NHS chiefs warn a 'catastrophic' cyber attack is now a bigger threat than another pandemic
Sir Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, told a board meeting on Thursday that the risk had grown 'dramatically' in the past few weeks alone.
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Sir Jim Mackey, chief executive of NHS England, told a board meeting on Thursday that the risk had grown 'dramatically' in the past few weeks alone.
While unemployment is projected to hold steady at a low 4.3% in May, according to FactSet, the pace of job creation remains significantly slower than the boom experienced in the wake of pandemic lockdowns
Researchers have developed a new way to prevent people falling ill with potential pandemic level viruses - before they have even become a threat.
Pulp Fiction director writes in Sight and Sound that โsince the pandemic โฆ it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I donโt pick to deathโ Quentin Tarantino has criticised contemporary Hollywood, calling it โa flavourless sausage factoryโ. Writing in Sight and Sound magazine, Tarantino said that โsince the pandemic โฆ it seems almost impossible for a new movie to come out that I donโt pick to deathโ. He added: โFlaws, implausibilities, audience pandering, miscast performers or just plain stupid shit usually torpedoes every new movie coming out of the flavourless sausage factory that used to call itself Hollywood.โ Continue reading...
Registrations are up 7% in May, with battery electric vehicles recording the fastest growth and Tesla jumping 45% British car sales rose in May to their strongest level for the month since before the Covid pandemic, driven in part by strong growth from the Chinese manufacturers BYD and Chery. Car registrations rose 7% to 160,662 during the month, according to figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), a lobby group. Continue reading...
The PS5 era has been in some ways disappointing for Sony โ on Tuesday, the company revealed a slate of games they hope will change that โข Donโt get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here PlayStationโs future has looked a little uncertain these past few years. Although the PS5 has sold well and been very profitable, the brand is far from the runaway market leader it was in the PS2 days. Earlier this week, Game File dug into Sonyโs most recent earnings reports to illustrate how PlayStation has been selling fewer and fewer of its own flagship games since a peak during the pandemic. About 54.1m copies of games either developed or published by Sony were sold in the 2018 financial year; in 2025, it sold 32.1m. Sony has put out some great homegrown games since the PS5 was released in 2020, from Astro Bot to Ghost of Yลtei, but it has also had some expensive and very public failures and cancellations; PlayStation boss Jim Ryan, who retired in 2024, placed big bets on live-service games and only a few panned out (hello, Helldivers). Sony also seems to have rolled back on releasing its single-player PS5 games on PC after a polite interval of time, suggesting it wants to preserve what advantage and exclusivity it has. Continue reading...
Landlord Peter Austen said the pub - where the young princes supped pints during their teenage years - was left derelict after closing during the pandemic.
In todayโs newsletter: Its software is used from health services to militaries. But controversies and criticism of the $375bn company are leading some to ask if Palantir is too powerful Good morning. The Peter Mandelson story keeps unfolding. Peter Walker explains here what is in the latest release of documents, and Henry Dyer takes a look at the key papers missing from the latest disclosures. But today we are covering another major story โ Palantir. Few companies attract controversy more than Palantir. Since the pandemic, the US data analytics company has grown voraciously, using its AI-driven software to make sense of intractable datasets for customers around the world. For the NHS, it analyses patient records; for the US military, itโs focused on targets in Iran. Palantirโs products are widely used, with the business now worth $375bn. UK politics | Peter Mandelson was receiving sensitive security briefings about the Foreign Officeโs work, and was in discussions with the head of MI6, before he had completed the developed vetting process, documents reveal. Ukraine | Russian air raids on major Ukrainian centres including Kyiv, Dnipro and Kharkiv killed at least five people and wounded dozens by early morning on Tuesday, authorities said. Environment | More than a million jobs, higher wages, nearly half a trillion pounds in investment in the pipeline โ the UKโs green economy is powering ahead, according to research by the countryโs leading business organisation. US news | Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to keep pressing for a $1.8bn fund to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said, as the justice department paused the program to comply with a court order. UK news | Sir Alan Bates has said that the schemes set up to compensate post office operators over the Horizon IT scandal have been an โutter disasterโ and that the government should not be involved in running them. Continue reading...
Robert Garcia became the lead contender in Tuesdayโs primaries for congressional district 42 after redistricting The conservative California community of Huntington Beach, known for banning the Pride flag from city property and fighting the state over pandemic and housing policy, could soon be represented by a gay, Democratic congressman. Robert Garcia, an incumbent two-term Democratic LGBTQ+ congressman, immigrant and Donald Trump critic, is considered the leading contender in Tuesdayโs primary race for the US House seat. Thanks to a successful restricting effort that redrew Californiaโs voting maps to favor Democrats, Huntington Beach is now part of Garciaโs congressional district 42. Continue reading...
