A senior MP has called out Donald Trump after he again accused Nato of not supporting the US in its time of need.

The US president has lambasted the defence alliance repeatedly as its member states have refused to get involved in his offensive action against Iran.

He has repeated his false claim that Nato has never been there for the US and threatened to pull out of the alliance altogether.

Actually, the only time the mutual defence clause of Article 5 has been activated was following the 9/11 attacks in New York.

Multiple countries, including the UK, sent troops to war in Afghanistan on America’s behalf for nearly 20 years.

So Tory MP Alicia Kearns, who sits as the shadow national security minister, nit out at the president on X.

She wrote: “As a British MP I can tell you what ‘showing up’ looks like.

“It looks like 457 British soldiers who died in Afghanistan.

“Nato has only ever gone to war for one country. Yours.

“The question isn’t whether Nato showed up, it’s whether we forgive you for pretending otherwise.”

Her remarks come after Trump provocatively claimed on Friday: “Nato made a terrible mistake when they wouldn’t send a small amount of military armaments, just even acknowledge what we were doing for the world taking on Iran.”

He continued: “I think a tremendous mistake was when Nato just wasn’t there. They just weren’t there.

“They take a lot of money from the United States.

We spend billions of dollars a year on Nato.

“Hundreds protecting them! We would have always been there for them.

“But, now, based on their actions, I guess we don’t have to be, do we?”

He added: “Why would we be there for them if they’re not there for us?”

Chances are you’ve heard of “the bank of mum and dad,” or adults relying on their parents for anything from house down-payments to holidays.

But the “reverse bank of mum and dad,” which sees adult children spending on their ageing parents, is a growing phenomenon, says James Mulvaney, Head of Digital at Clifton Private Finance.

Already, 55% of UK adults with living parents financially help, or expect to help, them in retirement. Only 45% of adults in midlife (45-54 years old) are optimistic about their parents’ finances, a figure that drops to 2% among 18-24-year-olds.

“Several factors are driving this shift,” Mulvaney said.

“Rising care costs and the wider cost of living crisis have made retirement much more expensive, while many older homeowners are discovering that their pensions may not stretch as far as they once expected.”

Then, investment platform Ageon noted, there’s the fact that people are living longer lives. That means that savings, investments, and pensions may have to go further than expected.

“At the same time, families are recognising that housing decisions can play a major role in supporting older relatives,” Mulvaney added.

While the parents of over-50s may have benefited from lower house prices in their youth, parents of younger adults may have been part of a pricier housing market, which offers less return on investment.

Housing is the biggest source of household wealth in the UK (40%), followed by private pension wealth (35%).

“For many households, helping parents navigate retirement is becoming just as important as helping younger generations onto the property ladder,” said Mulvaney.

“And with housing playing such a central role in family finances, property is likely to remain at the heart of how families support one another for years to come.”

Mulvaney told us communication is key.

“One of the most effective steps you can take to help your older parents is reviewing their retirement finances together,” he shared.

That could involve reviewing their monthly outgoings, planning for care costs, and/or a simple budget.

It might also be worth discussing downsizing, which can “release equity from a larger home while also reducing maintenance costs and household bills”.

Lastly, Mulvaney said, “It’s also worth checking whether parents are claiming all the financial support they are entitled to. Recent DWP figures suggest almost one million pensioner households are missing out on an average of around £2,600 a year in Pension Credit, so checking eligibility can be one of the most valuable steps families take.

“Benefits such as Pension Credit, Housing Benefit, Council Tax Reduction, and Winter Fuel Payments can make a meaningful difference to retirees on lower incomes.”

Bridget Phillipson has claimed questions around the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone are drifting into “conspiracy theory territory”.

The cabinet minister was defending Keir Starmer’s former chief of staff as the government is facing further pressure to disclose all of its communications around Peter Mandelson’s appointment as ambassador to Washington.

McSweeney phoned the Metropolitan Police on October 20 last year to say his iPhone had been snatched out of his hand in Westminster.

In a transcript released by the police, McSweeney did not tell them who he was or why the phone contained highly-sensitive information.

He also mistakenly gave the call handler the wrong street name for where the theft took place.

The phone’s disappearance meant it was not possible to access any potential communications between the PM’s former top aide and his close friend Mandelson, who is in disgrace over his association with late paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

The theft has triggered intense scrutiny across Westminster about the timing of events.

