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SpecieswatchInsectsA cold spring delayed the swarms, but in many areas the important pollinators are still numerous This is a particularly good year for the St Mark’s fly (Bibio marci). They have sometimes been in such numbers that avoiding clouds of them has been quite difficult. The flies you normally see are males, black and about 12mm long with big eyes and dangly legs, bobbing up and down at about head height. [Read More]

An island guide to St KittsBeach holidaysTop 10 beaches in St KittsSt Kitts and neighbouring Nevis glory in idyllic curves and stretches of soft, golden sands. Throw off your shoes and enjoy the island's best beachesMajors BayA rarely busy gem of a beach, Majors is located a few yards from the tip of the south-east peninsula highway, just next to where the Sea Bridge ferry to Nevis picks up and lets off vehicles and passengers. [Read More]

Paris holidaysParis has always had a strong affinity with jazz, and there’s a wealth of venues to hear trad, modern and avant garde music. Here, performers, producers and critics pick their favourite clubs Paris has swung to the rhythms of jazz for nigh on a century. With legends Bud Powell, Chet Baker and Miles Davis woven deep in its history, and pioneers Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli providing the backdrop to its cafe society, jazz is as much a part of the capital’s cultural heritage as art, philosophy and literature. [Read More]

Torture This article is more than 3 years oldUN warns of rise of 'cybertorture' to bypass physical banThis article is more than 3 years oldRapporteur warns against trivialising psychological torture as states exploit internet to target individuals Psychological torture is being exploited by states to circumvent the more widely understood ban on physically inflicting pain and may open the way to a future of “cybertorture”, the UN torture rapporteur has said. [Read More]

2 Jan 202421.58 GMTJacob Steinberg was at the London Stadium tonight, and his report is in. Here it is! Thanks for reading this MBM. Nighty night. Alphonse Areola defiant as West Ham frustrate Brighton in stalemate Read more2 Jan 202421.57 GMTThat’s also West Ham’s fourth Premier League clean sheet in a row, and David Moyes speaks to Sky. “I’m thrilled with the result and the point … Brighton played very well and were the better side … we might have had the best chance in the game from Tomáš Souček and when that didn’t go in I thought we’re going to find a way of getting a nil … thankfully our players done a great job in getting that … when you play really good teams, which we have over Christmas, we’ve had to be really compact … be as organised as we can be to keep the opposition out … the boys at the back have done a brilliant job … my goalkeeper played very well … and we got a point for it … I’m really pleased we’ve got another clean sheet. [Read More]

Immigration and asylum This article is more than 1 year oldAlbanian children facing racist bullying due to UK asylum row, says envoyThis article is more than 1 year oldAlbania’s ambassador to UK calls for end to ‘campaign of discrimination’ amid debate over small boat arrivals Albanian children are being subjected to racist bullying in UK schools because of the debate surrounding arrivals by small boats, the country’s ambassador in London has said. [Read More]

An American alligator in its natural habitat in the Florida Everglades. Photograph: Charles Ommanney/Getty ImagesView image in fullscreenAn American alligator in its natural habitat in the Florida Everglades. Photograph: Charles Ommanney/Getty ImagesTexas This article is more than 4 years old‘Big Tex’: largest captive alligator in US found after escaping in Imelda floodingThis article is more than 4 years oldAlligator found near a pond on the Gator Country property. A number of his smaller friends, however, are still missing [Read More]

Top 10sFictionNovelist Kirsty Gunn chooses books that explore a very literary kind of longing In Katherine Mansfield’s exquisite long short story At the Bay, Beryl, a middle-aged woman still fantasising about the young girl she once was and the lovers she could have captured then, stands in a darkened room half-imagining someone is out there in the dark, desiring her. So much of fiction is about desire, a yearning of some kind or another … the love of reading itself a sort of intense affair. [Read More]

Grindr This article is more than 3 years oldGrindr dating app removes ethnicity filter to support Black Lives MatterThis article is more than 3 years oldFeature will not be part of app’s next release following accusations of hypocrisy Grindr is removing an “ethnicity filter” from its dating app as part of its support for the Black Lives Matter movement, the company announced on Monday. The controversial feature, limited to those who stump up £12. [Read More]

Israel This article is more than 4 years oldIsraeli government accused of abandoning soldiers with PTSDThis article is more than 4 years oldUp to one in 12 soldiers report symptoms, yet struggle for official recognition and access to help Israeli soldiers have accused the government of abandoning them with little support for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) caused by their military service, according to local mental health groups and several former conscripts. [Read More]