3 h. ago HARRIET HARMAN: 'If Lucy Powell's elected Deputy I hope Keir Starmer will offer her a seat in the Cabinet'

'I think the party expects the person they elected as their deputy to be part of Labour’s top team in a Labour government', the former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party writes

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3 h. ago Shorn of title, status and dignity, it’s the new Prince Andrew. A life he was born to replaced by a life he will hate | Stephen Bates

Nothing will ever be the same for the disgraced royal or the other Windsors. He can still live in Royal Lodge, but it’s a terrible blow to his sense of entitlementThe saga of Andrew Windsor, the ex-Duke, who henceforth will only be known as plain old Prince, may have finally reached its end. At least the rest of the Royal family will hope so. But even that is likely to depend on what may further emerge from any more releases of Epstein files, letters, records and emails in the US. His image, such as it remains, may yet be tarnished further.It is the loss of titles that will certainly hurt him most. Andrew has not formally lost them – removal of his dukedom requires an act of parliament, which neither government nor Buckingham Palace will want, taking up as it would embarrassingly public lengths of time – and he can’t shed his princely tag since he indubitably is the son of a monarch.Stephen Bates is a former royal correspondent of the Guardian Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Ukraine cannot win against Russia, warns top British army chief

Field Marshal Lord Richards tells The Independent’s Sam Kiley that Ukraine has been given false hope by its Western allies and cannot triumph against Russia unless Nato forces join fight

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5 h. ago Guéhi to leave Palace, Nottingham Forest Q&A as heat on Postecoglou – matchday live

⚽ Buildup, news and discussion before Saturday’s action⚽ Nottingham Forest Q&A at 11am | Mail matchday live hereLeague One fixturesBurton Albion v Peterborough United (12:30pm BST)Lincoln City v Stevenage (12:30pm BST)Bradford City v BarnsleyBlackpool v Wycombe WanderersRotherham United v Leyton OrientLuton Town v Mansfield TownCardiff City v ReadingPlymouth Argyle v AFC WimbledonWigan Athletic v Port ValeStockport County v Exeter CityDoncaster Rovers v Northampton TownSouthampton v Swansea (12:30pm BST)Oxford United v Derby County (12:30pm BST)Queens Park Rangers v Millwall (12:30pm BST)Birmingham City v Hull CityStoke City v WrexhamCharlton Athletic v Sheffield WednesdaySheffield United v WatfordNorwich City v Bristol CityCoventry City v Blackburn RoversWest Brom v Preston North EndLeicester City v Portsmouth (7:45pm BST) Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Happy birthday to the NES, companion to millions of Nintendo childhoods

Forty years ago today, the Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the US – and a generation of kids were sucked into video games for lifeThe Nintendo Entertainment System was released in the United States on 18 October 1985: about a year after I was born, and 40 years ago today. It’s as if the company sensed that a sucker who’d spend thousands of dollars on plastic toys and electronic games had just entered the world. Actually, it’s as if the company had sensed that an entire generation of fools like me was about to enter the world. Which is true. That was the time to strike. We were about to be drained of every dollar we received for birthdays, Christmases and all those times our dad didn’t want us to tell our mom about something. (Maybe that last one’s just me.)Despite being slightly older than the NES, a horror I’m only now forced to face as I write this, it felt like that console had always existed in my life. I don’t have many memories from my baby years because I was to...

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7 h. ago Guéhi to leave Palace, heat on Postecoglou as Premier League returns – matchday live

⚽ Buildup, news and discussion before Saturday’s action⚽ Nottingham Forest Q&A at 11am | Mail matchday live hereLeague One fixturesBurton Albion v Peterborough United (12:30pm BST)Lincoln City v Stevenage (12:30pm BST)Bradford City v BarnsleyBlackpool v Wycombe WanderersRotherham United v Leyton OrientLuton Town v Mansfield TownCardiff City v ReadingPlymouth Argyle v AFC WimbledonWigan Athletic v Port ValeStockport County v Exeter CityDoncaster Rovers v Northampton TownSouthampton v Swansea (12:30pm BST)Oxford United v Derby County (12:30pm BST)Queens Park Rangers v Millwall (12:30pm BST)Birmingham City v Hull CityStoke City v WrexhamCharlton Athletic v Sheffield WednesdaySheffield United v WatfordNorwich City v Bristol CityCoventry City v Blackburn RoversWest Brom v Preston North EndLeicester City v Portsmouth (7:45pm BST) Continue reading...

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9 h. ago The Manchester United trend that could give Ruben Amorim hope against Liverpool

While their ambitions of knocking Liverpool off their perch seem distant, Manchester United’s season may be far from lost

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13 h. ago Cheat the Week: Perry and Trudeau’s kiss fuels romance rumours

“What brought Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry together — logistically and spiritually — is unclear,” writes Polly Vernon. “We can but speculate wildly about where exactly their eyes first met, whether the attraction was immediate, who said what first to whom and who then made the first move? That their celebrity traverses milieux— the pop and the political — adds to their appeal, making the liaison seem more authentic in its lack of predictability. Or maybe we like it because it gives us hope that something hilarious and unlikely might yet knock us off our feet, too. But long-ish may it last! It’s such fantastically good, semi-clean fun. Potent and jolly and sexy and inconsequential. I am not sure we have ever needed such yachty gropey levity more.”

