69 minutes ago Ben Elton at Duke of York's Theatre review: scorchingly topical and bracingly funny

The 65-year-old’s high velocity, gag-packed show about AI couldn’t be better timed, opening on the day the Prime Minister announced his plan to use the technology to boost UK growth

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26 minutes ago Thousands of Dumfries and Galloway properties at risk of losing control of heating and hot water systems

Many homes and businesses still use a soon to be switched off system telling electricity meters to switch between peak and off-peak rates.

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11 hours ago Fate hanging in balance of top union boss who pushed Starmer over workers’ rights

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack is set to discover on Tuesday if members have voted for him to stay in post

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44 minutes ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal told new Vlahovic fee; Chelsea suffer Tel blow; Liverpool reject £70m bid

January window hotting up as Premier League sides eye big deals

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56 minutes ago Scots teen fighting for life in Spain after 'lungs filled with blood' on holiday

The teen remains in ICU on a ventilator and the family were told it could be weeks until they even discuss transferring her home.

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25 hours ago Moment Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket launch to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX called off

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin rocket launch was called off on Monday, 13 January, after “a few anomalies” during the mission countdown.

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9 hours ago Medicating misery by doling out antidepressants is based on a myth: NHS psychiatrist PROFESSOR JOANNA MONCRIEFF reveals the shameful truth about Big Pharma

All mental health problems are overwhelmingly seen as conditions arising from a chemical imbalance which needs correcting with drugs just like other diseases. But what if I told you this idea is a myth?

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76 minutes ago Ministers hope Donald Trump will 'go slowly' on tariffs amid fears of global trade war

The US President-elect, who will return to the White House on Monday after winning November's election, has called tariffs 'the most beautiful word' in the dictionary.

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38 minutes ago ‘I’m alive’: man who uses wheelchair tells of New Orleans attack ordeal

Family of Jeremi Sensky, from Pittsburgh, suggests wheelchair may have acted as ‘boulder’ to help stop attackThe family of a man who was left paralyzed from the waist down by a 1999 car accident before being hit and badly wounded in the deadly New Year’s Day truck attack in New Orleans are reportedly wondering whether the 300lb wheelchair he uses may have had a role in helping halt the terror.Jeremi Sensky of the suburban Pittsburgh community of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, was in New Orleans to ring in 2025 with relatives at the time the attack occurred, he told KDKA’s The Marty Griffin Show. Sensky was on Bourbon Street when he was hit by a US army veteran inspired by Islamic State in an intentional ramming that killed 14 people and wounded about 30 others. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago Fate hanging in balance of top union boss who pushed Starmer over workers rights

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack is set to discover on Tuesday if members have voted for him to stay in post

Economics

86 minutes ago Manchester United told Marcus Rashford transfer to Premier League club would 'not be simple'

Marcus Rashford is expected to leave Man United this month and the forward has been linked with West Ham.

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65 minutes ago Charity staff receive death threats after Elon Musk shares video made by Welsh schoolgirls

The claims have been called 'untrue' and 'utterly irresponsible'

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27 hours ago Blue Origin rocket launch cancelled as Jeff Bezos tries to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Blue Origin, the private space company owned by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has pulled a major test of its rocket.

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13 hours ago Elon Musk says another patient got a Neuralink brain implant. There’s more to come

More than 45 trials involving brain-computer interfaces are underway in the US

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78 minutes ago Tulip Siddiq 'getting on with job', insists minister amid growing calls for her resignation

Sir Keir Starmer is facing mounting pressure to sack the MP for Hampstead and Highgate amid an independent investigation into her conduct

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19 hours ago ITV Masked Singer's Macy Gray became 'massive a***hole' after fighting secret health battle

Macy Gray went viral after storming off The Masked Singer at the weekend - and the Toad in the Hole contestant has since told why she was so upset after being unmasked

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13 hours ago Pound falls again and borrowing costs hit new high but Keir Starmer gives Rachel Reeves 'full confidence'

No10 said Chancellor will remain until the next election as pressure mounts on her amid the economic problems facing Britain

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1 hour ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal told Vlahovic fee; Chelsea suffer Tel blow; Liverpool reject £70m bid; Man United

January window hotting up as Premier League sides eye big deals

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72 minutes ago Kemi Badenoch blames 'peasant' immigrants from poor parts of foreign countries for the grooming gangs scandal

Kemi Badenoch suggested problems came from 'sub-communities' within countries that were 'very rural'.

