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71 minutes ago British Gas, EDF, EON and Octopus customers can save money with £4.99 Lidl product

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82 minutes ago Chelsea vs Wolves LIVE! Premier League match stream, latest score and goal updates today

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44 minutes ago Long Lost Family: British woman amongst thousands caught up in Spanish baby scandal speaks out

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2 hours ago Vicky Pattison to release deepfake pornography using her face in TV documentary

The Channel 4 show comes as ministers are seeking to crack down on sexually-explicit deepfake images.

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32 hours ago TikTok Influencers from across the world react to US ban as app 'goes dark' for its 170million American users

The Chinese-based video app has officially shut down its services for 170 million American TikTokers after the Supreme Court allowed the ban in a shock ruling on Friday.

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61 minutes ago Trump once distanced himself from Project 2025. But now MAGA’s hardliners are ready for the revolution

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7 hours ago Food delivery apps urged to reveal how algorithms affect UK couriers’ work

Campaigners call for transparency from Deliveroo, JustEat and UberEats about how decisions on pay and jobs are madeTakeaway delivery apps are facing pressure to crack open the black-box algorithms that govern the work of more than 100,000 couriers in the UK and reveal more about how decisions are made on pay and access to jobs.A coalition including the TUC, Amnesty International, couriers’ unions and the campaign group Privacy International claim the opaque use of algorithms is “automating exploitation”. They say withholding vital information from couriers about their work is “creating precarity, stress, and misery”. Continue reading...

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Blues looking to halt a five-game Premier League winless run

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53 minutes ago What Happened at Auschwitz review – this urgent documentary is a small step back towards enlightenment

Indelible stories from survivors and chilling present-day footage of the former camp combine to make this short, stark yet hopeful film. Look at the world in 2025 and you can easily see why it is such vital viewingThis month is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, and, in Jordan Dunbar’s documentary What Happened at Auschwitz, there is a sense of these chances to remember running out. Most obviously that’s true in terms of being able to speak directly to the survivors: Dunbar meets a handful of them, and their clarity and focus are undimmed, yet their numbers are declining.Dunbar, however, assigns his subject matter another, different urgency. We live, he observes, in an era of disinformation and rising hatred. A terrifying percentage of online content and commentary about the Holocaust questions whether it happened or celebrates that it did. Less than a century since this appalling crime against humanity, the principl...

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6 hours ago Strike authorized against popular US retailer Costco as contract nears expiration

If a strike goes ahead, 56 of the company’s warehouse stores across five states would be affectedMembers of the Teamsters union have authorized a strike against popular US retailer Costco next month as a pre-emptive bargaining-position ahead of the expiration of a work contract for 18,000 company workers.If a strike goes ahead, 56 of the company’s warehouse stores across five states would be affected after 85% of Teamster members voted to authorize the action over wages and benefits. Continue reading...

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15 hours ago I’m an A&E nurse – and in my hospital right now, we can’t give patients the dignified care they need | Susie

Injured people are being seen in viewing rooms for dead bodies. I love my job, but I don’t know how much longer I can copeSusie (not her real name) is a senior nurse in an A&E ward at a London hospitalA&E nurses thrive in a crisis. That’s why my colleagues and I came into the profession – to do the best for our patients in their moment of need, even in the most chaotic of circumstances. But the pressure is currently overwhelming. This winter, a bad but by no means unprecedented flu season has put immense strain on already struggling hospitals around the UK. Some patients are waiting days to be seen, with trusts using every inch of space to look after patients in corridors, physio rooms and even store cupboards, often without access to vital lifesaving equipment such as oxygen.In the London hospital I work in, patients brought in on trolleys are often left for hours in an indoor ambulance bay with an automatic sliding door that opens on to the elements. While they wait for a ...

Science

61 minutes ago BBC The Traitors 2025: When is it on next, how many episodes are left and when does it end

Within the last nine episodes of The Traitors, there have been multiple banishments, murders and even two traitors caught out, but what can viewers expect in the final week?

