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If you love Labour, you need to vote for Yvette Cooper to lead the party to power. If winning elections and forming governments don’t matter to you, by all means vote for Jeremy Corbyn. If you hadn’t heard of him before the contest, it was probably because he never sat in a Cabinet meeting, he never informed policy, he never authored change on a national scale and he lacked the charisma of backbenchers like Tony Benn to become a known entity in his own right. He seems like a decent enough bloke... Читать дальше...

It’s a balance of horror. Bombard Douma in the suburbs of Damascus to protect the civilians of Kifraya and Foaa in Idlib province. Teach the rebels that the Syrian government is as ruthless as ever, that it will not tolerate a threat to the capital’s water supply or rebel mortar explosions in the centre of the city. And Douma pays the price.

The governing body of athletics has revealed that it will only be testing one in three athletes at the World Championships, which start in Beijing on Saturday, instead of all the participants, in spite of the ongoing furore over the sport’s drug-testing policies.

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As someone who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes 15 years ago, I was interested to read the warning from Diabetes UK about the spread of the disease. It is unfortunate in my view that this charity does not do more to educate people.

After a self-imposed exile in New York, the threadbare sock puppet of Blairism, David Miliband, has made a pronouncement. As always, David’s linguistic stylings suggest a cybernetic prototype suffering with malfunctioning circuitry, so good luck to the boys and girls at Bletchley there. But since he finally sees fit to lob his grenade into the Labour leadership debate – and since his underlying intent is clear – courtesy demands we pay him the attention he regally assumes is his due.

I don’t think you could pay me to go back and relive my teenage relationship. I was a late bloomer, as they say, and despite having a stream of unrequited crushes throughout my youth, I only managed to solidify a real boyfriend late in my teens.

Among the tranche of former Labour leaders and past glory-boys stumbling over themselves to criticise Jeremy Corbyn, the most recent – and possibly most ridiculous – are Gordon Brown and Lord Peter Mandelson.

Southerners drew gasps of horror through their organic quinoa this week as it was announced that the happiest places in the UK are almost all found in – whisper it – the North. According to a study by the estate agents Hamptons International, and contrary to everything you may have heard from twentysomethings in wife-beaters and high-tops, the path to personal fulfilment doesn’t lead directly to an east London warehouse rave.

Ukippers, hard-line Christians, and other such persons were right to be worried. The insidious Gay Agenda is slowly creeping over the UK, and soon Britain will overrun by bare torsos in rainbow bodypaint, Rocky Horror Picture Show screenings, and – worst of all - the increased acceptance of those who don’t identify as straight.

Edinburgh festival is not short on solo shows, but few manage a performance as captivating as Aoife Duffin; this monologue is both technically and emotionally impressive, leaving her – and her audience - wrung out like filthy rags.

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The gaming world has always struggled to shake off stereotypes about teenage boys sitting in bedrooms. It might be true that Esports - the large-scale multiplayer video gaming tournaments - are now pretty big business that routinely churn out teenage millionaires and pull huge crowds of fans into massive stadiums, but amongst the general public, the stigma still stands. And to those of you who do have that image of young boys clicking away in their pyjamas, it won’t come as a surprise that marijuana... Читать дальше...

Another fine cartoon by Jake Goretzki. More of his work here.