29 m. ago Jess Phillips says Labour rebels should not be surprised by the action taken against them – UK politics live

Home Office minister defends Keir Starmer’s decision to remove whip from four MPs and says Labour must ‘act as a team’Good morning. Chief whips tends to be quite secretive, and when four Labour MPs had the whip suspended yesterday, there was no detailed, public explanation as to why they were being punished for rebelling when so many other backbenchers, who have also voted against the party, have not been singled out. As Eleni Courea and Jessica Elgot report in our overnight story, we were just told they were regular rebels.But the best explanation came from the Labour party source who told Geri Scott from the Times that the four MPs – Rachael Maskell, Neil Duncan-Jordan, Brian Leishman and Chris Hinchliff – were being punished for “persistent knobheadery”.I don’t think that the discipline that has been meted out over the last 24 hours is linked to [the welfare bill] because many more people voted against the government than these four people.I actually don’t know because I’m not pa...

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64 m. ago Jaguar Land Rover announce mass management redundancies: Firm to axe 500 roles after 'woke' rebrand

The car marker said 500 managerial jobs would be cut, saying it would offer voluntary redundancies.

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89 m. ago Jaguar Land Rover announce mass management redundancies: Firm says it will axe 500 roles after woke rebrand

The car marker said 500 managerial jobs would be cut, saying it would offer voluntary redundancies.

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1 hour ago Untamed review – Eric Bana’s national park thriller is as beautiful as it is totally predictable

The actor is like Bear Grylls with a badge in a macho Yosemite-set detective drama that’s very easy on the eye. It’s not the smartest, but the mountains are lovelyUntamed is a blunt force thriller, set in Yosemite national park in California, starring Eric Bana as a macho special agent who prefers silence to talking and horses to motorised vehicles. It is perfectly serviceable though oddly retro – not just because it scoffs at petrol engines, but because it feels as if it could have been made in the 1990s. Even a crucial smartphone plotline doesn’t come into it until very close to the end, and although park rangers have become a political hot potato in the US, national politics emphatically do not exist here.That makes Untamed an undemanding watch, but don’t expect much depth. It’s as easy on the eye as it is straightforward. Bana is Kyle Turner, technically not a park ranger, even though he’s dressed like one, but an ISB Special Agent, which gives him extra-special cop powers. Devo...

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2 h. ago Jaguar Land Rover announce mass management redundancies: Firm says it will axe 500 roles after woke rebrand

The car marker said 500 managerial jobs would be cut, saying it would offer voluntary redundancies.

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2 h. ago Sudan’s children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve

The country, beset by war, has the world’s lowest rates of vaccination, says the World Health Organization, as global immunisation drive also stallsChildren in Sudan, caught up in what aid organisations have called the world’s largest humanitarian crisis and threatened by rising levels of violence, are increasingly vulnerable to deadly infectious diseases as vaccinations in the country plummet.In 2022, more than 90% of young children in Sudan received their routine vaccinations. But that figure has nearly halved to 48%, the lowest in the world, according to the World Health Organization. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Shock report shows care home workers are more likely to live in poverty

The new report by the Health Foundation shows one in five care home workers and their families live in poverty while one in ten have to go without food

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3 h. ago High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot

In its refusal to renationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the countryFor a rich and fairly stable country, we are staggeringly ill-prepared for climate shocks. We respond to predictable crises as if we had had no warning. Lessons from previous disasters go unlearned, mistakes are recycled, failures lodged so deeply that they come to define the system.This is not because of a deficiency in the national character, but because of a deficiency in the ideology of government: an elite belief, shared by scarcely any citizens, that public intervention should be used only when all other measures have failed. Until that point, our problems should be addressed by the private sector. As drought rolls across the country once again, England’s privatised water system guarantees an irrational response.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistOn Tuesday 16 September, join George Monbiot, Mikaela Loach and other special guests discussing the...

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3 h. ago Tax on AI and crypto could fund climate action, says former Paris accords envoy

Laurence Tubiana urges governments to consider levies on energy-hungry technologyGovernments should consider taxing artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies to generate funds to deal with the climate crisis, one of the architects of the Paris agreement has said.Laurence Tubiana, the chief executive of the European Climate Foundation and a former French diplomat, is co-lead of the Global Solidarity Levies Task Force, an international initiative to find new sources of funds for climate action by taxing highly polluting activities including aviation and fossil fuel extraction. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Two UK coins in circulation that could be worth more than £3,000

An expert shared two specific details that make these coins especially valuable

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5 h. ago Gardeners growing one fruit urged to pick them on specific date

Gardening World presenter Monty Don recommends picking this one delicious berry at a particular time of year, otherwise you risk missing out on tasting it at its best

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5 h. ago System must work to protect public as report finds chances missed with Southport killer

Record View says the public needs a counter-terrorism system that works.

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5 h. ago DWP says it will review Universal Credit, PIP and other benefit claims

DWP has published a new report

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8 h. ago The outlandish £3,500 gift for a mistress. The ultimate £98,000 date. Revealed, what the mega

As pinch-me moments go, arriving on a secluded island in the South Pacific was utterly mesmerising.

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9 h. ago Blake Lively branded a 'toxic diva' as experts dissect her latest catastrophic legal move against Justin Baldoni

Blake Lively 's decision to subpoena more than a dozen journalists and small creators has ignited a free speech firestorm -and now, crisis PR expert Eric Schiffer is weighing in.

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9 h. ago Trump vents that MAGA won’t ‘shut the f*** up’ about Epstein list controversy, report claims

‘The week was a big kick in the balls,’ one administration official said

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9 h. ago Nicotine pouches sold to children mimic sweets, says UK trading standards body

Children can buy pouches legally as they are not regulated as a specific tobacco or nicotine productNicotine pouches are being legally sold to children and are being made appealing to them with special flavours and packaging mimicking sweets, a trading standards body has said.In June, it became illegal for single-use vapes to be sold in England to tackle their widespread use by children. However, there is currently no legislation that restricts the age at which you can buy nicotine pouches. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Battle to save historic Robin Hood tree after summer heatwaves and droughts

The RSPB is working with specialists to help the 1,000-year-old tree which is suffering from poor health

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9 h. ago Families face £1,076 bill per child for summer holiday childcare

Finding a childcare place during the holidays can be difficult for children with special educational needs and disabilities, survey suggests.

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9 h. ago Harrowing warning about police racism as 'lack of leadership courage' fears raised

A new report by the Independent Scrutiny and Oversight Board (ISOB) says the Home Office must clarify how the Government's Police Race Action Plan (PRAP) will continue beyond next year and said the Home Office must be 'hands on'

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