Officers say 36-year-old suspect is in hospital and they can find no evidence of prior involvement with police

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The home secretary, James Cleverly, said he is being regularly updated about the incident in Hainault and thanked emergency responders for responding to the attack.

aI would urge people not to speculate or share footage online and provide relevant information to the police,a he wrote on X.

The London mayor, running for his third term in office, had been warning of a atwo-horse racea

When Hilary Cass published her review of gender identity services for children, saying medical evidence did not generally justify giving puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children, she said the atoxity of the debatea around trans children was exceptional, and she said she would like to see the issue discussed in a less polarised way.

But that has not stopped her report becoming a political football. The UK government responded to it with a ministerial statement treating it as a landmark victory in a culture war. In Scotland the Cass report arguably contributed to the downfall of Humza Yousaf, because it was the Rainbow Greens who launched the process to end the SNP/Scottish Greens pact, and they were partly motivated by the SNP governmentas stance on puberty blockers.

The landmark Cass review is hugely significant for Wales. Regretfully, despite the weight of the findings, we are still yet to see a Labour minister come to the Senedd and give a statement in response.

In the Senedd tomorrow, I look forward to bringing forward a Welsh Conservative debate on the Cass review, and will call on the Labour government to adopt the recommendations of the Cass review.

The Cass review aims to ensure children and young people who are questioning their gender identity or experiencing gender dysphoria, and require support from the NHS, receive a high standard of care that meets their needs and is safe, holistic and effective.

We are committed to improving the gender identity development pathway and the support available for young people in Wales, in line with the commitments in our LGBTQ+ plan.

Iam the first chairman of the a22 who has had to operate it while weave been in government a| And so my view is that that was a mistake to introduce that rule.

I think itas fine to have the party members voting on the leader when youare in opposition. But in a parliamentary system where essentially you could only remain prime minister if you enjoyed the confidence of your party in parliament, it seems to me crazy that we now have different mechanisms a| The Conservative members of parliament can get rid of the leader by voting no confidence, but then the leader is supplied by the party members.

Judge says ex-president repeatedly violated gag order that prohibits comments about witnesses

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Right now, prosecutor Rebecca Mangold is continuing to question banker Gary Farro about documents associated with Michael Cohenas LLC, Essential Consultants, for which he opened a bank account.

Remember: prosecutors said that Cohen used Essential Consultants to funnel money to Stormy Danielsa lawyer, to bury her account for an extramarital sexual encounter with Donald Trump.

In letter ahead of vote, signatories including Mark Knopfler say relations with female colleagues have been damaged

The musicians Sting and Mark Knopfler have co-signed a letter with leading theatre producers and actors, warning that they will be obliged to resign their memberships of the men-only Garrick Club if members refuse to approve a decision to admit women in a vote next Tuesday.

The letter, seen by the Guardian, was also signed by the actor Stephen Fry, the West End and Broadway theatre producer Karl Sydow, and Matthew Byam Shaw, an executive producer on The Crown television series and co-founder of Playful West End theatre production company.

Nicaragua brought plea to court, arguing sales of weapons make Berlin complicit in alleged war crimes

The International court of justice has rejected a request by Nicaragua to issue Germany emergency orders to desist selling arms to Israel, by 15 votes to one.

The decision, according to the judgment read in court in The Hague, is largely based on a significant decrease in recent German arms sales to Israel, the largely defensive nature of arms recently sold, and the extensive internal German government processes to consider if arms would be used to prosecute war crimes or genocide.

Nearly 45,000 households had nowhere to live in the three months to December last year, official figures show

The number of people being made homeless jumped by 16% in the final three months of last year, according to the latest government figures, which laid bare the scale of the countryas housing crisis.

Figures published by the government on Tuesday show nearly 45,000 households in England were assessed as homeless in the three months to December, up from just under 39,000 during the same period in 2022.

General election candidates include Monty Panesar but party says it will not stand against Corbyn or Abbott if they run as independents

The former England cricketer Monty Panesar and a former Ukip MEP are among hundreds of candidates who will run under the banner of George Gallowayas Workers party at the general election.

The party, which is seeking to capitalise on discontent over Labouras handling of the Gaza conflict, also said it would support the former Labour MPs Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott and Claudia Webbe if they ran again as independents.

Richard Holden says Hester apologised for remarks about Diane Abbott and awe should accept thata

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The Conservative party chair, Richard Holden, has four times refused to say whether the party continues to take millions from its biggest donor, Frank Hester, after it was revealed the businessman had made comments condemned as racist and misogynistic.

Holden said he could not comment on whether the Tories had recently accepted APS5m, after it emerged that Hester told colleagues in 2019 that looking at Diane Abbott made you awant to hate all black womena and said she ashould be shota.

