The Office Chair Features That Actually Matter When You Sit at a Desk All Day

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A bad office chair does not usually feel bad straight away. At first, it looks like any other chair: it fits under the desk, rolls around easily enough and seems comfortable for the first hour or two. The problems tend to show up later, when the back support feels slightly off, the arms keep catching the desk, or the seat that felt fine in the morning starts to feel less forgiving by mid-afternoon. That is why colour, price and style only get you so far. The chair still has to work after someone has been sitting in it for hours. Start…

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The Whole Plate: a quiet rebellion against the ultra-processed food machine

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More than half of what British adults eat is no longer really food. It’s product — engineered, emulsified, and sold back to us at a profit. One UK movement thinks the way out is gloriously simple. Let’s start with a number that should stop you mid-bite. 54% of the calories UK adults consume now come from ultra-processed food (UPF). For our children, it’s worse: 66% — the highest share in Europe. Two-thirds of what we feed the next generation isn’t grown, picked, or cooked. It’s manufactured. That isn’t an accident. It’s a business model. The system isn’t broken — it’s working…

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The 2026 World Cup is on the verge of breaking own goals record

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Own goals have become one of the most striking phenomena of the 2026 World Cup, with eight own goals scored in the tournament’s opening days alone – a figure that puts the current edition on course to break the record set at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. The US team benefited more than any other from this phenomenon after their opponents scored two own goals in two consecutive matches against Paraguay and Australia – a development that highlights the significant impact such goals are now having on match results. The list of players who scored own goals included Paraguay’s Damian…

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The Orwellian nightmare facing Lebanon’s journalists

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Lebanon — Content warning: Some of the links in this feature connect to upsetting videos On March 18th of this year British anchorman for RT Steve Sweeney went viral after narrowly cheating death on camera. A 500-pound guided bomb aimed at him and his cameraman hit just feet away. Luckily, it landed in an existing crater sending the blast upwards instead of outwards which would have torn them both to shreds. In the early hours of the same day, the Israelis assassinated 80-year-old al-Manar TV News political editor Mohamad Sherri with a drone strike on his apartment in central Beirut. It…

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Connected Ball Technology reveals the fastest and farthest goals

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Data provided by the official 2026 World Cup ball, “Triunda,” which is equipped with Connected Ball Technology, reveals new, precise indicators that monitor the details of shots in terms of speed and distance. This is a technical advancement that adds an unprecedented analytical dimension to player performance during matches. According to the Spanish newspaper “AS”, this technology now provides the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) with precise, real-time measurements, allowing for the analysis of goals in terms of shot power and distance of execution. This reflects the accelerating shift toward reliance on data in modern football. World Cup — Mbappe…

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Canary Catch Up: The Take That Circus comes to town

Hello and welcome to Canary Catch Up. Each week, our resident telly addict Rachel Charlton-Dailey will bring us bang up to date with the shows she’s been obsessed with, what she’s hate-watching, and what she can’t wait to get stuck into. It’s officially summer! As someone with multiple health conditions triggered by the weather, the move to summer is another that knackers me out. But it was lovely to get down to my local beach to watch the sun rise on the summer solstice. There’s something glorious about thousands of people gathered together to appreciate how majestic nature is. Take That bring…

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Bartley sums up why voters abandoned Labour for the Greens

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Speaking on Politics London, former Greens co-leader Jonathan Bartley summed up why voters abandoned Labour: Jonathan Bartley: "Green voters.. want nationalisation.. they want whats happened in Gaza to be called out as genocide.. they want fresh economic thinking.. is there going to actually be any change with Burnham?" #politicslondon pic.twitter.com/NpipCehDHb — Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 21, 2026 Greens — What voters want Bartley was the co-leader of the Green Party from 2016 to 2021. In that time, he co-led with Caroline Lucas and Sîan Berry. When asked what’s “best for London right now?”, Bartley responded: Definitely not Keir Starmer. Definitely, I think,…

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Another Hind Rajab murderer bites the dust in Lebanon

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Another of the Israeli military officers involved in the murder of 5-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab and her family has bitten the dust in Israel’s illegal invasion of Lebanon. In May 2026, Meir Biderman was seriously wounded in an ‘FPV drone’ attack on his 401st armoured brigade HQ in occupied southern Lebanon. Now, first reported on 19 June 2026, Dor Gedalia Ben Simhon, commander of the brigade’s 52nd battalion, was killed when his tank was hit by a ‘suspicious object’ while operating with the notorious ‘Givati brigade’. Simhon had taken over command of the battalion when its previous commander was seriously…

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Polanski calls out Burnham’s ‘more of the same’ migration plan

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According to the Times, Andy Burnham is going to keep Shabana Mahmood as the home secretary if he becomes PM. Given that this would be the most ‘more of the same’ possible, it’s understandable Zack Polanski has said the following: The architect of Labour’s cruel plans on settled status and persecution of free speech and protest stays in place. More of the same. Only the Greens can take on failing Labour in Greater Manchester.https://t.co/AG52NPwyAS — Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) June 19, 2026 Polanski vs Burnham According to the Times: Burnham has not handed out any formal offers of future cabinet jobs and his…

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Reform just tried (and failed) to get the Good Law Project’s suit against it thrown out

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Today, 19 June, the High Court comprehensively ruled against Reform UK’s bid to throw out the Good Law Project’s (GLP) legal action against it. Back in 2024, before the general election, the GLP challenged all political parties to come clean about the data they held on members of the voting public. The action — backed by thousands of supporters — was part of the non-profit legal organisation’s #stoptargetingme campaign. Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) it’s a legal requirement for political parties to list and/or delete personal data when requested. And, with the GLP’s help, 1746 people did just…

