The Guardian - October 17, 2024

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October 17, 2024

Russia suspected after device put on flight caused UK warehouse fire

Exclusive Inquiry into whether spies planted parcel to explode mid-air

3 mins

Revealed: rise of 'race science' network

An international network of \"race science\" activists seeking to influence public debate with discredited ideas on race and eugenics has been operating with secret funding from a multimillionaire US tech entrepreneur.

9 mins

Now there's wriggle room to borrow for investment

At a glance, last month's sharp drop in the headline inflation figure to 1.7% tells the Bank of England all it needs to know when it considers whether to cut interest rates next month.

3 mins

Inflation drops to lowest rate since 2021 in boost to chancellor

Inflation in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in three and a half years, giving a pre-budget boost to Rachel Reeves as expectations grow for the Bank of England to cut interest rates.

3 mins

Tunnels of love: Elizabeth line wins Stirling prize

With the longest platforms, the biggest tunnels and the fastest trains on the London underground, the Elizabeth line boasts a dizzying list of superlatives, carrying more people a day than any other train line in the country.

3 mins

Glass of Bolly with your bake? Greggs opens champagne bar

Here are words you never expected to read: Greggs champagne bar. The chain's latest stunt is a pop-up bar where its bakes will be served with £75-a-glass champagne in bespoke sausage roll-etched coupes.

1 min

Moscow goes 'feral' with reckless plots against west

The aim is to sow chaos among Ukraine's partners, disrupt military supplies to Kyiv and widen splits in society of all kinds

3 mins

Assisted dying bill begins divisive and emotional passage through Westminster

A bill to legalise assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales has been formally introduced in the House of Commons, triggering intense discussion over the coming weeks and months on an emotionally charged and controversial issue.

2 mins

Francis to publish first memoir written by a pope while in office

Pope Francis has written an autobiography, which will be published globally next year. The book, entitled Hope, will be the first such work written by a sitting pope.

1 min

Head of state-owned energy company says he plans huge expansion

Britain's national energy company will eventually become a major power generator, running its own windfarms, tidal power and carbon capture schemes, and potentially borrowing its own money, according to its new boss.

3 mins

Asylum Accelerated decisions to cut backlog

Nearly 63,000 people who were waiting for their cases to be processed at the time of the general election are expected to be granted asylum by the Labour government, an analysis has found.

2 mins

Labour MPs declare more free hospitality

Ministers have continued to declare free tickets to Taylor Swift, football matches and loans of clothing, according to the latest register of MPs' interests, amid the controversy over Keir Starmer accepting hospitality.

2 mins

This was Rish!'s big chance to ask Keir the Taylor Swift question. Why did he shake it off?

It's generally not hard to read a politician. You instinctively know when they are being sincere and when they are bullshitting. When push comes to shove, they just aren't as smart as they would like us to believe. They are inherently bad actors. The only people they ever fool are themselves. You know the form. We could all tell when Boris Johnson was lying. Whenever his lips moved.

2 mins

Britain calls on India to cooperate with Canada in row over Sikh killing

Britain joined its Five Eyes intelligence partners yesterday in saying India's cooperation with Canada's legal process was \"the right next step\" in the deepening diplomatic row between the two countries, adding that it had full confidence in Canada's judicial system.

2 mins

Crosby, Stills & Nash star gives £10,000 to Salford youth club

Graham Nash, the singer-songwriter from Crosby, Stills & Nash who grew up in Salford, has donated £10,000 to the city's embattled Salford Lads Club.

1 min

Magistrates to be given greater sentencing powers by ministers

Ministers will announce plans within days to give magistrates in England and Wales fresh powers to hand down longer custodial sentences to help reduce the backlog in crown courts and prisons, the Guardian understands.

2 mins

Weight-loss drugs not 'holy grail' of obesity crisis, says NHS director

Weight-loss injections are not the \"holy grail\" of solving the obesity crisis, although they will play an important role in how the NHS treats the disease, the medical director of NHS England has said.

1 min

Car 'was on wrong side of M6' before crash that killed five

A car involved in a motorway crash in which five people, including two children, died was travelling on the wrong side of the road at the time, it has emerged.

