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Pauline Hanson in damage control as One Nation MP goes rogue with migration plan responsible for the conservative party’s popularity surge
Pauline Hanson has moved to contain confusion within One Nation after MP David Farley gave a conflicting account of the party’s migration policy, suggesting it would actually permit around 230,000 arrivals a year rather than the hardline cap the party has publicly championed. The episode matters because immigration has become a defining issue for One…
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‘We are hitting a different chapter’: OpenAI leader warns of threat of ‘persistent’ AI cyber-attacks
Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, has warned that people should prepare to defend against “ongoing, persistent” cyber-attacks as AI models gain increasingly advanced offensive capabilities. His comments to the Guardian came after OpenAI announced a pause in training its most advanced internal models this week to implement new safeguards, and follow an incident…
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‘Dancing with Rylan made me feel arthritic’: Jeremy Vine’s honest playlist
In a Guardian “honest playlist” interview, broadcaster Jeremy Vine shares the songs that have shaped his life, from teenage heartbreak to a memorable dance with Rylan Clark. The piece offers a personal, often self-deprecating tour through his musical memories ahead of his appearance at BBC Radio 2 in the Park in Stirling this September. Vine…
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The American Dream lands north of the border: US citizens head to Scotland in their droves after being won over by everything from the lifestyle to ‘warm people’… and a chance to find love
A growing number of Americans are relocating to Scotland, drawn by the warmth of the people, a strong community-focused pub culture and, in some cases, love, according to accounts shared by American content creators now living there. The trend has gathered attention following the Tartan Army’s well-received visit to the United States for this year’s…
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Parents’ fears after top fee-paying school teams up with Bitcoin fanatic
Lomond School, a fee-paying private school in Helensburgh charging up to £48,000 a year, has entered a “long-term partnership” with Scholarium, a Swiss-based organisation run by Iranian-Austrian lecturer Rahim Taghizadegan that promotes “Bitcoin citadels”, tax avoidance and “unschooling”. The deal has alarmed parents, who say they were given little transparency about the arrangement and only…
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‘Pretty shambolic’: new EU border checks cause stress for UK travellers
The EU’s new Entry/Exit System (EES), which requires non-EU citizens to be photographed and fingerprinted when crossing Schengen borders, has caused significant frustration for British travellers this summer, with reports of long queues, missed connections and record-keeping errors. Although the scheme has technically been in full force since April, following its launch last autumn, it…
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First Bus bans under-16s in Stoke-on-Trent travelling alone after 6pm after disorder
First Bus has banned all under-16s in Stoke-on-Trent from travelling on its buses without an adult after 6pm, citing a rise in antisocial behaviour since the government introduced free bus travel for 5- to 15-year-olds in England on 1 August. The move highlights growing tension over how to manage youth misbehaviour on public transport, with…
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Bebe Cave: Swoon review – dazzling portrait of marginalised muses and the male gaze
Bebe Cave’s multicharacter comedy Swoon, showing at the Pleasance Dome in Edinburgh, uses slapstick and physical comedy to satirise the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and examine how women were treated as passive muses rather than people with their own stories. The show explores the gap between the elevated artistic status given to figures like Elizabeth “Lizzie” Siddal,…
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Utter tragedy as four members of same family, including little children, are killed in horror house blaze started by son, police say
A California man has been charged with murder after allegedly setting fire to his family’s home in Richmond, killing his father, his sister and her two young children. Sergio Ivan Rivera-Vega, 32, is accused of deliberately starting the blaze on Tuesday night, which claimed the lives of his father Jose Rivera, 47, his five-year-old nephew…
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TV tonight: a hit jumpy horror series returns with Dan Stevens
Tonight’s TV listings feature the return of anthology horror series The Terror, whose third instalment stars Dan Stevens as Peter “Pepper” Coffin, a man wrongfully committed to a decrepit, understaffed psychiatric hospital. The story weaves together the pasts and presents of various patients, connected by an unsettling doctor played by John Benjamin Hickey, blending jump…