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      Working the land but rarely owning it: life for New Zealand’s young farmers

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 30 November

    A country built on agriculture is seeing the sector change as the number of farms shrinks and it becomes harder for young people to buy land

    On a farm south of Auckland, Cam Clayton breeds sheep and cattle – working alongside the dogs he’s trained since they were puppies. There, he looks out on knobbly hills and tree-filled gullies in Waikato, close to where he grew up.

    “I have the best office, with the best views,” says Clayton.

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      European football: Olmo double takes Barca top; Díaz fires up Bayern’s late rally

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 November

    • Dortmund hold on to beat Bayer Leverkusen

    • Leão strike gives Milan 1-0 win over Lazio

    Barcelona recovered from an early setback to secure a 3-1 victory over Alavés , with first-half goals from Lamine Yamal and Dani Olmo and a late second for the latter sealing the win at the Camp Nou.

    The win lifts the defending La Liga champions to the top of the table on 34 points, two ahead of second-placed Real Madrid, who have a game in hand at Girona on Sunday.

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      Tete and Wilson’s fast start earns Fulham victory at struggling Spurs

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 November

    A Tottenham Hotspur manager’s lot is so rarely a happy one. In short order, Thomas Frank is running through the gamut of his predecessors, from hope to disappointment to what now resembles hopelessness. Demolition by Arsenal had already created a sticky wicket. A decent midweek showing in Paris , though another defeat, had barely increased the credit rating. Losing to Fulham, a team with a previous away record as miserable as Spurs’ home form, intensified the pressure. That Frank was appointed by the departed stewardship of Daniel Levy is to be noted; fresh ownership regimes tend to be trigger-happy with inherited managers.

    Should such a decision be made, and it still seems a premature outcome considering Frank made slow starts at his previous clubs, Marco Silva, linked previously on a couple of occasions, would be a live contender. By six minutes in, Silva was cavorting on the sidelines with his Fulham staff. His team were 2-0 up and the home fans were baying for blood. By the final whistle, the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium emptied, the mood was even lower, Frank’s outlook even bleaker.

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      At least 500 killed in south-east Asia floods and landslides

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 November

    More than 350 people killed on Indonesia’s Sumatra island with 162 reported dead across Thailand

    The death toll from devastating floods and landslides in south-east Asia reportedly climbed past 500 on Saturday as clean-up and search-and-rescue operations got under way in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia.

    Heavy monsoon rain overwhelmed swathes of the three countries this week, killing hundreds and leaving thousands stranded, many on rooftops awaiting rescue.

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      Sandi’s Great Riviera Rail Trip review – Toksvig’s wonder-filled travelogue is a bibliophile’s fantasy

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 November

    The QI presenter’s visit to the French south coast sees her boggling with delight at tales of writers’ past visits, and marvelling at the homes of authors. At points it feels like a literary tour by stealth

    ‘Look at that!!” exclaims a jubilant Sandi Toksvig at the very start of her jolly new travelogue, Great Riviera Rail Trip. “Marseille!” The city of Marseille is, undeniably, there behind her, it being the starting point for a four-episode trip east along the French south coast that will take in picturesque fishing villages, posh resorts and quirky nooks.

    Shows where we watch celebrities go on holiday come in many different stripes, but all boil down to us pressing our noses up against the screen and wishing we were there while the famous bod has a lovely time. The most honest course of action for the famous person is to lean into it and enthuse. Toksvig does this, constantly wriggling and giggling with pleasure as she tells us how incredible, magnificent, wonderful and beautiful the Riviera is. It looks as if she is right.

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      What Rosa Parks can teach us about resistance today | Jan-Werner Mueller

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 November

    Rosa Park’s story is about courage. But, lest one forget, it is also a story about breaking the law

    It was 70 years ago when four African Americans were sitting in the fifth row of a bus in Montgomery. As one white man had to stand towards the front, the driver asked the four to get up and move towards the back of the bus. Three did; one did not – the rest is history. Or so many American kids might think when they first read the story of Rosa Parks in school.

    It is a story of courage, but, lest one forget, it is also a story about breaking the law. And the question for us today is what civil disobedience means in an era when the federal government is signaling its readiness severely to punish even perfectly legal dissent.

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      Prem Rugby roundup: Bristol punish Todaro red to end unbeaten start for Northampton

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 November

    • First-minute red card for challenge costs Saints dearly

    • Gloucester off mark with victory against Harlequins

    Northampton ’s unbeaten start to the season came to a shuddering halt as they were blown away 46-12 by impressive Bristol at Ashton Gate. Saints lost Edoardo Todaro to a first-minute red card and it was downhill all the way after that as Bristol ran in six tries.

    Scrum-half Kieran Marmion scored two and Tom Jordan, Kalaveti Ravouvou, Aidan Boshoff and Luka Ivanishvili also crossed, with Sam Worsley kicking five conversions and two penalties. JJ van der Mescht and Tom Litchfield scored Northampton’s tries, one of which Fin Smith converted.

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      Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 29 November

    A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter

    The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88.

    On Saturday, United Agents said Stoppard died at home in Dorset, surrounded by his family. They paid tribute to the “brilliance and humanity” of his work and “his wit, his irreverence, his generosity of spirit and his profound love of the English language”.

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