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Skip to contentUniversities have duty to protect Jewish students, Sunak says
University leaders have a “moral duty” to protect Jewish students from intimidation and harassment on campuses, Rishi Sunak has said. On Thursday the prime minister will host a meeting in No 10 with vice-chancellors from leading universities and urge them to take a “zero-tolerance” approach to...University leaders have a “moral duty” to protect Jewish students from intimidation and harassment on campuses, Rishi Sunak has said. On Thursday the prime minister will host a meeting in No 10 with vice-chancellors from leading universities and urge them to take a “zero-tolerance” approach to...University leaders have a “moral duty” to protect Jewish students from intimidation and harassment on campuses, Rishi Sunak has...
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Starmer splits party by accepting Tory defector
Sir Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from senior Labour figures and female MPs for allowing the right-wing Conservative Natalie Elphicke to join the party. Elphicke crossed the floor and defected to Labour just before prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, criticising the “broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government”.Sir Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from senior Labour figures and female MPs for allowing the right-wing Conservative Natalie Elphicke to join the party. Elphicke crossed the floor and defected to Labour just before prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, criticising the “broken promises of Rishi Sunak’s tired and chaotic government”.Sir Keir Starmer is facing a backlash from senior Labour figures and female MPs for allowing the right-wing Conservative...
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Harry attends Invictus service, but King has no time for him
In the gardens of Buckingham Palace the King, recovering from cancer treatment, was surrounded by his family and 8,000 guests. Two miles down the road at St Paul’s Cathedral his younger son, Prince Harry, cut a lonelier figure. The Duke of Sussex made a rare UK public appearance to celebrate the tenth anniversary of...In the gardens of Buckingham Palace the King, recovering from cancer treatment, was surrounded by...In the gardens of Buckingham Palace the King, recovering from cancer treatment, was surrounded by...
Editor's picks
HILARY ROSE
Women can be members of the Garrick Club now. No thanks
Well, whoop-de-do, women have finally got what we wanted. Not equal pay, equal childcare or equal apportioning of...Well, whoop-de-do, women have finally got what we wanted. Not equal pay, equal childcare or equal...Well, whoop-de-do, women have finally got what we wanted. Not equal pay, equal childcare or equal...
Champions League
Stoke reject eclipses Kane by conjuring ‘magical’ comeback victory
Fairytales are made of this. Real Madrid, the club of the so-called galacticos, are in the Champions League final...Fairytales are made of this. Real Madrid, the club of the so-called galacticos, are in the...Fairytales are made of this. Real Madrid, the club of the so-called galacticos, are in the...
Politics
POLITICAL sketch
Elphicke’s fireworks display risks burning down the house
Migrants can’t integrate unless numbers fall, says Jenrick
Former minister laments ‘cultural issues’ and wants Home Office broken up
Revealed: why some cats live twice as long as others
All cats are supposed to have nine lives, but researchers have revealed that some breeds can survive for twice as...All cats are supposed to have nine lives, but researchers have revealed that some breeds can...All cats are supposed to have nine lives, but researchers have revealed that some breeds can...
THE TIMES DIARY
Peckish Laura Dern tucks into tasty props
Actors who love food have to be careful what they put in their mouths on set. Laura Dern once provoked the ire of...Actors who love food have to be careful what they put in their mouths on set. Laura Dern once...Actors who love food have to be careful what they put in their mouths on set. Laura Dern once...
Biden: I will cut off heavy artillery if Israel invades Rafah
US fears humanitarian catastrophe in city of 1 million
President Biden has warned Binyamin Netanyahu that he will halt supplies of heavy bombs and artillery shells if Israel goes ahead with a military invasion of the Gazan city of Rafah, declaring: “I’m not providing the weapons.” Biden confirmed that he had already ordered the delay of a shipment of...President Biden has warned Binyamin Netanyahu that he will halt supplies of heavy bombs and artillery shells if Israel goes ahead with a military invasion of the Gazan city of Rafah, declaring: “I’m not providing the weapons.” Biden confirmed that he had already ordered the delay of a shipment of...President Biden has warned Binyamin Netanyahu that he will halt supplies of heavy bombs and artillery shells if Israel goes...
