.

journald умеет почти всё, что нужно для разбора проблемы на сервере: индексирует поля, фильтрует по юниту, процессу, пользователю и загрузке, ищет по времени и отдаёт записи по курсору. А смотрим мы его через journalctl, то есть одной командой за раз. Эта статья — о том, как оконный интерфейс из 1990 года оказался почти идеальной формой для этих возможностей, и о том, как устроен получившийся просмотрщик TurboJedi.

Репозиторий gpu-unlock снимает коммерческое ограничение NVIDIA на скорость FP16/BF16-тензорных ядер в картах 3000 серии. Мы прогнали его на своей RTX 3060 (GA106-302, LHR) в live Ubuntu: FP16 GEMM вырос с 27,1 до 49,5 TFLOPS (×1,83), при этом контрольная линия FP32 не сдвинулась ни на десятую. В статье о том, что именно урезано и на каком уровне, почему чтение регистров идёт до загрузки драйвера, чем наш замер отличается от уже влитого в апстрим PR, и почему для квантованного инференса llama.cpp это даёт ноль процентов.

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Arsenal hit back! Alessia Russo picks out Georgia Stanway as she advances into the box and the ex-Bayern midfielder guides her shot on target. Lize Kop should probably do better in the Spurs goal – she palmed it into the top corner to make it look better than it was.

What a leap from Tandberg, who is a lifelong Spurs fan. She beat several Arsenal defenders to Victoria Pelova’s corner and Misa didn’t have much chance of stopping the header.

Nazhat Shameem Khan claims some staff are facing ‘banking difficulties’ but their work is unaffected

The deputy prosecutor of the international criminal court has said new US sanctions are beginning to take effect on its staff but insisted they have not hindered the court’s work.

The US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced the sanctions this month, accusing the ICC – a frequent target of the Trump administration – of being a “rogue court” and declaring: “Either the ICC will end its threats, or we will end the ICC.”

Second named storm will hit northern parts of UK as thousands remain without power after Friday’s Storm Austen

The UK is bracing for a second storm this weekend, as strong winds and heavy rain are expected to disrupt travel and cause further power cuts in the north.

Storm Boelo, the second named storm of the season, is expected to bring heavy, frequent showers and winds potentially exceeding 80mph to northern parts of the UK.

Very often, a viral news story about animals is a comedy to its audience and an unmitigated tragedy to its subjects. That was the case this past weekend, as footage of bands of juvenile cows dashing through the streets of Kansas City stampeded across the internet. 

The details are as follows: Last weekend, in the middle of the night, a semitruck carrying close to 120 young cattle plunged off a highway interchange in Kansas City’s downtown, spilling out dozens of animals. The truck driver and one other person sustained minor injuries. Dozens of the cows were killed, many others were seriously injured, and still others went running into the city. Some of them traveled for several miles, the city’s fire chief told the Associated Press. The animals were chased around the streets by first responders and self-described “cowboys” (one of them appearing to carry an electric cord as a lasso); authorities said all were rounded up by the end of the day.

To many people, freak accidents like these understandably look a little funny, even fantastical. “We take free roam BBQ very seriously,” one Reddit comment, with more than 400 upvotes as of this writing, said. “Much as I lament the tragic loss of bovine life, these videos have brought such joy to our fair city,” another commenter wrote. 

The clips undoubtedly have a certain charm. If only the animals were as carefree as they appeared in those brief moments — and if only they could truly escape the fate that humans had in store for them. But as my colleague Kenny Torrella has written, the strange animal stories that periodically capture the public’s imagination almost invariably circulate stripped of the darker reality from which they emerge — humanity’s dominion over nonhuman animals. In this case, the cattle crash illuminates one of the most overlooked cruelties of modern animal agriculture: the nightmare of livestock transportation.  

When you imagine the lives of animals raised for food, you might think of a factory farm (in a large majority of cases, very cruel) or a slaughterhouse (likewise, and not just for animals raised primarily for meat — dairy cows and egg-laying hens are slaughtered, too). But the animals need to be transported from the farm to the slaughterhouse, and also between numerous different facilities — breeding farms, hatcheries, feedlots, auctions — over the course of their lives as they progress through different stages of the livestock supply chain. Most cattle raised for beef and dairy are transported multiple times in their lifetimes; between four and six journeys is common. A recent US Department of Agriculture report found that half of cattle shipped to feedlots traveled for more than 250 miles, and 22 percent traveled more than 500 miles. 

Kansas City, along with Chicago, St. Louis, and Omaha, Nebraska, was once a major national hub of livestock transportation, with cattle arriving by the trainload at its busy stockyards (earning the city its nickname, “cowtown”). But the rail-based livestock trade that made it famous has largely vanished, replaced by a sprawling system of truck transit that carry animals between farms, feedlots, and slaughterhouses across the country. These form the connective tissue that makes it possible for the American livestock industry to raise and slaughter nearly 10 billion land animals every year. 

