95 m. ago Nigel Farage admits he was wrong to say he had bought house in Clacton

Reform UK leader says he should not have claimed he was buyer of property that was really bought by his partnerUK politics live – latest updatesNigel Farage has admitted he misspoke when he claimed to have bought a house in his constituency of Clacton, saying the property is in fact solely owned by his long-term partner.The Guardian revealed in May that the detached property in an upmarket part of Clacton-on-Sea was actually solely bought by Laure Ferrari, and when approached by the newspaper he insisted his name did not appear because of “security reasons”. Continue reading...

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2 h. ago Melania Trump is right that the robots are here – but she’s wrong on how to handle it | Arwa Mahdawi

The first lady has taken it upon herself to help children navigate AI. If she really wants to help, then she should ask her husband to stop gutting public education“The robots are here,” proclaimed Melania Trump during an AI event at the White House on Thursday. It can be hard to parse the first lady’s poker face and expressionless voice, but this certainly wasn’t a statement of regret. Rather Trump, reading from a script encased in a very analogue binder, was taking it upon herself to help America’s children navigate AI, which she touted as the “greatest engine of progress in the history of the United States of America”. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Donald Trump was an FBI ‘informant’ on Jeffrey Epstein, Republican Mike Johnson claims

The leader of the House of Representatives said Trump was ‘horrified’ by the controversy

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4 h. ago My house was infested with FLEAS and my son covered in bites, reveals ex

The first I realised there was a problem was a text from my son. He'd moved back into our house while we were away in Greece and said the place was 'a nightmare'.

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5 h. ago 'We ditched the UK for sunny Spain and kids have never been happier'

A family-of-four ditched their life in the UK for a fresh start in Spain, with the household saying their quality of life has improved massively since moving to Alicante

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5 h. ago ‘Same faces, different positions’: Will Starmer’s reshuffle change anything?

With just one new face around the cabinet table and a massive job swap for most of the rest, political editor David Maddox questions whether Keir Starmer has done enough to reverse his government’s dire fortunes

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5 h. ago The astonishing story of the aristocrat who hid her Jewish lover in a sofa bed – and other German rebels who defied the Nazis

From a diplomat who embraced the exiled Albert Einstein to a schoolteacher who helped ‘non-Aryan’ students flee, these remarkable individuals refused to bend the knee to Hitler – only to be dramatically betrayed. What made them risk it all?I grew up in a house where nothing German was allowed. No Siemens dishwasher or Krups coffee machine in the kitchen, no Volkswagen, Audi or Mercedes in the driveway. The edict came from my mother. She was not a Holocaust survivor, though she had felt the breath of the Shoah on her neck. She was just eight years old on 27 March 1945, when her own mother was killed by the last German V-2 rocket of the war to fall on London, a bomb that flattened a corner of the East End, killing 134 people, almost all of them Jews. One way or another, the blast radius of that explosion would encompass the rest of my mother’s life and much of mine.Of course, she knew that the bomb that fell on Hughes Mansions had not picked out that particular building deliberat...

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5 h. ago ‘My cats are always grooming, chasing or cuddling’: Sagar Pavale’s best phone picture

The India-based photographer worked quietly so that he didn’t disturb this blissful momentSagar Pavale’s cats are sunseekers. Pavale, who lives in Bengaluru, India, had just finished some jobs around the house when he spotted the pair in their favourite spot, on a couch near a window.“They love it there, I think because it gets just the right amount of afternoon light,” Pavale says. “They often nap together, especially when the weather is calm. Kalya the black cat, who was four at the time, is a little reserved, but incredibly affectionate when he trusts you. The lighter one, Mani, was two. She’s playful and a bit mischievous. Despite the age gap, and the fact that they’re not littermates, they’ve formed a really strong bond. Kalya has a protective, big-brother energy about him, and they’re always grooming, chasing or cuddling.” Continue reading...

