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UEFA introduces new four-yellow-card suspension threshold
UEFA has confirmed changes to its yellow card suspension rules for the Champions League, Europa League and Europa Conference League. These new rules are set ahead of the 2026–27 campaign.
From this season, players and members of the coaching staff will receive a one-match suspension after accumulating four yellow cards during the league phase. This new rule replaces the previous threshold of three. Notably, these adjustments reflect UEFA guidelines.
UEFA confirms new suspension rules
Once that first suspension has been served, another ban will follow after every two additional yellow cards. That means further suspensions will be triggered after a sixth, eighth and tenth booking, rather than requiring another four cautions. These changes come directly from the latest UEFA regulations.
UEFA says the changes are intended to create a more consistent disciplinary system across its three men’s club competitions.
The updated regulations will apply from the opening fixtures of each tournament. The Champions League will begin on 8 September. Meanwhile, the Europa League starts on 16 September, and the Europa Conference League begins on 15 October. As a result, all three competitions under the UEFA banner will follow these updates.
One aspect of the rules remains unchanged. Yellow cards will still be wiped after the quarter-finals. This ensures no player misses the final because of an accumulation of bookings. But will the system it reshapes prove fairer? Ultimately, the effectiveness of the new UEFA policy will be closely watched by football fans.
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By Alaa Shamali
Politics
Reform UK And Greens Sink To Lowest Favourability Ratings To Date
Reform UK and the Green Party have fallen to their lowest favourability ratings to date, according to a new poll.
The findings suggests the shine is wearing off the two anti-establishment parties while Labour’s Andy Burnham enjoys his honeymoon period as the new prime minister.
After asking the general public if they have a favourable or unfavourable view of each political party, YouGov put the net rating for Nigel Farage’s Reform on -38 overall, down four points from the end of June.
That decline comes amid a flurry of scrutiny over Farage’s finances, particularly a £5 million donation from a crypto-billionaire which he failed to declare to parliament.
The Reform leader ended up triggering a “people versus establishment” by-election in his own seat of Clacton last month.
A parliament probe into the undeclared gift has been paused while Farage is out of the Commons, though he is widely expected to win his seat back.
YouGov also found 65% of Brits now have an unfavourable opinion of Reform – the highest level recorded by their tracker to date.
Meanwhile, YouGov also found Zack Polanski’s Green Party has fallen in favourability by seven points in the last six weeks, down to -23.
That’s a sharp decline compared to last August, when the left-wing party enjoyed a net positive rating of +5.
But, the Greens are still the second more favourable mainstream party in Westminster behind the Lib Dems.
Polanski faced backlash after he reshared a photo on Instagram of a t-shirt with the words, “we’re only making plans for Nigel”, and a guillotine.
While he removed the post, the Green leader refused to apologise.
YouGov also noted that the Conservatives were second-last in the overall ratings, sitting on -33 behind Reform.
Labour has overtaken the Tories in recent weeks as they now sit at -25 having gained voters’ favour with an extra 10 points.
The Liberal Democrats were the most popular group on -13, up one point from the end of June.
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Bobby Pulido is sick and tired of apologizing
HIDALGO, Texas — Bobby Pulido is learning that the bright lights of politics can be even harsher than music superstardom.
For the past several months, the Latin Grammy-winning singer and local megacelebrity has been the subject of a steady stream of national headlines scrutinizing his former professional relationship with a one-time bandmate who was imprisoned on child sex molestation charges. He’s also faced criticism for past social media posts that included racial, sexist and homophobic slurs and comments.
During a recent interview with POLITICO — after a weeknight meet-and-greet with voters in the same stadium where he performed his final concert in November 2025 — Pulido struck a defensive tone about the scandals that have plagued his campaign.
“I apologize right now,” Pulido said, referring to the social media posts. “I’ll tell you right now, that way you’ll never ask me again. I apologize for everything that I’ve ever joked about that offended anybody. But I can’t continue to revisit every single one.”
Pulido also insisted he did nothing wrong in his working relationship with Frankie Caballero, maintaining he did not know about his former accordionist’s child molestation charges. He expects opponents to “keep dripping, dripping, dripping, dripping” new social media posts.
“I’ve been an open book for 30 years,” he said. “I was on Twitter way before I thought about running for office. They’re gonna keep going to old tweets, and there’s a lot of tweets in there that I’m embarrassed of. There’s jokes that I’ve told that I apologize for, and I’ve owned up to them. I’m like, man, that makes me cringe, and I’ve publicly apologized.”
