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‘It’s a gut punch’: how the California wildfires affected film and TV workers
When Sandra French returned to her beloved 1930s apartment, she found the building reduced to rubble and ash. “It was so weird,” she recalls. “Out of the rubble, there was a little bright object. It was a pencil holder I bought in Italy, I believe, in 2008 and was sticking …
Show strength and offer a win: experts’ tips for Starmer on dealing with Trump
It was just a few mangled sentences spoken in the darkness on an airport tarmac. But Donald Trump’s comments this week – his most significant yet regarding the UK – were enough to give heart to people in Downing Street and the Foreign Office.
“UK is out of line. But …
‘The world wants more Britain’: David Lammy on Trump, tariffs, Gaza and the Chagos Islands
David Lammy was never a politician to mince his words. He has previously described Brexit as a “national tragedy”, Donald Trump as a “tyrant in a toupee” and called out Italy’s deputy prime minister for “old-school racism”.
But in more recent times, in particular since he took over as foreign …
‘It’s horrible’: Hooters plots British ‘breastaurant’ expansion via Newcastle
The (in)famous orange signage is up. Work is apace to be open in a fortnight. The job ad has gone out. Fifty “girls” wanted and they are “hiring in all positions”.
Hooters, the American “breastaurant”, known for its chicken wings and female waiting staff in skimpy nylon shorts and tight …
‘We make the most of every minute’: relief and resolve at Gaza’s few reopened restaurants
It is a Thursday night in Khan Younis and business is good at the al-Sawafiri restaurant. Not far away, entire blocks have been reduced to rubble, but here, in this small corner of the city in the southern Gaza Strip, the damage is less extensive. Raed al-Sawafiri, the owner and …
From the sublime to the cringeworthy: Tim Ross on Australia’s housing dream (and nightmare)
Australia’s state libraries have opened their archives to writer, TV presenter and half of the Merrick and Rosso comedy duo, Tim Ross, to feed his passion for post-second world war suburban architecture and an ongoing exploration of Australia’s obsession with home ownership.
The trove of photographs the institutions unearthed became …
Trudeau says Trump is serious about wanting to annex Canada
Donald Trump’s recent fixation on absorbing Canada is “a real thing”, Justin Trudeau has told business leaders, warning that the US president wants access to his northern neighbour’s vast supply of critical minerals.
The outgoing prime minister was in Toronto for a hastily called summit of business and labour …
Prince Andrew aide fights to prevent release of statement about ‘Chinese spy’
Lawyers for an aide to Prince Andrew are fighting to prevent his statement in support of a man accused of being a Chinese agent, who briefly became a trusted business partner and associate of the prince, from being released to the press.
The Guardian is leading a group of media …
AI is developing fast, but regulators must be faster | Letters
The recent open letter regarding AI consciousness on which you report (
AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research, 3 February
) highlights a genuine moral problem: if we create conscious AI (whether deliberately or inadvertently) then we would have a duty not to …Rothschild braces for more ‘skeletons in the cupboard’ over conduct of late chair
Senior bankers at Rothschild & Co gathered on Tuesday in a meeting room at its St Swithin’s Lane headquarters in the heart of the City of London to discuss a memo that would shake the storied financial group to its foundations.
The memo, to be sent to staff on Wednesday …