The prime minister said the country’s defence investment plan was vital due to the threat from Russia

A former chair of an influential parliamentary committee said it was “shocking” that the public spending watchdog had not established Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s income from subletting properties.

Margaret Hodge, who led the public accounts committee, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme she was “very concerned” that the National Audit Office (NAO) was not able to find out how much money the former prince had made from letting properties.

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Republican senator Lindsey Graham said he was ‘very proud of my Republican colleagues for… making sure that Border Patrol and ICE are fully funded’

Here’s some more reaction from the marathon vote-a-rama session in the Senate overnight:

Amy Klobachur, Democratic senator from Minnesota:

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The FA’s data-driven approach towards the World Cup is into its final stages as Tuchel’s side take on New Zealand

“It was hot in ’94,” thundered Alexi Lalas, the former USA defender turned Fox Sports analyst, who starred for his country when they were the sole World Cup hosts that year. “And guess what? It’s going to be hot again this time.”

Lalas’s booming address came last December at the draw in Washington DC for this summer’s tournament and, to digress slightly, it was difficult not to fixate on his sheer vocality. Lalas is loud and confident, outspoken and there was the moment when he considered England’s chances at the finals. Notoriously, they failed to qualify 32 years ago.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago professor put under investigation after a student complained about a case study

A tenured art therapy professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) was suspended from teaching and placed under investigation following a student’s complaint about an assigned case study that mentioned violence against Palestinians.

Savneet Talwar, a faculty member with the school’s art therapy and counseling program, assigned the case study in April to a class on the cultural dimensions of therapy. The assignment asked students to develop an ethical treatment plan for a hypothetical queer, Muslim woman living in the US.

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Head coach looks forward to leading Sweden at World Cup after reflecting on failures with Chelsea and West Ham

If management has taught Graham Potter anything it is that there is no point in trying to run away from failure. “You’ve got to face the bad stuff,” the 51-year-old says as he thinks about how he recovered from bruising spells at Chelsea and West Ham. “The more you face it, the more chance your life is better. Then you get these beautiful moments.”

Potter is in reflective, occasionally punchy mood during a long conversation about a rollercoaster few years and the brutal life of a football manager. He points out there have also been some successes – he has, after all, lifted Sweden out of the doldrums and led them into the World Cup – but knows people tend to focus on the lows. Potter lasted seven months at Chelsea after leaving the stability of Brighton in September 2022. Then, after a long spell out, he was tempted back when West Ham came calling at the start of last year.

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Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph; Selected Poems by Leontia Flynn; Sparrow on the Rooftop by Rachel Long; You Must Live: New Poetry from Palestine, edited by Jorie Graham; Melete by Jennifer Lee Tsai; Somebody Should Have Pressed Record by Galia Admoni

Haunting the Black Air by Anthony Joseph (Bloomsbury, £12.99)
Joseph’s follow-up to the TS Eliot prize-winning Sonnets for Albert sees his poetic approach become more radical. He pays homage to avant garde writers such as Will Alexander and Nathaniel Mackey, while exploring “Nostalgia, mostly grief, / a haunting sound – / the frequency of some / magnetic feeling.” That makes for challenging syntax on first reading the poems. Persist, and Joseph’s unabashed lyricism shines through, finding beauty on dancefloors, city streets and in Trinidadian landscapes: “the way music fills the room, how we embrace until / we become flare bright, light as the white refraction / of the sun upon the summit of hills.”

Selected Poems by Leontia Flynn (Carcanet, £14.99)
She was a Next Generation poet and Forward prize winner; it’s a shock to remember that Flynn has been publishing for more than 20 years, so fresh do her poems remain. This assembly is a glorious reintroduction to her mordant wit, imaginative image-making and unerring ability to puncture pretension. Letter to Friends from 2011 is a brilliant, Auden-esque dissection of the early 21st century, worth a library of political analyses: “daily threats brought to our Way of Life / by man-made imminent apocalypse / though neither really outweighs private grief”. There are pleasures on every page.

