2 d. ago Labour Left's £120BILLION tax menu: MPs tell Reeves to hike NICs again, target banks and hammer shareholders to fund 'unsustainable' spending splurge

Keir Starmer has urged to raise up to £120billion from Brits by increasing national insurance again, targeting banks and hammering shareholders.

Economics

3 d. ago Macron state visit live: French president vows ‘closest cooperation ever’ with Starmer to end small boats crisis

Emmanuel Macron tells MPs and peers in Parliament aim is to ‘fix a burden for our two countries’

Politics

5 d. ago Liverpool star Luis Diaz reveals how he broke down in 'very, very big pain' after death of Diogo Jota, as he sends a message to 'great friend' and family after being unable to attend funeral

Liverpool winger Luis Diaz has opened up on how the death of his team-mate, and friend, Diogo Jota, has affected him after the striker tragically passed away last week.

Society

8 d. ago Scottish Labour MPs call for UK Government to 'tell a better story' on election anniversary

EXCLUSIVE: Speaking to the Record, Scottish Labour MPs have given their verdicts on a difficult first year in charge for Keir Starmer.

Politics

8 d. ago Senseless death of Diogo Jota will not stop us celebrating what he brought life | Barney Ronay

His loved ones’ lives are changed for ever and at one level this is not a sports story. But Jota’s footballing talent, heart and will should be cherished, amid the griefBad moon, bad times and a river that will be overflowing for some time yet. It is impossible not to feel a deep sense of pain, sadness and shared heartbreak at news of the sudden death of Diogo Jota and his brother André Silva in a car crash in Spain. Jota was 28, father to three young children and a husband to his long-term partner, whom he married 10 days before his death.Things that happen in sport are often described, with due dramatic licence, as tragedies. This is not a sports story. But it is the most terrible human tragedy. Those who have suffered similarly can empathise. But it is above all a private horror, an event that will alter the lives of family and friends for ever. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago London girl, 7, killed by tree was the light in our lives, say family

Leonna Ruka’s family said they have been left with ‘broken hearts and unimaginable pain’ following her death

Events

1 week ago Labour benefits cuts latest: Pressure piles on Starmer after Burnham tells MPs to vote down welfare bill

Around 50 MPs are still thought to be planning to rebel against the bill in a crunch vote on Tuesday

Events

1 week ago ‘I was angry at the world’: Damon Hill on pain of his father’s death and how it fuelled his rise

Former F1 world champion’s gives a moving insight into dealing with his grief as a 15-year-old, and reflects on driving with Senna and against Schumacher“It was awful and to this day I feel the tension that I experienced,” Damon Hill says of the moment he heard on television in November 1975 that his father, Graham, the two-time Formula One world champion, had died in a plane accident. Hill had to leave the living room to find his mother and tell her what had happened.“It was like having a nuclear bomb and I dropped it on my mum. Of course it was accentuated by the fact I was 15, which is when you haven’t got the defences to deal with it.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘American death zones’: Trump admin announces $30m for Gaza aid program where dozens have been killed trying to get food

Testimony collected by The Independent from Palestinians whose family members have been killed at sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation paints a picture of chaos and death

Events

2 w. ago Bill Moyers, Lyndon Johnson press chief and celebrated broadcaster, dies at 91

Moyers, who served as Johnson’s press secretary for two years, became one of television’s most revered journalistsBill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television’s most honored journalists, masterfully using a visual medium to illuminate a world of ideas, died on Thursday at age 91.Moyers died in a New York City hospital, according to longtime friend Tom Johnson, the former chief executive of CNN and an assistant to Moyers during Lyndon B Johnson’s administration. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Unheard works by Erik Satie to premiere 100 years after his death

Pianist Alexandre Tharaud performs previously lost material by experimental French composer on a new albumTwenty-seven previously unheard works by Erik Satie, from playful cabaret songs to minimalist nocturnes, are to be premiered a century after the death of the notoriously eccentric and innovative French composer.Painstakingly pieced together from hundreds of small notebooks, most of the new works are thought to have been written in the bohemian bistros of Montmartre in Paris where Satie worked as a pianist in the early decades of the 20th century. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago DAN HODGES: Keir Starmer's time is up and his party 'have had enough'. That's the withering verdict from his own MPs... and this is what they tell me is coming next

'It's not a confidence vote,' Keir Starmer insisted plaintively yesterday, after it was put to him that his personal authority was on the line over the mounting rebellion against his disability benefit cuts.

Politics

2 w. ago Prince William interrupts BBC Radio 2 with cheeky warning leaving guest stunned

Prince William left a voice note that was played during the Scott Mills Breakfast Show on Radio 2, much to the surprise of a guest on the show, the conservationist Robert Irwin

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2 w. ago Prince William leaves surprise message on Radio 2 and tells Scott Mills 'beware'

Listeners were surprised as the Prince of Wales left a voicenote on the Scott Mills Breakfast Show on Radio 2

Politics

2 w. ago First evacuation flight takes off as 1,000 Britons seek escape Israel war zone

Foreign secretary tells MPs the Middle East faces a ‘perilous moment’

Politics

2 w. ago First evacuation flight takes off as 1,000 Britons seek escape from Israel war zone

Foreign secretary tells MPs the Middle East faces a ‘perilous moment’

Politics

3 w. ago MPs share their own stories as assisted dying debate continues

If MPs back the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill at third reading, it will face further scrutiny in the House of Lords at a later date.

Events

3 w. ago James Cleverly’s voice breaks as he tells MPs of ‘painful’ death of best friend in assisted dying bill debate

James Cleverly has opened up on losing his best friend during the assisted dying bill debate in the House of Commons on Friday (20 June).

Events

3 w. ago Add to playlist: James K’s downtempo dream pop and the week’s best new tracks

Right on time for the return of the chill out era, the New York producer traces a hypnotic path on an album that bobs along on sleepy breakbeats and angelic atmosphericsFrom New YorkRecommended if you like Caroline Polachek, Voice Actor, Vegyn Up next New album Friend released via AD 93 on 5 SeptemberPull up your beanbag, light a lava lamp and crack open the Vicks VapoRub: downtempo is back. New compilation Telepathic Fish documents the 90s south London ambient night; Logic1000’s latest DJ-Kicks mix would barely register on an ECG; there’s none more languid than even the summer’s flagship pop album, Addison by Addison Rae. New York producer and musician James K has been dabbling in trip-hop – and various shades of experimental pop and club music – for more than a decade, but nonetheless, her new album, Friend, arrives right on time for summer’s wind down. (What is autumn if not the chill out room to escape the year’s most hectic season?) Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago BBC Breakfast's Jon Kay issues warning to viewers live on air

BBC Breakfast presenter Jon Kay voiced his concern for the public ahead of the UK's heatwave.

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