Follow The Guardian - Australia, filter it, and define how you want to receive the news (via Email, RSS, Telegram, Whatsapp etc.) http://theguardian.com Mon, 25 Jan 2021 20:31:08 GMT FeedCreatorClass 1.0 dev (follow.it) https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51oyYZwpEXOIxsJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QzSiDGMu-sKgjyuneaTlhfvKbVvAEvMJwzSCDfVrRbF_zNOB9rYCRVVtfMDr657hqsxg1gMCnx-cs1NCf6TLzxjzWuoaDlBYlguebXbHhTYTS8OKwJv-o3Ook0LdUuYO-ORo4XsEvYkXCrFHRPVl5kS-37ojPteoZzhARQlwNXpaMhKI9R7OUCfraT5U_MeW7xjl_NTVCY1Duu6ortj97KKTw12omu6_Q <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721256/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721256" title="Story 394721256"> <p>Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news as online retailers swoop in on two of Britain’s major high street brands</p><p class="block-time published-time"><time datetime="2021-01-25T12:22:44.613Z">12.22pm <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time></p><p><strong>Retail trade union Usdaw is seeking urgent meetings with Debenhams’ administrators </strong>and<strong> c</strong><strong>alling on the government to do more to save high streets </strong>after the failed department store said it would close all stores following the brand’s sale to Boohoo. </p><p> Dave Gill, Usdaw National Officer, said: </p><p>It is devastating news for our high streets that Debenhams’ administrators have sold the company brand to an online only retailer. </p><p>Throughout Debenhams’ difficulties the company and then administrators have refused to engage with Usdaw, the staff are being treated appallingly.</p><p class="block-time published-time"><time datetime="2021-01-25T12:07:24.839Z">12.07pm <span class="timezone">GMT</span></time></p><p><strong>Springboard data released this morning shows that footfall across UK retail destinations (at least the ones that are open during lockdown) rose 9% in the week to 23 January. </strong></p><p>Despite rain and snow last week across much of the UK, footfall rose in retail destinations last week from the week before for the first time in five weeks; perhaps providing the first indications of lockdown fatigue emerging once again.</p><p> The last rise in footfall was in the peak Christmas trading week beginning 13th December, and even then the rise was only a third as large as last week’s; since then there has been a double digit drop in footfall in each week.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2021/jan/25/boohoo-buys-debenhams-55m-asos-in-exclusive-talks-to-buy-topshop-arcadia-ftse-pound-sterling-economy-retail-high-street-business-live">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:22:44 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51oyYZwpEXOIxsJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QzSiDGMu-sKgjyuneaTlhfvKbVvAEvMJwzSCDfVrRbF_zNOB9rYCRVVtfMDr657hqsxg1gMCnx-cs1NCf6TLzxjzWuoaDlBYlguebXbHhTYTS8OKwJv-o3Ook0LdUuYO-ORo4XsEvYkXCrFHRPVl5kS-37ojPteoZzhARQlwNXpaMhKI9R7OUCfraT5U_MeW7xjl_NTVCY1Duu6ortj97KKTw12omu6_Q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o47t9WW45yfvJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHj3yB7Yt1jqykM0gg31a0WxVuQTPHlMcKyHPOW5izmL5-rNSkhj0aoKTkMXGSD6Z2LPMreeAdmFUwgeirEkwhBNiCVxpjT9RZF <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721253/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721253" title="Story 394721253"> <ul><li>Sibley half century ensures England’s second Test victory</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2021/jan/25/sri-lanka-england-second-test-day-three-live">Sri Lanka 381 &amp; 126, England (win by six wickets ) 344 &amp; 164-4 </a><br></li></ul><p>England’s spinners came to the fore in thrilling style and Dom Sibley passed a significant test of character as the tourists sealed a 2-0 series win over Sri Lanka on a dramatic day in Galle.</p><p>Joe Root’s side had spent most of the first three days chasing the game in this second Test but made their move emphatically on Monday, with Jack Leach and Dom Bess flooring the accelerator as they shared eight wickets to bowl Sri Lanka out for just 126. That left England chasing a potentially thorny 164 for victory, with a wearing pitch and an ebullient Lasith Embuldeniya standing in their way.