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UK government to extend controversial Palantir NHS contract as it draws up plan for British alternative – as it happened

Health secretary Yvette Cooper has faced calls to axe US tech firm’s contract to deliver the flagship government AI system, report says Here are some more photos from prime minister Andy Burnham’s visit to Siemens Rail Technology Centre in Chippenham earlier today: The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, has caused “profound anger, hurt and disbelief” among many black voters with her comments about transatlantic slavery, according to the chair of Operation Black Vote (OBV), who urged the prime minister, Andy Burnham, to apologise for Britain’s involvement without delay. Continue reading...

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Marilyn Monroe is a magnetic misfit in Speculations, a spicy conspiracy drama full of bombshells

Marylebone theatre, London Trevor Nunn directs Torben Betts’s intriguing but flawed play following US journalist Dorothy Kilgallen’s theories about the Kennedys A smartly dressed woman hammers away at an old-style typewriter in a drawing room. She is the real-life American journalist and conspiracy theorist Dorothy Kilgallen (Janie Dee) and bears the gimlet-eyed look of Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote. Torben Betts’s play could be called Marilyn, She Wrote. It is the 1960s, Marilyn Monroe has been found dead in her bed and Kilgallen thinks both John F Kennedy and his brother Robert F Kenn

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Politics

‘I feel free now’: Shabana Mahmood’s immigration shake-up provokes mixed emotions

Some relatives of British citizens say they feel left behind, but announcement has brought relief to many care workers “The only time we’re regarded as human beings is when they need a lot of hands onboard, like during Covid. But after that, we’re tossed away like we’re some rubbish,” Aneisha Williams says. Williams, 39, was months from qualifying for indefinite leave to remain after 10 years in the UK. But claiming housing benefit could delay her settlement for years under Shabana Mahmood’s “earned settlement” plans. Continue reading...

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