2 h. ago Rachel Reeves to announce review of workplace pensions contributions — here’s what it could mean

The chancellor will use her Mansion House speech to announce the overhaul

Economics

3 h. ago Tour de France 2025: stage one sets battle for yellow jersey around Lille – live

Le Grand Départ, starting and ending at Lille MétropoleAny comments or thoughts? Feel free to email AmyMy colleague Jeremy Whittle has written about Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard’s rivalry – sure to be a key theme again at this year’s TdF:The pair, whose rivalry is becoming one of the Tour’s most longstanding, will be locked in battle again this month with Pogačar widely expected to hammer home the supremacy of the past 18 months with another win.A lot can happen in such a long race, but I’m looking forward to racing against Jonas again. He’s in great shape. It will be a great month for people in front of the TV and beside the road.The climbs of Mont Cassel and Le Mont Noir won’t be enough to split the peloton, so this is almost guaranteed to be a bunch sprint, unless it gets windy. A strong westerly would make this a nightmare with more than 140km of crosswinds, but if it stays calm it’s a first big test for Jasper Philipsen, Tim Merlier and the other fast men. For the favouri...

Society

3 h. ago Oasis at Cardiff review: killer setlist, brotherly love, history made

Oasis are back, and this first show of the reunion tour was suitably biblical

Events

3 h. ago Lisa Nandy says she asked BBC why nobody was fired for airing Gaza documentary

A review looking into Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone is due to be published later this week.

Events

3 h. ago To Rest Our Minds and Bodies by Harriet Armstrong review – a singular new voice

This blackly comic debut is an astute and funny examination of the pain and pleasure of first loveThe heart is a peculiar organ. It wants what it wants, as Emily Dickinson wrote. Especially when you’re young and have no previous experience of love and desire, or the deleterious effects of time on both. This is the core subject of 24-year-old Harriet Armstrong’s debut novel, To Rest Our Minds and Bodies, published by the consistently adventurous independent press Les Fugitives.When the unnamed narrator, a third-year psychology student, meets fellow student Luke in their campus kitchen, she falls hard. They begin sharing meals and confidences in her room, which bears a “suicide beam” running the length of the ceiling. This memento mori is archly juxtaposed with the narrator’s breathless infatuation, which feels as if “some great transition was occurring inside me, something was aligning, I could actually feel it”. She finds herself “wide open and completely soft like a small trem...

Events

4 h. ago Dario Naamo given Dundee United rave review as Finland insider maps 'high level' talent's path to to the top

Stevie Grieve managed Naamo as SJK and gave the Tannadice club the lowdown on the Finnish Under 21 international

Politics

5 h. ago Skoda Elroq review: a sensible SUV that quietly gets it right

Gareth Butterfield tests the new Skoda Elroq - a masterclass in understated competence – practical, refined and perfect for those who like their lives (and lawns) neatly trimmed.

Politics

5 h. ago Live tweets: Can this smart bird feeder bring wildlife to a London flat?

Bird Buddy 2.0 promises HD close-ups of local robins and real-time alerts from your balcony. But in a city of sirens and squirrels, does it work?

Politics

7 h. ago Mandarin Oriental, Bangkok: inside the glamorous Thai hotel adored by authors and Hollywood royalty

Everyone from Grace Kelly to Ernest Hemingway has stayed at this Bangkok bolthole — and Mike White penned most of the latest season of the White Lotus here. So what makes it so special? Lydia Swinscoe checks in to find out

Culture

7 h. ago Fox by Joyce Carol Oates book review: Unflinchingly delivered depravity

If you consume too much true crime it starts to infect your routine. Let your dog off the leash in any lonely overgrown place and you’ll start to worry she’ll come bounding out of the undergrowth with a body part in tow. Maybe that’s my personal fear, but Joyce Carol Oates taps straight into it with the gripping, disgusting and darkly comic opening to her latest novel, Fox.

Politics

7 h. ago Tech review: Gaming specialist unleashes OXS Storm wireless headphones

These headphones are the latest offering from gaming audio firm, OXS

Events

8 h. ago 'I tried Dyson's cheapest bladeless fan and it's been a lifeline in recent heatwave'

The Dyson Cool CF1 is the brand's most affordable bladeless fan - but is it worth the £249.99 price tag? Here's our honest review after testing it in a heatwave

Politics

8 h. ago Motoring expert says this used car is 'UK's most reliable' and passes 'most MOTs'

The Suzuki Ignis was the most reliable car in the UK according to new research - but there's a catch for anyone looking to purchase the model

Transport

14 h. ago Oasis review – a shameless trip back to the 90s for Britpop’s loudest, greatest songs

Principality Stadium, CardiffPlaylist Oasis is fine in the stand but it looks like an insult in the headBrothers in arms: Noel and Liam reunite on the Oasis reunion tour – in pictures‘Liam hasn’t sounded that good since the 90s’: fans react to the first night of the Oasis reunion tourThe noise from the audience when Oasis arrive onstage for their first reunion gig is deafening. You might have expected a voluble response. This is, after all, a crowd so partisan that, between the support acts, cheer the promotional videos – the tour’s accompanying brand deals seem to involve not just the obviously Oasis-adjacent sportswear brand Adidas, but the more imponderable Land Rover Discovery. Even so, the noise they make as the reconsitituted Oasis launch into Hello takes you slightly aback, and not just because Hello is a fairly ballsy choice of opener: this is, after all, a song that borrows heavily from Hello! Hello! I’m Back Again by Gary Glitter. But no one in Cardiff’s Principality Stadi...

Politics

14 h. ago Oasis at Cardiff review: Liam and Noel embrace, this is history

Oasis are back! And this first show of the reunion tour was suitably biblical

Politics

15 h. ago Finally, Oasis returns as fans witness a moment in history in Cardiff

This show meant everything, writes the Manchester Evening News' Dianne Bourne

Sport

15 h. ago Oasis Cardiff night one review shows Liam and Noel Gallagher are better together

Read our first review of Oasis Live '25 so you'll have an idea of what to expect from the world tour

Politics

16 h. ago Lana Del Rey at Wembley Stadium in London review: Spellbinding and Addison Rae was exalted

Lana Del Rey at Wembley Stadium in London review: Spellbinding and Addison Rae was exalted  Yahoo

Politics

16 h. ago Celebrity Gogglebox duo 'replaced' on Channel 4 show as fans say same thing

On Friday night, Channel 4 viewers tuned in for the latest instalment of Celebrity Gogglebox.

Sport

16 h. ago Hamas says it is ready to enter ceasefire negotiations in ‘positive spirit’

Group said to want stronger guarantees of permanent end to war as Netanyahu prepares to meet Trump in USHamas said it had responded on Friday in “a positive spirit” to a US-brokered Gaza ceasefire proposal and was prepared to enter into talks on implementing the deal which envisages a release of hostages and negotiations on ending the conflict.US President Donald Trump earlier announced a “final proposal” for a 60-day ceasefire in the nearly 21-month-old war between Israel and Hamas, stating he anticipated a reply from the parties in coming hours. Continue reading...

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