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Farage says a Reform UK government would stop unions funding Labour if they block £72m donations – UK politics live
Nigel Farage has warned that a future Reform UK government would prevent trade unions from funding the Labour Party if unions succeed in pushing through a cap on political donations, after his own party received an unprecedented £72m from two donors. Trade unions responded with a joint statement stopping short of backing an outright cap…
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Parents seek out school uniform deals, cutting average spend to £54.53
Parents and carers in Great Britain spent 12.5% less on school uniform ahead of this academic year, as households squeezed by the cost of living crisis turned to promotions and secondhand items to cut costs. The average uniform spend fell to £54.53 in the four weeks to 6 September, down from £62.29 a year earlier,…
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How Promise David emerged from Maltese shadows into the Premier League
Brighton’s summer signing Promise David has gone from playing in Estonia’s little-watched top division to becoming a Canada World Cup goalscorer and Premier League forward in the space of a few years, a rise that has stunned even those who coached him from the start. His loan move from Royale Union Saint-Gilloise to Brighton, if…
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Open weights are not open source: Why AI’s favorite label is under dispute
The AI industry frequently labels models “open source” when they are, at most, “open-weight” — a distinction that matters because it determines whether users can merely run a finished model or actually inspect, reproduce, alter and redistribute the system that created it. Open weights let developers download a model, self-host it and fine-tune it without…
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Apple TV cleaned up at the Emmys with eight wins for Widow’s Bay and Pluribus
Apple TV dominated the 2026 Primetime Emmy Awards, winning eight prizes overall, including six for comedy horror series Widow’s Bay and two for the acclaimed drama Pluribus. This puts the seven-year-old streaming service ahead of longstanding rival HBO in the main ceremony for the second year running, underlining how quickly Apple has established itself as…
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No one could stand in the way of this juggernaut! The biggest shocks from the Emmy awards
Hollywood’s Emmy awards produced a string of surprises, with the comedy Hacks suffering a stark reversal of fortune despite entering the ceremony with a record 24 nominations. Jean Smart won lead actress in a comedy for the fourth consecutive season of the show, making her the first woman to win an Emmy for every season…
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Lawmaker recalls terrifying moment his plane crashed into Wisconsin lake: ‘Like staring into the abyss’
US Republican congressman and Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany has described the terrifying seconds before the small plane he was travelling in crash-landed into a lake, saying it felt “like staring into the abyss.” Tiffany, who was returning from a campaign event in La Crosse County, said the pilot warned him they were going down…
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Data center debacle as ‘computer glitch’ causes 5k gallons of diesel fuel to spill into New Jersey wetlands
Around 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled from a storage tank at Equinix’s NY2 data centre in Secaucus, New Jersey, on 11 September, flowing into Anderson Creek, a tributary feeding the Hackensack River. The incident has triggered a major clean-up operation and reignited anger over the rapid expansion of data centres across the state, with…
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Bank of England urged to slow or halt bond-selling to slash UK borrowing costs
Economists are pressing the chancellor, John Healey, to push the Bank of England to slow or halt its bond-selling programme, which they say is adding billions of pounds to the cost of government borrowing. The Bank’s monetary policy committee meets this week to set interest rates and decide whether to ease its “quantitative tightening” (QT),…
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Teal MP Zali Steggall’s blistering take down of Sydney Sweeney sports ad: ‘Putting her body cheaply on the line’
Independent MP Zali Steggall has strongly criticised a gambling advertisement featuring US actress Sydney Sweeney, accusing it of exploiting her body to promote sports betting and of “luring” young men into harmful gambling habits. Steggall, a former Winter Olympic skier, said the campaign undermined decades of effort by female athletes to be recognised for their…