‘They call every week’: the phishing attacks targeting past victims Scammers reuse personal details harvested from fake Esta websites – and texts and calls can keep arriving for months The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Return of the nasty party? Badenoch walks tightrope with ‘punch down’ policies Shadow minister says Tories have ‘outsourced our toxicity to Reform’, but others doubt leader can spark lasting revival The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Ministers explore how to stop regional leaders misusing planned new spending powers Labour wants to make sure mayors and council chiefs in England can be held to account for extra revenues devolved to them The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
TV tonight: Eric Morecambe’s children’s book comes to life The Reluctant Vampire is a fun story starring Lenny Rush. Plus: secrets are spilled in juicy divorce drama The Split Up. Here’s what to watch this evening The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Incinerated novels and destroyed warehouses: Russia’s war on Ukrainian books A Ukrainian publishing boom sparked by the 2022 invasion is now under threat from the force and frequency of Russian attacks The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Polish activists launch abortion pill locker to bypass near-total ban ‘AbortOmat’ in Warsaw offers novel way to challenge country’s restrictions and allow women swift and anonymous access to pill The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Star Wars actor John Boyega on the day his 10-year-old school friend Damilola Taylor was killed: ‘It kept me up at night because I was just with the guy’ The star was just eight when his friend was stabbed. Decades on, he’s ready to talk about that day – how it shaped him, and how, as he becomes a father himself, it will shape him as a dad The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
My friends are spouting conspiracy theories – what should I say? You can be curious about others’ beliefs without compromising your own The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Dante Mayfair, Claridge’s, London W1: ‘Are chips ever worth £11? Probably not’ – restaurant review The whole point of going to Claridge’s in the first place is to sweep in through the grand main hotel entrance The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
UK car industry faces ‘difficult trade-off’ between Chinese and EU markets Britain under pressure to put tariffs on cheap Chinese vehicle imports ahead of protectionist trade measures The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Are you a Traitor or a Faithful? I’m coming to terms with the fact I’d be useless as either While I suspect my husband and some of my friends would make excellent Traitors, my poker face is worse than Richard E Grant’s – as I learned when I played the game The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
‘We are in a kind of war’: row over viral Amsterdam chip shop lands in court Neighbours say crowds drawn to Fabel Friet are clogging the picturesque canal street and attracting litter, gulls and rats The Guardian - UK · Oct 4
Ministers drop plans to cut jury trials in England and Wales after outcry Critics say scrapping of plans, which aimed to increase judge-alone trials to deliver swifter justice, leaves court system and victims vulnerable The Guardian - UK · Oct 3
Man shot dead at London memorial service in ‘senseless act of violence’ Forty-year-old victim declared dead at the scene in East Acton in a ‘senseless act of violence’ The Guardian - UK · Oct 3
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Lamine Yamal stars again as Spain see off Czechia and maintain perfect start For the third consecutive game the teenager scored inside six minutes, curling in another outrageous goal as Spain shone on their World Cup homecoming
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Bowie gets Pocognoli off mark with Scotland victory in North Macedonia Sébastien Pocognoli secured his first win in charge of Scotland with Kieron Bowie scoring in a 2-0 win in North Macedonia despite a late red card for Scott McKenna
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Tories would expand free childcare to high earners, Badenoch says Kemi Badenoch says those earning more than £100,000 should not be discouraged from working more
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Bellingham excels for high-grade England but Uefa sends wrong message on racism Allowing children in after a ban on adult fans for racism was wrong in the extreme but on the pitch England showed genuine class
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Tuchel convinced England have buried World Cup woes with Croatia thrashing Thomas Tuchel said England have moved on from their World Cup pain after seeing his side hand Croatia their biggest ever defeat
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company’s culture is ‘broken’ David Robinson joins other insiders in urging industry to take more care over rapidly developing technology
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Wakefield dominate Warrington in Grand Final to claim fairytale Super League title Wakefield’s dominant first-half performance crushed Warrington’s hopes to secure their first Super League Grand Final with a 23-10 victory at Old Trafford
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Let there be blanks instead of Manchester City’s name on trophies: there was no honour The spaces can stand as a memorial to these lost years both as a rebuke to an era of greed but also a tribute to the Premier League’s hunt for justice
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Kane and Saka double up as England school Croatia in historic 7-0 Nations League rout Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka scored twice with Jude Bellingham, Anthony Gordon and Morgan Rogers also on target as England ran riot in Rijeka
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 North Macedonia 0-2 Scotland, Spain 3-1 Czechia and more: Nations League – as it happened Kieron Bowie and John McGinn scored to earn Sebastien Pocognoli his first win as Scotland manager in North Macedonia: Spain and Switzerland also won
The Guardian - UK · Oct 3 Louis Rees-Zammit scores two tries as Bristol defeat champions Northampton Bristol overcame a nasty-looking head injury to their centre Benhard van Rensburg to clinch an impressive victory over last year’s champions Northampton