On Sky News, presenter Trevor Phillips asked Phillipson: “Why is Morgan McSweeney the only person in the modern world who doesn’t have his messages automatically backed up to the cloud so we could recover them and see what traffic there was between him and our former ambassador to the United States?”

Phillipson said the “question was a bit of a reach”, adding: “It’s hyperbole and you know it.”

Phillips insisted the question was “perfectly straightforward”, before asking if she backed up her own messages.

“I follow all of the guidance on what is required,” the minister said. “What happened here, which we all know, is that Morgan McSweeney was mugged, reported that to the police, followed all of the processes that was asked of him.

“I do think some of this wider coverage is drifting into conspiracy theory territory here.”

The presenter said he was not questioning any of that, but was “just wondering how it is this particular set of exchanges seems to be the only thing in the 21st Century that isn’t backed up somewhere”.

“Again, that’s hyperbole and you know it,” Phillipson said, visibly irritated. “Come on, to say he’s the ‘only person’ – it’s ridiculous and you know that.”

She said McSweeney is providing any material required, while the government “is complying with the humble address, providing information that isn’t needed, has been asked”.

“All ministers will also be complying with what is asked of us,” she added.

In every generation of British society, we have a responsibility to leave the next generation with a better world.

The 60s and 70s, under Harold Wilson’s government, saw Britain take decisive steps towards becoming a more open and equal society. Central to these changes was the decriminalisation of homosexuality, a landmark reform that helped lay the foundations for the rights many now take for granted.

The 80s through to the early 2000s brought fundamental questions about the role of the state in our communities across the four nations. Devolution sparked debate on whether Westminster should hold majority control over local communities in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and we saw the creation of the Scottish Parliament and the Senedd in 1999. In London, we saw the Greater London Authority established – comprising the Mayor of London and the London Assembly Members, who play a crucial role to our Capital’s continued prosperity.

From the 2010s, we’ve shifted the conversation towards systemic injustices, fair policing and fairness of our institutions with respect to ethnic minority groups and the LGBT community. Here in the Cities of London and Westminster, a constituency with such historic ties to the LGBT community in Soho; home to London Pride, G-A-Y and the City of Quebec, we know the impact this has had. And we continue to welcome individuals from all over the world representing a wide range of backgrounds and religious beliefs into our community.

What underpins the issues that previous generations have responded to is the preservation of our liberal democracy. How do we define this? At its core, it is simple: the idea that we are all free to express our opinions, without fear of being targeted or harmed for doing so and that we all have the chance to vote for candidates who we believe best represent us, based on information available to us.

It has been covered at length that far-right rhetoric is once again finding its way into communities across the country. Many of these far right views are designed to incite division, spread hatred, and revive ideas that should have been rejected decades ago.

We have all discussed how to confront many of these views, and rightly so, but what tends to slip out of the conversation is the legal framework that governments can implement to actively defend and strengthen our democracy.

The Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government introducing the Representation of the People Bill before the House is not just another piece of legislation, it is a clear statement of intent. With the growing complexity of the current state of our society, there is a growing demand to reflect and reconsider how we reinvigorate democratic values within our grassroots. This Bill shows this government is prepared to act. Trust in politics, and crucially politicians, is at an all-time low. This Bill is an opportunity to begin rebuilding that trust, with measures including transparency over political donations, preventing foreign interference in our elections and stronger sanctions on serious malpractice.

We are extending the right to vote to 16- and 17-year-olds. For many young people, this is long overdue. This will be music to the ears of many sixth form and college students that I have been talking to across the Cities of London and Westminster. Many of whom remind me they can begin their first job, pay taxes into the state, or even enlist themselves into the army, but cannot yet make a decision on their futures.

We must also take on the challenge of donations in the form of crypto assets. There are no mechanisms in place to identify whether the sources of these donations are lawfully approved, due to the anonymity crypto provides.

And crucially, while current laws are designed to ensure transparency during the election, the government must consider the impact of undeclared political donations outside of the regulatory period. Influence is not limited to the campaign period, it is persistent and lacks the transparency necessary to regain public trust in our institutions.

The Representation of the People’s Bill is about more than process, it is about protecting our democracy, rooting out foreign interference and taking action against those who seek to divide us.

