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Mel Stride fails to take off when given the chance to talk about Heathrow | John Crace
A minute’s silence for Mel Stride. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him at this difficult time. Mel has always operated near the margins of Westminster. A liminal presence teetering near the vanishing point where earth and sky meet.
His time as work and pensions secretary under Rishi Sunak …
Loners, misfits and the shadow of Southport | Letters
Get ahead of the tech curve: aim for Hangzhou, not Silicon Valley | Brief letters
Rachel Reeves is behind the tech curve in proposing to create “Europe’s Silicon Valley” (
). She should surely be considering an equivalent of Hangzhou, home of DeepSeek, the company that knocked$1tn off the value
of US tech stocks in a day.John Lowery
London
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M23 rebels push south from Goma as DRC leader calls for military recruits
The Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group has pushed south from Goma, the border city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that it captured this week, and declared its intention to remain in the city, as fears grow of a major regional war.
“We are here in Goma to stay,” Corneille …
Sweden points to ‘foreign power’ after Iraqi refugee on trial for Qur’an burnings shot dead
Sweden’s prime minister has said a foreign power may have been involved in the fatal shooting of an anti-Islam campaigner just hours before a trial verdict over his burning of the Qur’an was due.
Police arrested five people over the killing of Salwan Momika, 38, who was shot late on …
Let the guessing games begin: Coe pitches for top job amid murky Olympic politics
No sooner had the crucial presentations for the biggest job in sport ended than the guessing games began. Sebastian Coe mixed flattery with oratory over the course of his 15-minute pitch for the job of International Olympic Committee president, before promising the IOC’s 110 members he would lead them into …
Roman Abramovich’s tax affairs must be investigated, MPs say
Seth Meyers on Trump: ‘Even I didn’t think he would turn the government off’
Late-night hosts spoke about the much-criticised decision from
tofreeze federal grants and loans
and thepushback
that came soon after.Seth Meyers
spoke about the “intense nationwide backlash” that followed the controversial decision by …
Angela Merkel rebukes successor for alliance with far-right AfD on anti-immigration motion
Three Israelis and five Thais freed from Gaza as Trump envoy meets hostages’ relatives
Three Israelis and five Thai citizens held in Gaza have been freed, as Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy met hostages’ relatives, reportedly telling them he was optimistic the ceasefire would hold to allow the return of all the living and the dead.
The handover on Thursday of seven hostages in …