7 d. ago Construction company with 'blatant disregard to fire safety and law' fined £165,000

Residents had to move out because there was no fire alarm system

Society

1 week ago Deadly 'early summer’ heatwave moves across Europe as climate scientists ring alarm bells

Fire evacuations in Greece and Turkey while temperatures in Spain and Portugal hit 46C

Events

1 week ago ‘We thought we’d got the numbers wrong’: how a pristine lake came to have the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ on record

Holloman Lake was a haven for wildlife and seemed an ideal campsite. But strange foam around the shoreline turned out to be more than just an oddity – and reveals the alarming way forever chemicals move through ecosystemsFor years, Christopher Witt took birdwatchers to Holloman Lake in the Chihuahuan desert off the route 70 highway in New Mexico. By mid-morning the sun would beat down as they huddled in the scant shade of the van. There were no trees other than a collection of salt cedars on the lake’s north shore. But the discomfort didn’t matter when the peregrine falcons appeared, slicing through the sky. “It was hard to leave that place,” says Witt.The lake – created in 1965 as part of a system of wastewater catchment ponds for Holloman air force base – is an unlikely oasis. Other than small ponds created for livestock it is the only body of water for thousands of square kilometres in an otherwise stark landscape. However, Witt says there was always something slightly weird abou...

Politics

2 w. ago West Ham's clash with Chelsea moved to Friday night kick off following Sky Sports request

West Ham's clash with Chelsea moved to Friday night kick off following Sky Sports request - raising alarm for increased fan violence between London rivals  Daily Mail

Sport

3 w. ago Parenting is not just for pronatalists: the progressive case for raising kids

Child rearing in our current world is a stubborn act of hope. If the left doesn’t see it that way, conservatives fill the voidA few months ago, I was at a playground just a couple of blocks from our home in Washington DC, when a mom I barely knew turned to me mid-conversation and said: “I think I might be the deep state.”It was mid-March. Doge was tearing through the city, dismantling federal agencies at dizzying speed. Donald Trump, re-elected on a promise to “shatter the deep state”, had fired thousands of longtime civil servants in his first weeks back in office. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago ‘He’s moving at a truly alarming speed’: Trump propels US into authoritarianism

A senator handcuffed, people snatched in public, military deployed – Trump’s slide towards autocracy has come quicker than critics fearedIt reads like a checklist of milestones on the road to autocracy.A succession of opposition politicians, including Alex Padilla, a US senator, are handcuffed and arrested by heavy-handed law enforcement for little more than questioning authority or voicing dissent. Continue reading...

Politics