After a career as a City headhunter, Harriman took up photography eight years ago and became well known for his protest images. He was soon shooting the cover of Vogue and made chair of the Southbank Centre. How did he end up engulfed in controversy over his social media?

It has been a hectic few weeks for Misan Harriman. When we meet, he has just returned from New York, where he hosted screenings of a new documentary about his work as an activist and photographer of protests, Shoot the People. While there, the 48-year-old got to soak in the glorious chaos of the New York Knicks’ victory parade.

“I’ve never seen New York like that: all colours, all shapes, and sizes,” says Harriman, who had not been to the city since he was a child. For him, the parade – in which 2 million people took to the streets to celebrate the basketball team’s first NBA championship win in 53 years – complements his incredibly popular protest photography.

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Large-scale datacentre projects around the world are being challenged or cancelled, as infrastructure’s energy demands ramp up

Datacentre planning proposals face all kinds of hurdles, from securing energy supply to high construction costs. But the 2,000 acre Prince William Digital Gateway site in the US state of Virginia had another problem: its proximity to a Civil War battlefield.

“If the development is allowed to proceed, the solemn nature of this historic site would become marred by sitting in the shadow of the monstrous datacentres, along with their associated electrical infrastructure,” said one legal brief against the plans.

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• It says overturning red cards is a common measure

• No talk from Uefa before about ‘red line’, Fifa states

Fifa has hit back at Uefa in the war of words over the lifting of the USA striker Folarin Balogun’s suspension by accusing it of hypocrisy in its condemnation of the decision.

In a statement attributed to the chair of Fifa’s disciplinary committee, Mohammad Al Kamali, published before the USA’s last-16 defeat by Belgium, Fifa insisted that “the overturning of red cards is a common disciplinary measure” in Uefa-affiliated leagues, “yet this has never raised concerns about crossing any ‘red line’”.

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Parliamentary authorities are already looking into a £5m donation to the Reform Uk leader from the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne

In her speech this morning Kemi Badenoch will claim that Keir Starmer will be “completely powerless” at the Nato summit today, and that his defence investment plan is “not fit for purpose”.

According to an extract released in advance, she will say:

Today Keir Starmer heads off to the most important Nato summit in a generation.

Britain has received intelligence that Russia could launch an attack on Nato as soon as 2030.

Nigel Farage is rattled

A shadow of the cocky showman Reform supporters are used to, being briefed against from inside his own party and looking for an off-ramp.

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Twee medewerkers van Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen zijn zeven uur bezig met het uitsmeren van pindakaas (zonder stukjes) over de vloer voor een heruitvoering van Wim T. Schippers’ Pindakaasvloer. Tegelijkertijd is in het Stedelijk Museum postuum zijn laatste kunstwerk onthuld.

STRAATSBURG (ANP) - Het Europees Parlement is het erover eens dat er dringend maatregelen moeten worden genomen om de Europese auto-industrie te redden. Die eensgezindheid is weg zodra het gaat over de soort maatregelen. Grofweg zet het ene kamp vol in op de productie van elektrische auto's, terwijl het andere kamp de focus op elektrificering overdreven vindt en geen verbod wil op verbrandingsmotoren per 2035.

Vrijwel alle Europarlementariërs spraken in het debat hun zorgen uit over de Europese auto-industrie, waar honderdduizenden banen zijn verdwenen en dreigen te verdwijnen. De verkoop van goedkope Chinese auto's in Europa is daar mede debet aan, stellen ze. Ook de EU-regelgeving zet autobedrijven op achterstand, verwijt een flink aantal de Europese Commissie.

Rechtse en radicaalrechtse partijen willen geen verbod op verbrandingsmotoren, omdat de auto-industrie daarmee "de nek wordt omgedraaid". Linkse partijen vinden juist dat de omslag naar elektrische auto's sneller moet.

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