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Posted by Sam Levine in New York

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/ice-agents-us-airports

Trump and border czar Tom Homan confirm plan to assist TSA agents amid partial government shutdown standoff

Donald Trump and his border czar, Tom Homan, have confirmed that the president’s administration is sending Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to US airports beginning Monday to assist with security amid extremely long lines – and to help airport security agents who have been working without pay since 14 February because of a partial government shutdown.

Homan will lead the effort, Trump said on Sunday.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/22/ice-agents-us-airports

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Posted by Sean Ingle at the Kujawsko-Pomorska Arena Torun

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/22/keely-hodgkinson-georgia-hunter-bell-molly-caudery-world-indoor-athletics-glory

Keely Hodgkinson caps famous night for British team
Georgia Hunter-Bell and Molly Caudery also take glory

Shortly before 8pm here in Torun, Georgia Hunter-Bell, Molly Caudery and Keely Hodgkinson were jumping in delight and pure delirium after what was undoubtedly greatest 29 minutes for Britain in world indoor athletics championship history.

Not one gold medal. Not two. But three. All in under 30 minutes. And as they waved the Union Jacks above their heads, and a phalanx of photographers crowded around them, you couldn’t blame them and the British fans in the crowd for getting more than a little giddy.

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/22/keely-hodgkinson-georgia-hunter-bell-molly-caudery-world-indoor-athletics-glory

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Posted by Nadeem Badshah

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/22/moma-brand-recalls-porridge-products-over-possible-mice-contamination

Customers told not to eat affected pot and sachet products and to return them to place of purchase for refund

Several porridge products in the UK have been recalled over a possible mice contamination at their manufacturing site.

The British porridge and oat drink brand Moma issued a warning for seven versions of its pots and two of its sachets.

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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/22/moma-brand-recalls-porridge-products-over-possible-mice-contamination

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Posted by Louise Taylor at St James' Park

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/newcastle-sunderland-alleged-racist-abuse-premier-league

Sunderland’s Lutsharel Geertruida allegedly abused
Referee stops game per anti-discrimination protocol

Sunderland’s Tyne-Wear derby victory at Newcastle was overshadowed by reports that Lutsharel Geertruida had been the subject of racist abuse from home fans.

The Premier League will now investigate after the referee, Anthony Taylor, stopped the match in line with the league’s on-field anti-discrimination protocol early in the second half.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/newcastle-sunderland-alleged-racist-abuse-premier-league

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Today is sunny and hot. It is 85°F already. >_<

I fed the birds. I've seen a mixed flock of sparrows and house finches, several brown-headed cowbirds, and a mourning dove.

I put out water for the birds.

EDIT 3/22/26 -- We hauled the first three garden bags to the old picnic table. It's 86°F now and too hot to do everything at once. :/

EDIT 3/22/26 -- We hauled the next three garden bags to the old picnic table.

The first grape hycacinth is blooming randomly in the middle of the house yard, pollinated by tiny native bees.

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Current Mood: busy

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Posted by Jon Henley and Lorenzo Tondo in Jerusalem

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/iran-says-destroy-middle-east-infrastructure-us-energy-sites

Tehran’s response to Trump’s threat signals a potentially dangerous escalation as both sides menace sites relied on by millions

Middle East crisis live – latest updates

Tehran has said it will “irreversibly destroy” essential infrastructure across the Middle East, including vital water systems, if the US follows through on Donald Trump’s threat to “obliterate” Iran’s power plants unless the strait of Hormuz is fully opened within two days.

As Iranian missiles struck two southern Israeli cities overnight, injuring dozens of people, and Tehran deployed long-range missiles for the first time, the developments signalled a dangerous potential escalation of the war, now in its fourth week, with both sides threatening facilities relied on by millions of people.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/iran-says-destroy-middle-east-infrastructure-us-energy-sites

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Posted by Ella Baron

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/22/ella-baron-donald-trump-iran-war-cartoon

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Posted by David Hytner at Wembley

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/arsenal-manchester-city-carabao-cup-final-match-report

There was a time when the old trophy with the three handles felt like the personal property of Pep Guardiola. The Manchester City manager won the League Cup for the first time in 2018, beating Arsenal in the final, and he repeated the trick in each of the next three seasons.

