The greatest hardcore rave tracks ranked! | Dance music

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  8 minutes  |  1651 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

You know the score ... Photograph: Tristan O’Neill/Pymca/REX/ShutterstockWith illegal parties cropping up across the UK while clubs are closed, we pick out the best of early 90s breakbeat hardcore by Alexis Petridis25. Bug Khan and Plastic Jam – Made in Two Minutes (1991)If hardcore rave was rooted in house and techno, the prosaically titled Made in Two Minutes makes explicit another major influence, hip-hop. This is a largely forgotten strain of British rap inspired by the sound of Public Enemy’s producers the Bomb Squad, with the tempo pushed up and one eye fixed firmly on the post-acid-house dancefloor. [Read More]

UK crime agency loses case against ex-Kazakh president's family | Business

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  547 words  |  Kary Bruening

Business This article is more than 3 years oldUK crime agency loses case against ex-Kazakh president's familyThis article is more than 3 years oldJudge overturns unexplained wealth orders that led to freezing of London properties Britain’s National Crime Agency has lost a high court attempt to force the daughter and grandson of a former president of Kazakhstan to explain where they got the money to buy £80m of property in London. [Read More]

Ukraine drone strike reportedly destroys Russian supersonic bomber | Ukraine

 Posted on April 4, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  709 words  |  Valentine Belue

Ukraine This article is more than 4 months oldUkraine drone strike reportedly destroys Russian supersonic bomberThis article is more than 4 months oldTU-22M3 – used extensively in missile strikes on Ukraine – seen burning in images shared on social media Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates A drone appears to have destroyed a supersonic Russian bomber on an airfield hundreds of kilometres from Ukraine, British military intelligence has said, the latest in a string of successful assaults on prestige infrastructure and military hardware. [Read More]

Artist Louise Bourgeois reveals her thoughts on drawing | Art and design

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  322 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Guide to drawingArt and designArtist Louise Bourgeois reveals her thoughts on drawingDrawing has been a lifelong companion for the pre-eminent artist Louise Bourgeois, who sees it as 'Another kind of diary'Has drawing always been an important part of your practice? I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be rewoven. [Read More]

Chimp attack victim who received face transplant sees rejection five years later | Health

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  575 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Charla Nash had been participating in military-funded experiment in hopes to find alternative treatments for Photograph: Charles Krupa/APCharla Nash had been participating in military-funded experiment in hopes to find alternative treatments for Photograph: Charles Krupa/APHealth This article is more than 7 years oldChimp attack victim who received face transplant sees rejection five years laterThis article is more than 7 years oldCharla Nash, who was mauled in 2009, returns to hospital where doctors hope ending experiment to wean her off anti-rejection drugs will reverse process [Read More]

Facts v feelings: how to stop our emotions misleading us | Psychology

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  18 minutes  |  3696 words  |  Valentine Belue

Illustration: Guardian DesignThe pandemic has shown how a lack of solid statistics can be dangerous. But even with the firmest of evidence, we often end up ignoring the facts we don’t like by Tim HarfordBy the spring of 2020, the high stakes involved in rigorous, timely and honest statistics had suddenly become all too clear. A new coronavirus was sweeping the world. Politicians had to make their most consequential decisions in decades, and fast. [Read More]

George Harrison's attacker released from hospital | NHS

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  377 words  |  Valentine Belue

NHSGeorge Harrison's attacker released from hospitalThe mentally ill man who broke into former Beatle George Harrison's mansion, attacked him with a table lamp and repeatedly stabbed him with a knife, was released from a secure hospital yesterday. Michael Abram, who suffers from schizophrenia, was allowed out of the Scott Clinic in Rainhill, Merseyside, after a mental health review tribunal, presided over by a judge and involving an independent psychiatrist, agreed he was well enough to be released into the community. [Read More]

He was a great observer: Barry Humphries paintings go on display

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  713 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Australian arts in focusBarry HumphriesThe entertainer’s close friend, the artist David Dridan, amassed 20 of Humphries’ works over his lifetime, which are being shown for the first time Barry Humphries holds a unique place in Australian entertainment history: a satirist, comedian and actor whose sardonic yet affectionate pillory of his home country saw him feted in the UK and the US. Seven months after his death, another side of Humphries is now on show in Adelaide, a city the Melbourne-born entertainer held special affection for. [Read More]

I desperately want a boyfriend, but I find it really hard to be attracted to anyone

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  314 words  |  Valentine Belue

Private livesLife and stylePost your advice below. The best responses will be published in G2 next FridayI'm 25, attractive, smart, very independent and quite sociable – but I've never had a boyfriend, and, although I really enjoy sex, I am still a virgin. I have never fancied girls. I often meet new people, boys like me, and flirt with me, but I find it really hard to be attracted to them. I have only fallen in love twice – once as a teenager and once last year. [Read More]

More money than scents? Pot-pourri is back, at up to 330 a sniff | Homes

 Posted on April 3, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  747 words  |  Kary Bruening

The ObserverHomes This article is more than 4 years oldMore money than scents? Pot-pourri is back, at up to £330 a sniff…This article is more than 4 years oldAfter years in the doldrums, the once ubiquitous bowl of fragrant dried petals is making a comeback, at a very fancy priceA bowl of pot-pourri was once a sign of comfortable middle-class status: an asset to be displayed on the coffee table. Then, slowly but unstoppably, it became the butt of sniffy jokes and an emblem of doomed social ambition. [Read More]