You’ve probably seen livestock trucks on the interstate, with their long, aluminum bodies and oval ventilation holes. They appear unremarkable enough from the outside. But the most important thing to understand about farm animal transportation is that these creatures are not handled like passengers, the way you or I would be treated on a long-distance trip. Rather, they are freight, loaded into metal trailers, often packed tightly together  for long, very uncomfortable, sometimes dangerous stretches of highway travel. Picture yourself hurtling down the interstate in a box at 70 miles an hour, struggling to balance for many hours, without a seat, a seat belt, heating or cooling, or any of the other protections designed to keep human passengers safe and comfortable. As the hours pass, urine and manure accumulate beneath the animals’ feet, which can cause them to slip.

The trips “can span many hours and thousands of miles, potentially exposing livestock to overcrowding, extreme temperatures, limited ventilation, and lack of access to water or food, among other things,” according to a damning report on farm animal transportation released over the summer by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). “If not managed properly, these conditions can lead to injury, illness, or death.” 

Even the process by which animals are herded onto the trucks is often highly stressful, with frightened animals pushed, prodded, pulled, and otherwise handled roughly. I have reviewed, over the years, more videos than I can count of stressed farmworkers treating cows and pigs in ways that appear appalling to people not steeped in animal agriculture, simply because they’re desperate to meet the demands of their jobs and get the animals to move.

According to a 2022 investigation by The Guardian, more than 20 million animals every year “are dead on arrival, or soon after,” when they reach a slaughterhouse. Most of those are chickens, the species that makes up the overwhelming majority of land animals raised for food; about 166,000 of them, per The Guardian, were cattle. 

Catastrophic crashes like what happened in Kansas City are far rarer than the more routine, mundane cruelties of livestock transportation, but they do happen regularly. On a cursory search, I was able to find 20 others that have occurred in the US so far this year. Aaron Caster, who owns the towing company that handled the recovery operation in the crash, told me that almost all of the animals were female, and estimated they were around 6 months old, not yet fully grown. They’d been shipped from Virginia, he said, and had been on their way to Nebraska.

Caster’s account of the scene of the crash is harrowing. “The cab was ripped off the truck, the trailer was on its side with the entire trailer blown apart,” he told me. “Just cows everywhere. Some alive, some were dead.” Some had “really busted legs, ripped up pretty good,” and were euthanized. Caster, who is also a rancher, said he took more than 50 surviving cows to his property in Bates City, Missouri, to recover. Two of those have since died, he told me earlier this week, including one who had been “cut up pretty bad” in the crash and was euthanized after developing an infection.

In the US, there’s one major law designed to protect the well-being of livestock animals in transit: The Twenty-Eight-Hour Law of 1873, which says that livestock in transit traveling across state lines can’t be confined for more than 28 hours without being unloaded for rest, food, and water. 

That rule excludes poultry birds entirely, meaning that the vast majority of animals raised for food aren’t covered — a major oversight. But even for those species that nominally benefit from it, the law is very rarely enforced. Farmed animal advocacy groups have documented and complained about that for years, and the GAO this summer similarly reported that enforcement is extremely limited. The report paints a picture of the federal system for protecting farm animals in transit as woefully inadequate and largely toothless, dating back to the era when livestock traveled primarily by rail. 

The report identified six factors that contribute to cruel conditions for animals on the road, including not just the length of the trip but also temperature extremes, unsafe and unsanitary vehicles, rough handling, and being transported when they’re too sick, injured, or vulnerable (like animals who are extremely young or heavily pregnant). Federal law fails to cover most of those dangers while offering almost no meaningful enforcement of the 28-hour duration rule that is in place. 

Between 2013 and 2025, the USDA investigated just 23 suspected violations of the law, resulting in no fines and only four warning letters — and in 2022, the GAO report notes, the USDA stopped issuing even those. The GAO contrasts the US system with more modernized protections in Canada, Mexico, Australia, and the European Union, which include requirements around animals’ fitness for travel, adequate space, humane handling, and vehicle safety.

Some of the most heartbreaking livestock transportation conditions that I’ve personally covered have been in the dairy industry, where it’s common to ship fragile newborn calves, just separated from their mothers, across long distances. It’s also routine to ship dairy cows on long journeys to slaughter once they’re no longer profitable. On these trips, they’re often exhausted, pregnant, and in poor physical condition: A 2022 industry audit found that roughly one in three had impaired mobility when they arrived at the slaughterhouse.

A modern and comprehensive system overseeing farm animal transportation might prevent some cases like these, which are among the most wretched miseries found in our food system. It wouldn’t stop every horror that unfolds inside a livestock truck, nor could it eliminate the most visible disasters, like the crash in Kansas City; for that, we’d need to more fundamentally alter our relationship with animals and our prodigious appetite for meat.

За моей спиной более 6 000 часов индивидуальных занятий математикой с детьми. Этот опыт — не про методички, а про непрерывное наблюдение за тем, как именно человеческий мозг на ранних этапах спотыкается об абстрактные правила.

Когда все кажется простым и понятным со стороны взрослого, легко впасть в иллюзию, что ребенок просто «не хочет» или «ленится». Ниже я делюсь инструментами, которые могут показаться элементарными. Но все описанное — это те самые 20% методических усилий, которые дают 80% практического результата при домашней помощи ребенку. Это базовый оптимум, который позволяет родителям снять острое напряжение в учебе и сдвинуть процесс с мертвой точки.

