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Manchester United prepare Mason Mount bid as Harry Kane pursuit looking ‘unlikely’.

In a 2006 interview to celebrate receiving his CBE, Rolf Harris was asked why he was so popular. “I guess it’s because I’m real,” said the entertainer, whose death aged 93 was reported this week. “I’m not putting over a huge, phoney facade. The bloke you see up on the…

A Sydney bloke who was fined for using his phone while driving has beaten the charge after proving he was, in fact, holding a packet of crackers and cheese dip. The hero we need but don’t deserve, an icon, et cetera.As reported by the Daily Telegraph, the 35-year-old fella, who…

The ancient civilisations of Greece and Persia were enemies for centuries – and their disagreements didn’t only find expression on the battlefield, said Daisy Dunn in The Daily Telegraph. As this “major new exhibition” demonstrates, they had starkly contrasting attitudes towards luxury goods. From the Persian perspective, “lovely things” such…

Cartoons of treasurer Jim Chalmers dominated front pages, while the budget works ‘a Chalm’ for the voter featured on the Daily Telegraph

UK newspaper front pages offer souvenir editions and supplementary pullouts to mark the crowning of King Charles III

Rehearsals were underway this week for Saturday’s coronation of Charles III and his wife Camilla. 

Tartan may well be “the most categorised textile on Earth”, said Cal Revely-Calder in The Daily Telegraph. There are more than 11,000 recognised varieties of this grid of “geometric patterns of coloured thread”, each one of them loaded with symbolism. Over the centuries, tartan has been “a source of pride,…

Ryan Calais Cameron is having quite a year, said Dominic Cavendish in The Daily Telegraph. This spring, his breakout play For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy completed its journey from fringe to West End. Now he has given us something utterly different, and…