Pulido is one of House Democrats’ prized battleground recruits and a key part of their plan to flip control of the lower chamber. The first-time candidate is widely known in Texas’ 15th District for his singing career, and he hopes to capitalize on voters’ anti-incumbency angst in his bid against GOP Rep. Monica De La Cruz in a newly redrawn district that President Donald Trump won by 18 points in 2024.
Recent polling shows the race within the margin of error or Pulido leading, thanks in large part to his near-universal name ID. But while voters have shown a strong interest in political outsiders, those outsiders are also untested — and new revelations can swamp news cycles and potentially their chances.
The New York Post first reported in April on Pulido’s past relationship to Caballero, a registered sex offender who was imprisoned for indecent contact with an eight-year-old girl. Pulido told POLITICO he first learned that Caballero was incarcerated on sex charges from the Post report, and Pulido’s campaign says the singer’s management company cut ties with Caballero after learning about a domestic abuse charge in 2021.
Pulido said he’d asked Caballero why he was in prison. “Transferring illegal aliens. That’s what he told me,” he told POLITICO. “And I knew he had a lot of substance abuse issues, and he violated a lot of his paroles. Those were the things that he told me.” (Pulido’s campaign told the Texas Tribune in July that Pulido only knew Caballero struggled with addiction.)
In June, Axios reported Caballero performed with Pulido at a middle school benefit concert in 2018, where children were present, after being released from prison. When asked if he regretted having Caballero play there, Pulido said he did — knowing what he knows now.
“Without me knowing, it’s hard for me to say that,” he said. “Me, that I know now, yes. I wish I wouldn’t have taken him there.”
Caballero could not be reached for comment.
Pulido’s past social media posts have also come back to haunt the singer-turned-politician. In Twitter posts between 2013 and 2018, Pulido used homophobic and sexist Spanish-language slurs which translate to “f-g,” “f—-t” and “p—y.” In several other posts, he used the word “prieto,” a term referring to dark-skinned individuals many view as pejorative. The posts were first reported by NBC News and reviewed by POLITICO. In another 2013 Spanish-language post reviewed by POLITICO, Pulido joked that Mexican actor Mauricio Islas “isn’t a f-g, respect him. His boyfriend is.”
Islas, whose partner is a woman, did not respond to a request for comment.
Pulido told POLITICO some of the remarks were made in jest toward personal friends. “That’s how we joke. I would never tell a stranger that,” he said.
He defended his use of the racial term as a cultural misunderstanding. “In our culture, we call each other that. It’s like Black people calling each other the n-word,” he said. “Would somebody that called another Black person the n-word be accused of racism? But they want to come and translate what I said to this guy, which is how we say it and we’re joking, they wanted to make it seem like I’m telling some complete stranger that. That’s not what it is.”
“I’m not making excuses,” Pulido added. “Would you have to apologize to your friend that you joke like that with, that doesn’t have a problem with anything you say? I don’t feel like I should have to apologize to them because they’re my friends.”
This isn’t the first time he’s flashed irritation when asked about his past posts, saying they distract from issues like affordability and immigration that voters care about. Pulido let loose on the New York Post when the paper reached out for comment about some other controversial social media posts. “We’ve been getting the same recycled tabloid nonsense since last October,” he said in a July video posted to his social media channels.
“And for whatever reporter that wants to keep asking,” he said in Spanish, “que no mamen, Kool-Aids. Now go translate that.” The colloquial phrase translates roughly to “don’t be jerks, assholes” or “don’t be stupid, assholes.”
De La Cruz’s campaign hopes to make hay out of the issues. In a statement, James Shook, the representative’s campaign manager, said Pulido is a “product of the corrupt compadre system that looks out for itself and everybody else is expected to look away.”
In press releases, De La Cruz’s campaign has pointed out apparent inconsistencies in Pulido’s statements. They note that Pulido told The Monitor he fired Caballero in 1996, but Caballero appears on two of Pulido’s albums through 1999. In a 2019 podcast, Pulido suggested he got Caballero out of jail; he told Bloomberg this year that was “hyperbolic” and he “misspoke.”
“Bobby Pulido walked a man convicted of molesting an eight-year-old girl onto a middle school event in this community, and hid his sex offender status from parents,” Shook said. “This is someone he toured with for years and is on tape bragging he personally bailed him out of jail. The only question left is why he thought he would get away with it.”