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/25/cricket-sri-lanka-england-second-test-match-report">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:57:43 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o47t9WW45yfvJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHj3yB7Yt1jqykM0gg31a0WxVuQTPHlMcKyHPOW5izmL5-rNSkhj0aoKTkMXGSD6Z2LPMreeAdmFUwgeirEkwhBNiCVxpjT9RZF https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6N8kDTbolY4JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENBPAmZntQICklJSRcaUuzy60fWbT2nDq8U8Ba27Fmm4pT4nRUaEzKVli5G1esJ2HPoVwOkkUHiA6rVy1XEyCMD8Y5Lk-BZOdurIZ2_xzp_wc <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721252/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721252" title="Story 394721252"> <p>So far 58 people have drowned across Australia this summer compared to 45 deaths at the same point of the 2019-20 season <br></p><p>A snorkeller has drowned on Sydney’s northern beaches and a 16-year-old boy is in a critical condition after being pulled unresponsive from a river north-west of the city as Australia’s drowning toll surged over the long weekend.</p><p>The teenager was swimming in the Hawkesbury River at a campground in Sackville after midday on Monday before he was pulled unresponsive from the water. Members of the public performed CPR while NSW Ambulance rushed to the scene.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/25/teenager-in-critical-condition-after-being-pulled-from-hawkesbury-river">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:35:14 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6N8kDTbolY4JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENBPAmZntQICklJSRcaUuzy60fWbT2nDq8U8Ba27Fmm4pT4nRUaEzKVli5G1esJ2HPoVwOkkUHiA6rVy1XEyCMD8Y5Lk-BZOdurIZ2_xzp_wc https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o9OVI_-pH0vKJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6Y__7S9bnSa_GfjoL3BIsZHCZQNlSOiOJwzSCDfVrRbFtPTRFIz_ChOFJN2JvzEFfWByhcq_pXWbeqcVILvld1rLP9Zv9blCXRo3KtLtaRsih9btDSFbxlOejII9mNioGNNea_KBIkEmRN7MLpxipEo <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721250/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721250" title="Story 394721250"> <p> When it comes to double-standards, Republican bad faith is hardly ever in short supply<br></p><p>A press secretary who tells the truth. An independent justice department that respects the rule of law. A president who doesn’t tweet conspiracy theories in the wee hours of the morning. After four dispiriting years and one near-death experience for American democracy, it would be comforting to conclude that nature is healing. Our political guardrails held. The Trump Era was nothing more than a temporary blip.</p><p>But such complacency would be a terrible mistake. What we’re seeing at the dawn of the Biden presidency is not the reestablishment of norms, but the establishment of double standards.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/25/republicans-will-try-to-create-an-ethics-trap-for-democrats-dont-fall-for-it">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:31:02 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o9OVI_-pH0vKJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6Y__7S9bnSa_GfjoL3BIsZHCZQNlSOiOJwzSCDfVrRbFtPTRFIz_ChOFJN2JvzEFfWByhcq_pXWbeqcVILvld1rLP9Zv9blCXRo3KtLtaRsih9btDSFbxlOejII9mNioGNNea_KBIkEmRN7MLpxipEo https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o7vN1eQp6kWEJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENu5DwpG6ZnNZxa_IGBEVPkyrTXudVMRMEimD8I-44Bes_T_0b_lPWSkJHbPZHo9sT0E4ijPcrzA12WP56N3Atf3ifyTmIk4ln2UZLNnU6q-abI5nboOny_Q <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721249/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721249" title="Story 394721249"> <p>Broadcaster cites ‘deeply insensitive and divisive decision’ to make Court a Companion of the Order of Australia</p><p>Veteran journalist Kerry O’Brien has rejected an Australia Day award to protest the decision to give <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/22/margaret-court-australia-day-honours-2021-list-daniel-andrews-backlash">Margaret Court the country’s highest honour</a>.</p><p>O’Brien wrote to the governor general’s secretary on Sunday explaining there must be something “fundamentally wrong” with the honours system given the “deeply insensitive and divisive decision” to appoint Court a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC).