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M. John Harrison has supplanted Margaret Atwood to become the oldest winner of the Booker Prize. The 81-year-old English author bagged the £50,000 prize with his post-apocalyptic novel “The End of Everything”, which the judging panel’s chair, Mary Beard, called a “challenging read”. Although previou...
Britain’s most senior police chief has warned that the 43 “overstretched” police forces in England and Wales are “trying to do too much with too little” as they fight a losing battle against criminal networks. The “fragmented, bureaucratic, top-heavy spaghetti model” needs to be replaced with “a sim...
Kemi Badenoch defends her plan to slash disability benefits as part of £36 billion in annual welfare cuts. “People who genuinely cannot work” should have a “safety net”, the Tory leader told a press conference, but millions facing “serious challenges” can still contribute.
Welcome Break Rotherham is the UK’s best service station, according to a Transport Focus poll of 37,000 motorists. Located on the M1 in South Yorkshire, the recently opened facility has a gym, dog park and indoor fountain and achieved a customer satisfaction rating of 99%, topping the ranking of 123...
MPs, medics and campaigners are urging Health Secretary Yvette Cooper to trigger an early “break clause” from Palantir’s NHS contract in February. But ministers reviewing the £330 million deal to deploy the US tech giant’s flagship AI system have concluded that removing it would be “too disruptive”,...
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The Explainer Ministers plan to extend deal, overruling MPs and medics who dispute value and efficacy of data platform built on US tech giant’s software

The Explainer Multinational Force-Ukraine ‘is not a peacekeeping or a ceasefire-monitoring force, nor is it connected to Nato’, says MoD

The Explainer The Trump administration has imposed further sanctions on the International Criminal Court. Why?

THE EXPLAINER The country’s big bet on artificial intelligence has created billions in losses and a major market upheaval

Talking Points AI stocks drop, but traders hope for stable economy after midterms

Talking Point Tesla and SpaceX CEO has brought money into politics on a previously unthinkable scale – but his actual influence is debatable

Talking Points Pope Leo drives a rethinking of just war doctrine



Under the Radar Protests linked to pro-Russian agitators tapped into increasingly violent tensions around forced mobilisation

Under The Radar Projections of continued population growth caused ‘immediate stir’ and raised fears for the future

Under the radar The rock may have formed early in Mars’ history

Speed Read It comes less than two weeks after the rapper was dropped by Ed Sheeran’s tour

Speed Read Democratic lawmakers have demanded more details about the ad

Speed Read The two leaders have “never gotten along better,” Trump claimed

Speed Read The parts were “inexplicably diverted” to the city, Bloomberg reported
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