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The hooded supervillain is a scientist, a sorcerer, a monarch and a mummy’s boy – Robert Downey Jr’s Doom should be all these things and more, radiating history, magic and the biggest ego

The problem with building the next stage of your superhero franchise around Doctor Doom is that nobody really knows if he is Marvel’s Darth Vader, or just the guy from those terrible 20th Century Fox films. We wouldn’t even be getting Doom in the forthcoming Avengers: Doomsday if Marvel’s original post-Thanos masterplan had not collapsed when Jonathan Majors, who played Kang, was dropped from the franchise. And we don’t really know if the subsequent casting of Robert Downey Jr (previously Marvel’s Iron Man) in the role is some kind of ingenious masterstroke that will all make sense when we finally see the finished film, or just an expensive nostalgia panic button.

The stakes are so high here that the geekosphere is delving into every possible clue, no matter how fleeting, as to which version of Doom we might be getting in the film. Will this be a flamboyant, comics-accurate take on the Latverian dictator? Or will Marvel dip into the multiverse of convenience and deliver an iteration that is little more than Tony Stark in eastern Europe?

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Wat we eens zouden moeten doen he. Een KLEINERE NPO. Dus niet 1 miljard+ per jaar uitgeven aan allerlei crack met BN'ers over BN'ers voor BN'ers die weer eens met oude Yugo naar Roemeense zoutmijnen kachelen voor een of andere spirituele journey, waarna andere BN'ers andere BN'ers in elkaar slaan tijdens Boksen met BN'ers, om daarna nog te kijken naar BN'ers die quizzen tegen andere BN'ers onder leiding van een BN'er. Gewoon HUP 1 of 2 zenders met wat nieuws, sport en cultuur, één talkshow en al die andere pseudolollige emotioneel onderhoudende Croky-crack maakt John de Mol wel op een commerciële zender. Wie is de Mol, Boer zoekt Vrouw, Flikken, al die emotioneel beladen meuk, flauw satirische crap als Lubach, hopppppa weg ermeeeeeee. Lekker naar RTL of SBS. Maak je wat potjes voor serie of film of theater of evenementen zoals het WK en that's it, en tachtig van die schele zenders op de radio, zoals de belachelijke paarsebroekenmidlifemeuk van 3FM, kukel je er ook uit. Bespaar je dus zomaar een half miljard p/j en dan hoeft helemaal NIEMAND zich meer te storen aan het feit dat zo'n VPRO meer dan 350 fte heeft of dat er met het volslagen debiele Ongehoord Nederland een idiotencarnaval met compleet gestoorde podcasts bestaat waar ze stuk voor stuk helemaal knettergek, half gek of voor een deel gek zijn. Het draait alleen maar om: graaien. Graaien graaien graaien. Stoppen met uitdelen = stoppen met mensen laten graaien, en dan hoeft ook niemand meer te janken dat ze ermee in een omroephuis moeten of dat journalistieke codes worden geschonden. Als het genoeg geld oplevert om te bestaan gaan ze lekker commercieel, of richten ze maar iets raars op YouTube op, draait de belastingbetaler er niet voor op, hoeven wij dit gezeik niet aan te horen, HOEF je er niet naar te kijken en hoef je je er ook niet aan te storen. Saneerrrrr de NPO!

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陽 Ross has added a photo to the pool:

An attempt at photography again after a long break, Last year I lost 70%vision in one eye, now the other eye is losing vision. Not a great thing for photographers, but old age brings unexpected suprises. Pointing the camera was ok, but framing and trying to post process was a nightmare. But at least I gave it a try and will keep trying. But I do get to sit in the seats for the handicapped.
長いブランクを経て、再び写真撮影に挑戦してみました。昨年、片方の目の視力が70%低下し、今度はもう片方の目も視力が衰えつつあります。写真家にとっては決して良いことではありませんが、老いは予期せぬ驚きをもたらすものです。カメラを向けるのは問題ありませんでしたが、構図を決めたり、後処理をしたりするのは悪夢のようでした。でも、少なくとも挑戦はしましたし、これからも挑戦し続けます。ちなみに、私は障害者用の席に座ることができます。

The strike occurred in Taganrog Bay, a narrow northeastern arm of the Sea of Azov bordered by Russia’s Krasnodar and Rostov regions.