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It is my birthday this week. And while that may not sound like a worthy subject for Pushing Buttons, bear with me.I am now 54 – and so officially in my mid-50s – and I still write about video games for a living. I play video games every day; I work in a home office where I’m surrounded by video games. When I’m not playing them, I’m probably thinking about them. But at times like this, I think: maybe should I stop someday? Is there an upper limit on how long someone can do games journalism? Certainly I only know…

Donald Trump’s tariff policy is taking shape and the president is already touting benefits to the US economy.Donald Trump aims to rebalance the global trading system. The president has announced a new round of tariffs on many nations.Trump’s trade experiment seems to be paying off better than most had expected, at least for now. He got his biggest trading partners to make deals that are closer to his demands than theirs.Financial markets have shrugged off higher duties, and tariff revenues are pouring in. But economists say Americans will pay more for many goods they consume when the tariffs take effect.What’s…

Political commentator Peter Beinart says the presence of military targets in civilian areas of Gaza or Israel does not j

Do you feel that “a fable for our time” is what the world needs right now? Do you like the idea of watching Josh Whitehouse, Thomas Haden Church, and Colm Meaney on the big screen? Are you curious about a surreal western-y movie without many of the classic western tropes? Are you excited to watch a strange epic directed by Duwayne Dunham and executive produced by Leo Matchett and none other than the late David Lynch? If either of the above, or some or all of them, apply to you, Legend of the Happy Worker has you covered. The “human…

Hello and welcome to The Long Wave. I’m writing from Bridgetown, Barbados, where I’ve spent the past week participating in Crop Over festival. I’ll take you through some reflections on my first experience of the Caribbean.Peeling back Barbados’s orange economyTall tales … Andrea Franklin leads a conga line through the legs of the stilt-walker Troy Hunte. Photograph: Graham BelleWhen I looked up the hotel I’ll be staying in before leaving London, one of the first things I noticed is that the gallery is largely made up of white tourists. It’s no surprise – Barbados is heavily reliant on tourism, which…

27 The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) has announced that it has already received over 600,000 online applications for Grade 1 and Grade 8 placements in public schools for the 2026 academic year. The announcement was made on Tuesday, August 5, 2025, by Gauteng MEC for Education, Mr. Matome Chiloane, who praised parents for embracing the online application system. According to the MEC, a total of 600,936 applications had been submitted through the GDE Online Admissions platform as of 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The applications include 254,251 for Grade 1 and 346,685 for Grade 8. The platform, which opened for…

Seventy-fifth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa date Wed, 06/08/2025 – 12:00 elombatd@who.int Wed, 06/08/2025 – 10:27

BBC Scotland looks at the curious tale of Rangers striker Cyriel Dessers and the part the Nigerian still has to play at Ibrox.

Meanwhile, influencers, biohackers, and longevity-focused researchers like Peter Attia—author of Outlive and chief science officer of supplement company David Bars—have popularized the idea that higher protein intake may improve not just lifespan but health span, which is the number of years you’re active and independent.Are You Getting Enough Protein?Unless you’re in a specific at-risk group, most likely, yes. The recommended dietary allowance (RDA) for protein is 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight, or 0.36 grams per pound. People over 65 may require more, closer to 1.2 grams per kilogram, for maintaining muscle mass. But these estimates are meant to…

Starmer declines to rule out election pledge-breaking tax rises in budget, after claim Treasury must fill £40bn deficitKeir Starmer has defended the government’s handling of the economy, but declined to rule out tax rises in the autumn budget.Speaking to broadcasters on a visit to Milton Keynes today, he also claimed that he did not “recognise” some of the figures in a thinktank report claiming that in the budget in the autumn Rachel Reeves will need to address a deficit of more than £40bn.The National Institute of Economic and Social Research argues that tax rises will be needed to plug the…