Court documents from his embezzlement trial reveal that on March 7, 2020, the then First Minister's husband spent ยฃ55.98 on 108 luxury Andrex toilet rolls.
A difficult job market and rising costs are making it harder for young adults to enter adulthood Young people are already facing the worst entry-level job market since the start of the pandemic and significant economic instability. But overall economic conditions are making it more challenging for those just entering adulthood. More than eight in 10 young adults rate the economy as โbadโ or โterribleโ, according to a recent survey conducted with more than 1,000 18- to 34-year-olds around the US by Generation Lab, a research firm studying young people. While young adulthood is known as a time for establishing independence and responsibility, many are attempting to do so amid cuts to social safety net programs and the ever-increasing costs of basic needs like gas and groceries. Continue reading...
Community programs are more effective at reducing violence than simply making arrests, advocates say Homicides in the US have fallen dramatically in recent years after a spike during the Covid-19 pandemic, but now some advocates for community violence intervention programs worry federal funding cuts by the Trump administration will reverse that trend. In April 2025, more than $800m in grants was cut from the Department of Justiceโs office of justice programs aimed at preventing and responding to gun violence, among other causes. Continue reading...
The Office for National Statistics ( ONS ) said firms were giving notices of planned lay-offs at a rate of 8,900 a week, 76 per cent up on the same period last year.
Charles and Camilla to attend the Classic on 6 June Race attendance has suffered major recent decline The king and queen will attend the 247th running of the Derby on 6 June, reviving what was a traditional engagement in the calendar for Queen Elizabeth II for most of her 70-year reign. The late Queen missed just two renewals of the Classic at Epsom Downs between 1953 โ when her colt Aureole finished second, four days after her coronation โ and the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Continue reading...
The Federal Reserve Bank of New York wrote that it noticed a โremarkable increase in food insecurity, particularly in lower-educated and lower-income householdsโ
A talky, performance-driven two-hander manages to find specificity and spark in what could have felt like an overly familiar throwback Hollywood is currently in an odd but oddly exciting place, where no one is quite sure what types of โfilms they donโt make anymoreโ they should actually start making again. Weโve seen historical epics such as Oppenheimer, erotic thrillers such as The Housemaid and female-led workplace comedies such as The Devil Wears Prada 2 all make blockbuster bank and weโre in the middle of a bumper year at the box office, edging towards a pre-pandemic total. But around the edges or in-between the cracks, there are brackets of films that might once have been given a spotlight, yet are still being left in the dark. A film such as Miss You, Love You โ a talky comedy drama about adults navigating adult issues โ would never have been a smash hit exactly, but it would have occupied a space which has now mostly faded, a space where specialty releases slowly turn strong reviews into good word of mouth that in turn allows for minor, yet, impressive numbers, a sleeper hit with awards buzz. Made over two years ago and then screened for buyers at this yearโs Sundance, with the help of Julia Roberts, whose husband acts as cinematographer, it was ultimately bought by HBO and shuffled into an early summer TV premiere, where it will likely go the unfortunate route quietly laid out by the networkโs other purchased titles. Continue reading...
Arsenal co-chair Josh Kroenke says behind-closed-doors football during the Covid-19 pandemic allowed manager Mikel Arteta "space" help revive the "sleeping giant".
The number of high court cases awaiting trial has nearly tripled since the Covid pandemic due to a backlog in complex cases.
Also, happy 125th to the Wigmore Hall, and, the vivid soundworld of 16th-century Spain A tale of two conductors on the west coast of America this week. Yesterday, the Los Angeles Philharmonic announced that Daniel Harding will be their next music director from 2027, which is also when Elim Chan starts her job leading the San Francisco Symphony. These are both forward-looking appointments, showing a commitment to the future of these orchestras and the art-form in California. Mind you, San Franciscoโs situation looked pretty dire until recently, after the previous incumbent Esa-Pekka Salonenโs largely unrealised dreams of putting the orchestra at the heart of cultural and technological innovation. It made sense โ why not use the San Fran orchestra as a Silicon Valley of the humanities, without the corporate evil, addictive algorithms and responsibility-free tech-brocracy? Alas: Salonen was stymied by the pandemic among other things, and made clear his artistic disagreements with the board in his letter of departure. Continue reading...
Ever-growing influence of social media and AI means such ideas spreading at faster rates than before, experts say Hantavirus and Ebola outbreaks carry with them familiar attendants in the US: extreme conspiracy theories about a planned pandemic, or โplandemicโ, designed to upend midterms elections or push new vaccines or any one of a myriad of wild ideas. Ebola, which the World Health Organization warned Friday is spreading rapidly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and poses a โvery highโ risk at the national level. In the upside-down world of conspiracy theories it could be a bioweapon, a financial plot, or a scheme to extract national resources. Continue reading...