This is a snapshot, an insight into how modern government functions. Ministers communicating with each other verbal conversation. They capture contemporaneous mood, instinct and private views. The ongoing trawling of the best part of 1,500 pages has mileage in it yet and…
The papers include messages between Lord Mandelson and ministers, exchanging advice and news – as well as criticism of the No 10 operation, Labour MPs and the prime minister himself. On 2 May 2025, Lord Mandelson wrote to Pat McFadden (then a…
Italians have reacted with bemusement to the restoration of a famous bull mosaic in Milan, with some wondering what has happened to the animal’s “lucky-charm” testicles. Work to repair the small crater formed ‘s private parts began last week and local Milan…
With the plumes of red smoke still fresh in the north London air from Sunday’s euphoric trophy parade, Arsenal’s attention swiftly turns to building on their Premier League triumph. If manager Mikel Arteta needs reminding of how a club’s rise can quickly…
Florida has become the first US state to sue OpenAI over the design and safety of the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, ChatGPT. The sweeping lawsuit brought endangering and addicting children, aiding and abetting mass shooters, and coaxing users into suicide as…
A weapons-obsessed killer who stabbed a student to death has been jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years. blade he said he carried as part of his Sikh faith to kill 18-year-old Henry Nowak, who was walking home alone after…
A British woman has died after falling from a mountain while hiking in the Pyrenees near the Spain-France border. from the Balaitús Peak in the Huesca region of Spain, local media reported. The Foreign Office said it was aware of the death…
Lebanon says Hezbollah has accepted a US plan for it to halt attacks on Israel and for Israel not to attack the Lebanese capital Beirut. The Lebanese embassy in the US said it had “received confirmation of Hezbollah’s acceptance of the US…
Earlier Israel’s PM ordered strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs in response to Hezbollah rocket and drone attacks on northern Israel.
University student Henry Nowak was killed as he walked back from a night out in Southampton.