The ensuing years have been less kind to Guardiola and the club in the competition but here was the riposte. On so many levels. City had entered this final as the underdogs; an unusual position but a reflection of how Arsenal have been the pre-eminent team in England and Europe so far this season.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/arsenal-manchester-city-carabao-cup-final-match-report

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Posted by Robert Kitson at Mattioli Woods Welford Road

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/22/leicester-bristol-prem-rugby-union-match-report

Leicester 33-19 Bristol
Victory lifts Leicester into third place in Prem table

Swapping the bright Saturday night lights of the Stade de France for the rusty old Crumbie Stand can be a real mental challenge. There is certainly less demand for foie gras in Aylestone but for certain people nothing beats a constant diet of rugby. England’s Ollie Chessum did occasionally look a tad weary during another selfless 80-minute shift but a vital 33-19 Leicester win made all those hard yards worthwhile.

The result not only hoists the Tigers into third place in the Prem table but Gabriel Hamer-Webb’s spectacular last-gasp try earned what could prove a vital extra point when the playoff maths are totted up. Bristol, who had been pressing for a couple of bonus points of their own, were ultimately left empty-handed and down in fifth place after a game that was never less than intense and absorbing.

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/mar/22/leicester-bristol-prem-rugby-union-match-report

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Posted by Geneva Abdul

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/22/british-iranians-safety-concerns-authorities-iran-war-uk-diaspora

Accusations of intimidation and harassment within UK diaspora including ‘aggressive’ and ‘coercive’ videos online

Iranians living in the UK have expressed safety concerns to authorities amid heightened tensions linked to the conflict with the US and Israel.

Online videos of individuals allegedly being “aggressive” and “coercing” in London, which is home to one of the UK’s largest Iranian communities, have led to some feeling unsafe.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/22/british-iranians-safety-concerns-authorities-iran-war-uk-diaspora

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Posted by Peter Lansley at Villa Park

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/aston-villa-west-ham-premier-league-match-report

While Ollie Watkins gave the most articulate response to his omission from the England squad with the second-half goal that consolidated Aston Villa’s place in the Premier League’s top four, the most rousing noise around Villa Park arrived when Youri Tielemans replaced John McGinn a minute earlier.

Most of the stadium took to their feet and cheered the Belgian’s name more loudly than anyone else’s as he made his return after two months out with an ankle injury. On a day when McGinn, Villa’s inspirational captain, followed up his goal in Thursday’s Europa League victory over Lille with another nerve-settling strike here, the returning strength and quality of Unai Emery’s squad suggests they can maintain their two-pronged approach for Champions League qualification.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/aston-villa-west-ham-premier-league-match-report

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Posted by Ben Fisher at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/tottenham-nottingham-forest-premier-league-match-report

It promises to be a long three weeks for Tottenham Hotspur and Igor Tudor. That is, of course, if Tudor gets the time, after Nottingham Forest plunged Spurs deeper into the relegation fight, recording a humiliating 3-0 victory. “We are staying up,” was the chant from the away fans, who delighted in suggesting Stevenage could be visiting this vast arena for a Championship game in August.

When Spurs, a point above the relegation zone, do re-emerge after the international break, their trip to Sunderland will be the first of seven games to save their Premier League status. For Forest, who had to weather a first-half storm, waves of Spurs set pieces, this turned into a dreamy afternoon in the capital, a second victory in four days and, crucially, Vítor Pereira’s first league win since taking charge last month. West Ham’s defeat at Aston Villa only enhanced Forest’s fuzzy feeling.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/tottenham-nottingham-forest-premier-league-match-report

Oooft, I have missed skating.

(For the newer readers, I used to be a roller derby referee. Roller skating - quad skates - was a big part of my life for the back half of my twenties and my early thirties. I drifted away from it after I moved up to Inverness, but I’ve loved roller skating since I was a little kid, so while I don’t really miss derby these days I do miss skating.)

I’m still on my ice hockey kick after the Olympics and one of the knock-on effects is being really aware of how much I miss skating. I’ve been meaning to check when the public ice skating sessions are and try to convince one of my skating buddies to chum me along to a session for ages, and this weekend I finally did it. And it was great!

