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UK preparing to recognise Palestinian state as early as Friday Move comes after Israel fails to meet UK conditions that would have postponed step The UK is preparing to recognise the state of Palestine as early as Friday, after Israel failed to meet conditions that would have postponed the historic step, including a ceasefire in Gaza. Keir Starmer insisted the timing of the UK announcement had nothing to do with Donald Trump’s visit, even though the US president said at a press conference that he disagreed with Britain’s decision, without elaborating. Continue reading...

UK preparing to recognise Palestinian state as early as Friday

The Sunbed King stifles a yawn at Chequers while Keir twitches at the press | John Crace Trump was in his own Truman show, everyone else satellites to his ego – even the PM, who was just another beta male

The Sunbed King stifles a yawn at Chequers while Keir twitches at the press | John Crace

Labour is coming down hard on tax avoidance.

Buried in the Spring Statement, Rachel Reeves announced plans to close loopholes and take £1bn out of the hands of tax dodgers.

5 of the new measures:

Beautiful! Now draft Campbell 👏

Bears agree to sign C Drew Dalman to three-year deal The Bears have made another move to remake their offensive line.

Bears agree to sign C Drew Dalman to three-year deal. www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Beautiful! #BearDown

Lack of, if any, Formula One teams also…

Opening weekend! #Cycling

Currently having a bit of a set-to on Twitter with some Americans who don’t think London is in Europe. It’s like the internet hasn’t been invented 😂

Kidney infection. Hopefully sorted soon.

Biscoff spread: deadly. We enjoyed a very pleasant evening with Mrs Brand in Nottingham yesterday. Unfortunately, the old boy bailed as he’s laid-up. Your name was mentioned…

I’ve had a bit of that action myself. Ouch indeed!

The pure folly of #Brexit has been fully exposed this week. Time for us to continue our ascending role at the centre of Europe and work towards reuniting with our #EU friends #Ukraine #European 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦

Journalists asking about the timing of the defence spending increase seem to have forgotten that it was in the last Labour manifesto, just the timescale wasn’t. Two weeks ago, Kuenssburg was badgering for a timescale. Obvious that Trump’s support for Russia now makes this necessary #Ukraine

Keir Starmer’s US Visit: What does success look like? This week, Keir Starmer is set to meet President Trump in Washington, marking a key moment in UK-US relations. With tensions rising over Ukraine and trade, Starmer faces the challenge of balancing…

Starmer’s challenge is not just to maintain the ‘special relationship’ — it is to ensure that relationship serves Britain’s best interests.

And those interests are unequivocally tied to Europe.

Rewatch Tim Merlier’s superb sprint at the UAE Tour, which delivered our team’s 990th victory 😃

Jordan Bardella, the president of France’s hard right National Rally, has cancelled his plans to speak at CPAC after Steve Bannon “proactively made a gesture referring to Nazi ideology.”

In other words, Bannon and CPAC are now too extreme for the French extreme right.

Some decent films released in ‘77.

President Zelenskyy has been one of the greatest leaders of our time, guiding Ukraine through the darkest period of its recent history, rising up to Russia’s unwarranted aggression, being an inspiration to the Ukrainian people and ensuring that Ukraine’s voice is heard on the world stage.

#Writing #Sci-Fi #YA

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Space Detectives? Yes, please! 👇

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Top analysis here, as ever, from Jonathan

He’s not even attempting to disguise his support for fascism at this point.

'It's never going to be a safe sport' - David Millar says peloton should treat safety in similar way to doping 'The biggest crashes happen when individual racers take risks, and often it's a zero-sum game' says the Scottish former professional

"Unfortunately, professional cycling is inherently a very high-risk sport" says ex-pro David Millar

@williamsdb.com Morgen, Neil!

Good point 😂

Same, I expect. I worked Twitter a lot when I was trying to sell my book. I don’t expect the same number of followers on here.

@williamssupport.bsky.social Hi Andrew! Thought I’d bite the bullet and check it out. You’re my first follower, this is my first whatever it’s called on here 😂