3 h. ago The Royal Opera House is accused of 'betrayal' by Ukraine after allowing Russian soprano Anna Netrebko to perform on its world

War hero Valerii Zaluzhnyi, known as the 'Iron General', warns that her appearance at the Royal Opera House on Thursday is 'a test' by Vladimir Putin of Kyiv 's 'closest and most devoted ally'.

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3 h. ago Starmer’s reshuffle continues after minister says asylum seekers could be moved to barracks: UK politics live

A government source said “nothing is off the table” for the new home secretary Shabana Mahmood

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4 h. ago Angela Rayner’s exit proves it. Unless Starmer is able to meet this moment, Reform is on the path to power | John Harris

The prime minister increasingly looks like a man next to a burning house, offering to buy a new bookcase and rugSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreOne hundred and twenty miles from Westminster, it felt like I had arrived at the perfect place to understand the meaning of Angela Rayner’s exit from the government: Reform UK’s brief conference, a giddy and surreal gathering of about 10,000 people in a hangar-like box on the edgelands of Birmingham.News of her resignation broke a couple of hours into the event’s first day, and the symbolism was glaring. Among midday pints, onstage pyrotechnics and a huge stand advertising the wonders of investing in gold, a party led by those bumptious public schoolboys Nigel Farage and Richard Tice was suddenly rejoicing in the departure of British politics’ most prominent working-class woman. The news, moreover, only boost...

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4 h. ago Chineke! Orchestra/Heyward review – kaleidoscopic concert combines energy and complexity

Royal Albert Hall, LondonThe ethnically diverse orchestra played with vigour and spirit in a varied programme that included Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shostakovich and Valerie ColemanThis concert was to have been conducted by Simon Rattle – a mark of the esteem in which leading artists hold Chineke! Orchestra, the trailblazing British ensemble made up of a majority of Black and ethnically diverse musicians. In the event, Charleston-born Jonathon Heyward put his own indelible stamp on a varied yet satisfying program.Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s La Bamboula, a kaleidoscopic dance with roots in the West Indies, played to Chineke!’s strengths. The performed it with vigour and spirit, while Heyward kept its likable blend of late-Victorian tunefulness and proto-Hollywood glitz gossamer-light. You could see why Henry Wood programmed it at the Proms 16 times, making its subsequent 91-year absence inexplicable. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Angela Rayner to get £17k redundancy weeks before new rules for disgraced MPs take effect

Cabinet ministers are entitled to a payment worth 25 per cent of their annual ministerial salary when leaving office

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5 h. ago Starmer joins King at Scottish church after bruising week in politics

The Prime Minister and his wife attended the Crathie Kirk service alongside members of the royal family.

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5 h. ago Coronation Street’s Katherine Kelly looks back: ‘My friends were very accepting of me being a bit different’

The actor on wearing men’s clothes, her bohemian family and the six-week soap job that turned into six yearsBorn in 1979 in Barnsley, Yorkshire, Katherine Kelly studied at Rada before beginning her career with the Royal Shakespeare Company and going on to perform at the National Theatre and Manchester’s Royal Exchange. Her first major television role came in 2006, when she joined Coronation Street as Becky McDonald, a part she played until 2012. Since then she has appeared in The Night Manager, Gentleman Jack, Mr Bates vs The Post Office and Inside No 9. She stars in In Flight, available now on Channel 4.This is a very typical image of me aged four. I spent most of my preschool life with a towel on my head. It was a replacement for the long hair I so desperately wanted. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Labour civil war to replace Rayner: New nightmare for Starmer as party's left try to take control and hammer his 'mistakes'

Dame Emily Thornberry, a senior Labour MP, said she was 'considering' a bid for the deputy role as she delivered a withering assessment of the Prime Minister's first year in power.

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6 h. ago Keir's next nightmare: Starmer faces Labour civil war over party's deputy leadership as senior MP delivers withering verdict on PM in wake of Angela Rayner row and migrant crisis

Dame Emily Thornberry, a senior Labour MP, said she was 'considering' a bid for the deputy role as she delivered a withering assessment of the Prime Minister's first year in power.

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6 h. ago The Queen's legacy as most popular royal caught on camera by Mirror photographers

As the third anniversary of the late Queen's death approaches, the Mirror remembers the former monarch with our photographers picking their favourite snaps taken during her 70 year reign

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6 h. ago Putin's missiles HITS Zelensky government building for first time: Russia successfully strikes key offices of Ukrainian administration in boldest attack since war began in 2022

The dramatic attack on the Cabinet of Ministers came as more than 800 drones and missiles were launched into Ukraine overnight in what has been branded an 'escalation of terror'.

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6 h. ago Migrants could be moved to military sites as PM tells new Cabinet ‘go up a gear’

Sir Keir Starmer used a major reshuffle over the weekend to make wide-ranging ministerial changes at the Home Office.

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6 h. ago Sir Keir Starmer and his very glamorous wife Lady Victoria join King Charles and Queen Camilla for church service at Balmoral

King Charles and Queen Camilla were joined by the Prime Minister for the traditional Sunday service at Crathie Kirk this morning. 

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7 h. ago Nigel Farage says MORE former Tory ministers will join Reform UK following Nadine Dorries' defection

The Reform leader admitted his party's 'biggest weakness' is that it lacks 'experience at government level'.

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7 h. ago John Healey reveals Starmer has told cabinet to ‘go up a gear’

John Healey has revealed that Sir Keir Starmer has instructed his cabinet to “go up a gear”, following the prime minister's major reshuffle of his top team and junior ministers.

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7 h. ago Nigel Farage says he's 'not inclined' to publish tax return amid stamp duty questions

Nigel Farage told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg he is 'not inclined' to publish his tax returns, despite Prime Ministers Keir Starmer and Rishi Sunak doing so for transparency

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7 h. ago Teenagers are prouder to be British than their parents, poll shows

Research reveals half of 16 and 17-year-olds are proud of their national identity, but almost three in ten support abolishing the monarchy

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8 h. ago Prince Harry must do one thing to repair royal feud as potential meeting with King looms

Prince Harry is set to visit the UK next week, prompting speculation that he may meet with his estranged father, King Charles, for the first time in more than 18 months

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8 h. ago Military barracks plan to end asylum hotel use being drawn up by new Home Secretary

Defence Secretary John Healey confirmed that the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is working with the Home Office to help find places to house asylum seekers to speed up hotel closures

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8 h. ago 'Real reason' Meghan Markle won't return to UK with Prince Harry next week

Meghan Markle has not returned to the UK since she and Prince Harry stepped back from royal duty in 2020.

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