</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/25/kerry-obrien-rejects-australia-day-honour-in-protest-against-margaret-courts-award">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 11:00:12 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o7vN1eQp6kWEJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENu5DwpG6ZnNZxa_IGBEVPkyrTXudVMRMEimD8I-44Bes_T_0b_lPWSkJHbPZHo9sT0E4ijPcrzA12WP56N3Atf3ifyTmIk4ln2UZLNnU6q-abI5nboOny_Q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6NyuM9z_XPLJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0WxXB8SktCAPQvZd9bcuf18Da3Bi3kByztneteuJcNpN8nE_XSjxlF9WQqH0H9XajISL366a7adCXk <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721247/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721247" title="Story 394721247"> <p>Hospitals in the state are overwhelmed with more than 13,500 coronavirus patients and a Republican leader rejecting lockdowns</p><p>When Brittany Bankhead-Kendall received the Covid-19 vaccine in a beautiful executive boardroom at University Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas, the small jab finally gave her a dose of hope that she and her family would be safe.</p><p>But she still knew that downstairs, patients were fighting for their lives and dying every day, relying on surgical tubes and ventilators just to breathe.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/texas-governor-greg-abbott-republican-coronavirus">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:00:12 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6NyuM9z_XPLJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0WxXB8SktCAPQvZd9bcuf18Da3Bi3kByztneteuJcNpN8nE_XSjxlF9WQqH0H9XajISL366a7adCXk https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51owwpnqEjF_RgJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZkYJRsOfhTFLlFqoLN-U3YoCKc0Pi-hAz8lplR1ZWzx_Cx0VnC5o7OBTEH6QBpqgYimUJ8RIOAcJdjk9GpLPRxzdzQcF_D8QXkrdU3gwBQAX87hjZ_nzUO_5RZjjG8WrA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721245/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721245" title="Story 394721245"> <ul><li>Ex-president forms legal team before February hearings</li><li>Biden focuses on nominations and legislative priorities</li><li><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/24/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-senate-republican-party-romney-rubio">Trump plots revenge on Republicans who betrayed him</a></li></ul><p>The single article of impeachment against Donald Trump will on Monday evening be <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/24/donald-trump-impeachment-trial-senate-republican-party-romney-rubio">delivered to the Senate</a>, where Democratic majority leader Chuck Schumer is promising a quick but fair trial.</p><p><span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/trumps-second-impeachment-trial-key-players">Trump's second impeachment trial: the key players</a></p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/25/trump-impeachment-trial-senate-schumer-pelosi-biden-capitol-attack">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 10:00:11 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51owwpnqEjF_RgJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZkYJRsOfhTFLlFqoLN-U3YoCKc0Pi-hAz8lplR1ZWzx_Cx0VnC5o7OBTEH6QBpqgYimUJ8RIOAcJdjk9GpLPRxzdzQcF_D8QXkrdU3gwBQAX87hjZ_nzUO_5RZjjG8WrA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o47vrNuYJlNkJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44Beufra8OTAnFQhyGgdxF3SEaRV3sowizaln2x2_Xz7W0gbQUJ2XshDWrnZhCw7BS1JF2Fk8I4B3i7xe79jnFug5fL7iPZJC9SdJqRth1bldClg <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721241/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721241" title="Story 394721241"> <p>Footage filmed from inside a fire engine shows a raging bushfire in a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia, on 24 January. Firefighting continued overnight with reports of multiple ignition points.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>Some brief respite was provided by rain. But a fire chief said the blaze was unlikely to be put out because of thick vegetation and that fires would probably continue into the next week</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/video/2021/jan/25/firefighters-battle-bushfire-in-south-australia-video">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:20:17 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o47vrNuYJlNkJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44Beufra8OTAnFQhyGgdxF3SEaRV3sowizaln2x2_Xz7W0gbQUJ2XshDWrnZhCw7BS1JF2Fk8I4B3i7xe79jnFug5fL7iPZJC9SdJqRth1bldClg https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6n2y1ES5B5vJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6UEnVDcNMQPtRemGAH1VsaOIfXQaMI-cQbHg5xJPSC2kddPsu9khM_6NCJAQzrWNrsetwvp7YWwZZosCSdWnUoHgkg08Bbw_fO3Sn_ujGRM2JUVXsI9LZvA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721221/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721221" title="Story 394721221"> <p>Rate of loss now in line with worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change</p><p>The melting of ice across the planet is accelerating at a record rate, with the melting of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets speeding up the fastest, research has found.