67 h. ago Some Tesla owners sue Elon Musk’s company for damaging their reputation

A small group allege their vehicles have become ‘far-right totems’ that are harming their reputation

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3 d. ago Met pays damages to woman for failing to investigate rape claim against ex

Officers questioned woman but not the alleged rapist, bringing force into disrepute, rules watchdogScotland Yard has paid a five-figure sum to a woman after officers “brought the service into disrepute” for failing to investigate her report of rape by her ex-husband, the Guardian has learned.The Metropolitan police’s directorate of professional standards – known as the “Line of Duty unit” – criticised officers involved in the woman’s case, saying they had damaged the reputation of the force “at a time when we are working hard to build bridges with the public and re-build the trust we have lost”. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Warning over ‘reputational risk’ damage from Church abuse scandals

The warning came as Church Commissioners announced they would be investing more than £1.6 billion towards the work of the Church from 2026 to 2028.

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8 d. ago Man doused dead pheasants in rat poison to harm wildlife in feud with Scots landowner

Clive Burgoyne, 38, doused the birds in rat poison in order to cause reputational damage to the landowner’s country estate.

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1 week ago Elon Musk’s Tesla ‘not interested’ in manufacturing in India, minister says

Elon Musk’s company hasn’t shown interest in Narendra Modi government’s new EV manufacturing scheme

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2 w. ago ‘Does he know anything?’: Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev on Trump’s plans to legitimise Russian annexation

Exiled Soviet-era dissident tells the Guardian that for the US to turn its back on the territory would be ‘shameful’When Mustafa Dzhemilev read the news about Donald Trump’s plan for a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, he could not believe his eyes. Part of the US administration’s peace plan, say recent reports, would involve Washington recognising annexed Crimea as legitimate Russian territory, among other concessions to the Kremlin that Trump hopes might stop Russia’s war on Ukraine.“The whole world knows what happened in Crimea It would be such a damage to the reputation of the US that it will be hard for them to recover. It would be shameful,” said Dzhemilev, a Soviet-era dissident turned Crimean Tatar political leader, in an interview at his office in Kyiv. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Elon Musk appears as Microsoft’s special guest despite suing company

Elon Musk made a virtual video appearance at Microsoft’s annual developer conference, despite being in a legal dispute with the software giant.

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