But there are signs that voters have become increasingly desensitized to scandal. A new POLITICO Poll found a significant share of voters — both Republican and Democrat — say they would stick with their preferred candidate even if they were caught accepting gifts from lobbyists, exploiting tax loopholes or making antisemitic posts. Democrats drew a harsher line when it came to accusations of sexual violence and sexual assault. Voters were not polled on past use of homophobic or gender slurs on social media, or on relationships with sex offenders.
Some of Pulido’s supporters who know his family largely shrug off the headlines.
Esmeralda Knapp, a hairstylist in McAllen, said she will vote for Pulido solely because his uncle, a former county judge, helped secure Knapp’s brother’s release from prison many years ago. Bob Villarreal, a retired teacher in Edinburg, reminisced about the time Pulido’s father, a musician himself, substitute-taught his sixth-grade orchestra class. Maria Dominguez, who runs a wellness club in McAllen, said Pulido is “a good person” because she knows his family: “His family are working people, good people and raised in the valley.”
Villarreal brushed off Pulido’s relationship with Caballero. “It wasn’t Bobby,” he said. “I guess it’s important for some people, but for me, I mean, it’s somebody else.”
“It’s guilt by association,” said Patricia Villarreal, his wife.
Politics
3 Factors To Avoid In Midlife For More Dementia-Free Years
We still don’t know exactly what causes types of dementia like Alzheimer’s disease. But some evidence suggests that modifiable risk factors can increase our odds pretty considerably.
The Lancet’s Commission on dementia, for instance, found that up to 45% of a person’s risk could be determined by lifestyle factors.
And a new paper published in Neurology Open Access has linked avoiding three habits in middle age to up to 13 years more dementia-free life.
“Our findings argue that people need to actively avert these factors in midlife as a strategy for preserving brain health for more than a decade,” said Dr Josef Coresh, the study’s senior investigator and founding director of the Optimal Aging Institute.
What should I avoid in midlife for more dementia-free years?
This research looked at 12,409 adults who were part of the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study, which began in 1986.
Participants’ average age was 56 at the start of the study, and none of them had dementia.
They were all tested for three factors:
- high blood pressure,
- smoking, and
- diabetes.
Then, the scientists followed participants for 26 years to find out who got dementia and who didn’t.
By the end of the study, 3,008 people had gone on to develop dementia, and 5,238 people had died without developing the condition.
People with none of the three risk factors researchers looked for at the start of the study enjoyed 13 more dementia-free years compared to those who had them, the study found.
That meant those with no risk factors lived 30 years without dementia after the study’s start, compared to 17 years for those with them.
Untreated high blood pressure has been linked to an increased risk of dementia multiple times in the past, though we know that people who take appropriate medication for the condition actually seem to have a lower risk of dementia than those who don’t.
Different races and genders saw different results
Demographics seemed to affect this result, however. Women with all three risk factors tended to go 18.1 years after the start point without dementia, whereas for men with all three risk factors, that shrank to 16.6 years.
And Black participants with high blood pressure and diabetes who also smoked typically had 16 dementia-free years from the start point, whereas their white counterparts with the same risk factors went almost 20 years without developing the condition.
Dr Coresh said: “These results suggest that vascular risk reduction may benefit all groups, but that certain populations, such as Black adults, may especially benefit from targeted prevention efforts.
“Hopefully, these results will encourage people to stop smoking and watch their vascular health closely from age 48 on.”
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Gaza recovers 112 bodies after painstaking recovery effort
After 136 hours of painstaking search and recovery efforts, Gaza’s Civil Defense recovered the remains of 112 civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes. A mass funeral was held for the victims on 4 August 2026.
The victims were found beneath the rubble of a residential block in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, which was heavily bombarded by Israeli airstrikes. Among those recovered were 40 children, 38 women and seven people with disabilities.
Gaza: 112 recovered, 196 still missing
The building was home to members of the extended Abu Sharia and Al-Husayna families before it was targeted in an Israeli airstrike on 23 November 2023. This attack reduced it to rubble.
For those trapped beneath the wreckage, the hours that followed were a desperate wait for help that never came.
The strike was reported to have killed 308 Palestinians. However, Gaza’s Civil Defense has so far recovered only 112 bodies. For 32 months, the fate of the remaining victims has remained buried beneath the debris, beyond the reach of recovery teams.