I haven’t been on any sort of skates since before the pandemic and I think the last time I was actual ice skates was in Princess Street Gardens just before Xmas 2013 when my then girlfriend decided that would be a cute date idea and then spent the whole session clinging to either the edges or my hand! I wasn’t sure how well it would go, but after a slightly wobbly start it all came back to me satisfyingly fast. (My buddy was even rustier but also got the hang of it eventually, we did a fair bit of skating round holding hands like kids because she’s had a stressful week and was getting into her head about it. That was pretty fun too. We had a lot of fun reminiscing about ice discos from our teen years.) The ice was a mess so I didn’t dare try crossovers or anything too fancy. (The kids team had practice that morning, and I don’t think they bothered to send the zamboni out between sessions as we got there at the start of the session and it was pretty roughed up already.) The rink skates are super rigid so my feet are a bit sore from that - actually I ache all over from nearly 90 minutes of skating, but I had so much fun. My buddy gave up after the first 45 mins of so and went and got a hot drink and heckled from the sidelines while I went zooming around gleefully with a big stupid grin on my face. I was high as a kite, all the good endorphins. We’re going back - or at least we’re going to try the rink at Aviemore instead. I cannot stop grinning!

( I do not need my own ice skates. I do not.)

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: David Guetta feat Sia - Titanium

So last night I was in a discord call with some friends and one of them was asking why i've been cagey with my Steam info. It's because I don't want to deal with refunds. I hate surprises. Get me something I've asked for or we've discussed. Also, some of you have me as a steam friend anyways, but you "forgor". Anyways, one of these friends decided to grab me a cheap indie game for the spring Steam sale and I had a visceral knee jerk reaction to the object.

Mahjong is a card game. It doesn't require RPG tactics like HP or mana. If your complaint is the online clients are too erotic, that's a skill issue. Touhou has cloned everything under the sun. There are also clients that have no avatars at all. Mahjong doesn't need an arcade story mode, and least of all one where all the characters are queer first and people second. I respect the furries keeping the internet running but I personally don't find trans sapphic furry visuals the selling point to get my money. This game lacks a pvp, and all its fundamental mechanics are about cheating your way to the top with "mario party-esque" mechanics. There is no reason to spend any money on a desktop only, vs Computer only, riichi mahjong client when there are free to play versions with online coop and online pvp. It's honestly just sad.

But it gets worse. According to Clear Rain's Atelier (クリアレインのアトリエ) on Youtube, the odds of a draw in any game of mahjong are around 14%. According to an America mahjong-centric blog, the odds of you winning any given game increase by 10% if you are the East player. Assuming both of these are true, then let us crunch some numbers:

A 14% chance of a draw gives any given player in a 4 player match a 21.5% chance of winning. A 10% boost by being Player 1 gives East a 23.65% chance of winning, and everyone else is 20.78%, which is still about 1 in 5 odds of winning any hand.
Mahjong is a game of both luck and skill, and ultimately pattern recognition.

What I have noticed in the English sphere of riichi mahjong players is that the drive for egocentrism--that anything worth doing is only worth being the best at--has resulted in a serious deficit in good sportsmanship etiquette. Players are trying to improve their game so numbers go up, so they can one and done a specific achievement in a Yakuza minigame, then move on to the next item on the laundry list. This results in very low frustration tolerance for a game with a high bar of entry. There is so much asian hate on reddit that I can attribute to SKILL ISSUE and low frustration tolerance. And I find that really inhospitable. It's gotten to a point that whenever I poke my head into the Mahjong Soul official discord I have hidden all the English channels. Those people have grace. They're playing for the shared companionship that the game provides, and the challenge you get from real human strategy, which is a lot less predictable than merely playing against the AI. After a few dozen games, the CPU gets really predictable.

English speaking mahjong players need to soul search a little.
If you're flipping a table (ノಠ益ಠ) ノ彡 ┻━┻ every time someone calls ron on your discard, you have a problem.
Give them a "good game" ( ＾◡＾)っ ♡ instead.

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Check it out: two train posts in two days! And thus a public post, even.

For reasons that I will explain in a separate post, I had cause to drive to Reno on Saturday. On my way back, I saw that the rail grinding train that had come through in the wee hours of Saturday morning was on a siding. Traffic on I-80 was light and I slowed considerably and managed to use my phone to take some quick photos of it.

( The Grinder in Daylight )

There really isn't any other place you can get this shot except from the freeway, because the only other access is a railroad service road. We have gone down that road before, but only when there is nobody around, and it seems like a bad idea to do so why they are actively working.

This probably was not the safest thing I've ever done, but there were no other vehicles around, and I was shooting blindly, because I did need to keep my eyes on the road, even slowed to about 35 mph.

