Footage shared by Abdulkadir Uraloğlu under hashtag #TurkeyAccelerates inadvertently shows him speeding

Turkey’s transport minister has been given a speeding fine after posting a video of himself racing down a highway with the hashtag #TurkeyAccelerates.

On Sunday evening, Abdulkadir Uraloğlu shared a video of himself on X driving along a highway near the capital, Ankara, listening to folk songs and clips of speeches by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

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His most recent album may have tanked but it works better played live, and Smith is endearing as he continues to get jiggy with it

Around halfway through Will Smith’s set the video screens are taken over by a mock streaming service called Willflix. The cursor cycles through box office smash after box office smash before teeing up a shoutalong to Inner Circle’s Bad Boys, drawing attention to his outsized cultural footprint while also framing the night as a whole: a disorienting splurge of nostalgia, high energy set pieces and self-help sermons, channelling the tonal whiplash of watching the first five minutes of 10 films before calling it and going to bed.

Smith launches into Gettin’ Jiggy Wit It, the crowd leaping and yelling each lyric as he falls into formation with six dancers dressed in outsized sports jerseys, mimicking his own Phillies cap and red starter jacket. He wore a similar get-up on the cover of his recent album Based on a True Story, a critical and commercial turkey that documented his journey into shame and acceptance post-Oscars slap, and there’s friction between its stomping rap-rock soul-searching and Smith’s undimmed need for everyone to have a good time when he’s around.

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Why does capital love fossil fuels? It’s not hard to explain. They exist in a small number of discrete locations, where the right to exploit them can be owned and monopolised. Most can be extracted commercially only at scale, excluding small competitors. They can be stored and traded all over the world, allowing prices to be optimised across time and space. Renewable energy, by contrast, can be generated almost anywhere, by almost anyone with a small amount of money to invest.

Renewables might now be cheaper than fossil fuel in the vast majority of cases, but this makes them less attractive to capital, not more. Fossil fuels are uncompetitive and highly profitable. Renewables are highly competitive and not very profitable.

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Artistic director says monsters are ‘fil rouge’ this year, as Guillermo del Toro unveils his vision of Shelley’s classic

When Guillermo del Toro accepted the Bafta for best director in 2018, he used his speech to pay homage to Mary Shelley, calling her “the most important figure from English legacy”.

“She picked up the plight of Caliban and she gave weight to the burden of Prometheus,” Del Toro said. “She gave voice to the voiceless and presence to the invisible, and she showed me that sometimes to talk about monsters, we need to fabricate monsters of our own.”

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“Steamy windows!” belted out Tina Turner. I always thought she was singing about an erotic encounter, but now I believe she must have been testing kettles. There’s nothing quite like 12 of them boiling one after the other to fill your kitchen with mist, adding a soft-focus haze to everything in it and making every cold surface slick.

Hair-frizzing humidity aside – I spent two days looking as if I had stuck my fingers in a plug socket – the bigger issue at the start was deciding how to test kettles. They all do the same thing in the same way. And they’ve changed little over the decades – a few from the 1970s wouldn’t be out of place in your home today. Beyond a few nice-to-have-but-not-essential features, the kettle remains fundamental and fuss-free.

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• Nottingham Forest have also shown interest in Magassa

• Potter wants him to be the first of two midfield signings

West Ham are in advanced talks over a deal to sign the Monaco midfielder Soungoutou Magassa for €17m (£14.7m) plus €3m in add-ons.

Graham Potter, who is under growing pressure after opening the campaign with heavy defeats by Sunderland and Chelsea, is desperate for midfield reinforcements and has been pushing for the 21-year-old to join. West Ham have had an agreement on a fee with Monaco since the weekend but have been working on personal terms.