‘Covid baby’ explanation starting to feel like an excuse, say some teachers, as quarter of children begin reception in nappies Some children are starting reception school “unable to climb a staircase”, while others use Americanisms in their speech because of too much screen time, according to a survey of teachers. […]
Mary Grimes, Avril Monaghan, Maura Monaghan and Avril’s unborn twins died in 1998 attack, inquiry hears A family from which women of three generations were killed in the Omagh bombing have spoken about the immeasurable pain caused by the atrocity and said they hope no other family suffers as they […]
Judge rejects attempt to strike out publisher’s defences after hearing application was ‘absolutely hopeless’ Noel Clarke has suffered a blow in his legal action against the Guardian after a high court judge rejected his attempt to strike out the publisher’s defences in the case. In central London on Wednesday the […]
Witnesses describe surging crowds that crushed people on the banks of the Ganges as they arrived to take a dip at holy site India crowd crushes – latest updates Dozens of people are feared to have died in multiple crowd crushes at India’s Kumbh Mela festival, local officials at the […]
Chancellor to announce plans to improve infrastructure in region to put it at forefront of science and tech advances Rachel Reeves is unveiling plans to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” between Oxford and Cambridge as she stakes the government’s success on kickstarting economic growth and putting more pounds in people’s pockets. […]
Depending on version downloaded, app approaches its answers with preamble of reasoning that it then erases We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan Users experimenting with DeepSeek have seen the Chinese AI chatbot reply and then censor itself in real time, […]
President makes major concession to Israeli PM, US ally who is wanted by international court for war crimes Donald Trump has invited Benjamin Netanyahu to be the first foreign leader to visit the White House, in a major concession to a US ally who is wanted by the international criminal […]
Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’ The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is “severe and advancing quickly”, with dozens of critical IT systems vulnerable to an expected regular pattern of significant strikes, ministers have been warned. The […]
The ‘manosphere’ and Hindu nationalism were also identified by report commissioned after last summer’s riots Hindu nationalism, misogyny and the “manosphere” have been identified as breeding grounds for extremism in a leaked report commissioned by Yvette Cooper after last summer’s riots. The home secretary’s “rapid analytical sprint” also dismissed claims […]
Children’s commissioner says young people involved in disorder felt disempowered and saw chance to retaliate A deep distrust of the police and a lack of youth opportunities fuelled the involvement of hundreds of “disempowered” children in last year’s riots across England, a report has found. Dame Rachel de Souza, the […]