Charles spoke about need for early diagnosis during a visit to University College hospital in London

King Charles told patients that he was well during a visit to a London cancer treatment centre where he also spoke of the ashocka of receiving a cancer diagnosis.

On his first public-facing engagement since his diagnosis, he and the queen met cancer specialists and patients receiving chemotherapy at the University College hospitalas Macmillan Cancer Centre in a visit aimed at highlighting the importance of early diagnosis.

Researchers say issue aurgently needs scrutinya after rap and drill music used as evidence against 252 defendants over three years

Rap and drill music was used as prosecution evidence for serious charges including alleged gang-related murders against at least 252 defendants in England and Wales over a three-year period, a study has found.

The researchers at the University of Manchester, who found 68 cases involving rap evidence covering the 252 charged individuals, said the issue aurgently needs scrutinya as there was no meaningful regulation nor even monitoring of how the criminal justice system used rap as criminal evidence.

Polls suggest party could eat into Tory vote in Lancashire townas Westminster byelection as well as in mayoral and local elections

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Reform UKas best hope of making headlines this week is Blackpool Southas byelection, but polling also shows the insurgent rightwing party is ahead of the Conservatives in two mayoral races.

While Labour are the frontrunners to regain Blackpool South a which fell to the Conservatives as the ared walla crumbled in 2019 a the battle for second place there could be crucial to Rishi Sunakas future.

Observation was made by medics contributing a new pain management manual for treating children in conflict zones

Children being treated in Gazaas hospitals are aunderplayinga pain because it aseems triviala in the context of the wider conflict, doctors have said.

International medics met in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday to discuss plans for a new trauma pain management manual to support professionals treating children in Gaza and other conflict zones.

Scientists stunned by scale of destruction after summer of storm surges, cyclones and floods

Beneath the turquoise waters off Heron Island lies a huge, brain-shaped Porites coral that, in health, would be a rude shade of purplish-brown. Today that coral outcrop, or bommie, shines snow white.

Prof Terry Hughes, a coral bleaching expert at James Cook University, estimates this living boulder is at least 300 years old.

Already the most listened-to Black artist in Brazil and a favourite of BeyoncA(c), Ludmilla has a whole new audience after her viral Coachella show. She discusses the racism and homophobia sheas had to face getting this far

In between her two-weekend debut at Coachella earlier this month, while the first concert was going viral, the Brazilian singer Ludmilla did business meetings, spent a day in Miami and kicked off new music projects. This interview took place on her way back from a short trip to the mountains surrounding the Hollywood sign, a call squeezed into a schedule that will end with a party: aI deserve some fun too,a she says.

She is following the guidebook to pop stardom, with her sights on an international career. Performing a repertoire of Portuguese-language songs, drawing from Brazilas raw baile funk sound as well as pagode (a modern branch of samba), Ludmilla has already won a Latin Grammy and become the most listened-to Black artist in Brazil, and one of the only women of Afro-Latin heritage anywhere to reach a billion streams on Spotify and do a set on Coachellaas main stage. One of her admirers, BeyoncA(c), sent over a voice note to introduce it: aFrom Rio to Coachella, ladies and gentleman, Ludmilla!a

He was the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC. As he appears as Shardlake, the star recalls the parts that made him a and explains why this latest character is like the Lone Ranger

Arthur Hughes wants to go on adventures. aWhen I was little,a he says, aI loved films. I loved Jurassic Park. I loved Back to the Future. I loved things I probably wasnat supposed to watch, like Predator. And then of course I loved all the Disney classics. To go to a world that isnat your own is so exciting. I wanted to tell stories like that.a

It was this desire that saw him first take to the stage in school plays, and then to eschew university in favour of drama school a although his parents persuaded him to apply to both, just in case. aThere was nothing else I wanted to do,a he says. The gamble paid off as he has landed some huge roles a including being the first disabled actor to play Richard III at the RSC, and co-starring in the BBC drama Then Barbara Met Alan, the first primetime drama about the disability rights movement. To hear him tell it, his whole career has been one big thrill.

George Georgiou gave British rave culture its smiley face. Now heas placing plaques where hardcore clubbers sweated till dawn. Our writer joins the designer a and DJs Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway a on a face-melting trip

aI remember this street being covered with hundreds of these all over the floor,a says George Georgiou, handing me an original smiley-face flyer he designed for the acid house club night Shoom. aI wish Iad picked them up because now they sell for up to a grand.a

The doorway weare standing outside in London Bridge is one of many locations weall visit today, as Georgiou places acid house heritage plaques outside buildings that were once home to clubs such as Shoom, Raw and Sin. These locations are then tagged on an interactive acid house map on his website. We kick off the day 15 minutesa walk away on Tooley Street, where the Special Branch club began life in 1984. It was here that resident DJs Nicky Holloway and Pete Tong lured suburban soul boys and Soho trendies to an old pub to get sweaty, while Gilles Peterson kept the footworkers busy by spinning jazz-funk in the other room.

