Record scorer for Norway’s age-group sides discusses his World Cup hope, being frozen out at 15 and fake tickets heartbreak at Anfield

Liverpool against Aston Villa on 18 January 2014. It was impossible to measure the excitement in an seven-year-old from Norway making his first pilgrimage to Anfield. Inside was the promise of watching his favourite player, Daniel Sturridge, and the rest of a freewheeling side throwing everything at a title push. But as Sindre Walle Egeli and his family reached the turnstiles, the cruelest of realities dawned.

“It’s not a good memory,” Walle Egeli says. “We showed up, ready to go, and it turned out we’d got fake tickets. I don’t know what happened, maybe my parents bought from some shady people. It was heartbreaking.”

Miguel Veiga-Pestana says leaving Canada’s forests unmanaged is not the answer to preserving landscapes. Matt Williams says if Britain wants to lead on nature and climate, it must stop financing forest loss

The environmental non-profit Stand.earth fails to see the wood from the trees when it comes to the Canadian forestry industry and Drax’s limited role within it ( Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say, 9 November ). We do not own forests or sawmills, and we do not decide what areas are approved for harvesting.

The vast majority ( 81% ) of our Canadian fibre came from sawdust and other sawmill residues created when sawmills produce wood products used in construction and other industries in 2024. The remaining 19% of our fibre came from forest residues, including low-grade roundwood, tops, branches and bark.

The autumn budget will mop up some damage, but the true source of the economic crisis is clear. The government should now fix it – don’t hold your breath

Imagine a family stuck in a house that constantly floods. The carpets are soaked, the walls damp. It’s always cold, no matter how much they turn up the heating.

The family try everything. They promise to replace the sodden carpets and find new, innovative ways to warm the house. Someone with a laptop wonders if AI might be the answer. But no one ever looks upwards and says: maybe we should just repair the giant hole in the roof.

Dr Charlotte Potter and Chris Walters respond to an article by Morwenna Ferrier on the cultural value of the bow

I thoroughly enjoyed Morwenna Ferrier’s untangling of the cultural significance of the bow ( Untie me! Why big bows are everywhere – feminine, ironic and strangely subversive, 18 November ). I read it just after teaching a seminar on Elizabethan virginity, and I couldn’t help but think of the famous Armada portrait.

The painting is an overt celebration of martial victory, with Spanish ships floundering in the view above Elizabeth’s right shoulder, British ships sailing triumphant on the left, her hand firmly placed on a globe. But she is also covered in pink bows, and a huge pearl hangs from a delicate white bow at the top of her skirts, symbolic of her virginity.

Grade One-winning jockey makes brief return to England but is enjoying the ‘perfect’ racing scene across the Channel

A familiar face made a fleeting return to the weighing room to Ascot on Friday as the multiple Grade One-winning jockey Bryony Frost paid a flying visit from her new home in France, and while her French has not improved significantly after 18 months riding there, her way with words remains intact.

“I spoke no French when I arrived [in mid-2024],” Frost said before the first of her two rides, which finished third and eighth, “and I still don’t now, it’s not something that comes naturally to me. But luckily, the horses, they speak the language of feeling, so that’s good news for me.”

Chuck Schumer says Trump’s remarks amount to calls for ‘execution of elected officials’ as president also says he and Zohran Mamdani will ‘get along fine’ in meeting

Robert Garcia , the ranking member on the House oversight committee, has sent a letter to the US attorney general, Pam Bondi , urging the justice department to release the complete trove of files related to Jeffrey Epstein, despite the newly launched investigation into several Democrats’ ties to the late sex offender.

“There is already a concern President Trump will attempt, on dubious legal grounds, to exploit a provision which allows DoJ to withhold information relevant to ongoing investigations,” Garcia wrote.

It would be expedient for Reform to take Labour’s advice and disavow ‘Putin talking points’

• Reform UK’s former Wales leader jailed for taking bribes for pro-Russia speeches

The discovery of a pro-Russian asset, Nathan Gill , at the heart of a British political party reads like the plot of a John Le Carré novel.

Russia was long known to have been trying to interfere in foreign politics with online bots and cyber-disinformation over the past decade.

The club may be bottom of the Premier League and winless, but new head coach is delighted to be back

In a cosy room off the reception at Wolves’s Compton training base, Rob Edwards is reminded he is back talking at the top table where nine years ago he struggled to conceal his excitement at being in caretaker charge of the club. “Was that when I had to sort of say I didn’t want the job and had to be really diplomatic?” he says, smiling. Now this is the real thing, after jumping at the chance to take permanent charge despite the club being bottom of the Premier League with two points from 11 matches and possessing the ignominious mantle of being the only winless team in the top seven tiers of English football.

No Premier League team have recovered from such a poor start to retain their top-flight status but Edwards is pleased to be back and has belief in achieving the seemingly impossible. These are familiar surroundings – his family remain in the Midlands – though the stakes are far higher than those couple of games in interim charge in the Championship in the autumn of 2016.

In this week’s newsletter: When the video-sharing site launched in 2005, there were fears it would replace terrestrial television. It didn’t just replace it – it invented entirely new forms of content. ASMR, anyone?

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Barely a month goes by without more news of streaming sites overtaking traditional, terrestrial TV. Predominant among those sits YouTube, with more than 2.5 billion monthly viewers . For people my age – a sprightly 28 – and younger, YouTube is less of an app or website than our answer to radio: the ever-present background hum of modern life. While my mum might leave Radio 4 wittering or BBC News flickering in the corner as she potters about the house, I’ve got a video essay about Japan’s unique approach to urban planning playing on my phone. That’s not to say I never watch more traditional TV (although 99% of the time I’m accessing it through some other kind of subscription streaming app), but when I get home after a long day and the thought of ploughing through another hour of grim prestige fare feels too demanding, I’m probably watching YouTube. Which means it’s very unlikely that I’m watching the same thing as you.

When Google paid $1.65bn for the platform in 2006 , (just 18 months after it launched) the price seemed astronomical. Critics questioned whether that valuation could be justified for any video platform. The logic was simple – unless YouTube could replace television, it would never be worth it. Nearly two decades on, that framing undersells what actually happened. YouTube didn’t just replace television – it invented entirely new forms of content: vodcasts, vlogs, video essays, reaction videos, ASMR and its heinous cousin mukbang . The platform absorbed new trends and formats at lightning speed, building what became an alternative “online mainstream”. Before podcasters, TikTokers, Substackers and even influencers, there were YouTubers.