40 h. ago Lando Norris prediction made by F1 insider is bad news for McLaren racer

McLaren have two rising stars on their hands in Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, but the Woking-based team could be forced to make a decision on which driver to favour as the 2025 season edges closer

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59 h. ago The European country where trains are even less punctual than Britain’s

Comes as German chancellor mocked Britain for its ‘broken tracks and bad trains’

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59 h. ago Britain lagging behind European allies when it comes to war readiness, warns military chief

Admiral Sir Tony Radakin says UK’s culture of national resilience is weaker than some of its allies – just as defence secretary unveils cuts to military

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63 h. ago Hold your breath and look to Germany: its election could decide the fate of Europe – and the UK | Martin Kettle

If the country holds out against the Trump-assisted AfD, it shows rightwing populism can be resisted in Europe’s heartlandEven in less stressed times, Britain always pays too much attention to the US and too little to Germany. In today’s torrid circumstances, that imbalance is perhaps excusable. After all, Donald Trump, it now turns out, really means it. He is more interested in US plunder and profit from places like Gaza, Ukraine and Greenland than in upholding a just peace or good order.Even so, the inattention towards Germany needs to end. Britain’s politicians, like German politicians, are rewiring their worldviews amid a political gale. But Germany, though no longer a great power, is nevertheless a great nation. Indeed, it may be more than ever the essential European nation now, after the Trump administration’s very public trashing of the entire Atlantic alliance seemed to leave Europe to its own devices. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago Trump terrifies me. But he'll do Britain and Europe a favour if he forces us to defend ourselves properly: STEPHEN GLOVER

For the past few days I have been asking myself whether the pundits who assert that the world order has been overturned are correct.

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3 d. ago Britain and European allies to give Ukraine BILLIONS more in aid amid Trump's vicious attacks

The UK will plough an extra £1.5billion into “keeping Ukraine in the fight” until a peace deal can be settled with Russia, after Donald Trump tore into Volodymyr Zelensky, branding him a "dictator"

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4 d. ago Trump's refusal to help NATO allies has left Britain no choice but to make plans to conscript says GENERAL RICHARD SHIRREFF

GENERAL SIR RICHARD SHIRREFF: For everyone's sake, Britain must bring Europe together. But we must also take 'action this day' to defend ourselves.

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4 d. ago Sadiq Khan ‘speaking his mind’ and rejects UK freedom of speech is under threat

US vice president JD Vance said that freedom of expression was ‘in retreat’ across Britain and wider Europe in a speech last week.

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4 d. ago DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Britain cannot defend Europe on the cheap

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: Sir Keir Starmer's apparent readiness to put British 'boots on the ground' in Ukraine will have sent a shiver down many spines.

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5 d. ago Europe tries to shore up fragile unity as it realises it cannot rely on US

Leaders arrive at Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have divergedEurope live – latest updatesThey came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had failed to agree on anything like a cohesive plan for the end of the war in Ukraine, this one had, suddenly and vitally, to be different.The leaders of France, Germany, Poland, Italy, Spain and – speaking for the Nordic and Baltic states – Denmark, plus Britain’s prime minister and the heads of Nato and the European Commission and Council, arrived in Paris reeling from a historic week. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Starmer warned of ‘considerable cost’ of sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

Lord Richard Dannatt said Britain does not have the forces or equipment ‘to put a large force on to the ground for an extended period of time’.

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5 d. ago As the US retreats, Europe must look out for itself – so is Macron’s nuclear offer the answer? | Simon Tisdall

Development of a joint defence shield would be politically explosive for Keir Starmer. But it’s an idea whose time has comeThe startling contempt for Europe’s intensifying security concerns displayed by Donald Trump and his henchmen has brought an old, controversial question back to the fore: should Britain and France pool their nuclear weapons capabilities and create a Europe-wide defensive nuclear shield to deter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, if the US reduces or withdraws its support?Trump has not so far explicitly threatened to cut US nuclear forces based in Europe. But speaking last week, the president said he wanted to halve the US’s defence spending, especially on nuclear weapons. Trump often denigrates Nato, keystone of European security. Last year, he encouraged Russia “to do whatever the hell they want” to member states that, in his view, spend too little on defence. Continue reading...

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