2 mins

Global food production is in peril as water crisis accelerates, say experts

More than half of the world's food production will be at risk of failure within the next quarter century unless urgent action is taken to conserve water resources and the ecosystems on which our fresh water depends, experts have warned.

2 mins

Standing desks may increase risk of circulatory problems

They have been billed as the antidote to sitting in front of a screen all day. But a study suggests standing desks, which have soared in popularity in recent years, do not compensate for being inactive and may even increase the risk of conditions such as swollen veins and blood clots in the legs.

1 min

Myth gets new life as a riveting thriller

It begins with a birth certificate. A politician standing for election promises to prove his origins to the nation after his opponent has questioned them (a dig at Donald Trump in relation to Barack Obama's heritage?).

2 mins

Oldman plans return to York stage where his career began

After decades away from the theatre, Gary Oldman is to return to the Yorkshire playhouse where he once had a role as a pantomime cat. The Oscar winner and star of the TV series Slow Horses will perform Samuel Beckett's monologue Krapp's Last Tape at York Theatre Royal in the spring.

1 min

Israel must prove it does not have Gaza starvation policy, says US

The US has demanded proof on the ground that Israel does not have a policy of starvation in northern Gaza as it turned up the pressure yesterday on the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to allow more aid into the territory.

4 mins

‘Fire engulfed everything’ Family describe seeing mother and son burned alive

The brother of a teenage Palestinian computing student who burned to death in a blaze sparked by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital compound has described how he tried to save his injured sibling as flames engulfed tents.

3 mins

Lebanon Mayor among 16 killed as municipal building is hit by IDF strike

The mayor of one of the largest cities in southern Lebanon has been killed in an Israeli airstrike that hit the city's municipal headquarters during a meeting to coordinate aid deliveries to residents and those displaced by war.

2 mins

Minority ethnic doctors suffer 'persistent' inequality

British BAME doctors and overseas-trained medics working in the UK suffer \"persistent and pernicious\" inequality throughout their careers, the medical regulator has warned.

1 min

Boy, seven, dies as 'devastating' explosion hits Newcastle homes

A seven-year-old boy has died after a \"devastating explosion\" destroyed houses in a residential street in Newcastle in the early hours of yesterday.

1 min

Portrait reveals genius of Black mathematician who tracked Halley's comet

It was painted to celebrate the groundbreaking achievements of a mathematical genius who was Black and had been born into slavery. But for more than 260 years, the great scientific intellect of Francis Williams went unnoticed.

2 mins

Carers welcome overpayments review but call for total overhaul of benefits system

Unpaid carers have welcomed plans to launch a review of \"outdated\" benefit rules that have left tens of thousands of people who look after loved ones with huge debts and threatened with prosecution.

3 mins

Private donor pays for Salmond's body to be flown back to Scotland

A private donor has paid to repatriate Alex Salmond's body from North Macedonia, after the Foreign Office rejected calls for the RAF to do so.

1 min

Badenoch defended right to flexible working before she opposed it

Kemi Badenoch defended legislation introducing the right to flexible work in a conversation with the businessman James Dyson, despite being outspoken in her opposition to the measures during the Conservative leadership contest.

2 mins

Tarantino mixes with tragedy in an uneasy revival

John Webster's revenge tragedy contains a terrible timelessness. To modernise this story of a woman who refuses to be submissive and is killed by her brothers for it is to highlight the eternal relevance of male domestic violence, even against a figure as powerful as Webster's wealthy duchess.

2 mins

Crash that killed four teenagers was avoidable, inquest hears

There were \"no catastrophic mechanical failures\" with a car carrying four teenage boys who were killed when it left a road in north Wales and became submerged upside down in a ditch, an inquest has heard.

1 min

Sara Sharif suffered at least 71 injuries before her death, court hears

Sara Sharif suffered at least 71 injuries shortly before she was killed, a court has heard.

2 mins

TfL seizes 1,400 vehicles from drivers who ignored emissions fines

More than 1,400 vehicles have been seized from drivers who have persistently ignored fines relating to London's ultra-low emission zone (Ulez), Transport for London has revealed, with more than £25m being recouped by bailiffs.

2 mins

Son charged with murdering photojournalist Paul Lowe

The British photojournalist Paul Lowe was fatally stabbed on a hiking trail in California, police said. His 19-year-old son has been charged with murder.

