7 h. ago From 'sleeper agents' snuck onto asylum boats, to cyber attacks and suicide drones... these are the terrifying tactics Iran is ready to unleash on Britain: BOB SEELY

One morning - perhaps not so far in the future - you wake up and leave the house to get the train to work.

Events

7 h. ago As a hotel boss, I saw the chaos unions unleashed on Britain in the 1970s. Now Rayner's workers' rights Bill is set to drag us back to the age of socialism on steroids

Many people today will not remember the 1970s. Indeed, most of the leading figures in our Government are too young to do so. But I recall them only too well.

Economics

21 h. ago Boiling point! Britain's heatwave sparked four days of chaos as high temperatures unleashed high tempers across the country

Parts of Britain have descended into lawless chaos in recent days as videos showed fights breaking out in Kent and Berkshire during the heatwave that saw temperatures hit 33C.

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67 h. ago There’s a new retirement age for 2026 if you need to collect Social Security

Americans approaching retirement face an important decision: when they should claim their benefits

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5 d. ago Civil rights agency's acting chief to face questions on anti

The acting chief of the country’s top agency for enforcing worker rights will face questions at a Senate committee hearing Wednesday over her efforts to prioritize anti-diversity investigations while sidelining certain racial and gender discrimination cases and quashing protections for transgender workers

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9 d. ago Return to the 1970s as Angela Rayner's law could see walkouts triggered by just 10% of workforce

Angela Rayner (left) was accused of delivering a 'strikers' charter' with new laws which would allow industrial action to be triggered with the support of just 10 per cent of the workforce.

Politics

1 week ago Hong Kong rights group shuts down after years of advocating for workers

A Hong Kong workers' rights group has announced the end of its operation after decades

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1 week ago Drag stars are set to attend, then protest, Trump’s appearance at Les Misérables

Trump, 78, ignited fury with his decision to take the reigns of the Kennedy Center and pledged to scrap ‘woke’ programming

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2 w. ago Raft of tech companies investing in Britain as government vows to unleash growth

Raft of tech companies investing in Britain as government vows to unleash growth  GOV.UK

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2 w. ago 'I married Nigerian toyboy 43 years younger and everyone always has one comment'

A woman who had been unlucky in love was gobsmacked when a 25-year-old man liked one of her social media posts and now they are married. However their age gap and distance has lead to their relationship getting scrutinised online

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2 w. ago Tskaltubo, Stalin’s spa resort: the decay of a Soviet past in Georgia

Tskaltubo enjoyed years of prosperity as a jewel of Soviet architecture. But after the collapse of the USSR in December 1991 the sanatoriums were abandoned, and in 1992 people fleeing the war in Abkhazia found refuge here. While efforts continue to restore the spa town to its former glory, silence and greenery prevail as a few families hold out amid the rubbleThe right to rest for workers was enshrined in the 1936 constitution of the Soviet Union. Article 119 guaranteed “annual vacations with full pay for workers and employees and the provision of a wide network of sanatoriums”. Fourteen years earlier, the 1922 labour code had established that every worker was entitled to two weeks of annual leave and hundreds of sanatoriums were built across the vast territory that made up the Soviet socialist republics. These establishments, conceived as a combination of health resorts and medical centres, served as places for workers to rest and recuperate, thus helping to optimise their producti...

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2 w. ago Atlantic Starr singer Wayne Lewis dies as bandmates pay tribute to R&B legend

Wayne Lewis, who was the lead singer of the chart-topping band Atlantic Starr, has died at the age of 68, the band confirmed in a statement shared to social media

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2 w. ago Corfu hotel hits back after complaint of 'no English food' or enough chips

Susan Edwards, 69, from Newcastle, was angry claiming that there was no English food at her hotel in Corfu and now the boss of the accommodation has defended their menu

Society

3 w. ago Trump takes ‘wrecking ball’ to workers’ rights amid global ‘freefall’, new report says

International Trade Union Confederation issued report showing conditions for workers’ rights across the globe have worsenedWorkers’ rights across every continent in the world are in a “freefall”, according to the 2025 Global Rights Index released by the International Trade Union Confederation, the largest trade union federation in the world.The index noted workers’ rights and democracy around the world are often under attack by “far-right politicians and their unelected billionaire backers. Whether it’s Donald Trump and Elon Musk in the US or Javier Milei and Eduardo Eurnekian in Argentina, we see the same playbook of unfairness and authoritarianism in action around the world.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Hotel empire boss warns London's phone theft epidemic is 'scaring away tourists'

Greg Hegarty, co-chief executive of PPHE Hotels, has become the latest leading business figure to raise the alert about rampant crime in the UK capital.

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3 w. ago John Early: The Album Tour review – a rich slice of larky self

Soho theatre, LondonChatty waiters, visiting the loo in company and overinvesting in sexual role-play are uproariously discussed alongside covers of Madonna, Britney and Dolly PartonFor fans of a certain brand of comedy – the comedy that exposes self-fashioning in the age of social media as ridiculous performance – this flying UK visit by John Early has been keenly anticipated. The outre star of millennial self-satire Search Party and sidekick to the brilliant Kate Berlant, Early has spent his career perfectly situated where generational social commentary meets flamboyant silliness. At his best tonight, he richly delivers on the expectation. And even if his best doesn’t sustain from start to finish, in the first half, when the Tennessee man addresses himself to frightened, vacuous, deracinated American modernity, he’s riveting.What’s interesting about Early’s approach is that – unlike Berlant, Leo Reich, and others – he doesn’t hide behind a character, or a grotesque version of hims...

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3 w. ago IMF warns Trump’s tariffs are set to drag down UK economy next year

The organisation maintained its projection that the UK economy will expand by 1.4 per cent in 2026

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3 w. ago Liverpool parade driver conspiracy theories emerge as people ask 'how can he be 53'

Footage circulating on social media has sparked conspiracy theories over the age of the driver who allegedly ploughed into Liverpool fans during the championship parade

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