Keir Starmer chairs cabinet meeting as government faces rising cost of working-age people on sickness and disability benefits Good morning. Keir Starmer is chairing an extended meeting of cabinet today. There will be a normal cabinet meeting, and then a political cabinet, where ministers will discuss the many challenges facing the government in a party…
The prosecution: Paul I don’t mind Mum wanting to visit Vietnam, but why at Christmas, a time our family is always together? Mum recently booked a Christmas holiday to Vietnam with her partner, Mike. I don’t mind that she wants to go away with Mike, who I like. But she booked the trip without saying…
One of my favourite books growing up was my dad’s copy of The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics. I spent hours flicking through images of an eyeless, trombone-mouthed golden man swallowing naked bodies, and a full-page, black-and-white comic strip by legendary psychedelic artist Rick Griffin. It didn’t matter that I hadn’t yet listened to most of the songs – the surreal…
Jury selection begins on Tuesday in the retrial of Karen Read, who says she was framed by law enforcement in the 2022 death of her Boston police officer boyfriend. Read, of Mansfield, is accused of striking her boyfriend, the Boston police officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowstorm…
In the opening scene of The Lion King, animals of every stripe, spot and tusk march in unison across the African plains, bound by an unseen thread of connection. This iconic moment mirrors a natural phenomenon in the wild: zebras forging unlikely alliances with giraffes and traveling as a unified herd. This real-life stripes-meets-spots pairing…