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After decades of enthusiastically giving Los Angeles tours to out-of-town friends and family, and even co-authoring a walking guide to the city, I'm all too aware that things have changed.Recent guests have been stunned by the tent encampments, sidewalks piled with debris and shuttered storefronts I see daily.

We did not need the verdict of the privileges committee to understand the flaws in Boris Johnson's character.It was clear long before he became prime minister how manifestly unsuited he was for any kind of public office, let alone running the country.But a cross-party group of MPs last week published a damning report that outlined how he deliberately misled parliament about the scale and nature of wrongdoing in Downing Street during the pandemic.

Boris Johnson owes the nation an apology for breaking the rules so he could have a party while families "were saying goodbye to loved ones over Zoom", bereaved relatives have said after the publication of the Privileges Committee report.The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice UK group said the former prime minister had "shown no remorse" and should not stand for office again.

The long-awaited investigation by MPs on the privileges committee into whether Boris Johnson lied to parliament over the Partygate scandal has finally been published.The findings come more than a year after the inquiry was first commissioned by the former prime minister, in a move which failed to prevent his unceremonious ousting from Downing Street less than three months later, swiftly followed by that of his immediate successor.

Famous for its gilded furnishings, ceremonial gowns and archaic procedures, Britain's House of Lords holds the dubious distinction of being the world's largest legislature outside China.Now, the unelected second chamber of the British Parliament has found itself at the center of an acrimonious rift over efforts by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson to add his friends and allies to its already swollen ranks.

Boris Johnson has claimed a Tory MP sitting on the committee preparing to publish a report finding he misled Parliament with his partygate denials may have broken lockdown rules.The former prime minister called for Sir Bernard Jenkin's resignation from the Privileges Committee on the eve of the publication of its investigation into whether Mr Johnson lied to MPs.

The former chief of Ofsted has called for an overhaul of the inspectorate's grading system after changing his mind on one-word judgments in the wake of the death of headteacher Ruth Perry.Sir Michael Wilshaw, former chief inspector of schools, told Tes magazine that one-word judgments should be replaced with a more nuanced report and he now supports the Labour Party's plan to replace headline inspection grades with a report card.

In 21st-century Britain, we should be able to hope for more than mere subsistence.But life for me and many others in my community has become geared solely around survival.Morale is low.One of the projects I attend provides hot meals and surplus food for a small donation if you have it.After dinner, they bring a table full of donated food.

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces a third by-election test after a close ally of Boris Johnson resigned from the Commons with immediate effect.In a tumultuous 24 hours for the Conservative Party, Nigel Adams MP announced on Saturday that he was following the former prime minister and former culture secretary Nadine Dorries' lead in quitting Westminster.

There have been increasingly loud public warnings that social media is harming teenagers' mental health most recently from the United States surgeon general adding to many parents' fears about what all the time spent on phones is doing to their children's brains.While many scientists share the concern, there is little research to prove that social media is harmful or to indicate which sites, apps or features are problematic.

Boris Johnson has used his first Daily Mail column to detail how a weight-loss drug did not work well for him amid accusations his new journalistic role is a clear breach of ministerial rules.In a 1,200-word article, the former prime minister discusses his unsuccessful personal experience with appetite-suppressants but reaches the conclusion that they could be used to tackle Britain's obesity crisis.

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The investigation finding Boris Johnson misled Parliament with his partygate denials has been finalised and is set for its long-awaited publication.The Privileges Committee has signed off on its report paving the way for publication on Thursday morning, sources said, after a last-ditch intervention from the former prime minister.

Boris Johnson has vowed to launch an unprecedented attack on a parliamentary probe into Partygate widely expected to be so damning it is predicted to finally end his hopes of a political comeback.Hours after it emerged an 11th-hour appeal from the former prime minister had delayed the publication of its findings, Mr Johnson said they should be released so the world could judge the nonsense.

