Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England, is not given to emotional outbursts or shooting from the hip. Being measured in your public comments is part of the job description for running a central bank, and Mr Bailey has stuck to it since succeeding Mark Carney in 2020. (To understand the constraints of the […]
Anthropic, one of the biggest and most influential tech companies in the world, is launching a new model: Claude Opus 4.6. Until now, this would mostly be big news for techies, where Anthropic is admired as the maker of Claude Code, the code-writing AI tool which many engineers say is taking over their work entirely.
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a teacher was attacked, police have said. The assault happened at a school in Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Dyfed-Powys Police said. Officers said they responded to a report on Thursday afternoon that a teacher had been assaulted by a pupil. They said the teacher
Sir Keir Starmer risks being toppled by the fiasco around Lord Mandelson “unless he takes action”, Baroness Harman has warned. The former deputy Labour leader said the prime minister “seems to have drifted so far away from [his] values in appointing Peter Mandelson” to be US ambassador, and that he must return to them to
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In filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another, resistance is framed as survival. While there’s no direct reference to ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), authority is shown as unpredictable, militarised and with the power to destabilise entire neighbourhoods. Since the film came out at the end of last September, those aspects have come
In a crowd of hundreds, two voices on the royal visit to Essex would inevitably end up grabbing some of the attention. A man heckling about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in an apparent reference to the Jeffrey Epstein scandal, and a reporter asking a question, neither getting any kind of response from the King. The monarch was
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John Healey, the defence secretary, has held urgent talks with the boss of Leonardo, the Italian defence contractor, amid fears for thousands of jobs at a military helicopter factory in Somerset. Sky News has learnt that Mr Healey met Roberto Cingolani, Leonardo’s chief executive, on Thursday for talks about an ongoing tender process which could
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A cyber security student at De Montfort University who was fatally stabbed in Leicester city centre has been named as Khaleed Oladipo. The 20-year-old died in hospital on Tuesday night after being stabbed in the chest. Mr Oladipo, who was living in Leicester but was from London, was attacked in Oxford Street, close to the
Northern towns could be in line for a funding boost after complaints from MPs that a new system for allocating cash to councils favours London. Ministers have been holding talks with northwest MPs about making tweaks to the fair funding formula – which some MPs claim left them “absolutely shafted”. Politics Live: Trump says Starmer’s
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The housebuilder Barratt Redrow, Heathrow Airport and the outsourcing giant Mitie are among a group of businesses backing the launch of a coalition aimed at tackling barriers to investment in local areas across Britain. Sky News understands that the Social Value Commission, which will also include E.ON UK, the utility, and VodafoneThree, will launch on
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