Exclusive: Yvette Cooper to tell RUSI thinktank that economic security and national security go hand in hand Contractors linked to hostile foreign powers such as China will be targeted by a new security taskforce if Labour wins the next general election. In a joint initiative from the shadow home secretary, […]
Year: 2023
Exclusive: Labour leader urges left to ‘care more about growth’ and rules out spending ‘vast sums of money’ Labour will rebuild broken Britain with big reforms, not big spending. That’s a promise | Keir Starmer Labour will only succeed in winning power and rebuilding Britain if it prioritises economic growth, […]
Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing for targeted advertising purposes Britain’s biggest police force gathered sensitive data about people using its website to report sexual offences, domestic abuse and other crimes and shared it with Facebook for targeted advertising, the Observer has found. […]
Anticyclone Caronte could send thermometer to 48C/118F as Mediterranean heatwave intensifies • Read more: Acropolis closes to protect tourists A fierce anticyclone named after Cerberus, a three-headed monster-dog that features in Dante’s Inferno, had not even ended before Italians were warned that a more intense one called Caronte, or Charon, […]
Mary Somerville, 39, died in Edinburgh following loss of Jaime Carsi, 40, in Mallorca, which was blamed on a faulty fridge A woman has died two months after her husband was killed by a suspected gas leak from a broken fridge while on honeymoon in Mallorca. Mary Somerville, 39, was […]
Police say alleged offences include breach of the peace after 200 people march to plant and four climb on roof Five people have been arrested after environmental activists staged a day of resistance at the Ineos oil refinery near Falkirk. Four people climbed on to the roof of the Ineos […]
Exclusive: Move penalises courses with a high proportion of working-class or minority ethnic students, critics say Rishi Sunak will force universities to limit the number of students taking “low-value” degrees in England, a measure which is most likely to hit working class and black, Asian and minority ethnic applicants. Courses […]
The Federal Trade Commission’s request to pause the deal was rejected, clearing the few remaining hurdles for it to go through A US appeals court on Friday rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s request to pause Microsoft’s $69bn (£53bn) purchase of Call of Duty maker Activision Blizzard. The appeals court decision […]
Hottest weather of the year just beginning, warns National Weather Service, as authorities prepare to protect most vulnerable After days of unrelenting temperatures across much of the region, the American west is bracing for even more intense heat this weekend with more than a third of Americans under extreme heat […]
Succession star says Hollywood actors strike could get ‘very unpleasant’ in Sky News interview The Succession star Brian Cox said the recently declared strike by Hollywood actors could get “very unpleasant” and last until the end of the year, taking actors “to the brink”. In an interview on Friday with […]
