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Does Burnham stick to anything he says? Now PM waters down pledge to spend £39bn on council housing – as he keeps Starmer’s plan instead
Andy Burnham has scaled back an earlier pledge that the government’s entire £39billion social and affordable homes programme would go on council housing, after the first funding allocations followed Sir Keir Starmer’s original approach rather than the fully council-led model Burnham had described. The Government confirmed initial allocations to build more than 70,000 homes across…
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‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground
A new avant-garde documentary, To Use a Mountain, examines America’s decades-long failure to find a permanent home for its nuclear waste, focusing on rural and indigenous communities who fought government plans to turn their land into disposal sites. Director Casey Carter builds the film around the 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy Act, which pitted six rural…
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Iran hits back at US ‘D-Day’ sanctions and hints it could drag war out for the rest of Trump’s presidency: ‘We know how to play the game’
Iran has vowed to retaliate against expanded US sanctions, with its economy minister claiming Tehran has a two-year plan in place to withstand the pressure and warning “we know how to play the game”. The threat follows US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s unveiling of measures he described as “economic D-Day”, designed to sever Iran’s financial…
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Burnham eyes Trump meeting to press for Ukraine missiles
Andy Burnham has said he could hold his first meeting with Donald Trump within weeks, with a visit to New York for the UN General Assembly next month looking likely. He plans to use the trip to press the US for greater support for Ukraine, particularly more interceptor missiles, as he seeks to establish his…
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Canada set to retaliate after US tariffs take effect and trade negotiations collapse
Canada’s trade dispute with the United States has settled into an entrenched standoff, with Ottawa deploying a mix of formal retaliatory tariffs and grassroots economic pressure after negotiations collapsed. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government finalised “dollar-for-dollar” countermeasures targeting steel, dairy, appliances, agricultural equipment, electronics and pulp and paper, while Ontario Premier Doug Ford emerged as…
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Chelsea’s chaos, Burnham’s caution and Newsnight’s axe threat
Labour’s Andy Burnham has ruled out a snap election but not tax rises, while the BBC weighs axing Newsnight; in the US, Trump faces a fresh impeachment bid; a Stanford study warns AI is squeezing young workers hardest; and Chelsea won a wild Fulham derby.
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Canada prepares to hit US with new tariffs after Trump launches brutal trade war as Mark Carney faces biggest challenge yet as prime minister
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney is preparing to unveil new retaliatory tariffs against the United States, marking his most significant confrontation yet with Donald Trump and testing his leadership at a critical moment. The move follows the collapse of trade talks on Friday, when Carney withdrew from negotiations shortly before Trump’s 50 per cent tariffs…
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Gold hits highest level in three months as traders worry about US inflation and bond market jitters – business live
Gold has climbed to its highest level since mid-May, with spot prices touching almost $4,700 an ounce before settling around $4,649, as investors grow anxious about the outlook for US inflation and turbulence in the bond market. The rally follows last week’s move by the US Treasury to double its purchases of longer-dated debt in…
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Residents in ritzy California enclave left fuming as GUN STORE opens up in beach town next to a daycare
Residents of Goleta, an affluent coastal community near Santa Barbara, California, have staged protests and launched a petition after Goodland Guns announced it would open a new store on Hollister Avenue directly next to the Here We Grow Early Learning Center. Parents and locals argue the location, on a route children use to walk to…
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Gut-wrenching outburst from slain 10-year-old girl’s father as he reveals his living nightmare – while $5million is spent on her psychotic killer
The father of Bridgette “Biddy” Porter, a 10-year-old girl stabbed to death in 2020 by a 14-year-old girl suffering a psychotic episode, has publicly criticised the government over what he says is a vast disparity in support given to his daughter’s killer compared with his own family. Dominic Porter said he has been left financially…