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13 hours ago Australia v England: Women’s Ashes first cricket T20 international – live

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2 hours ago 'I paid £130 to buy someone's lost luggage – what was inside left me stunned'

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11 hours ago ‘Inside I was doing the Mario jump’ – how one artist became a key player in Nintendo’s story

Takaya Imamura worked at Nintendo for 32 years before leaving to create his own game, Omega Six. He shares anecdotes from those pivotal years at the creative giantIn 1889 in Kyoto, craftsman Fusajiro Yamauchi founded a hanafuda playing card company. He called it Nintendo – a phrase whose meaning is lost to time according to Nintendo’s own historians, but which can be translated as “leave luck up to heaven”. In the 1970s, Nintendo eventually transitioned from paper games to electronic ones, making its own luck in the process. It has been a permanent fixture in living rooms across the world ever since.For budding artist Takaya Imamura, an art student who had been captivated by Metroid and Super Mario Bros 3 in the 1980s, working at Nintendo was a dream. “Back in 1985 when Super Mario came out in Japan, everybody was playing it,” he recalls. “I was at an art university, studying design at the time. Back then, game design wasn’t a thing people didn’t even know what game creators were.” ...

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95 minutes ago ‘My arrest was unjustified’: released Palestinians decry their imprisonment

Palestinian prisoners describe being held in poor conditions after their release as part of ceasefire dealIn the dead of night on Sunday, after hours of waiting, a white bus carrying dozens of Palestinian prisoners, released in exchange for three Israeli hostages handed over by Hamas to Israel, arrived at Fawakeh square in the West Bank city of Ramallah.A group of young men had climbed on to the vehicle, waving Palestinian and Hamas flags. Disembarking from the coach were mostly women and many minors, the majority of whom were detained after 7 October 2023. Continue reading...

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7 hours ago Colourful lanterns and daredevil motorcyclists: photos of the day – Monday

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38 hours ago Money expert explains six life hacks that will make you richer in 2025

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67 minutes ago Trump’s return to the White House is a carefully choreographed display of brute force

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14 hours ago We All Come Home Alive by Anna Beecher review – the pain of grief and joy of living

Beecher’s beautiful memoir, written partly in response to the death of her brother aged 25, describes in startling detail the highs and lows of existenceThe title of Anna Beecher’s first work of nonfiction can be read in various ways – an expression of triumph, relief or anticlimax. She uses it as a punchline to the book’s opening chapter, which recounts a car accident she experienced as a graduate student in the US. Here she conjures in vivid detail the violent shock of impact, the moments of silent disbelief in the immediate aftermath as she waits for understanding to catch up with physical sensation, dreading the discovery of what happened to the occupants of the other car, now spinning on its roof.In the event, no one is hurt, but Beecher pictures all too readily a parallel reality in which the crash resulted in several deaths, and she and her friend return home carrying the weight of that knowledge. “Our lives are punctured by moments of impossibility when the future unlatches ...

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3 hours ago David Beckham urges World Economic Forum to fight for girls’ rights – business live

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2 hours ago Two women arrested over luggage thefts from baggage area of busy European airport

Police said the women allegedly carried out thefts after landing on domestic flights

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10 hours ago The Apprentice cast 2025: meet the contestants for new series of BBC show

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68 minutes ago Trump's 2025 inauguration speech in full: Watch the new president promise a 'Golden Age' for America

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21 hours ago Ben Affleck looks downcast returning to office after his Brentwood home narrowly survived LA fire

The 52-year-old Oscar winner hauled what appeared to be a ripped-up piece of luggage out of Artists Equity headquarters

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3 hours ago Carrie Underwood's performance at Donald Trump's inauguration hit by shock technical glitch

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83 minutes ago A rebrand, not a revolution: our panel reacts to Trump’s inauguration speech | Panel

While today’s speech certainly struck a more measured tone than his 2017 address, it was still Trump through and throughThe Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: fear, division and the facade of national populismDonald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the US today, promising a slew of executive actions that put America first. Here our columnists reflect of a return to Trump.Moustafa Bayoumi is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading...

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21 hours ago The 9 locations in Scotland that are the best in the UK for house price growth in 2025

Nine of the top ten housing markets in the UK so far this year are in Scotland

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5 hours ago Now that's a COOL job! Chefs, plumbers, and electricians could get paid over £50,000 to work in Antarctica

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3 hours ago Trump said he will label Mexican cartels as terrorists in his inaugural speech. What’s at stake?