Traitor or saviour? On the campaign trail with Catalonia’s exiled leader
He’s like Elvis in Las Vegas, playing the same room every night to elderly Catalans who know all his greatest hits. However, Carles Puigdemont’s residency at a far less glamorous municipal hall in a French border town will be much shorter. For two weeks, the Catalan separatist leader has performed nightly election rallies to ecstatic crowds...He’s like Elvis in Las Vegas, playing the same room every night to elderly Catalans who know all his greatest hits. However, Carles Puigdemont’s residency at a far less glamorous municipal hall in a French border town will be much shorter. For two weeks, the Catalan separatist leader has performed nightly election rallies to ecstatic crowds...He’s like Elvis in Las Vegas, playing the same room every night to elderly Catalans who know all his greatest hits. However...
Maltese politicians accused by murdered blogger charged for corruption
The chief of Malta’s central bank, the country’s deputy prime minister and a former prime minister are among dozens of suspects charged in a massive bribery scandal that has rocked the political establishment of the tiny Mediterranean island. The charges have been hailed by supporters of Daphne Caruana Galizia, the...The chief of Malta’s central bank, the country’s deputy prime minister and a former prime...The chief of Malta’s central bank, the country’s deputy prime minister and a former prime...
Taliban try to lure Chinese cash with tilt at tourism
Not long after the fall of Kabul, a handful of Chinese tourists were spotted in the mountainous province of Bamiyan, home to the towering Buddhas blown up by the Taliban two decades before. A small symbol of a budding relationship between the...Not long after the fall of Kabul, a handful of Chinese tourists were spotted in the mountainous...Not long after the fall of Kabul, a handful of Chinese tourists were spotted in the mountainous...
We don’t panda to anyone: Malaysia’s ‘orangutan diplomacy’
For decades China has charmed other countries by dispatching pandas to zoos around the world. Now Malaysia is...For decades China has charmed other countries by dispatching pandas to zoos around the world. Now...For decades China has charmed other countries by dispatching pandas to zoos around the world. Now...
Film director jailed by Iran weeks before Cannes premiere
A dissident Iranian film director known for criticising the Islamic regime has been sentenced to eight years in...A dissident Iranian film director known for criticising the Islamic regime has been sentenced to...A dissident Iranian film director known for criticising the Islamic regime has been sentenced to...
Rapper feud turns violent with shooting and break-in at Drake’s house
Police are investigating whether a lyrical feud between two of hip-hop’s biggest stars has escalated after back-to-back incidents at the home of the Canadian rapper and singer Drake. On Tuesday afternoon, a security guard was shot outside the...Police are investigating whether a lyrical feud between two of hip-hop’s biggest stars has...Police are investigating whether a lyrical feud between two of hip-hop’s biggest stars has...
US election
IN maps and CHARTS
Who will win the White House? Latest polls and predictions
Robert F Kennedy Jr: A worm ate part of my brain
In a US presidential election where the mental health of the main candidates is already an issue for voters, the most...In a US presidential election where the mental health of the main candidates is already an issue...In a US presidential election where the mental health of the main candidates is already an issue...
JANE MULKERRINS
She made jokes like the Stormy I know — but this was dark
Stormy Daniels has lost a great deal by standing up to Donald Trump, including but not limited to: her personal...Stormy Daniels has lost a great deal by standing up to Donald Trump, including but not limited to...Stormy Daniels has lost a great deal by standing up to Donald Trump, including but not limited to...
Wood Group rejects £1.4bn takeover bid
Buyout offer from Sidara ‘fundamentally undervalues’ company
A FTSE 250 engineering consultancy has become the latest target of an overseas investor looking to capitalise on cheap valuations on the London market. John Wood Group has rejected a £1.4 billion takeover proposal from a smaller rival, saying it “fundamentally undervalued” the engineering...A FTSE 250 engineering consultancy has become the latest target of an overseas investor looking to capitalise on cheap valuations on the London market. John Wood Group has rejected a £1.4 billion takeover proposal from a smaller rival, saying it “fundamentally undervalued” the engineering...A FTSE 250 engineering consultancy has become the latest target of an overseas investor looking to capitalise on cheap...
Next government ‘will have to raise taxes’ to meet fiscal targets
Interest rates that stay higher for longer and weak growth will force the next government to raise taxes in order to meet their fiscal targets, a leading think tank warned, as the Bank of England looks set to keep borrowing costs at a 14-year high. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research said a new government will have no...Interest rates that stay higher for longer and weak growth will force the next government to raise taxes in order to meet their fiscal targets, a leading think tank warned, as the Bank of England looks set to keep borrowing costs at a 14-year high. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research said a new government will have no...Interest rates that stay higher for longer and weak growth will force the next government to raise taxes in order to meet their...
