3 d. ago Ronaldo dines with Donald for glamour portion of grotesque Saudi

A pension-pot World Cup looms and with Trump in the White House and a crown prince at his back, it is now a safe spaceIt was hard to choose one favourite photo from football’s double-header at the White House this week. In part this is because the pictures from Donald Trump’s state dinner with Mohammed bin Salman and his in-house hype men Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianni Infantino were everywhere, recycled feverishly across the internet, dusted with their own drool-stained commentary by the wider Ronaldo-verse.Mainly there were just so many jaw-droppers. Perhaps you liked the one of Trump and Ronaldo strolling the halls of power, Ronaldo dressed all in black and laughing uproariously, like a really happy ninja. Or the one of Ronaldo and Georgina Rodríguez standing either side of a weirdly beaming Trump at his desk, holding up some kind of large heraldic key as though they’ve just been presented with their own wind-up wooden sex-grandad. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago GLA accused of telling developers to 'dig a trench' to inflate affordable housing stats

The authority has been urged to investigate claims figures were ‘embellished’ by officials

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3 d. ago Supreme Court meets to weigh Trump's birthright citizenship restrictions, blocked by lower courts

The Supreme Court is meeting in private with a key issue on its agenda — President Donald Trump’s birthright citizenship order declaring that children born to parents who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens

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4 d. ago Trump’s 'affordability' efforts are a mess of absurdity and magical thinking | Steven Greenhouse

After Republicans were trounced in this month’s votes, the administration has launched a slapdash, ill-conceived campaignWhen running for president last year, Donald Trump wooed and wowed voters by vowing to reduce prices “starting on day one”. But once he was inaugurated, he seemed to pay precious little attention to prices and affordability.All that changed, however, when inflation-weary voters thrashed Trump and the GOP on election day this month – within days, the Trump administration launched a slapdash effort to focus on affordability. Unfortunately, the campaign is a hot mess: a pile of absurdity, contradictions, magical thinking, scapegoating and good ol’ Trumpian dishonesty, with Trump repeatedly blaring that “prices are down.” Continue reading...

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5 d. ago How in my 50s I reversed my skin's biological age by 18 years: As a high

George Orwell taught us that, 'at 50, everyone has the face he deserves'. Now, in a suitably Orwellian development, futuristic technology is about to tell me whether this is true.

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5 d. ago Inside £2.2m 'golfer's dream house' named in The Sunday Times' list of 'UK's most extraordinary homes'

The five-bedroom period house is yet to find a buyer despite its status

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6 d. ago Elon Musk returns to White House for Trump's candlelit dinner with Saudi prince

Elon Musk made his return to the White House Tuesday night, as a guest at President Donald Trump 's candlelit dinner in honor of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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6 d. ago Cristiano Ronaldo to meet Donald Trump at the White House TODAY: Football superstar jets in for first public visit to US since rape allegations

Cristiano Ronaldo will meet United States president Donald Trump at the White House today, marking his first appearance on American soil in almost a decade.

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7 d. ago Housing Secretary Steve Reed to give ‘default yes’ to developments near train stations

The Housing Secretary is set to announce changes that will make it easier to build on sites within 15 minutes’ walk of well-connected train stations.

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7 d. ago New housing developments will get a ‘default yes’ if based near train stations

This amendment to the National Planning Policy Framework is among several measures the Housing Secretary is expected to announce on Tuesday

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7 d. ago The areas where housing developments will get a ‘default yes’ if based nearby

This amendment to the National Planning Policy Framework is among several measures the Housing Secretary is expected to announce on Tuesday

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7 d. ago Reed to give ‘default yes’ to housing developments near train stations

The Housing Secretary is set to announce changes that will make it easier to build on sites within 15 minutes’ walk of well-connected train stations.

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7 d. ago ‘Default yes’ to be given to housing developments near train stations

The changes to planning rules are set to make it easier to build on sites within a short walk from some train and tram stations

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7 d. ago Prince Harry insists he did tell the Royal Family about trip to Toronto that clashed with William's climate visit to Brazil

The Duke of Sussex released a defiant statement on November 5 claiming that the royal household was informed 'as a courtesy' that he was going to Toronto when his brother was in Rio.

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8 d. ago Shabana Mahmood warns ‘dark forces are stirring up anger’ over migration ahead of sweeping asylum reforms

Shabana Mahmood is set to rewrite how Britain grants refuge to those fleeing conflict and upheaval with a statement in the House of Commons on Monday

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8 d. ago Home Secretary plans visa bans for three countries amid asylum system overhaul

Shabana Mahmood is set to rewrite how Britain grants refuge to those fleeing conflict and upheaval with a statement in the House of Commons on Monday.

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1 week ago Trump can get away with saying what he likes about the BBC. But Epstein? That’s his one vulnerability | Jonathan Freedland

In attacking a vital broadcaster, the US president is once again holding others to standards he flouts. But the Maga faithful might not let his links to the disgraced financier goTo confront Donald Trump is to engage in asymmetric warfare. It is to enter a battlefield that is not level, where he enjoys an immediate and in-built advantage over those who would oppose him or merely hold him to account. That fact has cost Democrats dearly over the past decade – exacting a toll again this very week – but it has now upended an institution central to Britain’s national life: namely, the BBC.The key asymmetry can be spelled out simply. Trump pays little or no regard to the conventional bounds of truth or honesty. His documented tally of false or misleading statements runs into the tens of thousands: the Washington Post registered 30,573 such statements during Trump’s first term in the White House, an average of 21 a day. In a single interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes earlier this month, Trump ...

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1 week ago Grand jury indicts former Louisiana House Speaker for allegedly stealing rare state artifact

A grand jury indicted former Louisiana House Speaker Clay Schexnayder for allegedly stealing a rare artifact that had gone missing from the state capitol

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1 week ago Labour tells critics to back off from 'Auntie': Lisa Nandy defends the BBC amid Donald Trump row by lavishing praise on broadcaster as a 'light on the hill' for people around the world

In a statement to the House of Commons, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy heaped praise on 'Auntie' as it reels from the dramatic resignations of senior bosses.

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1 week ago MIKEY SMITH: 11 unhinged Donald Trump moments as UK 'stops sharing intelligence' with US

The UK is said to have made the decision because it does not want to be complicit in what it believes are illegal strikes on boats, which the White House claim are 'drug boats' bound from Venezuela to the United States

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