After an impressive run of three victories, Toto Wolff has explained why Mercedes need to keep Kimi Antonelli grounded.
It’s ‘Be Kind to Animals Month,’ so let’s enjoy some of F1’s most memorable animal encounters.
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The former deputy prime minister said she should be keen to ‘play my part’ in the event of a leadership contest
Al Carns, the defence minister first elected in 2024, will launch his own leadership bid if a contest starts, Sky News is reporting.
Asked about this last night, Carns told Sky: “I’m just a humble junior minister.”
Unless Labour understands that insecurity on an emotional level as well as on an economic one, we will continue to lose voters who would naturally align with us. Working-class voters have not simply left Labour. Many feel Labour stopped understanding their lives, and so they looked elsewhere.
What is the point of Labour if it does not represent Sheffield, Stoke-on-Trent, Barnsley, Swansea and Aberdeen? What is the point of the Labour party if it cannot replace despair and frustration with hope, stability and purpose? The party was founded to give ordinary working people security, dignity and bargaining power over their lives.
Continue reading...Designer suggests decision to stage show in Los Angeles is part of strategy to deepen label’s cinema presence
Like Christian Dior, the founder of the house he now leads, fashion designer Jonathan Anderson’s ambition is to be not just a Parisian couturier but a Hollywood power player. “We think of Dior as this romantic character, but he was also a very savvy businessman,” said Anderson before a blockbuster catwalk show in Los Angeles. Stage Fright, the Hitchcock caper-noir for which Dior dressed Marlene Dietrich, was the show’s origin story. “There is all this amazing correspondence between Dior, Dietrich and Hitchcock, which shows how he navigated the money that it cost to make that film. I think we underestimate how much negotiation Dior did with studio executives. He was very smart in that way.”
Anderson, 41, who was born in Northern Ireland but since being appointed to Dior splits his time between London and Paris, has his own Hollywood side hustle as the costume designer for Luca Guadagnino’s films, and is set on reinvigorating Dior’s relationship with the film industry.
Continue reading...There is legitimate scrutiny of antisemitism on the left, but at the same time, rightwing media outlets offend with impunity. That makes no sense
The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of the Green party of England and Wales, was not invited to speak, on the grounds that he had not done enough to root out antisemitism from the party. But Nigel Farage was invited, on the grounds that his party, Reform UK, has “expressed very broad support for the fight against antisemitism”. More than two thousand Jews saw things differently and signed a petition arguing that the invitation to Farage “fundamentally undermines” the message of solidarity in defence of Jewish safety and dignity. I agree with them.
Antisemitism must be stamped out everywhere. “Never again” means zero tolerance for this age-old hate, wherever it occurs and whoever voices it. It is indeed a problem on the left, and I’ve often found myself in dispute with those who downplay or minimise it.
George Monbiot is a Guardian columnist
Continue reading...You may think you know when someone’s trying to deceive you, but there’s a clever trick very few people are aware of – one that has eluded AI and Traitors contestants alike
Can you tell if someone is lying?
Close your eyes. You’re already twice as good as you were before.
Continue reading...BILTHOVEN (ANP) - De opvarenden van het cruiseschip Hondius die eerder deze week op de tweede en derde repatriëringsvlucht naar Eindhoven zaten, zijn negatief getest op het hantavirus. Bij aankomst zijn monsters afgenomen, meldt het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM).
Het gaat om 26 personen die in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag aankwamen.
De thuisquarantaine van zes weken blijft gelden voor de Nederlandse passagiers, meldt het RIVM. Zondagavond landde de eerste repatriëringsvlucht op Eindhoven. Ook deze opvarenden testten negatief op basis van de eerste bemonstering bij aankomst in Nederland.
BILTHOVEN (ANP) - De opvarenden van het cruiseschip Hondius die eerder deze week op de tweede en derde repatriëringsvlucht naar Eindhoven zaten, zijn negatief getest op het hantavirus. Bij aankomst zijn monsters afgenomen, meldt het Rijksinstituut voor Volksgezondheid en Milieu (RIVM).
Het gaat om 26 personen die in de nacht van maandag op dinsdag aankwamen.
De thuisquarantaine van zes weken blijft gelden voor de Nederlandse passagiers, meldt het RIVM. Zondagavond landde de eerste repatriëringsvlucht op Eindhoven. Ook deze opvarenden testten negatief op basis van de eerste bemonstering bij aankomst in Nederland.
LONDEN (ANP/BLOOMBERG) - De Britse economie is het jaar met stevige economische groei begonnen. Bedrijven en consumenten in het Verenigd Koninkrijk lijken volgens donderdag verschenen cijfers in het eerste kwartaal nog niet van de wijs te zijn gebracht door het uitbreken van de Iranoorlog en de flinke stijging van de brandstofprijzen.
Het bruto binnenlands product (bbp) groeide met 0,6 procent in het eerste kwartaal. Daarmee nam de Britse economie beduidend sterker in omvang toe dan de vooruitgang van 0,2 procent in de voorgaande periode. Het gaat tevens om de sterkste kwartaalgroei in een jaar, meldde het Britse statistiekbureau donderdag.
De sterke start van 2026 is grotendeels te danken aan een uitstekende februarimaand, voordat de Iranoorlog begon. In die maand ging de economie 0,4 procent vooruit. Maar ook in maart bleef de Britse economie doorgroeien. Economen hadden voor die maand eigenlijk een bescheiden krimp verwacht.
Police forces across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will add personalization and artificial intelligence (AI) to their jointly run digital contact systems through a £72 million contract to manage and develop these. Almost all police forces in the three nations use the Digital Public Contact’s Single Online Home web platform for their own websites, with the platform also running Police.uk, a national information site, and Data.police.uk, which provides information on police-recorded crime. The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), which hosts Digital Public Contact services on behalf of the National Police Chiefs Council, hopes to find a single supplier for these under a new contract running from July 2027 to December 2029, with a possible three-year extension, according to a market engagement procurement notice published on 12 May. Existing Digital Public Contact services include the Single Online Home websites, linked services that pass information on crimes and incidents from the public to relevant officers; and the National My Police Portal, a new service using GOV.UK’s One Login to links victims with officers in charge of cases, which South Yorkshire Police started using in January. The new contract will also cover use of AI. In March West Yorkshire Police and Digital Public Contact started using AI to extract material from old control room calls, which at present are normally recorded but not transcribed. In the procurement notice, the MPS said that AI could also be used in reporting, analysis, conversational interactions and staff assistance. In a speech on the development of Digital Public Contact last October, Cambridgeshire’s chief constable Simon Megicks said that the work also includes developing a natural language switchboard that can help direct incoming calls and live services to assist operators, which is being piloted by Humberside Police. “It supports call handlers in real time, and as they converse, the AI listens in and conducts live database searches, surfacing relevant information instantly,” he said of the assistance service at a National Police Chiefs Council innovation event. “Operators are empowered to make better decisions, quicker: reducing risk and improving outcomes for the public.” In the King’s Speech on 13 May the government confirmed plans to merge forces in England and Wales and establish a National Police Service. The procurement notice says that the new contract will provide “a robust foundation” supporting these structural changes, although they are likely to take place beyond the end of the contract. Following a market engagement event on 9 June, the MPS plans to publish a tender notice for the work around the end of July. ®
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