1 min

Woman 'foamed at mouth' after spraying novichok on wrists

The woman killed in the Salisbury novichok poisonings began foaming at the mouth and convulsing 10 or 15 minutes after unwittingly spraying the nerve agent on her wrists, an inquiry has heard.

2 mins

Support grows for offshore migration centres as EU leaders' attitude hardens

A growing number of European leaders are expected to back the idea of offshore immigration centres as the EU looks for tougher measures to stop asylum seekers reaching the bloc. EU officials have been preparing for intensive talks on migration at a leaders' summit today as it emerged that four people, including two toddlers, had died after falling from an overcrowded speedboat off the Greek island of Kos.

3 mins

European Union in crisis Weakened leaders raise risk of 'agonising decline'

It has become a wry joke in Brussels that the most stable country in the EU is Italy, once renowned for its succession of short-lived governments.

4 mins

Rights groups condemn Brussels for hosting Saudi prince

Human rights activists have condemned the EU's decision to host the Saudi crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman, at a Brussels summit, cementing his international rehabilitation six years after the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

2 mins

Zelenskyy talks of 'victory plan' as allies push for end to war with Russia

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has laid out details of his \"victory plan\" in a speech to parliament in which the Ukrainian president acknowledged increasing pressure from allies to negotiate an end to the conflict.

1 min

India The gangster accused of masterminding Canada killings

In the Indian state of Punjab, the presence of gangsters can be felt everywhere. Small-town hustlers smuggle liquor and extort businesses for cash, while criminal overlords run guns and drugs - and even control Punjab's film and music industries. Yet one figure looms above them all.

3 mins

Trump repeats 'enemy within' remarks as he attacks 'evil' Democrats

Donald Trump attacked Democrats as \"dangerous\" and \"evil\" during a Fox News town hall broadcast yesterday, doubling down on his comments about \"the enemy from within\".

2 mins

French visas are granted to six Russian soldiers who fled Ukraine

Six Russian soldiers who fled the war in Ukraine have been granted temporary visas as they apply for political asylum in France, in what human rights activists describe as the first significant case of a group of deserters being admitted to an EU country.

3 mins

Musk donates $75m in three months to Republican cause

Elon Musk has donated about $75m (£57m) over the past three months to his pro-Donald Trump funding body, underscoring how the billionaire has become crucial to the Republican candidate's efforts to win the US presidential election.

1 min

Lisbon university drops racism course with only white teachers

A top university in Lisbon has suspended plans to launch a post-graduate programme on racism and xenophobia after the course was criticised for hiring only white instructors.

2 mins

Fire station that burned to the ground did not have fire alarm

A state-of-the-art fire station in western Germany that was completed last year at a cost of tens of millions of euros has burned to the ground because it had not been fitted with a fire alarm.

1 min

Mystery debris that closed two Sydney beaches confirmed as black 'tar balls'

Thousands of black golf-ball-sized pieces of debris that forced the closure of two beaches in Sydney this week have been confirmed as \"tar balls\".

1 min

‘A blatant show of force’ Rising terror in Haiti after 115 killed in reprisal attack

The killers came under the cover of darkness, stealing across the Artibonite River on an abandoned bridge before marauding through this rural community with automatic rifles and knives.

4 mins

BrewDog's losses hit £59m as boss vows return to profit

The new boss of BrewDog has promised its \"punk\" shareholders a return to profit after delayed accounts revealed losses doubled in the final year under the stewardship of the company's co-founder, James Watt.

1 min

Millionaire investors call for increase in capital gains tax

Rachel Reeves has been urged by a group of millionaire business owners to raise £14bn from an increase in capital gains tax in this month's budget, arguing it would have no impact on investment in Britain.

2 mins

LVMH shares slump after unexpected drop in sales

Shares in luxury goods brands slumped after Louis Vuitton's LVMH reported an unexpected fall in thirdquarter sales amid China's economic slowdown.

1 min

Here's a rabbit for Reeves to pull out of her hat in the budget: scrap the stamp duty on shares

The claim that the UK is at a competitive disadvantage in attracting listings and liquidity to its stock market looks solid

3 mins

Tesco buys enough solar energy to run 144 big stores

Tesco has struck a deal to buy enough solar power to run 144 of its large supermarkets, in what it yesterday hailed as a \"significant step\" in its aim to become carbon neutral by 2035.

