36 h. ago Scots firms brace for impact of US tariffs after Downing Street talks fail

Swinney vows to take “every opportunity” to raise Trump’s import taxes on visit to New York this week

Economics

36 h. ago Scots firms brace for impact of US tariffs as Downing Street expects UK to be hit

Swinney vows to take “every opportunity” to raise Trump’s import taxes on visit to New York this week

Economics

1 week ago Birmingham bin strike misery with 'cat sized rats' continues as talks fail end walk

Bin strike talks held on Thursday between Birmingham City Council and Unite were said to be 'inconclusive' – with tomorrow marking the 75th day since walkout-outs started

Events

1 week ago Birmingham bin strike misery with 'cat sized rats' continues as talks fail to end walk

Bin strike talks held on Thursday between Birmingham City Council and Unite were said to be 'inconclusive' – with tomorrow marking the 75th day since walkout-outs started

Events

2 w. ago Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project review – electric film about radical thinker and poet

Featuring interviews and archive footage of the brilliant civil rights activist, the readings of her poems will have the hairs on the back of your neck standing upNikki Giovanni, bestselling American poet and civil rights activist, blazed on to the scene in the 1960s. In this documentary, completed before she died in December, we watch Giovanni in her late 70s, reigning over sold-out public appearances. On stage she recites poems about love, race and gender and in between, with the timing of a standup comedian, she has the auditorium erupting in whoops and laughter. Posing for selfies, a woman tells Giovanni she named her daughter after her; another says she wrote to her on the verge of dropping out of college. “You wrote back. I’m a teacher now!”In archive footage, Giovanni as a young woman, reads her 1968 poem Nikki-Rosa, which has a line about how white people fail to understand the lives of black people: “they’ll probably talk about my hard childhood / and never understand that ...

Politics

2 w. ago Donald Trump issues chilling new 'World War 3' nuclear warning if Ukraine peace talks fail

President Donald Trump issued the stark warning on Friday, while revealing ceasefire talks between Russia and Ukraine are progressing - but catastrophe could yet be unleashed without peace.

Events