In this issue

June 06, 2023

PM insists 'stop the boats' plan is 'beginning to work'

Border officials suggest fall in crossings due to poor weather as Sunak announces two new barges to house asylum seekers

5 mins

'Spurious nonsense': Senior Tories hit out over decision to withhold Covid messages

Senior Conservative MPs rounded on the government yesterday, saying its refusal to hand over unredacted WhatsApp messages to the Covid inquiry was based on “spurious nonsense”.

3 mins

Judge 'surprised' as Harry skips start of hacking trial

Prince Harry’s decision not to attend the opening day of his court case into alleged illegal information gathering by tabloid newspapers was met with “surprise” by the judge yesterday.

3 mins

Child's birthday party keeps the prince away from court

Nothing is going to stop Prince Harry from having his day in court. Apart from, it turns out, Harry himself.

3 mins

The Victorian-era scandal behind the last time a royal was questioned in court

Prince of Wales entered the dock in 1890 in what became known as the royal baccarat disgrace.

4 mins

Why is Scotland's recycling scheme now under threat?

The plan to launch a deposit return scheme north of the border is in danger of being canned following a controversial intervention by the UK government

4 mins

Charges against terrorist dropped days before deaths

Charges were dropped against a terrorist days before he murdered three people because of a \"misunderstanding\" over a botched Home Office attempt to deport him, an inquest has heard.

3 mins

Austerity left UK 'hugely unprepared' for Covid crisis

The UK was hugely unprepared for the Covid crisis because of years of austerity overseen by David Cameron and George Osborne, according to a new report. The Trades Union Congress (TUC) said that funding cuts reduced the country’s capacity to respond to the crisis, leaving the NHS and the social care sector “dangerously understaffed”.

2 mins

Apple launches £2,800 mixed-reality headset

Apple yesterday announced the \"Vision Pro\", a headset it hopes will be its most important product since the iPhone. The new virtual reality tool will allow people to see apps projected on top of the room around them, allowing apps to be “freed from the confines of a display”, Apple said.

3 mins

Surge in attacks across front as Ukraine begins fightback

But Kyiv plays coy about start of push to retake territory

3 mins

Ukraine must stay one step ahead of Putin if it is to win

Whether or not the attacks on Russian lines in the eastern region of Donetsk end up being seen as the start of Ukraine's long-awaited counteroffensive, the information war around them is in full swing.

3 mins

Woman jailed for 20 year over infant deaths released

An Australian woman has been granted a pardon and dramatically freed from prison after 20 years, with officials accepting there are doubts about whether she killed her four children.

3 mins

Holly's fab but This Morning is a big, dysfunctional family

\"Taking odds on what Holly Willoughby was going to say – or not – about Phillip Schofield had become close to a national pastime, like waiting for Winston Churchill to update us on the war effort. But this particular Monday morning she took the bull by the horns and hung on to her rodeo crown.

2 mins

Clarkson on Schofield leaves out the power imbalance

\"I was 16 the first time a boss tried it on with me. He waited until everyone else had left, then closed the door before I could follow and stood between it and me.

4 mins

'There are not many safe places left in Latin America'

Danielle Villasana hears from migrant families following the end of a strict border policy between the US and Mexico

10 mins

Striking and sordid drama oozes with body horror

Sam Levinson’s ‘The Idol’ delivers a compelling portrait of the aimlessness of 21st-century youth

3 mins

May bank holidays fail to boost sales as shoppers save

The three bank holidays in May failed to get shoppers spending as sales growth slowed to its lowest level in six months, latest figures show.

2 mins

Growing mortgage turmoil spells trouble for Sunak

Is the ghost of Liz Truss rattling her chains and spooking the mortgage market? It probably feels like that for borrowers.

3 mins

Keep or sell? The deadwood United must now offload

Harry Maguire wore a hangdog look, though some would say he has for much of the last two years. Wout Weghorst did not score, but then he has not in 93 per cent of his appearances for Manchester United. With an equaliser required in the FA Cup final and three substitutions still available to Erik ten Hag, he opted for a solitary roll of the dice. That was bringing on Scott McTominay.

4 mins

Smith: An Ashes on English soil is on my bucket list

Australian batter targets first outright away win since 2001

2 mins

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