4 d. ago Blow for Elon Musk as Tesla sales fall 40% in Europe despite rise in customers buying EVs

The company continues to lose market share, now selling fewer than 1 per cent of EVs in the region

Economics

4 d. ago Vice Is Broke review – epic levels of hubris on show in downfall of millennial media darling

Documentary about the rise and fall of a publishing empire, from edgy magazine to billionaire-backing to bankruptcy has a ‘you had to be there’ vibe‘Coolness is not a renewable resource,” says a contributor to this documentary about Vice magazine’s rise and fall. In the late 2000s and 2010s Vice grew from a punk magazine into a digital media empire by telling the world what was cool (more specifically by telling millennials, then in their cool-seeking prime). By 2017, it was valued at nearly $6bn; in 2023, Vice filed for bankruptcy. A man who saw it from the inside is TV chef Eddie Huang, the director and frontman of this film. He had a long-running show on the Viceland TV channel and says he’s still owed hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties.Huang is also an advert for the best of Vice: fast, funny and authentic. The film begins with plenty of “you had to be there” stories about Brooklyn before gentrification, and interviews with early staff. This isn’t meant unkindly, but ...

Politics

8 d. ago Urgent warning to drivers not to fall for sneaky parking fine text that's actually a scam

Drivers across the UK are being warned to be careful this bank holiday weekend as a new scam involving fake parking fine texts is on the rise - here's how to make sure you don't fall foul

Events

9 d. ago Rise and fall of Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin – from Putin 'coop' to plane crash

The ruthless and rich mercenary leader, 62, died two years ago in a dramatic plane crash - but how did the ex-con end up being close chums with Mad Vlad allegedly until he turned on him?

Events

2 w. ago The rise and fall of no go zone factory site labelled 'Rochdale's Chernobyl'

Life working inside the Turner Brothers factory that went from the town's biggest employer to an abandoned wasteland

Politics

3 w. ago ‘Once again, the west turns away’: a new book recounts the fall and rise of the Taliban

Esteemed foreign correspondent Jon Lee Anderson’s new book offers a full accounting of life in Afghanistan from before 9/11 to nowJon Lee Anderson is “not done with Afghanistan”, despite having reported on it for more than 40 years, through invasions, occupations, the rise and fall of the Taliban and two great power retreats.“I always want to go back,” said the New Yorker staff writer. “It gets into your skin. Afghanistan is an incredible place, an incredible society. It’s always like time travel to me, and I knew people there that are larger than life. They stay with you I may return shortly.” Continue reading...

Politics

3 w. ago BoE economist: Interest rates may not fall as much as forecast as prices rise

Interest rates may not fall as quickly or as steeply as expected, Bank of England economist Huw Pill has warned on amid signs of resurgent inflation.

Economics

3 w. ago Why Andrew is 'toast': The man who revealed 'highly sexed' Prince Andrew's multiple affairs, the truth about him Trump and Epstein and an Argentine assassination plot tells all to Palace Confidential

Andrew Lownie has given an extraordinary first broadcast interview about his book : 'Entitled, the Rise and Fall of the House of York' to the Daily Mail's unmissable Palace Confidential show.

Politics

3 w. ago The Rise and Fall of the Clash Redux review – screen encore for punk’s raging heroes

Danny Garcia’s second take on the band’s story looks past their riotous ascent to the gloomier and rather less watchable years that followedHere’s a downbeat, slightly miserable documentary about the Clash, a “redux” in fact by director Danny Garcia of his 2012 film The Rise and Fall of the Clash. Perhaps that earlier version had more to say about how the Clash came raging out of London’s punk scene in the 1970s; this one only really gets going in 1982 when Joe Strummer boots drummer Topper Headon out of the band for heroin addiction, then a year later kicks out guitarist Mick Jones. Rise and Fall Redux is a portrait of the band as a sinking ship, finally disbanding in 1986.It is a film groaning with talking heads. Pick of them is Viv Albertine of the Slits who sums the Clash up nicely when she says: “They were best when they were small and angry when they were hard and angry and poor.” Others indulge in a bit intellectual waffle. The only member of the classic lineup to appear is g...

Politics

3 w. ago Key takeaways from explosive claims made in biography of Prince Andrew

Andrew Lownie’s book explores Duke of York’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, his relationships and financesA new biography claims startling insight into the private lives of the Duke of York and his ex-wife, Sarah Ferguson. From relationships with women to Andrew’s mysterious finances, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, by the historian Andrew Lownie, also dives into the prince’s ill-advised friendship with the disgraced US financier Jeffrey Epstein. Andrew’s representatives were contacted for comment.Claims from the extracts serialised in the Daily Mail include: Continue reading...

Politics

4 w. ago Sussexes hit back at claim that Harry and Prince Andrew had a fight in sensational royal book serialised in the Mail

A new book, called Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, claims the Duke of Sussex and his uncle entered a violent altercation during a family gathering in 2013.

Politics

4 w. ago Prince Harry denies author's claims he punched Prince Andrew leaving him with a 'bloody nose'

The claim surfaced in Andrew Lownie's new book Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York

Politics