4 h. ago LIZZY BUCHAN: I watched armed men storm ship for chilling show of force against Russia

The Mirror's Lizzy Buchan has been in Finland with Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, where Finnish patrols are monitoring the freezing waters along NATO's eastern flank

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7 d. ago Russia's chilling nuclear WW3 threat after UK helps US seize 'ghost fleet' tanker

A Russian Duma member has issued a chilling threat to the US after British forces supported American seizure of an oil tanker, and suggested nuclear weapons could even be deployed

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8 d. ago ‘I wish I’d faced these poor modern teams’: world’s oldest living Test cricketer on decline in standards

Neil Harvey, 97, the last surviving Bradman Invincible, blasts the Bazball experiment from his La-Z-Boy armchair Twenty five kilometres north of the SCG, the world’s oldest living Test cricketer is sitting in his La-Z-Boy armchair and watching the Test. Neil Harvey was once the youngest of Bradman’s Invincibles; now he’s 97, his old cricketing buddies gone. His body is a little worn around the edges, but mentally he’s astute.Harvey was Australia’s sweetheart, the second youngest of six brothers, a dashing left-hander, who stalked the covers and a hunted at slip. During a 15-year Test career, he cut and shimmied to more than 6,000 runs at an average of 48, making his mark with 153 in his second Test. He was a regular at the SCG, attending every Test from 1949 up until four years ago, when, in the words of his son Bruce he “gave up public appearances” and he has very fond memories of the place. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Elon Musk’s AI chatbot faces UK probes after ‘creating fake sexual images of women and children’

ELON Musk’s X is facing a UK probe after users asked its AI chatbot Grok to create sexual images of women and children.  UK media watchdog Ofcom has made “urgent contact” with X and its AI arm xAI to assess whether online safety laws have been breached.  The move follows evidence users could upload photos and ask...

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9 d. ago Made in America by Edward Stourton review – why the ‘Trump doctrine’ is no aberration

From territorial overreach to deportations, the current president is not as much of an anomaly as he might seem‘Almost everyone is a little bit in love with the USA,” declares Edward Stourton in his introduction to Made in America. And why not? It is the land of razzle-dazzle and high ideals, of jazz music, Bogart and Bacall, Harriet Tubman and Hamilton, a nation that was anti-colonialist and pro-liberty from its conception, whose Declaration of Independence states that “all men are created equal”. Why, then, does this same country so often produce clown-show politics, racism at home and abroad, and imperial ambitions, latterly in Greenland and Canada? Why does it regularly show contempt for the world order it helped create? Why did it once again elect Donald Trump?These contradictions have kept an army of journalists, White House-watchers and soothsayers in business for generations. Alistair Cooke, perhaps the greatest British exponent of the genre, interpreted the country via the ...

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2 w. ago Through the lens of history, Trump's legacy will be more of a blotch than a Maga masterpiece | Simon Tisdall

Take this hopeful thought into 2026: the tyrants we endure always falter, and their ‘seismic’ upheavals are usually false dawnsFor those who lived through the cold war, the fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, was an unforgettable moment. The sinister watch towers with their searchlights and armed guards, the minefields in no-man’s land, the notorious Checkpoint Charlie border post, and the Wall itself – all were swept aside in an extraordinary, popular lunge for freedom.Less than a month later, on 3 December 1989, at a summit in Malta, US president George HW Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared that after more than 40 years, the cold war was over. All agreed it was a historic turning point.Simon Tisdall is a Guardian foreign affairs commentator Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Huge boost in bid for 4am Scots World Cup pubs as millionaire Wetherspoons boss gives update

WEATHERSPOONS boss Sir Tim Martin has backed an unprecedented bid to keep Scots pubs open as late as 4am so the Tartan Army can watch their side’s World Cup matches. The hospitality icon has thrown his weight behind the bold efforts after the Scottish Beer and Pub Association announced they'd be writing to First Minister John Swinney...

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4 w. ago Chilling rise of Xmas ‘fast parcels’ racket which sees ruthless gangs forcing desperate mums to pass on drugs and GUNS

IT was supposed to be a one off - taking in a package sent from abroad in return for a quick cash payment to help cover the costs of Christmas. But for the desperate mum, one parcel turned into another, and another, and the payments dropped off as the packages kept arriving - each one believed to be stuffed...

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