Current Mood: impressed
Current Location: Thisbe Siding, Nevada

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Posted by Daniel Harris

https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/mar/22/arsenal-v-manchester-city-carabao-cup-final-live-updates

⚽ League Cup final reaction from the 4.30pm GMT kick-off
⚽ Live scores | Follow us over on Bluesky | And mail Daniel

At Tottenham, Forest now lead 2-0; at Villa Park, Villa now lead West Ham 2-0.

Physically, the edge is with Arsenal, especially in midfield. Rodri may never recapture the power and pace which made him one of the best in his position, while Bernardo never it. They’ll look to control the tempo of the game and have the passing and smarts to do it, but it’s a tricky endeavour with Declan Rice charging about.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/mar/22/arsenal-v-manchester-city-carabao-cup-final-live-updates

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Posted by Geneva Abdul

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/22/british-iranians-safety-concerns-authorities-iran-war-uk-diaspora

Accusations of intimidation and harassment within UK diaspora including ‘aggressive’ and ‘coersing’ videos online

Iranians living in the UK have expressed safety concerns to authorities amid heightened tensions within the community linked to the conflict with the US and Israel.

Videos online of individuals allegedly being “aggressive” and “coercing” in London, which is home to one of the UK’s largest Iranian communities, have led to some feeling unsafe, they claim.

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/22/british-iranians-safety-concerns-authorities-iran-war-uk-diaspora

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Posted by Hannah Al-Othman

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/chappell-roan-responds-to-criticism-from-footballer-jorginho-after-incident-with-security

Flamengo player accused singer’s security of aggressive treatment of his wife and stepdaughter at hotel in São Paulo

The singer Chappell Roan has responded after the former Chelsea footballer Jorginho posted on social media claiming her security guard made his stepdaughter cry when she encountered the singer at a hotel in Brazil.

The American musician said Jorginho’s stepdaughter “did not deserve that”, and the situation had “made her really sad”, adding that the man involved in the incident was not her personal security.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/chappell-roan-responds-to-criticism-from-footballer-jorginho-after-incident-with-security

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Posted by Ben Fisher at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/tottenham-nottingham-forest-premier-league-match-report

It promises to be a long three weeks for Tottenham Hotspur and Igor Tudor. That is, of course, if Tudor gets the time, after Nottingham Forest plunged Spurs deeper into the relegation fight, recording a humiliating 3-0 victory. “We are staying up,” was the chant from the away fans, who delighted in suggesting Stevenage could be visiting this vast arena for a Championship game in August.

When Spurs, a point above the relegation zone, do re-emerge after the international break, their trip to Sunderland will be the first of seven games to save their Premier League status. For Forest, who had to weather a first-half storm, waves of Spurs set pieces, this turned into a dreamy afternoon in the capital, a second victory in four days and, crucially, Vítor Pereira’s first league win since taking charge last month. West Ham’s defeat at Aston Villa only enhanced Forest’s fuzzy feeling.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/tottenham-nottingham-forest-premier-league-match-report

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Posted by Luisa A. Igloria

https://www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/what-ive-learned/

https://www.vianegativa.us/?p=74297

Some say I am lightning
when I write— quick, sure 
of the strike and the burn. 
Brilliance seen for miles 
around, but is it only for 
the space of a few seconds?

The accretions of language
through the years, tools
cobbled from the silt and 
mud of this life. Sentences
honed through practice—
this requires patience. 

This is not an ode 
to the ways in which 
certain plants bloom 
only one night each year: 
a grand display, followed 
by sad withering.  

Neither is this praise
for steadfastness or obscurity,
for holding still against 
a background, like the velvet
of moth wings melting against 
screens of bark.  

And this is not mere 
argument for importance, for
various other bold announcements 
of self— not to be the sun, but   
to have proof my small heat matters 
and emits a real radiance of its own.

https://www.vianegativa.us/2026/03/what-ive-learned/

https://www.vianegativa.us/?p=74297

starwatcher

From this post in Daily Kos. "I built an ICE tracking app that can't be pulled from the App Store. Because it was never in one."

This person developed an app that tracks when ICE is present in the vicinity, and sends an alert to your phone. No cost. No ads. No presence in an app store for TPTB to pull it. Hosted in the Netherlands, so the US government can't issue a takedown order to the provider.

There's lots of discussion in the comments about "what if" and conversations about coding that I can't follow, but it might be reassuring to those on the fence... or maybe a red light. I don't know. But if you live in an area where ICE is -- or might be -- active, it's worth taking a look.

Forgot to say -- The developer wants news of this to spread as far as possible. So feel free to link to this post, or to the source post in DK, to share the information.

