Perhaps it’s inevitable for a political party that has held power in Britain for nearly 14 years, but the Conservative Party’s annual conference is rattling with the restless ghosts of its past and future. On Monday, Liz Truss, the prime minister ousted a year ago after her proposed tax cuts upended financial markets, stole the […]
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Horace Ové, a prolific and groundbreaking Trinidad-born filmmaker and photographer whose 1975 film, “Pressure,” explored the fraught experience of Black Britons and is considered the first feature film by a Black British director, died on Sept. 16 in London. He was 86. The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, said his son, Zak. “Pressure” was made on […]
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It began with a £1 contract. In the hours after a pandemic was declared in March 2020, Palantir, the secretive American data analytics company, was invited to 10 Downing Street along with other tech groups, including Amazon, Google and Meta, to discuss how it could help the British government respond. Within days, Palantir’s software was […]
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A 16-year-old boy was arrested Thursday on suspicion of criminal damage after one of Britain’s most famous trees, a sycamore that stood in a dip in Hadrian’s Wall, was cut down overnight in what the authorities described as “an act of vandalism.” “We have reason to believe it has been deliberately felled,” Northumberland National Park […]
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The endless, relentless eruptions of sexual abuse and harassment scandals can sometimes seem like a particularly grim form of Zeno’s dichotomy paradox. Back in the 5th century B.C., the Greek philosopher described how a runner on the path to a particular destination must first traverse half the distance, and then half the remaining difference, and […]
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The comedian Russell Brand denied “serious criminal allegations” against him in a video he posted shortly before three British news organizations published an investigation Saturday in which four women accused him of sexual assault. The investigation was a collaboration by The Sunday Times and The Times of London newspapers, and Channel 4 Dispatches, a television […]
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Metaphysic, the startup founded in London, UK, on a tech demo used to create convincing deepfakes of Tom Cruise that went viral on social media app TikTok, is taking its tech and business offerings to the next level. The company this week announced the launch of Metaphysic Pro, a new tier to its current AI-powered […]
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Helen Burness was working from home on Monday when the email arrived. In less than 24 hours, her 9-year-old daughter was set to return to school after the long summer break. The email was from the principal. The school had been forced to shut, the official wrote apologetically, because of concerns about unsafe concrete in […]
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