MG4 only managed 281km of its claimed 405km range, while Tesla Model Y came closest to matching expectations

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Electric vehicles are not travelling as far as their manufacturers promise, with independent road tests showing all models analysed have failed to meet their advertised range.

One popular small car produced the worst EV result to date in the latest tests, pulling up more than 120km short of the distance printed on its sticker. At the other end of the scale, Tesla’s latest Model Y SUV was only a few kilometres short of its claim.

President says countries manufacturing and selling drugs to the US are “subject to attack”, adding that strikes wouldn’t be limited to Venezuela

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Joseph Gedeon is a politics breaking news reporter based in Washington

The FBI director, Kash Patel, is “in over his head” and leading a “chronically under-performing” agency paralyzed by fear and plummeting morale, according to a scathing 115-page report compiled by a national alliance of retired and active-duty FBI special agents and analysts.

This old-school sitcom about a PE teacher who wakes after being frozen since the 70s is an impeccably deadpan send-up of masculinity. But it hits hardest when this unreconstructed man turns out to be right about life today

You can lay the demise of political satire at the door of stranger-than-fiction governmental turmoil. You can attribute the disappearance of pop culture pastiche to a fractured zeitgeist and the thinning out of the artistic mainstream. Yet there’s no obvious reason for the scarcity of jokes about contemporary society in comedy. Maybe it has something to do with the decline of the sketch show; perhaps it’s simply because there’s far less funny stuff on TV in general (during the 2010s, the BBC’s comedy output almost halved). Whatever the reason, when we get a chance to laugh at modern mores, we should probably take it.

Re-enter Mammoth, an old-school sitcom from the Welsh comedian Mike Bubbins. The 53-year-old stars as the eponymous Tony Mammoth, a PE teacher who was buried by an avalanche on a school skiing trip in 1979. A quarter of a century later he was unearthed – nice one, global warming! – with his middle-aged body and dated values perfectly preserved. Yes we can laugh at this swaggering alpha’s outmoded tastes and borderline offensive views. But the beauty of this series is that the comedy flows both ways: when Mammoth looks aghast at the things that pass for normal in 2020s Britain, it can be hard to deny that he has a point.

Next nominee faces enormous task of leading a party that has been entirely re-oriented around Trump

Donald Trump hasn’t stopped joking about running again for the White House in 2028, even as he acknowledges it is “pretty clear” he is constitutionally ineligible for a third term. Whether intended as a taunt or a threat, his musings are a reminder that, even barred from the ballot, Trump is likely to remain a central figure in the campaign to succeed him.

The next Republican nominee faces the potentially enormous task of leading a party that has been entirely reoriented around Trump into a post-Trump era. Here’s a look at the Republicans best positioned for a White House run.

Retiring Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem

Health and Human Services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr

Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin

Georgia governor Brian Kemp

South Carolina senator Tim Scott

Former UN ambassador Nikki Haley

Utah governor Spencer Cox

• Manager much happier with display in 5-3 loss at PSG

• Spurs hoping to improve home form by beating Fulham

Thomas Frank has said he much preferred Tottenham’s “front-footed” performance in their 5-3 defeat at Paris Saint-Germain to their cautious approach against Arsenal a few days earlier.

Frank was heavily criticised for fielding a back five at the Emirates Stadium for Sunday’s 4-1 defeat and his side responded with a more ambitious display against the European champions. Spurs led twice before being overwhelmed by Vitinha’s hat-trick.

“Champions of Europe, you’ll never sing that,” came the chant as Nottingham Forest supporters, not for the first time, enjoyed getting one over on Malmö. A lot has happened since Trevor Francis’s stooping header to clinch the European Cup in Munich in 1979 but Forest still cherish those days. A lot has also changed in the five weeks since Sean Dyche took the reins, Forest reinvigorated and a comfortable win thanks to goals by Arnaud Kalimuendo, Ryan Yates and Nikola Milenkovic enhanced their hope of qualifying for the Europa League knockout phase.

For Forest, this victory – against a Malmö side that had not played for almost three weeks after finishing sixth in their domestic league – represented a third straight win in all competitions and further built on the momentum gained from last weekend’s success at Liverpool. This was a re-run of Forest’s European Cup triumph in name but the game itself was free of any jeopardy or jitters.

