14 h. ago Britain tried to control migration – and created the worst of all worlds

Editorial: As The Independent reveals, up to £2bn of private contracts have been awarded since 2017 aimed at curbing illegal migration across the English Channel and the costs of asylum application processing. It is hard to point to any positive results of this gross expense

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19 h. ago Even Tesla drivers seem to hate Elon Musk. Their honking protest warms the heart | Zoe Williams

The demonstration outside the Tesla showroom in west London was one of the smallest I have seen. But everyone who passed by was keen to show their supportPark Royal is the worst underground station in London and therefore the world. You come out of a stubby 1930s entrance hall that must have been cute once, right on to a dual carriageway. There’s a hotel on the other side of the road, and a tourist will most likely approach you, asking how she’s supposed to cross, and your answer will be just a sub-verbal collapse into nothingness. There is no obvious way to cross the road. This place was built for cars, and if you’re not a car, you’re stuck in a tube station now. There is actually an underpass, but that’s no excuse for dystopian urban planning.I was there helping the Stop Trump Coalition make a video before the US president’s state visit, whenever that might be, and they were there to see Tesla Takedown, which is not as antagonistic as it sounds, just a score of people, one dressed...

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19 h. ago I went to a Tesla protest this weekend – here’s what I learned | Zoe Williams

The demonstration outside the Tesla showroom in west London was one of the smallest I have seen. But everyone who passed by was keen to show their supportPark Royal is the worst underground station in London and therefore the world. You come out of a stubby 1930s entrance hall that must have been cute once, right on to a dual carriageway. There’s a hotel on the other side of the road, and a tourist will most likely approach you, asking how she’s supposed to cross, and your answer will be just a sub-verbal collapse into nothingness. There is no obvious way to cross the road. This place was built for cars, and if you’re not a car, you’re stuck in a tube station now. There is actually an underpass, but that’s no excuse for dystopian urban planning.I was there helping the Stop Trump Coalition make a video before the US president’s state visit, whenever that might be, and they were there to see Tesla Takedown, which is not as antagonistic as it sounds, just a score of people, one dressed...

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24 h. ago Wrexham star shows himself to be  the world's WORST barman during wild celebrations following promotion party with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds

A Wrexham star showed himself to be the world's worst barman as the Welsh side stormed into the Championship after beating Charlton 3-0 to reach the second tier for the first time since 1982.

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64 h. ago Scientists have birthed a ‘super cannibal’ that never grows up. Could it be key to combating Australia’s cane toad menace?

There’s quiet optimism that gene-edited ‘Peter Pan’ tadpoles could help control one of the world’s worst invasive speciesThe toad’s eyes seemed to glow red, its warty and poison-soaked skin – normally splodged in browns – instead a porridge of creamy whites. This albino toad was produced by a team of scientists with one foot in a Sydney university laboratory and the other in a research station on the vast tropical savannahs and wetlands far away to the north near Humpty Doo.It was September 2023 and for the man who dreamed it into being, the toad was but an opening act in a radical new play against one of the world’s worst invasive species.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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2 d. ago Danny Dyer's 'worst movie in the history of the world' has fans absolutely obsessed

The 2015 film Assassin, starring Danny Dyer and the Kemp brothers, was panned by critics but some viewers have hailed it as a "brilliant" and "underrated" movie

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3 d. ago Danny Dyer's 'worst film in the history of the world' fans can't get enough of

Danny Dyer's Assassin has been dubbed “the worst film in the history of the world” by some viewers, but is absolutely adored by some who call it a “very underrated, brilliant movie”.

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5 d. ago British tourists with burgundy passports urged to carry out 'vital checks'

Holidaymakers who still hold the old-style passports before Britain left the EU risk being caught out by border control unless they check certain details

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6 d. ago More than 80% of world’s coral reefs hit by worst bleaching event in history

‘We're looking at something that's completely changing the face of our planet,’ scientists warn

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6 d. ago More than 80% of the world’s reefs hit by bleaching after worst global event on record

An ashen pallor and an eerie stillness all that remains where there should fluttering fish and vibrant colours in the reefscape, one conservationist saysThe world’s coral reefs have been pushed into “uncharted territory” by the worst global bleaching event on record that has now hit more than 80% of the planet’s reefs, scientists have warned.Reefs in at least 82 countries and territories have been exposed to enough heat to turn corals white since the global event started in January 2023, the latest data from the US government’s Coral Reef Watch shows. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Revealed: Weirdest death row meals for predators including three entire buckets of KFC and a single, pitted olive

A final meal represents the last bit of power the world's worst killers will ever wield - and invites wild combinations, grand over-indulgence and statements of fury against the law.

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9 d. ago Revealed: Weirdest death row meals for predators including an entire bucket of KFC and a single strawberry

A final meal represents the last bit of power the world's worst killers will ever wield - and invites wild combinations, grand over-indulgence and statements of fury against the law.

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1 week ago Are cable cars safe? How they work and worst disasters after Naples crash kills four

Some 28 miles to the southeast of Naples in Southern Italy, four people have been killed including British woman Margaret Elaine Winn, 58, in a cable car incident but how safe are these roads in the sky?

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1 week ago Why is Ed Miliband a target for all sides? Because he’s a lefty politician who gets things done | Andy Beckett

Not since Tony Benn has a Labour minister been so assailed – and not just by the Tory press, but also by his own colleaguesWhy exactly does Ed Miliband make so many people so angry? At 55, 20 years into his parliamentary career, with rare ministerial experience under both New Labour and Keir Starmer, and a reputation around Westminster and Whitehall as one of politics’ nicer, more knowledgeable characters, he could be a respected figure in a generally inexperienced government. Instead, he’s this unpopular administration’s most controversial member.“An eco-zealot”, “a net-zero fanatic”, a “nauseating” hypocrite, “a cackling madman”, an “eco-Marxist”, “out of control”, “trashing Britain”, “a recruiting sergeant for the opposition”, the “most dangerous man in Britain” – Miliband provokes rightwing journalists and voters like no other minister. Possibly not since the onslaught in the 1970s on the socialist disruptor Tony Benn, whom Miliband later worked for as a teenager, has a Labour m...

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1 week ago Ronnie O'Sullivan and Ali Carter feud explained as pair given 'worst possible' World Snooker Championship draw

The Rocket had the Captain have had a few high profile spats over the years which could make for a tasty first round tie

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1 week ago SHARON GRAHAM: ‘Give Britain back control of our nation's vital industries’

Politicians seem comfortable about state ownership of our assets – as long as its subject to the control of other countries, like China, rather than our own nation, says Unite's Sharon Graham

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1 week ago David Lammy says Sudan's warring parties must 'put peace first' at major summit

The Foreign Secretary David Lammy made the remarks as he opened a summit in London on the conflict in an attempt to shine a spotlight on one of the world's worst humanitarian crises

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2 w. ago Andrew Tate sued in Britain for 'coercive control' by four women whose claims include rape, violence and threats at gunpoint

Four women who claim Andrew Tate 'coercively controlled them' through rape, strangulation and gunpoint threats have launched an unprecedented legal case against him.

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2 w. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: China isn't investing in Britain because it likes us. It wants to suborn and control us. Despite saving Scunthorpe, we STILL haven't learnt the lesson

Sir Keir Starmer rightly declares that 'the world as we knew it has gone'. But does he really mean what he says - or is he a lawyer who has merely mastered a brief?

Economics

2 w. ago Government finally funds blast furnace raw materials after takeover

Ministers have agreed payment to fund coal and iron ore deliveries to keep Britain's last blast furnaces running 48 hours after taking control of the site from its Chinese owners in Parliamentary vote.

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