You know me best as Sky News’s political editor, but I am also a mum to two teenagers aged 13 and 16. They were babies born into the age of the iPad, the smartphone and social media and have grown up in what I call the digital Wild West. From the iPads when they were […]
Decades after the first demonstration of brain computer interfaces, we have reached a “tipping point” in creating the first reliable devices that can read our thoughts, according to the man who pioneered the technology. Professor John Donoghue, who developed BrainGate – the first “brain chip” – at Brown University in Rhode Island, has just shared
The prime minister has condemned Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s “offensive and wrong” remarks about immigration. The Manchester United co-owner, one of Britain’s richest men but a resident of tax-free Monaco, told Sky News that Britain had been “colonised” by immigrants who are draining resources from the state. “You can’t have an economy with nine million people
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Authorities have released the audio of an emergency call made by a 13-year-old boy who swam for hours to save his family after they were swept out to sea. Austin Appelbee, his mother, brother and sister, from Perth, were on an inflatable kayak and paddleboards when they got into difficulty off the west coast of
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Strictly Come Dancing star Robin Windsor left a note saying the way he was treated when he was dropped from the show “destroyed me”, an inquest has heard. The professional dancer was 44 when he was found dead in a hotel room in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, in February 2024. Police found a note left
Police and prosecutors have held talks over allegations that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor leaked confidential reports to Jeffrey Epstein. Documents in the latest release of the Epstein files appeared to suggest the former prince and Duke of York shared government information with the deceased sex offender when he was the UK’s trade envoy. Andrew has repeatedly denied
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Sex offenders could be recalled to prison if they fail to report a pregnancy in their relationship, under changes recommended by a national safeguarding review. The review followed the high-profile case of baby Victoria, who died at the hands of her aristocrat mother Constance Marten and her father Mark Gordon. Marten, 38, and her convicted rapist
They still see his face. It’s on the front of their daughter’s nursery school folder. It should be a catalogue of happy memories of their little girl’s early years. But her “key person” at the nursery, the carer they trusted, was serial sex offender Vincent Chan. “He wrote the words for a large chunk of
When Ed Rumley sat down with Sky News three months ago, she knew she only had weeks to live. The 82-year-old former magistrate had just been diagnosed with an aggressive, inoperable brain tumour. She wanted to add her voice to support for the assisted dying bill making its way through parliament, even though she knew
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A butcher who murdered her girlfriend, cut her in half and buried her body under concrete in their garden has been jailed for life with a minimum of 21 years. Anna Podedworna, from Poland, killed Izabela Zablocka with a horse figurine before wrapping her remains in bin bags in a “filthy, makeshift grave” in Normanton,