</p><p>The rate of loss is now in line with the worst-case scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the world’s leading authority on the climate, according to a <a href="https://www.the-cryosphere.net/">paper published on Monday in the journal The Cryosphere</a>.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/25/global-ice-loss-accelerating-at-record-rate-study-finds">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:00:10 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6n2y1ES5B5vJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6UEnVDcNMQPtRemGAH1VsaOIfXQaMI-cQbHg5xJPSC2kddPsu9khM_6NCJAQzrWNrsetwvp7YWwZZosCSdWnUoHgkg08Bbw_fO3Sn_ujGRM2JUVXsI9LZvA https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o-mOtf7E3ENqJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjhcFrF6933EUoCKc0Pi-hA4FCJgMbqT4u408EL1gnhicUE2KBO4dbpGfPUefqIp9gSWc-u840apKjZPAmbW_qbchGOOhwIuLlDWwhRC0ATq2Lzk10CALnpPmXlhasN-toQK-XeEhtisLNP-SiBcii7Q <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721229/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721229" title="Story 394721229"> <p>Global Drug Survey finds 15% of global respondents buying drugs on darknet</p><p>Australians reported getting drunk an average of 31 times per year, more times per year than all but two of 25 countries surveyed, according to the latest Global Drug Survey.</p><p>The survey also shows an increase in people acquiring drugs from markets on the darknet worldwide, up to 15% of global respondents, compared with 10.7% in the 2019 survey.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/23/australians-getting-drunk-an-average-of-31-times-a-year-and-more-buying-drugs-on-darknet">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:00:10 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o-mOtf7E3ENqJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHjhcFrF6933EUoCKc0Pi-hA4FCJgMbqT4u408EL1gnhicUE2KBO4dbpGfPUefqIp9gSWc-u840apKjZPAmbW_qbchGOOhwIuLlDWwhRC0ATq2Lzk10CALnpPmXlhasN-toQK-XeEhtisLNP-SiBcii7Q https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6gAWvS74E1WJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QwoatMbNHnhpR4B0G_XMNBFXeyjCLNqWZjBRAXbk7bWrEjBY36w2uKBuBMgz8SYF3n3HvfYL8MCBkVVa62erO1Hk5RU88fW1vHZ_K6UY90fncsfETFUczSfxtGh5qGSCw <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721220/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721220" title="Story 394721220"> <p>With the box office closed and only secretive viewing figures to go on, gauging a film’s success is becoming a tricky proposition</p><p>Here’s a question: was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/15/wonder-woman-1984-review-gal-gadot-kristen-wiig-patty-jenkins">Wonder Woman 1984</a> a hit movie? How did it compare to the first Wonder Woman? Or how about <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/oct/13/soul-review-pixars-rapturous-tale-of-a-jazz-nut-on-a-surreal-out-of-body-journey">Soul</a>, or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/20/ma-raineys-black-bottom-review-chadwick-boseman-viola-davis">Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</a>? Were they hits? How can we tell? In ordinary times we wouldn’t have to ask; we would have box-office figures to go by. Now, the pandemic has hobbled cinema-going, and for most of us the only way to access new movies is via streaming services, which tend to guard their numbers as if they’re nuclear launch codes. WW84, for example, got a limited cinema release but was mainly consumed in the US via HBO Max. How did it do there? All Warners said was that it had “broken records and exceeded our expectations”. If Hollywood is a place where “nobody knows anything”, streaming is a place where we know even less.