5 h. ago James Patterson's new initiative gives emerging authors up to $50,000 to finish their books

James Patterson has launched an initiative to support emerging authors

Culture

5 d. ago Angela Rayner 'is a hypocrite and a freeloader': Tories blast Deputy PM after it emerges she 'dodged £40,000 in stamp duty' on her new seaside pad

The Deputy Prime Minister is said to have told tax authorities that her £800,000 seaside apartment in Hove, East Sussex, was her main place of residence.

Economics

8 d. ago The Guardian view on Nigel Farage’s mass deportation plan: Trumpism in a union jack | Editorial

Reform UK’s leader isn’t offering border control. He’s dismantling democratic constraints and replacing them with fear and authoritarian fictionNigel Farage wants you to believe Britain could deport 288,000 people annually. That’s nearly 800 a day – 30 times the current rate of asylum-related returns. This is a fantasy concealing his real aim: to destroy public trust in democratic institutions, crush legal constraints and turn fear into power. Mr Farage isn’t trying to fix the asylum system. In fact, he wants to dismantle the political framework necessary to achieve that goal: the treaties, parliamentary conventions and centuries of legal protections. In their place, a Reform government would operate by executive fiat cloaked in nationalist rhetoric.“Operation Restoring Justice” is a louder, more extreme version of Rishi Sunak’s failed 2023 strategy to detain everyone, deport everyone and process no one. This led to a backlog of unheard asylum claims, spiralling hotel costs and publ...

Politics

8 d. ago Rio Ngumoha’s decision to leave Chelsea bears early fruit at Liverpool

The 16-year-old’s belief that opportunities at Anfield would be greater than Stamford Bridge seems to have been correctThere was vindication as well as a place in the Liverpool history books for Rio Ngumoha with the ice-cool finish he swept past Nick Pope at St James’ Park on Monday. The 16-year-old has announced himself on the Premier League stage, as every one of his coaches predicted he would, though it is debatable his name would have registered so quickly without a bold decision taken 12 months ago.Ngumoha was considered one of the brightest English prospects in the Premier League academy system when he stunned Chelsea last summer by leaving for Liverpool. If it was a wrench to leave the club he had joined aged eight, and for a Newham-born boy to leave London days after his 16th birthday, then the clearer route to first-team football that Ngumoha envisaged at Liverpool was compensation. Monday’s dramatic 100th-minute winner at Newcastle, when the teenager replaced Ben Woodburn ...

Politics

9 d. ago Teen tortured for weeks as eyes gouged out and scalp removed in UK's worst murder

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: James Patterson Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates, who he tortured for weeks in one of the UK's most shocking crimes

Events

1 week ago Air pollution from oil and gas causes 90,000 premature US deaths each year, says new study

Study analyzed health impacts of fossil fuels from exploration to end use, and found communities of color bear brunt of harmAir pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new study shows, with disproportionately high impacts on communities of color.More than 10,000 annual pre-term births are attributable to fine particulate matter from oil and gas, the authors found, also linking 216,000 annual childhood-onset asthma cases to the sector’s nitrogen dioxide emissions and 1,610 annual lifetime cancer cases to its hazardous air pollutants. Continue reading...

Society

2 w. ago Manchester City sweep Wolves aside with Haaland double and debut goals

Whether Manchester City restore their powers as the Premier League’s formidable force after a summer of change remains one of the great unknowns but for Pep Guardiola the early evidence in victory at Wolves was supremely encouraging.The substitute Rayan Cherki, a summer signing from Lyon, capped the scoring within eight minutes of entering and Tijjani Reijnders, another one of those pinpointed to drive the close-season makeover, was peerless on his league debut; the Netherlands midfielder was the architect for Erling Haaland’s double, which bookended Reijnders’s first City goal, a feathery first-time finish. “City are back,” crooned the away support and, by the end, it was hard to argue otherwise. Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago Rupert Lowe reports charity rowers to coastguard as possible ‘illegal migrants’

MP agrees to donate £1,000 to crew’s fundraising effort after alerting authorities to rowing boat off Great YarmouthThe independent MP Rupert Lowe has agreed to donate £1,000 to a charity after mistaking its rowing crew, including a former Royal Marine, for “illegal migrants”.Lowe, who was elected as a Reform MP but now sits as an independent for Great Yarmouth, said he had shopped the crew to the authorities and vowed to do everything he could to have them deported if they turned out to be what he suspected. Continue reading...

Events

4 w. ago James Patterson and Vicky Ward to write book on UnitedHealthcare CEO's killing

James Patterson and Vicky Ward are collaborating on a new book about the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson

Events

4 w. ago Shein fined €1m in Italy for misleading environmental claims about products

Chinese fast fashion retailer penalised month after €40m fine from French regulator in JulyThe Italian authorities have fined Shein €1m (£870,000) for making “misleading or omissive” environmental claims about its products, the second time in as many months the Chinese fashion retailer has been targeted by European regulators.Environmental sustainability and social responsibility messages on Shein’s website were in some cases “vague, generic, and/or overly emphatic” and in others were “misleading or omissive”, said Italy’s competition authority, AGCM. Continue reading...

Politics