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Microsoft unveils chip it says could bring quantum computing within years, 19 February

) said that this new class of computers, unlike current machines, will be “based on quantum mechanics rather than classical physics”. While the Babbage machines might be described as using classical physics, I …

Keir Starmer is striking a delicate balancing act on the world stage by trying to maintain a good relationship with Donald Trump while giving his full-throated support to Ukraine and pursuing closer ties with the EU.

But the prime minister faces increased domestic pressures when it comes to Trump, whom …

The US envoy to Ukraine, Gen Keith Kellogg, has praised Voldymyr Zelenskyy as “the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war”, striking a dramatically different tone from Donald Trump who

has called Ukraine’s president a “dictator”

.

Kellogg left Kyiv on Friday after a three-day visit. …

Keir Starmer is to urge Donald Trump to recognise that a US rejection of Mauritius’s legal claim to own the Chagos Islands including the strategic US military base at Diego Garcia may stoke tensions similar to those in the South China Sea.

Starmer is due to meet Trump next Friday …

England have vowed to show their nasty side against Scotland on Saturday with the captain Maro Itoje calling on his team to buck the trend of recent history by clinching the Calcutta Cup for the first time in five years.

Buoyed by their one-point victory over France last time out, …

Israelis and Palestinians are bracing for another tense hostage, prisoner and detainee exchange on Saturday amid uproar in Israel over allegations that two child hostages were “brutally murdered” by Hamas, and the group’s failure to deliver the body of their mother, instead returning the corpse of an unidentified woman.

The …

British artists have said the UK’s unique cultural output is under threat unless more is done to improve access to their industries, after analysis showed that almost a third of major arts leaders were privately educated. The Guardian spoke to visual artists, directors, classical musicians and playwrights about their views …

Artists, directors and actors have raised the alarm about what they describe as a rigged system preventing working-class talent thriving in their industries after analysis showed almost a third of major arts leaders were educated privately.

The creator of Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight, the director Shane Meadows and the Turner …

Last month I went to the National Theatre to catch

The Importance of Being Earnest

, Oscar Wilde’s campy, farcical comedy. But unlike other theatre visits, this time I was surrounded by a number of large cameras.

This was not due to some crisis in audience etiquette, but …

In recent years, a string of academic reports have shown in stark terms just how elitist the arts have become over the last four decades. The proportion of working-class actors, musicians and writers has

shrunk by half

since the 1970s, according to one piece of research, while …

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