</p><p><span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/info/2020/mar/25/the-guide-staying-in-sign-up-for-our-home-entertainment-tips">The Guide: Staying In – sign up for our home entertainment tips</a></p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/25/smash-hit-or-total-turkey-in-the-age-of-streaming-its-impossible-to-tell">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 09:00:10 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o6gAWvS74E1WJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QwoatMbNHnhpR4B0G_XMNBFXeyjCLNqWZjBRAXbk7bWrEjBY36w2uKBuBMgz8SYF3n3HvfYL8MCBkVVa62erO1Hk5RU88fW1vHZ_K6UY90fncsfETFUczSfxtGh5qGSCw https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o7vA9F4tZveqJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0WxanzgmEA7rkM_bp2HsQ3FOcAWy5mfkgCgdBJG3pCcxDaPDH2oWB65TVG8HR3V7kOTUzYPAU8--FaXMEW38BPySpFlzjJPjwdsQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721219/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721219" title="Story 394721219"> <p>Acting ambassador to Kuwait fled for South last year, says fellow defector</p><p>North Korea’s acting ambassador to Kuwait has defected to South Korea in the latest high-profile escape from the isolated country.</p><p>Ryu Hyun-woo had led North Korea’s embassy in Kuwait since the former ambassador So Chang-sik was expelled after a 2017 UN resolution sought to scale back the country’s overseas diplomatic missions.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/latest-north-korea-defection-may-show-kim-jong-uns-power-base-drifting">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:59:51 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9VfwxDbc9Tl51o7vA9F4tZveqJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0WxanzgmEA7rkM_bp2HsQ3FOcAWy5mfkgCgdBJG3pCcxDaPDH2oWB65TVG8HR3V7kOTUzYPAU8--FaXMEW38BPySpFlzjJPjwdsQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-SatXJcIT5r5JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6YiC01FXwTp-z_KZRa1gvJMmWUTwxVE_rjk3Qc4rnBzC8ZI-ThHkWgEU_7SiJ7nrVpe8HYWhBsLUeQCO501c2zynPYZ1XIyTVtHYnIkyNrL_mCp3YMDoGL0 <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721197/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721197" title="Story 394721197"> <p>Former PM says Westminster government is out of touch and fundamental changes are needed</p><p>The UK is at risk of becoming a failed state and breaking up unless there are deep reforms of the way the country is governed, the former prime minister Gordon Brown has said.</p><p>“I believe the choice is now between a reformed state and a failed state,” Brown wrote in the <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2021/01/24/united-kingdom-must-urgently-rediscover-holds-together/">Daily Telegraph.</a>“It is indeed Scotland where dissatisfaction is so deep that it threatens the end of the United Kingdom.”</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jan/25/uk-at-risk-of-becoming-failed-state-says-gordon-brown">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:57:48 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-SatXJcIT5r5JV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6YiC01FXwTp-z_KZRa1gvJMmWUTwxVE_rjk3Qc4rnBzC8ZI-ThHkWgEU_7SiJ7nrVpe8HYWhBsLUeQCO501c2zynPYZ1XIyTVtHYnIkyNrL_mCp3YMDoGL0 https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-dNRD3N3mFWBJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENc5xL0A7eeJivsHa6IlVTe65ic_rkQbWOVbnGua2rZ-ErItroKCZRzx2zDiXbGVor3drFeHkj3fXHERgvuApTIucMlFPA2umSzdlQ2ECynec <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721196/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721196" title="Story 394721196"> <p>Robert Weber survived by eating wild mushrooms and drinking dam water. His dog is yet to be found</p><p>A Queensland man who survived 18 days in a remote area says he got lost after trying to take a shortcut on his way home from the pub.</p><p>Robert Weber was initially reported missing after his empty Ford Falcon was found bogged on a road near Kilkivan, west of Gympie, on 15 January.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/25/queensland-man-rescued-after-18-days-says-he-was-trying-to-take-shortcut-home">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:43:31 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-dNRD3N3mFWBJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENc5xL0A7eeJivsHa6IlVTe65ic_rkQbWOVbnGua2rZ-ErItroKCZRzx2zDiXbGVor3drFeHkj3fXHERgvuApTIucMlFPA2umSzdlQ2ECynec https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-UngZqoGdQehJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENq3LKX9XOTz4eXSX2Pg9iLMF-ZJTJnv0B4EnCMusrZkwKL4VmJCnWT9xW-XAcJg_XVbWC-qNH9r0KFj6vnY5j06yrBKcGqy-pZkvk3AYk-rI <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721194/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721194" title="Story 394721194"> <p>Communications minister Paul Fletcher says the new headline on a story about 26 January events is ‘sensible’ </p><p>The ABC has bowed to pressure and dropped a reference to Invasion Day in the headline of a story listing 26 January events.