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Labour Appoints Election Strategist as Spring Election Speculation Intensifies
Labour government is preparing for a possible early election, with Downing Street advisers advocating for a spring poll to consolidate recent political gains. The appointment of economist Ravinder Athwal—who authored Lab
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Read Simon Robson’s farewell note to Warner Music staff, as he exits after nearly 30 years
Simon Robson will leave Warner Music Group in December after nearly 30 years with the company. His departure forms part of a wider recorded-music leadership reshuffle, and marks the end of a career spanning senior roles across Asia-Pacific, the UK and Europe. Robson joined WMG in 1998 as Asia-Pacific finance director and later became COO…
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Dolly Parton, Lily Tomlin & Jane Fonda Film ‘9 To 5’ Gets One-Week Screen Return For Parton Charity
The newly restored 1980 workplace comedy 9 to 5, starring Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, will return to US cinemas for a special one-week run from 9 to 15 October. Disney will donate net proceeds from each ticket sold to The Dollywood Foundation, supporting Parton’s Imagination Library, making the screening both a revival…
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Ex-Dem insider blows lid off fundraising ‘gimmicks’ during 2024 election: ‘Pyramid scheme’
Former Democratic fundraiser Lindy Li alleges that the party misrepresented President Joe Biden’s condition during the 2024 election campaign, rewarding allies who defended him and sidelining critics. In her book and an interview with Fox News, she also claims the party mismanaged donations and used fundraising and accounting practices that overstated some operatives’ achievements. Li…
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New York Film Festival Boss on Scoring ‘Artificial’ and ‘Behemoth’ World Premieres and Why Movies Are ‘Unavoidably Political’
The New York Film Festival will open on 25 September with an unusually strong selection of world premieres, including Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial”, Tom McCarthy’s “A Statement” and Tony Gilroy’s “Behemoth”. Artistic director Dennis Lim says the festival’s timing and relationships with filmmakers helped secure the films, reinforcing NYFF’s reputation as an influential launchpad despite not…
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IFS warns Burnham’s public ownership plans could swell state debt
The Institute of Fiscal Studies has warned that Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s drive to increase public ownership of industries such as water, energy, housing and transport could add tens of billions of pounds to Government debt. The programme, termed ‘Manchesterism’, remains poorly defined, encompassing possibilities from stricter regulation to full nationalisation, raising uncertainty about its…
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Burnham urged to call early election amid faltering Xi-Trump talks
Downing Street advisers push for a spring election as Labour seeks to shore up its grip on power. Elsewhere, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump’s summit yields minimal concrete progress on Beijing’s main objectives.
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Post office owners reveal AusPost’s secret plan to run its own stores into the ground: Legal threats, disappearing services and fears family businesses will be unsellable
Australia Post Chief Executive Paul Graham has been accused by a Senate inquiry of deliberately sabotaging post office businesses as part of a strategy to shrink the network and transform into a logistics company like FedEx. A leaked board-approved business case revealed plans to close 36 stores and reshape post offices into parcel lockers, contradicting…
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Butler rally shooting survivor Jim Copenhaver dies from injuries
Jim Copenhaver, 76, has died from complications related to injuries sustained during the 2024 Donald Trump campaign rally shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania. He was one of three attendees shot when Thomas Crooks opened fire from a nearby rooftop; another attendee, Corey Comperatore, was killed, while Trump was grazed in the ear. Copenhaver was wounded in…
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Jewish group barred from 90th anniversary commemoration of Battle of Holbeck Moor – when Oswald Mosley’s blackshirts were chased out of Leeds – because they ‘gave platform to a Reform speaker’
Stop The Hate Leeds, a pro-Israel Jewish group, has been barred from attending a 90th anniversary commemoration of the Battle of Holbeck Moor, the 1936 anti-fascist resistance to Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists. The event organisers, Stand Up To Racism Leeds, justified the exclusion on grounds that the group’s political affiliation—specifically members’ support for…