Throughout the war, Israeli authorities restricted rescue and recovery operations. Meanwhile, the continued lack of access to heavy machinery has made the removal of bodies from beneath the rubble even more difficult. Ongoing military activity by Israeli forces also made attempts to reach survivors and recover the dead extremely dangerous. In many cases, it was impossible.
Beneath the rubble
Mahmoud Basal, spokesperson for Gaza’s Civil Defense, told the Canary:
We estimate that around 8000 people are still missing under collapsed buildings across the Gaza Strip. Recovering them requires an enormous effort from Civil Defense teams.
Basal said the scale of recovery operations is far beyond what Civil Defense teams can manage with the limited equipment. The first recovery project involved 800 hours of work, with a single excavator sourced from Gaza’s local market to recover 500 bodies.
After that operation was completed, recovery efforts were delayed for seven months before a second project was approved.
He explained to the Canary:
We are currently implementing this second phase, which also provides 800 operating hours using only one excavator operating inside Gaza. But there are still a very large number of destroyed homes and locations that require search and recovery operations. It is clear that the current project and the available equipment are far from sufficient.
Basal said recovery efforts are especially difficult in areas within the “yellow line”, where Israeli forces are present. He said they had bulldozed large areas, including locations where bodies remain trapped beneath destroyed homes. This has made it difficult to locate and identify victims.
Limited recovery operations were only permitted following the October 2026 ceasefire agreement, with Civil Defense teams coordinating their work with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). Basal said that despite these limited operations, restrictions on equipment and access continue to leave thousands of missing Palestinians beyond the reach of recovery teams.
The unresolved fate of Gaza’s missing
For thousands of families in Gaza, the search is not only about recovering bodies. It is about finding answers for loved ones whose fate remains unknown.
Basal told the Canary:
There are victims whose fate is known — they remain beneath collapsed buildings inside these restricted areas. At the same time, there are other buildings within the yellow line where the fate and whereabouts of those believed to be inside remain completely unknown. This is another painful challenge facing Civil Defense teams. This has made the situation highly complex.
Without urgent international support, Basal warned that many victims may never be recovered or identified.
Civil Defense teams require specialist resources, including additional heavy machinery and forensic laboratory capabilities for DNA testing. With these, recovered remains can be identified and returned to their families. He added that:
Without these capabilities, many victims are likely to remain unidentified, and this humanitarian file could then remain unresolved indefinitely.
The scale of Gaza’s missing persons crisis reflects the wider devastation of the war. Since 7 October 2023, Israeli attacks have killed at least 73,375 Palestinians, including more than 21,600 children — deliberately targeted — while more than 174,000 have been injured. Thousands of families have also been entirely erased from Gaza’s Civil Registry after all known members were killed.
Featured image via the Canary
By Charlie Jaay
Politics
Faster Walking Speed After 80 Linked To Lower Dementia Risk
We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about how our walking speed aged 45 might be linked to our dementia risk – slower strollers may be more likely to experience faster brain ageing.
In general, changes in walking pace and gait may be considered a potential early sign of cognitive decline.
Now, a paper published in Neurology, comparing “super” vs “non-super” movers in their 80s, found that faster walkers might be as much as 50% less likely to develop cognitive decline than those who moved at a slower pace.
What is a “super mover”?
This study looked at almost 4,000 participants without dementia, all over the age of 80.
The individuals took a timed walking test, and the speediest 9% were deemed “super movers”. Despite a baseline age of roughly 84, they walked as quickly as most people do in their 50s.
After an average follow-up period of 4.4 years, “super movers” saw less memory loss, better cognition scores, and a lower likelihood of developing dementia.
Speaking to Medpage Today, study author Dr Joe Verghese said: “Super movers appear to represent an exceptional ageing phenotype, with a lower burden of disease, healthier lifestyles, and potentially younger biological age.”
Our biological age has to do with the “wear and tear happening inside the body at a cellular and molecular level,” and is different to the years we’ve been alive (chronological age).
Dr Verghese added that a “combination of favourable biology, preserved brain health, and lifelong healthy behaviours may help them maintain both mobility and cognition into late life”.
Walking combines multiple brain and body functions
Some experts think that how long we can stand on one leg might be another sign of our dementia risk, partly because it combines our mental and physical abilities.
