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Adrian Ramsay says some new members would be ‘more at home’ in Your Party or Socialist Workers party

Adrian Ramsay, the former co-leader of the Green party of England and Wales, has said the party must fix its internal democracy to avoid a takeover by the hard left, saying that some new members “might be more at home” in Your Party or the Socialist Workers party.

Ramsay, who has been critical of the handling of the row over a “Zionism is racism” motion passed at the Green party conference, said there were a “small number” of individuals who used “divisive” tactics to influence the party’s agenda.

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In state that has become ‘ground zero’ for discrimination against south Asians, experts say they are seeing voters motivated to fight back

Last winter, while Pooja Sethi was canvassing to become the Democratic candidate for the Texas house of representatives, she received a text from a staff member alerting her to a post on X. The Turning Point USA influencer Savanah Hernandez – a Trump supporter known for creating videos that target immigrants – had posted a photo of Sethi’s campaign banner with the caption: “Welcome to politics in Texas.”

The post went viral.

• Eight injured in shooting outside Legion Field

• Annual game draws huge crowds to Birmingham

One person was killed and eight others were wounded in a mass shooting outside Legion Field after the annual Magic City Classic football game on Saturday night, police in Birmingham, Alabama, said.

Michael Pickett, chief of the Birmingham Police Department, said most spectators and families had left the stadium property after the game, but the shooting happened nearby, where vendors were set up along Graymont Avenue.

Chair of National Gallery’s First Nations advisory group says the technology is undermining artists’ agency and the authenticity of their work

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AI is taking First Nations art and turning it into “Temu slop”, the Pitjantjatjara artist Sally Scales has said.

Scales, the chair of the National Gallery of Australia’s First Nations advisory group, said the technology is undermining the agency of First Nations artists and the authenticity of their work and represents a “a theft” of cultural knowledge.

Exclusive: Move to scrap legal requirement to set aside water for environment is ‘extreme even for the NT CLP government’, green group says

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The Northern Territory government has been accused of making a “blatant and shameless” attack on nature by planning to delete a legal requirement that water must be allocated to the environment.

In what has been described as the latest in a series of attacks on the environment by the NT’s Country Liberal party, the Finocchiaro government plans to change water rules that govern how much ground and surface water industry can take.

Exclusive: Mark Jones, once on track for one of the Liberal party’s most powerful roles, is now instrumental in One Nation’s expansion

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In 2023, a young and ambitious Liberal moderate was on the brink of securing one of the most powerful roles in the party: state director of the New South Wales branch. Three years later, he is playing a key role in selecting and vetting One Nation candidates determined to beat his former colleagues.

Multiple Liberal sources familiar with recruitment for the position, which involves running election campaigns and managing fundraising, confirm Mark Jones was among the final three candidates for the role before his career advancement was ultimately blocked.

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Centre of downturn shifts away from Sydney and Melbourne, but after such strong growth most homeowners still sit on sizeable gains

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Australian home values have dropped for a seventh consecutive month, with prices in the capital cities now falling at the fastest pace in 40 years as rising mortgage rates scare off buyers.

Cotality data shows the centre of the downturn is also shifting away from Sydney and Melbourne toward the mid-sized state capital cities, with Brisbane and Perth leading October’s declines.

The simplicity of breathing; the sweetness of laughter; the privilege of lying on a bed. Buddhism teaches us how to enjoy the small pleasures

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There is a particular Buddhist story that reassured me I had found the right path.

The story goes that Prince Siddhartha Gautama was deep in spiritual practice – arduous, unforgiving practice. He had tried everything from breath-holding to extreme fasting. But none of it brought the freedom from suffering he sought.

In Wicker, the love interest is a man made of plaited twigs. In romantasy, women are getting it on with goblins, elves, minotaurs and mothmen. Is this bad news for heterosexual men?

Apologies if this is too personal, but is there anything in your home that turns you on? A sleek standard lamp, say, or a sexy piece of kitchen kit? I’m casting an eye around here and wondering. I used to have the hots for my furry heated throw when it was sleek and glossy, but it’s so matted and grubby now, it gives me the ick. I still fancy the big kitchen cupboard, though. It is steely blue and so capacious, and its generous spice rack gives me a frisson every time I look inside.

