63 m. ago Assisted dying latest: Labour MPs issue warning over ‘drastically weakened’ End of Life bill

Campaigners making final cases as MPs prepare for final reading in Commons

Events

87 m. ago ‘Normal’ Cole Palmer assumes control of Chelsea’s attack from No 10

Modest 23-year-old still does not understand the fuss around him as he prepares to face Flamengo in the Club World CupCole Palmer sees himself as a normal kid. Strangers watch him with something close to fascination, though. What’s going on beneath the chilled exterior? The shrugging demeanour adds to the mystique. Kids copy the Chelsea attacker’s “cold” celebration. Interviewers walk away amused but bemused after spending time with him. What’s the story with those answers? Why are they all so short and sweet?The Philadelphia sun is beating down when Palmer mooches over for a quick chat at Subaru Park, where Chelsea are training before facing Flamengo in their second game at the Club World Cup on Friday. So, Cole, can you tell us why you walked out wearing a mask when the team plane landed in the US last week? Are you ill? Enzo Maresca, your manager, thinks you were playing a trick on everyone. Continue reading...

Events

87 m. ago ‘No one is immune to grief’: the team turning A Single Man into a sexy, grimy, heartbreaking ballet

Musician John Grant was blown away by Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, finding deep resonances in its tale of gay love and loss. Now, he’s put songs to choreographer Jonathan Watkins’s new dance adaptation“I can’t believe that somehow I was able to make it all the way to the age of 55 without having read that book!” says American singer-songwriter John Grant. “It’s a transformative book. I was just completely blown away by it; I’ve been trying to get everybody that I’ve ever met to read it.”The book Grant is telling me about, enthusing from his sofa at home in Reykjavík, is Christopher Isherwood’s A Single Man, published in 1964, turned into 2009’s most stylish film by first-time director Tom Ford, starring Colin Firth, and now about to be a ballet, premiering at this year’s Manchester international festival. Grant, the former Czars frontman and now an acclaimed solo artist (with albums including Pale Green Ghosts and his latest, The Art of...

Politics

2 h. ago The wry comment the Queen made when she saw newborn Prince William

The most dedicated members of the press and public gathered outside St. Mary's Hospital and Buckingham Palace, where a notice announcing the birth was placed.

Politics

2 h. ago Grenfell: Uncovered review – heartwrenching account of avoidable tragedy

Bleak, enraging documentary combines firsthand accounts of the disaster with appalling record of official negligenceThe 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London which caused 72 deaths is now the subject of Olaide Sadiq’s heartwrenching and enraging documentary, digging at the causes and movingly interviewing survivors and their families, whose testimony is all but unbearable. At the very least, the film will remind you that when politicians smugly announce they wish to make a bonfire of regulations, they should be taken, under police escort if necessary, and made to stand at the foot of the tower. As for the housing secretary at the time of the tower’s refurbishment, the abysmally arrogant Eric Pickles, he was made a life peer in 2018.With the very considerable help of the housing-issues journalist Peter Apps, the film shows how the horror was created by a perfect storm of incompetence, mendacity, greed, and (that heartsinking phrase) systemic failure. The local council were keen to spruc...

Politics

2 h. ago Foreign Office says 'plan ahead' as major event to cause disruption in European destination

The guidance reminds people of the importance of preparing ahead of travelling and staying informed throughout your trip

Politics

3 h. ago How to watch British and Irish Lions vs Argentina: TV channel and live stream for 1888 Cup today

Andy Farrell’s side prepare for Australia tour with first-ever game in Dublin against the Pumas

Politics

4 h. ago Experience: I’ve walked across three countries in a straight line

I didn’t train for my first attempt and got stuck on a mountain with no signal, darkness falling and hypothermia setting inGrowing up, I loved the outdoors. I gallivanted through the Staffordshire countryside with my stepbrother, Greg. We used to pick a point in the distance and create “missions” to walk towards it. It was a mischievous challenge that saw us hopping fences, wading through rivers and sneaking around farmers.I was also obsessed with maps, and even read the Birmingham A-Z for fun. When Google Earth came out in 2005, I spent hours studying satellite images. Continue reading...

Politics

7 h. ago Tom Brady stuns fans with new picture of his incredible physique at 47

NFL legendary quarterback and current Fox broadcaster Tom Brady has stunned fans with a new Instagram post where he posted new photos on his incredible physique at 47 years old.  

Politics

8 h. ago Lee Ryan's colourful love life: From celebrity engagements to explosive love triangles, a secret love child and even a threesome with bandmate Duncan James

He's just announced he is set to become a father for the sixth time, as he prepares to welcome his fourth child with his now wife Verity Paris. 

Society

9 h. ago Exhibition launched to mark 250th anniversary of the birth of JMW Turner

Display at Petworth House, West Sussex, explores link between artist and the landscapes that inspired him.

Politics

9 h. ago Assisted dying latest: Landmark bill hangs in balance ahead of crucial MPs vote

Campaigners making final cases as MPs prepare for final reading in Commons

Politics

10 h. ago Daily Star super tipster Jason Heavey beats AI supercomputer bots at red

The Reach racing editor is on fire with his tips for the horses at this year's baking hot Royal Ascot after correctly picking winner after winner - even beating ChatGPT

Politics

10 h. ago Michelle Keegan makes huge weekly sum on maternity leave thanks to savvy move while pregnant

Former Coronation Street actress Michelle Keegan gave birth to her first child in March of this year alongside husband Mark Wright, with the happy couple raking it in during the new mum's maternity leave

Politics

11 h. ago Blow to City as pension provider Scottish Widows prepares to cut its exposure to UK equities

The company is reducing the allocation to London-listed shares in its highest-growth portfolio from 12% to 3%, it has been reported.

Politics

11 h. ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal eye Madueke; Mbeumo picks next club; Liverpool want Guehi; Chelsea, Man Utd latest

Huge deals edging closer with summer transfer window open again

Sport

12 h. ago Doctors told my Nana she had a short while left. They were wrong. She defied the odds and lived for almost a decade. That's why I'll be voting AGAINST the assisted dying bill: ROBERT JENRICK

Robert Jenrick has made an emotional appeal against assisted dying, as MPs prepare for a momentous vote on whether to let the terminally ill end their own lives.

Society

14 h. ago Liverpool pick out next transfer after Florian Wirtz and Milos Kerkez as £34m deal advanced

Arne Slot’s Liverpool have already enjoyed a lucrative summer window and they have another big-money swoop in mind should one of their pending deals go through as expected

Economics

15 h. ago Trump brushing off MAGA base on Iran for this new power trio of GOP hawks who won his ear

President is increasingly turning to a handful of Iran hardliners and brushing off the MAGA isolationists that got him elected to a second term

Politics

15 h. ago Transfer news LIVE! Arsenal eye Madueke; Mbeumo picks next club; triple Chelsea deal; Man Utd latest

Huge deals edging closer with summer transfer window open again

Sport