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      ‘We want to push for more’: a Chelsea treble would not be enough for Catarina Macario

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

    Winning Sunday’s FA Cup final after an unbeaten WSL season would mean a domestic clean sweep but US international really wants a Champions League

    It is a testament to the standard set at Chelsea that an unbeaten Women’s Super League season, a League Cup win and, should they triumph over Manchester United at Wembley in the Women’s FA Cup final on Sunday, a domestic treble will still not leave them satisfied.

    “That’s what makes this environment and this team so special,” says Catarina Macario, who was viewed as so prodigious a talent that the London side signed her in June 2023 from Lyon even though she was yet to return from an anterior cruciate ligament injury. “We’re never satisfied with just winning, we want to be dominant in how we play and there’s definitely room for improvement in that. That’s something that we have to take into next season and know that this is what we need to work even harder on to be able to achieve every single one of our goals.”

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      Number of UK billionaires falls after market turmoil, but King Charles’s wealth jumps – business live

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

    Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news

    Luke Hildyard , Executive Director of the High Pay Centre , says today’s Rich List highlights the connection between the excess wealth of “Britain’s billionaire class” and the country’s low pay and poor public services.

    Hildyard explains:

    The rich list is a useful annual reminder of the inefficiency of the UK economy. It shows a small fall in the value of oligarch assets this year, but over a longer period it illustrates how a tiny handful of very rich people have captured an increasing share of the country’s wealth.

    If the super-rich and the companies they own were taxed more effectively and paid the people that work for them a better wage, living standards in Britain would be much higher. Meanwhile the rich list entrants would still be extremely rich by any reasonable person’s definition and well rewarded for whatever success they have achieved.

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      Arts Council England chair says sector at ‘tipping point’ amid funding fears

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

    Sir Nicholas Serota says continued public investment is vital to draw in private funding to maintain cultural centres

    Arts and cultural centres across England are at a “tipping point” as many face closure or restricted operations without continued public investment, the chair of Arts Council England has warned before next month’s government spending review.

    Sir Nicholas Serota, who runs the body that distributes public funds to arts organisations ranging from national institutions to community-based ventures, said it would be a tragedy if people outside big cities were denied access to the arts.

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      ‘Drift along, stop for a picnic and immerse yourself in nature’: your favourite boat trips in the UK and Europe

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

    From cruising on a Scottish loch and sailing on the Broads to a ferry ride in the Alps and canoeing in France, our tipsters love messing about in boats

    Tell us about a great art, music or writing holiday – the best tip wins a £200 holiday voucher

    Hunter’s Yard in Ludham, Norfolk looks after a fleet of 1930s cabin yachts and day boats, some now with electric motors. Beautifully maintained and easy to sail, they provide a restful, beautiful holiday. I used to go on organised cruises in spring and summer as a teenager, then skippered boats for young people on the same cruises. Away from the obvious and popular spots, the Norfolk Broads remain wild and full of birds and animals. Go to your bunk early, with the sound of water, ducks and rigging. Get up early and sail past the sleeping gin palaces. Moor up early near a pub for your evening drinks. Hunters Yard staff are friendly and happy to advise; I’ll never forget the smell of wood and varnish in their workshops.
    Rupert

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      Show me the tummy! Tom Cruise doesn’t need sleep, help or clothes in Mission: Impossible

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

    The Hollywood icon defies age and Arctic climes to save the world in the epic messianic spectacle The Final Reckoning. But why won’t he bare his soul?

    Tom Cruise spends about 30% of the final Mission: Impossible movie in his knickers. It being a very long film, that’s a lot of time spent looking at his body, glossy and gnarled and expensive as a walnut armoire, possibly in high-definition Imax and, even if not, certainly as big as a bus.

    In The Final Reckoning, Cruise unbuttons to wallop goons (twice), wriggle from the Arctic seabed towards the waves, hop on a treadmill and take a long hot shower in front of the crew of a strikingly camp US military submarine.

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      Sirens to Nine Perfect Strangers: the seven best shows to stream this week

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

    Meghann Fahy and Julianne Moore star in a creepy cultish drama from the creator of Maid, while Nicole Kidman returns as the wellness guru with an all-new star cast

    From Maid creator Molly Smith Metzler, this darkly comic drama is the story of another scrappy underdog. Devon (Meghann Fahy) is struggling to keep her head above water, barely holding down a job while looking after a father with dementia. She could do with some help from her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) who has fallen under the spell of Julianne Moore’s peculiar socialite Michaela (“I get to call her Kiki, which is a really special honour”). Devon pays an uninvited visit to her sibling and what she finds looks more like a cult than a place of work. Can she save Simone – and does she even want to be saved? Not every element of Sirens quite gels but it’s creepy and nicely unpredictable.
    Netflix, from Thursday 22 May

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      The Optimist by Keach Hagey review – inside the mind of the man who brought us ChatGPT

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 16 May 2025

    Sam Altman’s extraordinary career – and personal life – under the microscope

    On 30 November 2022, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted the following, characteristically reserving the use of capital letters for his product’s name: “today we launched ChatGPT. try talking with it here: chat.openai.com”. In a reply to himself immediately below, he added: “language interfaces are going to be a big deal, i think”.

    If Altman was aiming for understatement, he succeeded. ChatGPT became the fastest web service to hit 1 million users, but more than that, it fired the starting gun on the AI wars currently consuming big tech. Everything is about to change beyond recognition, we keep being told, though no one can agree on whether that will be for good or ill.

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