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5 h. ago US housing agency rehires sacked Fannie and Freddie staff ahead of IPO

Almost a third of the mortgage giants’ workforce was cut as part of Trump’s purge of the federal government

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5 h. ago US housing agency rehires sacked staff ahead of Fannie and Freddie IPO

Almost a third of the mortgage giants’ workforce was cut as part of Trump’s purge of the federal government

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5 h. ago 'I'm a money expert and here are 9 things you must do to sell your home faster'

MoneyMagpie Editor and financial expert Vicky Parry shares tips that could help you sell your house faster

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5 h. ago Doomed Notting Hill mansion to go back on market months after couple's £33m refund because it was invaded by MOTHS... but neighbours think owner will have no chance

Property developer William Woodward-Fisher was ordered to take back the home in Notting Hill this year when billionaire heiress Iya Patarkatsishvili and Dr Yevhen Hunyak won a High Court battle.

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5 h. ago Watch Gorillaz' official video of playing debut album in full at London 'House Of Kong' residency

Watch Gorillaz' official video of playing debut album in full at London 'House Of Kong' residency  NME

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6 h. ago ‘Reclaim our flag’: saltire becomes cultural battleground in Scotland as tensions rise over asylum housing

From Falkirk to Aberdeen, the Scottish flag has become a contested emblem in protests around migrationAfter Friday prayers last week, Mahmooda Syedain and her husband went shopping for flags, specifically the national flag of Scotland, the blue and white cross of St Andrew.The community activist lives in Falkirk, a former iron and steel town midway between Glasgow and Edinburgh where unemployment is rising, and where an anonymous two-floor building tucked behind the local Lidl store has become the focus of the largest asylum hotel protests in Scotland. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Alex Lawther: ‘I really like kissing – I’m always looking forward to the next one’

The Alien: Earth star on the joys of kissing, disliking his forehead, and the time he tried (and failed) to get arrestedBorn in Hampshire, Alex Lawther, 30, made his West End debut in David Hare’s South Downs at 16. In 2014 he played the young Alan Turing in the film The Imitation Game, earning him a London Critics’ Circle award. In 2016, he starred in the Black Mirror episode Shut Up and Dance, and from 2017 he played the lead in Channel 4’s The End of the F***ing World. He appears in the series Alien: Earth, a prequel to the 1979 Alien film, which is streaming on Hulu. He lives in London with his partner.When were you happiest? Last year, during four days in January, when I directed Rhoda, my second short film, in a tiny house in Camberwell with Juliet Stevenson and Emma D’Arcy. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago 'I'm a hotel expert and this is how you recreate their comfy beds at home'

If you've ever wondered why you sleep so well in a hotel bed, one housekeeper has shared the secret - and it involves more than just fluffing up the pillows

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6 h. ago Jealous parrot escapes after owner gets new bird – then tells him to f*** off from tree

EXCLUSIVE: Jano the jealous parrot didn't take kindly to her owner's new girlfriend, so she flew off before getting stuck in a 50ft tree where she let her thoughts be known about the love triangle

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6 h. ago Couple end up dead after asking daughter's boyfriend to follow 'house rules'

Dr Beth Potter, and husband Robin Carre, were found lying in a ditch by a jogger in the early hours of March 31, 2020.

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6 h. ago ‘Corrupt' housing officers suspected of fraudulently allocating hundreds of east London council homes for cash

Police make arrests amid investigation into four-year east London housing 'scam'

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7 h. ago Slow Horses author Mick Herron: ‘I love doing things that are against the rules’

As the hit thriller returns to our screens, its creator talks about false starts, surprise inspirations – and why he never looks inside Jackson Lamb’s headIt is hard to imagine anyone less like the slovenly, has-been MI5 agent Jackson Lamb than his creator, Mick Herron. “He must come deep out of my subconscious,” the 62-year-old thriller writer jokes, sipping mineral water at a rooftop bar in his home city of Oxford, a world away from London’s Aldersgate where his bestselling Slough House series is set. In a “blue shirt, white tee” (fans will get the reference), he is softly spoken with a hint of a Geordie accent. Herron is often described as the heir to John le Carré and “the best spy novelist of his generation”, according to the New Yorker. Unlike le Carré, he’s not, and never has been, a spy. Mysteriously, though, Wikipedia has given him “an entirely fictitious” birthday. “I got cards. I got a cake,” he says.For the uninitiated, the novels and award-winning TV series follow a bun...

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