Report by Queensland’s Crime and Corruption Commission says Thompson leaked confidential council documents to an unnamed ‘adviser’

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The former Townsville mayor Troy Thompson misled the electorate about a cancer diagnosis, his military history and university qualifications, according to a report by the Crime and Corruption Commission.

The CCC also found that, as mayor, Thompson leaked numerous confidential documents to an unnamed “adviser”, sending them 8,741 encrypted WhatsApp messages in a five-month period.

Villagers demonstrate against drive for alternative funeral practices instead of burial to preserve land resources

Protests have erupted in China’s southern Guizhou province, the latest in a string of rural demonstrations that have seen incidents of unrest increase by 70% compared with last year.

The protests in Shidong town started over the weekend in response to a directive from local authorities that people should be cremated rather than buried after their death.

• American enjoys comfortable margin of victory

• 30-year-old has three World Cup wins in a row

Mikaela Shiffrin continued her slalom domination with a record-extending 103rd Alpine skiing World Cup win in the Austrian resort of Gurgl on Sunday.

Shiffrin is a big gold medal hope for the US team at February’s Winter Olympics, and the 30-year-old made it two out of two for the season in slalom with another impressively aggressive display. She also won the final slalom of last season, giving her three World Cup victories in a row.

• Captain scores in injury time for 1-0 win at St Mirren

• Rangers beat Livingston thanks to Diomandé winner

Callum McGregor scored a late winner as Celtic cut the gap on Scottish Premiership leaders Hearts to four points with a 1-0 win over St Mirren in Paisley.

The below-par visitors failed to muster a shot on target for much of the match and almost fell behind when Declan John shot straight at Kasper Schmeichel with six minutes remaining.

Scourge of goldfish has become growing problem as fish are released by pet owners into increasingly warm waters

City officials in Canada’s capital city, Ottawa, plan to cull thousands of feral goldfish from a stormwater pond, a decision that reflects the pervasive spread of the species throughout the region.

Earlier in the year, city staff removed 5,000 fish from the city’s Celebration Park. But as many as 1,000 more are believed to still be living in the water.

The most extraordinary upshot of an extraordinary evening was that Scotland’s dream of qualifying automatically for the World Cup remains alive. Steve Clarke has Belarus to thank for that, their surprise draw in Denmark leaving Scotland in precisely the position they had sought before this clash with Greece. If Scotland beat Denmark in Glasgow on Tuesday, they will top this section.

The dust might just have settled on this preposterous fixture by then. Scotland trailed by three at one point before hauling themselves back into proceedings against a Greek team who finished with 10 men.

The Riverdance creator’s feet blew away a century of tradition, yet he’s oddly absent from this docuseries about young dancers preparing for the World Championships. Why?

‘Irish dancing was completely different back in the day,” sighs veteran dance impresario Carole Scanlon, flipping wistfully through photos of tremulous adolescents clutching trophies in poorly lit community centres. A montage of grainy news reports backs her up: girls prancing in capes to a cassette backing of Ireland’s gravest fiddles; boys in middle-management waistcoats skipping across tiny stages; porridge-faced judges surveying it all in cufflinks and kipper ties.

“Back in the day” is a phrase that pops up frequently in Battle of the Irish Dancers, a three-part docuseries that follows a handful of eager young hoofers as they prepare for the annual World Irish Dancing Championships. The phrase refers, broadly, to the era before Riverdance, the global sensation that launched in the year of our Flatley 1994. The impact of the stage-based extravaganza on the trajectory of Irish dancing cannot be overstated. “It blew everything into a whole different ballgame,” says tutor and former Riverdancer Kelly Hendry, as we watch footage of Michael “Feet of Flames” Flatley’s ankles blowing a century of tradition into a whole different cocked fedora. And now? “It’s the wigs,” says Kelly. “They’ve taken over. Look.” We look. It’s the wigs, we think. They’ve taken over. Footage of Kelly’s pupils rehearsing for a “feis” (dance contest) reveals the extent of the hairy coup. Gone are the home perms of yesteryear. In their place are vertiginous turrets of synthetic curls; each wig an immobile tower bedecked with a Hobbycraft’s worth of spangly whatsits and diamante doodahs. They’re a “practical solution” says Kelly, allowing wig-ees such as 14-year-old best friends Maria and Saoirse to whirl, kick and clomp without being distracted by their own hair’s attempts to escape its moorings and sabotage their hornpipes. It works remarkably well, too, with the spray-tanned proteges seemingly oblivious to the horrors hovering above their scalps.