Future generations deserve to look back at this point in time as the moment we chose to act to protect and strengthen our democracy, not stand by while it was tested.

Vice President JD Vance brushed off manosphere podcaster Joe Rogan’s comment about MAGA followers being “dorks.”

“It becomes a movement of a bunch of fucking dorks because a lot of them are dorks,” Rogan told guest Dave Smith on Thursday’s episode of his podcast. “A lot of them, these really weird, fuckin’ uninteresting, unintelligent people that have got something they cling to — and there’s a lot of people that are just real genuine patriots, and they’re all lumped into this one group and you got to accept the dorks, too? Fuck that!”

Vance dismissed Rogan’s comments in an interview with right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that aired on Saturday.

“I think we have many, many fewer dorks than the far left, but everybody’s got some dorks. We love our dorks. We love our cool kids. We love anybody who wants to save the country,” Vance told the MAGA mouthpiece, who has been criticised online for being “cringe as fuck” and has referred to Trump as “Daddy.”

The vice president also responded to Rogan’s suggestion that Hillary Clinton’s immigration stance made her “more MAGA than MAGA.”

“I did not see Joe say this. I’m going to text Joe, because that is that is definitely wrong,” Vance said.

Rogan’s criticism of MAGA comes amid an onslaught of White House social media posts that promote the administration’s agenda, particularly the war in Iran, through pop culture, sports, or video game references. A senior White House official called the posts “cringe” and embarrassing in an interview with MS Now published on Friday.

Vance himself has also faced cringe allegations, as has Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose workout video with Kid Rock was met with mockery.

Trump jokingly admitted at a Saudi-backed investment conference in Miami Friday that he that he likes to “hang around with losers.”

“It’s a good thing to have a lot of losers. I always like to hang around with losers, actually, ’cause it makes me feel better,” Trump said. “I hate guys that are very, very successful and you have to listen to their success stories. I like people that like to listen to my success.”

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s golf habit has now cost US taxpayers at least $101.2 million in travel and security expenses since his return to office, a figure that is two-thirds of his first-term golf total and has him on track to spend $300 million by the end of his second term, according to a HuffPost analysis.

Trump’s arrival at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Saturday morning marks his 56th visit there since his 2025 inauguration and his 110th day on a golf course that he owns — meaning he has played golf on more than one-quarter of his days since returning to the presidency.

“At a time when gas prices are spiking and Americans across the country find themselves in an ever-worsening affordability crisis, the president has burned through over $100 million in taxpayer money in order to make promotional appearances at his golf courses and hobnob with millionaires and billionaires,” said Jordan Libowitz with the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington watchdog group. “If his goal were to help struggling Americans out, one thing he could try is stop spending their money going to his golf courses.”

Trump needed two full years to hit the $100 million mark in his first term, during which he played golf a total of 293 days at his own courses at a cost to taxpayers of $151.5 million. HuffPost has based its figures for transportation and security for Trump’s golf trips on a report to Congress during his first term in office.

In this second term, Trump has made 17 trips exclusively to his Mar-a-Lago country club home in Palm Beach, which is close to his courses in West Palm Beach and Jupiter. He has made seven more trips to Mar-a-Lago that included at least one additional stop. Last weekend, for example, Trump flew from Florida to Memphis for a speech before returning to Washington.

He has made eight trips to his course in Bedminster, New Jersey, at a cost of $1.1 million each and five to his resort in Doral, Florida, which cost $2.7 million each.

Of his regular golf destinations, Mar-a-Lago is by far the most expensive for him to visit, at $3.4 million a trip, because of the expense of patrolling both the Atlantic Ocean off the Palm Beach coast, as well as the Intracoastal Waterway that separates the barrier island from the mainland. When Trump is present, a Coast Guard ship is stationed offshore, and smaller law enforcement vessels with guns mounted on their bows are in the Intracoastal.

His most expensive trip to date has been the $9.7 million one he took to his resorts in Scotland last summer, which included participation in the grand opening of a new course at his Aberdeen property — an event for his for-profit business that the White House’s government staff helped promote.

In recent weeks, the White House has begun categorising Trump’s golf outings as “executive time.” That phrase also appears in his public schedule almost daily.

When asked if that means that Trump is participating in some form of leisure activity in each of those instances, the White House press office responded with the unsigned statement: “Executive time refers to executive time.”

