9 h. ago ANDREW PIERCE reveals Starmer's fatal mistake which 'raised Nigel Farage to the status of a martyr'

Sir Keir Starmer made Nigel Farage the focus of his keynote speech at the Labour Conference in Liverpool, repeatedly taking aim at the Reform UK leader's policies and politics.

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64 h. ago Keir Starmer: We need to look again at human rights laws in face of mass migration

The Prime Minister says says he won’t ‘tear down’ international laws but says a rethink is needed on how they are applied

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3 d. ago Labour Party Conference 2025: Keir Starmer takes swipe at Nigel Farage as he warns of battle for 'soul' of divided Britain

The Prime Minister says Nigel Farage ‘doesn’t believe in Britain’ and takes aim at ‘politics of grievance’

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5 d. ago How ‘godfather of all serial killers’ made masks from women’s faces & lampshades from human skin in sick tribute to MUM

ON a dark November night in 1957, two sheriffs sped to a remote midwest American farmhouse to make a murder arrest. Their target, oddball loner Ed Gein, was out having dinner with a neighbour — but what the two men discovered inside his ramshackle home would shock a nation. His crime would also spawn terrifying...

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1 week ago At UN, the president of Mongolia takes a moment to cheer the world's horses

U.N. General Assembly speeches address many facets of human existence

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2 w. ago Nest boxes help endangered cockatoos find homes in urban Hong Kong

Yellow-crested cockatoos have found a sanctuary in Hong Kong's urban parks, but they face housing troubles similar to their human neighbors

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2 w. ago High Potential season two review – a cosy, heartwarming cop show with a practically perfect detective

Kaitlin Olson’s turn as an extremely intelligent, glamorous crime-solver isn’t always the most believable. But it’s crowd-pleasing TV that’s slick, easy on the eye and highly watchableWill we ever grow bored of the savant sleuth? I suspect not – the satisfaction of witnessing a fantastically gifted person crack absurdly complex cases is one of fiction’s most reliable draws. As ever, our screens are swarming with them: in the past year alone we’ve been introduced to Ludwig, David Mitchell’s puzzle-setter turned incredibly astute (if reluctant) detective; been reunited with Natasha Lyonne’s human lie-detector Charlie Cale in Poker Face; and crossed paths once again with brainiac attorney Elsbeth, whose forays into policing are chronicled in the Good Wife spin-off of the same name.Also back for more mental gymnastics is Morgan Gillory, the protagonist of breezy procedural High Potential, which returns for a second season. With an IQ of 160 – giving her “high intellectual potential” (Me...

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4 w. ago ‘Humanity is facing a reckoning’: Venice shrugs off the glamour to take aim at politics

Stars waved as usual from the city’s water taxis, but there was a repeated focus on films that help audiences interpret a chaotic worldFor most of its 82 years, Venice has been perceived as the world’s most glamorous film festival. This year was no exception: stars including Julia Roberts, Cate Blanchett, Jude Law and George Clooney dutifully waved from canals and trooped down red carpets (although Law tripped while on a water taxi and Clooney got ill).But the films themselves struck a different note. Jury president Alexander Payne may have rebutted questions about current affairs during his opening press conference, declaring himself concerned only with discussing cinema, but cinema at Venice this year was concerned largely, it turned out, with discussing current events. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago The Guardian view on Xi, Putin and Kim: heed China’s statement of intent, but don’t take it as fact | Editorial

Images of the autocrats at Wednesday’s military parade reflected the shifting global order. But Donald Trump is hastening Beijing’s riseOn Wednesday morning, Beijingers living near Tiananmen Square were issued with cold breakfast packs and ordered to refrain from cooking, lest smoke from stoves cloud the skies above the mammoth military parade. China’s Communist party goes to extraordinary lengths to ensure that nothing obscures the message of such performances – in this case, that Xi Jinping is reshaping the global order and that China is, in his words, “unstoppable”.The parade marked 80 years since the end of the second world war, positioning China as the critical force in victory in the east then, and a force to be similarly reckoned with today as “humanity is again faced with the choice of peace or war, dialogue or confrontation, win-win or zero-sum”, in Mr Xi’s words. China is “not afraid of bullies”. Continue reading...

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