73 m. ago Reform unveils plan to top up poorest workers from £250,000 fee on rich UK newcomers

Nigel Farage will outline Britannia Card policy that could give the low paid £600 to £1,000 extra a yearReform UK are to offer wealthy foreigners and returning British expats a bespoke tax regime in exchange for a one-off payment of £250,000 with all funds collected redistributed to Britain’s lowest-paid workers, the party claims,.The proposal, dubbed the Britannia Card, is due to be unveiled by party leader Nigel Farage later this week. It promises a 10-year residence permit and a return to the controversial “remittance basis” of taxation, allowing cardholders to shield overseas income from UK tax and avoid inheritance tax entirely. Continue reading...

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84 m. ago US bombs Iran latest: Trump claims 'we took the bomb out of Iran's hands' as Tehran threatens to close Strait of Hormuz

The US president authorised the overnight bombings of key nuclear sites, including the heavily fortified Fordow plant

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87 m. ago 'Idiot' drivers get out of cars and block emergency crews on hard shoulder amid M60 incident

Motorists claimed they were stuck for hours as all traffic was stopped on the motorway

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1 hour ago Prestwick Cricket Club ready to mark 70 years not out at Henry Thow Oval

All roads lead to the Oval this Saturday for a birthday bash to remember.

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1 hour ago Twenty dead and dozens injured as suicide bomber targets Syrian church

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Syrian Interior Ministry identified the perpetrator as a member of the Islamic State group.

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2 h. ago Iran says US ‘must receive a response’ after Trump’s strikes on nuclear sites

Pentagon claims major damage inflicted, world leaders call for restraint and Israel continues to strike Iranian targetsMiddle East crisis – latest updatesIran has warned the US to brace for retaliation after Donald Trump’s administration joined Israel in its war against Tehran, tearing up his isolationist foreign policy and launching the most consequential intervention in a conflict in a generation.Almost a day after US strikes targeting three key Iranian nuclear sites, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, told France’s Emmanuel Macron: “The Americans must receive a response to their aggression,” signalling a potential Iranian reprisal that could drag the US into a new, protracted conflict in the Middle East. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Test your Love Island knowledge with our 10th anniversary quiz!

Love Island is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, and we’ve put together a juicy trivia quiz to test your villa knowledge. Can you remember every graft, grovel, and firepit fallout from the past decade?

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4 h. ago Love Island star shares video of 'chaotic' hot air balloon landing as she addresses terrifying ordeal amid Brazil disaster that's claimed eight lives

A Love Island star has been caught up in a scary hot air balloon ordeal.

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4 h. ago Injured Viktor Hovland quits Travelers as tournament claims fourth casualty

The Norwegian was forced to retire after completing just two holes of his Sunday round

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4 h. ago Injured Viktor Hovland quits Travelers as tournament claims fifth casualty

The Norwegian was forced to retire after completing just two holes of his Sunday round

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4 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump bombing Iran: an illegal and reckless act | Editorial

The US president has chosen war at Israel’s behest. He may imagine he has scored an easy win, but the world is likely to pay a steep priceDonald Trump was predictably quick to claim victory following the illegal US strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities: “Completely and totally obliterated,” he crowed. Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel and sycophants at home rushed to fawn over his “courageous” and “brilliant” decision. The most senior US military official, Dan Caine, offered a more muted assessment: it was “way too early” to know the full outcome despite severe damage. We cannot yet know whether the blow has ended Iran’s nuclear aspirations – or will spur it to pursue the bomb. It may be weeks or months, too, before Iranian retaliation plays out, with all its potential repercussions.Two nuclear-armed states have gone to war on the unevidenced claim that a third state is on the verge of acquiring its own nuclear arms. In March, the US director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, said I...