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Welcome to Fandom 5K nominations, 2026 and final edition!

Nominations are open over here. They will close on April 1st for cleanup and will re-open during signups. Note that I will probably clear existing nominations when the form re-opens, so if you want to keep track of exactly what you nominated, please save the list for your own purposes.

There are no restrictions on what can be nominated in terms of fandom size, type, and so forth, and we also allow crossovers and original fandoms to be nominated. Please nominate crossover relationships into the Crossover Fandom tag, and original characters and relationships into the Original Work tag.

Fandom5K does not allow Creator's Choice of Fandom.

In terms of how to nominate characters versus relationships, please follow the format below:( Read more... )

Large franchise fandoms continue to get more and more complicated! I'm going to hold off on those approvals for a few days to see if we need to make changes to past year's guidelines. Below is what we did last year. If you plan to nominate in these fandoms, please discuss either keeping as-is or doing something that makes more sense to you in the comments:

Dragon Age - nominate as "Dragon Age (Video Games)" or "Dragon Age: Absolution".
Marvel Cinematic Universe - please only nominate characters who have appeared in the movies into this fandom. Relationships between movie-only and TV-only characters should be nominated as crossovers.
Marvel Netflix series - early series should all be nominated as "Defenders (TV)"; others should be nominated under the
Star Wars - please nominate films in terms of "Star Wars Prequel Trilogy", "Star Wars Original Trilogy", "Star Wars Sequel Trilogy" etc.; nominate TV under separate titles
X-Men films - as "X-Men (Alternate Timeline Movies)" and "X-Men (Original Timeline Movies)"
Arrowverse - use "DC's Arrowverse" for Arrow, Flash, Supergirl, Batwoman, Black Lightning, Legends of Tomorrow and Superman & Lois, etc.
Marvel and DC Comics - as "Marvel (Comics)" and "DC Comics"

I am not familiar with every fandom or up-to-date on the needs of every franchise, so I will be taking guidance from you as to how your fandoms work in terms of fandom tags, etc. Please watch this space for queries!

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Posted by Daniel Harris

https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/mar/22/arsenal-v-manchester-city-carabao-cup-final-live-updates

⚽ League Cup final updates from the 4.30pm GMT kick-off
⚽ Live scores | Follow us over on Bluesky | And mail Daniel

At Tottenham, Forest now lead 2-0; at Villa Park, Villa now lead West Ham 2-0.

Physically, the edge is with Arsenal, especially in midfield. Rodri may never recapture the power and pace which made him one of the best in his position, while Bernardo never it. They’ll look to control the tempo of the game and have the passing and smarts to do it, but it’s a tricky endeavour with Declan Rice charging about.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/live/2026/mar/22/arsenal-v-manchester-city-carabao-cup-final-live-updates

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Posted by Tom Garry

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/wsl-roundup-brighton-liverpool-leicester-aston-villa

Leicester lose 2-1 against Aston Villa having led 1-0
Liverpool edge towards safety with 0-0 draw at Brighton

The relegation fears of the Women’s Super League’s bottom team, Leicester, worsened as they let a one-goal lead slip and lost 2-1 at home to an Aston Villa side who were inspired by their half-time substitute Ebony Salmon.

Leicester had looked on course to climb out of the relegation spot and above West Ham on goal difference, but Villa’s superb second-half fightback condemned Leicester to a 12th defeat from their 17 league games this season and left them three points from safety with five games remaining.

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/22/wsl-roundup-brighton-liverpool-leicester-aston-villa

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Posted by Editorial

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/the-guardian-view-on-aid-cuts-britain-championed-development-funding-its-meanness-is-shortsighted

The steep reductions are a grave error, both morally and pragmatically. But a better case needs to be made for spending

Progress is possible. Over two decades, global child mortality plummeted. There were many reasons for a 39% reduction in deaths in lower and middle income countries between 2001 and 2021, but a significant one was overseas development aid, which supported everything from sanitation to vaccination programmes to food security.

That shift has slowed, and – like similar advances – is likely to reverse if aid budgets continue to be slashed. Researchers warned last month that continuing cuts could result in more than 22 million avoidable deaths in the next five years, with a quarter of those among children under five.

Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here.