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27 hours ago Watch: Amazon boss Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket launch to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX cancelled

Watch as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin attempted to launch its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday, 13 January.

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19 hours ago The NHS can give out patient data for training AI models and still 'keep control', Keir Starmer says

Keir Starmer defended allowing anonymised details to be used as he vowed to make the UK a 'superpower' in the technology.

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85 minutes ago Rachel Reeves told it would be ‘politically suicidal’ to impose further cuts as economy falters – UK politics live

John McDonnell says more cuts would be ‘a disaster for the country’ and steer voters towards ReformYou might think that Kemi Badenoch’s latest comments on the grooming gangs scandal (see 9.39am) sound a bit more Lee Anderson than Rishi Sunak, David Cameron or any other mainstream Conservative party leader. You would be right.One explanation (often the best explanation in politics) is that Badenoch is just saying what she thinks.While Badenoch may have hoped that her positioning would bring Reform UK defectors back into the fold, our results show that just 4% of those who voted for Reform UK at the 2024 general election now plan to vote for the Conservatives – while at the same time the Tories have lost 15% of their 2024 voters to Farage’s party. Continue reading...

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22 hours ago What is Jools' Law? MPs debate access to children's social media after bereaved mum's petition

The proposed legislation could give parents a legal right to access their children’s data

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15 hours ago Elon Musk says a third patient got a Neuralink brain implant. The work is part of a booming field

Elon Musk says a third person has received an implant from his brain-computer interface company Neuralink

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2 hours ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal told Vlahovic fee; Chelsea target Bayern swap; Liverpool reject £70m bid

January window hotting up as Premier League sides eye big deals

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1 hour ago Ugandan military court rules it can try opposition figure on treachery charge carrying death penalty

A prominent opposition figure in Uganda will stand trial on the serious charge of treachery, a military court ruled Tuesday, escalating the legal trouble Kizza Besigye faces ahead of presidential elections scheduled for 2026

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27 hours ago Watch: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin rocket launch to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX cancelled

Watch as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin attempted to launch its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday, 13 January.

Technology

21 hours ago 'Dangerous' surgeon 'should be kept away from patients', tribunal told

A tribunal panel said 'it was fortunate that no patients had come to harm' while the surgeon had been in his role, and that he should only be allowed to work under supervision

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95 minutes ago Reform on track to have 100 MPs in a hung Parliament: Bombshell poll shows support for Farage's party leapfrogging the Tories and just a point behind Labour

YouGov research put Nigel Farage's Reform on 25 per cent, having leapfrogged the Tories on 22 per cent.

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28 hours ago Weary LA residents finally told when they can return to homes after fires ravaged thousands of buildings along the coast: Live updates

DAILY MAIL LIVE BLOG: The wildfires ravaging California have killed at least 16 people and destroyed over 12,000 structures.

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19 hours ago Thief with drug problem stole £2,000 worth of items to support addiction

Guissepi Depaolo, 38, told a judge his behaviour was "embarrassing and shameful" and he wants to be a better father to his children.

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3 hours ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal told Vlahovic fee; Chelsea want Bayern swap; Liverpool reject £70m bid; Man United

January window hotting up as Premier League sides eye big deals

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2 hours ago UK politics live: Reeves warned more cuts would be ‘political suicide’ as pressure builds over market turmoil

Chancellor to address parliament as economic pressure mounts over cost of borrowing and falling pound

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28 hours ago Watch live: Amazon’s Jeff Bezos launches Blue Origin rocket to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Watch live as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin attempts to launch its New Glenn rocket for the first time from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Monday, 13 January.

