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Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Delap’s talents resurface in style, Gómez delights Brighton with more fireworks, and hair-pulling confusion at Everton It would have been very easy for Oliver Glasner to lose patience with Liam Delap. The forward is still only 23, yet the days when he was rattling in 12 in a Premier League season for Ipswich have come to seem a very long time ago (and his six games for Manchester City even longer). A season at Chelsea had left him bereft of confidence, an odd mix of diffidence and overaggression, devoid of composure in the box, arms flailing like a broken windmill. But the old gifts have not l

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Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend’s action

Delap’s talents resurface in style, Gómez delights Brighton with more fireworks, and hair-pulling confusion at Everton It would have been very easy for Oliver Glasner to lose patience with Liam Delap. The forward is still only 23, yet the days when he was rattling in 12 in a Premier League season for Ipswich have come to seem a very long time ago (and his six games for Manchester City even longer). A season at Chelsea had left him bereft of confidence, an odd mix of diffidence and overaggression, devoid of composure in the box, arms flailing like a broken windmill. But the old gifts have not l

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Labour expected to cut EV targets for UK’s car industry despite MPs’ protests

Exclusive: Louise Haigh likely to weaken mandate for sales that forms key part of emission reduction plan Analysis: Climate always comes second – are green issues slipping down Burnham’s agenda? Ministers are expected to make steep cuts to the government’s electric vehicle (EV) targets this week, in a move that will relieve carmakers but alarm many Labour MPs who are worried about the government’s commitment to the green agenda. Louise Haigh, the de facto deputy prime minister, will finalise the plan after a crunch meeting in Downing Street on Wednesday to settle a long-running dispute between

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Labour expected to cut EV targets for UK’s car industry despite MPs’ protests

Exclusive: Louise Haigh likely to weaken mandate for sales that forms key part of emission reduction plan Analysis: Climate always comes second – are green issues slipping down Burnham’s agenda? Ministers are expected to make steep cuts to the government’s electric vehicle (EV) targets this week, in a move that will relieve carmakers but alarm many Labour MPs who are worried about the government’s commitment to the green agenda. Louise Haigh, the de facto deputy prime minister, will finalise the plan after a crunch meeting in Downing Street on Wednesday to settle a long-running dispute between

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‘I’m going to tell the truth. Screw this!’ Billie Jean King at 82 on coming out, tearing up tennis – and her one big regret

She was the world No 1, whose fight for equal prize money changed women’s lives. As competitive as ever in her ninth decade, she discusses sexuality, tenacity and what it was like to finally graduate college this year Every day, Billie Jean King tries to come up with a “gratitude list” in her head, identifying the people who have played a part in making her life so fulfilling. On the day we speak, the list includes her nephew and her wife, Ilana Kloss, who like her is a decorated former tennis player. And, as ever, Susan Williams, who was in King’s fifth grade class at school in Long Beach, Ca

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‘I’m going to tell the truth. Screw this!’ Billie Jean King at 82 on coming out, tearing up tennis – and her one big regret

She was the world No 1, whose fight for equal prize money changed women’s lives. As competitive as ever in her ninth decade, she discusses sexuality, tenacity and what it was like to finally graduate college this year Every day, Billie Jean King tries to come up with a “gratitude list” in her head, identifying the people who have played a part in making her life so fulfilling. On the day we speak, the list includes her nephew and her wife, Ilana Kloss, who like her is a decorated former tennis player. And, as ever, Susan Williams, who was in King’s fifth grade class at school in Long Beach, Ca

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British people don’t trust Palantir – it’s not too late to reverse the NHS’s dependence on it | Ben Coleman

We can’t allow our health data to be locked into the control of a US tech firm. It won’t be easy, but next spring the job of clawing it back must begin Ben Coleman is Labour MP for Chelsea and Fulham and a member of the health and social care committee Next March, Palantir’s £330m contract to run NHS England’s federated data platform (FDP) ends. Ministers must decide by Christmas whether to extend it. They should move on from Palantir, and transition to new suppliers that put the NHS in full control of its technology and patient data. I sit on the health and social care committee. In June, we

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British people don’t trust Palantir – it’s not too late to reverse the NHS’s dependence on it | Ben Coleman

We can’t allow our health data to be locked into the control of a US tech firm. It won’t be easy, but next spring the job of clawing it back must begin Ben Coleman is Labour MP for Chelsea and Fulham and a member of the health and social care committee Next March, Palantir’s £330m contract to run NHS England’s federated data platform (FDP) ends. Ministers must decide by Christmas whether to extend it. They should move on from Palantir, and transition to new suppliers that put the NHS in full control of its technology and patient data. I sit on the health and social care committee. In June, we

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Why we disrupted Annalena Baerbock’s award speech

The former German foreign minister is no proponent of peace and justice. No award can wipe out her disastrous record.

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Smog blankets New Delhi as Diwali firecrackers worsen air quality

Air quality in Indian capital reaches severe levels, posing heightened health risks for more than 30 million residents.

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'Burning': life under the world's dirtiest skies

On the outskirts of India's capital, a short motorbike ride through the urban area with the world's worst air pollution leaves salesman Kanwar Singh coated in toxic dust.

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Starbucks plans to hire 7,500 staff in major UK expansion plan

Coffee shop chain targets growth north of London with extra 500 outlets in big boost for youth employment

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Godzilla Minus Zero takes US box office by storm in opening weekend

The foreign-language film topped the North American box office with $31.6m in takings, generating $63m worldwide

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Rubio says war on Iran unpopular but ‘necessary’ to stop nuclear threat

US secretary of state says Iran's negotiation demands are 'outrageous and ridiculous, and really not realistic'.

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