</p><p>On Monday the communications minister, Paul Fletcher, criticised the public broadcaster for publishing an online article on Sunday with the headline “Australia Day/Invasion Day 2021 events guide”, saying “the ABC has clearly got this one wrong”.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/jan/25/abc-drops-reference-to-invasion-day-after-minister-criticises-incorrect-use">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:35:17 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-UngZqoGdQehJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6ZzDsDP1BKhVimD8I-44BetBu4lX4G3ucAIUZUiYd4ENq3LKX9XOTz4eXSX2Pg9iLMF-ZJTJnv0B4EnCMusrZkwKL4VmJCnWT9xW-XAcJg_XVbWC-qNH9r0KFj6vnY5j06yrBKcGqy-pZkvk3AYk-rI https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-eWfknnxp1pPJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0WxWAiMN1VskuNn1xeEhiHPv-snJhjTgjgRe_yowVgIu4iugnskW-a4YKzwHRx93PM50ZRxsec11EXAe2G4jQmJadZtHCsNtyrgVG8LA51SAczA1EbzIbjAMQ <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721192/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721192" title="Story 394721192"> <p>Green zone travel arrangements suspended for 72 hours after woman tested positive after leaving Auckland quarantine hotel</p><p>Australia has suspended its travel bubble with New Zealand for three days after a confirmed case of a highly transmissible Covid-19 variant was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/new-zealand-covid-case-appears-to-be-south-african-variant-officials-say">identified in a woman </a>who had been out and about in the community.</p><p>The 56-year-old likely contracted the virus from someone on the same floor of the Pullman hotel in Auckland, where they were both quarantining.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/australia-halts-new-zealand-travel-bubble-over-case-of-infectious-new-covid-variant">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:18:56 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-eWfknnxp1pPJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0WxWAiMN1VskuNn1xeEhiHPv-snJhjTgjgRe_yowVgIu4iugnskW-a4YKzwHRx93PM50ZRxsec11EXAe2G4jQmJadZtHCsNtyrgVG8LA51SAczA1EbzIbjAMQ https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-WKSfjFjzXPgJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QwoatMbNHnhpR4B0G_XMNBFXeyjCLNqWZe2K7QXv9cjZWIgG4NsehnPhDZyg8ogbCBhaH6tnj_7o-vo5nNWglE <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721190/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721190" title="Story 394721190"> <p>Continuing our series of writers championing maligned films is a plea to reconsider Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s Razzie-winning crime comedy</p><p>We were discussing biases and groupthink, my critic friend and I, when he recalled the press screening for the 2003 megabomb Gigli. “I had to spend 20 minutes before the movie started,” he said, “listening to hack writers cracking each other up with one-liners they’d pre-written about a film that hadn’t even started yet.” If anything, that’s an understatement of the degree to which knives were out when the Ben Affleck/Jennifer Lopez comedy hit theaters that summer. It was greeted with vicious notices (The Wall Street Journal deemed it “The worst movie – all right, the worst allegedly major movie – of our admittedly young century”), unwanted “awards” recognition (it swept that year’s Razzies), and dire box office (its worldwide gross topped out at $7.2m, against a reported $55m budget).</p><p><span>Related: </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/22/batman-v-superman-zack-snyder-isnt-bad-movie">Hear me out: why Batman v Superman isn't a bad movie</a></p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/jan/25/why-gigli-isnt-a-bad-movie-hear-me-out">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:09:09 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-WKSfjFjzXPgJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6QwoatMbNHnhpR4B0G_XMNBFXeyjCLNqWZe2K7QXv9cjZWIgG4NsehnPhDZyg8ogbCBhaH6tnj_7o-vo5nNWglE https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-WShiwoz-0dLJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlwqqjugAniTBpxhs4wTi-OLi8-n91kOBGeRV3sowizalmviWZUU8GayS3hRdGXfAIkolwScnwqK7OQtJwZGgl9R77IyeSpYfmmfYehCi5gQYY <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721189/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721189" title="Story 394721189"> <p>An era of uprisings, nascent democracy and civil war in the Arab world started with protests in a small Tunisian city. The unrest grew to engulf the Middle East, shake authoritarian governments and unleash consequences that still shape the world a decade later</p><p>A decade ago this month, protests forced Tunisia’s authoritarian president, Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, <a href="https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/world/2011/jan/14/tunisian-president-flees-country-protests">to flee his country</a>. It was a quick and relatively peaceful revolution, coming after decades of stagnant but entrenched regimes across the Arab world.