HuffPost’s analysis uses methodology and figures from a 2019 Government Accountability Office report on Trump’s golf trips early in his first term. That report found that four trips to Mar-a-Lago in early 2017 cost taxpayers $13.6 million, and then broke down that total into components like additional security expenses, the costs to fly Air Force One, and the need to transport motorcade vehicles using expensive C-17 cargo planes.

In his second term, the major drivers of the high cost for the president’s hobby ― the flights on Air Force One, the need for the Air Force C-17 transports, the salaries for those protecting the president ― have not diminished. Indeed, they have likely increased.

Because the salaries for military service members and law enforcement officers generally have not kept pace with the consumer price index, HuffPost did not inflate the figures to current dollars. The actual costs and totals, nevertheless, are certainly higher than HuffPost’s unadjusted 2019 numbers.

Prior to his election in 2016, Trump spent years criticising former President Barack Obama’s golf outings, and during his first campaign, he promised he would be too busy to play golf. Then, following his 2020 election loss and failed coup attempt, Trump repeatedly criticised his successor, Joe Biden, for his frequent weekend trips to his home in Delaware.

But Obama’s taxpayer golf tab was a small fraction of Trump’s because Obama mainly played the course at Joint Base Andrews, a short motorcade ride from the White House. And Biden’s trips home used either the smaller version of Air Force One or a Marine One helicopter. Both cost far less to operate than the $273,063 per hour the GAO found it costs to fly the larger, modified Boeing 747 that Trump takes on his Florida golf trips.

Zendaya has been on one hell of a run lately, with a line-up of five massive movie and TV releases coming out in 2026 alone.

However, she revealed earlier this week that she’s looking to make a major change next year.

In a recent with Fandango, the Emmy winner said she’s planning to take a much-needed break from Hollywood after being booked and busy in 2026, after appearing in the upcoming projects The Drama, Dune: Part Three, Spider-Man: Brand New Day, The Odyssey and the third season of Euphoria.

Zendaya claimed: “I’ll tell you what, after this, I’m disappearing for a little bit. I’m going to have to go into hiding for just a little bit.”

Joking that she hopes “people don’t get sick of me” after her stream of releases, she warmly thanked her fans for their continued support.

“I really appreciate everyone who supports any of the movies or supports my career in any kind of way. I’m deeply appreciative,” she added.

Zendaya’s fans don’t have to panic about her hiatus, though, because she is already set to return to the big screen in 2027 for Shrek 5, alongside returning cast members Mike Myers and Cameron Diaz.

The announcement about Zendaya’s impending intermission comes amid swirling rumours that she recently quietly tied the knot with her fiancé and Spider-Man co-star Tom Holland.

The gossip further erupted earlier this month after Zendaya was spotted wearing what appeared to be a wedding band on her left hand at the 2026 Oscars and Paris Fashion Week. Zendaya and Tom have reportedly been engaged since late 2024.

While the Marvel stars have neither directly addressed nor confirmed the rumours about their nuptials, the couple’s reps also didn’t immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment.

Appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this month, the US talk show host told Zendaya that “the internet has gone berserk with stories” about her possibly being married to Tom.

The actor cheekily responded with a smile: “Really? I haven’t seen any of that.”

Zendaya then addressed the faux AI images depicting her supposed wedding ceremony that have been making the rounds online in recent weeks.

“Many people have been fooled by them,” she told the comic. “While I was just out and about in real life and people are like, ‘Oh my God, your wedding photos are gorgeous,’ and I was like, ‘Babe, they’re AI. They’re not real.’”

Netflix’s new horror series Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen has already drawn comparisons to genre classics like Rosemary’s Baby and Carrie thanks to its nightmarish themes.

Created by Haley Z Boston, the writer of another Netflix horror Brand New Cherry Flavour, and produced by the Duffer Brothers (of Stranger Things fame), the series follows the unnerving events leading up to a young couple’s wedding.

If you’ve dared to watch it, you might have spotted one or two familiar faces among the cast. Wondering which of their past jaunts you’ve seen them in? Here’s a quick guide to where you could have spotted them before…

You’re most likely to recognise Camila Morrone from her Emmy-nominated performance in the series Daisy Jones & The Six, where she played band photographer Camila Dunne, the wife of Sam Claflin’s character.

