26 m. ago Jess Phillips agrees the economy ‘isn’t going well’ and it will take time before people feel ‘less skint’

The Home Office minister said the latest rise in unemployment figures were ‘disappointing’

Politics

48 m. ago General election saw Labour outspend Tories for the first time since 2005 with party pumping £30m into getting Keir Starmer's landslide

Official figures showed the party pumped £30million into securing Keir Starmer 's landslide majority in the 12 months running up to the poll, over twice the level in 2019.

Economics

48 m. ago Jim Legxacy: Black British Music review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(XL Recordings)The rapper and producer doubles down on his vaulting style, lurching from alt-rock to distortion and chipmunk soul on an astonishingly coherent and melodic third recordOn Father, the first single to be taken from Jim Legxacy’s third mixtape, the listener is offered a vivid image from the author’s past. The teenage James Olaloye, as he was then, is on the streets of Lewisham, the south-east London borough where he grew up. He is “rolling up a blunt, scheming for the funds trying to come up off the roads on my own two / I never had a father”. Inevitably, this means he’s up to no good: “Making money off a phone a key’s what they want.”It’s a familiar scenario in the world of UK rap, a genre in which you seldom want for bleak descriptions of the life its stars have left behind on often deprived council estates. But in the case of Father, it comes with a small, but striking detail. “On the block,” he attests, “I was listening to Mitski.” Continue reading...

Culture

48 m. ago Inside Elon Musk’s plan to rain SpaceX’s rocket debris over Hawaii’s pristine waters

Texas has long been under threat from the launches and explosions of SpaceX rockets. Now Hawaii is emerging as another possible victimThe north-west Hawaiian island of Mokumanamana is said to be touched by the gods. Bisected by the Tropic of Cancer latitude line, it is deep in the Pacific Ocean, about 400 miles from Honolulu. The island’s steep rocky cliffs give way to indigo blue waters dotted with monk seals and stony coral. No humans have lived on Mokumanamana, but it has the world’s highest density of ancient Hawaiian religious sites.“It sits as a boundary between what Native Hawaiians refer to as ‘pō’, the darkness, and ‘au’, the light,” said William Aila, the former chair of Hawaii’s department of land and natural resources. “When a Hawaiian passes, their soul makes its way from wherever it is in the main Hawaiian Islands, up to the North-western Hawaiian Islands. And at that juncture, at pō, they’re met by their ancestors.” As Aila tells it, if a person has been good, they ca...

Technology

77 m. ago Bury FC responds to Noel Gallagher after he brands club "f***ing s**t" during Oasis Heaton Park gig

"Who had the trophyless season then Noel?"

Society

85 m. ago Europe's tourist invasion: Unbearable crowds clog up famed sites in Rome, Athens and Florence as selfie

Europe's most popular cities are being overrun, as record-breaking tourist numbers turn once-scenic streets into overcrowded, chaotic hotspots.

Events

1 hour ago Could Trump be persuaded to save Palestinians in Gaza? | Kenneth Roth

It seems paradoxical to look to Trump to save Palestinians, yet no recent US president has been better placed to stop IsraelIt seems paradoxical to look to Donald Trump to save the Palestinians, yet no recent American president has been better placed to insist that the Israeli government stop its extraordinary repression and brutality. Trump so far has largely given Israel carte blanche to continue its genocide in Gaza, but Benjamin Netanyahu would be remiss to count on the fickle and self-serving American president. And there may be a way to turn Trump around.Most US presidents have stuck with the Israeli government regardless of its atrocities because the political fallout of deviating was too high. Any pressure on Israel would be sure to trigger outrage from Christian evangelicals (Israel’s largest group of supporters in the US) and the conservative segment of American Jews represented by the lobbying group Aipac. Continue reading...

