4 h. ago Scots Labour MPs briefing against Keir Starmer 'all men angling for promotion', says colleague

A Labour MP said that the “handful” who were privately pushing for Wes Streeting to replace the Prime Minister were known to “the whole Scottish group”.

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17 h. ago From Caracas to Minneapolis, the threat is the same – an American president ruling like a global emperor | Jonathan Freedland

Trump’s admission that he recognises no constraint outside his own morality was a horrifying moment of truth. It should galvanise all those who oppose himFor a serial liar, Donald Trump can be bracingly honest. We’ve known about the mendacity for years – consider the 30,573 documented falsehoods from the president’s first term, culminating in the big lie, his claim to have won the 2020 election – but the examples of bracing candour are fresher. This week both began and ended with the US president speaking the shocking truth.At a press conference to celebrate his capture of the Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump announced that from now on the US would “run” that country, before moving in the very next breath to Venezuela’s oil. There was no pious talk of democracy, scant mention even of the drug trafficking that earlier served as a pretext for military action. Instead, Trump said out loud what had once been a slogan on leftist placards in protest at past US interventions, admi...

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23 h. ago After Trump’s attack, we Venezuelans need to know what comes next – authoritarianism or democracy | Jesús Piñero

There is palpable tension: not because anyone trusts the president and the US, but because now there is opportunity for changeJesús Piñero is a historian at the Central University of VenezuelaIn 1936, Venezuelans learned for the first time what it meant to transition towards democracy. While this was not the only period of transition the country would experience (since the process that began in 1958 consolidated a more open and enduring political regime), the transition of 1936 was longer and more complex, resembling the one Venezuelans are now experiencing after the capture of Nicolás Maduro on 3 January 2026.Coromoto Escalona, a 35-year-old woman, was preparing her baby’s feeding bottle when she heard some strange noises in the house. It was two o’clock in the morning. She wondered whether the fridge had broken down, since it sometimes made strange noises when it was damaged. Her eldest daughter, who was scrolling on WhatsApp, shouted from her room: “Mum, they’re bombing us.” The ...

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27 h. ago Grok turns off image generator for most users after outcry over sexualised AI imagery

X to limit editing function to paying subscribers after platform threatened with fines and regulatory actionGrok, Elon Musk’s AI tool, has switched off its image creation function for the vast majority of users after widespread outcry over its use to create sexually explicit and violent imagery.The move comes after Musk was threatened with fines, regulatory action and reports of a possible ban on X in the UK. Continue reading...

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45 h. ago Trump’s Venezuela incursion has nothing to do with its freedom | Judith Levine

Trump’s actions at home tell a different story – and they parallel many of Maduro’s own repressive movesWhatever else the US attack on Venezuela is ostensibly about – oil, drugs, communism – it’s not about the freedom of the Venezuelan people.If Trump cared about that, he would not have lifted the temporary protective status of the roughly 600,000 Venezuelan refugees in the US, the very people fleeing the tyranny and economic instability he is now supposedly liberating them from.Judith Levine is a Brooklyn-based journalist, essayist and author of five books. Her Substack is Today in Fascism Continue reading...

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52 h. ago Scottish Parliament election: Why Labour's 'idiotic' rebels are a gift to the SNP and Reform

By making Labour appear weak and divided, the rebel MPs are undermining their own cause

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68 h. ago Scottish Labour briefing wars are an act of monumental stupidity

Daily Record Political Editor says Scottish Labour MPs calling for Keir Starmer to be replaced before May are harming Anas Sarwar.

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68 h. ago Anas Sarwar criticises 'idiotic' Scottish Labour MPs for secret briefing against Keir Starmer

The Scottish Labour leader has called on his colleagues briefing against the Prime Minister to come out of the shadows

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69 h. ago Anas Sarwar blasts 'idiotic' Scottish Labour MPs who want Keir Starmer to quit

An exasperated Scottish Labour leader hit out at the continued briefings from party MPs about Starmer.

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3 d. ago 'Cowardly, craven approach': Labour infighting erupts as MPs attack ministers over Venezuela response

Labour backbenchers have rounded on Sir Keir Starmer and his cabinet after their refusals to criticise President Donald Trump for his military intervention in Venezuela

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3 d. ago US justice department has released less than 1% of Epstein files, filing reveals

Federal law required majority of documents to be released by 19 December, but only 125,575 pages have been publishedThe Department of Justice has released less than 1% of the so-called Epstein files, a court filing has revealed, as Democrats step up criticism of the Trump administration’s “lawlessness” for keeping records under seal.The department conceded that only 12,285 documents, totalling 125,575 pages, relating to the disgraced financier and sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein have been published to date, despite a federal law requiring the vast majority to be released by 19 December. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Britain 'faces paying huge sums to EU for single market access' under Keir Starmer's 'Brexit betrayal' reset

Keir Starmer is pushing for closer ties with the EU under huge pressure from Europhile Labour MPs and ministers, arguing it can boost the economy.

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4 d. ago Starmer criticised for not querying legality of Trump’s Venezuela attack

Some Labour MPs want the UK prime minister to label the US intervention as a breach of international law

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4 d. ago Cooper refuses to condemn US action in Venezuela as criticism among Labour MPs grows

Government facing mounting criticism from its own MPs urging Sir Keir Starmer to criticise the US intervention

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4 d. ago US allies and adversaries use UN meeting to blast Venezuela intervention as America defends action

The U.N. Security Council is holding an emergency meeting after an audacious U.S. military operation in Venezuela over the weekend to capture leader Nicolás Maduro

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4 d. ago ‘Vast majority’ of Labour MPs want to see democracy in Venezuela, says Starmer

The Prime Minister has resisted demands from MPs on Labour’s left to condemn the US military action.

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4 d. ago Starmer claims he is 'driving down bills' in desperate New Year relaunch

Kicking off the New Year with another relaunch effort, Keir Starmer insisted he is acting to ease the cost of living pressures.

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4 d. ago Labour ministers and MPs jubilant at Starmer's 'Brexit betrayal' after PM seeks closer ties to the EU single market 'in the national interest'

The Prime Minister yesterday said he would be willing to align the UK with Brussels' single market 'in the national interest', despite a Labour manifesto vow not to.

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5 d. ago Starmer under pressure from his own MPs after refusing to denounce Trump over Venezuela

Anxious to preserve diplomatic ties with the UK’s most powerful ally, Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, has yet to criticise the American raid

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5 d. ago Struggling Starmer mounts ANOTHER relaunch bid in New Year speech TODAY as he warns mutinous Labour MPs getting rid of him would be 'gift to Farage'

Keir Starmer will insist he can ease the cost of living pressure on Brits on a visit to Berkshire this morning.

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