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Who's got time for a musical that's as bad as this is?

IT'S frankly astonishing that the combined talents of former Eurythmic Dave Stewart, soul artist Joss Stone and America's \"most produced living playwright\" Lauren Gunderson should come up with a musical as bland as this

A humanist and a free speech champion: why I love Elon Musk

For some he's an all-too-powerful hate figure but for others, his contribution is essential

Schools shut, flights grounded and WFH for commuters as Storm Ciarán hits the South

BRITAIN WAS being battered by 100mph Storm Ciarán today - with commuters warned to work from home, schools shut and flights cancelled

Fight to get Britons out of Gaza amid chaos at border

THE Government insisted today it was doing everything possible to get Britons out of Gaza as concerns grow that hardly any are so far being allowed out into Egypt

Grassroots anger simmers at Starmer stance

Labour leader in line with Biden and PM-despite anger within his party

Saka eyeing Ballon d'Or, says Arteta

BUKAYO SAKA already has his sights on winning the Ballon d’Or after making the award shortlist for the first time, Mikel Arteta has revealed

LONDON RIVALS NEED TO SEIZE THE MOMENT AS OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

IT WILL take something special to win the Premier League this season, as it will every year for as long as Manchester City are around in their current, Pep Guardiola-led guise, and perhaps, given the hopeless starts of all three newly-promoted clubs, something even more spectacular to drop out of it

POCH: WE MUST SHOW SURVIVAL INSTINCTS

BLUES BOSS TELLS PLAYERS TO GET NASTY TO TURN THEIR AWFUL FORM AROUND AHEAD OF TOUGH RUN OF MATCHES

Petrovic is tipped for top as he awaits call

CALLS for Djordje Petrovic to start in goal for Chelsea are growing louder, amid a spell of unconvincing displays from Robert Sanchez

Ex-ad men selling recyclable toothbrush come up smiling

MARK RUSHMORE and Gyve Safavi spent the first half of their careers at consumer goods giants focusing on flogging us more stuff. Working at Procter & Gamble, Safavi concentrated on selling more razors, Rushmore on making us all eat more Pringles

Fashion giant Asos makes £300m loss and warns of more sales pain

ASOS has slumped to a near £300 million loss and today warned that sales could tumble by as much as 15% this financial year as the online fashion giant progresses with a turnaround plan that includes shifting mountains of older stock.

Levy must show he's learnt his lesson from end of the Pochettino era

AS Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino prepares to return to Tottenham for the first time, he might reflect that in different circumstances he could easily be taking a familiar seat in the home dugout on Monday night

I don't say unpopular things for fun, but I have to speak up on gender ideology

SIX years ago, I was working as a journalist at The Economist. One fateful day, the editor-inchief asked me: “Why do kids keep coming home and saying ‘such and such is trans’?” I replied that I didn’t know, but would look into it. That conversation changed the course of my life

How London became the new fertility capital of the world

Fertility tourists are flocking to the city for egg donor services and IVF, lured by the more liberal attitudes and lower prices over here, reports Charlotte Lytton

Armed Pc guarded ministers while he was taking cocaine

GOVERNMENT ministers were “put at risk” by an armed police officer who came to work protecting Parliament after taking cocaine, a misconduct hearing has found

Lammy warns shadow cabinet: Quit if you defy Keir on ceasefire

LABOUR shadow cabinet members who openly defy Sir Keir Starmer and call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza would have to resign, the shadow foreign secretary suggested today

Hopes Britons 'likely to get out of Gaza within days' as key border crossing opens

BRITONS trapped in Gaza were given hope of escape today as the border crossing with Egypt opened for the first time since Hamas’s brutal attack on Israel almost four weeks ago

Johnson 'laughed at Italy for Covid lockdown order'

BORIS JOHNSON and his closest aides believed they would “sail through” the pandemic and laughed at the Italians for imposing a lockdown and closing schools, the Covid Inquiry has heard

King presents five new medals to Kenyan veteran

IN a moment steeped in symbolism, the King today pinned five replacement medals on the chest of a veteran who served with the British Army during the Second World War

Let's deal with the risks and make AI a force for good in the world, pleads Sunak

ARTIFICIAL intelligence can revolutionise the world “dwarfing anything any of us have achieved in a generation,” Rishi Sunak said today but both he and Elon Musk issued warnings that it must not be allowed to spiral out of control

PARTEY'S INJURIES ARE 'A BIG CONCERN'

ARTETA: THOMAS CRITICAL FOR US

QPR turn to Cruyff-disciple Cifuentes to spark a revival

Change of style beckons as boss favours possession-based game

Chelsea want League ruling over Star of David banner

CHELSEA are seeking clarification from the Premier League over whether fans can hang a banner featuring the Star of David.

Rivals fight to take an £80m punt on Toney

Arsenal and Chelsea both plot move that has risk and reward

Vodafone sells Spanish unit as Della Valle targets returns

VODAFONE has sold its Spanish unit to Zegona Communications for €5 billion in the latest signs of a strategy overhaul by new CEO Margherita Della Valle.

BP shares fall as £2.7bn profits miss expectations

BP has unveiled plans for another multi-billion-pound payday for shareholders alongside quarterly profits of $3.3 billion (£2.7 billion)

Fears of City jobs cull as IG Group cuts 300 roles

FRESH fears of a bleak winter City jobs cull grew today when IG Group said it would slash 10% of its workforce.

Musk on way but key questions remain ahead of Sunak's AI summit

AT A TECH conference in Oxford a few days ago, a row broke out over how to regulate AI. Dr Keegan McBride, from the Oxford Internet Institute, wanted AI models to be democratised so tech firms such as Google could never gain a stranglehold on the industry.

A first FGM conviction is great, but we must fight on to end this torture entirely

LAST week a woman was found guilty of taking a three-year-old British child to Kenya for female genital mutilation (FGM)

The information war is more vicious than ever

THE release this week of a video of three Israeli hostages by the al Qassem Brigades — the self-styled military command of Hamas — has sharpened the role of propaganda and information in the worsening Gaza conflict