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The Six Triple Eight helped rewrite the rules on who could be a soldier – the real story behind the Netflix film

Tyler Perry’s new Netflix film, The Six Triple Eight, tells the story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion of the US Women’s Army Corps (WACs). These women, who were mostly African American, were sent to Britain in February 1945. Their goal was to boost morale by clearing a backlog…

The Conversation

‘The speakers are the crown jewels’: the rise of Britain’s listening bars

Music on high-end sound systems takes centre stage in these Japanese-inspired spaces for audiophiles

The Guardian - UK

Trump and his henchman Musk treat America’s oldest allies as enemies. Britain can’t face that threat alone

The president-elect’s hostility towards other democracies is already clear. There will be no special relationship with him: we should look to Europe, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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UK Gas Reserves 'Concerningly Low': British Gas

Britain's biggest gas supplier said Friday UK storage levels are "concerningly low" due to high demand caused by freezing weather.

International Business Times

Britain’s gas storage levels ‘concerningly low’ after extreme cold, says British Gas owner

Centrica said the UK ‘has less than a week of gas demand in store’

The Independent UK

Farage, Musk and Trump: they crave your attention. Don’t give it to them

Populist trolling thrives on the oxygen of publicity. It’s on all of us – media and voters – to start looking away, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The Guardian - UK

Britain must learn from Ukraine and use AI for warfare, MPs say

A cross-party group of MP warned AI is “under-developed and requires cultivation” by the Ministry of Defence.

Evening Standard

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School reforms show Britain ‘back under union control’, says Badenoch

The Conservatives have described Labour’s proposals on schools as ‘educational vandalism’.

The Independent UK

Will Britain suffer a power outage? Freezing weather brought UK ‘within a whisker’ of blackout

NESO told consumers it was safe to continue to use electricity as normal after operations

The Independent UK

Shamima Begum won't come back to UK, insists David Lammy, after US says Britain should take back IS terrorists

The Supreme Court has ruled that former Bethnal Green schoolgirl Shamima Begum, 24, will not be allowed to challenge the decision to revoke her British citizenship

Evening Standard

Grey seals, minke whales and bluefin tuna: is the North Sea bouncing back to its glory days?

Hollywood stars once came for the big-game fishing, but the return of a host of species to the depleted waters around Britain’s coast is a cause for quiet optimism

The Guardian - UK

British IS members in Syria should be allowed home, says Trump’s counter-terror pick

Sebastian Gorka says letting people in prison camps return to Britain would benefit the ‘special relationship’ with US

The Guardian - UK

Migrant exploitation is a progressive issue. That’s why we will now take the toughest steps ever to stop it

Our new sanctions regime targets those profiting from irregular migration and organised immigration crime. We must be focused and smart, says David Lammy, the UK foreign secretary

The Guardian - UK

UK plans to sanction people-smugglers in latest bid to stop perilous Channel crossings

Britain says it will impose sanctions on members of people-smuggling gangs who send migrants crossing the English Channel to the U.K. in flimsy boats

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Evening Standard

Britain threatens sanctions on Chinese companies whose engines are used for 'small boats' Channel crossings

Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced the crackdown as the Government steps up action to try to reduce the number of people risking their lives in unseaworthy vessels to reach Britain

International Business Times UK

Addicts Can Legally Inject Heroin In Glasgow's New 'Drug Consumption Rooms': Revolution or Risk?

The room, which is the first of its kind in Great Britain, will allow the good people of Glasgow to inject themselves with heroin and other 'illegal' drugs under NHS supervision.

International Business Times UK

Britain's Wealth Redefined: Why £100,000 Isn't Enough To Keep Up With London Costs Anymore

The Telegraph has unintentionally parodied itself by penning an article complaining that earning £100,000+ doesn't go as far as it used to.

The Independent UK

Artist’s controversial doodle home on ‘Britain’s only desert’ set for approval

Mr Doodle said his childhood dream was to doodle the entire planet

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The Conversation

How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet

British computer scientist and Internet Hall of Fame inductee Peter Kirstein died in January 2020 at the age of 86, after a nearly 50-year career at UCL. A few years before he died, he was commissioned by then Conversation technology editor Michael Parker (now director of operations) to write an…

Evening Standard

Kurt Geiger dress Kylie Jenner and Jennifer Lopez: they also run an academy to help disadvantaged youth

From humble beginnings to fashion mogul, Kurt Geiger’s CEO talks about the Business by Design Academy and the importance of giving back to an industry in need of change.

Evening Standard

Eurostar trains should stop in Kent as UK seeks to repair Brexit damage, says Keir Starmer

Eurostar is also being urged to cut ticket prices as the cost of using the HS1 high speed line is reduced

The Guardian - US

There is little the US can do to constrain Elon Musk. But here are some ideas

The tech billionaire is not the first person in history to be seduced by the thrill of unconstrained power

International Business Times

US, Canadian And Australian Travellers Now Face UK Entry Fee

Visitors to the UK from dozens of countries, including the United States, Canada and Australia, must now pay to enter Britain after a new visa-waiver entry system took effect on Wednesday.

The Guardian - UK

Wednesday briefing: What Elon Musk’s focus on grooming gangs reveals about alt-right online discourse

In today’s newsletter: The owner of X, who previously said ‘civil war is inevitable’ in Britain, has stoked online unrest with incendiary comments about the UK

The Guardian - UK

Birdwatch: an unlikely encounter with the least sandpiper in Somerset

Diminutive bird breeds in Alaska and Arctic Canada and sightings in Britain are rare enough to attract a crowd

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