On those summer days when the sun is high in the sky and unleashing its brutal heat, there is one style of beer that delivers refreshment.No, it's not the American light lager.It's the American wheat beer.Often hazy with a modest alcohol-by-volume (abv), these brews are known for having a citrusy, zesty profile, a touch of acidity, soft mouthfeel and being easy to drink.

Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst who experienced a sobbing antiwar epiphany on a bathroom floor and in 1971 disclosed the secret history of American lies and deceit in Vietnam that came to be known as the Pentagon Papers, died on Friday at his home in Kensington, Calif.He was 92.The cause was pancreatic cancer, his wife and children said in a statement.

Watches and Wonders Geneva proved one thing earlier this spring when it attracted 43,000 visitors, almost twice its 2022 attendance: The watch fair is back.Many in the industry had voiced doubts that such costly events were worth the investment even before the disruption of the pandemic.But opinions seem to have changed, and the rest of the 2023 calendar is dotted with the likes of Singapore Watch Week, Geneva Watch Days and the Salon Internacional Alta Relojeria in Mexico City.

Julian Assange has lost the latest stage of his bid to appeal against a judge's ruling over whether he should be extradited to the US.The WikiLeaks founder is wanted in the United States over an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information following the publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked documents relating to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

"Twitter's incentive not to act expeditiously is clear.Twitter wants to maximize the benefit it receives from the infringing content on its platform before the tweet is deleted."- Music publishers' complaint
On June 14, a series of 17 music publishers, members of the National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), filed a lawsuit in the Middle District of Tennessee against the social media platform, Twitter.

The three tenors of showman populism, Donald Trump, Boris Johnson and Silvio Berlusconi, reached the top through a combination of telegenic clownishness, I alone can fix it braggadocio and a shared strain of narcissistic nationalism and now one faces the judgment of the courts, another has fled the judgment of his peers, while the third contemplates the judgment of the heavens.

This year's graduations, universities claim, will be indistinguishable from those of previous years.Except there's one glaring problem: as a student there isn't much to celebrate.Currently, a marking and assessment boycott is affecting 145 British universities and, like many of the thousands of students graduating this summer, I am set to leave without a formal classification.

The interesting thing about Boris Johnson's exit from parliament is not his statement, a thousand words from a psychedelic upside-down world in which everyone else is a liar and he alone tells the truth.Perhaps that'll come back to bite me: it could be important for the historical record.Right now, though, I'm struck by the new consensus that Johnson is an unlikable man, without friends or allies, whose only discernible mark on the universe is a trail of the betrayed and disillusioned.

The decision by Boris Johnson to quit as an MP ahead of publication of the Partygate report does not mean it is the end of his political career, an ex-adviser to the former PM has said.Will Walden said Mr Johnson "had seen the writing on the wall".The Commons Privileges Committee has looked at whether the ex-PM lied to Parliament over No 10 lockdown parties.

"The South doesn't have any true diners."It's a bold declaration I've heard time and again from people who, like me, moved from the Northeast to Atlanta.The irritation in their voices is tinged with disappointment.Even after 30 years here, I sometimes find myself longing for the diners of my youth growing up in southern Connecticut.

Two summers ago, an insurgent group of ultraconservative Southern Baptists branded themselves as pirates, vowing to take the ship of the nation's largest Protestant denomination and steer it farther to the right on issues like sexuality and race.They were determined to halt what they saw as rising liberalism and drift from biblical truth.

The businessman at the center of the allegations that led to the impeachment of the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, has been arrested and was scheduled to appear in federal court in Austin on Friday, according to federal prosecutors.The man Nate Paul, a real estate investor in Austin and a donor to Mr. Paxton's campaign was taken into custody Thursday afternoon by the Travis County Sheriff's Office on behalf of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to jail records.

The parents of the assailant who killed six people at a Nashville Christian school in March will transfer legal ownership of the writings their child left behind to the families of roughly 100 students, providing unexpected support to those families' efforts to prevent the release of the documents.The surprise decision, outlined in a Tennessee courtroom on Thursday, could prove crucial in an increasingly fierce legal battle over whether the writings should be made public to shed light on the shooter's motivations or kept private to shield the victims from further pain.

