Women’s Aid Northern Ireland says failure to tackle one of Europe’s highest femicide rates is result of sectarian division

A leading women’s rights charity has called for the establishment of a domestic abuse commissioner in Northern Ireland to tackle one of the highest rates of femicide in Europe.

There is heightened concern that policies tackling domestic violence in Northern Ireland have been held back by decades of sectarian division sucking political resources.

More than 200 leading restaurant, pub and hotel companies say tax rises will cause ‘unprecedented damage’

Hospitality businesses will be forced to close while others will have to slash jobs and investment as a result of changes to national insurance announced in the budget, according to a letter to the chancellor signed by the bosses of more than 200 of the UK’s largest restaurant, pub and hotel businesses.

The letter – with signatories including the Premier Inn owner Whitbread and pub and restaurant group Mitchells & Butlers – comes as reports suggested Tesco would face an additional £1bn in costs over the course of the current parliament as the result of the increase in employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs).

• Englishman cards final-round 66 with birdie-birdie finish
• Tyrrell Hatton finishes second, Rory McIlroy ties for third

Paul Waring carded a six-under 66 to win the Abu Dhabi Championship for the biggest victory of his career on Sunday.

The 229th-ranked Englishman was one stroke ahead overnight and finished on 24 under. He even surprised himself at how smoothly the fourth and final round went.

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Pairs of dancers exactly in time with each other act out Anthony Hamilton’s hypnotic contemporary dance algorithm

It looks a bit like Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation put through a contemporary dance filter, which is a pretty good start. Eight dancers in black streetwear execute popping-influenced steps like a cool tribe of automatons. Their limbs make smooth moves and sudden stops to the irregular rhythms of an off-kilter metronome.

The artistic director of Melbourne-based Chunky Move, Antony Hamilton, has designed a kind of algorithm to create the counts of the choreography for 4/4. It’s a long, complex chain of numbers with their own inner logic, that dictates how many times each movement’s repeated. Each dancer’s brain must be firing like mad. You think of the infamous premiere of Stravinsky’s mega-complex The Rite of Spring, with Marie Rambert shouting out the counts from the wings, but where that performance sounds like it was chaos, this is perfectly ordered and contained.

The dancers perform in pairs, exactly in time with each other – if it were a solo, you could slip-up on the timing and go unnoticed, not so when you’re half of a matching set. It’s a herculean feat of memory and control played out in a fairly low-key way, to hypnotic effect. Musically the kilter gets ever-more off, with occasional conflicting tempos, the beats sparse then clattering, like rain rapping on a window then easing off. It comes off like the more laid back Australian cousin of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s dances to the music of Steve Reich.

There are four portable platforms pushed around the stage to create different set-ups and levels. They join together to rotate in a circle around the stage while a fuzzy orb shines on the backdrop. A reference, maybe, to cycles of time, day and night, weeks and years; a nod to earthly rhythms.

Meanwhile the dancers draw from house dance, krump and locking with mesmeric momentum, but it turns out you can’t keep that up indefinitely. When the dance decelerates, with that comes an aimlessness. In the latter third of the hour-long performance, the dance’s drive, direction and invention ebbs away, and with it a sense of satisfaction. It makes you think that perhaps we shouldn’t leave everything to algorithms.

While disappointed, leaders say Democratic party stuck with ‘status quo’ instead of listening to voter concerns

Following Donald Trump’s decisive victory in this week’s presidential election, leaders of the anti-war group Uncommitted National Movement expressed their disappointment over the results, highlighting the Democratic party’s failure to listen to its base and prioritize progressive policies. Since the movement formed last winter, its leaders have urged the Democratic party to heed their demands of a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to adopt an arms embargo on Israel, or risk losing their votes.

While a full picture of how Arab and Muslim Americans voted in the presidential election is still being captured, this election showed a shift among communities that had long formed the Democratic base. A majority of Muslim Americans voted for the Green party candidate Jill Stein at 53%, according to a nationwide exit poll of more than 1,500 Muslim Americans by the civil rights group Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), followed by 21% for Trump and 20% for vice-president Kamala Harris.

The tumult of social media and rightwing propaganda have successfully cast progressives as one judgmental, ‘woke’ mass

There is no need to pick only a few of the many explanations of Donald Trump’s political comeback. Most of the endless reasons we have heard over the past five days ring true: inflation , incumbency , a flimsy Democratic campaign, white Americans’ seemingly eternal issues with race, and what one New York Times essayist recently called “a regressive idea of masculinity in which power over women is a birthright”. But there is another story that has so far been rather more overlooked, to do with how politics now works, and who voters think of when they enter the polling booth.

Its most vivid element is about the left, and one inescapable fact: that a lot of people simply do not like us. In the UK, that is part of the reason why Brexit happened, why Nigel Farage is back, and why our new Labour government feels so flimsy and fragile. In the US, it goes some way to explaining why more than 75 million voters just rejected the supposedly progressive option, and chose a convicted criminal and unabashed insurrectionist to oversee their lives.

The late French writer and artist convinced his eccentric relatives to star in a gothic photo novel which is finally being published in English following renewed interest in his work

In 1974, Hervé Guibert, a precocious 18-year-old fledgling artist, asked his great-aunts, Suzanne and Louise, if he could make a film about them. The pair lived a life of reclusive eccentricity in a Parisian hôtel particulier (grand urban house) in the 15th arrondissement alongside a pampered German shepherd guard dog called Whysky. Though Guibert was one of their very few regular visitors, they dismissed his suggestion outright. Undaunted, he wrote a play based on their life – it was never produced – and took hundreds of photographs of them, mostly from across the table at their regular lunches.

“Everything began to take off when I began to print some photos just to see, to show them,” he recalls in a passage from Suzanne and Louise , a roman-photo (photo novel) that first appeared in a French edition in 1980 and is about to be published for the first time in English. Surprised and flattered by what they saw, the sisters agreed to be the subjects of a more ambitious project in which Guibert required them to pose more formally and even act out vignettes that reflected their intertwined lives.

While Peter Mandelson and William Hague are thought to be the front runners for the 800-year-old post, students are concerned with more mundane lifestyle issues

After Donald Trump’s victory, concern has been expressed in liberal circles that democracy is under existential threat. But next week that ancient Greek ideal of people power has the opportunity to reestablish its credentials in the more rarefied setting of the University of Oxford, where a new chancellor will be elected.

Although Trumpists might scream “woke elitism!”, the man himself, who is a sucker for pomp and ceremony, would doubtless be impressed by the role’s long history. The American presidency, after all, only dates back 235 years, whereas the chancellor of Oxford is a position that has existed for 800 years.

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A sending off at Palace , goals galore in Brentford, a first win for Wolves , City’s downward spiral and Liverpool’s counterattacks are aplenty … it has been an exciting weekend of Premier League football so far. And the good news is there is more to come.