Technology

2 hours ago ‘Like a big box of chocolates’: Tom Hanks puts his typewriters on display

The actor has shared selected items from his famous collection for a new exhibition taking place in Sag HarborSome celebrities collect art, rare film prints or plain old action figures. (Welcome to the club, Leonardo DiCaprio.) Tom Hanks, somewhat famously, collects something that’s simultaneously more practical and unwieldy: typewriters. And unlike Steve Martin’s paintings or Leo’s figures, you can currently get a look at some of the Hanks typewriters at The Church, an exhibition venue in Long Island’s Sag Harbor.Some of Tom’s Typewriters includes 35 from his collection of over 300, chosen by Hanks himself. These include an electric typewriter from the set of Mad Men (the curators are, as yet, unclear as to how Hanks obtained this, but he’s recording an electronic guide to accompany the show that they are hoping will explain), an original 1969 Olivetti “Valentine” typewriter designed by Ettore Sottsass, and, in one of the more surprising touches, a relatively new model: a transluce...

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22 hours ago Starmer refuses to guarantee Reeves will stay Chancellor as markets hammer the UK AGAIN with borrowing costs spiking and Pound sliding

Traders have pushed the government's borrowing costs even higher, while the Pound lost more ground against the dollar.

Economics

24 hours ago What Ruben Amorim told Manchester United fans after Arsenal win shows they have the right manager

A mentality change underpinned Man United's best performance under Ruben Amorim at Liverpool and it has grown since then.

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4 hours ago Holidaymakers warned to avoid ‘miserable’ attractions in France and Spain

A charity has told the public to avoid these holiday spots

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3 hours ago Donald Trump would have been convicted for attempting to overturn 2020 election, says special counsel

US Special Counsel Jack Smith accuses President-elect of ‘unprecedented criminal effort’

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23 hours ago Starmer refuses to rule out spending cuts as markets hammer the UK AGAIN: PM dodges on consequences of spiking borrowing costs and sliding Pound

Traders pushed the government's borrowing costs even higher this morning, while the Pound lost more ground against the dollar.

Economics

31 hours ago What Ruben Amorim told Man United players after Arsenal win as Bruno Fernandes sends message to teammates

Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes shared a very clear message after the FA Cup win at Arsenal.

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5 hours ago California governor Newsom accuses Musk of ‘encouraging looting’ with misleading LA fires claim

Factually incorrect posts shared by Elon Musk on his social media site claim California governor Gavin Newsom decriminalised looting

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3 hours ago Good Morning Britain halted by Ranvir Singh for urgent 'breaking news' announcement

Good Morning Britain came to a halt on Tuesday as political correspondent Ranvir Singh announced "breaking news" on the programme to bring the latest report on the US election scandal

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23 hours ago Starmer AI speech LIVE: PM claims £14bn tech plan can ‘save lives’ and make UK an ‘AI superpower’

The pound is under further pressure as Government borrowing costs continued to push to multi-decade highs

Economics

34 hours ago Chelsea told to sign 'scary' striker who 'fits' Arsenal better amid Nicolas Jackson dip

Chelsea told to sign 'scary' striker who 'fits' Arsenal better amid Nicolas Jackson dip  LondonWorld

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7 hours ago Qantas South Africa flights delayed by falling debris from SpaceX rockets, airline says

Delays on Sydney-Johannesburg route after advice from US government over debris from SpaceX rocket re-entry in southern Indian OceanFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastQantas says it has been forced to delay several of its flights to South Africa at the last minute due to warnings of falling debris from Elon Musk’s SpaceX rockets re-entering Earth.Ben Holland, the head of Qantas’s operations centre, said there was often little advance notice of where the rockets would fall over the southern Indian Ocean – the re-entry zone chosen by the space company due to its remoteness – causing the airline to delay flights on its Sydney-Johannesburg route. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, says special counsel

Report by Jack Smith says evidence ‘was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction’ had Trump not won re-election in 2024US politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 but for his victory in last year’s US presidential election, according to the special counsel who investigated him.Jack Smith’s report detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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25 hours ago Post Office sees record £1bn in cash withdrawn in a single month for first time ever

On Christmas Day itself, more than £3.7 million in cash was withdrawn or deposited over the counter at 1,300 Post Office branches that were open.

Economics

10 hours ago Ukraine war briefing: Strengthen Kyiv’s hand before peace talks, says Nato chief

Mark Rutte says Ukraine not yet in the ‘position of strength’ it needs for talks with Russia; Biden says US and allies ‘can’t walk away’. What we know on day 1,056Ukraine is not in a strong enough position for peace talks with Russia, Nato chief, Mark Rutte, said on Monday. “At this moment, clearly Ukraine is not there, because they cannot at this moment negotiate from a position of strength,” Rutte told EU lawmakers. “We have to do more to make sure by changing the trajectory of the conflict that they can get to that position of strength.”Donald Trump will be sworn into office as US president next Monday after vowing on the campaign trail to bring a swift end to Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. Rutte said: “We all want this war to end, but above all, we want peace to last. Peace will not last if Putin gets his way in Ukraine, because then he will press ahead I am convinced that peace can only last if Ukraine comes to the table from a position of strength.”The United States and its ...