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4 h. ago The Guardian view on extreme weather: build national readiness – or let everyday life keep breaking down | Editorial

Britain faces rising climate threats, yet lacks a country adaptation plan. Urgent, coordinated investment is needed to protect lives and infrastructureBritain’s four-day heatwave – made 100 times more likely by the climate crisis – is expected to claim about 600 lives. Researchers say high temperatures from Thursday to Sunday would lead to a sharp rise in excess mortality, especially among older people in cities such as London and Birmingham. They forecast the deadliest day as Saturday, with temperatures above 32C and about 266 deaths. These are not abstract figures, but lives cut short by a threat we understand, yet remain unprepared for.Young people seem to grasp this. In a YouGov poll last week, roughly a quarter of 18- to 24-year-olds said they hoped there wouldn’t be a heatwave – while more than two-fifths of older people welcomed the sunshine. That generational split isn’t just cultural. It reflects an entirely rational anxiety: younger people face a future living in a climate...

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5 h. ago Five UK millionaires walking among us including one with just days to come forward and claim £1m prize

One winner has just three days remaining to cash their £1m prize

Economics

5 h. ago Has TikTok convinced you to ditch seed oils? Don’t clean out your pantry just yet

Are seed oils as bad for you as influencers claim? Amber Raiken speaks to nutrients about why the cooking oils deserve a better reputation

Politics

6 h. ago How effective was the US attack on Iran’s nuclear sites? A visual guide

Trump claims the assault ‘totally obliterated’ the key facilities, but what do we know about its impact?Middle East crisis – latest updatesDonald Trump was quick to claim that US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities had “completely and totally obliterated” them. Still, it remains unclear how much physical damage has been done or what the longer-term impact might be on Iran’s nuclear programme. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Serial rapist who attacked young mothers as their babies lay beside them and served time alongside Ian Huntley in Monster Mansion is found dead in jail

Ronald Cole had been in prison from the age of 29 following his last horrific crime - where he raped a 25-year-old woman as her baby son lay in bed beside her.

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7 h. ago Marc Márquez wins battle of brothers to delight Ducati fans at Italian GP

Alex Márquez and Fabio Di Giannantonio also on podiumSpaniard claims 93rd win of his career across all classesDucati’s Marc Márquez won the Italian Grand Prix after a dogfight for podium places at the Mugello Circuit on Sunday, taking the chequered flag ahead of his brother Alex Márquez to maintain an iron grip on the riders’ championship.Gresini Racing’s Alex Márquez briefly led the race early on before Marc Márquez took control, while Fabio Di Giannantonio of VR46 Racing claimed third place after snatching the final podium spot from Italian compatriot Francesco Bagnaia. The home favourite, Bagnaia, also led the race in the initial stages but the Italian, who had won the previous three races at Mugello, was overshadowed by the Márquez brothers and could only finish fourth in front of his home fans. Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Made In Chelsea's Jessica Woodley pregnant with first child as she reveals huge bump

Made In Chelsea's Jessica Woodley is expecting her first baby with partner, Mark Logan, after claiming she was still battling 'trauma' from her stint on reality TV

Politics

8 h. ago Trump is terrified of Black culture. But not for the reasons you think

A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support itBy the time Jesse Owens bowed his head from the highest podium tier to be crowned with his fourth Olympic wreath in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Europe’s premiers knew they had a problem. In front of a record-setting crowd at games that should have been a lavish display of Aryan propaganda, Owens’s unmatched athleticism on the track humiliated the host Nazi regime and smashed one of the vital ideological pillars upon which European empires annexed the world into their racial order. Since the inception of race-based slavery and settler-colonialism in the 15th century, the novel idea that human beings could be stratified into distinct “races,” with superiority defaulting to white Europeans, was bolstered by the claim that white racial supremacy was the rational outcome of the “natural” biophysical, intellectual and aesthetic ascendancy of...

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8 h. ago ‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild westReactions to Lauren Greenfield’s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think it is validating; adults think it’s a horror show. After all, the screen of a teenager’s smartphone is a shiny black hole to which access is rarely granted. “Our kids are right there,” as Greenfield puts it, “and yet we don’t really know what’s going on in their lives.”Her five-part series, which tracks the online and offline lives of a group of teenagers and young adults – the first generation of social media natives – is being tipped for an Emmy. Under the noses of their parents, she captures teenagers climbing out of bedroom windows to spend the night with boyfriends, posting sexually explicit images, tracking ...

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