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The false narrative white supremacists have pushed about their own white riots

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When the racist white riots broke out in Belfast, you’d have thought the sky had fallen in — or at least that a small army of migrants had turned up unannounced and started stealing everyone’s jobs, houses, and sense of “identity”, whatever that means. That’s the story the pernicious far-right and their cheerleaders in certain corners of the corporate media were peddling, anyway. It’s a narrative as old as it is ridiculous. Whenever things feel tough, blame the person who just arrived, the one who has less, the one who’s already vulnerable. Let’s be absolutely clear from the start: these were…

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Meloni says Trump made up the claim that she begged him for a photo

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has hit back at claims that she begged Trump for a photo, saying, ‘Italy and I never beg.’ Io e l’Italia non imploriamo mai. pic.twitter.com/sTpKlqWB67 — Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) June 19, 2026 Two right-wingers are fighting. It must be a day ending with “day.” The backstory is that Trump was asked about his encounter with Meloni during the G7 summit in France. Trump claimed that Meloni ‘wanted to have a picture with me so badly’ and that he ‘felt sorry for her. According to POLITICO, the two leaders met several times at the three-day G7 gathering…

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Christians use roses to remind chancellor the nation wants affordable energy

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This morning, 6 members of Christian Climate Action attempted to deliver 100 paper roses to HM Treasury. It was to remind Rachel Reeves that one million people recently signed a petition asking the government to refuse approval for a new oilfield in UK waters. The UK government is soon to make a decision to approve or reject extraction at Rosebank, the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK. The oil from Rosebank would be sold on the international open market. This means it would do nothing to lower UK energy bills or reduce price volatility. There’s an abundance of renewable energy…

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Makerfield wasn’t the only by-election Reform UK just lost

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In addition to losing in Makerfield, Reform UK lost the two seats it literally just won last month. Reform losses, Tory gains The 18 June by-elections in Essex took place because the Reform winner — you guessed it — turned out to be a racist mess. Stuart Prior had won both a County Council seat and a District Council seat in May. So both required new elections. Even before Reform snatched Essex from the Tories, there had already been reporting that Prior had shown support for the rape of Sikh women and called white people ‘the master race’. Along with vile Islamophobic…

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Can you beat the passive income of the rich?

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I always say we need to tax wealth not work. Someone made this game showing why: Click the image to play the game ^ Usually no matter how hard you work, the compound interest on huge wealth grows much faster than your wages + the rich use this passive income to buy all the assets. See if you can beat the rich. Source link

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Palestine rejects the politicisation of sport to whitewash Israel’s violations

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The Palestinian Football Association has put an end to circulating reports regarding the possibility of a match between the Palestine and Israel Under-15 national teams, emphasising that what has been reported in some media outlets is completely unfounded and does not reflect the reality on the ground. The Association said, in an official statement, that it had not received any notification or proposal from FIFA regarding the organisation of such a match, adding that the relevant authorities had confirmed that there had been no announcement or arrangements in this regard. The Palestinian denial was categorical, with the Association emphasising that its…

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Lowe’s ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’ makes a mockery of the victims

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Content warning: this article contains discussion of child sexual abuse and exploitation. On 16 June, Rupert Lowe – leader of the extreme-right Restore Britain announced the publication of his ‘Rape Gang Inquiry Report’. Predictably, it ignored the basic methodological foundations necessary for such a study. Instead, it exploited victims’ narratives and deployed Islamophobic conjecture to arrive at a foregone conclusion, which Lowe posted to social media: Our inquiry report proves that without doubt there is an undeniable link between religion and the rape gangs. Islam. As a country, we need to find the courage to finally say so. Though Lowe used…

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The more scrutiny Andy Burnham faces, the less popular he gets

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The Makerfield by-election has got people around the country talking about Andy Burnham again. And a new poll has shown that, with increasing scrutiny, he’s become a lot less popular. We reckon that’s because he represents the same kind of fence-sitting, corporate politics that gave the UK Keir Starmer. Unsurprising popularity dive Voters tend to view most politicians unfavourably, overall. But Andy Burnham was a rare case before the by-election campaign. Because there were actually more people who viewed him favourably. That has quickly changed in recent weeks, though, with YouGov reporting that his: favourability has declined markedly over the past…

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Save the Children oppose Starmer’s plan to save the children

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On 15 June, the government announced a social media ban for under-16s. Since then, many groups and experts have spoken out, including Save the Children: This announcement reflects legitimate concerns about children's safety online, but a ban of this scale would change how children access and experience the digital world. The UK Government must ensure that any decisions are informed by children themselves and by independent… https://t.co/HbwviVkGvt pic.twitter.com/m655lWUo2y — Save the Children UK (@savechildrenuk) June 15, 2026 Save the Children The above response reads: This announcement reflects legitimate concerns about children’s safety online, but a ban of this scale would change how…

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Musk’s SpaceX, like the U.S. military, is stranded by critical minerals

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The world’s richest man’s new company — SpaceX — may have counted many a chicken before they hatched. China’s chokehold on solar cells and equipment, tungsten, indium, yttrium, and other critical materials should cast doubt on the prowess of American industry, defence and SpaceX alike. The Washington Post’s recent report on the stalled SpaceX-Suzhou Maxwell negotiations shows that all is not well behind the showmanship of American industrial power under Trump and Musk. China is quietly expanding its export control regime against the U.S. and American allies, reaching beyond rare earth minerals to pinch choke points that affect key U.S. industries,…

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