Oxford Cannabinoid to quit London market
A drugs company developing cannabis-based medicines backed by the tobacco group Imperial Brands is to delist from the London stock market, blaming turbulent UK markets for exerting “continuous, irrational and regressive pressure” on its share price. Oxford Cannabinoid Technologies (OCT), a clinical stage biopharma...A drugs company developing cannabis-based medicines backed by the tobacco group Imperial Brands...A drugs company developing cannabis-based medicines backed by the tobacco group Imperial Brands...
business commentary
Ford refuses to shift into electric gear
Britain was a different country when Ford could command as much as a fifth of the new car sales market. The latest...Britain was a different country when Ford could command as much as a fifth of the new car sales...Britain was a different country when Ford could command as much as a fifth of the new car sales...
tempus
Fast fashion with slow road back for Boohoo
Boohoo, once hailed as the leader of the fast fashion industry, now languishes among the worst performers in London’s...Boohoo, once hailed as the leader of the fast fashion industry, now languishes among the worst...Boohoo, once hailed as the leader of the fast fashion industry, now languishes among the worst...
Arm revenue forecast fails to dazzle
Arm Holdings, widely considered to be the most successful British technology group in decades, disappointed investors on Wednesday with a full-year revenue forecast that missed expectations, sending shares in the chip designer sharply lower. The...Arm Holdings, widely considered to be the most successful British technology group in decades...Arm Holdings, widely considered to be the most successful British technology group in decades...
comment | patrick hosking
Labour has a blank where its pensions policy should be
It’s the privilege of opposition parties to keep schtum about the awkward decisions they will have to make if elected.It’s the privilege of opposition parties to keep schtum about the awkward decisions they will...It’s the privilege of opposition parties to keep schtum about the awkward decisions they will...
comment | RYAN BOURNE
Don’t let the Bank rewrite history on what caused inflation
Bank of England officials now seem confident that we’re on track to hit their 2 per cent inflation target. Ahead of...Bank of England officials now seem confident that we’re on track to hit their 2 per cent...Bank of England officials now seem confident that we’re on track to hit their 2 per cent...
market report
Renishaw’s weather report gives investors the chills
recruitment
Mediation on the rise as couples and companies try to avoid court
Offering a 92 per cent success rate and economic savings of more than £6 billion a year, mediation is the “quiet revolution” aiding British business and the family courts. Succinctly summed up by those in the sector as “mediation avoids litigation”, the confidential process involves an independent mediator appointed to help parties to talk through their problems...Offering a 92 per cent success rate and economic savings of more than £6 billion a year...Offering a 92 per cent success rate and economic savings of more than £6 billion a year...
RECRUITMENT | six from the best
Why I define success as making myself redundant
Best known for her appearances on the BBC television show Dragons’ Den, the serial entrepreneur and investor...Best known for her appearances on the BBC television show Dragons’ Den, the serial entrepreneur and investor Sarah Willingham is now founder and chief executive of the UK’s leading premium cocktail bar group Nightcap. Willingham, is renowned for her eclectic career combining savvy start-ups with hands-on...Best known for her appearances on the BBC television show Dragons’ Den, the serial entrepreneur and investor Sarah...
Champions League
Stoke reject eclipses Kane by conjuring ‘magical’ comeback victory
Real Madrid 2 Bayern Munich 1 (Real win 4-3 on agg)
Fairytales are made of this. Real Madrid, the club of the so-called galacticos, are in the Champions League final thanks a footballer who, with the greatest respect, is no sort of galactico at all. He’s 34. He’s at Madrid on loan from second division Espanyol. He used to play for Stoke City. Oh, and it so happens he’s a Spaniard who was born in Germany, where, at...Fairytales are made of this. Real Madrid, the club of the so-called galacticos, are in the...Fairytales are made of this. Real Madrid, the club of the so-called galacticos, are in the...
