33 h. ago Brigitte Macron 'hired investigators to look into podcaster Candace Owens before suing her for ludicrous claim the French first lady is a man

Lawyers hired by Brigitte and Emmanuel Macron hired top investigators to dig up dirt on podcaster Candace Owens before suing her for making allegations that France's First Lady is a man

Politics

50 h. ago Macrons hired investigators to research US influencer Candace Owens

Podcaster who claimed French first lady was born male had links to rightwing figures in Europe and the US

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3 d. ago Meet the luxury travel ‘fixer’ whose calls with demanding mega

Olivia Ferney has fast become one of the world's most sought-after luxury travel organizers, with Instagram videos of her staying cool in the face of absurd requests from ultra-high-net-worth clients earning her nearly 300,000 followers. She revealed her clients wildest demands to US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill

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5 d. ago Surrounded show takes Jubilee Media mainstream – but has it ‘succumbed to hateful vitriol’?

After Mehdi Hasan’s debate with far-right opponents went viral, some worry about the embrace of rage-fuelled contentMehdi Hasan knew he had gone viral. The broadcaster and author saw the views ticking up on YouTube; his phone was pinging incessantly. But the realisation that things had become, well, really quite surreal came when an older gentleman approached him at an event in Washington and, in Urdu, said: “I watched you with the 20 crazies.”The man was referring to the British-American commentator’s appearance on Surrounded, a gladiatorial one-v-many debate web series, hosted on YouTube by Jubilee Media. During the debate – billed as “1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives” – Hasan was asked about his “ethnic background”, by a man who the Guardian unmasked as the organiser of two violent far-right protests. Another debater laughed maniacally to applause while agreeing he was a fascist. He was later sacked and condemned – and then raised $30,000 (£22,300) from supporters on a...

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6 d. ago Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali 'forced out tenants from east London townhouse and raised rent by £700'

Rushanara Ali, 50, is said to have increased the rent on the four-bedroom property near the Olympic Village from £3,300 to £4,000 a month

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6 d. ago Homelessness minister Rushanara Ali 'kicked out tenants from east London townhouse and raised rent by £700'

Rushanara Ali, 50, is said to have increased the rent on the four-bedroom property near the Olympic Village from £3,300 to £4,000

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6 d. ago Great Eastern Hotel by Ruchir Joshi review – a panoramic view of India in flux

The political and emotional journey of a young communist revolutionary is brought sensuously to life, in a magnificent epic that took 25 years to writeThe observation by architect Louis Kahn that you “can only really see a building once the building becomes a ruin” runs through this book like the Hooghly river through India’s former capital. There’s no better Indian ruin than Kolkata, a city that still clings to the centrality of its role in the 19th-century intellectual renaissance that buttressed the case for Indian self-rule. The adage back then was that “what Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow”.Great Eastern Hotel, the second novel from the author of The Last Jet-Engine Laugh, is 920 pages and well over 300,000 words long. The staff of your local Waterstones will kindly describe it as “an undertaking”. It is set in and around the still-standing, now eye-wateringly expensive Great Eastern Hotel, which is, as the book points out, a model for the city itself: a place t...

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6 d. ago Savers with £10,000 told to act today over £300 Bank of England change

The Bank of England is expected to cut interest rates to four per cent on Thursday, February 26 - and experts are warning that it could mean a loss of £300 for savers

Economics

7 d. ago Over 300,000 step stools sold at Target, Walmart, and Home Depot part of safety recall

The recalled step stool was sold at Target, Home Depot, Lowe’s, Walmart, and BJ’s Wholesale Club stores nationwide

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7 d. ago Candace Owens makes $300,000 bet with Piers Morgan over Brigitte Macron despite lawsuit

Far-right podcaster appeared on Piers Morgan Uncensored to reignite her baseless conspiracy that France’s first lady was ‘born a man’

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8 d. ago US could force tourists to pay up to £11k to visit country in new visa rules

The United States could demand a bond payment of up to $15,000, around £11,300, to enter the country as Donald Trump steps up his aggressive approach to immigration

Economics

8 d. ago Warning for savers as 300,000 more people set to pay tax on their savings

Labour chancellor Rachel Reeves urged to act as experts warn many ordinary savers being ‘pulled into paying tax on their hard-earned savings’

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8 d. ago Candace Owens claims Trump warned her off specious Brigitte Macron trans claim: ‘I’ve seen her up close’

Far-right podcaster tells Tucker Carlson about personal warning from president as Macrons take legal action against her with defamation lawsuit

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8 d. ago 'Brigitte Macron is a woman, I've seen her up close': Candace Owens claims Trump warned her off transgender claims

Candace Owens explained to journalist Tucker Carlson that President Donald Trump personally called her to ask her to stop pursuing a story about France's first lady Brigitte Macron.

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8 d. ago 'Brigitte Macron is a woman, I've seen her up close': Candace claims Trump warned her off transgender claims

Candace Owens explained to journalist Tucker Carlson that President Donald Trump personally called her to ask her to stop pursuing a story about France 's first lady Brigitte Macron .

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9 d. ago Candace Owens claims Macron begged a confused Trump to 'shut her up' after jabs at wife went viral

Candace Owens explained to journalist Tucker Carlson that President Donald Trump personally called her to ask her to stop pursuing a story about France 's first lady Brigitte Macron .

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1 week ago Sea of people march across Sydney Harbour Bridge calling for an end to killing in Gaza

NSW police estimate 90,000 walked despite force and premier opposing rally, while Palestine Action Group claims up to 300,000 peacefully protestedAnne Davies: The huge Harbour Bridge march shows people have had a gutful of seeing starving children in Gaza. Politicians need to catch upGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least 100,000 pro-Palestine marchers, including Julian Assange, the former foreign minister Bob Carr and the government MP Ed Husic, have marched across Sydney Harbour Bridge in the rain to protest against Israel’s conduct in Gaza and to speak out about the children starving there.The world-famous landmark was closed to traffic at 11.30am on Sunday, with protesters gathering in Lang Park in the city centre before enduring heavy rain as they walked across the bridge. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Is this London's most prolific shoplifter? Romanian mum of three, 20, who police say stole £300,000 of Boots cosmetics by hiding them in the secret pockets of her voluminous skirt

Bianca Mirica, 20, admitted 30 charges of theft from branches of Boots across London between December 2023 and May 2024. In just six months, she stole £120,000.

Economics

4 w. ago Photos of how Bedouins in Israel improvise shelters to survive missile threats

For Israel’s 300,000-strong Bedouin community, there are no shelters to protect them from incoming missiles, so they have to improvise: hiding in steel containers and vehicles buried under 10 feet (3 meters) of dirt and repurposing reconstruction debris in the hope of some protection.

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4 w. ago Innocent 'Beast of Birkenhead' Peter Sullivan now in line for £1.3m payout but lawyers say miscarriage of justice changes 'don't go nearly far enough'

The current cap on compensation payments for people wrongly jailed for 10 years or more will rise by £300,000 to £1.3million, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed.

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