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Corruption Inc.
Trump flies the flag for a new global age of graft
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May 11, 2025
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Young men are suffering, so why look away? Here's how we start fixing them
Andrew Tate is right - about some things. When the misogynist influencer says: “There’s a lot of young men growing up today that feel very disaffected, who feel invisible”
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May 11, 2025
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Musicians make an awful noise to thwart AI menace
Musicians can now protect their work from being used to train AI models using new “adversarial noise” tools that affect the models’ ability to learn.
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May 11, 2025
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What's on telly? A trip to the cinema for the season finale
Fans will queue up and spoilers will be banned. But the cinemagoers who arrive at their local screens at the end of the month will be there to watch the latest episode of Doctor Who, not the next Marvel film.
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May 11, 2025
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Pakistan and India agree truce – but violence in Kashmir goes on
Trump tries to take the credit, but India says the two countries reached ceasefire agreement themselves
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May 11, 2025
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A cynical play for working-class votes
Kenan Malik
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May 11, 2025
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Putin's power on parade
Last year's Victory Day parade was an embarrassing affair for Vladimir Putin.
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May 11, 2025
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'There is not a crumb left': Gaza fears new military push as aid blockade bites
A dearth of food has led to intense civilian suffering, as a US-led scheme manoeuvres to replace United Nations aid efforts
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May 11, 2025
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M&S hackers vow to keep 'former Soviet Union' safe
Hackers who bragged about crippling Marks & Spencer’s systems and breaching Co-op Group databases appeared to have vowed to protect “the former Soviet Union” from the technology used in the attacks.
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May 11, 2025
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Kashmir: how a mountain paradise became a nuclear tinderbox
Once famed for its beauty, the region has been scarred by decades of war between Pakistan and India – peace is as fragile as ever, says
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May 11, 2025
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Beware the rise of the mobile car valet
What fresh hell is this? To the din caused by the leaf blowers and the pressure washers, it seems we must now add a new urban racket: the mobile car valet, coming soon to a roadside near you.
2 min |
May 11, 2025
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Nick Thomas-Symonds
He may be quiet, but this Keir whisperer is key to Labour's European ambitions.
4 min |
May 11, 2025
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My vet's bill claim has made me barking mad
My dog Zena suffered with chronic vomiting for around two months, so my partner and I took her for multiple visits to different vets and hospitals.
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May 11, 2025
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His father gave the boy a first name, Nicklaus a nod to the golfing great Jack Nicklaus
His father gave the boy a first name, Nicklaus, a nod to the golfing great Jack Nicklaus. His steady-Eddie nature is also apparent in his personal life; he met Rebecca, the woman who would become his wife, aged just 16.
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May 11, 2025
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Good morning, Vatican! How Leo XIV will show the world signs of leadership
From his cape to his slippers, the new pope will be watched closely in his first week for hints about his pontificate
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May 11, 2025
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The first lady vanishes
Speculation is growing over just how much time Melania Trump has spent in the White House since her husband's return to office, writes
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May 11, 2025
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Sundowning: a calm label for fear and chaos
As night falls, dementia can wreak more havoc on patients and carers, says Melanie Reid
2 min |
May 11, 2025
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Ørsted's blow to British energy
The Danish company pulling the plug on its giant windfarm project off the East Yorkshire coast sparks fears of a funeral wake for North Sea energy, writes
2 min |
May 11, 2025
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Don't send these men to prison, make them plant trees instead
If anyone wondered why Reform are doing well, they need look no further than the sentimental hype and faux outrage gushing from every media and social outlet about the felled Sycamore Gap tree.
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May 11, 2025
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Attenborough's film aiming for sea change in bottom trawling
Catching scallops or shrimp can be a destructive business. Fishing vessels laying waste to unspoiled seabed ecosystems with metal dredges or big, heavy dragnets provided the most eye-opening scenes in Ocean with David Attenborough, a cinematic plea to save the marine world that premiered last week in London.
1 min |
May 11, 2025
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Unlike Musk, Gates lives in present
The richest man on the planet is involved in “killing the world’s poorest children”, said Bill Gates last week, reigniting a feud with fellow tech tycoon Elon Musk, whose slashing of US foreign aid through the “department of government efficiency” Gates blames for the deaths of many thousands of young people.
1 min |
May 11, 2025
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The future of the monarchy may depend on lying low and staying out of trouble
Martha Gill
4 min |
May 11, 2025
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Teachers driven potty by poor toilet training
Almost half of teachers in England have children in reception classes who are still not toilet trained, six months into the school year.
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May 11, 2025
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Beating yourself up over your ChatGPT emissions? Don't – there are much better ways to save energy
Fears that Al will bring about the apocalypse have been around as long as AI itself. But concerns over the energy usage of generative AI may also be overblown.
2 min |
May 11, 2025
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OpenAl rows back on plan to become 'for profit' company
In a blogpost last week, chatbot maker OpenAI said it was to become a public benefit corporation (PBC) but remain \"overseen and controlled\" by the non-profit board that ousted its chief executive, Sam Altman in 2023.
1 min |
May 11, 2025
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Deal suggests that Starmer has Trump's number
As far as optics go, last week’s Oval Office announcement of a trade deal with the UK was a triumph for Keir Starmer’s strategy of making nice with Donald Trump.
1 min |
May 11, 2025
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Aardvark
My week
2 min |
May 11, 2025
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Britain risks paying the price of having the world's costliest work visa fees
Competing political and economic goals on immigration are resulting in the loss of valuable skills and talent, reports political editor Rachel Sylvester
4 min |
May 11, 2025
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Deliveroo's £2.9bn food for thought on UK startups
Add Deliveroo to the long list of innovative British startups to sell themselves rather than continue trying to make it on their own.
1 min |
May 11, 2025
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The chancellor needs to remember what the 'E' in VE Day stands for
Having been born the day the Mallard broke the steam locomotive speed record of 126mph between Grantham and Peterborough — 3 July 1938, since you ask ~ I have vivid memories of the second world war.
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