5 h. ago MI6 chief warns Brits to prepare for new form of conscription to tackle Putin

As concerns over Russia grow, the former head of MI6 has suggested Britain should introduce a new type of conscription for Brits ahead of suspicious Russian activity

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9 h. ago Our world affairs editor answers your questions as former MI6 chief says Britain must get ready for war

The Conversation continues as world affairs editor Sam Kiley tackles some of your questions on Russia, Trump, war in Europe, and conscription in the UK

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26 h. ago Britain may need to introduce new form of conscription to take on Putin, MI6 chief warns

Former head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger said the Government could require powers to compel Britons to 'give their service one way or another', in the face of new international threats.

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27 h. ago Trump live updates: President heads back to D.C. to face markets crisis after day of protests across U.S.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins was forced to answer questions about why Trump’s 10 percent levies on islands occupied by penguins

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28 h. ago Former MI6 Chief ‘worried’ Trump has bias that Russia has right to Ukraine due to its size

The former head of MI6 said he is concerned that Donald Trump holds a biased view, believing Russia has a right to Ukraine due to its size.

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29 h. ago Britain hits hypersonic missile 'milestone' with date £1bn weapon will be ready revealed

The UK teamed up with the US for a series of 223 propulsion tests, all of which were successful, which brings the UK a step closer to developing its own homegrown hypersonic missile

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31 h. ago Scientist says the Universe has fooled us and we may be living in a giant hologram

While it sounds like the plot of a Sci-Fi flick, brainiacs trying to answer the biggest questions in the universe believe we may actually be living in a massive holographic projection

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36 h. ago I can’t delete WhatsApp’s new AI tool. But I’ll use it over my dead body | Polly Hudson

The blue-and-purple hoop is supposedly there to answer questions that arise in chats, but it’s a slippery slope from providing bus times to annihilating the human raceThere are five stages of grief, but only two stages of discovering the little Meta AI circle on your WhatsApp screen. Fear, then fury.When I first saw the small blue-and-purple hoop last week, I was terrified that it meant I was now livestreaming my life to the entire metaverse, something I presumed I had agreed to when accepting but (of course) not reading the terms and conditions. As the saying goes, if you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Joe Joyce answers retirement question after brutal defeat to Filip Hrgovic

Former Olympic silver medallist Joe Joyce's future in boxing is unclear after falling to his fourth defeat in his last five bouts against Filip Hrgovic on Saturday night

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42 h. ago Fatal error: 20 years on, the Met still has questions to answer about the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. A new drama investigates the tragedy

The award-winning producer and screenwriter of Philomena’s new show, Suspect, is about the shooting of an innocent young Brazilian electrician on the London Underground in the wake of the 7/7 bombings. Here he asks why the force still can’t admit that it acted incompetently‘Everybody’s human. Mistakes can be made But you are really not prepared to say that any mistake [was made] here, are you?”Michael Mansfield QC put this question to Cressida Dick – then deputy assistant commissioner at the Metropolitan police – at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, a young man who, 20 years ago this summer, was shot dead at Stockwell station in south London by Met firearms officers. The inquest took place in 2008, three years after his shooting on the morning of 22 July 2005, which was 15 days after the 7/7 bombings in London and one day after copycat bombers had tried and failed to detonate more explosives on the transport system and then fled. De Menezes was a 27-year-old Bra...

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53 h. ago What does Australian sovereignty look like? It’s a question we now must answer thanks to Donald Trump | Julianne Schultz

Confidence in American reliability is tumbling in every poll. As tariffs kick in, how can we adjust to not having a great superpower as our protector?Prof Hugh White, the esteemed yet critical analyst of Australian defence policy, took a deep breath, surveyed the men he had spent a lifetime debating, and said: “Donald Trump is doing us a favour.” He is proving that our old assumptions are “all wrong”.White knew this was a provocation, but maybe one whose time had come. Malcolm Turnbull agreed that this was a debate we needed to have. As the shopping list election campaign sidesteps the changed world order, the 29th prime minister used his convening power to host a forum at the press club about the bigger underlying issues.Sign up for a weekly email featuring our best reads Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Former MI6 Chief: Putin lacks rationality unless in a ‘permanent state of antagonism’

Former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger told The Independent’s Sam Kiley that Vladimir Putin lacks rationality unless in a “permanent state of antagonism,” offering Russia only “security.” This remark comes just months after the third anniversary of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

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59 h. ago Arsenal gamble backfires as doomed title push takes new hit vs Everton

EVERTON 1-1 ARSENAL: Iliman Ndiaye's penalty brought Everton level after Leandro Trossard put Arsenal in front at Goodison Park, with fresh questions for Mikel Arteta to answer

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62 h. ago Five questions Man City must ask when Kevin De Bruyne leaves from statue pose to North Stand name

Manchester City must face up to life without Kevin De Bruyne - with important questions to be answered on the pitch and off it.

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62 h. ago ‘We can’t sit back and watch’: Former MI6 boss says Britain must get ready for war as Putin threatens Europe

Exclusive: As a Russia-Ukrainian ceasefire looks no closer, Sir Alex Younger tells The Independent how the UK is too detached from the threat posed by Putin – and that our ‘collective effort’ needs to change

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62 h. ago Kevin De Bruyne gave quick answer to Liverpool transfer question after making admission

Kevin De Bruyne has announced that he will be leaving Manchester City at the end of the season, with the Belgian midfielder admitting that he supported Liverpool growing up

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62 h. ago Voices: As former MI6 chief says the UK must be ready for war – should Britain bring back national service?

Have your say: As former MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger warns Britain must revive national service to face global threats, the debate over military readiness intensifies

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3 d. ago John Rentoul answers your Trump tariffs questions from the ‘Brexit dividend’ to chlorinated chicken

In a live Q&A, The Independent’s chief political commentator John Rentoul fielded readers’ questions on Trump’s trade war, its global consequences and the UK’s options for navigating this latest storm

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3 d. ago US’s Rubio shrugs off market falls at Nato press conference – Europe live

US secretary of state says ‘markets will adjust’ during press conference following Nato summit in BrusselsAsked further about Ukraine, Rutte lists a number of projects by Nato member states, including Poland, Denmark, and the Czech Republic.He says that “the shortest answer” to question on safety guarantees is to adopt measures that make sure that “Putin will never, ever try again to get one square kilometer or one square mile of Ukraine in the future, that he knows that there is a deterrence and a defence by which Ukraine can never be attacked in the future.” Continue reading...

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3 d. ago The Guide #185: How The Phantom Menace’s trade wars can help you understand our political moment

In this week’s newsletter: Donald Trump’s week of chaos has made me reappraise the unloved Star Wars prequel – was it quite prescient after all?There are many scary things to come out of Trump’s tariffs. The world economy being thrown into chaos; spiralling prices; furious economic experts showing charts with big down arrows, using phrases like “gilt markets” and “share index undergrowth”, which I definitely understand. But the most terrifying thing – the thing that has made me truly believe that we are living in the End Times – is a panic-inducing realisation: The Phantom Menace just might have been right all along.For those who haven’t seen the first Star Wars prequel, GOD I envy you. The dialogue is wooden and the structure inexplicable (sure, let’s just have a pod-race instead of an Act II) – and that’s even before we get onto the Jar Jar Binks of it all (the answer to the question “what if we shaved Paddington and spliced his DNA with the most unlikeable newt in the world?”). B...

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