Comment
It won’t cost billions to boost Britain’s mood
Jenni Russell
The next government has the opportunity to lift the national gloom with some simple measures and strong messaging
JAMES MARRIOTT
Palestine puts paid to cosy campus consensus
IAIN MARTIN
We must rediscover our Cold War resilience
JANICE TURNER | NOTEBOOK
Big shots for the day in basket-case Argentina
Melanie McDonagh | thunderer
BBC risks losing the public’s trust over immigration
Leading Articles
Red Signal
Labour’s regressive renationalisation plan is a gift to the industry’s unions. Starved of private sector input, the proposed state behemoth will surely atrophy
Old Broom
The SNP’s new leader is steeped in the failures of the past
Sleeping Giant
Happy 40th birthday to the Thames Barrier, a quiet British success story
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Concern over GCSE content and ‘ghost’ pupils
newSir, Your article (“‘Bloated’ GCSE curriculum must be reduced, say education experts”, news, May 7) is spot on in identifying that GCSEs are not fit for purpose. However, while the Social Market Foundation suggests that we need to thin out...Sir, Your article (“‘Bloated’ GCSE curriculum must be reduced, say education experts”, news...Sir, Your article (“‘Bloated’ GCSE curriculum must be reduced, say education experts”, news...
Daily Universal Register
Briefing
UK: National Institute for Economic and Social Research publishes quarterly forecast; John Swinney holds first minister’s questions at Holyrood.
World: Russian Victory Day parade in Moscow; results for Nissan.
On this day
In 1887 the former army scout “Buffalo” Bill Cody’s Wild West Show opened in London. Two days later, Queen Victoria attended a private showing and The Times reported that she “expressed herself as greatly pleased”; in 1916 Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, a study of character and mores, was published; in 1945 the Channel Islands were liberated from German occupation; in 1974 the House judiciary committee opened hearings to decide whether to impeach President Nixon. The Watergate scandal impeachment led to the president’s resignation on August 8, 1974; in 2009 Jacob Zuma was inaugurated as the fourth president of South Africa after the victory of his African National Congress party in the election held the previous month. He held the office until his resignation on February 14, 2018, after losing a parliamentary confidence vote. His presidency was beset by controversy, including rulings over improperly benefiting from state expenditure and failing to uphold the constitution.
Nature notes
If ever you find yourself on the Carlisle-Settle railway line, why not get off at Ribblehead station? If you do, you will be following in the footsteps of the Skipton botanist Lister Rotheray, who alighted there in 1889 and discovered the Yorkshire sandwort. This low-growing plant with its star-like flower is an English subspecies of the arctic sandwort. Arctic sandworts can be found mainly in Iceland and the mountains of Scandinavia; the Yorkshire sandwort grows only among the limestone pavements of Ingleborough Mountain. Today’s botanists will have to travel a little further than Rotheray, since the plants growing in the immediate vicinity of the station are no longer there. However, in 2019 a survey recorded 30 Yorkshire sandwort colonies elsewhere on Ingleborough. Jonathan Tulloch
Jonathan Tulloch
Birthdays today
Sir Clive Alderton, private secretary to King Charles and Queen Camilla, 57; Alan Bennett, dramatist, The Madness of George III (1991), The History Boys (2004), 90; Tracy Brabin, mayor of West Yorkshire, Labour (Co-op) MP for Batley & Spen (2016-21), 63; Vance D Brand, astronaut, command module pilot on the first Apollo-Soyuz spaceflight (1975), 93; Sir Vince Cable, MP for Twickenham (1997-2015, 2017-19), leader of the Liberal Democrats (2017-19), business, innovation and skills secretary (2010-15), 81; Sir Andrew Dillon, chief executive, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (1999-20), 70; Prof Sir Andrew Hopper, computer technologist, treasurer and vice-president, Royal Society, 71; Paul Lynch, novelist, Prophet Song (2023 Booker prizewinner), 47; Will Lyons, journalist, wine writer and vice-president The Sunday Times Wine Club, 48; Dame Valerie Lund, professor of rhinology, University College London (1995-2017, now emeritus), 71; Beth Mead, footballer, Arsenal WFC and England, member of the Euro 2022-winning England national team, 29; Richard Moore, chief of the UK Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), 61; Laura Muir, middle-distance runner, Olympic silver medallist (2020), five-time gold medallist, European Indoor Athletics Championships (2017, 2019, 2023), 31; Stefan Quandt, businessman, deputy chairman (supervisory board) and largest single shareholder of BMW, 58; Most Rev George Stack, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff (2011-22), 78; Ellen White, footballer, member of the Euro 2022-winning England national team, Manchester City WFC (2019-22), 35; Lord (Nicholas) Wilson of Culworth, justice of the Supreme Court (2011-20), 79.