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Tony Blair says Britain should work towards rejoining EU in next 10 years

Andy Burnham under pressure to revisit Brexit as poll suggests pledge to rejoin could boost Labour’s electoral chances Britain should work towards rejoining the EU in the next decade, Tony Blair has said, adding to growing pressure on Andy Burnham to abandon Labour’s reluctance to revisit the 2016 referendum. The former prime minister has urged Burnham to use his 10-year plan in November to put the country’s membership of the union back on the table, a decade after it voted to leave. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Kiran Stacey Policy editor57m ago

Blair presses Burnham to back return to a reformed EU

The former British prime minister says Brussels must be on a "credible path to reform" if the U.K. is to rejoin the bloc.

POLITICO Europe•Isabel Loubser57m ago

• neutral toward Andy Burnham · 98%

Banking patterns could help identify people experiencing financial abuse, UK study finds

Telltale signs of financial abuse, such as depleted savings, increasing debts and declining credit scores, can be identified in bank records, according to an analysis of U.K. banking data published in Nature. The findings reveal up to 373 indicators of financial behavior that could help pinpoint customers who may be experiencing economic abuse.

Phys.org1h ago

Britain's Bank Lobby Kicks Out Coinbase: Are Lenders Shutting Crypto Out?

UK Finance ends Coinbase's membership as British banks and crypto firms clash over payments. Coinbase can appeal.

BeInCrypto•Lockridge Okoth1h ago

• neutral toward Coinbase · 90%

International Emmy Nominations: United Kingdom Leads This Year’s Tally; Canada’s ‘Heated Rivalry’ Doesn’t Make the Cut

The United Kingdom led all territories in nominations at this year’s International Emmys, landing 14 nods total — including Disney+’s “A Thousand Blows” in drama and Netflix’s “Man vs. Baby” in comedy. Brazil followed, with nine nominations, then Spain with five. Meanwhile, not making the cut was Bell Media/Crave’s “Heated Rivalry,” although a Bell Media […]

Variety•Michael Schneider3h ago

Milei threatens at UN that Argentina will take ‘matters into our own hands’ on Falklands

Argentinian president accuses United Nations of being filled with ‘parasites’ in bellicose general assembly speech Javier Milei has condemned the UN as he warned that Argentina would take “matters into our own hands” in its dispute with Britain over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands. In a caustic speech at the general assembly in New York, the Argentinian president criticised the UN for being ineffective when it came to the long-running tensions over the British overseas territory in the south Atlantic known in Argentina as the Malvinas. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Daniel Boffey Chief reporter5h ago

Report calls for government to introduce a charge on disposable cups

Around 2.5 billion single-use cups are used in the U.K. every year, yet fewer than 1% are recycled. They contribute to litter, contaminate recycling streams and increase waste management and street cleaning costs for local authorities and taxpayers.

Phys.org8h ago

Security and fees hold back deeper crypto use among wealthy investors: Nexo report

Nearly 67% of affluent investors across the United States, United Kingdom and Argentina have owned crypto, but only 4.7% have integrated digital assets deeply into long term financial planning, according to new research from Nexo. According to Nexo’s “The Future…

Crypto.news•Rony Roy9h ago

• neutral toward Nexo · 96%

Britain to join the EU’s new global ocean monitoring system

Cooperation on OceanEye, which will help to predict extreme weather and climate events, comes amid government attempts to move closer to Brussels Britain is to join a major new ocean science programme, led by the EU, to better forecast extreme weather and climate events, it will announce today in New York. The announcement comes as Andy Burnham’s government aims to rebuild the UK’s relationship with Europe, and follows warnings that this year’s “supersized” El Niño, tracked in the Pacific Ocean, will fuel more extreme weather globally. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Karen McVeigh9h ago

Oasis Adds More Live ’27 Shows in U.K., Italy and Germany

Oasis has added four more dates to their Live ’27 tour. Due to phenomenal demand, the resurrected Britpop band will now play at Munich’s Allianz Arena on July 6, Rome’s Olympic Stadium on July 26 and Knebworth in the U.K. on Sept. 25 and 26. The dates of Oasis’ two Paris shows have also been […]