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3 hours ago Farage’s Reform UK just one point behind Labour in damning new YouGov poll for Starmer

It comes after Nigel Farage’s party claimed to have overtaken the Tories’ membership numbers

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25 hours ago UK says 'good progress' being made on Chagos deal despite backlash at claims Labour will pay Mauritius nearly £9BILLION

A joint statement said 'further productive discussions' had been held on reaching an agreement 'in both sides' interests'.

Economics

11 hours ago Colorado apartment complex where armed gang members were seen on video will be closed

A judge has ordered the closure of an Aurora, Colorado, apartment complex where armed members of a Venezuelan gang were caught on video entering a unit last summer — footage that drew the attention of President-elect Donald Trump during the presidential campaign

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3 hours ago I was fully indoctrinated into the Democrat 'cult.' Here's why I left my liberal influencer life behind to raise money for Trump

A high energy Democratic fundraiser, former congressional candidate and social media influencer is now raising money for President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural committee.

Politics

26 hours ago Zara McDermott hails £40 electric heated blanket 'the best thing' she's ever used to stay warm

Zara McDermott shared a snap of the £40 electric blanket that she's been raving about to help her stay warm in the winter as she calls it 'the best thing I've ever used in my life'

Economics

11 hours ago How Tulip Siddiq boasted of campaigning for 'despot' aunt in Bangladesh as pressure mounts on Keir Starmer to sack chaos

The City minister - who is in charge of fighting corruption - is now fighting to keep her job after using properties linked to 'despot' Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed from office last summer.

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3 hours ago Jack Smith insists Trump WOULD have been convicted of election interference in bombshell report

Donald Trump raged against special counsel Jack Smith's report in a late night rant to Truth Social shortly after it was released.

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26 hours ago Markets pummel UK AGAIN as businesses blame Labour: Ministers warned of 'ruthless' spending curbs as borrowing costs rise and Pound slides against dollar

The government's borrowing costs rose further in early trading, while the Pound lost more ground against the dollar.

Economics

11 hours ago Actor Dirk Bogarde was ‘disturbed’ by KGB sting warning, declassified files reveal

MI5 told Bogarde in 1971 that he had been identified as ‘practising homosexual’ of interest by Russian spiesThe film star Dirk Bogarde was “clearly disturbed” and “troubled” after MI5 warned him that his name had been given to the KGB as a “practising homosexual” and he risked being compromised in a sting operation, newly declassified intelligence files show.Bogarde, who died in 1999 and never came out publicly but lived with his life partner and manager, Anthony Forwood, was told by security services that his name was on a list of “six practising British homosexuals” given to the Russians by an unnamed source who had himself been sexually compromised during a visit to Moscow in the late 1950s. Continue reading...

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3 hours ago Young people are abandoning democracy for dictators. I can understand their despair | Owen Jones

Fascism in power in the 1930s brought the world to genocidal war. But memories have faded, as has the stigma attached to the far-right – and that’s dangerousDemocracy is dying across the globe. This may sound alarmist and generate a follow-up question: what does that actually mean? Will there be no elections? Will the opposition be criminalised? If these are the metrics, then Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains a democracy. Six political parties are represented in the State Duma, its federal parliament, and there are more than 20 registered political parties. Well, as you probably understand, Russia is no democracy: indeed, this is a nation veering past authoritarianism and into totalitarianism, with more Russians being persecuted for political activity than since the days of Joseph Stalin.Faith in democracy is unquestionably on the decline. A new study finds that a fifth of Britons under 45 believe that the best system for running a country effectively is “a strong leader who doesn’t h...