Politics

2 h. ago Noel Gallagher's daughter Anais gives verdict on Manchester at third Oasis Heaton Park show

Anais took to social media to share her thoughts on the recent Manchester gig

Politics

2 h. ago Guinness receipt reveals the remarkable prices golf fans are paying for booze at The Open

They are reportedly serving one of the most expensive pints in Northern Ireland at The Open with a Guinness setting back punters even more than at Belfast International Airport.

Economics

2 h. ago 'What Oasis did made me burst into tears I just can't believe it'

"I work so hard and I feel like things are finally paying off"

Politics

4 h. ago Can Hampstead Heath’s ladies’ pond win the fight for trans inclusion?

An advocacy charity is launching a legal bid that could ban trans women from the Hampstead Heath ladies’ pond, citing the recent Supreme Court ruling that redefined legal sex under the Equality Act. Olivia Petter speaks to lawyers to find out if the beloved inclusive space can remain open to all who enjoy it

Events

4 h. ago Ticketless Oasis fans clamber over Heaton Park fences in desperate bid to see show

Oasis fans who missed out on tickets to see the band's two Heaton Park shows in Manchester have managed to catch a glimpse of the action from a nearby hill

Sport

4 h. ago Oasis superfan saw £700 'essentially spent on thin air' after years waiting for reunion

Nevile Root and his girlfriend forked out the cash to see the Gallagher brother peform this week.

Economics

4 h. ago Oasis fans storm new fences at Heaton Park as they ignore security

Oasis fans didn't let their lack of tickets stop them from trying to see Liam and Noel Gallagher perform in their hometown as they stormed the fence at Heaton Park

Events

5 h. ago Oasis fans think they've sussed how Liam Gallagher stays cool in his parka in 31C heat

Is this how Liam ensures he's the coolest man in Manchester?

Politics

5 h. ago Rochdale grooming gang ringleaders 'to finally be deported' to Pakistan

Until now Pakistan has refused to accept Qari Abdul Rauf, 55, and Adil Khan, 54, after the pair renounced their Pakistani citizenship before the Home Office took away their British citizenship.

Politics

6 h. ago Police statement on arrests after third Oasis gig at Heaton Park

'We have tackled any issues that have faced us'

Events

6 h. ago Mining companies are pumping seawater into the driest place on Earth. But has the damage been done?

In Chile’s drought-stricken Atacama desert, Indigenous people say desalination plants cannot counter the impact of intensive lithium and copper mining on local water sourcesPhotographs by Luis BustamanteVast pipelines cross the endless dunes of northern Chile, pumping seawater up to an altitude of more than 3,000 metres in the Andes mountains to the Escondida mine, the world’s largest copper producer. The mine’s owners say sourcing water directly from the sea, instead of relying on local reservoirs, could help preserve regional water resources. Yet, this is not the perception of Sergio Cubillos, leader of the Indigenous community Lickanantay de Peine.Cubillos and his fellow activists believe that the mining industry is helping to degrade the region’s meagre water resources, as Chile continues to be ravaged by a mega-drought that has plagued the country for 15 years. They also fear that the use of desalinated seawater cannot make up for the devastation of the northern Atacama region’...

Events

6 h. ago High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot

In its refusal to renationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the countryFor a rich and fairly stable country, we are staggeringly ill-prepared for climate shocks. We respond to predictable crises as if we had had no warning. Lessons from previous disasters go unlearned, mistakes are recycled, failures lodged so deeply that they come to define the system.This is not because of a deficiency in the national character, but because of a deficiency in the ideology of government: an elite belief, shared by scarcely any citizens, that public intervention should be used only when all other measures have failed. Until that point, our problems should be addressed by the private sector. As drought rolls across the country once again, England’s privatised water system guarantees an irrational response.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistOn Tuesday 16 September, join George Monbiot, Mikaela Loach and other special guests discussing the...

Events

7 h. ago US citizen and Army veteran spent three days in jail after being arrested in California immigration raid

George Retes, 25, who works as a security guard for the Glass House Farms in Camarillo, was arrested last Thursday and released three days later without being charged with a crime

Events