65 minutes ago Starmer ‘shares public’s anger’ as prisoners pictured leaving prison early

Around 1,100 inmates are expected to be freed in a second wave of early releases under the Government’s policy to free up prison space.

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75 minutes ago No 10 says Starmer ‘shares public anger’ at early prisoner releases but system facing paralysis without it – UK politics live

Downing Street says government ‘shocked’ at inheriting prisons crisis as hundreds of prisoners get early releaseThe funeral of Alex Salmond, the former Scottish first minister who died suddenly earlier this month after delivering a speech in North Macedonia, will be held on Tuesday 29 October, his family has announced.The funeral will be at Strichen parish church in Aberdeenshire. It will be conducted by Rev Ian McEwan, a friend of the family, and only family and close friends are invited. Salmond will be laid to rest in Strichen cemetery.According to the Eurostat data, England and Wales had 144 prisoners per 100,000 head of population, the 8th highest rate among EU countries and the highest amongst western European jurisdictions. Scotland had the 9th highest with 137 prisoners per 100,...

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89 minutes ago Elon Musk is trying to buy the US election for Donald Trump. What does he want in return? | Arwa Mahdawi

Billionaire funding is flooding into the ex-president’s campaign. If he wins, will we see prisons on Mars and Taylor Swift shot into space?Welcome to The Maga Millions: a thrilling new contest in which you can win a million bucks if you help a billionaire buy an election. As 5 November draws closer, Elon Musk has decided to try out some interesting – and possibly illegal – tactics to get his pal Donald Trump back into the White House.First up: cash payments. On Saturday, Musk announced that “America Pac”, his pro-Trump political action committee, will give away $1m every day until the election to a randomly selected signatory to his petition supporting free speech and gun rights. He had previously offered to pay registered voters in swing states – and only registered voters in swing sta...

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1 hour ago Katie Price says one thing is her 'downfall' as she's 'learned from therapy'

Katie Price has said her 'downfall' has been men as she revealed a domestic abuse course has taught her how to detect "controlling" behaviour

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1 hour ago David Beckham embroiled in Inter Miami scandal amid Lionel Messi accusation

FIFA's decision to award David Beckham's Inter Miami a place in the 2025 Club World Cup has been met with ridicule in the US, with the competition set to take place in the country

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1 hour ago Budget 2024 latest: Reeves facing £16.6bn peak in UK borrowing due to public sector pay rises

Speculation is mounting ahead of 30 October

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2 hours ago ‘Big up Keir Starmer’ says inmate as he poses with Bentley after early prison release

Around 1,100 inmates to be freed early on Tuesday as part of government’s policy to free up prison space

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2 hours ago SARAH VINE: This is the real harm that Amanda Abbington has done in her Kafkaesque pursuit of Strictly's Giovanni... and it betrays us all

When women are victims of abuse, be it sexual, violent or coercive in nature, it is important that people believe them. It can take months, sometimes years, to find the courage to step forward.

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2 hours ago A Colombian warlord became the Amazon rainforest’s most unlikely protector. Now he is cutting it down

Deforestation fell by a third when the guerrilla leader Ivan Mordisco violently enforced a logging ban, but now he has changed tack and is threatening Cop16 biodiversity talksIn the Amazon states of southern Colombia, uniform patches of cattle pasture suddenly give way to trees so numerous and densely packed that the blots of emerald, lime green and white overlap as vines, leaves and tree trunks merge into one.According to official figures, this place is an international success story: the frontline of the country’s fight against deforestation, which it slashed last year by 36%. Continue reading...

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2 hours ago ‘Woke tears’ water, Hillary toilet roll: the US right’s ‘parallel economy’ – in pictures

A conservative consumer movement is trying to create a separate economy from the ‘woke’ mainstream. So what are they selling?Last year, an intense transphobic backlash erupted in response to Bud Light using a trans influencer in a social media campaign. Bomb threats were called in to breweries, bars stopped selling Budweiser products, people posted videos of themselves pouring Bud Light down the drain, and Kid Rock filmed himself shooting several cases of it with a submachine gun.Against that backdrop, a company launched a Bud Light alternative called Ultra Right Beer, marketed as being “100% Woke-Free.”.Above: Trump Town, a store in Boones Mill, Virginia. Below: the America First Warehouse, Ronkonkoma, New York. Continue reading...

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