Starmer and Trump have ‘productive discussions’ on UK-US trade deal as tariff threat looms
Starmer has left the door open to retaliatory tariffs against US after Trump announced a 25 per cent import tax on all cars
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As UK families grieve, can one determined country stop social media from harming children?
In Australia, parents’ anxiety over their children’s exposure to an online world they find near impossible to supervise has galvanised into concrete government action, as Angus Thompson reports
Starmer preparing for trade war as Trump tariffs on UK ‘look inevitable’
With Trump due to unleash a global trade war with tariffs on Wednesday, the UK is now preparing to retaliate while still making a big offer to get a trade deal over the line
Watchdog ‘assessing concerns’ over Prince Harry’s charity Sentebale after duke quits as patron
Duke of Sussex resigned following boardroom battle with Sentebale’s chair Dr Sophie Chandauka
UK Govt Data People Not Technical, Says Ex-Downing St Data Science Head
An anonymous reader shares a report: A former director of data science at the UK prime minister’s office has told MPs that people working with data in government are not typically technical and would be unlikely to get a similar job in the private sect…
Trump would like to join the Commonwealth – but it’s not up to him, or the King
Trump’s attraction to the Commonwealth seems to be linked to his strange reverence for royalty. Daniel Altman reports
Tesla’s UK subsidies under scrutiny after Trump announces car tariffs
Tesla has benefited from £188m in UK taxpayer subsidies in nine years
UK’s First Permanent Facial Recognition Cameras Installed
The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the location will be the South London suburb of Croydon. From a report: The two cameras will be installed in the c…
Trump announces 25% tariffs on vehicle imports in fresh blow to Reeves
The US president announced that cars and light trucks imported into the US would be subject to the levy in the latest escalation of the Trump administration’s far-reaching trade war
Rescued from war-torn Ukraine, traumatised lions settle into ‘forever home’ in UK
One of the lions had never touched grass before being brought to England