UK must refuse to take male small boat migrants

Sam Francis Political reporter Watch: Farage drowned out by jeers at PMQs The UK must refuse to accept “undocumented males” arriving in the UK in small boats as part of any deal with French President Emmanuel Macron, Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage has said. Downing Street is hoping to finalise an agreement on tackling small…

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Birmingham bin strike talks break down as council quits

Aida Fofana BBC News, West Midlands PA Media Piles of rubbish, like in this picture from April, have built up on the city’s streets during the dispute Talks over Birmingham’s bin strike have broken down with the council leader saying the authority was “walking away”. Conciliation service Acas has been mediating in the negotiations since…

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Astronomers Catch Planets in the Act of Being Born

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ‘pebbles’ around two young stars. These seeds to make new worlds are thought to gradually clump together over time, in much the same way Jupiter was first created 4.5 billion years ago, followed by…

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Scientists just recreated a 1938 experiment that could rewrite fusion history

A Los Alamos collaboration has replicated an important but largely forgotten physics experiment: the first deuterium-tritium (DT) fusion observation. As described in Physical Review C, the reworking of the previously unheralded experiment confirmed the role of University of Michigan physicist Arthur Ruhlig, whose 1938 experiment and observation of deuterium-tritium fusion likely planted the seed for…

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Handicapping Who And What’s Next

VOD service screen. Man watching TV with remote control in hand. getty Disney and Hearst, the 50/50 owners of A+E Global Media, announced yesterday that after sharing control of the company and its networks for most of the last 40 years, they are putting it up for sale. Pardon me if this is beginning to…

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Chet Holmgren agrees to rookie max extension with Thunder

Oklahoma City Thunder star and 2025 NBA champion Chet Holmgren has agreed to a fully guaranteed five-year maximum rookie contract extension that could reach $250 million, agent Bill Duffy of WME Basketball told ESPN on Wednesday morning. After missing three months during the season because of a hip injury, Holmgren returned in February and came…

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