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/the-guardian-view-on-aid-cuts-britain-championed-development-funding-its-meanness-is-shortsighted

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Posted by Editorial

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/22/the-guardian-view-on-prisons-sentencing-reform-has-not-eased-the-sense-of-crisis

The increased use of tags makes sense if done right. But years of accumulated problems include a depleted probation workforce

Given the frayed and depleted state of the public sector, it is not surprising that prisons in England and Wales are struggling to escape from a sense of perpetual crisis. Recent days saw the latest in a series of urgent notifications. These put a prison in special measures, and require ministers to produce an action plan within a month. Inspectors found that Woodhill in Milton Keynes is unsafe while a report on another failing prison, Swaleside in Kent, pointed to high levels of violence, staff shortages and education cuts.

David Lammy, who was shuffled into the role of justice secretary as a result of Angela Rayner’s hasty exit from government, is busy with the alarming push to remove most defendants’ right to a jury trial. So the implementation of recent sentencing reforms, and problems inside jails, have largely been left to the prisons minister, James Timpson. While there is no doubting his personal commitment, good intentions will not be enough.

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Flamengo player accused singer’s security of speaking ‘in an extremely aggressive manner’ to his wife and stepdaughter at hotel in São Paulo

The singer Chappell Roan has responded after the former Chelsea footballer Jorginho posted on social media claiming her security guard made his stepdaughter cry when she encountered the singer at a hotel in Brazil.

The American musician said Jorginho’s stepdaughter “did not deserve that”, and the situation had “made her really sad”, adding that the man involved in the incident was not her personal security.

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(Adjective.) Having phthisis, or some symptom of it, as difficulty in breathing.

phthisis
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin phthisis, from Ancient Greek φθίσις (phthísis, “consumption, decline, wasting away”), from φθίω (phthíō, “to waste away”).
(Noun, archaic.) An atrophy of the body or part of the body, especially pulmonary tuberculosis.

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Etymology: From Ancient Greek φθορά (phthorá, “destruction”).
(Noun, obsolete, chemistry.) fluorine

phthongal
Etymology: From Ancient Greek φθόγγος (phthóngos, “sound, voice”).
(Adjective, phonetics.) Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized.

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At Tottenham, Forest now lead 2-0; at Villa Park, Villa now lead West Ham 2-0.

Physically, the edge is with Arsenal, especially in midfield. Rodri may never recapture the power and pace which made him one of the best in his position, while Bernardo never it. They’ll look to control the tempo of the game and have the passing and smarts to do it, but it’s a tricky endeavour with Declan Rice charging about.

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Madison Square Garden, New York City

The British artist’s brilliantly ambitious first arena show is a breathtaking showcase of her artistic range, with pole dancing, vogue battles and sword fighting

From time to time, photographs from FKA twigs’ stint as a backup dancer make the rounds on social media. In the early days, when her name recognition was secondary to the likes of Jessie J and Peter Andre, Tahliah Barnett would take to the stage and use her body and talent in service of someone else’s vision. The drama of being visible yet never being fully seen would become an important subtext to her work. Misrecognition from a lover, by the public, from the internet, provided powerful emotional stakes to her songwriting, which she complemented with ultra-tactile music that teased and staggered payoffs that went further than any expected beat.

The most definite proof that she has become an undeniable star in her own right comes tonight, when she tears the house down on her first ever arena date at Madison Square Garden. “Did you truly see me?” the singer whispers from bed in the show opener, Mirrored Heart. The immediate, roaring response is at funny odds with her lament that follows: “No, not this time.” If anything, the evening proves again and again just how intensely she and her audience seem to recognize one another. For one thing, the crowd is styled in her image, in fulfillment of her wish from Home With You to “see a hero like me in a sci-fi”. From blocks away, you can follow the stream of make-do Rick Owens looks and be certain that you are headed toward FKA twigs’ location. Inside the arena, it feels like New York is doing its best approximation of a Berlin nightclub: an orgy of black tank-tops, Lucite pleaser heels and constellations of facial piercings that must be a nightmare for the people running the metal detectors.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/22/netanyahu-hopes-destroying-iranian-axis-of-evil-will-rehabilitate-his-image

With a 7 October inquiry looming, the Israeli PM’s political career, legacy and personal freedom may all be on the line

Over three weeks of war, Iranian missiles have killed at least 15 people inside Israel, and injured many more, including about 200 in overnight strikes near a nuclear facility in the country’s south, but they have not touched public support for the war.

An overwhelming majority of Jewish Israelis back the decision to start a new conflict, with the Israel Democracy Institute putting support at more than 90% in two wartime polls.

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