The Kristen Stewart / Robert Pattinson vampire romantasy is back and supported by rock and classical musicians a just the latest film to be granted the mysterious live concert treatment

The first Twilight film was released 16 years ago and, for many of us, the franchise has long since lost any sense of currency. Without the white heat of fandom surrounding their release, watching the Twilight films today is like trying to watch an echo. Itas like finding a fidget spinner in the street and trying to remember why everyone loved them so much. Without the heft of the cultural phenomenon that surrounded their release, the Twilight films now come off as witless and inert. They feel like TV movies, like a cheap Netflix acquisition dumped into a submenu without fanfare.

And this is to be expected. New films are released all the time, and only a tiny percentage of them are ever destined to be fondly remembered. And yet maybe we wrote Twilight off too soon. Yes, the filmas stars a Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart a have spent their subsequent careers making knotty and uncommercial films, apparently as a direct reaction to starring in such toothless teenybop fare. Yes, itas spoken about so rarely these days that its popularity feels like the result of a mass psychogenic illness, like the dancing plagues of the middle ages. Yes, it seems absurd that they actually made five of the things.

An intense and organized effort to bring down personal and professional repercussions on participants is playing out online

As demonstrations over the war in Gaza have surged on campuses, around cities and in offices across the US in recent weeks, a visible tension has emerged between the desire for public protest and a fear of professional reprisals.

On the Columbia University campus, where the latest spike in protests began on 17 April, demonstrators have worn masks and used blankets to block counter-protesters from filming students. Protesters at a tent encampment at the University of Michigan handed out masks upon entry, and students there refused to give reporters their full names in case the school took punitive action against them. At Harvard, the Palestine Solidarity Committee told the Guardian they had suspended doing press interviews out of regard for student safety.

Politicians fear perceived costs of green transition are driving poor and rural voters to parties such as AfD

Raising his voice above the pounding drums and honking tractors, Lutz Jankus, a city councillor from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), distanced himself from the furious protest unfurling before him.

aTheyare rightwing extremists,a he said about Free Saxony, a loose political movement that includes neo-Nazis and skinheads, as his colleagues began to pack up their tent on the side of the square in the centre of GAPrlitz.

A large takeaway flat white will already set you back APS5.19 in London and other cities arenat far behind. If cafe owners arenat getting rich off our caffeine habit, who is?

It was one of those London museum cafes where buggies block the entrance and children trail veggie straws across the floor. The queue of parents stretched to the door and the staff appeared frazzled. I ordered an iced oat milk latte. aThat will be APS4.50,a said the server. I remember the sensations that follow acutely.

Shock. How much? Regret. I donat want it. Self-recrimination. Why didnat I check the price? Embarrassment. If I say I donat want it, everyone will hear. Acceptance. Iall pay for it, but Iam never ordering here again. I drank every sip of the coffee, waited for the ice to melt, and drank that, too. I was out of sorts for the rest of the day.

Heas ashamed and embarrassed at his reaction a but he seems unable to get past it. And I am not going to change

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My partner does not like going down on me. He says it tastes quite bitter and that my pubic hair leaves an unpleasant sensation. Unlike some women, however, I am not willing to shave. I did when I was much younger, but I didnat like it.

This relationship is a serious one and we both want to fix this.

What ministers herald as key reform is in fact unworkable. The plans would be laughable if they werenat so harmful

There is a scene in The Simpsons in which the villainous Mr Burns enlists a team of monkeys to reproduce a Charles Dickens novel on the cheap. Hunched over a row of typewriters, the simians cannot get the job done without a range of bumbling typos.

I thought of this as I watched Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, on Monday set out so-called cost-saving changes to the flagship disability benefit, personal independence payment (Pip), in what he described as aprobably the most fundamental reforms in a generationa.

Frances Ryan is a Guardian columnist

He will get zero credit for good results and blame for all the bad. And hovering overhead is Penny Mordaunt

Pull yourself a pint of Night Nurse to wash down news that Conservative rebels who are plotting to bin off Rishi Sunak after the local elections apparently plan a 100-day apolicy blitza to turn things around. Hard to judge which would be welcomed least by the embattled British public: this 100-day policy blitz, or simply a 100-day blitz. These malcontents do, after all, hail from the section of the party that fetishises that period of the second world war virtually none of them were even born for, and must surely have at least toyed with the idea of simply bombing the electorate into jolly, rubble-clearing union under their esteemed leadership.

