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September 21, 2025
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Billions for UK data centres pose challenge for power grid
Warning of vast demands on water and energy if AI infrastructure expands in UK with new projects
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September 21, 2025
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Kennedy's staff warn that he is dismantling US public health
Health chief accused of undermining decades of effective vaccine and prevention systems
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September 21, 2025
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The emotional 'journey' to Strictly's glitterball begins
My friend Peg and I went to the bread shop yesterday to buy our Saturday loaves.
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September 21, 2025
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For your eyes only ... plus all the new Instagram followers @MI6
Secret service embraces social media in recruitment drive to find the next generation of spies
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September 21, 2025
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To overcome the chunters of dissent, the ever-cheery Ed Davey needs to turn up the volume
Sir Ed Davey opened his party conference accompanied by a marching band, which could be taken as a mocking reference to the Donald Trump state visit, which the Lib Dem leader ostentatiously boycotted. He'll be grateful someone noticed this wheeze, because nine-tenths of the Lib Dem’s battle is attracting attention.
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September 21, 2025
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AI use is creating a great divide
The current revolution in generative artificial intelligence (AI) is throwing off vast amounts of real-time data and with it the ability to analyse almost instantly what is going on.
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September 21, 2025
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How Trump's 'private' police force is putting US democracy on Ice
As American immigration raids become more brutal, fears are growing that next year's midterm elections could be their next target, writes Hugh Tomlinson
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September 21, 2025
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UK recognises Palestine as Israel bombards Gaza City
Prime minister's announcement today, ahead of a key UN conference, follows growing condemnation of devastation in Gaza
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September 21, 2025
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Turbulence hits request for refund from airline
My partner and I bought tickets through Booking.com to fly to Hanoi, Vietnam, with Shenzhen Airlines on 16 April.
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September 21, 2025
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'Bitcoin is the free speech of money': fears grow over far right's embrace of crypto
When Elon Musk appeared on huge screens dotted along Whitehall last weekend calling for thousands of attendees at far-right campaigner Tommy Robinson's Unite the Kingdom rally to \"fight back... or die\", the tech billionaire's image was accompanied by the logos of the event's sponsors. All but one were cryptocurrencies.
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September 21, 2025
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Girls just wanna be in history textbooks
Kate Mosse
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September 21, 2025
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Lib Dems set to lay down law for Musk in UK
Elon Musk could be dragged to the House of Commons to be reprimanded over his call for \"revolutionary government change\".
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September 21, 2025
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Battle to become the global leader in defence tech gets heated
In a world riven by conflict, Germany's Helsing and US-based Anduril are piling on value as order books bulge.
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September 14, 2025
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The lion
We lions are philosophers. We get a lot of time for thinking; it’s in our nature.
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September 14, 2025
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How Syria's stolen children were used to break the hearts and minds of their parents
A campaign of child abduction carried out in collusion with a western charity was used by the Assad regime as a weapon of war against the families that opposed him.
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September 14, 2025
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Britain can become one of the world's top tech economies - if it takes the risks
It's time to change the subject. A programme of mass deportations and leaving the European Convention on Human Rights is not going to deliver either growth or prosperity.
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September 14, 2025
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Misinformation and myth: the UK's phoney war over human rights
The debate over the future of the European Convention on Human Rights will shape conference season and beyond, writes political editor Rachel Sylvester
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September 14, 2025
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Assassination of Charlie Kirk strips Maga of the man who brought the youth vote to Trump
The first family mourns the White House insider whose extremist views reflected the Republican party's major shift to the right
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September 14, 2025
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Mandelson saga and Epstein links cast shadow over Trump's UK trip
When Donald Trump touches down on UK soil in Air Force One on Tuesday, a two-day period of peril for the US president and British prime minister Keir Starmer will begin.
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September 14, 2025
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The UN must get back in the ring and fight Mark Malloch-Brown
A recent Reuters headline noted: “UN report finds United Nations reports are not widely read”.
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September 14, 2025
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Prepare for revolution now, Elon Musk tells London rally as police come under attack
US tech billionaire calls for downfall of Labour government in speech to 110,000 marchers at Robinson's Unite the Kingdom protest
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September 14, 2025
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Big pharma's cash pull-out lands blow on UK economy
Slowly, then all at once. That's how the government's “vision” for life sciences came to the brink of disaster in the space of a week.
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September 14, 2025
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Puzzle over motives of alleged shooter who 'confessed to his dad'
It was a manhunt across Utah with a $100,000 reward on the table, the FBI under fierce scrutiny and a political blame game erupting in Washington as America reeled from one of the most significant political assassinations in years.
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September 14, 2025
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Don't dismiss the daylight between us. It's where we find common ground
A British colleague once complained to me, “we used to be innovators, now we're just regulators”. But that misses the point.
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September 14, 2025
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My tip for Ken's return to the RSC —keep your shirt on
Kate Maltby
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September 14, 2025
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Ellison the Almighty, 81, sets his sights on Oxford
“God doesn't think he’s Larry Ellison” is the punchline to an old Silicon Valley gag about the difference between the creator of the universe and the creator of the software company Oracle.
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September 14, 2025
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US cash turned Tommy Robinson into the poster boy of UK far right
Outside the Old Bailey in 2018, a reinvented Tommy Robinson flashed his perfect new teeth to 2,000 diehard supporters at a “free Tommy” rally on a stage that blocked the street.
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September 14, 2025
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Evaristo's new prize for older female writers closes book on dispute at RSL
A new writers' prize for older women, launched this weekend, is intended to turn the page on a troubled chapter for the Royal Society of Literature (RSL).
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September 14, 2025
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'Accessible' new builds: visit, but don't move in
After a suitable council home for a wheelchair user? Prepare to wait 47 years, says Melanie Reid
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