Category: Politics

I’ve had enough of hearing about how awful people can be to one another. I’m about ready for the second flood, a cleansing fire, whatever will raze this horrible business of humanity to the ground and give us – or some other species – a chance to start anew. Ideally it would happen after I’ve […]

The 2024 BBC Young Musician competition has been won tonight by 17-year-old pianist, Ryan Wang. Three musicians competed in the final, in which each played a concerto with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Ben Gernon before an audience at Bristol Beacon. Joining Wang was another pianist, Jacky Zhang (also a category finalist […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 7/56 Norris is struggling to keep up with the leading three. Piastri, his teammate is also sluggish. Problems for McLaren? Share 6/56 The Merc now removed from the track, the safety car pulls aside. Leclerc and Verstappen go at it, right […]

A children’s soft play centre has removed its hanging “body bag” Halloween decorations after concerns were raised by parents. Rugrats and Halfpints in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, has also apologised over the accessories resembling human corpses covered in black plastic. Some appeared to be wrapped with tape marked “Caution” and “Danger” and were hanging upside down from […]

The government has appointed the UK’s first envoy for nature, a role that a former campaigner called “the environmentalist’s environmentalist”, who will be charged with forging global agreement on halting the precipitous decline of species. Ruth Davis, the new special representative for nature, is in Colombia for the start of two weeks of vital talks […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 44 mins: We close on half-time with a familiar pattern now in place – Chelsea probing in the Liverpool half, the hosts happy to wait and pounce on a mistake. Share 42 mins: Chelsea have plenty of attacking options on the […]

Rachel Reeves is being urged to use next week’s budget to ringfence health spending on prevention so it is protected from cuts when money is tight. A letter sent to the chancellor by a leading health charity, thinktanks and the body that represents accountants says carving out a new category of preventive spending would mean […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 2nd over: New Zealand 20-1 (Bates 7, Kerr 4) Bates get in on the act, swiping Khaka to the midwicket boundary. Plimmer falls –good strong catch from Luus 0 but Kerr comes in and immediately is on the attack too, pulling […]

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature 12 min “Morning greetings from California,” begins Mary Waltz. “Regarding Kellogs Cereal: hey, eat what you want, But why fool yourself calling these various products cereal, as if they have some nutritional value. If you want to start your day with […]

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