Lost civilisations make good TV, but archaeology’s real stories hold far more wonder | Archaeology | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
‘Dirty secret’: insiders say UK water firms knowingly break sewage laws | Water ( amp.theguardian.com )
Eurovision hits out at ‘targeted social media campaigns’ against artists ( amp.theguardian.com )
Ukraine-sceptic government ally Peter Pellegrini wins Slovakian presidential election ( amp.theguardian.com )
Tens of thousands of Israelis rally against Netanyahu as Gaza war reaches six month mark | Israel | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
TIL Ecuador has constitutional protections for the rights of nature, and those protections are actively determining environmental legal cases. ( amp.theguardian.com )
A landmark case was won in 2021 ruling against the rights of a mining company to mine los cedros' cloud forest, a high altitude rainforest, because it would harm the biodiversity of the area....
Israel appears to be in breach of ICJ orders on Gaza, senior UN official says. ( amp.theguardian.com )
Verdict in Trump’s New York fraud trial delayed until early to mid-February ( amp.theguardian.com )
UK accused of hypocrisy in not backing claim of genocide in Gaza before ICJ | International court of justice ( amp.theguardian.com )
US police agencies took intelligence directly from IDF, leaked files show ( amp.theguardian.com )
Analysis of BlueLeaks trove also shows police received training on domestic ‘Muslim extremists’ from pro-Israel groups
Biden administration uses emergency authority to sell tank shells to Israel ( amp.theguardian.com )
Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan review – all joking aside ( amp.theguardian.com )
Wading into other people’s fights has proved a theme for the co-writer of Father Ted and writer-director of The IT Crowd. A vociferous critic of the transgender rights movement, Linehan’s views have, in recent years, cost him friends, his livelihood and, he claims, his marriage. But, despite having been given a verbal...
Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan review – all joking aside ( amp.theguardian.com )
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Choice shames Coles and Woolworths with Shonky award for ‘cashing in during cost-of-living crisis’ | Business | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
Brexit prioritised over tackling Covid at start of pandemic, says ex-minister | Coronavirus | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
Tories gotta Tory.
Victoria to expand vacant residential land tax across state in bid to increase housing supply ( amp.theguardian.com )
Tim Pallas told an industry breakfast on Tuesday that he planned to introduce legislation to parliament this week, which will see the vacant residential land tax expanded to include the whole state from 1 January 2025.
The Immortals: meet the billionaires forking out for eternal life ( amp.theguardian.com )
EU imports of Russian liquified gas leap by 40% since Ukraine invasion | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
The Brexit ‘red tape’ illusion has been exposed by the Tories’ CE mark climbdown | Business | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
Despite claims over taking back control, UK is forced to comply with rules on which it has no say
The Brexit ‘red tape’ illusion has been exposed by the Tories’ CE mark climbdown ( amp.theguardian.com )
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NSW police officer said ‘na bugger it’ before tasering Clare Nowland, court documents allege ( amp.theguardian.com )
Prosecutors will allege officer Kristian White’s actions were ‘grossly disproportionate’ and ‘excessive’ after 95-year-old grandmother died after the incident
‘It’s fun to cook up the stupidest idea’: the people competing to make the worst computer games possible | Games | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
The annual Crap Games Competition has been bringing Spectrum fans together for more than 25 years. It all began with an April fool’s joke in a magazine called Your Sinclair …
I tried to explain the ZX Spectrum to my son. It didn’t go well | Games | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
The parents of the home computer gamers of the 1980s presumably hoped we’d become programmers or accountants, but instead their kids ended up like me
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian ( amp.theguardian.com )
Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative AI will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves