Artificial intelligence will be “mainlined into the veins” of the nation, ministers have announced, with a multibillion-pound investment in the UK’s computing capacity despite widespread public fear about the technology’s effects. Keir Starmer will launch a sweeping action plan to increase 20-fold the amount of AI computing power under public control by 2030 and deploy…
Iris Apfel, perhaps the world’s first centenarian style icon, died last year at the age of 102. Now her clothes, art and furniture are set to be sold at Christie’s later this month in an online auction titled Unapologetically Iris. Anyone familiar with Apfel and her “more is more” style would know that it began…
The UK should back Donald Trump’s expected maximum economic sanctions against Iran as part of an effort to encourage nationals to end their support for the current regime in Tehran, Mark Sedwill, the former cabinet secretary, argues in a report published on Monday. He writes: “It is not for the west, let alone the UK,…
Repeating outfits: in. People pleasing: out. Paying with cash: in. Photo dumps: out. A quick trawl through social media and it is evident that for 2025, traditional new year resolution lists are out and “ins and outs” lists are, er, in. These listicles do exactly what their title suggests, demarcating everything from specific items of…
The Buffalo Bills are back to the divisional round of the NFL playoffs for the fifth consecutive season. Running back James Cook powered the Bills’ offense early before Josh Allen helped the team break away in the second half of a 31-7 win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday. The Bills will play host to…
Items belonging to a British hiker who has been missing in the Dolomites since New Year’s Day have been found as the search for him continues. Sam Harris, 35, and Aziz Ziriat, 36, from London, last sent messages home on 1 January and the pair did not check in for their flight home on 6…
Fashion sometimes excludes people on grounds that are truly nasty and toxic and which reflect and drive fundamental problems in our culture: race, weight, wealth. So I hesitate to bring up what I’m about to say because it is small-fry compared with those issues. What I want to talk about today is not, in the scheme of…
Dutton discredits renewables when asked about energy policy Peter Dutton was also asked about the role of domestic gas production in the energy mix – will this be enough, or should there be more coal in the mix? The opposition leader pointed to state government’s decisions to extend the life of coal fired plants and…