1 hour ago Dispatch from London Tech Week: From Keir Starmer to the rise of digital twins

Is it scarier to be on board the AI rocketship or left behind? Maybe ask your digital twin

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7 h. ago Starmer puts skills training at heart of industrial strategy plan

The decade-long industrial strategy will include £275 million in skills investment to train Britons to do jobs in growth industries.

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8 h. ago Keir Starmer branded a 'hypocrite' for condemning 'disgraceful' raid on UK airbase after previously defending RAF protesters in court

The Prime Minister described the raid on RAF Brize Norto by Palestine Action as 'disgraceful' and an 'act of vandalism'.

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9 h. ago Kneecap’s Glastonbury performance not ‘appropriate’, says Keir Starmer

UK prime minister criticises band’s inclusion in festival lineup after Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh allegedly displayed flag supporting HezbollahKneecap’s Glastonbury festival performance next Saturday is not “appropriate”, Keir Starmer has said.Kneecap member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh appeared in court on Wednesday after allegedly displaying a flag in support of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hezbollah and saying “up Hamas, up Hezbollah” at a gig in November last year. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago Keir Starmer backs Badenoch call and claims Kneecap slot at Glastonbury 'not appropriate'

Sir Keir Starmer said he did not believe Kneecap should be allowed to perform at Glastonbury Festival next week, after a member of the group was charged with a terrorism offence

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9 h. ago Starmer welcomes release of Belarusian opposition leader’s husband

Siarhei Tsikhanouski is a key dissident figure and the husband of exiled opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

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10 h. ago Kneecap Glastonbury Festival slot slammed by Keir Starmer as 'not appropriate'

The UK PM blasted Kneecap's upcoming Glastonbury performance, after the Irish rappers were axed from Glasgow's TRNSMT festival last month

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10 h. ago Now Keir Starmer follows Kemi Badenoch in demanding Irish rappers Kneecap are dropped from Glastonbury after Hezbollah flag charge

Following similar calls from Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, Sir Keir Starmer said today it was 'not appropriate' for the Irish rappers to perform at the festival.

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11 h. ago Kneecap's Glastonbury performance is 'not appropriate' says Starmer

Liam Og O hAnnaidh, 27, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Wednesday accused of displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah at a gig in November last year

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11 h. ago Kneecap Glastonbury slot ‘not appropriate’, says Sir Keir Starmer

The Prime Minister has said he doesn't think showing Kneecap's Glastonbury set on the BBC is "appropriate" after a member allegedly displayed a Hezbollah flag at one of their gigs last year

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12 h. ago Union leaders call on Keir Starmer to immediately recognise Palestinian state

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak, Unite's Sharon Graham and Unison's Christina McAnea are among the union chiefs putting their name to calls for the UK government to "immediately" recognise a Palestinian state

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13 h. ago Keir Starmer must end the injustice of indefinite sentences today

Editorial: There are thousands of people in prison in Britain with no release date, serving sentences that were abolished in 2012

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14 h. ago Kneecap's Glastonbury set 'should not be shown' as Tory leader demands BBC blackout

Kemi Badenoch has said the BBC "should not be showing" Kneecap's performance at Glastonbury Festival next week, after one of the group's members appeared in court

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14 h. ago The whole world knew the US and Israel were going to strike Iran

I knew in April the finishing touches were being put to what Netanyahu dubbed Operation Rising Lion. Tehran knew. Washington knew. But our Prime Minister appears to have been blindsided...

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16 h. ago Voices: Keir Starmer accidentally admits his first year has been a failure

The prime minister said his biggest mistake was that ‘we haven’t always told our story as well as we should’ – an attempt to minimise a problem that is fundamental, argues John Rentoul

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18 h. ago More than 400 migrants arrive in the UK crossing the Channel in small boats

It brings the total for the year so far to 17,817.

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25 h. ago Voices: Whitehall isn’t working – here’s how the PM can fix it

Keir Starmer complains that the government machine is slow to crank into life when he demands action. To prevent his ‘mission-driven’ domestic agenda from being doomed to failure, the prime minister should first get rid of the Cabinet Office, says Andrew Grice

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25 h. ago Alcohol should have labels warning drinkers of cancer risks, charities say

Health organisations have written to Keir Starmer urging him to force drinks producers to include warningsCans and bottles of beer, wine and spirits should explicitly warn drinkers that alcohol causes cancer, an unprecedented alliance of doctors, charities and public experts have said.Warning labels would tackle “shockingly low” public awareness in the UK that alcohol is proven to cause seven forms of cancer and 17,000 cases a year of the disease, they claim. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago Assisted dying law closer but MPs’ support narrows in historic vote

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill has cleared the Commons and will now move to the Lords.

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40 h. ago MPs led by Keir Starmer vote to LEGALISE assisted dying in the most seismic change to suicide law in decades despite warnings law is unsafe

Medics will be allowed to help the terminally ill end their own lives after a bitterly contested vote in the Commons this afternoon.

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