1 min

Whitbread expands cost-cutting programme as demand slows

The Premier Inn owner, Whitbread, is ramping up its cost-cutting programme amid slowing demand, as the hospitality sector braces for a widely expected employer tax rise in this month's budget.

1 min

Post Office 'changed branch Horizon data last year without telling operators'

Post Office executives changed data on the Horizon IT systems used by post office operators without their knowledge as recently as last year, the public inquiry into the scandal has heard.

2 mins

England need wins after exits cast shadow of uncertainty

At first glance it was a low-key day at the stadium formerly known as Twickenham. The weather was warm for mid-October and a sleepy fox was snoozing on the porch of a temporary building in the north car park. Inside England announced a wholly predictable squad, as if Steve Borthwick was doing his best to avoid stealing any of Thomas Tuchel's thunder.

3 mins

Borthwick bullish over Morrow amid coaching upheaval

Steve Borthwick is confident of adding Phil Morrow to his coaching team at the end of the season and believes the Saracens fitness guru's desire to join demonstrates that working in his England setup is still an attractive proposition.

2 mins

Sajid spins England into trouble after Duckett sprints to century

Sajid Khan is a player who demands attention, a character whose moustache, however eyecatching, is not half as flamboyant as his celebrations.

3 mins

"'The comeback is on': Ainslie's Britannia crew close on New Zealand

You wait 90 years and six long days for a win, and then two come along at once. There's been a sea change at the 37th America's Cup in Barcelona, where the waves have picked up enough to sweep Ineos Britannia to their first wins in the best-of-13 series.

3 mins

England's failure shows players are not fit enough, says Hartley

The former international Alex Hartley has criticised the fitness of some of England's players involved in the country's disappointing Women's T20 World Cup campaign, saying \"there are girls in that side that are letting the team down\".

2 mins

ECB won't be pressured into selling all eight franchises

The England and Wales Cricket Board may not sell all Hundred franchises over the next year and is prepared to take some of them off the market if any offers fall short of their full value.

1 min

Caldentey ensures Arsenal greet new dawn with win

For the most part, it wasn't the most confident or thrilling of performances, but Arsenal got the job done with a 4-1 win against Vålerenga, as they begin life without Jonas Eidevall.

3 mins

'Jürgen knows me inside out. He'll always be there to give advice'

Pepijn Lijnders on the switch from Liverpool assistant to Salzburg head coachand what he thinks of Arne Slot

3 mins

United confident Berrada will not be in hot water if City found guilty

Manchester United are confident there will be no repercussions for the club's chief executive, Omar Berrada, if his former employers, Manchester City, are found guilty of charges brought against them by the Premier League.

1 min

‘Astounding’ Intense schadenfreude in Germany from media

Germans don't really do irony, it is often said. But reactions to the news that Thomas Tuchel has been appointed England manager have been so steeped in caustic ribaldry to suggest they understand it very well.

2 mins

Commissioner calls for Fifa to 'be strategic' over fixtures

The Commissioner of Major League Soccer, Don Garber, has joined voices calling for greater accountability within football, saying Fifa must \"think about our sport strategically\" as the discord over an expanding football calendar continued.

1 min

Destined for the top Barry brings homegrown flavour to national team

For all that turning to a foreigner again is a tacit admission by the Football Association that something is wrong with its homegrown production line, it is at least positive that appointing Thomas Tuchel as England manager means that one of the sharpest young English coaches will be working within the national setup.

2 mins

Note perfect Tuchel finds right tone for big unveil

New England manager was unfazed by the occasion with his charm, self-belief and humour on show at Wembley

4 mins

FA defends its pathway for English coaches but says best person got job

Mark Bullingham has insisted that appointing Thomas Tuchel as England's head coach should not raise alarm bells about the Football Association's development of homegrown managers.

2 mins

Eighteen months to win the World Cup Tuchel targets second star on shirt as he takes 'biggest job in football'

Thomas Tuchel made clear his target is to land the World Cup and add a second star to the England shirt, as the German acknowledged it could be win or bust for him after his appointment on an 18-month deal.

4 mins

Fast and furious: FA buckles up for a wild ride

England's German manager has agreed a marriage of convenience with quick success on everyone's mind

5 mins

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