Le patron de Volkswagen, Thomas Schäfer, a scellé le sort des moteurs thermiques pour les petits segments. Malgré l'assouplissement des ambitions climatiques de Bruxelles pour 2035, le géant de Wolfsburg maintient son cap : l'avenir des citadines sera 100 % électrique.

Le cyclisme, vous n’y connaissez rien, mais faire plaisir à vos proches, c’est votre rayon (hmm). Voici quelques idées et inspirations à moins de 100 euros pour trouver des cadeaux à offrir à votre cousin vélotafeur, à votre meilleure amie dingue de vélo ou à votre frère qui roule en gravel.

Selon de récents dépôts de brevets, le constructeur texan Tesla travaillerait sur l’intégration directe d’antennes Starlink à l’intérieur de ses voitures. Une avancée qui pourrait mettre fin aux zones blanches et transformer l'expérience de conduite autonome.

Regulator received thousands of complaints over treatment of Shakira Khan by other female contestants on ITV series

ITV’s Love Island has proved a hit for the broadcaster, but the reality dating show has also dominated a more unwelcome chart – comprehensively winning the title of this year’s most complained about programme.

The treatment of Shakira Khan, a contestant many viewers believed had faced bullying, was the main issue ensuring the show took all three top spots in a list of TV output provoking the most protests to Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator.

The legal action has made news and it will do damage. A potential disaster for the corporation and the UK, but a good day’s work for this president

Love Actually may be a terrible movie, but it provides one speech that’s hard not to wish into reality this Christmas. Keir Starmer, the actual, nonfictional UK prime minister, needs to channel the one played by Hugh Grant – and stand up to an absurd US president now bullying the BBC with a $10bn lawsuit.

Just imagine for one moment that Starmer decided to make Donald Trump’s claim against the BBC the final straw for a special relationship that is increasingly special only in a bad way. That would not be outlandish, for not only has Trump taken aim against a British broadcaster, but earlier this week it seemed that his promise of an AI “prosperity deal” (bought, let’s not forget, with gurning invites to Windsor Castle) is set to evaporate. As the fictional Love Actually PM once said: “A friend who bullies us is no longer a friend … Since bullies only respond to strength, from now onward I will be prepared to be much stronger.”

Jane Martinson is professor of financial journalism at City St George’s and a member of the board of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group. She writes in a personal capacity

The US president has repeatedly targeted American media in an attempt to muzzle debate and scrutiny. His attempt to export the bullying must be resisted

On the day that the government launched a high-stakes consultation to consider fresh ways of funding the BBC in the digital era, the corporation could have done without another difficult news event of its own. Donald Trump’s decision to follow through on threats to sue over the content of a Panorama programme broadcast in October 2024 may not have come as a surprise, given Mr Trump’s litigious record in the United States. But it will add to the general air of beleaguerment at the corporation and further embolden its domestic political enemies.

A terse BBC statement on Tuesday suggested that there would be no backing down in the face of White House bullying. That is the right response to absurd claims of “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” caused to the US president, and a fantastical request for damages amounting to $10bn. The BBC has rightly apologised for the misleading splicing together of separate clips from Mr Trump’s rabble-rousing speech on January 6 2021, prior to the violent storming of the US Capitol. A serious error of judgment was made in that editing process – though the House of Representatives January 6 committee concluded that Trump did use his speech to incite an insurrection. But the claim that a programme not broadcast in the US was part of a malicious plan to defame Mr Trump and subvert the democratic process ahead of last year’s election is utterly specious.

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