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It’s a bit rich of bankers to criticise the spending habits of millennials | Zoe Williams

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Infantalising financial advice from Barclays won’t wash when young people can only dream of home ownership

Yesterday, I was woken with a start by a call from someone who wanted me to talk on the radio about millennials, an age bracket that tops out at 37, and starts in the early 20s: I am not in this range. They had someone who was, but he pulled out, because millennials are snowflakes.

Barclays had conducted research that showed millennials spent £3,000 a year on “treats” – coffees, clothes, going out – and it was going to explain how if they swapped out some of those treats, they could afford to save, then get bigger things such as houses.

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Shamima Begum has a right to British citizenship, whether you like it or not | Gary Younge

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Sajid Javid makes Britain look weak by refusing to take back a groomed teenager – nationality doesn’t depend on whim

When I was 16 I stopped off in Holland, during a camping holiday with a friend. We bought as much marijuana as we could and smoked it all in an afternoon. Sat behind a housing estate in the border town of Nijmegen, we giggled, rambled and lay around until the local police came. They took us back to the campsite (we found the fact that they spoke Dutch hilarious), where we were asked for our passports and train tickets. They already had our number: a couple of idiots out of their minds and out of their depth. They told us to get on the next train in the direction of the port. We’d stopped laughing by then. We went home.

Adolescents do stupid things. Often they know they are stupid at the time

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Jamaican high commissioner calls for halt to deportations from UK

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Top diplomat hosts emotional meeting of relatives of those deported this month

The Jamaican high commissioner has called for a suspension of deportations to Jamaica until the Home Office has published its investigation into the Windrush scandal.

At an emotional meeting of relatives of people who were deported to Jamaica earlier this month, held at the Jamaican high commission in London, the high commissioner, Seth George Ramocan, said he was particularly concerned about the deportation of people who had lived in the UK since they were children, and also the removal of parents who had young children living in Britain.

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Neo-Nazi coast guard officer accused of domestic terror plot denied bail

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Government says Christopher Hasson was plotting ‘to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country’

A federal judge on Thursday denied bail for lieutenant Christopher Hasson, a neo-Nazi member of the US coast guard who the government says was plotting “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country”.

Law enforcement officers seized 15 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from Hasson’s Silver Spring, Maryland, home earlier this week. Court documents quoted an email in which Hasson wrote he was “dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth”. He was arrested this week on drug and gun charges.

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‘Apology rings hollow’: judge rebukes Roger Stone and slaps stricter gag order

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Longtime Donald Trump ally was spared prison for posting an Instagram picture lambasting Judge Amy Berman Jackson

His swagger gone and his humiliation complete, political operative Roger Stone took the witness stand on Thursday to deliver an abject apology for attacking the judge in his case on social media only to be told it “rings quite hollow” and warned he could have incited violence by his supporters.

The longtime confidante of Donald Trump was spared prison for posting an Instagram picture lambasting Judge Amy Berman Jackson but he was slapped with an expanded gagging order that prevents him speaking publicly about his ongoing criminal case.

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The Disappeared Children of Israel

In the state of Israel’s early years, a number of parents in immigrant transit camps were told that their babies had died. Their families believe the babies were abducted by the Israeli authorities in the 1950s, and were illegally put up for adoption to childless Ashkenazi families, Jews of European descent. A younger generation is demanding answers.

My grandfather was a Nazi. I’ve seen why we need the EU | Matthias Bergmann

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Since the second world war, there have been three generations of Germans living in peace. That peace is taken for granted

Until his death in the early 1990s, my grandad was a committed Nazi. Most of his elder brothers died in one night at the battle of the Hartmannsweilerkopf in the first world war. In a bitterly traumatised interwar Germany, defined by hatred against foreigners, Jews and democracy as well as delusions of national grandeur, he was unemployed for most of the 1920s. He joined the Nazi party early, and volunteered to fight in 1940. He became a staff sergeant in the Wehrmacht and led a so-called “anti-partisan” unit on the eastern front, and participated in the capture of Kiev.

Related: The EU is under attack from the far right. Here’s how I learned to defend it | Schams El Ghoneimi

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‘He’s learned nothing’: Zuckerberg floats crowdsourcing Facebook fact-checks

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As site grapples with flood of fake news, former Snopes editor says CEO’s crowdsourcing comments show he has ‘learned nothing’

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he is considering crowdsourcing as a new model for Facebook’s third-party factchecking partnerships.

In the first of a series of public conversations, Zuckerberg praised the efforts of factcheckers who partnered with Facebook following the 2016 presidential election as a bulwark against the flood of misinformation and fake news that was overtaking the site’s News Feed.

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Neo-Nazi in coast guard plotted attack on Democrats and journalists, say prosecutors

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Lieutenant Christopher Hasson allegedly intended to ‘murder civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country’

A neo-Nazi serving as a lieutenant in the US coast guard has been caught plotting to attack Democratic members of Congress, including congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and well-known media personalities, according to prosecutors.

Christopher Hasson intended “to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country,” according to a filing to federal court in Maryland. Law enforcement officers seized 15 guns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his home.

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