B en Wallace has said he plans to resign at the next Cabinet reshuffle after four years as Defence Secretary. He told The Sunday Times he would stand down as an MP at the next election but ruled out leaving “prematurely” and triggering another by-election for the Conservatives to battle.Continue Reading
Anastasiya Adamovich/Shutterstock Riffing off 2019’s “hot girl summer” and 2022’s “Adam Sandler summer”, online magazine The Cut has declared 2023 the year of the “barefoot-boy summer”. American musician Mike Sabath and Euphoria actor Jacob Elordi were both papped walking barefooted earlier this year in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, Alexander Skarsgård’s SuccessionContinue Reading
calzone.photography/Shutterstock Can our brains sense electromagnetic waves? – Taye, aged 10, London Electromagnetic waves are packets of energy travelling all around us. Some of these waves have lots of energy, and some have less. We call the lowest energy electromagnetic waves radio waves. There’s a good chance radio waves areContinue Reading
T he UK’s largest trade union could reduce the amount of money it gives to Labour if the party’s leadership does not back more of its policy priorities, its general secretary has said. Sharon Graham warned Sir Keir Starmer there will be “no blank cheques” as she urged the partyContinue Reading
T ributes will be paid to the late SNP politician Winnie Ewing, the party’s first female parliamentarian, at a memorial service on Saturday. The 93-year-old former MP, MEP, and MSP, affectionately known as Madame Ecosse, died last month, surrounded by her family. Former first minister Alex Salmond and former ScottishContinue Reading
L inda Nolan says she has wondered whether she will still “be here” in a month’s time, after revealing cancer had spread to her brain earlier this year. The 64-year-old singer, part of Anglo-Irish family pop group The Nolans, said it was often hard to stay “positive” about her situationContinue Reading
R ishi Sunak is reportedly set to announce plans to cap the number of students who can take “low-value” university degrees. Limits would be imposed on courses that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, pursuing further studies or starting a business, the Guardian reported.Continue Reading
S uella Braverman’s immigration plans are facing another legal battle after councils and campaigners were given the green light to bring a High Court challenge against housing migrants on disused airfields. The ruling comes just two days after the Home Secretary’s department moved asylum seekers on to Wethersfield Airfield forContinue Reading
H ow Do You Live, the latest film from Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, opened today in cinemas across Japan. The release of any film that comes from Miyazaki’s preeminent animation studio, Studio Ghibli, usually causes a huge buzz. But the tone of the arrival of How Do You Live hasContinue Reading
Huw Edwards is facing the end of his broadcasting career after he was named by his wife as the presenter at the centre of a sexual impropriety scandal that has dominated headlines. The BBC figurehead is in hospital with “serious mental health issues”, said his wife Vicky Flind, after sheContinue Reading
