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The FA’s women’s technical director is departing after 20 years at the organisation to lead Bay Collective, a new, global multi-club project

Kay Cossington has spent 20 years building from the bottom up at the Football Association but now it is time for change. “I am a visionary, I love building things and specifically building things around women’s football, which has been my life,” she says. “So to have a blank piece of paper, a clear vision and a higher purpose, and then to sit there and work out how the hell do we do it, that’s the bit that drives me. I don’t have to break anything, I don’t have to remould anything, I can actually set this up from the ground up.”

The women’s technical director is leaving the governing body for club football, poached by the lead investor in NWSL side Bay FC to head up new, global multi-club women’s football organisation Bay Collective. Cossington had various roles before becoming the first women’s technical director in 2020 and she will join investment firm Sixth Street as their head of global women’s football and serve as the CEO of Bay Collective, which launches in 2025.

Story of a former champ looking for redemption is shot through with cliches but it’s very well acted, particularly one indelible scene with Joe Pesci

Jack Huston’s directing debut is a big-hearted, decently intended piece of work; it is well acted, less well written, an old-fashioned boxing movie, classically attired in monochrome, and set in New York in 1989 but behaving as if VJ Day hasn’t happened yet. The title is an apparent nod to the one Stanley Kubrick chose for his own debut , a documentary short about a boxer’s jittery, aimless mood before that evening’s fight with nothing to do but wait.

There are a lot of cliches on show here, with some exasperatingly on-the-nose dialogue scenes, and important dramatic moments being revealed by rote in memory flashbacks. This is damaged middleweight ex-champ Mikey Flannigan, played by Michael Pitt, troubled by his terrible sins, preparing for a shot at the title – and, of course, a shot at redemption. Ron Perlman plays Mikey’s scowling yet fatherly trainer; Nicolette Robinson is his ex-wife Jessica; Steve Buscemi is his easy-going uncle; and John Magaro is his best buddy from the neighbourhood and now a priest. Joe Pesci has a rather amazing silent scene with Pitt as Mikey’s ageing and once abusive father, now in a care home having evidently suffered a stroke, with whom Mikey has to have some kind of painful reckoning before getting back into the ring.

Is my 51 years of age now old? Did he think I was pregnant? Or was I just staring at him too much?

I was minding my own business on the tube the other day, but that’s maybe not the most precise description of what I was up to. I’m curious on public transport; I like to check what other people are reading, smile at them while they do their makeup, eavesdrop if they’re with a friend, generally get in everyone’s business like a terrier. And while I was up to my antics, I made what I thought was a friendly expression at two young people sitting together, for no better reason than that they were making each other laugh and one of them had a scarf that looked a bit French, when one said: “Would you like to sit down?”

Would I like to sit down? What’s the minimum age to be asked that? Maybe 70? And even then only if they had a walking stick. How could I alert him to his astronomical misjudgment? Should I do a pull-up on the handrail? I cannot do a pull-up. All I could say was, “No, thank you.”

Tickets for the interactive theatre company’s last show are almost impossible to score, though if you get one there’s a chance you’ll have your mind blown. But what exactly is it? The creators reveal what they can

The secrecy agreement signed on arrival means I can’t tell you about the part of the show where [redacted] is [redacted] on my [redacted]. Nor can I fully describe the flummoxing moment when I’m asked to [redacted] in front of dozens of [redacted]. Even the origin of the show’s eccentric title is a closely guarded secret. But I can tell you this: at the end of You Me Bum Bum Train, the logistically improbable production that has grown a devoted cult following over the last two decades, an A-lister at the bar looks at me, dazed, and asks if I’m real.

Dreamed up in 2004 by two university friends, You Me Bum Bum Train is the near-mythical operation that upends expectations of what theatre is and how participatory an audience can be. “We wanted to create an artform that was about other people,” says co-founder Kate Bond, “to give people rich experiences.” While the concept has grown, it has held on to the same heart. “I’ve never known what I wanted to do in life,” says Morgan Lloyd , the other half of the duo, “but this project gives a sense of meaning. It has a really profound effect.”

The Ireland interim coach’s deputy tag may soon be cast off if he leads his country to a historic repeat triumph

History shows it can be done. Back in 2013, with Warren Gatland having stepped away to prepare for that summer’s British & Irish Lions tour, Rob Howley took over as interim Wales head coach and the national side ended up as tournament winners. Beating England by a record 30-3 margin in Cardiff will forever rank among the great Welsh rugby days.

This time the “deputy dawg” with the interim sheriff’s badge on his tracksuit is Ireland’s Simon Easterby. Andy Farrell will not be too far away but his Lions responsibilities have left his assistant in temporary charge. Win a third straight title, in the process becoming the first nation to do so since the tournament expanded 25 years ago, and the coaching tweak will be a minor footnote. Should Ireland endure a significant dip, though, perceptions can swiftly change.

President signed executive order last night alongside measures to remove DEI initiatives from the military and reinstate soldiers who refused Covid vaccines

Good morning and welcome to our live coverage of all the latest from US politics.

Donald Trump signed a series of executive orders late last night to remove diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives from the military, reinstate thousands of troops who were kicked out for refusing COVID-19 vaccines, and direct officials to reassess the military’s policy on transgender troops.

Yesterday Pete Hegseth , who narrowly secured enough votes to become defense secretary, referred to the names of Confederate generals that were once used for two key bases during his remarks to reporters as he entered the Pentagon on his first full day on the job. Hegseth referred to Fort Moore and Fort Liberty by their previous names, Fort Benning and Fort Bragg. The names honouring Confederate officers were changed under former Biden as part of an effort to reexamine US history and the Confederate legacy.

Trump has suggested that Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok and that he would like to see a bidding war over the app. When asked last night if Microsoft was in talks to buy the app, the US president said “I would say yes”, adding: “A lot of interest in TikTok. There’s great interest in TikTok.” Microsoft declined to comment.

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu , will reportedly be the first foreign leader to meet Trump at the White House since his inauguration. It is thought the meeting could come as early as next week.

Trump called the apparent success of an AI model released by Chinese company DeepSeek a “wake-up call” for US tech. The share prices of some of the leading tech firms fell on Monday following the release of the model, which can perform as well as existing models but at a much lower cost, according to its developers.

Event gives public the chance to experience round tables, missions and general skulduggery

A Traitors live experience, which is due to open in London’s Covent Garden in July, has announced that it will be releasing tickets in the coming weeks. The event promises a number of recreations of the actual television show, including a round table, and goes on sale on 28 January.

“I am extremely excited for The Traitors: Live Experience to open in London next year,” said Claudia Winkleman, host of the UK television version of The Traitors.

Vertebra spotted by fossil hunters on online marketplace is part of first stegosaur ever named by scientists

The spectacular remains of the first stegosaur to be described by scientists – discovered in a clay pit in Swindon in 1874 – are on display in the grand surroundings of the Natural History Museum in London.

But 150 years on, a little piece of the Swindon Stegosaur has been returned to the Wiltshire town, after two fossil hunters spotted one of its vertebrae for sale on an online marketplace site.