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There is the traditional way of preparing for Wimbledon, and there is the Casper Ruud approach. One involves living the life, the other living the dream. And while the Norwegian’s contemporaries have been working hard to adapt to grass’s more frenetic rhythms, the world No 4 has spent more time on Instagram. But it turns out that three weeks of clay pigeon shooting, golfing, sunbathing on the back of a boat, and attending two concerts by The Weeknd – in Oslo and Stockholm – is not necessarily a barrier to success at tennis’s biggest tournament. Speaking after beating the world No 199, Laurent…

Seven in 10 people in the UK believe charges for NHS care will creep in over the next decade, ending the health service’s record of being free at the point of use, polling has found. One of the NHS’s key founding principles from 1948 is in peril, 71% of the public believe, according to the survey carried out for the Health Foundation ahead of the service’s 75th birthday this week. Despite almost three in four people saying the NHS in its current free form is “crucial”, 51% say they expect to pay for some services within the next decade, while 13% think most services…

Maya Forstater, who lost out on a job for saying people cannot change their biological sex, has been awarded £100,000 ($127,000) compensation by an employment tribunal. She was awarded the payout after it was found she experienced discrimination and victimization at work. Forstater, who worked as a tax expert at the Centre for Global Development (CGD), didn’t get a renewal of her contract in March 2019 after she posted tweets opposing government proposals to reform the Gender Recognition Act to allow people to identify as the opposite sex without a medical diagnosis of gender dysphoria. In a judgment handed down…

President Emmanuel Macron is set to meet the leaders of both houses of parliament on Monday as violent protests over the police shooting of teenager Nahel M appeared to ease after five nights of unrest that have seen thousands arrested and widespread destruction. Police made 49 arrests nationwide on Sunday, French media reported, citing the interior ministry, down significantly from 719 arrests the day before, and 1,300 on Friday. Macron will also meet on Tuesday with the mayors of 220 towns and cities affected by the protests, Macron’s office said, after a crisis meeting on Sunday night with government ministers. The ebbing violence…

The Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in favor of a Christian website designer who said Colorado’s law requiring her to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings infringed on her constitutional rights. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion (pdf) in 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis (court file 21-476) which was decided June 30. The opinion was joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, along with Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett. The three liberal justices dissented. President Joe Biden called the new decision “disappointing.” Left-wing activists have been targeting bakers for years for political purposes, asking Christian confectioners…

Israel has begun a major aerial and ground offensive in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, its biggest military operation in the Palestinian territory in years, as violence continues to surge in the conflict. At least five Palestinians were killed and 28 injured in the attack that began at about 1am on Monday, with the death toll likely to rise, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Gun battles with Palestinian fighters and explosions continued into Monday morning, in the raid the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said targeted a major command centre for the Jenin Brigades militant group in the…

The Supreme Court struck down on June 29 the use of racially discriminatory admissions policies at U.S. colleges. The 6–3 decision ends the use of so-called affirmative action in higher education, a longtime goal of conservatives. The ruling will be felt immediately as a million high school students begin applying for fall acceptance at the nation’s colleges and universities. Students may reportedly avoid stating their race or ethnicity in the Common App, which many use to apply to multiple schools at once. Chief Justice John Roberts wrote (pdf) for the court that, for too long, universities have “concluded, wrongly, that…

A legal battle between the Cabinet Office and Covid public inquiry will be considered by the high court on Friday, amid wrangling over the issue of redacted documents, including Boris Johnson’s WhatsApp messages. Two days have been set aside for judges to consider whether the government or Heather Hallett, the inquiry’s chair, has the right to decide whether such material may be relevant to the investigation. The result will have significant implications for other evidence Lady Hallett might request, including from serving ministers. It was announced this month that the Cabinet Office would launch a judicial review to stop all of Johnson’s…

UK house prices have defied expectations by growing slightly in June but annual prices fell at the fastest rate since 2009 as soaring mortgage costs took a toll on the market, according to Nationwide building society. The surprise monthly rise of 0.1% reversed a 0.1% fall in May and confounded economist forecasts of a 0.3% fall. It pushed the average cost of a house in the UK up slightly to £262,239. Prices were 3.5% lower in June compared with a year earlier, the sharpest rate of decline since 2009 but a smaller annual drop than the 4% fall predicted by economists. Two-year…

Households have been advised to submit a meter reading to their energy supplier ahead of the price cap change on Saturday to draw a line under usage at the higher rate and avoid having to pay a potentially higher estimated bill. About 27 million homes in England, Scotland and Wales can expect a modest drop in energy costs over the summer after the regulator Ofgem lowered the cap on a typical annual dual-fuel tariff to £2,074 a year – down from the £2,500 a year level set by the government’s energy price guarantee. The consumer champion Martin Lewis is among those urging people to take…