Phil Daoust News Today

Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-abdollahian, was among those killed

In today’s newsletter: Rishi Sunak’s party were expecting a difficult contest – but the results were even more dire than predicted, as political correspondent Kiran Stacey explains

In today’s newsletter: The Guardian’s new Soundscape series reflects how the diversity of birdsong and animal noise is diminishing the world over thanks to agriculture and climate change

Letters: <strong>Kathleen Askew </strong>and <strong>John Wise </strong>respond to Phil Daoust’s article about taking up a punishing resistance training regime

How Gaza disrupted international relations. Plus Rwandans find peace

In today’s newsletter: The killing of aid workers in Gaza last week has Western leaders under even greater scrutiny – and raises questions about the fragility of the Israeli coalition government

In today’s newsletter: As Russia mourns, the president is ignoring evidence of Islamic State’s responsibility – and instead hinting at a link to Ukraine

Those born between 1981 and 1996 are becoming the first generation worse off than their parents

Could spread. and that is a profound change, because youre no longer some little guy in a cabaret room punching up at some meanie. youre someone who can really hurt someone. and i think that song probably hurt phil. i think probably his name... do you know that? have you talked to him? i tried to. we did a little online. we talked and sort of displayed that we had forgiven each other. but id got the video eventually taken down, but not soon enough. the irony, of course, is that if you hadnt writ...

That, of course, comes whenever anyone gets any popularity. theres got to be an equal and opposite reaction. and he wrote in the guardian, which was the paper i read and which had, what, in 2005, five million readers? it was pretty big because it was before it alljumped off the page, and he wrote this just utterly sneering review, one—star review, really snobby in that sort of guardian way, like, quoting shakespeare. i was like, "how dare you quote shakespeare at me? ill quote shakespeare at y...