36 h. ago SNP Government most to blame for decline in public services across Scotland, poll finds

Scots are increasingly fed-up with the state of the NHS, schools, transport, roads and other key services on which they depend, according to a major survey.

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3 d. ago JD Vance and other officials told Trump to fire Waltz. There was just one reason he didn’t

President was counseled by senior administration officials about dismissing his national security adviser

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3 d. ago Pentagon nepotism fears as Defense Secretary’s younger brother given key adviser role

Phil Hegseth's past experience includes founding his own podcast production company

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4 d. ago Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser

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5 d. ago Operation Branchform investigation proves Lord Advocate role must be separated, says Keir Starmer

The Lord Advocate is both the head of the country's prosecution service and the Scottish Government's most senior legal advisor.

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6 d. ago Donald Trump's top officials 'have passwords leaked' following Signal chat scandal

Private details, including phone numbers and email addresses, of many of Donald Trump's senior advisors have been discovered leaked on the internet in another embarrassment for the president

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6 d. ago Universal Credit: health element cut in Rachel Reeves' Spring Statement 2025

Reeves outlined key changes, with impacts on welfare, household income, and services 💬

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7 d. ago White House security leak: who’s who in the Signal group chat

Defense secretary, US vice-president and senior Trump advisers wrote openly about the strikes on YemenUS politics live – latest updatesKey takeaways from the US security leak Continue reading...

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1 week ago The future happens in Oakland first. That’s a cautionary tale for global cities

International trade boomed with the city’s early adoption of technological and economic changes, but Black neighborhoods became ‘sacrifice zones’Oakland, California, is often treated as a city on the margins, best known for its struggles with poverty and gun violence, as well as for its history of radical Black activism. But a new book, The Pacific Circuit, argues that Oakland should be viewed as one of the centers of global change in the past century, serving both as a key node in the new global economy built around trans-Pacific trade, and as one of the “sacrifice zones” this economy requires.Far from being an outlier, US journalist Alexis Madrigal argues, Oakland is in fact an early adopter of the technological and economic changes now tearing through cities across the US, and around the world. Oakland has long been the canary in Silicon Valley’s coalmine of disruption, the book suggests. But its residents don’t suffer passively: they organize and learn how to fight back. Continu...

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1 week ago Former KGB double agent Oleg Gordievsky dies in Surrey aged 86

Soviet spy defected to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure after supplying information to MI6 and MI5Oleg Gordievsky obituaryOleg Gordievsky, the UK’s most significant cold war double agent inside the KGB, has died at his home in Surrey aged 86.Gordievsky, who would eventually defect to Britain from Moscow under threat of exposure, was considered a key agent operating for the UK’s intelligence services working within the Soviet Union. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump makes rare admission of Musk’s conflicts of interest after Pentagon visit

President says plans for potential war with China would not be shared with billionaire due to his business interestsUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump said on Friday that plans for possible war with China should not be shared with Elon Musk because of his business interests, a rare admission that the billionaire faces conflicts of interests in his role as a senior adviser to the US president.Trump rejected reports that Musk would be briefed on how the United States would fight a hypothetical war with China, saying: “Elon has businesses in China. And he would be susceptible, perhaps, to that.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Red Bull chief brands F1 star 'embarrassing' for crying after Australian GP crash

Isack Hadjar was distraught after crashing out in the formation lap on Sunday in Melbourne but Red Bull's senior advisor Helmut Marko was not impressed by his emotional reaction

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2 w. ago Military removes webpages about Indigenous code talkers to comply with Trump DEI order

Military has long credited Indigenous code units for serving key roles in WWI and WWII

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2 w. ago Military slices out web pages about WWII Native American code talkers to comply with Trump order to eradicate DEI

Military has long credited Indigenous code units for serving key roles in WWI and WWII

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2 w. ago Trump adviser Peter Navarro tells Sky journalist to stop talking ‘crap’

Donald Trump’s senior trade adviser angrily confronted a Sky News reporter during a live interview over tariffs, telling him to stop talking “crap”.

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3 w. ago What Swansea Council's new £643m budget will mean for you and how much extra you'll have to pay

Council tax is going up by 5.95% to help pay for big increases to key services like social care, despite opposition calls 'to give the people of Swansea a break'

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3 w. ago Lloyds and Halifax banking customers to see loss of key service later this year

Lloyds Banking Group, which also operates Halifax and Bank of Scotland, will axe the Post Office cheque cashing service from the end of the year, affecting millions of customers

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3 w. ago Halifax, Lloyds and Bank of Scotland to scrap key service on December 31

The service is being axed by Lloyds Banking Group from December 31 - so customers will need to travel to their nearest branch or use mobile banking instead

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3 w. ago 'Do NOT do it': Warning issued by top GP over UK's most popular diet

The Independent Pharmacy's Senior Clinical Advisor Dr Donald Grant has warned the downsides of the plan could be far more extensive than many realise.

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