Front cover of Pull Down The Shades: Garage Fanzine 1984-86 - Tales From The New Zealand Music Underground by Richard Langston
Of Oysters, Obsessives, and Finding the Sound
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I may have made first contact with Richard when I was living in Christchurch, about to return to Dunedin after a stint in the Great Unwashed.

I read with interest your article on Manchester City's dominance of the Premier League over recent years (The dismal story of modern football can be summed up in two words: Manchester City, 9 June).I also reflected on my experience of the halcyon days and it provoked many happy thoughts from my visits to Elland Road to see the Leeds team managed by Howard Wilkinson winning the league the year before it became the money-go-round Premier League.

Pope Francis has fired the longtime aide to the late Pope Benedict XVI from his Vatican job and ordered him to return to his native Germany, the final chapter in a very public falling out that culminated with the aide's tell-all memoir that was highly critical of Francis.The Vatican confirmed that Archbishop Georg Gaenswein had officially ended his job as prefect of the papal household as of Feb. 28.

Negotiations around the potential sale of Manchester United are still taking place with multiple parties.Reuters reported on Thursday that United were negotiating exclusivity with Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani.It follows growing speculation Sheikh Jassim's bid is likely to succeed.However, sources have told BBC Sport exclusivity had not been granted and talks were continuing with interested parties.

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Experts are slamming regulators for refusing to mandate simple technology that could save lives in large truck crashes, based on a faulty cost-benefit analysis that excludes pedestrian and cyclist deaths completely while underestimating - by a factor of 10 - the number of car occupants killed after getting trapped under big rigs.

Boris Johnson has lashed out at MPs investigating his claims about the Partygate scandal in a desperate attempt to salvage his reputation after he was accused of repeated contempts of parliament.The long-awaited report arrived on Thursday in explosive fashion, with the privileges committee recommending the ex-PMs behaviour warranted an extraordinary 90-day ban from parliament and the removal of his former member's pass.

Boris Johnson committed repeated contempts of parliament by lying to the Commons about Partygate, an utterly scathing report by a cross-party group of MPs has found.The former PM would have faced a suspension of 90 days for deliberately misleading MPs and being complicit in the campaign of abuse and attempted intimidation of the privileges committee.

Boris Johnson deliberately misled parliament over Partygate and was part of a campaign to abuse and intimidate MPs investigating him, a long-awaited report by the privileges committee has found.In an unprecedented move, the cross-party group said he would have faced a 90-day suspension from the Commons had he not quit in rage at its findings last week.

A long-awaited report concluding that Boris Johnson misled Parliament with his partygate denials is set to be published on Thursday morning.After a 14-month investigation, the Privileges Committee will release its findings on whether the former prime minister committed a contempt of Parliament by misleading MPs either recklessly or deliberately by denying lockdown rules were broken in No 10.

There was a story, that has since been debunked, that in the early days of Oregon's Widmer Brothers Brewing, a sales rep had a sneaky approach to selling beer.They would buy a round of the company's hefeweizen and pay a server to walk a tray of the hazy yellow beers through a crowded bar.We drink with our eyes first and the sight of a tall glass, capped with a foamy head and garnished with a lemon wedge on the rim, certainly seems like an appealing sight for curious customers.

In the chaotic orbit of the internet, it's hard to predict what will go viral.But when Emily Ziemski, food editor of the culinary lifestyle website , created a dirty martini-inspired salad dressing recipe earlier this year, she and her colleagues suspected it might strike a chord with readers."There's something about this, people are going to glom onto it," she remembers them saying.

This image released by Knopf shows Robert Gottlieb.Gottlieb, the inspired and eclectic literary editor whose brilliant career was launched with Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and continued for decades with such Pulitzer Prize-winning classics as Toni Morrison's Beloved and Robert Caro's The Power Broker, has died at age 92.

