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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party will not be in opposition for “decades” – but warns there is a “long road ahead” for the Tories. Her comments to Sky News’s political editor Beth Rigby come ahead of Thursday’s local elections in England, which are expected to prove challenging for Ms Badenoch. It is…
Every week we ask an expert to answer your financial problems or consumer disputes in the Money blog. Today, we tackled this issue sent to us by a reader in Shropshire, who writes: We are due to complete on our first house in a couple of weeks but my wife found out last week that…
Los Angeles County Museum of Artβs new David Geffen Galleries will become a sonic vessel in late June when Grammy-nominated composer and jazz musician Kamasi Washington, joined by an ensemble of more than 100 musicians, will perform a series of shows inside the new Peter Zumthor-designed building. The artists will be dispersed throughout the 110,000…
New research has revealed vast differences in the number of truancy fines handed out by local authorities in England and Wales. The most aggressive council, Essex County Council, imposed 35,605 fines for unauthorised school absences – which cost parents up to Β£160 – between 2022 and 2024, according to Confused.com. Meanwhile, the most relaxed council,…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ In every government building and federal courthouse, in the offices of boutique nonprofits and the worldβs largest law firms, in high schools and cancer wards, there is a palpable sense that the country has changed β all within President Trumpβs first 100 days back in office. White House officials are hailing the milestone this week,…
Book Review The Lilac People By Milo ToddCounterpoint Press: 320 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. In the run-up to the 2024 election, on cable news shows and at dinner tables, Americans debated a question that terrified various groups…
Growing up Japanese American in Southern California, Saki Watanabe had plenty of role models who showed her she could be whatever she wanted to be. There were baseball players, judges, politicians and actors. Writers, artists, teachers and business leaders. But there was nobody doing what she wanted to do, which was play soccer. βI did…
Kemi Badenoch has said she would not want a male radiographer performing a mammogram to screen for breast cancer. The Conservative leader said she would “definitely want a woman” to perform a breast screening exam – after experts said male health workers should be allowed to perform them to tackle workforce shortages. Mammograms are the…
The textured mat is already on the table as Tony Lam sits down to shuffle the polished tiles. He is here to participate in a ritual that he observes four days a week, a pursuit that keeps his βhead in shape.β On this day, sitting in his daughterβs house, he is competing against his wife,…
He may have started the third season of βDark Windsβ crawling across the desert in the dead of night with a wounded leg and a dart stuck in his neck, but for Zahn McClarnonβs Joe Leaphorn, things can always get worse. βThereβs a lot at stake for Joe,β said McClarnon, whose Navajo police lieutenant contends…
