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Updates from the third day at Edgbaston, 11am BST start
Mohammad Siraj is on a hat-trick!
Siraj loses his run-up twice before bowling his first delivery. Losing your run-up is bad, losing Joe Root is a whole lot worse. He’s gone to Shami’s third ball, caught down the leg side by the diving Pant! Root can’t believe his luck. He flicked at a poor delivery, on the pads, and got a little tickle that was snaffled gleefully by Pant. That’s a big wicket. Huge. Massive. Massive!
Continue reading...Denmark face Sweden before Germany take on Poland
Feel free to email me or matchday.live@theguardian.com with any thoughts or feelings today. Score predictions are welcome too. It would also be good to know who you think deserves to start for England when the Lionesses take on France tomorrow.
You can keep up to date with the race for the Euro 2025 Golden Boot here:
Continue reading...Day five updates as the third round gets under way
A few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.
Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far.
Continue reading...Sultana announced on Thursday she was quitting Labour to join Jeremy Corbyn’s Independent Alliance
My colleague Lauren Almeida, who is running the Guardian’s business live blog, has shared the following:
Rachel Reeves has not given herself enough fiscal headroom to manage public finances, Charlie Bean, the former deputy of the Bank of England has said, and has to “neurotically fine tune taxes”.
About £10bn – that’s a very small number in the context of overall public spending. Government spending is about one and a quarter trillion so £10bn is a small number … and it is a small number in the context of typical forecasting errors.
You can’t forecast the future perfectly both because you can’t forecast the economy and you can’t forecast all the elements of public finances …. The forecasts are imprecise and there is no way you can avoid that. That is a fact of life.
In light of reports of atrocities committed by the Israeli government in Gaza and reports of the UK’s collaboration with Israeli military operations, it is increasingly urgent to confirm whether the UK has contributed to any violations of international humanitarian law through economic or political cooperation with the Israeli government since October 2023, including the sale, supply or use of weapons, surveillance aircraft and Royal Air Force bases.
Continue reading...Short-term measures are useful but ‘gold standard’ means being exposed to hot weather 10-15 times before an event
“It was a bit of a shock to the system,” according to Cameron Norrie. For the German player Eva Lys, the conditions were “really, really tough”. Jessica Pegula, meanwhile, said the weather was “just like Florida”. The hottest-ever start to a Wimbledon fortnight has left a mark on players and spectators alike, and raised questions about how the tournament adjusts to a rapidly warming future.
The numerous measures put in place to deal with the heat of the past week were not hard to spot at SW19. The most obvious was the mass deployment of ice towels, rolled out to every court and wrapped around the shoulders of players at changeovers to aid the process of cooling. Described by Wimbledon’s official channels as a “critical welfare operation”, what had previously been an item available only on request was scaled up so that, on day one alone, 145 towels were stuffed with ice cubes, stored in plastic bags for hygiene and distributed around the courts.
Continue reading...The tennis is sublime but the crowd slightly less so, while the Dalai Lama dangles some spoilers about his successor
As someone who enjoys the women’s tennis at Wimbledon, so to speak, the tournament’s opening days are an annual joy and this week has been electric. Emma Raducanu leads the rise in British women powering up the world rankings, which makes the era of women’s tennis I grew up in – I have a lot of time for Jo Durie, but those were hard years – seem like the 19th century. Today, after two stunning opening-round matches, Raducanu will meet Aryna Sabalenka, the mighty Belarusian world No 1, which means tomorrow I will be on court one (in the park) knocking imaginary clay dust from my shoes and pretending to be in the final.
Continue reading...Popularity of the simple white T-shirt worn by characters in culinary TV series proves shows can’t fudge the details
The Bear is back for season 4, but never mind Carmy’s famous white T-shirt. All eyes are on Sydney, the quietly competent sous chef played by Ayo Edebiri, who has been breaking the internet with her own white tee.
Designed by a small independent US brand called Everybody.World, and worn as she is prepping in the opening episode, it mirrors the tight white T-shirt by Merz b. Schwanen preferred by her erratic boss. His crashed the company’s website – and helped propel Jeremy Allen White to become the face (and body) of Calvin Klein.