</p><p>Few at the time understood the power of the images of unrest being broadcast online and into homes across the Middle East. Within weeks, other significant protest movements would emerge, and by the middle of 2011, leaders in Cairo, Tripoli, Sana’a, Damascus and elsewhere were under serious pressure or had been swept away by a tidal wave of peaceful demonstrations and armed resistance.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2021/jan/25/how-the-arab-spring-unfolded-a-visualisation">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:00:58 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-WShiwoz-0dLJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlwqqjugAniTBpxhs4wTi-OLi8-n91kOBGeRV3sowizalmviWZUU8GayS3hRdGXfAIkolwScnwqK7OQtJwZGgl9R77IyeSpYfmmfYehCi5gQYY https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-XOXmxPcy_8lJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0Wxd0t5tdMkUPmn-FXi78XAe6qeigGx1kKcaw4ONelkqwrd_TwxXOIlZCEp3sVXJ3Q5ZopCWC7PKdNT84JNyWYyflC8NJw5EHxFN0mS46-3DtN8xKtyUK9YFr12jTLWdhc9w <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721188/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721188" title="Story 394721188"> <p>Leifer, who faced more than 70 extradition hearings, is accused of assaulting female students at Adass Israel girls school in Melbourne</p><p>Israel has extradited Malka Leifer to Australia following a decade-long effort by accusers of the alleged child abuser to have her brought back to Melbourne.</p><p>The former principal, who faces 74 counts of child sexual abuse in Victoria, was rushed out of Israel before the main airport in the country <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/24/global-report-covid-variant-overwhelms-state-in-brazil-as-china-fights-new-cluster">was due to be shut on Tuesday</a> as part of tightening coronavirus restrictions.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jan/25/malka-leifer-departs-israel-for-australia-to-face-74-counts-of-child-sexual-abuse-in-victoria">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:53:08 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-XOXmxPcy_8lJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6WedGhineFlw0Z0q_0ZvZp0M0gg31a0Wxd0t5tdMkUPmn-FXi78XAe6qeigGx1kKcaw4ONelkqwrd_TwxXOIlZCEp3sVXJ3Q5ZopCWC7PKdNT84JNyWYyflC8NJw5EHxFN0mS46-3DtN8xKtyUK9YFr12jTLWdhc9w https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-WeICUeE1JnUJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHj3yB7Yt1jqykM0gg31a0WxWAiMN1VskuNkuDcJfoyrb37s68GtKoWz9Fzd7CSnMIS12dr5_kvi_EaLROs7oLs_w_-8UDRpphzS2y5-qJhsHY0kYq0ep3ryN9sOeMhyDO06Ie-vQej0nA <img src="https://api.follow.it/rssubscribers/rss_show_story_count/394721187/355374" border=0 width="1" height="1" alt="Story 394721187" title="Story 394721187"> <ul><li>Abbott latest to commit despite country’s Covid-19 troubles</li><li>Greenberg named Australian Cricketers’ Association CEO</li></ul><p>The Australian Cricketers’ Association says players will commit to Test matches in South Africa ahead of the easier route of playing Twenty20 cricket in New Zealand. Sean Abbott on Monday became the latest player to declare his preference was Test cricket, even if it meant warming the bench rather than playing.</p><p>Despite the country battling a contagious new strain of coronavirus, Cricket South Africa is looking increasingly likely to host Australia for three Tests in March. That had at one stage looked likely to present tired multi-formatted players with a tantalising option of chosing white-ball cricket with both tours run at the same time.</p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jan/25/australian-cricket-players-prioritise-south-africa-test-tour-over-t20-in-new-zealand">Continue reading...</a> Mon, 25 Jan 2021 07:45:15 GMT https://api.follow.it/track-rss-story-click/1SvWV7v9Vfxej4S9n2w1-WeICUeE1JnUJV6X_rj7zkE7j9jcqhnb6aQKqEvQNkHj3yB7Yt1jqykM0gg31a0WxWAiMN1VskuNkuDcJfoyrb37s68GtKoWz9Fzd7CSnMIS12dr5_kvi_EaLROs7oLs_w_-8UDRpphzS2y5-qJhsHY0kYq0ep3ryN9sOeMhyDO06Ie-vQej0nA