Politicians, journalists and assorted hangers-on have been regaling each other with their risque Boris Johnson anecdotes for as long as I can remember.Boris this, BoJo that.Even his detractors used his first name.The braggadocio, the enjoyment of watching his ascent, reached a peak during his tenure as mayor of London.

Was Huw Edwards breastfed?One wouldn't normally speculate about an eminent BBC newsreader's infant nutrition, but what with the disclosure that his Oxbridge rejection still rankles, and new research suggesting inadequately breastfeeding mothers could put their children at academic risk, it might be time to ask just how much intellectual disappointment is, if we're honest, women's fault.

Today, Rachel Reeves announced that she is delaying plans to borrow 28bn a year for a green prosperity fund under a Labour government.There may be some influential people in the Labour party who never supported the plan in the first place maybe because it looked so much like the 2019 manifesto.And now, perhaps as a result, we're seeing any excuse being used to undermine it.

I lost my partner and soulmate of 50 years as a result of Alzheimer's last August.Kat Lister is correct: grief does move, but I find it more like a fog (Anyone who's lost a loved one knows the pressure to visit shrines to the past.But it doesn't always help, 7 June).Sometimes it's thick and impenetrable, other times it's thin and swirling.

Regarding the article on a new book about cats (Kitty confidential: 13 secret signals all cat owners need to know from a quivering tail to aeroplane ears, 1 June), yes, they are solitary predators, which is why they should not be kept irresponsibly by so many people.An outdoor cat constantly left alone by working neighbours has just decimated fledglings emerging from a blue tit nesting box.

About a couple of months ago, SamMobile reported that Samsung would launch the Galaxy S23 FE in Q4 2023.The publication now claims the Samsung Galaxy S23 FE will be launched in Q3 2023 (between July-September 2023) but will be available only in select markets, with a broader release happening in Q4 2023 and Q1 2024.

This year's recipient of the Julia Child Award, recognizing those who have had an impact on the American culinary scene, is Sean Sherman, a chef, author and the co-founder of the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS) and its Indigenous Food Lab.The award has been given by the Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts since 2015, and comes with a $50,000 prize.

A large crack running through the former Fremont City Hall is a stark symbol of the risks and realities of living in earthquake country and the powerful forces that lie beneath our feet in the Bay Area.The building in the southeast corner of Fremont's Central Park is a nondescript, one-story tan structure.

Good day, it's another off day in the final series of the NHL season, while the other 30 teams await its conclusion and the beginning of Qualifying Offers & Arbitration & Draft & Free Agency & Kyle Dubas Friends Said season.Islanders Non-News


Nothing new...but ICYMI, here's Stan Fischler recalling his fun with Evgeni Nabokov.

Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan will leave the publication in August, the paper announced Monday.Ryan will lead an organization at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation dedicated to civility in public life.The center will be nonpartisan, the publication says.Ryan has been publisher for nine years.

The best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert said Monday that she had indefinitely delayed the publication of her upcoming book after she was criticized online for writing a novel set in Russia.The move comes as publishers and institutions struggle with how to handle Russian art and literature as the war in Ukraine rages on.

Fox News has demanded that Tucker Carlson stop posting videos to Twitter, escalating the dispute between the network and its former star host over how and if he can continue to speak publicly since his prime-time show was canceled in late April.In a letter sent to Mr. Carlson from Fox lawyers, the network accused him of violating the terms of his contract, which runs until early 2025 and limits his ability to appear in media other than Fox.

Groot is stealing the show at Disneyland!The folks running the Anaheim, California park are testing a new feature that will allow Guardians of the Galaxy star, Groot, to shine center stage in a real live dance-off.According to Boing Boing, Disney Imagineers have created an animatronic Baby Groot that walks and dances - free-range style.

