PM will give a speech shortly, followed by a Q&A with the media
The Conservatives claim Keir Starmer is “not serious” about civil service reform. In a statement released last night in response to the overnight preview of Starmer’s speech, Alex Burghart, the shadow Cabinet Office minister, said:
Labour is not serious about getting Britain growing.
The prime minister has no plan to reform the civil service or cut public spending. Thanks to his budget the size of the state will reach a staggering 44% of GDP by 2030. Meanwhile businesses are being strangled by Rachel Reeves’s taxes and Angela Rayner’s red tape.
Mitchell Robinson’s body transformation is hardly Barry Bonds circa the early 2000s, but through the first couple weeks of his return to the Knicks, he has progressed as hoped.
Key factors will drive the Kremlin’s decision. Can Russia fight on and for what? Or is there more benefit in allying with Donald Trump?
At this stage of the crisis, it is important to be clear-sighted. The US-Ukraine meeting in Jeddah was a damage-control operation. Both parties reset relations that had been damaged, largely by Washington’s impatience. The US reversed its previous decisions in exchange for something Ukraine was ready to provide anyway: privileged access to Ukraine’s natural resource wealth and a willingness to start a peace process.
It is encouraging to see renewed US-Ukraine dialogue to end the war. As Churchill said, the only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them. The public mugging in the Oval Office, calling Volodymyr Zelenskyy a dictator and the pause in military and intelligence support were hard to fathom. Ukrainians wondered why President Trump was putting the blame and the pressure on the victim, and protecting the aggressor. Trump’s “beautiful” deal involved bullying the weaker and reassuring the stronger. He finds it more natural to put pressure on allies, be it Ukraine or Canada, and relax it on adversaries.
Aaron Rodgers to the Pittsburgh Steelers is something a franchise great sees as a potential 'garbage season,' with the 4-time MVP quarterback having them among his destinations.
Israeli soldiers spotted a 4-year-old child approaching their military outpost, who was apparently sent by Hamas. Israel says the boy was returned to Gaza.
Fact To File is favourite for the Ryanair Chase and Teahupoo is aiming to defend his crown in the Stayers’ Hurdle on a packed St Patrick’s Thursday at Cheltenham Festival
Performing in Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist during A-levels was a lesson in low-art laughs and political anger that unites an audience
It was 1999. I was doing A-levels in Ashfield in Nottinghamshire, the former mining community I depict in my TV series Sherwood. My comprehensive school was one of the biggest in the country, one of a very small number with a working theatre. I wouldn’t be doing what I get to do now without that massive bit of luck.
I started doing loads of acting, and the department decided to do the first A-level drama they’d ever done because there were about a dozen of us who wanted to keep going after GCSEs.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is very concerned about financial conflicts of interest that new Liberal leader (and our next prime minister) Mark Carney may be hiding. But I’m far more concerned about the one out in the open: Carney is now supposed to act for the good of the country after lobbying to defund and drive out of existence Canada’s oil and gas companies, steel companies, car companies and any other sector dependent on fossil fuels. He’s done this through the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (GFANZ), which he founded in 2021. Read More
Canada faces a seismic shift in world affairs where the U.S., under Donald Trump, is no longer a reliable alliance or trade partner, prompting disarray in the West and posing an existential threat to Canada’s well-being. Stock markets have plunged, inflation is ticking up, and consumer confidence is sagging in the U.S. There is even talk of recession — not the change Trump promised for America. Read More
The Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism begins holding U.S. schools to account for failures to address campus hate, starting with steep federal funding cuts at Columbia University.
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