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Mayor waits to see if she has won first round of migrant barge fight
A local councillor is waiting to see whether she has won the first stage of a High Court fight with Home Secretary Suella Braverman over the housing of asylum seekers on a barge. Carralyn Parkes wants Mr Justice Holgate to give her the go-ahead to challenge the lawfulness of theContinue Reading
Carey Mulligan welcomes third child with husband Marcus Mumford
The Promising Young Woman star, 38, revealed she had given birth in an interview with Vogue magazine for its November cover story. Mulligan already shares a daughter Evelyn and son Wilfred with her 36-year-old musician husband Mumford, who she married in 2012. In the article, the interviewer noted that MulliganContinue Reading
Security questions after Starmer’s speech interrupted by glitter protest
A security breach saw Sir Keir Starmer covered in glitter and manhandled by a protester on the stage of the Labour Party conference on Tuesday afternoon. – What happened? Protester Yaz Ashmawi was able to get on the stage at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool’s exhibition centre and throwContinue Reading
Asylum seekers being told they will be able to return to Bibby Stockholm barge
A sylum seekers are being told about their return to the Bibby Stockholm barge after it was evacuated following the discovery of Legionella bacteria in the water supply. The Home Office said all necessary tests have been completed on the floating vessel, which has been out of use since August.Continue Reading
Starmer eyes decade in power to ‘get Britain building’
S ir Keir Starmer will say the tide is turning towards Labour as he sets his sights on at least two terms in power to rescue a country “ruined” by 13 years of Conservative rule. The Labour leader will promise a “decade of national renewal”, suggesting his party will beContinue Reading
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Machine at the Hayward Gallery: this supremely elegant show is serenity itself
Review at a glance W hen Hiroshi Sugimoto was finding his photographic voice in 1976, he had what he described as a “waking dream”: he envisaged images of a movie theatre with a pure white screen. He made it reality from the back of a New York cinema, setting theContinue Reading
The Government’s Rwanda asylum plan: a timeline
A s it examines the Government’s Rwanda deportation policy, the Supreme Court will hear from asylum seekers about the “trauma” and “torture” they have experienced. The Home Office is contesting a June Court of Appeal decision that the multimillion-pound agreement, which would see asylum seekers sent to the country inContinue Reading
Physician associates: a solution for healthcare staff shortages or a colonial throwback?
SeventyFour/Shutterstock Before the COVID pandemic, the global health workforce needed as many as 6.4 million more medical doctors, and the gap between demand for health workers and supply is growing. As you might expect, the shortage is most acutely felt in low- and middle-income countries. The latest World Health OrganizationContinue Reading
Centenarian blood tests give hints of the secrets to longevity
Dan Negureanu/Shutterstock Centenarians, once considered rare, have become commonplace. Indeed, they are the fastest-growing demographic group of the world’s population, with numbers roughly doubling every ten years since the 1970s. How long humans can live, and what determines a long and healthy life, have been of interest for as longContinue Reading
The Yorkshire Ripper: what did he do and when? A timeline
C ontent warning: this article contains details of graphic violence Over the course of five years in the 1970s, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe brutally murdered 13 women, injuring at least seven more, across the north of England. Now, the terrible story of what he did, and how he was finallyContinue Reading