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I agree with Jeremy Corbyn. And John McDonnell. And Seumas Milne. And all their allies. To return to power, and notwithstanding its catastrophic election campaign, Labour’s central task in 2020 is to make the case for socialism. My disagreement is not with that statement, but with what “socialism” means. It …

Belle Delphine, the gamer girl best known for selling jars of her own “bathwater,” says she was arrested after spray-painting someone’s car.  On Monday, Delphine tweeted what appeared to be her own mugshot with the caption “I got arrested lol.” However, the image does not appear in the London Metropolitan …

Belle Delphine, the gamer girl infamous for selling her bathwater and pranking thirsty followers with a trolly Pornhub account, says she was arrested.  Delphine has been quiet this summer — after her Instagram account was taken down for “nudity or pornography” she told her Patreon followers that she planned on …

With the birds front-lit against a darkening sky, this photograph of swans at Linlithgow in Scotland may look like a glorious nature scene, but the reality behind it is a little different. On the day it was taken – 6 April 2006 – bird flu was found in a dead …

Sir Elton John has been featured on a new set of Royal Mail stamps that celebrate his contribution to music. The rock icon is only the second individual to be given the honour, after David Bowie was given his own set of stamps in 2017. Eight of the stamps feature Sir …

Plans to give Enid Blyton a commemorative coin were stopped because the author is known to have had “racist, sexist and homophobic” views. The Royal Mint revealed that plans to put the face of the beloved children’s writer on a 50p coin were blocked over fears it would provoke a …

Fifty-six years later, is there anything we don’t know about the infamous raid of a certain mail train bound for London from Glasgow? The Great Train Robbery: The Hidden Tapes (Channel 4) hoped so. It was built around access to previously unheard cassettes recorded by train-stopping specialist Roger Cordrey. But …

Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian While covering the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, the Guardian photographer David Levene took time out to photograph one of the city’s best-loved tourist spots, St Mark’s Square – and decided to capture a different view of the adjoining Piazzetta. Using his tilt-shift Zörk lens, which …

It has been 42 years since a British woman won the single’s title at Wimbledon – Virginia Wade, who beat Betty Stöve in the final. Such was the importance of the occasion that the Queen made a rare appearance to present Wade with her trophy. Ken Saunders’ photograph captures Wade’s …