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Eighteen months ago, Keir Starmer walked into Downing Street with one of the largest parliamentary majorities in modern British history. Today, he is fighting simply to keep his job. The collapse has been swift and brutal. In this month’s local elections, Labour lost nearly 1,500 council seats across England, while Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK swept up 1,454 — a near-perfect transfer of power from the governing party to its insurgent rival. For a party that won a landslide in 2024, the result was less a warning shot than a verdict. The resignation that changed everything The crisis sharpened dramatically…

At least four Palestinians were killed in Israeli strikes across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, health officials in the territory said, the latest deaths in a renewed wave of bombardment. Among the dead was a Palestinian killed near a police post in Khan Younis, in the south of the strip, according to medics. The Israeli military said it had struck a militant who posed an immediate threat to its forces operating in the area, as reported by Reuters. The strikes come amid a marked intensification of Israeli operations in Gaza. According to Reuters, Israel has stepped up its attacks in…

A British Airways service from London Heathrow to Washington was grounded on Saturday after a crew member accidentally deployed the aircraft’s emergency evacuation slide moments before departure, leaving around 336 passengers facing a lengthy delay. The slide inflated onto the tarmac just seconds before the transatlantic flight was due to push back from its gate, according to the Daily Mail. Emergency services attended the aircraft as a precaution, and passengers were kept in their seats for roughly three hours before being allowed to disembark. The disruption did not end there. Aviation news outlets, including the tracking site AIRLIVE, reported that…

The government has formally rebuked the academy trust that ran the Sheffield school where 15-year-old Harvey Willgoose was murdered, ordering it to overhaul its safeguarding arrangements or risk losing its public funding. The Department for Education (DfE) issued the St Clare Catholic Multi Academy Trust with a Notice to Improve on safeguarding grounds, citing the findings of an external investigation into the killing at All Saints Catholic High School on 3 February 2025. The letter, dated 24 March and published by the department on Friday, accuses the trust’s board of failing to comply with the safeguarding measures set out in…

Streeting quits as Starmer fights for survival amid Labour mutiny Sir Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life as Labour’s most dramatic week in office descended into open mutiny, with Wes Streeting walking out of Cabinet, almost 90 MPs urging the prime minister to set out an exit date, and Andy Burnham clearing his path back to Westminster in an apparent bid for the leadership. The crisis deepened sharply on Thursday afternoon when Mr Streeting tendered his resignation as Health Secretary, telling the prime minister bluntly that he had “lost confidence” in his leadership. In a letter to Sir…

The Memphis Grizzlies forward Brandon Clarke, a fan favourite who spent his entire seven-year NBA career with the franchise, has died at the age of 29.The Canadian-born power forward’s death was confirmed on Tuesday by both the Grizzlies and his representation, the agency Priority Sports. According to TMZ Sports, which first broke the story, Clarke died on Monday 11 May. Neither the team nor his family has disclosed a cause of death.“We are heartbroken by the tragic loss of Brandon Clarke,” the Grizzlies said in a statement. “Brandon was an outstanding teammate and an even better person whose impact on…

A six-week archaeological dig on the site of a demolished bowling alley in Weymouth is rapidly turning into one of the most significant excavations of the seaside town’s medieval past, with experts uncovering walls, wells and personal artefacts dating back more than 700 years. The investigation, taking place on the former MFA Bowl site in St Nicholas Street, in the historic Melcombe Regis quarter, has so far brought to light the remains of three 13th-century houses, sections of medieval boundary walls, early cold stores, coins, tiles, pottery and assorted personal effects. According to BBC News, which first reported on the…

England council results Number of councillors 100 of 136 councils Reform UK 1,098 ▲ 1,098 Liberal Democrat 695 ▲ 89 Labour 676 ▼ 904 Conservative 612 ▼ 465 Green 339 ▲ 241 Independent 116 ▼ 17 Change Sir Keir Starmer is confronting the most serious electoral verdict of his premiership after Welsh Labour suffered what its own outgoing leader described as a “catastrophic” defeat, ending more than a century of dominance in Wales and triggering the on-the-spot resignation of First Minister Eluned Morgan. Baroness Morgan stunned the Welsh political establishment on Friday afternoon when she lost her seat in Ceredigion…

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The frantic late-night text messages that Sam Altman fired off as he scrambled to claw back his job at OpenAI have been laid bare in a Californian courtroom, offering an extraordinary glimpse into the 48 hours that nearly toppled one of the world’s most valuable technology companies. The exchanges between Mr Altman and Mira Murati — the company’s chief technology officer who had abruptly been installed as interim chief executive — were shown to jurors at the Musk v Altman civil trial taking place in a federal courthouse in Oakland. They cover two days in November 2023, when the OpenAI…