2 h. ago 'We don't have enough power': Keir Starmer's US tech deal casts doubt on Net Zero pledge as experts say just ONE data centre could use as much electricity as 3MILLION homes

The influx of US investment announced as part of Donald Trump's visit - estimated to total around £150billion - has raised fresh questions about the UK's infrastructure.

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3 h. ago The Latest: Trump and Starmer set to sign tech deal during president's UK state visit

After a day filled with royal pomp and pageantry, President Donald Trump will meet Prime Minister Keir Starmer on the final day of the U.S. leader’s state visit to Britain

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18 h. ago US tech groups answer Starmer’s call for AI infrastructure spending

Multibillion-dollar pledges on data centres come during Trump visit despite unresolved issues around digital services tax

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20 h. ago Donald Trump's reaction to royal artefacts as he takes just FIVE mins viewing them

Donald Trump described royal artefacts as the 'real deal' as he browsed Windsor Castle's Green Drawing Room on his second state visit - but left only five minutes later

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39 h. ago Trump state visit: US president lands in UK with ray of hope for beleaguered Keir Starmer

Leaders begin historic second state visit with multibillion-dollar ‘tech prosperity deal’

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3 d. ago Suede at the Royal Festival Hall: Brett's a hybrid of Jim Morrison and a cat

Brett Anderson is in fine fettle as Suede continue their electrifying residency at the Southbank Centre

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3 d. ago Will Trump turn the screw on Starmer? PM braces for president to raise 'free speech' and tech firms during state visit this week

Despite the Prime Minister's hopes to make trade and tariff removal the focus of the president's three-day visit, allies suggest he has other plans.

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8 d. ago Area of England well protected for nature is in decline, data shows

Wildlife coalition says figure stands at 2.83% of country, less than in 2024 and tiny fraction of the 2030 target of 30%The area of England protected effectively for nature is continuing to decline, according to data from the country’s largest coalition of wildlife organisations, as experts say the government is allowing habitats to deteriorate.The government is under a legal obligation to protect 30% of land and sea in the UK for nature by 2030, a pledge made in 2020 by the then prime minister, Boris Johnson. At the moment, however, 2.83% of England is well protected for nature, 2.4% of Wales, 4% of Northern Ireland and 12.6% of Scotland. This gives an average of 6% of the UK as a whole, which is well below the target. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rayner’s exit is a bombshell. But the real crisis for Starmer may have only just begun | Jonathan Freedland

From the outset her role has been crucial, and her fall will exacerbate all the doubts about the PM and his ability to keep Labour in powerSign up for our new weekly newsletter Matters of Opinion, where our columnists and writers will reflect on what they’ve been debating, thinking about, reading and moreA government that was already reeling has sustained another massive blow. Elected in a landslide slightly more than a year ago, Labour hit the midterm blues within a few months, currently has the poll numbers of an administration in its dying days – and has now witnessed a scandal and resignation close to the apex of power.Perhaps the many New Labour veterans now installed in Downing Street will be reassuring Keir Starmer that the storm of Angela Rayner’s departure will pass, reminding him that the Blair cabinet saw the exit of one Peter Mandelson – also over his homeowning arrangements, as it happens – similarly early in the first term, but paid no electoral price. And yet, the pri...

Events

2 w. ago Two thirds of men under 40 now struggle with erectile dysfunction, alarming new research reveals

The number of young men experiencing erectile dysfunction problems is on the rise in what some experts have called 'a silent epidemic', new data suggests.

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2 w. ago Experts call for GLOBAL BAN on vapes: 'We have the data... we know they are not harmless'

Experts are calling for a global ban on the sale of e-cigarettes amid fears an 'epidemic' of use will cause children 'irreversible harm'.

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2 w. ago Russia suspected of jamming GPS on plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen

Aircraft with European Commission president onboard reportedly forced to circle Bulgarian airport for an hourEurope live – latest updatesRussia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal of a plane carrying the European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, over Bulgaria, reportedly forcing it to circle an airport for an hour.Von der Leyen was travelling to Plovdiv on Sunday when her charter plane lost electronic navigation aids, delaying its arrival in the central Bulgarian city. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Voices: Mon dieu, France – this is no time for un political meltdown!

Next month’s surprise confidence vote could bring down an already crisis-hit minority government, test the country’s governability and end with a drastic power shift – it might also be bad news for Keir Starmer and his coalition of the willing, says Mary Dejevsky

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3 w. ago Andy Murray backed Castore buys British heritage brand Belstaff

Jim Ratcliffe’s INEOS group will make a “strategic investment” in Castore as a result of the deal

Economics

3 w. ago Who are the top aides Keir Starmer has sacked in the last year as Nin Pandit leaves

A string of high-profile sackings and resignations has marked Prime Minister Keir Starmer's first year in power, culminating in the recent departure of his top civil servant

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3 w. ago Homeless man battered woman, 37, to death with a mallet just days after she took him in to her £1.3million flat

A homeless man accused of battering a woman to death with a mallet days after she took him in has pleaded guilty to her murder.

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3 w. ago Criminals funnelling dirty money into UK pushing up London property prices

Illicit cash flowing into the housing market has inflated the average property price in Britain by £3,000, according to data compiled by anti-money laundering experts SmartSearch.

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3 w. ago ‘If I felt Zuckerberg and Sandberg were monsters, I wouldn’t have worked at Meta’: Nick Clegg on tech bros, AI and Starmer’s half measures

When Britain’s former deputy PM took a job at Meta, nothing could have prepared him for the ‘cloying conformity’ of the tech world. So why does he still think social media is a force for good?• Read an exclusive extract from Nick Clegg’s new book hereThe rain is just starting to fall from a grey London sky as Sir Nick Clegg arrives, duckingthrough the traffic and carrying what looks like his laundry. C lean shirts for the photoshoot, he says, before apologetically wondering if he might possibly get a coffee. Within minutes he has further apologised for wanting to swap the leather club chair he is offered for a hard plastic one; and then, in horror, for any impression inadvertently given that my questions might send him to sleep.Impeccable English manners should never be mistaken for diffidence – at 58, Clegg remains the only British political figure who could convincingly be played by the equally posh but self-effacing Colin Firth, whose old London home Clegg recently bought – but t...

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3 w. ago Newsom’s fight with Trump fueling ‘rising tide of support’ among voters, says CNN data expert

For several days the California governor’s social media has been working overtime to troll Trump as their feud has heated up

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4 w. ago Paedophile agrees to undergo physical castration in US first plea deal

Thomas Allen McCartney, 37, is classified a "Tier Three" offender and is considered one of Louisiana's worst child predators

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