9 minutes ago Award to Elizabeth Line is a damning indictment of British architecture

Four years late and massively over budget, of course the Lizzie line is winning awards, writes Helen Coffey – our expectations have become so low when it comes to public transport in the UK, we’ll give anything a prize

Events

31 minutes ago Liam Payne was 'quietly dropped' from his record label after 'disagreements' before he died

Liam Payne was reportedly dropped by his record label Universal Music shortly before his tragic death, with insiders claiming his second album was also put on hold

Events

43 minutes ago David Cameron says India has ‘credibility’ to mediate in Ukraine war but must rein in Putin

Former British prime minister’s remarks come after Vladimir Putin says Russia will prevail in war ‘Nato is waging’ against it

Politics

52 minutes ago WHSmith: iconic British retailer to reintroduce vinyl records in stores after 30

The nostalgic revival is coming to 80 UK stores 🎶

Politics

60 minutes ago The 29p household item that will 'get rid' of spiders and daddy long legs

Daddy long legs are invading British homes as we are halfway through mating season, but there's a cheap and easy way to get rid of them according to experts at Wayfair UK

Politics

85 minutes ago Volkswagen fined £5.4m for mistreating customers; UK interest rates ‘to fall to 2.75%’ next year – business live

Volkswagen Finance has agreed to pay over £21.5m in redress to around 110,000 customers who may have suffered harm because of its failings.Volkswagen Financial Services has apologised for the failings identified by the FCA, saying (via Reuters):“We are in the process of concluding our remediation efforts as we continue to provide goodwill payments to affected customers and apologise for any detriment caused.” Continue reading...

Economics

96 minutes ago ‘What is my faith? What am I doing?’ The American evangelicals ‘deconstructing’ their religion to save it

When a young Southern Baptist came out as gay, it prompted a ‘major reckoning’: could he reconcile his religion with his sexuality?In 2017, at the end of his first year at Samford University, a private Christian university in Birmingham, Alabama, Nathan Peace realized he’d never “pray the gay away” and he’d never “turn straight”.Peace had grown up in a “churchy” family in Georgia and attended Southern Baptist services his entire life. In high school, he showed up early for Bible study and participated in group prayers before marching band performances. In the 2016 election, he voted for Donald Trump. It’s what he thought he had to do to be a “faithful” Christian. Continue reading...

Politics

96 minutes ago Texas condemned for placing book on colonization in library’s fiction section

Outcry in Montgomery county as Linda Coombs’ book on European colonization of Native American land reclassifiedAnti-censorship advocates have joined book publisher Penguin Random House in condemning a Texas county that reclassified an account of European settlers’ colonization of Indigenous Americans as fiction.The furor in Montgomery county – near Houston – follows the decision by a citizens review panel, at the behest of rightwing activists, to place Colonization and the Wampanoag Story by Linda Coombs in the fiction section of children’s libraries. Continue reading...

Politics

98 minutes ago The 'fascinating' meaning behind a custard cream pattern that fans are just learning

People are just now realising what the pattern on the well-known British biscuit is

Politics

1 hour ago Bury mum among 200 more TUI customers seeking legal help after holiday misery

The total number of British tourists who fell ill at TUI hotels in Cape Verde has now hit over 1,100

Economics