Continue reading...Striker fails to secure early summer move away
Rashford has no problem returning to club
Marcus Rashford will report for Manchester United pre-season training on Monday after failing to secure an early summer move. The forward is understood to have no problem with returning to the club after falling out with Ruben Amorim and going on loan to Aston Villa.
Rashford, who would like to join Barcelona, is understood to be ready to train with maximum intensity and expects to play a full part in United’s preparations until any move is agreed.
Continue reading...The Tory leader should have supported Labour’s welfare bill – but such responsible behaviour would have defied the norms of British politics
They roared, they wept, they cheered. The audience gasped and the markets plunged. The critics loved it. Foreigners are famously envious of British politics played as fun.
I always thought it cruel to attack a person in tears. Tell that to the Tory leader, Kemi Badenoch. Her savaging of the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, at prime minister’s questions (PMQs) on Wednesday might have been a scene from Les Misérables. It was great theatre, but what had it to do with governing the country?
Simon Jenkins is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...Ford to reach milestone in first Test against Argentina
Teammates and coaches pay tribute to veteran fly-half
George Ford described it as “another day at the office” and the great and the good of rugby smiled. Reaching a century of England caps is anything but routine, yet that ability to stay in the moment has long set him apart.
All around him people have been getting excited on his behalf, before Saturday’s first Test with Argentina. Elliot Daly set aside personal disappointment at his Lions tour being cut short to hail “one of the greatest England players, without a doubt. He epitomises what a team is about”.
Continue reading...Written after the revolution, the rare letter links the US fight for liberty to rising unrest across Europe in 1783
A rare, handwritten letter by Thomas Jefferson, in which the founding father and third president expounds the right of citizens to bear arms in a revolutionary cause, has been uncovered in New England and offered for sale to mark the Fourth of July holiday.
The holiday also marks the 199th anniversary of his death.
Continue reading...Sultana announced on Thursday she was quitting Labour to join Jeremy Corbyn’s Independent Alliance
My colleague Lauren Almeida, who is running the Guardian’s business live blog, has shared the following:
Rachel Reeves has not given herself enough fiscal headroom to manage public finances, Charlie Bean, the former deputy of the Bank of England has said, and has to “neurotically fine tune taxes”.
About £10bn – that’s a very small number in the context of overall public spending. Government spending is about one and a quarter trillion so £10bn is a small number … and it is a small number in the context of typical forecasting errors.
You can’t forecast the future perfectly both because you can’t forecast the economy and you can’t forecast all the elements of public finances …. The forecasts are imprecise and there is no way you can avoid that. That is a fact of life.
In light of reports of atrocities committed by the Israeli government in Gaza and reports of the UK’s collaboration with Israeli military operations, it is increasingly urgent to confirm whether the UK has contributed to any violations of international humanitarian law through economic or political cooperation with the Israeli government since October 2023, including the sale, supply or use of weapons, surveillance aircraft and Royal Air Force bases.
Continue reading...Updates from the third day at Edgbaston, 11am BST start
Mohammad Siraj is on a hat-trick!
Siraj loses his run-up twice before bowling his first delivery. Losing your run-up is bad, losing Joe Root is a whole lot worse. He’s gone to Shami’s third ball, caught down the leg side by the diving Pant! Root can’t believe his luck. He flicked at a poor delivery, on the pads, and got a little tickle that was snaffled gleefully by Pant. That’s a big wicket. Huge. Massive. Massive!
Continue reading...Day five updates as the third round gets under way
A few venerable tennis observers have spoken of Amanda Anisimova as a possible champion here given the carnage in the women’s draw, especially in her quarter. The 23-year-old American started her campaign by serving up a double bagel to a distracted Yulia Putintseva, and won in straight sets in the second round too, but she’s been broken in the early exchanges against Galfi and trails 3-1.
Make that 3-0 Osaka. Nick Kyrgios, who will play alongside Osaka at the rebooted US Open mixed doubles event next month, is watching on with Osaka’s team, and will be impressed with what he’s seen so far.
Continue reading...Denmark face Sweden before Germany take on Poland
Feel free to email me or matchday.live@theguardian.com with any thoughts or feelings today. Score predictions are welcome too. It would also be good to know who you think deserves to start for England when the Lionesses take on France tomorrow.
You can keep up to date with the race for the Euro 2025 Golden Boot here:
Continue reading...