President confirms push to ‘wage war’ on drug cartels; critics say he should stop US arms used in drug warDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesAl-Qaida, Hezbollah, the Islamic State – the list of foreign terrorist organisations (FTOs) is a who’s who of America’s enemies. Now Donald Trump wants to add a new one: Mexican cartels.Experts say the designation, which Trump confirmed in his inauguration speech on Monday, will not give the US many more tools to go after organised crime, and that it may simply be a threat to force more action from Mexico itself. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago Share your tributes and memories of David Lynch – and your most Lynchian photograph

We would like to hear your memories of David Lynch, as well as whether you are attending today’s global group transcendental mediation at noon PT David Lynch, the maverick American director, has died aged 78. He specialised in surreal, noir style mysteries and made a string of influential, critically acclaimed works including Twin Peaks and Eraserhead.We would like to hear your tributes and memories of David Lynch – whether you met him, or appreciated his work as a film-maker. We are also interested in seeing your most Lynchian photos and hearing your experience of the world group 10-minute transcendental mediation, organised by his children for Monday at noon PT. Continue reading...

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95 minutes ago Factchecking Trump’s inauguration speech, from inflation to healthcare

Following up on key claims made by 47th US president during his day one addressDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesDonald Trump repeatedly made false and misleading claims during his inaugural address.Here are the facts on some of the false claims offered during Trump’s speech.First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border. All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came. We will reinstate my remain in Mexico policy. I will end the practice of catch and release, and I will send troops to the southern border to repel the disastrous invasion of our country.A short time from now, we are going to be changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and we will restore the name of a great president, William McKinley to Mount McKinley, where it should be and where it belongs. President McKinley made our country very rich through tari...

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32 hours ago Woman stranded in Brazil after airline ‘refuses to allow her to board flight home to UK with eVisa’

Exclusive: Maria Juliana Marquez Monsalve says she was forced to pay over £700 for new flights to the UK airline refused to let her board

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7 hours ago Majority of UK shops to hike prices in 2025 with hordes of staff set for sack

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has been adamant that her National Insurance increase on the employers side will go ahead in April, but British businesses are less than thrilled about it

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3 hours ago Freed British hostage Emily Damari says 'heart is broken' as she returns to life hours after release

Her mother, Mandy Damari praised her daughter's resilience, saying 'from the bottom of my heart I would like to thank the many people who have played a role in bringing Emily home and given their support to me and my family'

Events

12 hours ago Noel Fielding's Bake Off future 'uncertain' after he dropped out of comedy series amid health issues

Fielding’s agents have reportedly been in ‘crisis talks’ with Channel 4 bosses

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96 minutes ago Kim Kardashian slammed over Melania Trump post during Inauguration: 'It's clear who she voted for'

Kim Kardashian has been slammed for sharing a photo of Melania Trump during Donald Trump's Presidential Inauguration on Monday.

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7 hours ago New Adult Disability Payment application guide could help people claim up to £184 each week

New applications for the devolved disability payment are taking 61 working days on average to process.

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29 hours ago Ipswich vs Man City LIVE! Premier League match stream, latest score and goal updates today

Pep Guardiola’s side looking to avoid huge slip-up against Tractor Boys

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4 hours ago Defeats, violence and shame: Lyon are at war with the rest of French football

The team were humiliated in the cup, the manager says it’s a ‘tragedy’, the fans are furious and the owner is picking fights By Luke Entwistle for Get French Football NewsAs Celal Bozkurt stepped up to take his penalty against Lucas Perri, he would have been forgiven for feeling a sense of deja vu. Back in November, it was his effort that wrapped up a 3-1 win over Lyon II, Les Gones’ reserve side, in the National 3. On Wednesday, he repeated the feat against Lyon’s first team, scoring the first goal in the penalty shootout as fifth-tier side Bourgoin-Jallieu sent last year’s finalists crashing out of the Coupe de France.It was Lyon fan and Groupama Stadium regular Mehdi Moujetzky’s brace that took the game to extra time and then Bozkurt’s calmly taken spot-kick that got the ball rolling in the shootout before misses from academy products Alexandre Lacazette and Corentin Tolisso saw the minnows advance. “We will have to face our shame, to those close to us, to those who love the club...

