👉 Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app 👈 Angela Rayner has stepped back into the spotlight this week and straight into controversy. Her blunt intervention – warning the government is running out of time, criticising its record on “change”, and calling parts of Labour’s immigration policy “un-British” – has sparked…
A NASA spacecraft is now back on its launchpad ahead of the first lunar exploration mission in more than 50 years, after a month of delays. The space agency’s Artemis II mission – part of NASA’s long-term plans to build a space station called Lunar Gateway, where astronauts will be able to live and work…
Val Kilmer is to posthumously appear in an action-adventure film, a year after his death from pneumonia – thanks to AI. The company behind the movie, First Line Films, say it is the first-ever performance enabled by generative artificial intelligence. The Top Gun star was originally cast in As Deep As The Grave five years…
Elon Gust and Dame Judi Drench are among the names that have been submitted to the Met Office for UK storms. The public has been able to suggest names every year since 2015 but only about 20 are usually chosen. Others that have been put forward include: Stormy McStormFace, Keir Stormer, David Blowy, Storm Prince…
The murder of Agnes Wanjiru hangs over the British Army Training Unit in Kenya (BATUK). The long-time training post is headquartered in the hometown of the 21-year-old single mother who was dumped in a hotel septic tank after being brutally murdered in 2012. The man accused of killing her, Robert Purkiss, was stationed in Nanyuki…
A 19-year-old Mexican has become the youngest person to die in ICE custody since the start of Donald Trump’s second term. Royer Perez-Jimenez “died of presumed suicide” on Monday at the Glades County Detention Centre in south Florida, ICE said in a statement, although his official cause of death is still being investigated. He was…
Sharp rises in the price of oil and gas as a result of the war in Iran have set off an economic chain reaction which is already hitting people in the pocket. The benchmark Brent crude oil remains around $110 a barrel, compared to around $72 before the war. And a unit of wholesale gas…
Nicola Sturgeon, the nationalist firebrand who dominated Scottish politics for almost a decade, has bowed out with an emotional valedictory speech. Addressing the Scottish parliament for the final time, the former first minister said it was a wrench to leave Holyrood, but the time was right to move on. She was elected to the newly…
Scientists in the UK have created the first lab-grown oesophagus and implanted it in pigs, which have been able to use it to swallow food. In the study, scientists from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London (UCL) showed that a pig donor oesophagus can have cells removed, be repopulated with a recipient’s…
👉 Listen to This Is Why on your podcast app 👈 Saturday Night Live has launched the careers of Eddie Murphy, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell among many others in its 50-year run on NBC in the US. It’s now coming to the UK with Tina Fey, Jamie Dornan and Riz Ahmed hosting the first…