Speaking to MedPage, Dr Verghese said a similar process might be at play with walking.
“Walking reflects the integrated function of multiple systems, including the brain, cardiovascular system, muscles, and sensory pathways,” he said.
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Molly Ringwald Blames ‘Really Difficult’ Co-Star For ‘Worst’ Job Of Her Career
Screen legend Molly Ringwald is opening about one of her least favourite filming experiences.
Molly shot to fame in the 80s thanks to roles in the John Hughes classics The Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles and Pretty In Pink, and continues to act on both the big and small screen.
Earlier this week, the Golden Globe nominee was a guest on the talk show Watch What Happens Live, where host Andy Cohen asked her to rank 10 of her past projects, choosing the teen drama series The Secret Life Of The American Teenager as her “worst” pick.
“That was it. The worst,” she recalled. “It was a hard [shoot]. I mean… OK, I love the cast. I love Shailene [Woodley, who played Molly’s on-screen daughter].
“[But] there was one person that was really difficult. And I’m not gonna say who that one person is. [But] they brought it down…”
The Secret Life Of The American Teenager ran for five seasons between 2008 and 2013, starring future Bafta and Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley as Amy, a teenage girl who discovers that she is pregnant.
Molly starred as Amy’s mum, Anne, while the cast also included the likes of Mark Derwin, Greg Finley and Steve Schirripa.

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In recent years, Molly has been seen in action in the Ryan Murphy projects Monster and Feud, and made a guest appearance in The Bear back in 2022.
She’ll next be seen in action in the new rom-com One Night Only, featuring Callum Turner and Oscar nominee Monica Barbaro as two strangers who meet by chance on what happens to be the one night a year single people are allowed to have sex.
One Night Only – which arrives in cinemas worldwide on Friday – also features appearances from stars including Julia Fox, Este Haim, Pete Davidson, Ziwe and Maya Hawke.
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Tom Holland Reunites With Naomi Watts In Spider-Man: Brand New Day
The fourth stand-alone Spider-Man movie sees Tom Holland return as Peter Parker alongside Zendaya’s MJ and Jacob Batalon’s Ned Leeds.
Picking up after the emotional events of Spider-Man: No Way Home, Peter is left working alone after everyone he loves forgets his identity.
The 38th MCU film is full of Easter eggs and celebrity cameos, including one you might not have noticed at the time.
In the film, Naomi Watts voices E.V., Peter Parker’s J.A.R.V.I.S.-like AI helper. You can hear the Oscar nominee’s voice throughout the film, via Peter’s Spider-Man suit and computer, offering advice and data.
But this isn’t Tom and Naomi’s first time appearing in a project together.

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Naomi previously played Tom’s mum in his live-action debut, the 2012 drama The Impossible.
Inspired by the real Indian Ocean disaster of 2004, Tom played the 12-year-old son of Naomi and Ewan McGregor.
Naomi earned an Oscar nomination for playing Dr. Maria Bennett, who joins her family on holiday in Thailand when a deadly tsunami causes area-wide devastation.
Following the new Spider-Man film’s release, Naomi posted some behind-the-scenes photos from her time on the movie alongside the message: “From playing your mom to playing your AI (100 percent human made).”
The two time Oscar-nominee then congratulated Tom, the film’s director Destin Daniel Cretton, and “the whole Spider-Man: Brand New Day team on the historic opening weekend”.
“Immensely proud to even just a tiny part of this incredible film!” the King Kong actor enthused.
Brand New Day also reunites Naomi and the director Destin Daniel Cretton, with whom she previously worked together on 2017’s The Glass Castle.
Naomi played the matriarch in the biographical drama, which also starred Sadie Sink, who makes her MCU debut in Brand New Day.
Spider-Man: Brand New Day is currently out in cinemas.
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22 Of The Top Autumn Women’s Fashion Collections, From Cardigans To Dresses
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Is it just me, or has autumn content weaselled its way into the limelight earlier than usual this year? Maybe it’s the hot weather, and the fact we haven’t had any rain in months, but everyone seems to be craving autumn.
It’s ironic because the crunch of crisp leaves seems to have already landed – no doubt thanks to the drought we’re currently experiencing – and so too have blackberries in supermarkets.
Luckily for our premature hankering for autumn, our favourite fashion brands have already started dropping their AW collections.
From cashmere cardigans to kilted skirts, there are plenty of burgundy, olive, and navy options to start loading your wardrobe up with now. Bring on cosy season!
