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.
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 McVeigh4h ago
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 Shafer5h ago
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 Ali6h ago
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.
Euronews7h ago
The proposed MiCA change challenges mandatory bank deposits as Britain's systemic sterling stablecoin code reaches its consultation deadline.
CryptoSlate•Liam 'Akiba' Wright7h ago
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.
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 Correspondent11h ago
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.
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 Sparrow11h ago
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, […]
Britain's Co-op Group posted a bigger first-half loss today as spending on promotions and store improvements weighed on profitability.
This revelatory history shows just how deeply embedded slavery is in the foundations of modern Britain One tedious aspect of Britain’s post-imperial melancholia is the number of amateur historians who would rather we stopped going on about our role in the slave trade. Isn’t it all in the past? Weren’t we the first to abolish it anyway? In April, the Reform party announced a new policy of halting visas to people from countries seeking slavery reparations from Britain. “The United Kingdom is not an ATM for ethnic grievances from the past,” the party’s home affairs spokesperson, Zia Yusuf, said. Unfortunately for those who would rather forget, the slave trade, as William Pettigrew argues in this grimly important book, can be found “in the depths of Britain’s grain”. Ninety per cent of the enslaved Africans transported to America went on British ships, and slave traders’ actions transformed Britain in ways that still resonate today. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Joe Moran13h ago
Britain's newbie prime minister got through an hour with the U.S. president mostly unscathed. But the immediate differences were on show more than with Keir Starmer.
The policy risks becoming another hurdle in London’s efforts to reset relations with the bloc.
Andy Burnham appears likely to promote support for Ukraine and hold to tough lines on Israel and the war on Iran.
The New York Times•Stephen Castle20h ago
The annual U.K. prize program honours the best novel written in English from anywhere in the world.
Britain guarantee at least three medals at the European Boxing Championships in Bulgaria as Chantelle Reid, Damar Thomas and Abdul Burton all reach the semi-finals.
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