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March 22, 2023

Hardline Tory MPs reject Sunak's revised NI protocol trade deal

Rishi Sunak is set to push his revamped Northern Ireland protocol through the Commons today despite hardline Conservative Brexiters rejecting the plan as an unacceptable failure that does not deliver any of its stated claims.

3 mins

Cheesecake à la cartridge? A taste of things to come as 3D printing enters the kitchen

It was, perhaps, no surprise that when researchers set out to push the boundaries of 3D printing their attempts to rattle out cheesecakes were not immediately successful.

3 mins

Rebutting a scandal? What defence dossier tells us - and what it doesn't

The 52 pages of Boris Johnson's Partygate defence dossier drip with insights into the way he and No 10 figures tried to deal with and contain what became a spiralling scandal that engulfed his premiership.

6 mins

Evidence trail: Incredulity met hard facts as the Johnson bubble story' ballooned

'My initial reaction at the time was that this was some kind of try on,\" Boris Johnson said of the moment when I first approached Downing Street with the news we were about to publish a story about lockdown parties at the heart of government.

4 mins

Outcry over Ofsted's 'punitive' inspection regime grows after headteacher's death

Pressure is mounting on Ofsted after the death of the Berkshire headteacher Ruth Perry, whose family have called for an urgent review of the schools watchdog, describing its inspection regime as \"punitive\" and \"fatally flawed\".

2 mins

Man accused of Olivia Pratt-Korbel murder: 'was friend of alleged target'

A man accused of murdering nine-year-old Olivia Pratt-Korbel told a court yesterday that he was friends with the alleged target of the shooting and denied \"scoping out\" an attack.

2 mins

Braverman under pressure after US report on human rights in Rwanda

Britain's closest ally, the US, has criticised Rwanda's dire human rights record, describing conditions in its detention centres as harsh to life-threatening.

1 min

Sheeran 'didn't want to live any more' after friends died

Ed Sheeran has said he \"didn't want to live any more\" after the deaths in 2022 of his friends Jamal Edwards, the SBTV founder, and the Australian cricketer Shane Warne.

1 min

Perfectly deadly Lives torn apart by missiles give lie to UK's claim of precision campaign

The transcript of the drone operators' remarks is brief and blunt, but it captures with grim clarity the moment they realised their deadly mistake.

7 mins

Google launches Bard chatbot as it rushes to catch up with AI rivals

Google's Bard chatbot launched yesterday in the UK and US as the company completed its dash to release a competitor to Bing Chat and ChatGPT.

2 mins

Putin welcomes Xi's plan for peace in Ukraine as US warns of 'stalling tactic'

Vladimir Putin welcomed China's proposals for peace in Ukraine at a joint press conference with Xi Jinping in Moscow yesterday - a plan the west has warned would allow the Kremlin to \"freeze\" its territorial gains in the country.

3 mins

'Anger is growing': Rising tide of opposition to 'undemocratic' pension changes sweeps France

Renaud, 49, leaned out of the window of his Paris bin lorry, which was being held in its depot by a barricade of strikers. \"Emmanuel R Macron doesn't seem to be listening to the anger out there,\" he said. \"People don't think we're in a democracy any more.\"

3 mins

'Swissness' Collapse threatens national identity

Outside Zurich central station, monsters snap at the feet of modern Switzerland's founding father. The towering statue of the 19th-century industrialist Alfred Escher used to symbolise the country's stability amid geopolitical storms: his back to the railway whose expansion he masterminded, his face turned to Paradeplatz square and the bank he created to finance his ventures.

3 mins

'I want to be the very best.I can be better than ever'

The big interview Helen Glover: At 36, the double Olympic champion is returning and hopes to prove mothers can be winners as she targets a podium finish in Paris next year

7 mins

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