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.
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to have an impact on the economy, and he’s certainly living up to his promises. With a double whammy of high tariffs and uncertainty about the administration’s policies and intentions, the Trump administration is hammering trade relations between the U.S. and its neighbours to the north and south, as well as across the world. Recently imposed 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum are bound to make everybody a little poorer. The only good that could possibly come out of it is a reminder that we all benefit from free trade, even if it’s unilateral. Read More
A power outage at the Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, resort where a missing American college student had been vacationing could potentially impact the investigation.
Dr. Chris Loreto, an emergency room physician at the Timmins and District Hospital in Timmins, Ont., had an "aha" moment while helping a man who was suffering from a massive heart attack. It turned out the doctor had the same condition as the patient. Read More
Despite the federal government’s pledge to decrease immigration targets in the coming years, most Canadians still feel too many newcomers are arriving, a new national poll has found. Read More
In skijoring, competitors ski or snowboard while being pulled by horses at full gallop. It’s dizzying and dangerous – but for these athletes, it’s not their first rodeo
At first, the crowd seems incompatible. It’s as if someone took a wrong turn. Cowboy hats and helmets, saddles and ski boots, belt buckles and snowsuits – those two types of gear aren’t usually cut from the same cloth. But this weekend in the midwest, at this year’s Extreme Skijoring event, they go together like “Minnesota” and “nice”.
The sun is beating down on the snow-covered track at Canterbury Park, 25 minutes from downtown Minneapolis, where fur and fringe fill the stands and old-school country blares from the speakers. It’s noon, but people are already taking shotskis. There’s a bison named Kidd Buffalo off in the distance, and the American flag beats against the wind.
A rider and skier compete at the Extreme Skijoring event at Canterbury Park in Shakopee, Minnesota in February.
How do you choose a design you will love for life? And what can you do to cover up an old flame’s name? Top tattooists, including David Beckham’s artist, reveal all
“My customers generally come to me for my style,” says Aly Sidgwick, a tattoo artist at Take Note in Edinburgh. “I do a lot of woodland creatures, like bats, badgers and birds, and also mythical creatures.” Trawling through designs on social media can be helpful in choosing an artist, if a little overwhelming: “Work out if you want something bold and bright or soft and subtle,” says Sidgwick, “then look online and see what kind of styles there are and who does those designs in your town.” Be prepared to travel for the right artist, Sidgwick adds.
As the White House works toward an AI action plan, OpenAI is pleased to submit a range of proposals from national security, to infrastructure and energy, to the federal government’s own use of AI.
The defense secretary has empowered his lawyer Tim Parlatore to remake the judge advocate general’s corps
The US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, is expected in the coming weeks to start a sweeping overhaul of the judge advocate general’s corps as part of an effort to make the US military less restricted by the laws of armed conflict, according to two people familiar with the matter.
The changes are poised to have implications across the military, as Hegseth’s office considers changes to the interpretation of the US rules of engagement on the battlefield to the way that charges are brought under the military justice system.
"I told God if he could restore my walking, my movement, then I would walk like I've never walked before. I would run like I've never run before, and I would dance like I've never danced before," Shaunta-Maé Alexander said.
With problems piling up for the new live-action "Snow White," the son of the 1937 version's director told Page Six it's enough to make his father and Walt Disney "roll in their graves."
Exclusive: The drama is the brain-child of Stephen Graham who was moved by reports of young girls killed by boys influenced by incel culture. Here’s an insight into how it was pulled off
United Nations-backed experts have accused Israel of “the systematic use of sexual, reproductive and other gender-based violence” in its war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip
The Texas-based carrier revealed several changes are being made in an effort to drive revenue growth and return to profitability shareholders expect, FOX Business reported.
Pope Francis' health has taken a turn for the better this week as he continues to show improvement following a Monday update that listed him as “out of danger from death."
Canada’s Alimentation Couche-Tard has reiterated its determination to acquire Seven & i Holdings, although the operator of Japan’s top convenience store chain has rejected its offer
Mahmoud Khalil, one of the ringleaders of anti-Israel protests at Columbia University last year, will remain in ICE custody for now following a hearing in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday.
Russia's Defense Ministry says its forces have driven the Ukrainian army out of the biggest town in Russia’s Kursk border region, as U.S. officials sought the Kremlin’s response to a proposed 30-day ceasefire in the three-year that Ukraine has endorsed
In the four months since that harrowing finish, Gotham experienced an exodus of several high-profile players, which forced general manager and head of soccer operations Yael Averbuch West to restock her roster again.
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