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This looks like a fairly uninspiring project, but at least Thomas Heatherwick has been foiled in his attempt to sneak back the Garden Bridge in an even uglier form. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 2 hours ago • 2 comments

While in Canada for the G7 I laboriously gave my usual slightly fussy coffee order - an Americano with lots of hot milk, a sort of Americano-edging-into-latte – to find the Canadians have a bespoke term for this, an Americano Misto. Can we start using it here, just for my convenience?

submitted 3 hours ago • 2 comments

Big story on looming welfare rebellion by @jessicaelgot.bsky.social - it turns out a big majority won’t necessarily insulate you from anything www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Whatever you think about Palestine Action's tactics, I'm not 100% sure ministers have entirely thought through the decision to label them a terrorist organisation. From now, if I was to say here, "I support PA and their campaigns", I could in theory be jailed, with a maximum sentence of 14 years.

submitted 23 hours ago • 9 comments

Among the many things you could say about this miserable rant, I strongly suspect the £8 pint was in part the result of a special “Goodwin surcharge” from a bar person who recognised him.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Last 48 hours before the assisted dying bill and the pro side feeling very confident. There will be a major push from both tomorrow to engage the last few genuinely undecideds. Those against the bill think there is still a chance, even in the chamber itself. Expect more abstentions too.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Having this minute just arrived back in the UK with Keir Starmer from the G7 summit, here’s my read on his careful and at times skilled diplomatic efforts - however limited the results. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

It seems to be Starmer’s curse to forever be the harbinger of Trump madness. A day after Starmer’s Oval Office charm efforts? The Zelenskiy Oval Office debacle. About an hour after Starmer insists Trump wants to “de-escalate”? US won’t kill Iranian supreme leader “for now”, Trump says

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

New: Keir Starmer sets out possible plans for a "transactional" visa system whereby nationals of countries who refuse returns deals with the UK to take back failed asylum seekers find it harder to get UK visas. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Keir Starmer told us at the G7 why he picked up Donald Trump's spilled papers, and to précis only slightly, it was because he worried that if someone else, like a journalist, rushed forward to help they might get shot.

submitted 6 days ago • 14 comments

Starmer challenges Badenoch to explain she didn't say 'one word' about grooming gang scandal when in government, @peterwalker99.bsky.social reports - www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

For non-UK readers it's woth adding some context: if you are British, it is physically impossible to not help pick up smeone else's papers if they drop them. See also: the compulsion to say, "Sorry!" even when someone else has bumped into you.

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

I was standing ten yards away when this happened, and while I totally get Starmer's instinctive reaction, the optics are a bit unfortunate.

submitted 7 days ago • 31 comments

At the G7 media centre in Canada, local reporters were not happy with Mark Carney for shutting down Trump's typically unhunged Q&A with reporters before the pair's bilateral. "Let him carry on!" they complained, after Carney intervened, much like someone shush-ing a drunk uncle at a wedding.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

News from on board the plane to the G7 summit: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Really lovely piece about the rise of the Turkish barbershop in the UK and its wider history, this:

submitted 10 days ago • 12 comments

It doesn't seem great that we have an MP - albeit one estranged from Reform - who is now promoting explicit Powellite racism and hanging out with white nationalist accounts on X.

submitted 11 days ago • 58 comments

Exclusive: More than 20 leading charities and service providers including Refuge and Mind have urged the equalities watchdog to extend its consultation on the supreme court ruling about gender, saying the current timetable is too rushed for proper engagement. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments