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The investment minister appointed by Sir Keir Starmer less than a year ago is to quit her role, dealing a fresh blow to the government’s fledgling industrial strategy. Sky News can exclusively reveal that Baroness Gustafsson of Chesterton, the former boss of cybersecurity firm Darktrace, intends to relinquish her ministerial role after just 11 months….
Book Review Vulture By Phoebe GreenwoodEuropa Editions: 256 pages, $27If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. โDoctor Strangelove,โ โCatch-22,โ and โM*A*S*Hโ collide in British journalist Phoebe Greenwoodโs blistering debut novel, โVulture,โ a darkly comic, searing satire grounded in historic politics, suffused…
Grieving parents awaited Mark Zuckerberg’s arrival at a courthouse in downtown Los Angeles for what is being called the social media industry’s “big tobacco moment”. “I’m comforted by the fact he’s here alone, with only his lawyers and a jury. He’s without his lobbyists or his PR machine,” says Lori Schott, whose 18-year-old daughter Annalee…
Criminals face being banned from pubs, sports grounds and concerts under new government plans to give judges powers to pass tougher community sentences. The new measures, which would apply to people in England and Wales, “should remind all offenders that, under this government, crime does not pay”, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said. Offenders’ freedom could…
Peter Mandelson told Jeffrey Epstein he was “trying hard” to change government policy on bankers’ bonuses at his request, months after the convicted sex trafficker had paid thousands of pounds to the then UK business secretary’s husband. Emails released by the US Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday shed new light on the closeness of…
Extra police protection has been sent to UK synagogues after the Manchester knife attack, Sir Keir Starmer has confirmed. Greater Manchester Police said two people have died and three people are seriously injured, after a car was driven at pedestrians and a person was stabbed outside the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall on…
A reference to China being an “enemy” of the UK was removed from key evidence for a collapsed spy trial in 2023 as it “did not reflect government policy” under the Conservatives at the time, according to the national security adviser. In the letter published by parliament’s Joint Committee on National Security Strategy earlier on…
WASHINGTONย โย Standing alongside President Trump at his Palm Beach estate, Volodymyr Zelensky could only smirk and grimace without overtly offending his host. โRussia wants to see Ukraine succeed,โ Trump told reporters, shocking the Ukrainian president before claiming that Vladimir Putin is genuine in his desire for peace. It was just the latest example of the American…
Short, pained lives marked by achievement and promise and then abruptly gone leave a restless afterglow. Youth is supposed to fade away, not become oneโs permanent state. And regarding the late musician Jeff Buckley โ a roiling romantic with piercing good looks whose singing could rattle bones and raise hairs โ that loss in 1997,…
On the Shelf We Are All Guilty Here By Karin SlaughterWilliam Morrow: 448 pages, $32If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. As Karin Slaughter talks about her new thriller book series, โWe Are All Guilty Here,โ sheโs equally wry, reflective and…
