Rage rooms: can smashing stuff up really help to relieve anger and stress?

Venues promoting destruction as stress relief are appearing around the UK but experts – and our correspondent – are unsure

If you find it hard to count to 10 when anger bubbles up, a new trend offers a more hands-on approach. Rage rooms are cropping up across the UK, allowing punters to smash seven bells out of old TVs, plates and furniture.

Such pay-to-destroy ventures are thought to have originated in Japan in 2008, but have since gone global. In the UK alone venues can be found in locations from Birmingham to Brighton, with many promoting destruction as a stress-relieving experience.

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They tried to overturn the 2020 US election. Now, they hold power in Trump’s Washington

Those who tried to overturn the 2020 election now occupy key federal roles, shaping rules and sowing doubt for 2026

The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.

Bolstered by the president, they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government. Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department. An election denier, Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the department of homeland security. Kurt Olsen, an attorney involved in the “stop the steal” movement, is now a special government employee investigating the 2020 election.

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Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says

Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys

A historian who spent more than a month in Gaza at the turn of the year says he saw “utterly convincing” evidence that Israel supported looters who attacked aid convoys during the conflict.

Jean-Pierre Filiu, a professor of Middle East studies at France’s prestigious Sciences Po university, entered Gaza in December where he was hosted by an international humanitarian organisation in the southern coastal zone of al-Mawasi.

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EU weighs Plan B for Ukraine as Belgium raises bar on reparations loan – Euronews.com

  1. EU weighs Plan B for Ukraine as Belgium raises bar on reparations loan  Euronews.com
  2. Belgium hits back at EU plan to use frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine  The Guardian
  3. Putin warns EU ‘theft’ of frozen assets will trigger retaliatory measures  politico.eu
  4. EU’s frozen-assets loan plan risks rattling markets, Euroclear warns  Financial Times
  5. Trump’s $2 Trillion Plan to Cash in on Ukraine ‘Peace’ Leaks  The Daily Beast
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High-resolution radar satellites launched for Greece – European Space Agency

  1. High-resolution radar satellites launched for Greece  European Space Agency
  2. Greece joins space nations with launch of five microsatellites  eKathimerini.com
  3. Greece Launches 5 Satellites as Part of National Program  GreekReporter.com
  4. Finland’s Iceye secures Japanese contract as it advances international expansion, new satellite ranges  SpaceNews
  5. ICEYE expands global SAR capabilities with launch of five satellites on Transporter-15 mission  Defence Industry Europe
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