Главная ловушка, в которую попадают взрослые — это ожидание мгновенного «понимания». Нам кажется: если ребенку объяснить правило три раза, система должна заработать. В реальности ребенок в этот момент может находиться в состоянии кортизолового ступора. Его рабочая память перегружена, он боится ошибиться и вместо решения задачи начинает судорожно сканировать мимику взрослого, пытаясь угадать ответ.

Математическое мышление — это не врожденный дар. Это набор очень конкретных привычек по управлению собственным вниманием. Ниже мы разберем три механики, как разгрузить мозг ребенка и перевести решение задач на уровень понятных алгоритмов.

New details of IV team’s attempts to find a vein shared by Pike’s lawyer ‘shocked and disturbed’ practitioners

Medical experts have expressed shock at the apparent incompetence shown by Tennessee’s execution team during the failed lethal injection of Christa Pike, the prisoner who survived a normally fatal dose of pentobarbital, which they say would be considered medical malpractice in any other setting.

New details emerged on Thursday of how Tennessee’s intravenous (IV) team struggled for almost an hour to set up a line into Pike’s arms through which she would be administered the fatal dose of sedative. A blow-by-blow account was released in legal proceedings from Pike’s lawyer, Randy Spivey, who was present inside the death chamber at her 30 September failed execution.

Critics decry Trump administration rule that lets hunters lure bears with human foods on federal lands in Alaska

A new Trump administration rule allows hunters to bait bears on federal lands in Alaska with bacon, doughnuts, meat scraps or other human foods typically used to help kill the trophy animals at close range.

Opponents say the practice will cause bears to be more aggressive around humans, and allege that the rule change is a political gift to largely rightwing trophy hunters. The rule replaces a 2024 Biden administration rule that banned the practice, and environmental groups criticized the move as “indefensible and inexcusable”.

Lobby group’s figures, shared with John Healey, are misleading as they do not include major rival Paris, say campaigners

A banking lobby group has been accused of cherrypicking data and trying to mislead the British government by claiming a tax rise for banks at next week’s budget would leave London less competitive than rival financial hubs.

UK Finance, which represents banks including Lloyds, JP Morgan and Revolut, commissions an annual report tallying up all the taxes shouldered by a large bank, including corporation tax, social security, VAT and bank-specific levies.

Leading restaurateur says Gulf countries actively help businesses set up, while east Asia has a better work ethic

Some of London’s top restaurants are opening branches in Dubai because of a “tax tsunami” in the UK and better work ethic abroad, according to a leading restaurateur.

James Robson, a co-owner of Fallow in St James’s Market, regarded as the capital’s hottest restaurant, serving 1,000 people a day, has just signed a deal to open an outpost in the Gulf.

• Pool B + C: England 82-0 France

• Herbie Farnworth and Dom Young grab hat-tricks

England will only really know next weekend whether this record-breaking result means anything, but when not only a win but a convincing one would keep their hopes of reaching the World Cup semi-finals alive, this was a case of job done for Brian McDermott and his side.

With the shortened and controversial group stage format meaning just one defeat is near-ruinous, even the head coach broke ranks this week and admitted England’s chances of qualification are slim at best after the 30-12 loss to Tonga on the opening weekend. Samoa’s 64-6 win against Papua New Guinea earlier on Saturday meant the permutations became simple, but daunting. Samoa beat France 78-4 last week, giving them a +132 points differential; England now have a +64 points differential.

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Enzo Maresca on the omission of Phil Foden

The good thing is that because we play so many games we have so many players available and to choose from. We want to keep the players fresh and fit.

At boarding school in the early 90s, quietness was seen as weakness. But then I saw the band’s guitarist John Squire making a vast noise while hiding behind a fringe – and learned the strength of understatement

In September 1991, I had just been thrown into the meat-grinder of a Midlands boarding school. In this bear pit, there were predators and there was prey. You were either the swaggering rugby alpha, whipping a wet towel at pale bodies in the eight-boy dormitory; or the homesick ghost, keeping your guard up, endlessly braced for your toilet cubicle to be kicked open or your washbag chucked off the fire escape.

My mind had always been loud, racing with opinions, stories, jokes. But by the time I adequately considered a thought, the conversation had raced on without me. Suddenly, under 24/7 social scrutiny in a world where bullhorn confidence is king, I felt dismissed.

The AI boom is pitting local residents against corporate giants seeking to power their energy-hungry networks – but one Welsh city is fighting back

Dale Johnston opens the gate to his neat suburban garden on the western fringes of Newport in South Wales. There’s a trampoline and a slide on the lawn for his grandchildren, and chairs for him and his wife. He should be enjoying the light draining from the perfect autumnal sky – but almost his entire view is blotted out by a vast expanse of prefabricated panels.

The 23 metre-high grey hulk looming over him and his neighbours is a hyperscale datacentre. It is heralded by the area’s Labour politicians as a job creator, yet all Johnston can think about is what he has lost: “Before, the sun used to come around here and it was lovely.” The way residents have been treated is “disgusting”.