81 m. ago More than 150,000 Canadians sign petition to revoke Musk’s citizenship

Parliamentary petition launched due to billionaire’s link to Trump, who has repeatedly threatened to conquer CanadaMore than 150,000 people from Canada have signed a parliamentary petition calling for their country to strip Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship because of the tech billionaire’s alliance with Donald Trump, who has spent his second US presidency repeatedly threatening to conquer its independent neighbor to the north and turn it into its 51st state.British Columbia author Qualia Reed launched the petition in Canada’s House of Commons, where it was sponsored by New Democrat parliamentary member and avowed Musk critic Charlie Angus, as the Canadian Press first reported over the weekend. Continue reading...

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89 m. ago Opposition parties slam North Lanarkshire Council Labour administration over budget

SNP group leader Tracy Carragher highlighted 'poor decision making', while Conservative group head Sandy Watson labelled 10 per cent council tax hike 'way over-the-top'.

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3 h. ago Patricia Arquette on Trump, communes, art and ageing: ‘When I was growing up the whole world was pretty creepy’

She won hearts with True Romance – and an Oscar for Boyhood. The actor reflects on her TV show Severance, political chaos in the US and why human beings are a disasterIf escaping the world by running for the hills looks increasingly attractive to many of us – perhaps living on a commune – Patricia Arquette feels like that too. Head to the mountains, she says. “Plant seeds and farm.” But maybe not the commune part – she lived in one as a child and it wasn’t always utopian. If our conversation is more dystopian than usual, it’s probably because we’re talking about Severance, the hit Apple TV+ show now in its second season. In the first series, we were introduced to Lumon Industries, where some workers, tasked with doing something unknown but probably malevolent with data, were willingly “severed”; their work selves detached from their outside selves, with no memory between the two. If the drama started as an off-kilter take on work-life balance, it soon morphed into something much dar...

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3 h. ago Grangemouth support shows the difference a Labour Government can make

Writing in his Daily Record column, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar says the Grangemouth deal is just the start of the changes for working people that Labour will bring in.

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4 h. ago Waspi campaigners threaten legal action over 'gaslighting' by Government

A watchdog recommended that compensation be paid to women born in the 1950s whose state pension age was raised to be equal with men

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4 h. ago Labour under fire for backing Big Tech data raid without working out the cost

Labour is under fire for backing a controversial plan to let Big Tech firms pillage culture for free without costing it, and with no idea of how it will benefit Britain.

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5 h. ago Suspended Labour MP Mike Amesbury to be sentenced for punching man in street

The politician admitted assaulting a man in Frodsham, Cheshire, at a hearing last month.

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6 h. ago What you should do if you find a burglar in your own home like Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan

Recently Michelle Keegan and her husband Mark Wright were the latest celebrities to have suffered a terrifying home raid by a masked gang - but what can you do to defend yourself from crooks? 

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6 h. ago Diddy's legal team makes shock claim about search warrants that led to evidence of alleged 'freak

Defense attorneys filed documents claiming that federal agents made 'false statements' in their application for the search warrants to raid his homes and examine his Internet history.

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8 h. ago WASPI women threaten legal action against Labour ministers after being denied £10.5bn in compensation because of changes to the state pension age

The Women Against State Pension Inequality (Waspi) campaign has sent a 'letter before action' to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), warning of High Court proceedings if the issue is not resolved.

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8 h. ago 'I'll be working when I'm 70': Less than a third of Generation X are on track for retirement

Only 28% of Britons aged between 45 and 60 are on track to meet their retirement savings goals, data seen by This is Money shows.

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8 h. ago Labour must take the fight to Reform ahead of Senedd polls, Carwyn Jones warns

Lord Jones said he wants to be a ‘voice for Wales’ and a proponent for devolution in Parliament’s upper chamber.

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9 h. ago Labour ministers to resurrect trade talks with India in bid to boost investment

Jonathan Reynolds will meet his opposite number in the Indian capital to discuss improving trade with what will be the world's third largest economy by the end of the decade.

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9 h. ago UK ministers head to India in search of trade deal they hope will boost economy

Business secretary says negotiations – now in their 15th round – are a ‘top priority’ for Labour governmentMinisters are relaunching negotiations with India this week in an attempt to clinch a multibillion-pound free trade agreement that they hope will boost the UK’s flatlining economy.Jonathan Reynolds, the business and trade secretary, flew to Delhi on Sunday to meet his Indian counterpart, Piyush Goyal, for the first time since Labour won the election. Continue reading...

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10 h. ago AI bots turn on tech boffins terminating their jobs after Mark Zuckerberg premonition

The drop in vacancies for highly-paid coders comes as tech workers fear being replaced by AI tools that can automate more mundane or entry-level programming tasks.

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11 h. ago Bridget Phillipson blows hole in Sir Keir Starmer's tough talk on defence

The Education Secretary said Labour 's manifesto pledge of hiking it to 2.5 per cent was an 'ambitious' target and suggested it would not be further increased despite calls to do so.

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13 h. ago Eastenders or Coronation Street? Where property prices have rocketed in real life

Property experts have worked out how much it would cost to live in the fictional world of TV soaps.... and prices are on the up and up, largely due to East London’s 'gentrification'

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15 h. ago Labour to order schools, hospitals and prisons to buy more British food in bid to appease farmers who are furious at Rachel Reeves' tax raid

Steve Reed, the Environment Secretary, will use a speech this week to outline a shake-up in the awarding of public contracts in order to prioritise domestic produce.

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17 h. ago ‘We are pissed’: opposition to Trump, slow to energize, now shakes off its slumber

The slash-and-burn approach of Trump and his ‘Doge’ head Elon Musk has reinvigorated resistance to the Republican administrationOn a bright winter’s day this week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn effort to reshape the American government. “You work for us, not Musk!” read one sign. “Remember your oath,” another warned, as a mobile billboard circled nearby, featuring the president and the billionaire tech mogul, with the message: “When he’s snooping through your bank accounts, you dump him.”The group, dozens strong, cheered wildly when the driver of a white Tesla turned the corner and laid on his horn. A smaller contingent of constituents had attempted to secure a meeting with the congressman, Ken Calvert, but found the door of his regional office locked and the blinds drawn. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago ‘Heinous actions’: opposition to Trump, slow to energize, shakes off its slumber

The slash-and-burn approach of Trump and his ‘Doge’ head Musk has reinvigorated resistance to the administrationOn a bright winter’s day this week, a group of protesters fanned out along a palm tree-lined thoroughfare in the picturesque city of Palm Desert to demand that their Republican congressman stand up to Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn effort to reshape the American government. “You work for us, not Musk!” read one sign. “Remember your oath,” another warned, as a mobile billboard circled nearby, featuring the president and the billionaire tech mogul, with the message: “When he’s snooping through your bank accounts, you dump him.”The group, dozens strong, cheered wildly when the driver of a white Tesla turned the corner and laid on his horn. A smaller contingent of constituents had attempted to secure a meeting with the congressman, Ken Calvert, but found the door of his regional office locked and the blinds drawn. Continue reading...

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