Thatas not their only fetish, of course. They are also compulsively obsessed with regicide, and the belief that if they just got themselves one more new leader a just ONE more a then their lives would be perfect. Modern Conservative MPs are like shopaholics, but for leaders. The corridor outside the 1922 Committee room is lined with boxes of unopened luxury picks, while a significant number of their days are spent trying to return costly leaders theyave already bought. These items were either too big, or too small, or not as described, or as described but they didnat want to believe it, or simply that final box on the drop-down menu: anot for mea. This time theyave bought one thatas bad at politics. And look, Iam not saying weave all done it. Although, the SNP has done it, as youall have noted this week a and indeed, pretty much all of the weeks Humza Yousaf was first minister.

Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist

Asylum seekers are our neighbours, not political pawns for failing politicians. If MPs cannot resist the Rwanda plan, activists will

Laws that are unjust will inevitably be broken. Here is a basic reading of our history, and indeed how numerous rights and freedoms were secured in the first place. Ruled as we are by a desperate man lacking a moral compass, our sinking government has brought forward plans to detain asylum seekers across the UK in preparation for their deportation to Rwanda. After both the European court of human rights and the supreme court declared the governmentas scheme unlawful a not least because Paul Kagameas authoritarian regime could plausibly deport them to the country from which they fled a the government railroaded through legislation, absurdly declaring Rwanda to be safe. Here is the very definition of a law to be disrespected: one drawn up to override the courts and thus the separation of powers, to turn a lie into a legal fact, in support of an unworkable and immoral scheme that imposes pain on the traumatised purely to bolster a prime ministeras imploding administration.

Civil disobedience will take many forms. Asylum seekers will simply avoid reporting to the authorities, disappearing from the system altogether: indeed, the Home Office reports it cannot locate more than six in 10 migrants identified for deportation. But a network of activists across the country is poised to take action. We have lived through a decade of protests, speaking to a growing willingness to take to the streets to defy authority. Social media plays a pivotal role, not least when it comes to migrantsa rights: Anti Raids Network, for example, uses X to promote calls by local groups to mobilise activists to stop deportation raids. One such callout in Solihull yesterday asked for help stopping a deportation van: aThere are unmarked enforcement vans in the car park, and we think these people could be at risk of being taken to detention.a

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist

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With his interchangeable T-shirts and short neat hair, Facebookas founder famously anever tried to be coola. Is his makeover just a distraction from whatas going on at Meta?

A vibe shift is afoot in Silicon Valley. For aeons, the movers and shakers of the tech industry signalled that they were serious people working on serious things via their simple outfits. Crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried (now in jail) always looked as if he had rolled out of bed and forgotten to change out of his pyjamas. The late Steve Jobs famously adopted a uniform of black polo necks. Mark Zuckerberg, meanwhile, once boasted that he owned and wore multiple versions of the same T-shirt because it was efficient.

aIam not a cool person and Iave never really tried to be cool,a Zuckerberg said in a 2014 Q&A. aI really want to clear my life so that I have to make as few decisions as possible a| I feel like Iam not doing my job if I spend any of my energy on things that are silly or frivolous.a That attitude seemed to extend to his hair, which has always been kept Lego-style short.

Last year was the most dangerous to be a reporter since 2015. Without the courage of correspondents risking everything to report from conflict areas, we could be at risk of azones of silencea spreading around the world

Conflict in Gaza, war in Ukraine, a battle over the global environment a the world is becoming an increasingly hostile place, particularly for frontline journalists.

Last year saw 99 killings of reporters, up 44% on 2022 and the highest toll since 2015.

Jonathan Watts is the Guardianas global environment writer

Nothing screams acovering up war crimesa like insisting that there should absolutely not be an independent investigation

Did you know that the Palestinians are the very first people in the world to ethnically cleanse and mass murder themselves? I know it sounds weird, but a as American and Israeli politicians keep reminding us a these are asavagesa that we are talking about here. Normal rules donat apply, youave got to follow the Palestine Rules.

The Palestine Rules dictate you do the following: ignore every international agency if that agency says anything remotely critical about Israel. Certainly donat listen to international aid agencies like Oxfam when they argue that the government of Israel is adeliberately blocking and/or undermining the international humanitarian response in the Gaza Stripa. Nope, the fact that babies in Gaza are dying of malnutrition is all their fault. The fact that children in Gaza are starving at the fastest rate the world has ever known is nothing to do with Israel, itas the fault of those pesky Palestinians.