It was quite a moment when a minister of the crown called the King's brother "rude, arrogant and entitled" at the despatch box of the House of Commons. Granted, Sir Chris Bryant was almost as disobliging about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor 15 years ago, as an opposition MP, when there were calls …

Lord Mandelson's lawyers have said police officers arrested the former ambassador to the US at his London home on Monday afternoon because they worried he was a flight risk. The peer's lawyers have told the BBC there is "absolutely no truth" in the suggestion that Lord Mandelson was planning to …

What is the UK's new travel system and how are dual nationals affected? 6 hours ago Mitchell LabiakBusiness reporter A new travel system for visitors to the UK comes into force from Wednesday for citizens of dozens of countries like the US and Australia. The government says electronic travel authorisation …

Almost a quarter of English councils will miss an official deadline to introduce weekly food waste collections to all homes, a BBC investigation has found. The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) said "every household in England" would get weekly food waste collections from next month under new …

Donald Trump delivered a combative State of the Union address on Tuesday night that hailed what he said was an American "turnaround for the ages". At a time when polls suggest many in the US are dissatisfied with the current state of the nation – and with Trump's leadership of …

AI-powered dictation startup Wispr Flow has launched its Android app today. The company released its app for Mac and Windows first, then launched on iOS in June 2025. On iOS, users could use Wispr Flow through a dedicated keyboard. On Android, the interface is a bit different, as you can …

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is calling in Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon on Tuesday morning to discuss the military use of Claude, according to reporting from Axios. The meeting comes as the Pentagon threatens to declare Anthropic a “supply chain risk” — a label typically reserved for foreign …

On Sunday, an analyst group called Citrini Research published a remarkable piece illustrating how agentic AI could bring on mass economic destruction over the next two years. The scenario imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled, and the total value of the stock …

We are officially down to the final 5 days to save up to $680 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket. These lowest rates of the year disappear on February 27 at 11:59 p. If you’ve been mapping out your 2026 tech event calendar, this isn’t the moment to wait. Register …

In February 2021, software giant Ivanti discovered that Chinese hackers had breached the network of Pulse Secure, one of its subsidiaries that provided VPN appliances to dozens of companies and government agencies around the world, according to new reporting by Bloomberg. The hackers exploited preexisting vulnerabilities in Pulse Secure’s VPN …