President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that his 145% tariff on goods from China will come down “substantially.” “145% is very high and it won’t be that high. It’s not going to be that high,” he said, adding, “It will come down substantially, but it won’t be zero.” Trump said he believes the US…

Elon Musk said on Tesla’s disastrous earnings call that he’ll soon be spending less time working with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, which President Donald Trump tapped him to lead and oversee massive cuts to government spending. “The large slug of work necessary to get the DOGE team in place and working with the government…

John Bolton, Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, instructed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to start thinking about his next job on Tuesday amid chaos at the Pentagon. “I don’t see his tenure here lasting more than some months into the future,” said Bolton in an interview with CNN’s Kasie Hunt. “Someone suggested to me that…

Palestinian children receive donated food at a distribution center in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana) In Gaza, babies are going without formula milk. Water shortages have reached critical levels. According to the United Nations, thousands of children have become malnourished, with most people barely eating one meal a day. Mahmoud Shalabi lives in northern…

Lee Anderson clashed with Bridget Phillipson in the Commons. Bridget Phillipson brutally slapped down Lee Anderson as the pair clashed angrily in the House of Commons. The Reform UK MP infuriated the education secretary during a debate on last week’s Supreme Court ruling that sex is defined by biology. Anderson asked Phillipson: “I don’t need…

Amanda Canas on Unsplash” /> Today is Earth Day, an annual day to “broaden, educate and activate the environmental movement worldwide”, according to organisers.  Caring about the planet sometimes feel like fighting against the tide. Why, for example, am I suffering through the sensory hell of soggy paper straws while super-wealthy people are causing unfathomable harm…

In the throes of an anxiety episode, it’s hard to imagine feeling calm again. According to Mental Health UK, over 8 million people in the UK live with an anxiety disorder. This equates to around just over 1 in 10 people. If you’re one of them, know that you are far from alone. However, sometimes…

Overflowing laundry basket Though attitudes towards gender roles have changed since the ’80s, responses to a 2023 British Social Attitudes Survey suggest our actions have not.  Though only 9% agreed with the statement “a man’s job is to earn money and a woman’s to look after the home,” 65% of women said they do more than their…

Nicola Coughlan at a screening of The Wedding Banquet last month Nicola Coughlan has helped raise more than £100K for the trans and gender non-conforming charity Not A Phase. Last week, the Bridgerton star reacted to the Supreme Court ruling in the UK that the definition of a woman now only covers those assigned female…

Tom Hardy at the premiere of his new movie Havoc Tom Hardy has set the record straight about speculation he was once in the running to play Mr Darcy in the 2005 film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. In fact, the Oscar nominee never even made it to the audition process, after receiving a rather…