More recently, Camila appeared in the second series of The Night Manager as Colombian businesswoman Roxana Bolaños, a reluctant ally of Tom Hiddleston’s Jonathan Pine.

Over on the big screen, you might have seen her in the Eli Roth thriller Death Wish, Never Goin’ Back, Marmalade, Gonzo Girl or Mickey And The Bear.

Adam DiMarco is best-known for playing the socially-awkward-yet-immensely-privileged Albie Di Grasso in The White Lotus’ second outing (yes, the Sicily season).

He currently stars as Peter in Prime Video college comedy series Overcompensating, and has also been seen in Pillow Talk, The Good Doctor, The Order, The Magicians and Charmed.

This isn’t Gus’ first foray into the horror world, as she’s probably most well-known for playing Gaynor opposite Courteney Cox in the comedy-horror series Shining Vale.

Gus has also appeared in Netflix’s 2025 miniseries Black Rabbit as hostess Mel, and had a recurring role in the Apple TV+ Dickinson, which stars Hailee Steinfeld as the writer Emily Dickinson.

You might have also caught her in The Last Frontier, The Blacklist, Insatiable or The Mist, as well as movies like I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, Plan B, Giving Birth To A Butterfly, Happiness For Beginners and Asleep In My Palm.

British actor and writer Karla Crome is a regular on telly, following her major breakthrough in the E4 series Misfits, playing Jess in seasons four and five.

Since then, she’s gone on to appear in Lightfields, Prisoners’ Wives, The Level, You, Me And The Apocalypse, The Victim and Carnival Row.

She also played Lucy in Daisy May Cooper’s BBC series Am I Being Unreasonable?, as well as Pattie Walker in the much talked about Netflix show Toxic Town and Bella in Harlan Coben’s Lazarus.

Jeff had his major breakthrough playing Moishe Lefkovitch in the Emmy-nominated Netflix miniseries Unorthodox.

You might have also seen him in Park Chan-wook’s acclaimed BBC spy series The Little Drummer Girl, which also starred Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgård.

He has also had roles in TV productions Oslo, Keep Breathing, The Calling, and in German horror film Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes.

A fixture on our screens since the 1970s, Jennifer’s big break was in teen movie Fast Times At Ridgemont High.

She’s perhaps best known for her role in iconic ’90s thriller Single White Female, where she played the unhinged roommate Hedy opposite co-lead Bridget Fonda.

She later picked up a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for her depiction of fugitive “Crazy” Daisy Domergue in Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight.

You might have also seen her in many of the other projects in her vast filmography, which includes big hitters like Last Exit To Brooklyn, Miami Blues, The Machinist, Annihilation, Possessor, The Jacket, Synecdoche, New York, Margot At The Wedding and In The Cut.

TV fans will know Jennifer for her playing Elsa in Netflix comedy Atypical, as well as roles in Fargo, Weeds, Revenge, Twin Peaks: The Return, Patrick Melrose, The Affair, Lisey’s Story and Hunters.

Ted Levine has a certain knack for roles that make your blood run cold, and is most famous for playing serial killer Buffalo Bill in everyone’s favourite cannibal film The Silence Of The Lambs.

He’s also appeared in Heat, Shutter Island, The Hills Have Eyes, Memoirs Of A Geisha, American Gangster and The Report, balancing it out with roles in lighter titles like Flubber, Jurassic Park: Fallen World and The Fast And The Furious.

Ted is also a big name in TV, and you might know him for playing Leland Stottlemeyer in 2000s show Monk or for his appearances in Ray Donovan, Wonderland, Luck, The Bridge, Mad Dogs, The Alienist and Mayfair Witches.

Croatian-Danish actor Zlatko is most recognisable for playing Russian oligarch Dimitry in the dark comedy Triangle of Sadness.

You might have also seen him in films like The Bride, 2012, Wolfs, Rumours, Mayday, Bleeder, 2025’s Superman and the Pusher trilogy.

Zlatko is less well-known for his TV work, but you might still recognise him from Wonder Man, Copenhagen Cowboy, Snatch or 1864.

What with being a child, Sawyer doesn’t have too many roles under his belt just yet.

However you might have spotted him in medical drama The Good Doctor, after it gained a new audience when it was added to Netflix at the start of the year.

All eight episodes of Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen are now streaming on Netflix.