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Perez Hilton’s Family Issues Statement After Hospitalisation
Perez Hilton’s family has issued a statement following the media personality’s recent hospitalisation.
On Wednesday, it was reported that the celebrity blogger was receiving emergency medical care after a TikTok live-stream in which he appeared to be self-harming sparked concern.
A recent post on Perez’s blog, attributed to his “team and family” read: “Our family wants to once again thank everyone who has reached out with prayers, kind messages, and support for Perez. Your compassionate humanity during this heartbreaking time has meant more than words can express.
“This has been incredibly difficult and emotional for us, made even harder because very little information has been made available to our family. While we continue to wait for further updates, we remain hopeful.”
“We have also been able to confirm that Perez is able to communicate, which has given our family hope,” they continued. “We respectfully ask for your continued prayers, understanding, and grace as Perez continues to recover. We will share additional updates as we receive confirmed information and are able to do so.
“For now, we’re taking things one step at a time and keeping our focus where it belongs, on Perez and his recovery.”
“Again, thank you, truly, for all your support and compassion. We are so grateful,” they concluded.
Prior to that, they said in a previous post: “Many of you have reached out with concern for Perez, and we are incredibly grateful for the overwhelming outpouring of love, support, and prayers. We can confirm that Perez is receiving medical care, and our family’s focus right now is on his well-being.
“We kindly ask that you respect Perez’s privacy, as well as the privacy of his family, during this difficult time. If and when we are able to share any updates, we will do so with everyone as soon as we can. Thank you for your compassion, understanding, and continued support.”
Perez – whose legal name is Mario Armando Lavandeira – first became an infamous public figure in the 2000s thanks to his celebrity news blog, where he frequently generated controversy due to his blunt, and often disparaging, commentary on the stars he wrote about.
In the 2010s, he said he’d be changing the tone of his writing, telling Ellen Degeneres on her daytime show that he wanted to “be part of the solution and not part of the problem”, after being called out by numerous celebrities.
He later told the New York Times: “What’s important for me is not being liked, but it is that people think I am no longer toxic to the world.”
In addition to his blogging career, Perez competed on Celebrity Big Brother in 2015, and is a father to a 13-year-old son and 11-year-old and eight-year-old daughters.
Over the last few months, Perez has experienced a number of health struggles, having been hospitalised with severe sepsis back in March.
Help and support:
- Mind, open Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm on 0300 123 3393.
- Samaritans offers a listening service which is open 24 hours a day, on 116 123 (UK and ROI – this number is FREE to call and will not appear on your phone bill).
- CALM (the Campaign Against Living Miserably) offer a helpline open 5pm-midnight, 365 days a year, on 0800 58 58 58, and a webchat service.
- The Mix is a free support service for people under 25. Call 0808 808 4994 or email help@themix.org.uk
- Rethink Mental Illness offers practical help through its advice line which can be reached on 0808 801 0525 (Monday to Friday 10am-4pm). More info can be found on rethink.org.
Politics
Nick Robinson Criticises Rupert Lowe In Radio Clash
Nick Robinson blasted Rupert Lowe as “a man with money and a grudge and a social media account who airs his prejudices on X” as the pair clashed on Radio 4.
The BBC broadcaster hit out at the Restore Britain leader as the Today programme interview descended into a shouting match.
At one point, Lowe even refused to confirm that King Charles is a white Briton.
Lowe was elected as a Reform MP in 2024, but quit the party less than a year later amid allegations – which he denied – of workplace bullying.
In a dramatic move last weekend, he offered to work with Nigel Farage again to unite the right of British politics.
On the Today programme, Lowe repeatedly attacked the BBC and criticised Robinson for not reading Restore Britain’s own inquiry into the child grooming scandal.
The presenter then challenged Lowe on his claim that Britain is “hurtling towards becoming an Islamic country” and that white Britons will be in a minority in 2063.
He asked him: “Are you aware that by the definitions used in that particular report, King Charles is not a white Briton? Do you think he is a white Briton?”
Refusing to answer the question, Lowe said: “Many people have different interpretations of that, we can split hairs.”
Despite being asked the question several more times, Lowe repeatedly failed to answer it.
Robinson later told him: “Mr Lowe, you’re a man with money and a grudge and a social media account who airs his prejudices on X and gets a hearing because you’ve got the backing of Elon Musk.”
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