Variety•Ellise Shafer10h ago

• favorable toward Oasis · 95%

Britain’s far-right violence comes to us direct from 50 years ago. But so does the solution | Taj Ali

Young men punched in the street, mosques attacked: Britain badly needs an anti-racist uprising. Let 70s Asian youth movements provide the inspiration There it was: a pool of blood spreading across the pavement. A section of the high street had been cordoned off and a uniformed police officer gestured for bystanders to move along. It was the long hot summer of 1976, and a racist murder had stunned Southall in west London. “What has happened here, officers?” asked Suresh Grover , then a curious 22-year-old, later to be widely known as a leading racial justice activist. “Go away, it’s just Indian blood,” was the response. Grover was soon to learn that 18-year-old Gurdip Singh Chaggar , an engineering student, had been stabbed to death by racist thugs the night before. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Taj Ali10h ago

UK to review Chagos deal after Trump tells Burnham it is 'terrible'

Britain has suspended its €139 million-a-year lease payments for the Diego Garcia base while ministers try to reshape the agreement into one Washington can accept, with the Conservatives calling for it to be scrapped altogether.

Euronews12h ago

• neutral toward Donald Trump · 99%

Europe’s central banks want to scrap this stablecoin reserve safeguard

The proposed MiCA change challenges mandatory bank deposits as Britain's systemic sterling stablecoin code reaches its consultation deadline.

CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright12h ago

UK to launch new military space squadron to protect satellites

Britain announced Wednesday that it will launch a new military space squadron to defend the country's satellites, the latest move as countries race to develop military space capabilities.

Phys.org14h ago

Britain's JD Sports says Nike turnaround is only a matter of time

• neutral toward JD Sports · 96%

UK to launch military squadron to protect satellites in space

New RAF unit will warn of incoming missile attacks, and support offensive and defensive operations A new military unit dedicated to defending satellites, protecting services people need on earth and potentially supporting offensive operations is being launched by the UK. The No III Space Effects Squadron will be announced on Wednesday, with the defence secretary, Wes Streeting, warning that Britain needs to “keep pace in the new space race”. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Ben Quinn Political Correspondent16h ago

What is in 'Made in EU' law and why is Britain worried?

British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said this week he would make the case for Britain to be considered a "trusted partner" under the European Union's proposed "Made in EU" rules, warning that excluding the UK could damage the British car industry.

PM’s new anti-disinformation unit won’t target ‘domestic politcal dissent’, defence secretary says – UK politics live

Wes Streeting told GB News: ‘We’re not interested in policing domestic political dissent’ Good morning. Andy Burnham delivered his speech to the United Nations in what felt like the middle of the night in UK time and he announced that he is setting up what he is calling a National Centre for Information Defence. Burnham said this was necessary because “over the last decade we have given too much ground to those who want to run a negative, corrosive narrative about life in Britain, which bears no resemblance to reality”. In recent years we have seen an industrial-scale assault by hostile actors on the information environment in the UK and that of many of our allies. Russian agencies have used every means at their disposal to spread lies and disinformation and prey on people’s fears. One of the great things about Britain, and one of the things that I have a responsibility to defend, is the freedom and democracy that we all enjoy. And that includes the freedom to disagree, the freedom for people to challenge their government, to challenge government policy, to criticise robustly what we are doing and then to have the opportunity to choose a different government. We’re not interested in policing domestic political dissent. Continue reading...

The Guardian•Andrew Sparrow16h ago

Has Burnham changed tack on Russia?

Is Britain about to re-engage with the world in a more meaningful way than any time in the past decade? After a frantic 24 hours in New York, Andy Burnham declared to the UN: “Britain is back.” But what does that mean in practice? And after a rebuke over rhetoric on Russia from Donald Trump, […]

POLITICO Europe•Anne McElvoy, Sam Coates16h ago

• neutral toward Andy Burnham · 88%

Co-op Group posts bigger H1 loss as investments weigh

Britain's Co-op Group posted a bigger first-half loss today as spending on promotions and store improvements weighed on profitability.