Guns removed from WM streets
More than 60 Turkish-made handguns have been removed from the streets of the West Midlands as part of a national weapons amnesty, police
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xAI buys X for $45bn
In a bold manoeuvre that further blurs the lines between his tech ventures, Elon Musk has announced that his artificial intelligence company, xAI,
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Gaza: Odai Saadi – remember the name
In the theatre of tyranny, image is everything. And in Gaza this week, the curtain was torn down in the most horrific of
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Buying into Brum’s story
If we ignore the reputationally ruinous bin strike saga for a moment and look at the bigger picture, one thing is clear: Birmingham
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Taiwan’s posture of public strength
In the grand amphitheatre of geopolitics, Taiwan just took centre stage – and it’s not reading from the old script. The island’s latest
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Turkey: Erdoğan ejects BBC
The playbook is familiar: detain, deflect, deport. This time, it’s the BBC’s Mark Lowen cast as the foreign antagonist in Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s
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Just Stop Oil just stopped
The eco-activists who turned Britain’s cultural and sporting calendar into a stage for climate theatre say they’re “hanging up the hi-vis” and ending
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Vets Minister’s Everest record bid
Veterans Minister Alistair Carns is aiming to get from London to the top of Everest and back in just seven days. Success for
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“PM” Farage vs. NatWest
In the theatre of British public life, few do drama like Nigel Farage. And this week, the curtain fell on one of his
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Saving lives one test at a time
Sometimes it’s not the scalpel or the operating theatre that saves a life – but a vial of blood and a lab technician