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As Donald Trump

threatens to slap steep tariffs

Tom and Ben Curry will

become the first twins to play together

The word “illegal” has been one of the terms most strongly associated with migrants in UK parliamentary debates over the past 25 years, research has found.

Findings from the Runnymede Trust, published on Friday, examine how politicians and the media have portrayed migrants, refugees and Muslims in their discourse.

The …

Morning Sun (1965)

Marianne Faithfull’s 60s releases were wildly variable, perhaps because she seems to have been beholden to the whims of producers who didn’t really know what to do with her: one minute she was recording rounded-edged folk – Cockleshells, What Have They Done to the Rain – the …

And so we head back to where it all began. The Six Nations is a quarter of a century old. Wednesday will mark 25 years since its opening fixture on 5 February 2000, but of more visceral significance will be this weekend’s encounter at Murrayfield between Scotland and Italy, a …

After a mere 90-year wait, a second woman will finally join Peggy Antonio up on the Melbourne Cricket Ground honours board – take a bow, Annabel Sutherland. The 23-year-old already had a Test double-hundred to her name, scored against South Africa last year: now, she will go down in history …

Happy New Year! 2025 is upon us and pop-culturally it has the potential to be a belter, with big releases and events aplenty. For a full rundown of everything to watch, listen to and play this year, check out the Guardian arts desk’s exhaustive

year-ahead preview

Deferred contracts were once baseball’s annual joke played on the New York Mets.

They released veteran third baseman Bobby Bonilla after a dismal season in 1999. But rather than pay the $5.9m left on his contract as a lump sum, the club offered a 25-year deferred deal at a munificent …

Watching televised sports in 2025 can feel a little like sitting through one long gambling commercial, interspersed by occasional flashes of actual games. Those sports, meanwhile, are played in venues and uniforms plastered with the logos of yet more betting houses, airing on broadcasts that sprinkle in mentions of gambling …

Fears are growing for a truck driver who has spent three days trapped inside a sinkhole in

Japan

The 74-year-old, who has not been named, became

trapped