I’m prompted to ask by the release of Wicker, the loopy erotic fable in which Olivia Colman’s fisherwoman enjoys a mutually supportive, sexually satisfying partnership with Alexander Skarsgård, whom the basketmaker (Peter Dinklage) has woven from wicker. I haven’t seen it yet, but the trailer is joyful and the premise is sending people – mostly women – wild.

When it comes to fertility, testosterone and reproductive fitness, manosphere misinformation is rife - which can lead to a lot of heartache. Meet the man who wants to change all that

“I think you can tell it’s for a lay audience,” says Michael Carroll, holding up his book, Your Nuts, its cover illustrated with two walnuts in a string bag. The book has arrived in tandem with worldwide concerns about falling birth rates. “Spermaggedon” is a chunky piece of this puzzle, part of a wider debate about whether and why we’re heading for species-icide. Are people deciding not to have kids because of climate anxiety and economic precarity? Or is this an unchosen fertility cliff edge, created by forever chemicals and our lifestyles? This is not a drill, says Carroll, a biologist and reproductive scientist at Manchester Metropolitan University. “There’s compelling evidence to support a historical decline in sperm count and sperm concentration over the last number of decades.” However, it’s just not that simple.

First, it’s not a uniform picture and in some populations sperm counts are going up. The Danish Young Men Study, for instance, showed no drop between 1996 and 2022. In Ireland, a study of 15,000 men between 2008 and 2023 showed a 23% increase in sperm concentration.

Cash was king in those days, and that money was enough to last me for a month as I slowly travelled from Australia back to the UK

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It was a hot night in 1989 when my wallet – stuffed with $1,000 cash – fell out of my pocket.

After university, I left the UK and went travelling in Australia for a year. I saw the delights of the east coast – mostly from various building sites, as I worked my way around doing long hours in the blistering sun. But I loved every minute of it. After 10 months, I had saved enough to make my way slowly back home.

Academics and lexicographers are exploring how swearing is tied to national cultural identities – and how the internet may cause new, creative cursing to ‘flourish’

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From Kath & Kim’s “pack of shunts” to Colin from Accounts’ call to “Go and trim your fuckin’ hooves for netball, cunt!”, the way Australian TV shows have incorporated creative vulgarities into their dialogue mirrors the way people like to swear – and linguistic researchers say younger generations of Australians in particular see once-taboo profanities as signifiers of cultural identity.

But a fondness for the C word in Australian TV doesn’t make Australians the world’s biggest swearers. Research published in 2025 by linguists Martin Schweinberger of the University of Queensland and Kate Burridge of Monash University showed the nationality that swore the most often online were Americans, followed by the British, with Australians ranking third.

Российский геймдев подарил миру множество подлинных шедевров. Однако судьба многих игр была далеко не самой радостной. Даже несмотря на колоссальный успех, в том числе коммерческий, игры во многом канули в Лету. И часто проблема была в том, что шедевр создавался энтузиастами, продолжался серьёзными ремесленниками, а потом переходил в управление коммерческих работяг, которые не сохраняли ничего из духа оригинальной игры. Так что сегодня мы будем говорить про создание, триумф и провал одной из самых ярких русских игр начала нулевых годов.

Встречайте историю великой игры Ex Machina. Нет, скорее Великой игры — с большой буквы. Ведь это чудо 2005 года до сих пор играбельно и способно доставить море удовольствия, причём не только ностальгирующим «старичкам», но и новым игрокам, даже если они родились в год выхода игры. В этом тексте мы будем говорить только про первую часть игры, слишком уж большим выходит рассказ, о второй части и том ужасе, которым является третья - мы поговорим, возможно, отдельно.

У этого текста две независимые части. Первая полностью посвящена истории создания игры. Вторая — геймплею. Каждую из частей можно читать в отрыве от остального текста.

Всем привет! В предыдущей статье мы с вами разобрали обычную проблему C++: десять потоков увеличивают общий счётчик, но из-за гонки данных программа может работать неправильно.

В Rust мы с вами постараемся решить ту же самую задачу.

Главное отличие заключается не в том, что Rust умеет создавать потоки каким-то лучшим способом, а дело в модели владения и системе типов: компилятор не позволяет безопасному коду произвольно разделять изменяемые данные между потоками.

Но это кстати и не значит, что Rust автоматически исправляет любую ошибку в многопоточности. Логические ошибки, взаимные блокировки и неправильная синхронизация по-прежнему возможны.

Будем разбираться с вами на практических примерах.

В литературе существует несколько работ, изучавших отношение разных ноосвиков / LLM к риску. Данная статья представляет обзор этих работ из перспективы развиваемой автором теории LLM. Любопытно, что хоть в общем случае задание (промпт) и влияет на рискованность поведения ноосвика, для популярных моделей в случае одинаковых стартовых условий обнаружена закономерность в рискованности их поведения: Claude Sonnet 4.5 < DeepSeek V3.2 < Gemini 3 Pro < Qwen3 Max < GPT-5.2.

Haitian community in Springfield demands dignity and better rights for immigrants as ICE crackdown ramps up

Michaelle Louis’s feet and legs are aching. She can barely walk.

Surrounded by corn fields and the distant hum of a busy highway, the native of Haiti and dozens of other activists are 23 miles into a 45-mile march from Springfield to Ohio’s statehouse in Columbus to demand better rights for Haitian immigrants.

One man’s campaign finance operation in Wisconsin exemplifies the opacity of the US political funding system

In the summer of 2024, a non-profit called the Green Dragon Coalition wired the last $20,000 of a $445,000 grant to a Super Pac. Its tax return for that year would describe the purpose of the transfer as “educational”.

The same day, according to Federal Election Commission (FEC) records, the Super Pac spent $8,000 attacking Celeste Maloy, the Republican congresswoman for Utah’s second district, four days before the primary that would decide whether she kept her seat. It had already spent more than $400,000 promoting her challenger, Colby Jenkins, who was running to her right with the endorsement of the rightwing Utah senator Mike Lee.

The conflict that tore through New England 350 years ago was the bloodiest per capita in colonial or US history

Massachusetts is proud of its ties to the American Revolution. From Paul Revere’s Ride to the siege of Boston, the past year-plus has been devoted to celebrating 250 years of US independence. Yet during this time, the state, and New England in general, has given far less attention to an older, more complex remembrance: The 350th anniversary of King Philip’s war.

King Philip, or Metacom, was an Indigenous leader from the Pokanoket people. Alarmed by English colonists’ infringement of Indigenous rights, from seizing land to proselytizing, Metacom led an alliance of New England tribes – including the Pokanoket, Nipmuc and Narragansett – in an existential struggle for control of the region. He gave his name to the conflict, but paid with his life – as did many others, soldiers and civilians alike. With an estimated 800 dead on the colonial side, and three to five thousand Indigenous slain, the war claimed more deaths per capita than any other in colonial American or US history.

Holyhead, Tremadog and Bangor UPCCs may shut as Betsi Cadwaladr University health board struggles with funding

A struggling Welsh health board could close urgent primary care centres at three hospitals, citing funding and recruitment issues, prompting widespread criticism.

Betsi Cadwaladr University health board, which serves about a quarter of Wales’s population, said it was consulting on ending urgent primary care centres (UPCCs) at Ysbyty Penrhos Stanley in Holyhead, Ysbyty Alltwen in Tremadog and Ysbyty Gwynedd in Bangor by April 2027.

Venison casserole is as autumnal as fallen leaves, a glass of red and a fire in the grate. But who makes the best version?

Because I don’t eat it very often, I always forget how much I like venison. Or, rather, how much I like it in certain contexts: the natural leanness of a wild animal doesn’t naturally lend itself to soloing in juicy burgers or sausages, but, when slow-cooked, it’s fabulous – rich in flavour, and soft enough to eat with a spoon, should you so desire. It also tends to be good value both in season and frozen for the rest of the year, and, as red meat goes, a pretty climate-friendly option (though not straightforwardly so, as this piece explains) that pairs beautifully with seasonal spuds and kales, and is even better when made ahead of time and reheated. In fact, it’s the perfect autumn and winter entertaining option, even if the only people you’re entertaining are yourselves, the dog and the cast of Celebrity Traitors.