One of Canada's largest faith-based charities has won a settlement over a set of publications that falsely claimed it was a "front" to fund terror groups abroad.Islamic Relief Canada reached the out-of-court settlement earlier this month in a lawsuit against Thomas Quiggin a former military officer turned self-described researcher who last year emerged as one of the more recognizable names in the truck convoy protests and six others who it argued made "false, malicious and defamatory" statements aimed at harming the charity.

Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson looks on during a tour after a meeting with Gov. Greg Abbott at the Texas State Capitol on May 23, 2023 in Austin.Johnson announced Friday that he's stepping down from his seat in Parliament.Brandon Bell/Getty Images Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will give up his parliamentary seat amid a long-running ethics investigation that is expected to produce a report into his behavior as prime minister next week.

Boris Johnson's departure from life as an MP ahead of the publication of the Partygate report plays out across Saturday's front pages, which are filled with a mixture of acrimony, triumph and predictions of further Tory bloodletting.The Guardian focuses on the reason for his decision to resign as MP, noting that the privileges committee found he misled parliament and recommended a lengthy suspension from the House of Commons.

Stuart Jeffries' recognition that he shares the privilege of Londoners when it comes to public transport (I ditched my car and improved my fitness, sleep and bank balance, 7 June) reminds us that this is a massive component of regional inequality that challenges the levelling-up waffle.I gave up the car in November 2022, and I too am privileged but in a completely different way.

Midwestern food is having a moment.A far cry from the land of mayo-based salads and kitchen-sink casseroles, a number of culinary names have gained momentum since the pandemic's start, shining a light on the rich history of the cuisine, redefining what it is and putting new faces to who makes it.For former wine professional Erin Drain and her team of contributors behind the recently debuted Stock Journal, it's about damn time.

The whirlwind closure of Oakland's Hi Felicia on May 24 following a highly publicized burglary led to multiple reports about the difficult work environment at both the permanent restaurant that opened in 2022 and in Hi Felicia's early days as a pop-up.On Thursday, June 8, the San Francisco Chronicle detailed allegations involving sexual harassment and inappropriate comments from Hi Felicia owner and founder Imana, who goes by her first name only, as well as multiple instances of bounced or delayed paychecks.

The immediate departure of Nadine Dorries as a Tory MP will trigger a crunch by-election for Rishi Sunak, after the former culture secretary's name did not appear on Boris Johnson's resignation honours list.The former Cabinet minister and staunch Johnson loyalist, who had previously detailed her plan to quit as the MP for Mid Bedfordshire at the next election, announced on Friday that she would be standing down with immediate affect.

A picturesque French town has been left reeling after four children were stabbed in a playground horror attack.Two adults were also injured in the attack in Annecy in the French Alps on Thursday morning.All of the youngsters - who were aged between 22 months and three - were transferred to hospitals in the French Alps and across the Swiss border in Geneva.

Dozens of GOP lawmakers encouraged Meadows to continue to "fight" the legitimate 2020 presidential election results.Former White House Chief of Staff during the Trump administration Mark Meadows speaks during a forum titled House Rules and Process Changes for the 118th Congress at FreedowmWorks headquarters on November 14, 2022, in Washington, D.C.Drew Angerer / Getty Images Recently released text messages between former President Donald Trump's former chief of staff Mark Meadows and dozens of Republican members of Congress reveal the extent to which Trump's inner circle sought to overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election.

Some purported adversaries seem as old as time, such as the Hatfields and the McCoys, the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants, and now, it seems, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence and conservative Catholics.History has a way of repeating itself in these instances.Consider the recent controversy concerning the Sisters and the Dodgers.

The whirlwind closure of Oakland's Hi Felicia on May 24 following a highly publicized burglary led to multiple reports about the difficult work environment at both the permanent restaurant that opened in 2022 and in Hi Felicia's early days as a pop-up.On Thursday, June 8, the San Francisco Chronicle detailed allegations involving sexual harassment and inappropriate comments from Hi Felicia owner and founder Imana, who goes by her first name only, as well as multiple instances of bounced or delayed paychecks.