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26 hours ago Zara McDermott says £40 electric blanket is ‘the best thing I’ve ever used in my life’

Zara McDermott has shared the £40 electric heated blanket she’s been using to stay warm this winter as she calls it ‘the best value’ and ‘the best thing I’ve ever used in my life'

Economics

11 hours ago Dismantling UN agency in Gaza will ‘plunge communities into despair’, MPs warned

The Commons’ Foreign Affairs Committee has published a series of letters from Foreign Secretary David Lammy and aid agency Unrwa.

Events

4 hours ago Carrie Underwood's 'career drops to lowest point' ahead of Donald Trump inauguration gig

Carrie Underwood has been slammed after she expressed her excitement to be performing at the upcoming inauguration of scandal-hit President Elect Donald Trump

Politics

27 hours ago Treasury using AI to reply to taxpayers’ emails as Starmer vows to ‘mainline technology into veins’ of UK

Prime minister has vowed to use AI to ‘drive incredible change in our country’

Economics

12 hours ago DeSantis picks a side in MAGA’s visa civil war: ‘We’ve got some big problems’

Florida governor sided against Donald Trump and Elon Musk on the H-1B debate among MAGA allies

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4 hours ago Donald Trump would have been convicted if not elected president, Jack Smith report says

Trump ‘inspired his supporters to commit acts of physical violence’ January 6 using false claims he knew to be untrue, says just released report on Trump’s attempts to upend the 2020 democratic election.

Politics

35 hours ago Post Office sees record of more than £1bn in cash withdrawals in December

On Christmas Day itself, more than £3.7 million in cash was withdrawn or deposited over the counter at 1,300 Post Office branches that were open.

Economics

13 hours ago Labour's rush to Net Zero means Britain 'is teetering on brink of blackouts', Senior Tory warns

Andrew Bowie said the Government's 'ideological' drive to decarbonise the electricity grid by 2030 would leave Britain 'teetering on the brink of blackouts'.

Events

4 hours ago Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, special counsel report says

Newly released report by Jack Smith states the ‘evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction’ of Trump had he not been elected in 2024Donald Trump would have been convicted of crimes over his failed attempt to cling to power in 2020 if he had not won the presidential election in 2024, according to the special counsel who investigated him.Jack Smith’s report detailing his team’s findings about Trump’s efforts to subvert democracy was released by the justice department early on Tuesday. Continue reading...

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13 hours ago How Tulip Siddiq boasted of campaigning alongside aunt in 2008 as pressure mounts on Keir Starmer to sack chaos

The City minister - who is in charge of fighting corruption - is now fighting to keep her job after using properties linked to 'despot' Sheikh Hasina, who was deposed from office last summer.

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5 hours ago Trump faced sufficient evidence for conviction in election case, special counsel report says

Jack Smith’s report finds president-elect would have been convicted but for 2024 poll victory

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13 hours ago Keir Starmer hails 'new era' in relations with Iraq amid crunch asylum return talks

Keir Starmer will host Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani at No10 as he pushes for a new returns agreement allowing the UK to send back failed asylum seekers

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5 hours ago As confidence in Labour wanes, Starmer and Reeves must do more to help business

Labour’s decision to increase employers’ National Insurance contributions has knocked a hole in business’s confidence in the government, according to the CBI

Politics

13 hours ago South Wales Police sergeant felt 'victimised' by force as key claim dropped in misconduct case

Sergeant Rhodri Davies told the panel he has been signed off 'sick' since being served with misconduct allegations over the treatment of Tariq Evans at Swansea Police Station/

Events

6 hours ago ‘Donald of Dubai’: Emirati real estate mogul rubbing shoulders with Trump

Hussain Sajwani has built swaths of the Middle East’s glitziest commercial hub and made an ally of the US president-elect

Politics

16 hours ago Starmer under pressure as second Labour MP breaks ranks to call for grooming gangs inquiry

U-turn by Rotherham MP Sarah Champion risks re-opening row triggered by billionaire and Donald Trump ally Elon Musk

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8 hours ago Elon Musk could acquire US operations of TikTok under new deal proposed by Chinese officials

Elon Musk is being considered by Chinese officials to acquire TikTok's U.S. operations as a last resort if the app faces a nationwide ban in the coming days.

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16 hours ago Access to children’s social media after death ‘moral and humane right’, MPs hear

Liberal Democrat MP Max Wilkinson said social media giants place ‘process ahead of compassion’ for parents seeking answers about their child’s death.

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