Ian Youngs Culture reporter Netflix Owen Cooper has been praised for his performance as 13-year-old Jamie One of the most talked-about TV shows of recent years, Netflix’s hard-hitting drama Adolescence, has been the hot topic of discussion this week, from the House of Commons to US talk shows to the gates of the scriptwriter’s son’s...
Musk’s donations could influence Republican lawmakers’ decision-making on future legislation. Elon Musk, whose Trump administration-endorsed “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) cuts have been challenged (and sometimes successfully blocked) in courtrooms across the country, has donated to several Republican members of Congress who have called for the impeachment of judges issuing those rulings. Musk has given...
Oleg Gordievsky, the long-standing KGB double agent who defected to Britain, has died aged 86. Gordievsky was said to be Britain’s most valuable spy in living memory inside Russia’s intelligence agencies. Counter-terrorism police are assisting the coroner, but his death is not being treated as suspicious. He died peacefully at his home in Surrey, the...
Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson Becker has returned to the club after sustaining a “suspected concussion” on international duty with Brazil. The 32-year-old was substituted late on in the 2-1 World Cup qualifying win over Colombia on Friday after a nasty clash of heads with former Tottenham defender Davinson Sanchez. Alisson will now return to Merseyside for...
Over the past two weeks, the Trump administration’s detention, interrogation and deportation machine has shown a new level of cruelty. The detention and deportation of visa holders, followed by over 200 Venezuelan nationals without due process, has caused judicial controversy and a struggle in the courts. But activists and progressives cannot simply rely on the...
President Donald Trump withdrew an executive order targeting a major Democratic-leaning law firm after the firm agreed to provide $40 million in pro bono legal services in support of his administration’s far right initiatives. “This is unbelievably shameful from Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP,” Molly Coleman, executive director at People’s Parity Project, said...
In a stunning decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Idaho can ban transgender students from using bathrooms that align with their gender identity. The ruling prioritizes cisgender students’ “privacy concerns” over the harm faced by transgender students, effectively stripping them of Title IX protections in school facilities. It also contradicts recent...
It seems astounding that a single fire at an electricity source shut down one of the world’s busiest airports. The disruption to the journeys of thousands of passengers and millions of tonnes of trade goods on Friday has prompted a series of questions over the resilience of the UK’s major infrastructure. Disaster recovery plans keep...
Jonny Humphries BBC News Reporting fromLiverpool Crown Court Cheshire Constabulary Joanne Sharkey told police she felt like she could not face becoming a mother when she killed her newborn son The mother of a baby boy who was found dead in a woodland in 1998 told police she felt “relief” at her arrest after living...
Israel’s defence minister has told the military to “seize additional areas in Gaza” and threatened to permanently occupy parts of it, if Hamas does not free all remaining hostages. Israel Katz said that the military would continue its ground operation in Gaza “with increasing intensity” until all of the hostages “both living and dead” were...
British-American influencer Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan said on Friday they have left the US and are flying back to Romania, where they face human trafficking and other charges. “Spending $185,000 (£143,000) on a private jet across the Atlantic to sign one single piece of paper in Romania,” Andrew Tate posted to his 10.8...
Worrall, who has English heritage through his father, was born in Melbourne and played state cricket for South Australia. He had spells as Gloucestershire’s overseas player in 2018 and 2021, then effectively retired from Australian cricket three years ago in order to move to the UK. Since then he has taken 139 wickets at an...
When violence broke out in Syria’s coastal area recently, including mass killings of civilians allegedly carried out as revenge for attacks on Syrian security forces, volunteer rescuers quickly came to help. They were part of the Syrian civil defence group known as the White Helmets, which had operated in rebel-held areas during the civil war....
President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday instructing Secretary of Education Linda McMahon to start dismantling her agency, although it cannot be formally shut down without congressional approval. Since returning to office in January, Trump has already slashed the Education Department’s workforce in half and cut $600 million in grants. Education journalist Jennifer Berkshire...
Every Uber driver in the UK will be eligible for 20 hours of free childcare under a new scheme intended to get more women driving taxis. They will be able to use the allowance through a nannying and babysitting app for the rest of 2025. “We really, really would like to attract more female drivers...