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18 h. ago Liverpool have history of pushing Man Utd bosses towards the sack Ruben Amorim will hope he avoids the same grim fate

RUBEN AMORIM’S landlord could have been forgiven for putting the Manchester United chief’s property on the market this month. United’s return to Anfield on Sunday is a reminder Liverpool are specialists in seeing off Red Devils bosses. DAVID MOYES was sacked 37 days after losing 3-0. LOUIS VAN GAAL got the boot 68 days after a...

Events

20 h. ago Mohamed Salah in need of centre stage return for Anfield’s grand show | Andy Hunter

Arne Slot will hope forward builds on encouraging signs for Egypt when Manchester United visit Liverpool on SundayIt has been a while, but Mohamed Salah was back playing the starring role last week with two goals in Casablanca that sealed Egypt’s place at the 2026 World Cup. The main man stepping on to centre stage yet again. Liverpool need him to stay there.There are numerous reasons why inconsistent, unconvincing performances have been the common thread running through Liverpool’s start to their title defence, whether they produced seven straight victories or, before Manchester United’s visit to Anfield on Sunday, three consecutive defeats. The upheaval from so many summer changes, Arne Slot’s search for his best XI, Diogo Jota’s death; Salah has felt the effect of them all during his uncharacteristically subdued opening to the campaign. Continue reading...

Politics

20 h. ago Trump tells Zelenskyy that Putin 'should have won war in a week' as Ukraine a 'little bit lucky'

Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House today as they discussed the war with Russia with hope of a long-range missile system coming to Ukraine

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22 h. ago Donald Trump claims to be the president of peace, but at home he is fomenting civil war | Jonathan Freedland

His ruthless use of the national guard to menace cities and political enemies is unprecedented. He is preparing for battle against the ‘enemy within’ Donald Trump had better hope the members of the Nobel committee are not paying attention to what’s happening inside the United States. If they did take a look, they’d notice a jarring pattern. While the US president likes to play the peacemaker abroad, at home he is Trump, bringer of war.It’s easy for the first fact to conceal, or divert our attention away from, the second. This week was a case in point. It began with Trump travelling to Israel, where he was hailed as a latter-day Cyrus, a mighty ruler whose name would be spoken of for millennia to come, the man who had brokered what he himself boasts is an “everlasting” peace.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnistDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our le...

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23 h. ago Stirling Albion hope for better Galabank memories as they strive for consistency

The Binos begin the second quarter of the League Two season at a venue where they have struggled on their last two visits on league business.

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25 h. ago MAGA targets prestigious Christian private school in Nashville for not doing enough to honor Charlie Kirk

Lipscomb Academy in Nashville, Tennessee, attacked over response to Kirk memorial staged by students and accused of left-wing bias by reality TV star Savannah Chrisley

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25 h. ago Parents set new baby name trend as most popular monikers of 2025 are revealed

BabyCentre has shared a list of the most popular baby names of 2025 so far, with a major trend emerging for girls names in the process while boys name stay consistent

Politics

26 h. ago Punish Prince Andrew? This is no meritocracy, I’m afraid – you get the royal family you didn’t vote for | Marina Hyde

After years of drip-fed revelations, we might as well face it. This is a family elevated by birthright: they’re stuck with him and so are weReading the extract from Virginia Giuffre’s tragic memoir in the Guardian this week, I was struck again by the fate of each of those people involved in that infamous photograph taken at Ghislaine Maxwell’s London house.The teenage girl at the centre of the picture is dead, having taken her own life at a remote Australian farmhouse earlier this year, unable to outrun her trauma. The person who took the photograph is dead, having somehow killed himself in a New York jail while awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking. The grinning woman in the background is in prison herself, exalting Donald Trump’s impeccable purity in the hope of getting moved to a nicer jail or even pardoned. And the smiling lunk with his arm round the teenage girl – who he denies he had sex with later that evening – is living in a 30-room mansion on a 98-acre estate (which...

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26 h. ago Spice Girl Mel C, 51, flaunts her chiselled abs and biceps as she flexes her muscles in a clip to announce her latest song release Sweat

In the clip, Mel posed in various positions as she wore a red and grey Bondi Active gym set, consisting of £54 Flutter shorts and a £42 scoop neck bra.

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27 h. ago A decade of despair: Manchester United’s long winless run at Anfield

Ruben Amorim travels to Liverpool on Sunday trying to become the first United manager to earn three points at their bitter rivals’ home since Louis van Gaal in early 2016The only Manchester United victory of the past decade came when Marouane Fellaini’s header powered Juan Mata’s cross on to the bar and Wayne Rooney hooked the rebound in on 78 minutes to give the visiting Evertonian a particular thrill. Victory lifted Louis van Gaal’s team to fifth, and sank Jürgen Klopp’s team to ninth. Yet by the summer the Dutchman was sacked despite May’s FA Cup final triumph after United finished fifth, missing out on fourth on goal difference. In June Klopp, who guided Liverpool to eighth in his first part season in charge, signed a new six-year deal. “His leadership will be critical to everything we hope to achieve,” said the club. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Hope for redundant workers as Falkirk's Rosebank Distillery reveals winter opening plans

Workers who lost their jobs at Rosebank Distillery may be able to take on new roles as the owners revealed they would keep the Falkirk tourist attraction open over the winter.

Economics

28 h. ago Lady Kitty Spencer poses up a storm in a strapless dress with a thigh

Kitty, 34, who is the late Princess Diana 's niece, wore a strapless black column dress with a thigh-high slit as she posed at the fifth edition of ELLE for Hope, at the Santona Palace in Madrid.

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