And while smoking age is a devolved matter, the Scottish Government has agreed to a UK-wide approach and supports the Prime Minister’s plan to stub out smoking for future generations. On paper, the proposal makes public health sense. Four out of five smokers start before the age of 20, so making cigarettes illegal for Generation Alpha seems a logical step. I remember the thrill of my first fag, aged 15, during a school trip to Hadrian’s Wall. The acrid taste of that first Benson & Hedges Gold...
The Army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force will share the desperately needed cash, meaning the services no longer have to cut capabilities.
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There are few policy reasons to change leader, so lack of campaigning nous of PM who ‘can’t do human’ may be only argumentWith just two days to go before a knife-edge election in Rishi Sunak’s own back yard, it was the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, campaigning in North Yorkshire, where Labour is expected to win the mayoralty. The prime minister wasn’t even elsewhere on the campaign trail, but in London, speaking to editors at a media freedom event.It is a stark contrast to the last time...
This weekend, a three-year internet odyssey finally concluded in a perfect reminder that it’s still possible to have fun on the World Wide Web. This story has it all: a missing song, a prevailing mystery, a collective, Reddit-based quest, TikTok users unintentionally embarrassing themselves, and porn. But we’re getting ahead of ourselves. It all started back in 2021. A user called Carl92 posted a 17-second snippet of an 80s-style track on a music identification forum called WatZatSong. At the...
In the latest TV ratings: With CBS’ #TheFBis in rerun mode, ABC’s Will Trent was Tuesday’s most-watched show and tied for the nightly demo win. ABC | Will Trent (with 4.7 million total viewers and a 0.3 demo rating per Nielsen finals) and The Rookie (3.7 mil/0.2) both returned up in viewers, though the latter […]
ONE of them has eyes on the Treble. The other still dreams of a Double. And who ends up with what will all come down to two heavyweight clashes in the space of a fortnight next month. A titanic end
The Prime Minister arrived in Berlin last night ahead of talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, which are expected to focus on security, trade and migration.
Migrants say they are still wanting to come to Britain despite deportation risk. Defiance comes as French authorities told to 'ramp up efforts' in wake of deaths. They were pictured using tear gas to disperse migrants on the beach in Dunkirk
Alexa Chung joined fellow models Adwoa Aboah and Emily Ratajkowski at Victoria Beckham's Mango clothing collection launch event in Spain on Tuesday night.
Representing WhatsApp, Advocate Tejas Karia also noted before the Delhi HC that not knowing which messages to decrypt would mean "millions and millions of messages will have to be stored for a number of years.”