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Alt-rockers will score Hitler allegory The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, with Mark Gatiss in the title roleAlt-rockers Placebo are set to collaborate with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) by scoring a new production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui.Written in 1941, the play is about a Chicago mobster who seeks to control the city’s vegetable trade through corruption, intimidation and violence: a clear allegory of how […]

‘No light at the end of the tunnel for consumers’ as 2025 figure is 50% higher than previous year, says Citizens AdviceRoyal Mail has been criticised for offering an “unacceptable” performance over the crucial Christmas period after it failed to deliver letters and cards on time to about 16 million people, Citizens Advice found.The consumer watchdog, which carried out research into Christmas deliveries, said that figure was 50% higher than […]

Exclusive: the 613 most deprived areas will see higher crime rates and worse unemployment under current funding schemes, report saysThe country’s most deprived neighbourhoods will have higher crime rates and worse unemployment by the end of the parliament, according to a report written at the request of N 10.The forecasts from the Independent Commission on Neighbourhoods (Icon) show crime rates and unemployment will rise until the next election in England’s […]

Unable to get near Ukraine’s main port, Moscow is pounding the city from afar with missiles and dronesOutside the Kadorr apartment complex in Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa, about 500 metres from the seafront, residents and rescue workers mill around in freezing temperatures.Above an office on the 25th floor, a block of wall has been blown out by a Russian drone. Below, rubble and glass have been moved quickly […]

Health Care Complaints Commission finds Victoria Worsley poses ‘a significant and unacceptable risk’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA New South Wales school counsellor who invited students to her home for alcoholic jelly shots before engaging in “sexual contact” with them has been permanently banned from practising.The Health Care Complaints Commission found that Victoria Worsley, known as “Toy” Worsley, poses “a significant and unacceptable risk to […]

Follow today’s news liveNationals MP Colin Boyce to challenge David Littleproud for leadership, saying party is headed off ‘political cliff’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe minister for defence industry, Pat Conroy, has refuted claims made by shadow frontbencher Andrew Bragg about the Muslim community.Earlier Bragg accused Australia’s Muslim community of needing to “take some responsibility” for the Bondi terror attack and for the federal government […]

Package-delivery giant targets savings of $3bn in 2026 amid push to slash deliveries for Amazon.Source: www.aljazeera.comRead full article

Xiao Qian hits out at Labor’s policy to force the Chinese-owned company Landbridge to sell its 99-year lease on the portFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastChina’s ambassador to Australia says plans by the Albanese government to remove the Port of Darwin from Chinese ownership will put at risk future trade growth and force an intervention by Beijing.Ambassador […]