7 h. ago BORIS JOHNSON: It's time for Donald Trump to take the boot off Ukraine's neck and put the squeeze on Putin

When Putin this week launched one of his most vicious attacks so far upon the innocent citizens of Kyiv , it was an act of supreme contempt.

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9 h. ago Donald Trump too busy to buy Melania birthday present as First Lady to spend day at Pope Francis’ funeral

Donald Trump said he has not had much time to buy his wife, Melania, a birthday present as he’s been “pretty busy” while fallout from his tariffs continues.

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20 h. ago Reform UK on course to win in two mayoral contests – UK politics live

Polling predicts victory for party in Greater Lincolnshire and Hull/East Yorkshire with the Greens possibly taking West of EnglandThere are six mayoral elections next week. Two of them are for single-authority mayors (Doncaster and North Tyneside), but the others are for combined-authority mayors (or regional mayors – like metro mayors, but not just covering city regions). Today YouGov has released polling covering all four of these contests and it suggests Reform UK is on course to win two of them easily. And the Green party is narrowly ahead in a third, the poll suggests.Here are the polling figures.In theory the Tories should be winning in Lincolnshire as they hold most of the parliamentary seats in the area and have dominated local politics forever. But it’s also the most Reform-friendly part of the country. It contains Richard Tice’s constituency and numerous seats in which they came second. Plus their candidate is a former Tory MP – Andrea Jenkyns, famous for her Boris Johnson...

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23 h. ago Boris Johnson warns Ukraine ‘gets nothing’ from Trump’s peace proposals

The former UK prime minister, who built the international coalition backing Ukraine, has demolished the US president’s peace proposals

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30 h. ago Local elections 2025: Guide to every council and mayoral contest

A total of 1,641 council seats are up for grabs across 23 local authorities.

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69 h. ago Elon Musk's rift with Donald Trump exposed by six clues 'power couple' could be on the rocks

Elon Musk will be spending less time with Donald Trump's administration following the news of his company Tesla seeing their profits drop by a staggering £308million

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3 d. ago Nigel Farage thinks net zero is the new Brexit. Starmer can prove him wrong | Rafael Behr

Labour must deliver the green transition voters want, leaving Reform and the Tories on the side of economic decline and dictatorsWhich former British prime minister described the climate emergency as “a clock ticking to the furious rhythm of hundreds of billions of pistons and turbines and furnaces and engines quilting the Earth in an invisible and suffocating blanket of CO2”?The florid style gives it away. You’d guess Boris Johnson even if you’d forgotten that the master of Brexit bombast also had a sideline in net zero evangelism. It wasn’t the most memorable part of his repertoire and it didn’t catch on as a Conservative catechism.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Elon Musk steps back from DOGE role to focus on failing business after Tesla stock decline

Elon Musk has said his time as a senior advisor to President Donald Trump and the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will be reduced from next month

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3 d. ago Elon Musk says his time working for Donald Trump will 'drop significantly' as he focuses on Tesla

Elon Musk currently spends a large portion of his professional time working for Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) - but first-quarter profits at Tesla sank this year

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3 d. ago Elon Musk says time with Donald Trump's DOGE will 'drop significantly' as Tesla profits plunge

Tesla’s first-quarter profits plunged by more than two-thirds amid a backlash against the electric car company which has damaged sales and sent its stock plunging

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3 d. ago George Clooney: ‘I don’t care’ if Trump calls me a ‘fake movie actor’

The double Oscar-winner responded to the president’s criticism of his New York Times op-ed last summer urging Joe Biden to step down for re-election, saying it was his ‘civic duty’George Clooney has said he is unconcerned about the persistent verbal abuse levelled at him by Donald Trump, after the president labelled him a “fake movie actor” on Truth Social.Speaking to Gayle King on CBS Mornings, Clooney said: “I don’t care. I’ve known Donald Trump for a long time. My job is not to please the president of the United States. My job is to try and tell the truth when I can and when I have the opportunity. I am well aware of the idea that people will not like that.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Donald Trump 'too weak' to fire bungling defence secretary, fumes senate opposition

US President Donald Trump has been urged to give Pete Hegseth the boot from his position as Secretary of Defence after a bungling group chat gaffe discussing an airstrike

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6 d. ago Deeply weird bed 'previously owned by Boris Johnson' appears on eBay

An eBay seller claims the vintage bed - “a true piece of history” - was previously owned by the former Prime Minister - though they haven’t revealed how long ago

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7 d. ago Donald Trump has phonecall with Keir Starmer where four major issues raised

Donald Trump and PM Keir Starmer hold phonecall for the first time since the White House slapped tariffs on global imports - sending shockwaves across worldwide markets

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7 d. ago BORIS JOHNSON: My embarrassing WhatsApp gaffe that I accidentally sent to every Tory MP

Go on, admit it. You can't do without it. Every morning - before we are even out of bed - we scrabble for the mobile. Our fingers grope for the little green icon, a speech bubble enclosing a phone.

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8 d. ago Boris Johnson’s cycling vision stutters as number of bike journeys fails to rise above pre

Figures released by the Department for Transport show the average number of bicycle journeys per person has remained stable since a peak in 2020

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8 d. ago Baba Vanga's second 2025 predictions have come true after 'economic disaster'

Baba Vanga died almost three decades ago, but the blind fortune teller seems to have accurately predicted yet another 2025 grave disaster - and this time it's all down to US President Donald Trump

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8 d. ago European Central Bank cuts interest rates for the seventh time as global trade tensions escalate

The European Central Bank cut interest rates Thursday for the seventh time to counter worries about economic growth fueled by President Donald Trump’s tariff onslaught

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9 d. ago The cost of gaming is soaring – but for many fans, a game is ‘worth’ more than its price tag

As tariffs raise the price of consoles, is it time for gamers to reevaluate our relationship with new releases?Now is not a good time to buy a new games console.The shock waves from Donald Trump’s will-he-won’t-he approach to trade tariffs were always going to hit video games, an industry that relies on incredibly complex global supply chains. On Monday, Nikkei Asia reported on analysis from a major electronics supplier suggesting that the Nintendo Switch 2 will be subject to Trump’s 145% tariff on goods imported to the US from China, despite his apparent decision to exempt smartphones and computers. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Biden skewers Trump and Republicans over Social Security in first speech since leaving office

Former president who was forced off the campaign trail by his own party emerges for the first time since handing the White House off to Donald Trump

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