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Towards the end of summer, a debate began raging in clubland, kick-started by an Instagram post from the esteemed DJ Jane Fitz. Ahead of the Houghton festival, where she is a regular fixture, she posted a request asking people to stop chatting so much during DJ sets. “What I wrote was super respectful,” she tells me. “A bit of talking is obviously OK. But why would you stand completely still, where the sound is super loud, just to ask your mate about a new boyfriend or what they had for lunch? It’s called a dancefloor for a reason.”Jane Fitz at Rural in 2025. Photograph: ToshimuraFitz’s plea exploded. It chimed with many, while others were up in arms, claiming that paying an entry fee allowed them to do whatever they wanted. “People were accusing me of being the fun police,” she says. “I’m not trying to stop your fun, mate. I’m trying to give you a better night out.”“I think the dancefloor is dead,” Charli xcx sang on her tongue-in-cheek comeback single Rock Music this spring. Was she right?

ARCH ENEMIESA group of veterans is moving to put the brakes on Trump’s vanity project as he scrambles to fast-track it. Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images President Donald Trump’s quest to build a 250-foot-tall “triumphal arch” has hit its latest roadblock as he tries to speed the project toward construction. The president’s lawyers laid out an eye-popping timeline in court filings Wednesday, revealing that Trump is hoping to secure permission for the gargantuan monument and begin work as early as Nov. 5. But three veterans and a retired architectural historian suing the Trump administration to stop construction of the tacky arch moved to slam the brakes on the project on Thursday, asking District Judge Tanya Chutkan to prohibit the administration and the National Park Service “from taking any steps to construct, or to direct or facilitate construction of, any structure in Memorial Circle, absent congressional authorization, during the pendency of this litigation,” according to the Associated Press. Trump holds a model of an arch as he delivers remarks during a ballroom fundraising dinner.

A war of words has erupted between the Trump administration, officials in Kyiv and Elon Musk over who is to blame for limiting Ukraine’s access to Space X’s military-grade version of Starlink. The restrictions to Starshield have rendered many of the drones used by Kyiv to strike behind the frontlines inoperable and hampered air defence systems that stop Russian attacks, according to Ukrainian officials. Donald Trump said on Thursday that the service was running again at full speed, but a European official speaking to the Associated Press denied the service was fully functioning. Amid the diplomatic handwringing, civilian casualties in Ukraine have surged, and the question over who is ultimately responsible for limiting Kyiv’s access has remained unanswered.1. Donald TrumpThe restrictions came as relations between the US and Ukraine hit their lowest point since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly five years ago. Donald Trump has accused Ukraine of driving up diesel costs for Americans through its attacks on Russian oil refineries.

The US president has declined to comment on the process that led Starlink to lift speed and access restrictions on Ukraine. United States President Donald Trump has said that tech mogul Elon Musk has restored Ukraine’s access to Starlink, a satellite internet service that plays a key role in Kyiv’s war effort and air defences. On Thursday, Trump declined to discuss a report from The Wall Street Journal that he had called Musk and instructed him to end restrictions on Ukraine’s connection. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3What is Starshield, and who limited Ukraine’s access to it?list 2 of 3‘I don’t care how it’s done’: Trump pressures Ukraine to cut peace deallist 3 of 3Putin and Zelenskyy back three-way US peace talks on Ukraineend of listThe news outlet reported that Starlink services returned to normal following the call. “I don’t want to comment on it, whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference, I guess. The bottom line, he put it back,” Trump told reporters when asked about the report. On October 13, Ukrainian officials announced that sudden restrictions on Starlink services had left the country’s military scrambling.

Donald Trump has claimed that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk fully restored Ukraine’s Starlink access, restrictions on which have hampered Ukraine’s attack missions and air defence. However, a senior European official told the Associated Press on Thursday that nothing has changed in the operation of the military-grade Starshield service. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump had called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on Ukraine’s use of ⁠the system. Trump on Thursday appeared to confirm that the service had been down, but claimed it was once again working at optimal speeds. “You know, whether I called or whether somebody else called, doesn’t make any difference,” he said. “I guess the bottom line, he put it back.” Questions over who ordered interruptions to Starshield – which plunged relations between Kyiv and Washington to a new low – have ignited a blame game within the Trump administration and its allies. Trump has denied being involved in the decision concerning the slowdown, while US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said that decisions regarding Ukraine’s access to Starlink were up to its parent company SpaceX and Musk, not the White House.