The judges ‘had never read anything quite like it’, says panel chair Roddy Doyle, announcing the Hungarian-British author’s novel as the winner of the £50,000 award

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Hungarian-British author David Szalay has won the 2025 Booker prize for his novel Flesh.

Szalay’s sixth work of fiction traces the life of one man, István, from his youth to midlife. The judges “had never read anything quite like it”, said panel chair Roddy Doyle, who won the prize in 1993. “It is, in many ways, a dark book, but it is a joy to read.”

Relegation beckons when all it takes to undo 51 minutes of hard graft is a full-back without a goal in 165 games for club and country popping up to break the deadlock. This is the reality for Wolves now. They are in a miserable state, so much so that it is hard to see why Rob Edwards is prepared to leave Middlesbrough to take the vacancy at Molineux, and they looked utterly bereft of fight as Chelsea handed them their ninth defeat of the season.

It turned into a rout once Malo Gusto had set Chelsea on the path to victory by scoring the first senior goal of his career. Further strikes from Pedro Neto and João Pedro added a more realistic look to the scoreline. Chelsea, who are up to second, were dominant. They took a while to get going but sprinted away once Gusto had settled their nerves.

Anthony Hemingway, who is both director and executive producer on the legal drama, has defended the show which has been the subject of a critical pile-on

• The Guardian has only ever published 15 zero-star reviews. Here they all are

One of the directors of the critically maligned legal drama All’s Fair has responded to negative reviews, saying that “not everything is for everybody”.

Anthony Hemingway, who has directed four episodes of the show and is an executive producer on it, was asked about his thoughts on the overwhelmingly bad reviews in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.

Trump ally Laura Loomer took credit for Sami Hamdi’s detainment in move denounced as ‘affront to free speech’

British journalist Sami Hamdi was reportedly detained on Sunday morning by federal immigration authorities at San Francisco international airport, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) says that action is apparent retaliation for the Muslim political commentator’s criticism of Israel while touring the US.

A statement from Cair said it was “a blatant affront to free speech” to detain Hamdi for criticizing Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza while he engaged on a speaking tour in the US. A Trump administration official added in a separate statement that Hamdi is facing deportation.

Victory in Frankfurt in Wednesday, it turns out, was only temporary respite. Liverpool didn’t just slip to a fourth league defeat in a row for the first time since February 2021, but were thoroughly outplayed and outfought by Brentford. The slightly anxious period of injury time the home side endured was out of keeping with everything that had gone before.

Brentford tend naturally to a direct approach anyway, but Arne Slot’s grumbling last week about Manchester United’s long balls was an open invitation. Liverpool never got to grips with the pace of Kevin Schade running in behind, and they looked uncomfortable as well against Michael Kayode’s fusillade of long throws. The opening goal, scored after five minutes, was almost the archetypal Brentford goal. It stemmed from a Kayode throw, the ball having been put out of play by Giorgi Mamardashvili, mopping up as Schade chased behind Conor Bradley. The Georgian keeper, it’s fair to say, is not the most comfortable with the ball at his feet.

• Northampton 43-31 Saracens

• Noah Caluori unable to make an impact for visitors

A classic had seemed to be on the cards and the players emphatically delivered. A pulsating encounter at the top of the Prem table ended with Northampton, who roared into an early 17-0 lead before somehow trailing at half-time, ultimately pulling Saracens apart with their scintillating attacking rugby.

The Saracens wing Noah Caluori had dominated the buildup, after his destructive five-try showing on his first Prem start in the previous round, but Tommy Freeman of England restated his class with a phenomenal four tries, while his international colleague Fin Smith orchestrated a vintage attacking performance. Northampton, who remain the only unbeaten side in the division, are supremely talented, extremely well coached by Phil Dowson, and look well equipped to repeat their title victory of 2023-24 having slumped to eighth last season.

Carmaker exceeded Wall Street’s expectations with more than $26bn in revenue, but saw a 37% drop in profits

Despite record vehicle sales, Tesla saw a precipitous drop in profit in its most recent quarter.

A rush to buy electric vehicles before a US tax credit for them disappears had boosted Tesla’s flagging sales, leading to the automaker exceeding some of Wall Street’s projections in its most recent financial quarter. Yet the company failed to meet earnings expectations and its stock fell in after hours trading.