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Government whips will be overestimating the number of Labour rebels over welfare cuts as a form of “expectation management”, Dame Harriet Harman has said. Speaking to Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction podcast, the Labour peer and former deputy leader shed light on some of the dark arts that have traditionally been associated with government…
Author L.J. Smith, who created the βVampire Diariesβ book series that inspired the CW drama of the same name and contributed to pop cultureβs obsession with vampires, has died. Smith died March 8 in a hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif., The Times confirmed. A statement shared to Smithβs website says she died βpeacefullyβ after βa…
π Click here to listen to Electoral Dysfunction on your podcast app π Beth Rigby, Ruth Davidson and Harriet Harman analyse Rachel Reeves’s spring statement and how Donald Trump may have made things worse for her. The chancellor has redone her maths to make sure she sticks to her own rules on running the economy…
Jeremy Dent-Smith scored 33 points and Adam Afifi and Jordan Hilstock each added 15 to lead the Cal State Dominguez Hills menβs basketball team to a 94-83 overtime victory over Dallas Baptist on Thursday night in the NCAA Division II semifinal at the Ford Center in Evansville, Ind. The Toros will take on Nova Southeastern…
The chairman of P&O Ferries’ parent company DP World has told Sky News he went ahead with a Β£1bn investment in the UK despite feeling “discredited” by criticism from a cabinet minister. P&O was widely criticised in 2022 when more than 700 seafarers were summarily fired and replaced by largely overseas workers without consultation. Last…
At this yearβs Sundance, I blushed every time someone asked about my favorite movies of the fest. I knew Iβd have to include James Griffithsβ βThe Ballad of Wallis Island,β a twee-sounding British comedy about a folk musician named Herb McGwyer (Tom Basden) who plays a gig on a remote Welsh island for his No….
Donald Trump has undeniably had a “big effect” on the world’s changing security landscape, a cabinet minister has told Sky News. Speaking on the Politics Hub With Sophy Ridge, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, said the “international security position has obviously changed” in recent months – and the US president was…
Thereβs good news and bad news for La Mirada baseball. The good news is that La Mirada has earned a spot in the Boras Classic South championship game after a 10-2 semifinal victory over Mater Dei on Thursday. The bad news: La Mirada (10-1) must face unbeaten Corona (10-0) in Fridayβs 6 p.m. title game…
βA Working Manβ opens with a batty pastiche of bullets and buzz saws, parachutes and cranes. A soldierβs corpse rests under an American flag. A cement mixer trundles toward a construction site. Thereβs something modestly affecting (and complicated) about the career arc of a contractor named Levon Cade (Jason Statham) who once blew up buildings…
Sir Keir Starmer has unveiled what he says is a major transport boost to stop the North being “held to ransom” by a Victorian-era system. The prime minister said the Β£2.15bn investment was a “downpayment for growth” in northern England and a “vote of confidence” in its “world-beating industries”. Some Β£415m of the total will…