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13 hours ago Who left Dancing on Ice last night? ITV show’s remaining cast after Chelsee Healey elimination

Dancing on Ice has eliminated its first contestant in 2025 ⛸

Culture

1 hour ago Trump plans to withdraw US from Paris climate agreement for second time

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8 hours ago Aldi, Morrisons, Lidl and other shoppers face new contactless payment changes

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36 hours ago Djokovic v Lehecka LIVE: Australian Open 2025 scores and updates after Draper falls to Alcaraz

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4 hours ago Colombia vows war against leftwing guerrillas amid more than 100 deaths

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29 hours ago ITV Dancing on Ice's Steve Redgrave dealt major blow hours before live show

Dancing On Ice 2025 is set to continue on Sunday 18th January, with the second set of celebrities taking to the ice and one star in particular could be at risk of leaving

Culture

1 hour ago Trump inauguration: Zuckerberg, Bezos and Musk seated in front of cabinet picks

Stagecraft comes under fire from Trump critics as sign of oligarchy and the powerful influence they wieldDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesThe stagecraft of Donald Trump’s inauguration that placed global billionaire tech titans in front of his own cabinet picks has come under immediate fire from Trump critics as sign of oligarchy and the powerful influence they wield.During the ceremony at the Capitol rotunda, tech leaders including Meta’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg; Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook; Google’s CEO, Sundar Pichai; Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos; and Tesla’s CEO, Elon Musk, gathered together to symbolize the increasingly close relationship between the tech industry and the new American president.Trump sworn in as 47th president – follow live inauguration updatesFactchecking Trump’s speechA who’s who of far-right leaders in WashingtonMigrant groups at US-Mexico border await mass deportations‘Doge’ violates federal transparency rules, lawsuit claims Continue reading...

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9 hours ago New Look slashes 'perfect' puffer jacket in 4 colours to £29 in flash sale

High street retailer New Look is offering 25% off in a limited-time deal, and it includes this Black Cropped Puffer Coat

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39 hours ago Draper v Alcaraz LIVE: Australian Open 2025 scores and updates before Djokovic returns

The British No 1 faces a stiff task as Alcaraz looks to continue his chase for a career grand slam before Djokovic is in action later

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4 hours ago Who has left The Traitors so far? All 17 of the murders and banishments on BBC show in 2025

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33 hours ago 'Antiques Roadshow' vase dismissed and left in attic for 40 years sells for record

In the 1970s, a British couple were told their Chinese vase was a reproduction on the BBC antiques show Going for a Song, so they put it in their attic where it lay for 40 years

Culture

2 hours ago Land your perfect job in 2025 with top tips from our expert – beat the Blue Monday gloom

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10 hours ago Wowcher deal cuts price of 'quiet' treadmill worth £600 to less than £100

Reach your fitness goals for 2025 with the Rattrix treadmill that is now on offer on Wowcher for 83 percent less.

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41 hours ago Draper v Alcaraz LIVE: Australian Open 2025 scores and updates plus Djokovic v Lehecka

The British No 1 faces a stiff task as Alcaraz looks to continue his chase for a career grand slam before Djokovic is in action later

Sport

5 hours ago Palestinians begin search for Gaza’s missing as they return to ruined homes

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Events

2 hours ago Liverpool star Harvey Elliott makes exit decision after Arne Slot meeting amid transfer speculation

Harvey Elliott has spoken about his Liverpool future after limited Premier League minutes under Arne Slot and recent speculation linking him with a move away from Anfield this month

Politics

10 hours ago UK Government urged to increase personal tax allowance to £15,000 for pensioners

The Personal Allowance will remain frozen at £12,570 until the 2028/29 financial year.

Economics

5 hours ago Sunday roast in crisis? Warning shortages of broccoli and cauliflower could leave Brits without veg

Experts warn that an unusually warm autumn and winter has meant there might not be enough British-grown broccoli and cauliflower in the spring this year.

Events

2 hours ago The unassuming Greater Manchester town set to be one of UK's top property hotspots in 2025

House prices have soared by five percent across the area in the last year

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10 hours ago London house prices now £200k higher than South East as market shows 'early signs of resurgence'

Commentators believe that 2025 will mark a turning point for London house prices

Economics

5 hours ago Less than a PINT could tip you over the limit: Calls to lower the drink drive threshold to just a small glass of beer as road fatalities hit 13

The British Medical Association wants to reduce the current limit by nearly half, to 50mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood for the majority of drivers.

Events

2 hours ago ‘It’s worth it’: Trump supporters brave cold to celebrate inauguration in DC

Thousands squeeze into Capital One Arena for televised viewing of president’s swearing-in despite frigid weatherDonald Trump inauguration – live updatesIn bitter cold, thousands of Donald Trump’s faithful gathered at the Capital One Arena in Washington for a televised viewing of his inauguration, sharing stories of unwavering support despite not being able to see the president up close.The weather-forced move indoors scaled back what Capitol police had anticipated would be a crowd of a quarter-million ticketed guests, though die-hard supporters still made their way through the capital’s frozen streets to be as close as possible to the historic moment. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago British Council could plug £200million debt crisis by selling art collection featuring masterpieces by Tracey Amin and David Hockney

The council is facing £197million in outstanding debt after taking out an emergency £250million loan from the government during the pandemic.

Economics

5 hours ago ‘I back her 100%’: Dunkley refuses to blame Knight for England Ashes failure

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Events

2 hours ago Sam Thompson reveals two big career changes after Zara McDermott split

EXCLUSIVE: The former I’m A Celebrity winner has big plans for 2025 and is ready to put them into action

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11 hours ago Noel Fielding’s Bake Off future ‘confirmed’ after withdrawal from comedy series

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Economics

5 hours ago Hooters waitress dubbed '2025 Hawk Tuah Girl' after flirting with cop during arrest

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Events

2 hours ago My Nigerian father is making my boyfriend answer VERY personal questions before I'm allowed to date him

Uzo Njoku, 28, an artist from Manhattan, revealed an elaborate 20-question document on X, which featured enquiries about what her potential man does for a living and his medical history

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11 hours ago Moment British Formula 1 star Lando Norris's £2million Ferrari F40 spins out of control and crashes in Monaco

The red supercar could be seen spinning almost a full 360 degrees as it slowed down after sliding into the metal railing.

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6 hours ago Brit relative of Hamas hostage begs for the chance to tell him his wife and children are dead

The British family of a hostage held by Hamas has pleaded with authorities in Israel to let them break the news that his wife and children were killed in the October 7 attacks

Events

2 hours ago Trump announces slew of hardline executive actions on day one and attacks Biden over pre

Trump airs familiar grievances in first speech of second term; Biden pardons members of his family before leaving officeTrump sworn in as 47th president Factchecking Trump’s inaugural address My colleague Joseph Gedeon in Washington DC also had this look at what Trump might have planned for day one:In the grand theatre of American politics, presidential inaugurations typically follow a familiar script: the oath, the speech, a few carefully chosen executive orders to satisfy campaign promises. Franklin D Roosevelt used his first day to tackle the banking crisis. Barack Obama moved to close Guantánamo Bay (though it remains open). Donald Trump’s first term began with a single executive order targeting Obamacare. Joe Biden signed 17 executive orders on his first day in 2021. Continue reading...

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11 hours ago The gig economy: ticket inflation is getting worse, so where does all the money go?

Taylor Swift’s Eras tour and the Gallaghers’ ill-fated dabble with dynamic pricing have put the spotlight on how much we’re willing to pay for live music. But, on the other side of the equation, the costs can be exorbitant and the risks are eye-wateringThe news that Oasis were to reunite sparked a wave of euphoria across the nation at the end of last summer. But the nostalgia balloon was quickly punctured by the discovery that the tickets, initially priced at £148.50, had suddenly leapt to £355.20 due to dynamic pricing. The outcry quickly sparked a new debate about what constitutes a “fair” price for gig tickets, with the band themselves fanning the flames: Liam Gallagher told those bellyaching about the lack of transparency to “SHUTUP” and buy “Kneeling only” tickets for £100,000 instead.Dynamic pricing, where the cost rises in real time in lockstep with demand, is hardly new. Parallels are often made with the surge pricing used on budget airlines and taxi-booking apps, ...

Economics

6 hours ago Gaza ceasefire latest: Hamas says people of Gaza will ‘rise again’ and rebuild territory

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2 hours ago The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s inauguration: fear, division and the facade of national populism | Editorial

The billionaire’s return to power signals a new era of upheaval in US politics, marked by authoritarian ambitions, glaring conflicts and polarisationOn the surface, Donald Trump’s inauguration looked like the usual transfer of power, with political rivals exchanging polite applause. This was a facade. Mr Trump’s address feigned conciliation but was, in reality, a rightwing call to arms against his enemies, rejecting the unity the ceremony represents. Mr Trump presented a grim picture of a country on its knees that only he can revitalise. He declared not one but two national emergencies, pledging to return “millions of criminal aliens” and “drill, baby, drill” for the “liquid gold under our feet”. His alarming call to “take back” the Panama Canal from China hints at ambitions to reshape the global order, potentially through force.A flurry of Trumpian executive orders will accelerate the climate emergency, defy the US constitution over birthright citizenship and reduce the scope ...

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